Racheal Cogan : Associate Artist
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Random Audio Sample: Nanourisma : for treble recorder and tuned percussion by Racheal Cogan, from the CD Transience |
Photo: Sandrine Bretaud
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Artist website: http://rachealcogan.com
Racheal Cogan is a recorder player who has recorded and performed extensively in modal music forms around the world. She completed her BMus (Hons) degree at Monash University in 2005 with a thesis on Sufism and Persian classical music. From 2008 she participated in the creation and performed on the recorder with Cirque du Soleil in Zaia, based in Macau, China. She is currently performing in Totem, a new touring Cirque du Soleil show.
Orpheus Music have published twelve of Cogan's compostions in five publications.
Racheal Cogan and Tony Lewis released their duo
CD Transience: contemporary modal music with Orpheus
Music in January 2007. Their unique repertoire includes
traditional and classical pieces from Greece, Turkey and Iran, as
well as compositions by Cogan, acclaimed Greek musician Ross
Daly, and Persian santur master Ostād Farāmarz Pāyvar. Cogan and
Lewis's work is collectively drawn from a large amount of
first-hand experience in the study and performance of musical
forms across the world, spanning Asia, Africa, Europe and the
Middle East, and the Indigenous musics of Australia.
Transience 'is spiritual, the musicians have artistry,
creativity, vision and sheer mastery of their instruments'.
(Jaslyn Hall, Limelight: March 2007)
In Melbourne in 1993 Racheal Cogan co-founded the Greek music
group the haBiBis, whose CD Intoxication won an ARIA
award in 1999. In 1998 she received funding from the Australia
Council to study with recorder players Walter van Hauwe and
Jantien Westerveld in the Netherlands. In 2000, with assistance
from the Ian Potter Foundation, she travelled to Athens to study,
perform and record with Ross Daly and his ensemble Labyrinth
throughout Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia for two years. Since
then she has had funding from the Australia Council to study
Persian classical music with Hossein Omoumi in France (2002), an
Asialink residency in Chennai, India to study Karnatic (South
Indian) music with mridangam player Karaikudi R. Mani (2003), and
she has performed with and composed repertoire for Kurdish
musician and instrument maker Fardin Karamkhani in the USA and
Greece (2001 - 2003). She recorded a personal CD,
Sojourn, in Greece, funded by Arts Victoria, with Ross
Daly, Kelly Thomas and Angeliki Xekalaki. Sojourn was
released in Australia in 2006 by Orpheus Music.
Racheal Cogan — current to September 2010