Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

After the feast in November Australian Music Month it's a little quieter in December. One of the stand-out concert events of the month is the live broadcast launch of the new Hush CD, featuring the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Northey and pianist Caroline Almonte in a program of new Australian works and arrangements by Paul Stanhope, Elena Kats-Chernin, Matthew Hindson, Nigel Westlake, Paul Grabowsky, Ross Edwards, Peter Sculthorpe, Maria Grenfell, Brenton Broadstock, Graeme Koehne, Stuart Greenbaum and Iain Grandage.

At the other end of the month is the performance of Brett Dean's large-scale choral orchestral work The Last Days of Socrates by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under conductor Simone Young. In between there are Australian Christmas carols courtesy of concerts by Song Company and the Adelaide Chamber Singers.

Across the month, New Music Up Late brings you music from two festivals, Canberra's Sound Out and Perth's Totally Huge New Music festival, plus a portrait concert of Anthony Pateras and a two-hour special on the music of Ross Edwards.

Online there are podcasts of new bassoon music from Katy Abbott, Gerard Brophy, James Cuddeford, Andrew Schultz, Luke Altmann and bassoonist Mark Gaydon. You can also listen to recent additions to the Rewind collection, including Peter Sculthorpe's 1977/1998 Japanese-inspired vocal chamber work Love Thoughts and Alfred Hill's 1952 Septet for Winds.

December broadcast schedule

Friday 6 December
10.30pm New Music Up Late: PPP - Portraits of Pateras and Penderecki
Featuring a recent portrait concert of Anthony Pateras and classic tracks from the Polish giant.

Saturday 7 December
7.00pm At Home: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
7.30pm Evenings (LIVE): The Hush Project with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Northey; Caroline Almonte, piano.
Paul Stanhope - The Magic Island; Elena Kats-Chernin - Dance of the Paper Umbrellas; Matthew Hindson - The stars above us all; Nigel Westlake - Diving with George; Paul Grabowsky - Cythera; Ross Edwards - Ecstatic Dance; Peter Sculthorpe - Pastoral; Maria Grenfell - Rock Hopping; Brenton Broadstock - In the Sunshine; Graeme Koehne - Twilight on Dove Lake; Stuart Greenbaum - City Lights, a Mile Up; Iain Grandage - Suspended; Graeme Koehne - Just Walk Beside Me...
10.30pm New Music Up Late: Sound Out 1 - this week's program includes selected recordings from the 2013 Sound Out Festival of improvised and experimental music in Canberra.

Saturday 14 December
7.00pm At Home: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm New Music Up Late: Sound Out 2 - includes more selected recordings from the 2013 Sound Out Festival of improvised and experimental music in Canberra.

Friday 20 December
8.00pm Evenings: Australian String Quartet
Includes Andrew Ford - String Quartet No 5
10.30pm New Music Up Late: Totally Huge
More Australian and international music from the 2013 festival

Saturday 21 December
7.00pm At Home: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm Evenings: The Song Company/ Roland Peelman
Includes Ross Edwards - Sacred Kingfisher Psalms; Christopher Willcock - Etiquette with Angels; W.G. James - Carol of the Birds
10.30pm New Music Up Late: Sound Out 3 - includes more selected recordings from the 2013 Sound Out Festival of improvised and experimental music in Canberra.

Tuesday 24 December
1.00pm Afternoons: Adelaide Chamber Singers/ Carl Crossin; Alice Giles, harp
Includes Carl Crossin - ... and on earth, peace
Friday 27 December
10.30pm New Music Up Late: Ross Edwards 70 years, Off The Record

Saturday 28 December
7.00pm At Home: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm Evenings: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Simone Young; Peter Coleman-Wright, baritone; Timothy Reynolds, tenor; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Brett Dean - The Last Days of Socrates
10.30pm New Music Up Late: The Year in Review - presenter Julian Day and Australian Music Unit producer Stephen Adams take a look back at the new-musical year that was 2013.