Glyn Lehmann : Associate Artist
Photo: Gypsy Lehmann
Composer Glyn Lehmann has more than forty years' experience
composing for orchestra, choir, television and theatre.
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra have performed Glyn's works Space
Race (2019, with Young Adelaide Voices), In This Place (2022) and
The Wisdom of Trees (2023).
In 2024, Chamber Music Adelaide commissioned 'As the Universe
Expands' for oboe, bass voice and piano, performed at the world
premiere by the award winning Celia Craig, Pelham Andrews and Dr
Penelope Cashman.
Glyn was composer/sound designer for the State Theatre Company of
South Australia's productions of Art (Yasmina Reza), Scenes from
an Execution (Howard Barker) and Maestro (Peter Goldsworthy).
He has composed soundtracks for multiple TV series and
documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The
feature-length documentary 'I Told You I was Ill - The Life and
Legacy of Spike Milligan' premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival
(2009) featuring Glyn's music.
In 2019 he won the Australian National Choral Association
Composition Competition with his song 'Giant of the Forest'.
Another song, 'I Am The Earth', was performed at the Queen's
Platinum Jubliee Pageant in 2022 by a 400 voice children's choir
at the gates of Buckingham Palace. This song has been performed
by many thousands of children worldwide and currently has five
million views on YouTube.
Glyn has composed well over a hundred songs for children's choirs
including numerous commissioned works for the iconic South
Australian Primary Schools Music Festival and the Western
Australian Massed Choir Festival. In 2012 he established the
SongLibrary website, making his songs available to a global
audience of teachers and choir trainers.
Gypsy Lehmann