Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

In May, on ABC Classic FM's Evenings , you'll hear seven concerts by Australian ensembles including works by Calvin Bowman, Andrew Ford, Gerard Brophy, Elena Kats-Chernin, Ian Munro, Richard Mills and Matthew Hindson. Ross Edwards's saxophone concerto Full Moon Dances is featured on Afternoons (6 May). The American Brass Quintet plays William Lovelock on the 21st and 24th. And Graham Abbott explores all of Peter Sculthorpe's iconic series of Sun Music works on Keys to Music (4 May).

On New Music Up Late you'll hear the English musician and author David Toop collaborating with Decibel at last year's Totally Huge New Music Festival (2 and 9 May). We wrap up our focus on last year's International Rostrum of Composers with Australia's entry by Matthew Shlomowitz on Saturday 3 May. You'll hear further collaborations between Continuum Sax and Match Percussion (10 May, with Natsuko Yoshimoto), Continuum Sax and Sydney Chamber Choir (16 May), Halcyon and austraLYSIS (30 May) and Speak Percussion and Topology (31 May). We also have two Syzygys: the Melbourne Band on 16 May and Colin Bright's new ensemble on 17 May. Plus a solo outing from percussionist Eugene Ughetti on 24 May to coincide with the month's New Waves podcasts.

Australian music broadcast schedule

Thursday 1 May
9.30pm EVENINGS: Songmakers Australia. Includes: Calvin Bowman - You might as well live

Friday 2 May
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (Digital & online): Totally Huge New Music Festival 2013: Decibel & David Toop, part 1. Includes: Lindsay Vickery - The Last Years

Saturday 3 May
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Selections from the 2013 International Rostrum of Composers (including Matthew Shlomowitz - Popular Contexts) plus a concert of new works by Rohan Drape, Alexander Garsden and Anthony Pateras.

Sunday 4 May
12.00pm KEYS TO MUSIC: Sun Music. Graham Abbott explores the series of Sun Music pieces composed in the 1960s by Peter Sculthorpe.

Tuesday 6 May
1.00pm AFTERNOONS: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Amy Dickson, saxophone; Andrew Grams, conductor. Ross Edwards - Full Moon Dances

Wednesday 7 May
8.00pm EVENINGS: Seraphim Trio; Jane Sheldon, soprano. Includes: Andrew Ford - Last Words

Friday 9 May
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (Digital & online): Totally Huge New Music Festival 2013: Decibel & David Toop, part 2.

Saturday 10 May
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT: Guildford Grammar School Centenary. Gerard Brophy - Mass. Performers: Choir of Guildford Grammar School; The Song Company; Daniel Trocme-Latter, organ; William Barton, didjeridu
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Last Blues (Continuum Sax & Match Percussion & Natsuko Yoshimoto). Includes: Margery Smith - Lost Blues; Mary Finsterer - Ionia; Matthew Hindson - Song of Life for solo violin; Brian Howard - Last Blues

Thursday 15 May
9.30pm EVENINGS: Australia Quartet; Elena Kats-Chernin, piano. Includes: Elena Kats-Chernin - Scherzino for piano quartet

Friday 16 May
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & online): Syzygy Ensemble. Includes: Ralph Whiteoak - Along Came a Spider.
Continuum Sax & Sydney Chamber Choir. Includes: Lachlan Skipworth - Shinjitsu

Saturday 17 May
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Syzygy Band. New music by Colin Bright

Tuesday 20 May
9.30pm EVENINGS: Australia Ensemble. Includes: Ian Munro - Divertissement sur le nom d'Erik Satie

Wednesday 21 May
8.00pm EVENINGS: American Brass Quintet. Includes: William Lovelock - Miniature Suite

Saturday 24 May
1.00pm SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT: American Brass Quintet. Includes: William Lovelock - Miniature Suite
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Eugene Ughetti - Australian Percussion Solos. Thomas Meadowcroft - Plain Moving Landfill; Alexander Garsden - Macrogragh; James Rushford - Twin Resistance; Liza Lim - Love Letter; Anthony Pateras - Hypnagogics

Monday 26 May
8.00pm EVENINGS: Australian Octet; William Hennessy, violin/director. Includes: Richard Mills - Lachrymae, Chorales and Postlude for octet

Tuesday 27 May
9.30pm EVENINGS: Southern Cross Soloists; Li-Wei Qin, cello. Includes: Matthew Hindson - Celebration

Friday 30 May
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (Digital & online): Halcyon & austraLYSIS. Includes: Jon Drummond - Book of Changes III; Roger Dean - Akurra: Lives in a new world

Saturday 31 May
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Topology & Speak Percussion. Thomas Meadowcroft - The Great Knot; Rohan Drape - See Hearer Clearer; Matthew Shlomowitz - Popular Contexts Vol. 6; Robert Davidson - Brightest Threads; Bernard Hoey - 70s; John Babbage - Tourbillion; Robert Davidson - Landscape; Bernard Hoey - 5 Minutes from Machine; Robert Davidson - General, what about if the...