Performances
Recent performances of works by:
Betty Beath
30/1/2009: Adagio for Strings, Lament for Kosovo (String Orchestra): Performed by The Camerata of St. John’s, Brisbane Powerhouse,
New Farm, Q.
9/3/2009: Dreams and Visions, Suite of six pieces for piano. Performed by Katie Zhukov, Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, NSW.
21/3/2009: From a Lake of Honey, (Double Bass & Piano), Basso Moderno Duo, Ninth Annual Women Composers Festival of Hartford,
University of Hartford, CT. USA.
30/4/2009: Dreams and Visions, Suite of six pieces for piano. Performed by Katie Zhukov.
Nickson Room, University of Queensland, School of Music.
10/9/2009: Lament for Kosovo, (piano): performed by Katie Zhukov, The University of Queensland Music School.
28/11/2009: Though I Travel Far…I Do Not Forget, (Mandolin Orchestra), performed by
COZMO (Capital of Australia Mandolinata), Wesley Music Centre, Canberra. ACT
30/11/2009: Though I Travel Far…I Do Not Forget, (Mandolin Orchestra), performed by COZMO, Italo Australian Club, Forrest, ACT.
5/12/2009: Lament for Kosovo, (Mandolin Orchestra): performed by Providence Mandolin Orchestra, Arts in the Village, Goff Memorial Hall,
Rehoboth, MA, USA.
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10/12/2009: Adagio for Strings, Lament for Kosovo (String Orchestra): performed by The 1. Women’s Chamber Orchestra of Austria,
to mark the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the Rotunda of the Vienna International Centre, Vienna.
12/12/2009: Sunda Song, (Instrumental Ensemble, harp, flute cello: performed by CARISMA at the Hervey Bay Regional Gallery. Q.
7/3/2010: Askesis, Bella and I Enter a Dream, Richard Want, Esquire: Three songs for voice and piano, performed by Zoe Taylor,
Chapter Hall, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
14//3/2010: Askesis, Bella and I Enter a Dream, Richard Want, Esquire: Three songs for
voice and piano performed by Zoe Taylor, Saint Mary’s Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.
18/4/2010: Though I Travel Far…I do not forget (for mandolin orchestra): Performed by Concordia Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble,
East Malvern Uniting Centre, Malvern East, Melbourne. Vic.
22/4/2010: 1st American Performance: River Songs, (Song Cycle for voice and orchestra): Performed by Susan Dunn, soloist, with the
Shepherd School of Music Chamber Orchestra conducted by Larry Rachleff. Stude Hall, Rice Univeristy, Houston, Texas, USA.
18/6/2010: Woman’s Song (String Orchestra): Performed by Camerata of St. John’s, Empire Church Theatre, Toowoomba. Q’ld.
19/6/2010: Woman’s Song (String Orchestra): Performed by Camerata of St. John’s, Conservatorium Theatre, Griffith University,
Southbank, Brisbane, Q’ld.
22/8/2010: Four Encounters: Jasmine and the Perfumes of the Night; With a Whirlwind; Let’s Dance, A Loving Embrace, for piano.
Performed by Katie Zhukov, Nickson Room, School of Music, University of Queensland.
1/12/2010: Adagio for Strings, Lament for Kosovo (String Orchestra). Performed by I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich in a UNESCO
sponsored memorial concert to the Founder of the Red Cross and first recipient of the Nobel Peach Prize, Henry Duant, the concert was held in the Festsaal of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
15/5/2011: Lament for Kosovo, mandolin ensemble, London Mandolin Festival, St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate, London
Bruce Crossman
Asian Music Festival 2010 in Tokyo, In Gentleness and Suddenness (shakuhachi--traditional Japanese flute), performed by Kawamura Taizan (Tokyo University of the Arts) in Japanese Sounds and Spirits, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Main Hall, 6 October. This was one of two non-Japanese works included in a programme of traditional and new Japanese music.
2010 ISCM World Music Days, Sydney, Not Broken Bruised-Reed (violin, percussion, piano), performed by Ensemble Offspring, in The World in Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Verbrugghen Hall as the ensemble's commissioned work, 3 May 2010.
Melbourne Composers’ League: Four Seasons—Winter, Double Resonances, Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Peter Neville (percussion), Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, August 2009
The Confluence of Cultures: Music of the Pacific Rim, USA, Double Resonances, Danny Holt (piano), LynnVarton (percussion), Los Angeles, California State University San Bernardino, May 2009
Tongyeong International Music Festival, Fierce Tranquillity (string trio) Next Mushroom Promotion (Japan) Small Hall, Tongyeong Arts Centre, Korea, March 2009
Hugh Dixon
29th March, 2009: Horses on the Camargue for Concert Band played by the Auckland Wind Orchestra in Auckland.
30th November 2008: Canto Fermo by the brass players of the Opera/Ballet Orchestra in Parramatta, Sydney.
22nd June, 2008: String Quartet No. 2 - Sacred Space - performed by students of the Sydney Conservatorium.
4th January, 2008 : a concert to lauch the CD A Little Lovely Dream in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland, performed by Wendy Dixon (soprano), Michael Dixon (horn) and David Miller (piano)
Michael H Dixon
21 July 2010 International Horn Symposium recital at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, Brisbane - We are sufficient horn quartet - Michael H Dixon, Neil Favell, Graham Nichols, Francesco Lo Surdo
Seven small wheels revolving, Michael H Dixon, horn; Matthew Farrell, cello
Heruka, Michael H Dixon, horn; Matthew Farrell, cello
29 August 2010 Five Tastes - Charisma with Ros Dunlop (clarinet), Julia Ryder (cello), David Miller (piano) at Sydney Conservatorium of Music
8 October 2011 A Hundred Valleys for 19-tone trumpet perfromed by Stephen Altoft at the Mikroton Festival, Bern, Switzerland.
Houston Dunleavy
10th January, 2010 Farewell for flute and organ. Jean Penny (flute) and Andrew Blackburn (organ) premiere my at the "Organs of the Goldfields"
festival, Neale St Uniting Church, Ballarat, Vic . This piece is in memory of my very first teacher, Peter Tahourdin.
3rd July, 2010 Skeletal Dance for trumpet and piano, John Irish, trumpet Helen Lin, piano, Yamaha Artist Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
6th April 2010 Music for Foul Play for low flutes. Peter Sheridan and the Low flutes ensemble, San Diego, California and Portland, Oregon
22nd August, 2010. Six Clumsy Duos for piccolo and sub contrabass flute Jean-Louis Beaumardier, piccolo and Peter Sheridan, subcontrabass flute.
Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester. UK.
29th August 2010 Blue Spaces for bass clarinet, cello and electronics "Charisma" Ros Dunlop, bass clarinet, Julia Ryder, cello.
9th October, 2010 With Open Arms for solo piano. Vanessa Sharman, piano Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, Tasmania
27th October, 2010 I Saw My Lady Weep for string orchestra. The Southern Cross Philharmonia Gerld Gentry, cond. Melba Hall, the Uinveristy of Melbourne
5th December, 2010 Four Christmas Carols for SATB choir and piano.
Sutherand Sire Choral Society, Melissa Kenney, cond, St Patrick's Church Belmont Street, Sutherland
24th March, 2011 Flying in Paradise for 4 euphoniums and two tubas, world premiere, 2011 Tubamania Festival, Bangkok Thailand. Matt Van Emmerick, euphonium, Steve Rosse, tuba, the E-tan Quartet
14th May, Breathless Lover for solo piano, Vanessa Sharman, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, TAS
29th May, 2011 Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Sydney Male Choir, Sydney Town Hall, 12th annual City of Sydney concert.
30th May, 2011 Flying in Paradise for 4 euphoniums and two tubas, 2011 Singapore Brass Explosion Festival, Singapore. Matt Van Emmerick, euphonium, Steve Rosse, tuba, the E-tan Quartet
10th July, 2011 To The Ends of the Ocean , The Syzergy Ensemble, Wyselaskie Auditorium, Parkville Melbourne, Vic
26th – 30th September, 2011 The Melbourne International Festival of Brass - Flying in Paradise Matt Van Emmerick, euphonium, Steve Rosse, tuba, the E-tan Quartet
September 2011 Meditation on Satie, Helen Lin, piano, United Kingdom
Amanda Handel
6th November 2099 Zardash for solo piano, Sally Mays, Regent Hall, London
Brennan Keats
4th December 2010 "Three Australian Christmas Carols" Illawarra Choral Society, Wesley Church, Wollongong
Andrew Schultz
29 March 2010 "From Fire Country", Sue Newsome (bass clarinet), Sydney Conservatorium, Recital Hall West.
"From Fire Country", Australia Ensemble, Sir John Clancy Auditorium UNSW
"Sleeper's Wake", Felicitas, Fuchs (soprano), Aki Sauliére (violin) and Bernard Lanskey (piano), Hadstock Festival, UK
Rob Stove
14/10/2010 "Triptych" for organ, performed by Rhys Boak, St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne
16/10/2011 "Ave Verum Corpus" for choir and organ performed by the Scots' Church Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence, Scots' Church, Melbourne.
Phillip Wilcher
15 July 2007 - "1791" for oboe and string orchestra, Bourbaki Ensemble, David Angell conductor, Rachel Tolmie oboe, St. Stephen's Church, Newtown
22 July 2007 - "1791" for oboe and string orchestra, Bourbaki Ensemble, David Angell conductor, Rachel Tolmie oboe, Macquarie Theatre, Macquarie University
8 October 2008 - "Tolmie Tune 2" - Rachel Tolmie oboe, John Martin piano, North Ryde Community Centre
26 July 2009 - "Into His Countenance" and "The Flautist's Pavane" for flute and strings, Bourbaki Ensemble, David Angell conductor, Amanda Muir flute, Macquarie Theatre, Macquarie University
2nd August 2009 - "Into His Countenance" and "The Flautist's Pavane" for flute and strings, Bourbaki Ensemble, David Angell conductor, Amanda Muir flute, St. Stephen's Church, Newtown
12 December 2010 - "Adagio" for flute, cor anglais, piano and strings, Bourbaki Ensemble, David Angell conductor, Christine Draeger flute, Prue Gibbs piano, David Angell, conductor, St Stephen's Church, Newtown