A new recording of my lyrics for ‘In Advent Heat’ by the Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, is published by Acis Records on Beneath the Incense Tree: Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, including works by living composers including many commissions for the choir.

‘In Advent Heat’ is a shimmering setting by Melbourne-based composer and musicologist Peter Campbell, for a work that can be sung through the whole Christmas season from Advent to Epiphany.

The words have become regular additions to Carol services in Melbourne as a poem, as well.

The words describe the journey of the Wise Men through an Australian desert (so different from the Middle Eastern landscapes they would have encountered. or the freezing cold so familiar from northern hemisphere carols).

Listen to the carol here: