Todd McNeal

My works are now recommended repertoire for the second year running for choirs entering the Victorian School Music Festival 2021.

Whenever the Wind is High, The Woodlark and Songs of the Sea & Sky are all recommended in…

Xavier College, Kew, have given the world premiere performance of The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God - Four Choral Works on Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The set was premiered in Hamer Hall, Melbourne, conducted by…

Over the Australian summer I've been finishing a new commission for Xavier College, setting four poems by the great Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. It has been a delight to be setting some of the finest English poetry. The works…

Gondwana Novus have given the Sydney premiere of How to Get There, my setting of a wonderful, whimsical poem by Michael Leunig. The young choir performed the work beautifully under the direction of Kate Albury, as part of the…

Award-winning British baritone, Roderick Williams, has been performing my setting of Siegfried Sassoon's classic poem Everyone Sang as part of a programme commemorating the Armistice. The concerts, accompanied by Susie Allan, included a recent performance at the Hampstead Arts Festival…

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of conducting the Spotswood Primary School Choir and the Newport Community Choir in the premiere performance of Godwits at the World Migratory Bird Day celebrations at the Newport Hub.

The piece sets text from…

There has been huge interest in Whenever the Wind is High over recent months, following the Gondwana performance at Festival of Summer Voices. Orders for scores have come in from school and youth choirs across Australia and the UK.

The…

Junior Gondwana have given a brilliant Sydney premiere of Whenever the Wind is High, my setting of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem Windy Nights. They performed the work in the Grand Finale of the Gondwana Choirs Festival of Summer Voices…

Over the Summer I have been putting the finishing touches to an exciting new commission for the City of Hobson's Bay in Melbourne.

Songs for Birds is a suite of three short pieces setting words by one of Australia's leading…

The Junior School Choir of Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School have given the first performance of a new arrangement of Let it Go, Brother. The song is a folk-gospel ballad sung by British singer Emma Lewendon on my album, All…