The names of the five South Australian composers to receive Chamber Music Adelaide’s INVISIBILITY Commissions have been announced. They are Luke Altmann, Jesse Budel, Georgina Bowden, Belinda Gehlert and Hilary Kleinig.

Luke Altmann, Hilary Kleinig, Georgina Bowden and Belinda Gehlert, four of the five composers to receive INVISIBILITY Commissions. Photo courtesy of Chamber Music Adelaide

The commissions are offered by Chamber Music Adelaide in collaboration with MOD. (Adelaide’s Museum of Discovery), with funding from ArtsSA through the 2022 COVID Recovery Fund.

The composers will each write a new chamber work in response to MOD.’s 2022 award-winning exhibition INVISIBILITY, which focuses on revealing the unseen and noticing the unnoticed.

The new works will be given their world premiere by South Australian musicians at an event set among the exhibits at MOD. at the University of South Australia in October. A second performance will take place as part of Chamber Music of Adelaide’s mini-chamber music festival On the Terrace in November.

Applicants were asked to prepare a submission which outlined a concept for a work which would express through music ideas of invisibility as described in the exhibition, and to tell stories of individual...