5 November 2024
Two Australian works programmed in the 2025 World New Music Days
Image: Robert McIntyre © Rudi Lorimer
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) has announced the program for 2025 World New Music Days, including works by Australian composers Robert McIntyre and Dan Walker.
Robert McIntyre's A Sea Spray of Ash (2019) for solo soprano and piano was selected for the Duos category of the program. The work confronts the issue of environmental collapse, conveying a narrative of ash covering the shores, natural disasters, and a plea for survival.
A Sea Spray of Ash was previously named co-winner of the 2022 International KC No Divide Art Song Competition, and an honourable mention in the 2020 International Emerging Artist Composition Contest.
Dan Walker was selected for his submission to the Youth Choir category, with the work, Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? (2022). Inspired by the line by poet Mary Oliver, the work emphasises the inhalation and exhalation of the breath through antiphonal vocal writing.
Both works were submitted for consideration through the Australian Section selection, announced in April this year, and from which one work was guaranteed a selection.
The 2025 World New Music Days, hosted by Miso Music Portugal, will take place from 30 May to 7 June in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. The program will feature approximately 120 works across 20 concerts, performed by some of Portugal's finest musicians. More info.
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