Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

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Ever-changing constellations of piano, strings and electronics. Lisa Illean is a composer of acoustic and acousmatic music with work spanning pieces written for orchestra to sound works conceived for unique spaces. Aura Go is an Australian pianist whose practice encompasses performance, collaboration, curation, education and artistic research. Emma McGrath is the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concertmaster. She made her debut as a concerto soloist at aged 14 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Their performance in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall as part of New Music Days 2023 invites eight Australian artists to create ambitious new musical compositions, illustrating a remarkable range of music-making. Finding Our Voice is a nationwide project that invites eight Australian artists to create ambitious new musical compositions, illustrating a remarkable range of music-making. This program sets the pristine beauty of a handful of cult contemporary pieces alongside the aching clarity of renaissance music. Performed by ever-changing constellations of piano, strings and electronics, this through-composed experience of listening works as an incantation, comprising dream-like elegies, enigmas, and odes to the ethereal. ‘Much of my work has evolved an approach to sound which is a dance between two layers: music of understated lyricism combined with unusual, complementary sonorities. These two elements can rotate like celestial bodies in unfolding patterns of convergence, evoking fleeting moments of time within immeasurable contours.’ – Lisa Illean New Music Days is generously supported by the Robert Salzer Foundation.

Featured non-Australian music: Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Enigma; John Dunstable arr. Veltheim; Quam pulchra es; Thomas Adès, Darkness Visible; James Dillon, dragonfly; William Byrd arr. Veltheim, Miserere mihi Domine

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• Music of Lisa Illean
• Music of Tilman Robinson
• Music of Olivia Davies
• Presented by Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
• Performer Emma McGrath
• Performer Aura Go