2024 ANAM Set composers announced
ANAM has announced the 20 composers commissioned to write works for its third-year students and create a rich addition to the Australian music canon.
ANAM has announced the 20 composers commissioned to write works for its third-year students and create a rich addition to the Australian music canon.
The Australian Art Music monthly playlist by composer Cameron Lam reflects on the rich Australian repertoire for the harp, and the harpists who championed it.
Honouring established musicians such as Liza Lim, Paul Dean and Mindy Meng Wang, this year’s Awards also celebrate an exciting number of first-time nominees.
Cameron Lam continues his instrument-focused series in this month’s Aussie Art Music playlist, with a spotlight on the piano.
Sophie Rowell discusses her inaugural season as Artistic Director of MCO, which includes world premieres by Caerwen Martin, Lior and Ade Vincent, as well as a focus on local talent and female composers.
Cameron Lam explores old favourites and new tracks in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.
Brett Weymark delivers a program of music for the soul, as musicians and listeners reconnect in a peaceful setting.
This recital program, celebrating Melbourne talent, left the audience feeling a glow.
Mozart, Bach, Haydn and Handel top the bill, but there's plenty of new music too in SPC's 2022 program.
The CSO showcases three outstanding Australian composers in this satisfying concert.
Australian compositions may not immediately spring to mind when you consider the great 20th-century symphonies but, argues Rhoderick McNeill, there is a significant body of work worth celebrating.
From 2011 to 2015, the Australian National Academy of Music and the Melbourne Recital Centre presented the Australian Voices concert series, celebrating significant Australian composers. Included was a programme of chamber works by Stuart Greenbaum (b. 1966). This recording, released on ANAM’s own imprint, features seven Academy musicians with harpist and ANAM alumna Jessica Fotinos, performing three works by Greenbaum in which harp plays a central role. Mondrian Interiors is a collection of eight pieces inspired by an exhibition of works by the Dutch artist, with works scored for combinations of oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, piano and harp. Four Finalities is a song cycle written in collaboration with poet Ross Baglin and performed by mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean. The delicate interplay between Betts-Dean’s forcefully ethereal voice and the harp is utterly captivating, enhanced by a rich and spacious recording sonic. Finally, Nine Candles for Dark Nights is solo harp piece written for Australian harpist Marshall McGuire that explores and expands the sonic capacities of this instrument. This is a tremendously accessible collection of works that balances the obvious beauty of the harp with subtly nuanced complementary sonorities. The performances are fresh and exciting, and it’s to be hoped that we’ll… Continue reading Get…