Caroline Szeto : Represented Artist
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Artist website: http://www.carolineszeto.com
Caroline Szeto is a Sydney-based composer. She
began her musical training on the piano and has received diplomas
in piano performance from the Trinity College of Music, London
and the Australian Music Examinations Board. Szeto completed her
studies in composition with Eric Gross and Peter Sculthorpe,
graduating with BMus Hons, MMus Hons and PhD under the
supervision of Anne Boyd, from the University of Sydney, where
she has also lectured in harmony.
Szeto has received several prizes and awards, including a
Composer Fellowship from the Performing Arts Board of the
Australia Council for the Arts, the Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize
and the Donald Peart Memorial Prize. She was a finalist in the
2007 Classical Music Awards in the prestigious category of
Instrumental Work of the Year.
Szeto has twice been selected as a participant for the National
Orchestral Composers' School where two of her orchestral works,
Energy and Energy II, were performed. Both
these works and ABC Fanfare, which was commissioned by
the ABC for their 60th anniversary, are performed regularly.
Szeto's orchestral works have been performed by the Tasmanian,
Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.
Both Energy and ABC Fanfare were included in the Second
International Festival of New Music for Orchestra held in the
Czech Republic. Other international music festivals in which
Szeto's works have been performed include the ISCM-ACL World
Music Days 2007.
Much of Szeto's other music is performed by leading ensembles and
soloists, and some works are commissioned for festivals:
Prelude and Monkey's Cry for 1999 Australian
Women's Music Festival, Impulse for ENERGEX Brisbane
Festival 2000, and Dawn Day Dusk for National Festival
of Women's Music 2001.
Several of Szeto's works consist of Chinese elements. For
example, poems from the Tang dynasty, as well as Chinese harmony
and musical structure, are used in Images of Li Po,
rhythmic patterns are adopted in The Third Station of the
Cross and also in many other works; a Chinese word is
employed in Energy and aspects of Chinese harmony are
utilised in many works, including Yunny's Treat.
The Australian Music Examination Board syllabus includes
several of Szeto's works: A Game, Study No. 1 and Study
No. 2. CD recordings of Szeto's works are also available.
Other musical activities have included Noh Drama, Mediaeval Music
Drama, production of computer-generated sound synthesis for music
theatre, and keyboard performances in opera production and in
electronic and computer music concerts.
Biography provided by the composer — current to April 2008
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Carryin' on : for ensemble (2008) | Commissioned by Caringbah High School for the Talented Composers' Competition Concert | |
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Stringing : for mandolin orchestra (2007) | Commissioned by FAME (Federation of Australasian Mandolin Ensembles) |
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Dawn day dusk : for koto and guitar (2001) | Commissioned by Carolyn Kidd on behalf of the National Federation of Women's Music, 2001 |
Impulse : wind quintet (2000) | Commissioned by ENERGEX Brisbane Festival 2000 | |
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Toccatas : for two pianos (1999) | Commissioned by Michael Kieran Harvey, Bernadette Harvey. |
Monkeys cry (sextets: 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass with chamber ensemble) (1997) | Commissioned by The Song Company. |