This Saturday, 7 July, my work Heartland will be performed by the Sydney Philharmonia Choir at the Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The conductor is Brett Weymark.
Written for massed choir and two pianos, Heartland explores various ideas of “home”. At the rehearsal on Wednesday it was sounding really good, with the choir [...]
for SATB choir and orchestra also available in a version for SATB and piano duration: 6 minutes
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During a period of correspondence with the reclusive Australian violist-turned-truck-driver Jock Reby, my attention was directed towards a notepad of graffiti that Reby had transcribed from the toilet walls of an English Language School in Bangkok. It seems that [...]
for SATB choir and two pianos duration: 20 minutes
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introduction: Home
(text by LF)
i. Stand Up
(text by Sappho)
ii. A Thing of Beauty
(text by Keats)
iii. Did you miss me?
(text by Rosetti, Shelley and Gordon)
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Commissioned by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir for the 1st Australiasian Choral Festival, with financial assistance from the Australia Council, the [...]
for mezzo-soprano and guitar
duration: 11 minutes
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Insects have been a fertile source of inspiration to some Australian composers, in particular Ross Edwards who has used the patterns of insect sounds within his compositions.
The two Insect Songs by Matthew Hindson take as their basis separate poems by Australian poets as their starting points.
The first movement, [...]
for SATB choir and orchestra also available in a version for SATB, piano and 3 percussion also available in a version for SATB and piano duration: 10 minutes
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Pi was written as a commission from the Australian Society of Music Educators for their conference held in July 1999. It is a work that explores There is a [...]