Voicing: SSAA

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Agnus Dei is voiced for SATB a cappella and also SSA a cappella and can be paired with Leek’s “Sanctus” or sung as a stand-alone work. This setting is suitable for community and adult choir and pairs the traditional ideas of the Sanctus with more holistic ideas of the sentiments through texts by Australian write, Michael Doneman. The work draws on the traditional and contemporary notions of the Agnus Dei text.

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High Places draws on the well-known text by Australian poet legend, Dorothea McKeller. In three different voicings SATB a cappella, SSAA a cappella and TTBB a cappella. This beautiful setting captures in a homophonic way the exquisite colours of the Australian hills and valleys.

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Kondalilla is a popular and iconic choral offering that brings the Australian bush to the concert hall in a very original way. Kondalilla is the name of a waterfall in a small pocket of Australian rainforest where the water falls from a very great height into rock pools below. The work is voiced for SATB a cappella and SSAA a cappella.

Ngana (from Songs of Passage) by Australian composer Stephen Leek strikingly captures the driving energies, rhythms and vivid colours of the island seascape that is to be found around the north-eastern tip of Australia. Constructed of simple canonic figurations and ostinatos, Ngana uses as its source an indigenous Australian text which calls to the shark (ngana) and the fish (mangana) and welcomes (yah) them to the translucent blue waters (lina) around the reef. Ngana is the first of five Songs of Passage, each named after a traditional Australian place. These pieces project the choral colours and texture for which Leek has become renowned. Songs of Passage was commissioned in 1994 by the St. Peters Chorale, Brisbane, Australia and its Director, Graeme Morton. Ngana is part of The Australian Voices Series published by Morton Music.