Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The Creativity Unlimited Festival will run over two days on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd Septermber 2016, and help launch the brand new, state of the art music precinct at Western Sydney University's Kingswood Campus. Schools and individuals are invited to attend on either or both days. Please register through the festival website.

The festival seeks to immerse the community in a broad ranging music making: from free improvisation and Indie rock, through to cutting edge contemporary classical sounds, and live-digital visuals and filmmaking. The objective is the creative exploration of energizing-silence—the energizing of silence, or near inaudibility, or visual stasis, with frenetic explosions of sonic and visual energy in such a way that the silence or stasis is imbued with the possibility of the emergence of a ‘something.’

This two-day festival includes four concerts featuring the best music performances of music staff and students at Western Sydney University. Hear their musical compositions and improvisations, and hear the work of Australia's leading edge musicians performing live in the Playhouse.

12.00–1.00: Melbourne Composers League Western Prospects Concert

In partnership with industry partners, the Melbourne Composers League, leading Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey will present a program of new works by Australian composers submitted for competitive selection.

Drawing Inflorescence (Firewheel)
Associate Professor Diana Blom
(Western Sydney University)

re-fract (2009)
Brendan Colbert

Homage to a Bach Invention
Joseph Giovinazzo

“No.3, Gaté,” “No. 4, Walking”
(from Sighting Silence, Sounding Image)
Christina Green (PhD candidate, Western Sydney University)

“No. 1, The Blind Goodbye,” “No. 2, The Guilty Tramp”
(from Love at Second Sight from Love at Second Sight)
Chloe Hulewicz (DCA candidate, Western Sydney University)

Midnight Harvest
Petar Jovanov (DCA graduate, Western Sydney University)

divergence
Christine McCombe

Pasar
Dr Peter Myers

“No. 6, Danza de guerra – Homenaje a Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)”
“No. 4, Balada - Homenaje a Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960)”
“No. 12, Retrospectivo – Homenaje a Alfred Hill (1869–1960)”
“No. 16, Bagatela – Homenaje a Keith Humble (1927–1995)”
(from Lux Meridional: Twenty four Ètudes for Pianoforte, no. 411)
Dr Andrian Pertout       

Opposites Attract
Antonio Tenace

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (02) 9852 5222 or by email to EnquiriesHCA@westernsydeny.edu.au

Featured Australian Works

	divergence : for solo piano (1998) by Christine McCombe — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
	Luz meridional : twenty-four études for pianoforte (2012) ['No. 6, Danza de guerra', 'No. 4, Balada', 'No. 12, Retrospectivo', 'No. 16, Bagatela'] by Andrián Pertout — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
	Pasar (solo piano) (1991) by Peter Myers — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
	Re-fract : for piano (2009) by Brendan Colbert — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey
	Sighting Silence, Sounding Image : a suite of pieces accompanying visual art works by Flossie Peitsch (solo piano) (2013) by Christina Green — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey

Featured artists

• Music of Joseph Giovinazzo
• Music of Chloe Hulewicz
• Music of Petar Jovanov
• Music of Antonio Tenace
• Performer Michael Kieran Harvey