Resonate Magazine | Australian Music Centre

September marks the 80th birthday of one of Australia's grand old figures of new music - composer, pianist, teacher and editor of volumes of Australian piano music from across the 20th century, Larry Sitsky. New Music Up Late on 20 September features a 2-hour conversation and retrospective playlist from this important composer. And the week before we present the world premiere broadcast of his Oboe Sonata, performed by oboist David Nuttall with the composer at the piano.

There are a large number of other premieres across the month, kicking off with a new work from Paul Grabowsky for the Flinders Quartet, and ending with New Music Up Late's broadcast of a whole concert of premieres by Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, Kate Neal, Anthony Pateras and Michael Askill, performed by Australia's newest contemporary percussion ensemble, Brisbane's Early Warning System.

ABC Classic FM's six concert broadcasts from the 2nd Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music include world premieres by Elliott Gyger, Kate Moore, Cor Fuhler and festival director David Chisholm, heard alongside other Australian compositions and numerous first Australian performances from the international scene.

Sunday Live is also looking good with an all-Australian program from the Australian Voices and percussionist Claire Edwardes from Newcastle, and music for two pianos from Anna Grinberg and Liam Viney in Brisbane, including a world premiere from Andrew Ford. New Music Up Late also presents a concert of new and recent Australian works from the Melbourne Composers' League. And Selby and Friends play a new work by Brett Dean.

Online, the latest addition to the Rewind collection is a 1965 ABC studio recording of Peter Sculthorpe's break-through String Quartet No. 6. And our New Waves podcasts put Brisbane percussionists Early Warning System into your portable mp3 player with the music accompanied by conversation with ensemble members Vanessa Tomlinson and Michael Askill. Just go to ABC Classic FM's Australian Music page and follow the links: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/

Australian music broadcast schedule

Monday 1 September
7.00pm EVENINGS (LIVE): MRC Local Heroes - Flinders Quartet
Features Elena Kats-Chernin - Reinventions; Paul Grabowsky - The Nightingale and the Rose (world premiere)

Tuesday 2 September
9.30pm EVENINGS: Musica Viva Tasmania - Ian Munro, piano
Includes Ian Munro - Letter to a Friend

Friday 5 September
8.00pm EVENINGS (LIVE): Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music #1 - Opening Concert. Argonaut Strings; Maxime Pascal, conductor.
Includes David Chisholm - Jonestown Threnody; Liza Lim - Gothic
9.45pm EVENINGS: Hobart City Wind Symphony/ Simon Reade; Michael Kieran Harvey, piano. Features Don Kay - Concerto for piano and wind band
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (LIVE): Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music #2 - Ensemble Vortex. Includes David Chisholm - Rung (world premiere)

Saturday 6 September
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music #3 -Argonaut Matinee. Argonaut Ensemble; Elliott Gyger, conductor.
Includes Elliott Gyger - Crystallise (world premiere); James Rushford - Espalier; Viper Gloss

Monday 8 September
8.00pm EVENINGS: Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; William Hennessy, violin/director
Includes Paul Stanhope - Elegies and Dances

Thursday 11 September
10.00pm EVENINGS: Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music #4 - Anna McMichael and Zubin Kanga
Includes Cor Fuhler - Please shoot my hovercraft (world premiere); Kate Moore - Heather (world premiere)

Friday 12 September
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music #5 - 'Bug' (Music by guest international guest artist Arturo Corrales), plus other new music from Australia and overseas.

Saturday 13 September
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music #6 - Golden Fur: Samuel Dunscombe, Judith Hamann, James Rushford
Anthony Pateras - Nekkersdaal Eden (2014); David Chisholm - Golden Fur
Plus the world premiere broadcast of Larry Sitsky's Oboe Sonata (David Nuttall, oboe; Larry Sitsky, piano)

Sunday14 September
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: The Australian Voices/ Gordon Hamilton; Claire Edwardes, percussion
Features Robert Davidson - Not Now, Not Ever; I did not have sexual relations with that woman; new work; Gordon Hamilton - Who are we?; Daniel Walker - Litany of Earth and Sky; Lisa Young - Misra Chappu (arr. Gordon Hamilton); Graham Lack - A Reverie of Bone; James Morrison - new work (world premiere); Mark Glentworth - Blues for Gilbert; Andrea Keller - Pierrot the Clown
NB: This is a free concert at the Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle. 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

Friday 19 September
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE (DIGITAL & ONLINE): Melbourne Composers' League - 'Spring Rejuvenation'. Silo Quartet with guest artists Lachlan Davidson, saxophones; Johanna Selleck, flute. Features Brendan Colbert - Puck; Bruce Crossman - Blossom Sadness; Jesmond Grixti - Sospiro; Michael Bakrncev - Dreaming of an Imaginary Country; Jane Hammond - Bowerbrids; Andrew Batterham - Urban Songs; Haydn Reeder - Drama; Joseph Giovinazzo - San Nin Gake; Eve Duncan - Spiritus Solaris; Scott McIntyre - Constellationism IV

Saturday 20 September
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Off the Record Larry Sitsky at 80
Julian Day talks to Larry Sitsky at his home in Canberra and we hear musical selections from across his career.

Sunday 21 September
1.00pm SUNDAY LIVE: Anna Grinberg, piano; Liam Viney, piano
Includes Elena Kats-Chernin - Victor's Heart; Andrew Ford - On Reflection (world premiere)
NB: This is a free concert at ABC Brisbane's Southbank Studio 420. 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 22 September
8.00pm EVENINGS: Selby & Friends. Kathryn Selby, piano; Torleif Thedéen, cello
Includes Brett Dean - new work

Wednesday 24 September
8.00pm EVENINGS: Australia Ensemble
Includes Roger Smalley - Trio for Viola, Clarinet and Piano

Saturday 27 September
1.00pm SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Brad Cohen, conductor; Emma Matthews, soprano; Eddie Perfect, host
Includes Calvin Bowman - Now Touch the Air Softly
7.00pm AT HOME: Showcasing Australia's finest composers and performers for an hour every Saturday evening.
10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Early Warning System: Michael Askill, Cameron Kennedy, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Nozomi Omote, and Vanessa Tomlinson, percussion
Features Erik Griswold - Give Us This Day (world premiere); Vanessa Tomlinson - Static (world premiere); Kate Neal - What Hathh II (world premiere); Anthony Pateras - All of Your Nightmares at Once (Australian premiere); Michael Askill - After Finnigans (world premiere)