Brett wrote a new Anglican chant for woman’s voices and organ (SSA) for the special Evensong featuring women’s voices at St John’s Church Gordon on 14 July 2013. Well done ladies! The chant sounded great!

Congratulations to saxophonist Rob Woodward and pianist Benjamin Burton who premiered Brett’s Scherzo for Saxophone at Sydney Conservatorium of Music on 26 June 2013 during the Clarinet and Saxophone Festival. Well done chaps, it was a great performance!

This work is available in the Australian Saxophone Anthology published by Wirripang: http://australiancomposers.com.au/shop/wirripang-australian-piano-anthology-2011-book-1

Brett’s organ work Passacaglia for the Epiphany was commissioned by Sydney organist Kurt Ison for a concert on the Feast of the Epiphany in Westminster Abbey, London in 2013.

Kurt performed this same work at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne on 26 June 2013. He says, ‘It fitted the organ like a glove’!

On 22 June 2013 Brett was awarded 2nd prize in a composition competition for his choral work “A Prayer for Divine Love” for SATB and organ on a text by St Francis of Assisi. The work was premiered the same day at a performance in Canberra. This was the same competition Brett won in 2012.

Brett recently graduated with a second doctorate in musical composition – PhD from the University of Sydney. Very exciting!

The Carillonist played one of Brett’s carillon compositions for the occasion!