Tristan Coelho : Associate Artist
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Photo: Emily Granger
Artist website: http://www.tristancoelho.com
Tristan Coelho is an award-winning Sydney-based
composer who specialises in concert music and film projects. His
music draws inspiration largely from either nature, especially
the idea of amplifying otherwise soft and delicate sounds, or our
digital, data-driven world.
Project highlights include
Rhythm City, for piano, live
video sampler and electronics toured by Zubin Kanga in 2019;
Smell of the Earth, commissioned
for the Canberra International Music Festival and performed by
Tambuco Percussion; read/write
error, commissioned by Ensemble Offspring and
finalist in the APRA Art Music Awards, and an interactive music
soundscape walk inspired by the local surrounds of Mount Wilson
in the Blue Mountains. He has had works
performed around Australia and internationally including at Young
Composers Meeting hosted by Orkest de Ereprijs, the Dartington
International Summer School, Etchings Festival, Oz Asia Festival,
Tilde Festival, Metropolis New Music Festival, Canberra
International Music Festival, and the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring
Workshop.
Tristan also works in the area of music for film, visual media
and dance and recently completed the score for the Australian
feature film, The Marshes.
His orchestration and arrangement credits
include work for Japanese video game composer Hitoshi Sakimoto,
Australian composers Matthew Hindson and Brenda Gifford, oud
virtuoso Joseph Tawadros, Sydney Dance Company and the Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra.
Tristan graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium
of Music in 2006 with the University Medal and then went on to
study at the Royal College of Music from 2007-2008 on a full
scholarship. He has studied composition formally with Michael
Smetanin, Damien Ricketson, Mary Finsterer, Trevor Pearce and
David Sawer among others, and piano with Stephanie
McCallum.
As an active music educator, Tristan has written
numerous works for student ensembles and runs creative music
workshops around Sydney. He has recently completed a new music
education project in collaboration with flautist Lamorna
Nightingale entitled Other Voices. The project is funded
by the APRA Art Music Fund and the NSW Government and is designed
to enhance students' composition, songwriting and music
technology skills.
Tristan Coelho — current to December 2020
Awards & Prizes
Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for |
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2016 | Art Music Awards: Work of the Year: Instrumental | Finalist | read/write error |
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Datamosh : for double bass solo (2020) | Commissioned by BackStage Music for their Offstage recording project. | |
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Beachscapes (sextets: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass) (2020) | Commissioned by Randwick City Council and Thomas Talmacs |
Gothic Carousel (quartets: viola, cello, double bass, piano) (2020) | Commissioned by MLC School (Sydney). | |
Rustic Dances : for flute, harp and string sextet (2019) | This work was commissioned by the Craven Creek Music Association with the support of the Wiggs family | |
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a line is a dot that went for a walk : for solo percussion (2018) | Commissioned by Baiba Berzens. |
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Rhythm City : for piano, video sampler and electronics (2018) | Commissioned by Zubin Kanga. |