Jenny Game : Associate Artist
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Artist website: http://jennygame.com/
Doctor of Creative Arts, (Composition, Western Sydney University)
Master of Arts (Composition, Monash University)
Diploma of Education Studies (University of London)
Bachelor of Arts Hons. (Composition, La Trobe)
Bachelor of Arts (Improvisation, VCA,
Dr Jenny Game is a composer and saxophonist based in Melbourne. Her compositions span orchestral, chamber jazz, chamber opera, electroacoustic and inter-cultural musical styles. Her intercultural music is infused with an interplay of jazz and Middle Eastern modes and rhythms. Jenny has composed for and led new music improvising ensembles on saxophones for over twenty years. Her new album Andromache's Lament was released in August 2025.
Recent highlights include:
2025
Ø Album Andromache's Lament
https://jennygame.com/album-andromaches-lament
2024
Ø World Premier of the Hestia Symphony by the Brazilian National Symphony in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 1, 2024. https://youtu.be/n39Og5EYZhM?si=rFl-OxGf9JJUPONK
Ø Recorded video at Empire Studios with Polyphonic Pictures, July 21, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n39Og5EYZhM.
2023
Ø Premier of Circus Opera, The Blood Vote at Gasworks Theatre, for the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival October 11-14.
Ø Premier of The Hills are Alive, an electroacoustic piece with saxophone and counter tenor as part of the Melbourne Composer's League Elbow Room series, September 23.
Ø Premier of solo piano piece Life in the Slow Lane by Coady Green at Tempo Rubato, September 9.
2022
Ø World premiere of new work In the Hocket by the iCarus Ensemble at the Vienna Summer Music Festival, https://www.viennasummermusic.com/ June 26-July 17.
Ø New String Quartet Marianne was performed by the Argus Quartet on February 5 as part of the Vox Novus Composer's Voice Concert Series. Live Stream from New York in partnership with Virtual Concert Halls.
In 2019 she composed the music for the celebrated physical theatre production of Dispersion, directed by Zebastian Hunter (Circque du Soleil) and Meredith Kitchen (Phillipe Genty Co.):
"Frankly, Dispersion blew me away. Add to that live, globetrotting music from Dr Jenny Game, who also composed the score, and you get an immersive experience that suggests worlds within worlds." Cameron Woodhead, The Age, June 19, 2019."
Her music has been well received by critics since she released her debut CD Seven Seas in 1996:
"Game's tenor sax has a breathy silkiness, her soprano a rich sensuality.... the release (Seven Seas) could earn the Gamesters some well-deserved recognition in the Melbourne jazz scene." Leon Gettler, The Age.
She released Jacinta's Song in 2004 with the support of a grant from Arts Victoria:
"…swaggering tenor saxophone…carefully crafted compositions give way to raw exoticism..." John Shand, Limelight.
"The settings she creates for her own solos and her colleagues are consistently fresh and varied" Adrian Jackson, Rhythms.
Jenny Game — current to September 2025
Selected Commissions
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| Dispersion (dance music) (2019) | NICA | |
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Nozart : for two horns in F (2012) | Commissioned by Accord pour Deux. |
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860: a poem by Emily Dickinson : for soprano, vibraphone and piano (2011) | Commissioned by Peter Neville. |