Guide to Australian Art Music

Hamed Sadeghi
Lost In Flight
Performed by Eishan Ensemble

Christopher Sainsbury
Bushfire: II. After the Fire Has Passed – Elegy
Performed by Rachel Tolmie, Central Coast Concertante & Chris Bearman

Austin Salisbury
State Lines
Performed by Alistair Peel & Peter Evans

Emily Sanzaro
The Gloaming
Performed by Emily Sanzaro

Andrew Saragossi
What Would Doom Do?
Performed by Loose Leaf

Sasha Sayman
Between Worlds
Performed by Sasha Sayman

Robert Sazdov
Dreams of the Jailed Refugee

Performed by Robert Sazdov

Niko Schauble
Bomam

Performed by Then This

Andrew Schultz
The Meaning of Water
Performed by SHE Seven Harp Ensemble & Alice Giles

Mara Schwerdtfeger 
Loosening My Grip
Performed by Mara & Abby Sundborn

Julius Schwing
Flock
Performed by Julius Schwing

Holli Scott
Back the Way We Came
Performed by Holli Scott, Tal Cohen & Jamie Oehlers

Jessica Scott
Phasing Waves
Performed by Aletta Louise (Jessica Scott)

Charlie Sdraulig
Ground
Performed by Tristram Williams, Benjamin Marks & ELISION Ensemble

Harry Sdraulig
Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda
Performed by Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott

Cameron Segal
Taking a Moment
Performed by Cameron Segal

Johanna Selleck
Spindrift (for solo harp)
Performed by Jacinta Dennett

Véronique Serret
Migrating Bird
Performed by Véronique Serret

Luke Severn
“and other lines”: I. Little birds of the night
Performed by Briana Leaman, Joseph Lallo & Yasmin Rowe

Meena Shamaly
Tarab – Pt. 1
Performed by Meena Shamaly
Co-composed by Christopher Tin

David Shea
The Sirens
Performed by David Shea

Matthew Sheens
Written in the Dark: Part VIII
Performed by Matthew Sheens, Hugh Stuckey, Matt Penman & Kenneth Salters

Jane Sheldon
i am the lute
Performed by Jane Sheldon & Bob Scott

John Shephard
The Brindabellas
Performed by Eliza Shephard & Liam Wooding

Elizabeth Sheppard
Mary Moorditj Ngaangk: A Noongar Psalm
Performed by Elizabeth Sheppard

Emily Sheppard
Old friend
Performed by Claire Anne Taylor, Michael Kieran Harvey & Emily Sheppard

Tim Shiel
Where Will We Go
Performed by Tim Shiel & Biddy Connor

Peter Shilling
Still setting the table
Performed by 
Peter Shilling

Josh Shipton
Picnic With Water Birds
Performed by Josh Shipton

Matthew Shlomowitz
Hetero Ballad
Performed by 
KLART!

Eli Simić-Prošić
towards the parsung feast – 3.8.2026 (20.44-21.15)
Performed by Eli Simić-Prošić

Adam Simmons
Travelling
Performed by Arcko Symphonic Ensemble

Nardi Simpson
Wilga’s Last Dance
Performed by Royal Australian Navy Band

Rishin Singh
said the roots to the twig

Performed by Martin Sturm

Larry Sitsky
Violin Concerto No.3 “I Ching: The Eight Kua (Trigrams)”: 4. Thunder: Prelude & Canons
Performed by Jan Sedivka & Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Lachlan Skipworth
Ode for violin and piano
Performed by Rebecca Chan & Emily Green-Armytage

Gian Slater
A Forest in a Thumbnail
Performed by Gian Slater

Ethan Reed (sleepthink)
it’s morning, you are here
Performed by Ethan Reed

Michael Smetanin
Minimalism Isn’t Dead … It Just Smells Funny
Performed by Synergy Percussion

Jessica Lindsay Smith
The wind blows the trees (and they give and give)
Performed by Robbie Melville

Michelle Smith
Hera
Performed by Turiya

Rebecca Erin Smith
Blood
Performed by Madeleine Antoine & Setsu Masuda

Paul Smith
Dusk Air
Performed by Alana Blackburn & Claire Howard Race

Thembi Soddell
Repetition Compulsion
Includes sounds sampled from Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Jim Denley, Cat Hope & Emah Fox

Alexandra Spence
The Frequency of a Leaf
Performed by Alexandra Spence

Alister Spence
Mystic
Performed by Alister Spence

David Stanhope
E.G.B.D.S. (Edvard Grieg by David Stanhope)
Performed by Sydney Conservatorium of Music Wind Symphony & John P. Lynch

Paul Stanhope
Cloudforms
Performed by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Northey

Jane Stanley
Winter Song
Performed by Robert Irvine

Simon Stemberger
Hermes and Hephaestus
Performed by Simon Stemberger

Luke Styles
Solder: Movement I
Performed by Lyrebird Brass

Helen Svoboda
If
Performed by Helen Svoboda, Selma Savolainen, Jacques Emery & Tilman Robinson 

Simon Svoboda
Savu
Performed by Simon Svoboda & Varvara Vasylieva

Lloyd Swanton
Causeway
Performed by The Necks
Co-composed by Chris Abrahams & Tony Buck

Caroline Szeto
Mandolin Dance
Performed by Paul Hooper

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