Erik Griswold : Represented Artist
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Photo: Greg Harm
Artist website: http://www.erikgriswold.org
Artist website: http://www.clockedout.org
Erik Griswold is a composer and pianist working in contemporary classical, improvised, and experimental forms. Particular interests include prepared piano, percussion, environmental music, and music of Sichuan province. Originally from San Diego, and now residing in Brisbane, he composes for adventurous musicians, performs as a soloist and in Clocked Out, and collaborates with musicians, artists, dancers, and poets.
His music has been performed in Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Festival, OzAsia Festival, and Brisbane Festival, among others. He is a recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship in Music, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and numerous individual grants. He collaborates with musicians Steven Schick, Margaret Leng Tan, Soundstream Collective, Decibel Ensemble, Zephyr String Quartet, Ensemble Offspring, and many others. His music can be heard on Mode Records, Innova, Room40, Move, Clocked Out and Immediata. His piece Water Pushes Sand, for the Australian Art Orchestra, was nominated for an Aria Award.
Together with Vanessa Tomlinson, Griswold directs Clocked Out, creating original music for prepared piano, percussion, found objects, and toys. Their albums include Time Crystals, Foreign Objects, Water Pushes Sand, and Every night the same dream. Clocked Out also produces innovative concert series, events and tours, for which they received two APRA-AMCOS Awards and two Green Room Awards (2000).
Erik Griswold — current to October 2020
Awards & Prizes
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| 2016 | Art Music Awards: Work of the Year: Jazz | Finalist | Water Pushes Sand |
| 2010 | International Rostrum of Composers | Rcommended work |
Selected Commissions
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Hollows out of time : piano quintet | Commissioned by Bruce and Jocelyn Wolfe for the launch of Lagavulin, a new chamber music venue in the forest at Harrigans Lane, 1 April 2018 |
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Action music : flexible instrumentation (2013) | Created for The Listening Museum, a collaboration of Ensemble Offspring and Clocked Out. |
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Mendax redcats : baritone voice with chamber ensemble (2013) | Commissioned by Mutable Music for the New York-Montreal Quartet. |
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Fairweather : for string quartet and koto, with narration & video (2013) | Supported by Philip Bacon Galleries, Bruce & Jocelyn Wolfe. |
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Bury the sound (quintets: flute, clarinet, piano, cello, electronics) (2012) | Commissioned by Decibel New Music. |
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a leaf falls : for cello and percussion quartet (2011) | Commissioned by Soundstream Collective. |