The Continuo Community has announced composer Dominic Flynn as its 2025 Continuo Commission composer.

Flynn will compose a new work, Pickett, one that “reflects on reconciliation, belonging and the role of classical music in post-colonial Australia”.

It will be developed with and premiered by Ensemble Mania, a new music chamber collective based in Melbourne and Tasmania dedicated to living Australian music.

Dominic Flynn. Photo © Saxon Hornett

“Through this opportunity from the Continuo Commissioning Circle, I hope to reflect on a few key things: firstly, the political implications within my own artistic practice as a classical music composer in colonised Australia,” Flynn wrote in his proposal.

“Secondly, the plethora of thoughts, feelings, questions, and answers that have arisen from the news of my Indigenous heritage; and finally, on my father’s recent passing following a two-year battle with cancer.”

Pickett will be premiered in late 2026.

Flynn is a Hobart-born, Melbourne-based composer whose works have been performed in Australia, across Europe, in Canada and Japan. His music has been performed by groups including Decibel New Music Ensemble, the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra, Labyrinth Ensemble and CMR Contemporary Music...