Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

UPDATE 22 October - Colin Black's new radiophonic work In Search of Captain Cat of Llareggub, scheduled for broadcast on 31 October, will now be broadcast on 8 November.

Carl Vine turns 60 in October and you'll hear from him with both the world premiere broadcast of his new Concerto for Orchestra by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (see AMC Calendar 10-11 October), and two from the archives - an outstanding 2011 performance of his Violin Concerto by the Australian Youth Orchestra and soloist Dene Olding, followed by the Tokyo String Quartet performing Vine's String Quartet No 5.

The month's broadcasts include a good many more world premieres from local composers, starting with another performance by emerging players, the Sydney Conservatorium's Modern Music Ensemble premiering new works by saxophonists Jeremy Rose and Katia Beaugeais, both featuring as soloists in their own compositions. The Beaugeais commission was the product of the 2010 International Young Composer ISCM/IAMIC Award at the ISCM World Music Days in Sydney.

Later in the month, two of ABC Classic FM's Sunday Live concerts feature premieres: Melbourne's Plexus ensemble plays new music by Gordon Kerry and New Zealand composer Brigid Bisley; Pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska and saxophonist Christina Leonard play an as-yet-unnamed new work by Elena Kats-Chernin. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gives the Australian premiere of Brett Dean's Dramatis personae with trumpet soloist Hakan Hardenberger (see AMC Calendar 22-24 October). And the Southern Cross Soloists premiere a Vocalise by Mark Isaacs.

New Music Up Late is packed with premieres. There's the epic program of new orchestral music by James Hullick working with the Arcko orchestra and his BOLT ensemble, an all-Australian program from the Melbourne Composer's League including premieres by Michael Bakrnčev, Andrew Batterham, Joseph Giovinazzo, Jesmond Grixti, Jane Hammond and Haydn Reeder; and the program goes to the Vivid Festival to hear Jessica Aszodi perform new vocal and electronic music by Jeanette Little, James Rushford, and Anthony Pateras, and to catch a solo percussion work by Alex Pozniak and a long-form electro-acoustic chamber-theatrical meditation by Felicity Wilcox.

Online, the latest addition to the Rewind collection is a 1987 ABC studio recording of Bozidar Kos's Quartet for flute, viola, piano, and percussion. And our New Waves podcasts wrap up a five-part series on Brisbane percussionists Early Warning System and move on to Decibel Ensemble's WA Composer Project. Just go to ABC Classic FM's Australian Music page.

Australian music broadcast schedule

Thursday 2 October
9.30pm EVENINGS: Melbourne Recital Centre - Arditti Quartet
Includes Brett Dean - Eclipse

Saturday 4 October
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Terra Obscura - new works from the Sydney Conservatorium's Centenary Commissions project, performed by Sydney Conservatorium Modern Music Ensemble; Daryl Pratt, conductor; Steve Barry, piano/keyboards; Katia Beaugeais, saxophone; Michael Cullen, narrator; Peter Koopman, guitar; Jeremy Rose, saxophone.
Features Jeremy Rose - Iron in the Blood: II - 'Time Immemorial (The Arrival)' (world premiere); Katia Beaugeais - Terra Obscura (world premiere, commission awarded as 2010 International Young Composer ISCM/IAMIC Award at the ISCM world Music Days in Sydney)

Wednesday 8 October
8.00pm EVENINGS: Australian Youth Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard, conductor; Dene Olding, violin. Includes Carl Vine - Violin Concerto
9.30pm EVENINGS: Tokyo String Quartet. Includes Carl Vine - String Quartet No 5 (2007)

Saturday 11 October
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT: West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Michael Stern, conductor; Michael Collins, clarinet.
Features Carl Vine - Concerto for Orchestra (world premiere)
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Vivid and Sacred
New music from the Vivid Festival: Jessica Aszodi performs Jeanette Little's Mechanical Bride, James Rushford's The Fabric Of The Wind, and Anthony Pateras's Prayer for NIL, with electronic interludes by Sam Dunscombe; Claire Edwardes performs Alex Pozniak's Surge (world premiere); extracts from Felicity Wilcox's Gouttes (world premiere), performed by Felicity Wilcox and associates. Plus tracks from the Sydney World Music Chamber Orchestra's performance at the Sydney Sacred Music Festival.
Thursday 23 October
10.30pm EVENINGS: Melbourne International Arts Festival Quartets at Sunset series - Auric Quartet. Includes Richard Meale - Cantilena Pacifica

Saturday 18 October
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: These Compulsive Behaviours
New orchestral works by James Hullick, performed by the Arcko Orchestra, conducted by Timothy Phillips, with: BOLT ensemble; Michael Harvey, prepared piano; Patsy Nilgut, traditional Indigenous singing; James Hullick, vocals and prepared piano solo (plus live composing).

Sunday19 October
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Plexus
Includes Gordon Kerry - The End of Many Worlds
NB: This is a free concert at the Iwaki Auditorium in the ABC's Southbank Centre in Melbourne. To attend, just arrive at the venue before 12.45pm in order to be seated by the time the doors close for the broadcast at 12.55pm.

Thursday 23 October
8.00pm EVENINGS: Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Brett Dean, conductor; Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet. Includes Brett Dean- Dramatis personae (Trumpet Concerto) (Australian premiere)

Saturday 25 October
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
8.00pm SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT: Southern Cross Soloists; Ilya Konovalov, guest violin. Includes Mark Isaacs - Vocalise (world premiere)
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Spring Rejuvenation
Melbourne Composers' League - 'Silo Quartet with guest artists Lachlan Davidson, saxophones; Johanna Selleck, flute.
Features Michael Bakrnev - Dreaming of an Imaginary Country (world premiere); Andrew Batterham - Urban Songs (world premiere); Brendan Colbert - Puck; Bruce Crossman - Blossom Sadness; Eve Duncan - Spiritus Solaris; Joseph Giovinazzo - San Nin Gake (world premiere); Jesmond Grixti - Sospiro (Australian premiere); Jane Hammond - Bowerbrids (world premiere); Scott McIntyre - Constellationism IV; Haydn Reeder - Drama (world premiere)

Sunday 26 October
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano; Christina Leonard, saxophones
Includes Elena Kats Chernin - new work
NB: This is a free concert at the Eugene Goossens Hall in the ABC's Ultimo Centre in Sydney. To attend, just arrive at the venue before 12.45pm in order to be seated by the time the doors close for the broadcast at 12.55pm

Monday 27 October
7.00pm EVENINGS (LIVE): Melbourne Recital Centre 'Local Heroes' - Flinders Quartet; Paul Dean, guest clarinet. Includes Brett Dean - String Quartet

Tuesday 28 October
9.30pm EVENINGS: Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; William Hennessy, violin/director
Includes Paul Stanhope - Elegies and Dances; Percy Grainger - Country Gardens

Thursday 30 October
9.30pm EVENINGS: Melbourne Recital Centre 'Local Heroes' - Kegelstatt Ensemble
Includes Paul Stanhope - Shadow Dancing