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Composers already performed:

Australian and overseas composers commissioned to date include:

  • Michael Askill - ‘Three Places in Kathmandu’ performed in 2009 by Percussion Ensemble.
  • Gerard Brophy – ‘Two Views from Here’ - performed in 2009 by Percussion Ensemble.
  • John Corigliano – ‘Mr Tambourine Man' performed 11 September 2009 Soprano & Chamber Orchestra. 2nd performance 21 May 2010
  • Arvo Part – "Symphony No 4 ‘Los Angeles’” performed 26 March 2010 Imre Pallo conductor.
  • Aulis Sallinen – Chamber Music VIII for Violoncello and String Orchestra. Performed 26 March 2010 Timo-Veikko Valve – cello
  • Barry McKimm – Tuba and Piano performed by Steve Rosse December 2009.
  • Peter McNamara – ‘Duo Charged’ Violoncello and Piano - Winner of 2009 Student Composer Prize. 30 April 2010. ½ prize Ars Musica and SCM.
  • Carl Vine – ‘4 Hand Sonata’ performed 22 November 2009 – Natalia Sheludiakova and Paul Rickard-Ford.
  • Matthew Orlovich – ‘Vale of Tears’ SCM Chamber Choir – conductor Neil McEwan. Performed 24 May 2010.
  • John Peterson- ‘Race Against Time’ Violoncello and Piano. Performed 4 May 2010
  • Tim Davies – Big Band – performed 5 May 2010 - directed by William Motzing
  • Mark Zadro – Saxophone and Piano – performed 2009
  • James Cuddeford – ‘Three Aspects of the Absolute’ - Piano Trio ‘Apollo Trio’ Maria Lindsay, Elizabeth Neville & Daniel Herscovitch.
  • Elliott Gyger – ‘Precipice’ for Oboe and Piano
  • Peter Sculthorpe – ‘String Sonata No 5’ performed by the SCM String Orchestra – conducted by Imre Pallo
  • Michael Nyman – ‘Doing The Rounds’ for chorus & orchestra. Performed 27th May 2011 – conducted by Imre Pallo
  • Barry Conyngham – ‘Falling Water’ Concerti for 2 Bassoons, flute, clarinet, percussion & strings. Performed 1st April 2011 - conducted by Imre Pallo
  • Brenton Broadstock – ‘Twelve” for saxophone ensemble. Performed May 2011
  • Daniel Manera – ‘Duet for Clarinet & Hi Hat’ Winner of 2010 Student Composer Prize. Prize donated by The Fairweather Family. Performed 24th August 2011

Composers to be performed in 2011:

Australian and overseas composers commissioned for 2011 include:

  • Rosalind Page – ‘Sonnerie des Arbres’
  • Nigel Butterley – Seven Preludes for 2 Pianos
  • David Fulmer – ‘Vor Dem Morgengrauen’
  • Judy Bailey – ‘Another Journey’ for Big Band and String Orchestra

Composers to be performed in 2012:

Australian and overseas composers commissioned for 2012 include:

  • Brad Gill – ‘Night Song for Solo Timpani’
  • Ivan Zavada – ‘Eureka!’ for percussion solo & electronics
  • Eric Gross – ‘Three Studies with a Beat’
  • Kevin March – ‘Ouvre-Moi La Porte’ for Harpsichord & Viola de Gamba
  • Katy Abbott – ‘The Domestic Sublime’ for Soprano and Piano
  • Hugh Belling – ‘Subject & Object’ for solo organ
  • Stephen Adams – ‘An Australian Motet’ for the Sydney Con Chamber Choir
  • Michael Atherton – A huge multicultural event!
  • Calvin Bowman – ‘Birthday Symphony’ for organ
  • Stewart Copeland – Overseas Marquee
  • Ross Edwards – ‘Piano Sonata’
  • Andrew Ford – ‘You Must Sleep, But I must Dance’ for viola and percussion.
  • George Palmer – Song Cycle
  • Daniel Rojas – Latin Percussion Piano Solo

Composers to be performed in 2013:

Australian and overseas composers commissioned for 2013 include:

  • Iain Grandage – Brass Dectet & Percussion
  • Elena Kats-Chernin – Saxophone Concerto
  • Damien Barbeler – ‘Radience’ for the Early Music Ensemble
  • Stuart Greenbaum – companion piece to ‘Ionisation’