ARIA Award nominated musician and AFI/AACTA award-nominated sound designer Nick Batterham’s new album First Snow (music for piano and strings) follows on thematically from the artist’s recent soundtracks for installations by the visual artist Rone. The album will be released October 17.

The title First Snow conjures sparse landscapes and a sense of wonderment. Many cultures see the first snow as a time for reflection, nostalgia, and reconnection – the slate being wiped clean for new beginnings – and the music on First Snow is equal parts sombre, beautiful, and uplifting. The album is centred around a piano quartet, with Batterham on piano, renown soloist Zoë Black on violin as well as principal viola with the MSO, Christopher Moore and Michelle Wood, also MSO, on cello. Black and Moore, together with Josephine Vains on cello and Georgina Lewis on piano, will perform the work.