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Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
features

World Premiere: Kate Reid’s Solander

The composer tells us about her new work for Sydney Chamber Choir, which celebrates the life and legacy of Swedish botanist Daniel Solander.

May 4, 2021
Chamber, Classical Music
features

World Premiere: Moya Henderson’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The composer explains how a fragment from Puccini became the starting point for her tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice, commissioned for the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's Australian Series.

April 7, 2021
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
features

World Premiere: Sally Whitwell’s Written in the Stars

The composer hopes her new work for choir – written during a period when choirs were silenced – will leave the listener uplifted and ready to work to fix the world.

March 16, 2021
Chamber, Classical Music
features

World Premiere: Natalie Nicolas’s Secrets

The composer tells us about music and emotion in her new work for guitarist Slava Grigoryan and the Southern Cross Soloists.

February 9, 2021
Chamber, Classical Music
features

World Premiere: James Henry’s Zoom Meeting

The composer reveals how video conferencing in quarantine shaped his new work for Ensemble Offspring.

October 30, 2020
Chamber, Classical Music
features

World Premiere: Jodie Rottle’s Public Figure

The composer and member of Kupka’s Piano explains how 2020’s relentless media cycle inspired her new work, which will be premiered at the Brisbane Music Festival.

October 6, 2020
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Ella Macens: Perfect Dissonance

Composer Ella Macens tells us how her eyes were opened to a powerful musical weapon that she’s harnessed in her work, Superimposition.

March 3, 2020
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Deborah Cheetham: Star Power

The composer tells us about her response to Beethoven’s Ninth, which premieres at the MSO’s Season Opening Gala.

February 6, 2020
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Airat Ichmouratov: Subway to Sydney Opera House

In his new wind quintet for the Omega Ensemble, Russian-Canadian composer Airat Ichmouratov tells his story.

December 4, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Ed Frazier Davis: Fire of the Spirit

To mark his father’s final season with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ed Frazier Davis is channelling Hildegard of Bingen.

November 12, 2019
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Andrew Ford on how inspiration can strike at awkward moments

The composer and broadcaster tells us about his new duet for violinist Tor Frømyhr and cellist David Pereira, and why his dedication to Kim Williams comes with an apology.

October 1, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Cathy Milliken: Woven Sounds

In her new concerto for orchestra, Cathy Milliken drew on a poem by Walt Whitman and the different processes of weaving.

September 16, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Matthew Hindson on the pleasures of writing for sax

In his new concerto for Amy Dickson, Matthew Hindson harnesses the incredible flexibility of the soprano saxophone.

August 16, 2019

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