Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

The live highlight of the August schedule is your chance to join Speak Percussion in a free late-night concert live on New Music Up Late. Featured composers include expatriate Australians Thomas Meadowcroft and Matthew Shlomowitz as well as the members of Speak Percussion themselves. If you're in Melbourne on Saturday 16 August, just come to the Iwaki Auditorium in the ABC Southbank Centre between 10 and 10.20pm. The concert and broadcast starts at 10.30pm sharp.

Also live on the airwaves this month are ABC Classic FM's live and almost-live broadcasts from this year's Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville. The program includes a number of recent and classic works by Elena Kats-Chernin, including String Quartet No 1 (Joyce's Mob) (2013) and Scherzino for Piano Quartet (2013).

The month's broadcasts also include world premieres form a couple of younger Australian composers, Hobart's Jabra Latham presented by Tasmanian new music ensemble Opus House, and Brisbane's Gordon Hamilton with a new work for his choir The Australian Voices and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. And the Australian Youth Orchestra play Graeme Koehne's Trumpet Concerto with James Morrison.

New Music Up Late also features lots of other special studio guests this month. There are Off the Record programs featuring the music and ideas of sound artist, curator and critic Gail Priest and composer and ensemble director Alan Holley. And a recent studio session of music by Thomas Reiner. That's all on Saturdays in August. The Friday digital radio and online programs present studio records and interviews with five Australian musicians working in Europe The featured artists are: Vienna-based bassoonist Lorelei Dowling, Paris-based saxophonist Joshua Hyde, Cologne-based clarinettist Carl Rosman, London- based pianist Zubin Kanga and ex-Amsterdam-based violinist Anna McMichael. The music is a mixture of Australian and international repertoire.

Online the latest addition to the Rewind collection is a 1985 ABC studio recording of the never-danced ballet score Perisynthion by Malcolm Williamson, commissioned by Sir Robert Helpmann for the Australian Ballet in 1974. And there's more diverse new Australian music for your portable listening device courtesy of our New Waves podcasts. Just go to ABC Classic FM's Australian Music page and follow the links.

Australian music broadcast schedule

Friday 1 August
8.00pm EVENINGS: Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville #1
Includes Elena Kats-Chernin - Scherzino for Piano Quartet performed by Tamara Anna Cislowska, piano; Elena Kats-Chernin, piano; and members of New Zealand String Quartet
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): EURO EXPATS - interviews and studio records with Australian musicians working in Europe, featuring a mix of Australian and international repertoire.

Saturday 2 August
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Geister - new studio recordings of music by Thomas Reiner. Plus we talk to some of the participants in the More Talk Less Action discussion series curated by Clinton Green.

Wednesday 6 August
10.00pm EVENINGS: Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville #5
Includes Elena Kats-Chernin: Re-Invention No 1 for descant recorder (based on Invention No 8 in F by J.S. Bach); Re-Invention No 2 for tenor recorder (based on Invention No 4 in D minor by J.S. Bach); Re-Invention No 3 for descant recorder (based on Invention No 13 in A minor by J.S. Bach), performed by Genevieve Lacey and the New Zealand String Quartet in the context, as intended by the composer, of the Bach originals.

Friday 8 August
8.00pm EVENINGS: Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville #9
Includes Elena Kats-Chernin - String Quartet No 1 (Joyce's Mob) (2013) performed by New Zealand String Quartet
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): EURO EXPATS - interviews and studio records with Australian musicians working in Europe, featuring a mix of Australian and international repertoire.

Saturday 9 August
1.00pm Saturday Afternoon Concert: Australian Youth Orchestra/James Judd; James Morrison, trumpet. Includes Graeme Koehne - High Art: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm EVENINGS: Queensland Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Schwartz; The Australian Voices/Gordon Hamilton. Includes Gordon Hamilton - Ghosts in the Orchestra (world premiere)
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Off the Record - Gail Priest. Composer, sound artist, curator and critic, Gail Priest talks about her music and the artists that matter to her.

Friday 15 August
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): EURO EXPATS - interviews and studio records with Australian musicians working in Europe, featuring a mix of Australian and international repertoire.

Saturday 16 August
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Speak Percussion - 'Circuit' - A live studio concert broadcast of new circuit-bending percussion music from Speak Percussion, presented by ABC Classic FM. The program includes: Thomas Meadowcroft Cradles for 2 tape machines and Wurlitzer E-Piano; Ethno Tekh/Speak Percussion - new work for live percussion and gaming controllers; Matthew Shlomowitz - Popular Contexts Vol 6 for vibraphone, drum set and sampler keyboard. Join us in Melbourne at the Iwaki Auditorium for this special New Music Up Late live event. Entry is free, just make sure you're at the venue in time to be seated by 10.25pm as the doors will close at 10.28pm sharp.

Tuesday 19 August
9.30pm EVENINGS: Streeton Trio
Includes Elena Kats-Chernin - Butterflying

Friday 22 August
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): EURO EXPATS - interviews and studio records with Australian musicians working in Europe, featuring a mix of Australian and international repertoire.

Saturday 23 August
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE:

Sunday 24 August
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Opus House and Huon Quartet
Includes Jabra Latham - new work (world premiere)

Friday 30 August
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): EURO EXPATS - interviews and studio records with Australian musicians working in Europe, featuring a mix of Australian and international repertoire.

Saturday 31 August
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Off the Record - Alan Holley. The composer talks about his music, writing for brass, and his recent experiences in Zagreb.