COMPOSITIONS
Ngurrabaa (Home Place), 2025.
Mezzo Soprano, loop station, field recordings, violin, spoken word, visuals.
c. 11 min.
Music, arrangement, visuals: Nicole Smede
Text: Sharlene Cruickshank
Commissioned by Backstage Music, Sydney, July 2025. for Reflections of Home,
World Premiere performance Nicole Smede, Laura Case and Sharlene Cruickshank at Reflections of Home, Backstage Music on 26 July 2025
Nyiirun Yiiga (We are Here), 2025.
SATB, Community Choir, Yidaki, Assorted Percussion.
c. 9 min.
Words, music, arrangement: Nicole Smede
Gathang Language Custodians: Jonathan Lilley and Aunty Mandy Davis
Commissioned by A Major Lift for Canberra International Music Festival, 2025.
World Premiere performance by Mudjngaal Yangamba, Ngarranga Mirriiyn Choir, Wamburang Women's Choir, Kompactus Youth Choir, Oriana Chorale, Community participants, Mark Atkins & Eugene Ughetti. Conducted by Roland Peelman AM. Snow Concert Hall, Canberra International Music Festival, 4 May, 2025
Djeera Gadhu (Ocean Stories), 2024.
Flute, B flat Clarinet, Cello and Vibraphone.
c. 6 min.
Music, arrangement: Nicole Smede
Composed for Ngarra Burria First Composers Program 2024.
World Premiere performance by Ensemble Offspring at ABC Eugene Goosens Hall, Sydney, November 2024.
Recording performed by Ensemble Offspring, recorded by Virginia Read at ABC Classic Studios, Ultimo.
The Silence of Thunder (A hidden river), 2024.
Mezzo Soprano, loop station.
c. 9 min.
Words, music, arrangement: Nicole Smede
Commissioned by A Major Lift for Canberra International Music Festival, 2024.
World Premiere performance by Lotte Betts-Dean for Voice Electric, Canberra International Music Festival 2024, Verity Lane, Canberra.
Recording performed by Nicole Smede, recorded at ANU, Canberra, 2025 by Matthew Barnes.
Ngurra (home), 2024.
SATB choir (unaccompanied).
Words, music, arrangement: Nicole Smede
Commissioned by Macquarie Singers Community Choir as an Acknowledgement of Country, 2024.
World Premiere performance by Macquarie Singers Community Choir, 23 November, 2024.
PADLA (Country), 2023.
SSAATB (unaccompanied), clapsticks.
Words, music, arrangement: Nicole Smede
Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka language permission, Les Harris Jr.
World Premiere performance by River City Voices, for Blue Sky Country, 8 December 2023.
Life, Land and Water, 2023.
49 min documentary soundtrack
Score: Nicole Smede
Commissioned by ICTV in partnership with PAKAM (Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media) and CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association)
for the 2023 COP Summit in Dubai
Watch here ICTV Play - Life, Land, Water