Australian Music

Aaron Wyatt has been a participant in the Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers program, writing for Ensemble Offspring. He has also written a number of electro-acoustic works, using a mix of traditional and animated graphic notation, for Decibel, GreyWing Ensemble and Ensemble Dutala.

Composer Katy Abbott is forensically curious about what makes us tick. Her music explores our passions, fears and motivations using contemporary musical flavours in traditional musical settings.

Sculthorpe composed over 350 works, almost all influenced by the social climate and physical characteristics of Australia. He had a deep love for his country and for its landscape, which he regarded as sacred.

Dr Ros Bandt SoundingSpaces is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, performer and scholar. She is a pioneering designer of new forms of musical art, sound sculptures, interactive music, sound installations and spatial electroacoustic symphonies.

William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as a composer, instrumentalist and vocalist.

Kinds of Blue bathes in a palette of blue sonorities and bluesy, suspended textures, drawing inspiration from works by Mark Rothko and also from the blue renderings in Derek Jarman’s ‘Chroma’.

Beyond the ridge, the ranges far is a tone poem composed by Harry Sdraulig for cello and orchestra and inspired by mountain landscapes. It was commissioned by Gisela Püllen and Karl Gordon, and is dedicated to Gisela.

Iain Grandage is one of Australia’s most highly regarded collaborative artists. His Dances with devils percussion concerto was composed for Claire Edwardes. Read more.

Australian-Chinese conductor, Dane Lam, is Principal Conductor of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra. Operatically, he enjoys a close relationship with London’s Opera Holland Park and companies including Opera Queensland, Opera Australia and Scottish Opera. In early 2023, he was appointed Music Director of the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra.

The only Australian to win the ‘APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual’ three times, Claire leaps between her role as Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring and performances with all of the Australian and New Zealand orchestras plus numerous European orchestras. Read more.