Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

The ABC Classic FM broadcast schedule this month is dominated by live broadcasts from the 10th Sydney International Piano Competition. As has been the case since its inception, Australian repertoire is part of the program. This year Anne Boyd's Kabarli Meditation and Carl Vine's Toccatissimo are the two options for an obligatory Australian item in Stage III of the competition. Tune in on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 for the rare pleasure of hearing 20 accomplished emerging pianists from around the world give performances of one or other of these two works.

The international focus is also in evidence in a series of archival concert broadcasts, the beginning of the ABC 80th Anniversary Concert Season, featuring historic Australian performances of key works of the classical repertoire, including Australian premieres of C20 landmarks such as Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie performed by the MSO under Hiroyuki Iwaki in 1985 (broadcast on Monday 2 July at 8pm), with Brett Dean's Eclipse also making it into this month's concert selections, performed by the Arditti Quartet in the opening season of the Melbourne Recital Centre. And there's the last episode of Martin Buzacott's Resurrection Symphonies series on 80 years of classical music at the ABC.

Broadcasts from the Townsville's Australian Festival of Chamber Music carry the torch for Australian composition later in the month with a premiere from Nigel Westlake, and other works by him and by Malcolm Williamson and Matthew Hindson. And there are also Oz comps in two of this month's ABC Classic FM Sunday Live concerts from Hobart. And of course New Music Up Late continues to bear witness to some of the excellent Australian composers, performers and sound artists most of whom are not yet household names with broadcasts of recent Australian concert and CD recordings, including music by Adam Simmons and Nick Tsiavos from this year's MONA FOMA festival in Hobart, and a performance by Ensemble Offspring with music by Bozidar Kos and Chris Tonkin.

This month's podcasts present sounds from a most unusual composition project curated by Robin Fox for the Bionics Institute - music designed for the idiosyncracies of current bionic ear cochlear implant technology (http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/australian-music/podcast.htm). And great music from current and past generations of Australian composers continues to be available for listening online through our classic/amp collection, including recent additions of Australian piano music.

Concerts

Performances of Australian music recorded for broadcast by ABC Classic FM.

Tuesday 3 July 1.00pm - Selby and Friends: Kathryn Selby, piano; Catherine McCorkill, clarinet; Julian Smiles, cello.
Includes Andrew Schultz - After Nina

Monday 9 July 9.30am, 2pm & 7.15pm - SIPCA (Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia) Stage III Quarter-Finals Recital, LIVE from the York Theatre, Seymour Centre, University of Sydney.
Incl. Anne Boyd - Kabarli Meditation; Carl Vine - Toccatissimo

Tuesday 10 July 9.30am & 2pm - SIPCA Stage III Quarter-Finals Recital, LIVE from the York Theatre, Seymour Centre, University of Sydney
Incl. Anne Boyd - Kabarli Meditation; Carl Vine - Toccatissimo

Saturday 14 July 1:00pm - Musica Viva Australia: Takács Quartet
Incl. Gordon Kerry - Variations for String Quartet

Sunday 15 July 3.00pm - SUNDAY LIVE (free concert at Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania, Hobart): Dean Stevenson and the Arco Set: original classical crossover music

Monday 23 July 8.00pm - ABC 80th Anniversary Concert Season: Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, violin; Ashot Sarkissjan, violin; Ralf Ehlers, viola; Lucas Fels, cello).
Incl. Brett Dean - Eclipse
Friday 27 July 8:00pm - Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, 2012: Opening Night (LIVE).
Incl. Nigel Westlake - Sonata for two guitars (world premiere), Leonard Grigoryan & Slava Grigoryan guitars

Saturday 28 July 8:00pm - Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, 2012, Governor's Gala (LIVE), Camerata of St John's; Piers Lane, piano; Goldner String Quartet
Incl. Malcolm Williamson - Piano Concerto No 2; Nigel Westlake - Out of the Blue; Matthew Hindson - The Rave and the Nightingale

Sunday 29 July 3.00pm - SUNDAY LIVE (free concert at Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania, Hobart): Michael Lampard, baritone and Karen Smithies, piano.
Incl. Matthew Dewey - Two Songs from Southern Ocean

New Music Up Late

With Julian Day - recent concert recordings and new releases of music from around the Australia, including:

Saturday 7 July 10.30pm - Adam Simmons at MONA FOMA
Solo recital of original music for diverse wind instruments and toys by the very versatile Adam Simmons.

Saturday 14 July 10.30pm - Ensemble Offspring
Performing at the Sydney Conservatorium in spectral mode with a program including Bozidar Kos - Fata Morgana and Chris Tonkin - Widdop, Phaetons, Relic, plus music by Grisey, Muraill and Adams.

Saturday 28 July 10.30pm - Liminal at MONA FOMA
Composer and double-bassist Nick Tsiavos is joined by soprano Deborah Kayser, wind multi-instrumentalist Adam Simmons and percussionists Peter Neville and Eugene Ughetti to perform his gentle epic Liminal.

Music Makers

With Mairi Nicolson

Resurrection Symphonies: 80 years of classical music and the ABC - final episode
Writer/presenter Martin Buzacott takes you through the key events and people that shaped the ABC in its contributions to the development of classical music in Australia.

Sunday 1 July 12.05pm - Part 4: 1974 - the present

At Home

Saturdays at 7.00pm with Julian Day - showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers
- an hour of all-Australian music for you on Saturday evenings.