Clare Maclean : Represented Artist
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Clare Maclean was born in New Zealand in 1958. She studied composition with Gillian Bibby in Wellington and with Peter Sculthorpe in Sydney; at that time she also sang with the Sydney Chamber Choir and has written several pieces for them. This experience, particularly with the renaissance repertoire, influenced her writing style, which often uses modal tonalities and contrapuntal textures. She has been commissioned by a number of choirs in Australia and is at present composer-in-residence with the St Louis Chamber Chorus in the United States.
Maclean has been teaching part time at the University of Western Sydney for several years, and completed a Doctorate in Creative Arts in composition there under Bruce Crossman, writing choral, instrumental and orchestral works. She lives with her husband John Carroll and family in Penrith, NSW.
Clare Maclean — current to December 2009
Selected Commissions
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| Aunque es de noche : SATB choir | Commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. | |
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Psalm 137 : for unaccompanied chorus (2009) | To recognise with thanksgiving the musical gifts of Cantor Seth Warner of Temple Shaare Emeth, and the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus (Philip Barnes, conductor), this Towdah was commissioned by Dick and Marilyn Brickson, May 2009. |
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Vive in Deo : SATB choir (2007) | Commissioned by St Louis Chamber Chorus. |
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Misera, ancor do loco : for unaccompanied chorus (2007) | Commissioned for the St Louis Chamber Chorus by Sondra and Dorsey Ellis, in honour of their New Zealand friends, Lady Margaret and Sir Geoffrey Palmer. |
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os anthos chortou : as the flower of the grass (2004) | Commissioned by St Louis Chamber Chorus. |
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Leise rieselt der schnee : SSAATBarB (1996) | Commissioned by Sydney University Musical Society. |