Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

In April we're celebrating Peter Sculthorpe's 85th birthday a selection of evening concerts from the Canberra International Music festival focusing on his work. ANAM does the Australian Voices treatment on the music of Andrew Schultz. And our Canberra Sunday Live concerts present music by Nigel Westlake, Betty Beath and Martin Wesley-Smith.

Friday New Music Up Late digital and online program goes into reflective mode with a series of 'Morning meditations' from this year's MONA FOMA festival featuring Clayton Thomas, Peter Knight, Phil Treloar and Tillman Robinson. And on the Saturday program there's new music for Kupka's Piano and Ensemble Offspring by Michael Mathieson-Sandars and Damian Barbeler, for the Brady/Buckner Project by Erik Griswold and John Encarnacao, for Synergy by Anthony Pateras. Plus tracks from Metropolis Festival concerts by Plexus and Syzygy Ensemble.

And in web-space, the New Waves podcast this month presents new music written for vocal chamber ensemble Halcyon's 15th birthday by composers Nigel Butterley, Sharon Calcraft, Andrew Ford, Graham Hair, Gordon Kerry, Rosalind Page, Andrew Schultz, Jane Stanley, Dan Walker and Gillian Whitehead.

Australian music broadcast schedule

Wednesday 2 April
9.30pm EVENINGS: ANAM Australian Voices: Andrew Schultz
Directed by pianist/conductor Stephen Emmerson with double-bass soloist Damien Eckersley
Andrew Schultz - Stick Dance; 12 Variations for piano duet: Gesangvoll mit innigster Empfindung, Suspended Preludes, After Nina, Quicksilver Serenade

Friday 4 April
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Morning Meditations from MOFO
Clayton Thomas - Meditation (double bass solo)

Saturday 5 April
7.00pm AT HOME: showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: The Machine and the Rank Weeds
Brisbane's Kupka's Piano and Sydney's Ensemble Offspring join forces to play music, including: Michael Mathieson-Sandars - Character Motions (world premiere); Jane Stanley - Helix Reflection; Damian Barbeler - Deviations on White (world premiere)

Sunday 6 April
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Louise Page, soprano; Barbara Jane Gilby, violin; Philippa Candy, piano.
Includes: Betty Beath - Songs from the Beasts' Choir.
A free concert presented by ABC Classic FM at the Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

Friday 11 April
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Morning Meditations from MOFO
Maggie Abrahams and Matthew Goddard, percussion, performing: Phil Treloar - Sudhana's Steps: 'Priyardasana', 'Utpalabhuti', 'Vidvan', 'Surendrahba', 'Asha', 'Ananyagamin'

Saturday 12 April
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Tura presents Brady/Buckner Project
Guitarist Tim Brady (Canada) & baritone Thomas Buckner (US) and ensemble perform in Perth at the start of their Australian tour with a program including music by Brady, Cage, Wolfe and Lockwood plus two newly commissioned Australian works: Erik Griswold - Mendax Redux (world premiere); John Encarnacao - No Direction Home (world premiere)

Sunday 13 April
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Timothy Kain, guitar
Includes: Nigel Westlake - Mosstrooper Peak - Sonata for Guitar
A free concert presented by ABC Classic FM at the Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

Friday 18 April
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Morning Meditations from MOFO
Tillman Robinson - Morning Meditation (electroacoustics)

Saturday 19 April
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT:
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: selections from the 2013 International Rostrum of Composers (including Matthew Shlomowitz - Popular Contexts, vol 1) and new vocal chamber works commissioned for Halcyon's 15th birthday.

Sunday 20 April
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Alice Giles, harp and electroacoustic harp
Includes: Nigel Westlake - Hinchinbrook Riffs (arr. Alice Giles)
A free concert presented by ABC Classic FM at the Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

Tuesday 22 April
9.30pm EVENINGS: Canberra International Music Festival 2012
Peter Sculthorpe - From Kakadu, Into the Dreaming, Love Song for guitar and strings, Oh T.I. for guitar and strings. Performers: Tor Fromyhr, conductor; Callum Henshaw, Andrey Lebedev & Aleksandr Tsiboulski, guitars; Canberra Festival Camerata; New Zealand String Quartet

Friday 25 April
8.00pm EVENINGS: ACO2; Helena Rathbone, violin/director
Includes: Peter Sculthorpe - Port Essington; Frederick Septimus Kelly - Elegy for string orchestra - In Memoriam Rupert Brooke;

Friday 25 April
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Morning Meditations from MOFO
Peter Knight - Morning Meditation - Improvisation (trumpet solo)

Saturday 26 April
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT: Canberra International Music Festival 2012
Includes: Richard Meale - Palimpsest; Peter Sculthorpe - Tabuh Tabuhan; Anne Boyd - Angklung (arr. Askill). Performers: Michael Askill, percussion; Megan Billing, oboe; Daniel de Borah, piano; Michael Dixon, horn; Gary France, director; Gary France, percussion; Vernon Hill, flute; Christopher Latham, conductor; Shaun Lee-Chen, violin; Will (William) Martina, cello; Anna McMichael, violin; Virginia Taylor, flute; Alan Vivian, clarinet; Simone Walters, bassoon; DRUMatiX Percussion Group

10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Synergy Percussion with a new evening length percussion work - Anthony Pateras - Beauty will be as amnesiac or will not be at all (world premiere)

Sunday 27 April
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Arnan Wiesel, piano
Includes: Martin Wesley-Smith - Three Little Pieces, On A.I. Petrof: two waltzes,
White Knight Waltz
A free concert presented by ABC Classic FM at the Llewellyn Hall, Canberra

Monday 28 April
8.00pm EVENINGS: Canberra International Music Festival 2013
Peter Sculthorpe - The Great South Land
Greta Bradman, soprano; Andrew Goodwin, tenor; Alexander Knight, baritone; Roland Peelman, conductor; Peter Sculthorpe, narrator; Christina Wilson, mezzo-soprano;
ANU School of Music Chamber Choir; Canberra Choral Society; Canberra Festival Orchestra; DRUMatiX Percussion Group; Oriana Chorale
First broadcast live on 11 May 2013. Now with added narration by Peter Sculthorpe.

Tuesday 29 April
9.30pm EVENINGS: Canberra International Music Festival 2012
Peter Sculthorpe - Four Shakespeare Songs, Simori for flute and guitar, Nourlangie.
Performers: Tor Fromyhr, conductor; Bradley Kunda, Minh Le Hoang & Matthew Withers, guitars; Lara van Rijn, flute; Christina Wilson, mezzo-soprano; Canberra Festival Camerata; New Zealand String Quartet