Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

(Update/edit 26 June: Nigel Butterley 'Music Makers' feature, originally scheduled for 27 June, has been postponed. The broadcast date will be confirmed later.)

After the buzz of last month's Canberra International Music Festival and Perth's Totally Huge New Music Festival broadcasts, things look a little quieter on air for Australian music in June.

One notable highlight in the middle of the month is Sydney Chamber Opera's production of Fly Away Peter, a brand-new chamber opera by Elliott Gyger and librettist Pierce Wilcox, based on the David Malouf novella of the same name.

And Ensemble Gombert with a choral program pairing music by Estonia's most famous son, Arvo Pärt, with several pieces by Australian composer Calvin Bowman.

Speaking of Estonia, the first week of June also features a string of late evening segments of music from this year's International Rostrum of Composers, held just recently in Estonia's capital, Tallinn. The segments feature new music from over twenty countries, including this year's winners (from Norway and Slovenia) and our own Australian entries, and will be heard Monday to Saturday (1-6 June) following the 8pm Evening concert.

The New Waves podcast this month takes you to Perth to discover the music of a new generation of emerging composers from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the University of Western Australia's School of Music. The music and interviews were recorded last month at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art as part of ABC Classic FM's coverage of the 12th Totally Huge New Music Festival.

Australian music broadcast schedule

Monday 1 June
8.00pm EVENINGS: Australia Ensemble and guests
Includes Ian Munro - Divertissement sur le nom d'Erik Satie (and the Schoenberg Chamber Symphony)
Followed by music from this year's International Rostrum of Composers.

Tuesday 2 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: Ensemble Gombert; John O'Donnell, director
Includes Calvin Bowman - Beach Burial; To Daffadills; Death, be not proud (alongside music by Arvo Pärt)
Plus music from this year's International Rostrum of Composers.

Wednesday 3 June
8.00pm EVENINGS: Queensland Youth Orchestra
Includes Allan Zavod - Concertato for Orchestra
9.30pm EVENINGS: Tracks following 8pm concert include another one-hour special of music selections from this year's International Rostrum of Composers.

Thursday 4 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: Tracks following 8pm concert include another one-hour special of music selections from this year's International Rostrum of Composers.

Friday 5 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: Tracks following 8pm concert include another one-hour special of music selections from this year's International Rostrum of Composers.

Saturday 6 June
10.00pm EVENINGS: Tracks following 8pm concert include the last of our one-hour specials of music selections from this year's International Rostrum of Composers.

Monday 8 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: Duo Vertigo - Tamara Smolyar, piano; Ivana Tomaskova, violin
Includes Jane Hammond - In a room with Rachmaninov

Sunday 14 June
7.00pm SUNDAY OPERA: Sydney Chamber Opera - Fly Away Peter
Music by Elliott Gyger with libretto by Pierce Wilcox (on the David Malouf novella). Soloists: Jessica Aszodi, soprano; Mitch Riley, baritone; Brenton Spiteri, tenor
Jack Symonds, conductor; Imara Savage, director

Tuesday 16 June
9.30pm EVENINGS: The Song Company; Roland Peelman, conductor
Includes Stephen Cronin - Reminders; Martin Wesley-Smith - Together

Tuesday 30 June

8.00pm EVENINGS: Firebird Trio
Includes Terry Riley (arr. Benjamin Martin) - The Ecstasy