Andrew Schultz : Represented Artist
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Artist website: http://www.andrewschultz.net
Andrew Schultz was born in Australia in 1960. His teachers and mentors included George Crumb, David Lumsdaine and Luciano Berio and he studied at the Universities of Queensland, Pennsylvania and King's College London. Schultz has been the recipient of various awards and prizes in Australia and overseas, including Australia Council Composer Fellowships, a Fulbright Award, a Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan Award, and the APRA Award for Classical Music.
His music covers a broad range of chamber, orchestral and vocal
works and has been performed, recorded and broadcast by leading
groups and musicians internationally. Over a fifteen-year period,
Schultz has been especially engaged in a series of large-scale
dramatic works.
His three operas (Black River, Going Into
Shadows and The Children's Bach) have been
presented live and on film. Black River (1988) was
awarded the Australian National Composer Opera Award and, in its
film version by Kevin Lucas, the Grand-Prix, Opera Screen in
Paris. Going Into Shadows (2000), commissioned by
London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with assistance from
the David Cohen Foundation, was premiered in London and Australia
in 2001. Both operas are to texts by his journalist sister,
Julianne Schultz. The Children's Bach (2008) was
commissioned by ChamberMade Opera and is based on Helen Garner's
novel to a libretto by Glenn Perry.
Journey to Horseshoe Bend (to a text by Gordon Kalton
Williams) is a cantata based on TGH Strehlow's work in Central
Australia and had its first performance in 2003 by the Sydney
Symphony, and has since been released on ABC Classics. Another
large-scale work is a setting of the Song of Songs with
a text by Barry Hill. Scored for 18 voices, the work was
commissioned by ABC Radio and The Song Company and had its first
performance at the Sydney Opera House in 2004. It was released
with other of the composer's choral music on a Song Company CD in
2008. Other works for The Song Company include Ekstasis
(1990), Data est lux (1997) and Wildflower
(2006) - all to sacred texts.
Schultz's recent orchestral works include Once upon a
time... (2006) for The Queensland Orchestra,
Endling (2007) for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and
Ghosts of Reason (2008) for the Adelaide Symphony
Orchestra. The latter work was the Schuller Award recipient in
2008 whilst Endling and Once upon a time...
have been recorded by the TSO with the Violin Concerto (Jennifer
Pike soloist) for release on ABC Classics. Another recent CD
release is a second volume of Schultz's Chamber Music - Suspended
Preludes on the Tall Poppies label.
Recent compositions include Beach Burial (2009) for the
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Orchestra and Magnificat
(2009) for the Sydney Chamber Choir. Other recent works include
Ash-Fire (2001) for the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale,
Spoleto, Southern Ocean (1999) for the 50th Anniversary
Intervarsity Choir and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (to a text by
Margaret Scott), In Tempore Stellae (1998) for the
Melbourne Chorale, Falling Man/Dancing Man (2005) for
the Melbourne Symphony, and Quicksilver Serenade (2004),
Diver's Lament (1996) and The Devil's Music
(1992) for the Sydney Symphony. Current projects include a series
of chamber works commissioned for an Australia Council
Fellowship.
Schultz has held posts and residencies in Europe, Australia and
North America including as Head of Composition at the Guildhall
School of Music (London), Professor of Composition at the
University of Wollongong, Visiting Artist at the Banff Centre for
the Arts (Canada) and, since February 2009, Professor of Music at
the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Biography provided by the composer — current to September 2009
Awards & Prizes
| Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Albert H Maggs Composition Award | First Prize | Reading a view |
Selected Commissions
| Work | Commission Details | |
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To the evening star : five songs for soprano and piano (2009) | Commisioned by an Australia Council Composer Fellowship, 2009-2010 |
| Ether etude : sextet (2009) | Commissioned by MLC School, Sydney for Australian Music Day 2009 | |
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Beach burial : for choir and orchestra (2009) | Commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. |
| Magnificat : for choir (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) (2009) | Commissioned by Sydney Chamber Choir. | |
| Four inventions for piano (unaccompanied piano) (2009) | Commissioned as part of an Australia Council Fellowship. | |
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Chamber suite from The children's Bach (quintets: clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello) (2009) | Commissioned with the aid of a Fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council |
Analysis & Media
- Article: The Face - Ashleigh Wilson meets Andrew Schultz (composer)
- Document: Andrew Schultz's "Journey to Horseshoe Bend"
- Article: Scored in black and white
- Article: Town Hall proms end year on eclectic note
- Program note: Ekstasis Andrew Schultz
- Review: Virgins and Nightingales The Song Company St James Church 29 May 1992
- Review: Spring International Festival of New Music 16 October 1993
- Review: The Song Company Modern Art Series #1 10 September 1996
- Program note: Fast Talking: The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
- Review: M for Murder The Song Company 20,21 June 1997
- Review: M for Murder The Song Company 20, 21 June 1997
- Program note: Data est Lux Andrew Schultz