Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

June opens with a special program on Monday night from Perth's large chamber new music project Etica, focusing on the WA angle with new and recent works from local composers James Ledger and Chris Tonkin plus the reprise of Laikan, a turning-point Ross Edwards work commissioned for and premiered at the 1980 Perth Festival. New Music Up Late the following Saturday features another big program with three premieres from the 2014 Aurora Festival of Living Music in Western Sydney, including an epic concerto for soprano saxophone by Brian Howard, written for New Music Network president and long-time champion of new music in Sydney, James Nightingale.

There's also quite a bit of new and old Australian music in the orchestral programs this month. The TSO play Elena Kats-Chernin's Wild swans suite, the SSO give us a new work by Brett Dean, the MSO play more Dean, and the QSO give us Paul Stanhope's Elegies and Dances. And on the chamber music front there are premieres of new works by Alicia Grant on Sunday Live and by Mark Isaacs from the Southern Cross Soloists.

New Music Up Late also celebrates the winter solstice with Hobart's mid-winter music festival Dark Mofo in a live late-night broadcast from Federation Hall of the TSO playing to midnight for the winter solstice, with music including Brett Dean's classic Carlo. And across the month Julian Day talks to some of Australia's successful expatriate musicians and plays new studio recordings of their work including music by Elena Kats-Chernin, David Young, Damian Barbeler, Cor Fuhler, Anna McMichael, Luke Paulding and Liza Lim.

In webspace the New Waves podcasts continue with more surprises in June. Check out the May series featuring new works for solo percussionist by Thomas Meadowcroft, Anthony Pateras, Liza Lim, Alexander Garsden and James Rushford, performed by Eugene Ughetti. And our latest addition to the Rewind collection, Liza Lim's Ehwaz for trumpet and percussion, written for and performed by ELISION's Tristram Williams and Peter Neville. Enjoy.

Australian music broadcast schedule

Monday 2 June
8.00pm EVENINGS: Tura Scale Variable - Etica Ensemble: Jennifer Barrington, soprano; Catherine Cahill, clarinet; Emily Clements, flute; Katherine Corecig, viola; Phillip Everall, clarinet; Melinda Gourlay, cello; Adam Pinto, piano; Darryl Poulsen, horn; Kathryn Shinnick, violin; Paul Tanner, percussion; Jonathan Tooby, conductor; Phil Waldron, bass.
Ross Edwards - Laikan; Christopher Tonkin - Transient States (world premiere); James Ledger - Silver Swans
9.30pm EVENINGS: Sanguine Music Festival
Includes Brett Dean - Sketches for Siegbert (Brett Dean, viola solo)

Friday 6 June
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Europe Expats 1: Lorelei Dowling - we talk to Australian new music performers about the music, their international careers, and the European scene, and hear music from new ABC studio recordings by the artists. Includes Elena Kats-Chernin - Afterwards, Faded Curtains, Slicked Back Tango, Nonchalance, and Peggy's Minute Waltz.
Saturday 7 June
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Aurora 2014 - Voyage through radiant stars (world premiere),an epic concerto for soprano saxophone by Brian Howard; Blow by Blow (world premiere) by Alex Pozniak and Sonolith (world premiere) by Ekrem Mulayim.

Friday 13 June
8.00pm EVENINGS: Musica Viva - Kelemen Quartet
Includes Ross Edwards - Ecstatic Dance
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Europe Expats 2: Carl Rosman - we talk to Australian new music performers about the music, their international careers, and the European scene, and hear music from new ABC studio recordings by the artists. Includes David Young - otturato.

Saturday 14 June
1.00pm SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Northey. Includes Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans Suite
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Composer/performer Andree Greenwell turns 50 and we check out the back-catalogue.

Sunday 15 June
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Rebecca Chan, violin; Jeremy Eskenazi, piano; Thomas Rann, cello. Includes Alicia Grant - new work

Thursday 19 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: Dunkeld Festival #3 - Australian String Quartet
Includes Kristian Winther - Duo

Friday 20 June
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Europe Expats 3: Anna McMichael - we talk to Australian new music performers about the music, their international careers, and the European scene, and hear music from new ABC studio recordings by the artists. Includes Damian Barbeler - Confessions 1-3, Cor Fuhler - Dozjin and Anna McMichael - Lullaby Improvisations.

Saturday 21 June
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.00pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE SPECIAL: Dark Mofo #1 -TSO/Anu Tali live from Hobart's Federation Hall playing to midnight for the winter solstice. Includes Brett Dean - Carlo.

Sunday 22 June
2.00pm SUNDAY AFTERNOOON CONCERT: Sydney Symphony Orchestra/ David Robertson. Includes Brett Dean - new work

Wednesday 25 June
1.00pm AFTERNOONS: MSO Soloists' Choice - Emanuel Ax, piano, with members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Includes Brett Dean - Hommage à Brahms
8.00pm EVENINGS: Queensland Symphony Orchestra/ Rumon Gamba
Includes Paul Stanhope - Elegies and Dances

Thursday 26 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: Dunkeld Festival #5 - Auric Quartet & Australian String Quartet
Includes Ross Edwards - Veni Creator Spiritus

Friday 27 June
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Europe Expats 4: Joshua Hyde - we talk to Australian new music performers about the music, their international careers, and the European scene, and hear music from new ABC studio recordings by the artists. Includes Luke Paulding - Jupiter Dreaming and Liza Lim Gyfu.

Saturday 28 June
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Dark Mofo #2 - more from Hobart's winter solstice music festival.

Sunday 29 June
3.00pm SUNDAY AFTERNOOON CONCERT: Southern Cross Soloists with Ilya Konovalov, violin. Includes Mark Isaacs - new work.