Welcome to the September edition of Australian Accent, Limelight’s unashamedly parochial monthly round-up of the Australian music being played on our concert stages and in our recital halls.

Got a premiere to puff? A piece getting a repeat performance? Submit your works via our Google Form or email editors@limelight-arts.com.au for inclusion in next month’s round-up (subject to editorial discretion).

We’ve also have a week-by-week breakdown of the works being performed on our Instagram for something a little more digestible.

 

Touring

 

Harpist-composer Paul Nicolaou embarks on an Australian tour with Elemental Resonance – an all-Australian, multisensory solo program with works from Tristan Coelho, Nigel Westlake, Christopher Larkin, Ross Edwards, Andrew Schultz, Mary Doumany, Natalia Mann, Stuart Greenbaum and Nicolaou himself. Catch it in Melbourne (4 September & 5 September), Hobart (8 September), Sydney (12 September) and in Gosford on 19 September.

Jack Symonds

Jack Symonds. Photo supplied.

Michelangelo Buonarotti is best known as a sculptor and painter, yet this Renaissance polymath was also a first-rate poet. Inspired by Buonarotti’s profound thoughts about art, mortality, love and faith, three composers...