Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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Articles by and about Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
31 Jul 2014 2014 Art Music Awards - finalists by Australian Music Centre
APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Australian Music Centre are proud to announce the finalists for the 2014 Art Music Awards. Once again, the hard work by judging panels has produced a strong as well as varied list of finalists, with all the ingredients of an exciting awards night: established names as well as up-and-coming artists, women as well as men, intimate pieces as well as dramatic works requiring big forces and spacious venues, solo works and projects as well as collaborations.
5 Jun 2023 AMC announces new audio library, with support from Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ABC Classic by Australian Music Centre, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ABC
The AMC announces the development of a new audio library. The initiative is backed with enthusiastic support from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ABC Classic in a partnership which will allow unreleased archival recordings to be heard through the new audio library.
Works commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Colour red... your mouth... heart by Gerard Brophy
Stars in a dark night by Brenton Broadstock
Icy disintegration by Annie Hsieh
Penumbral Shadow by Lisa Cheney
The Pool and the Star by Lisa Cheney
Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli by Nigel Westlake
Concerto for piccolo flute and orchestra by Paul Stanhope
Between blue rocks by Michael Whiticker
Made in Heaven by Brenton Broadstock
Cri de Coeur by Mark Holdsworth
Te Matua Ngahere by James Wade
Clarinet concerto by Ross Edwards
A Hero's Journey by Mark Holdsworth
River by Alex Turley
Light without heat by Lorenzo Alvaro
I dance myself to sleep by Joseph Twist
Symphony No. 2 by Stuart Greenbaum
De caelo sonus by Richard Mills
the air a bright shatter of wings by Luke Paulding
The last days of Socrates by Brett Dean and Graeme Ellis
Afterglow by Lachlan Skipworth
Introduced species : Symphony no. 2 by Katy Abbott
Dances with devils by Iain Grandage
Babe concert suite by Nigel Westlake
Worlds within worlds by Sally Greenaway
Big Rhap by Elena Kats-Chernin
Glass Canvas by Tristan Coelho
Rituals of Heartland by Catherine Likhuta
Hood Yourself in Stars by Ade Vincent
The Enchanted Loom : Symphony No. 8 by Carl Vine
Moondani Music by Taran Carter
L'appel du Vide by Mark Holdsworth
How to Grow Your Own Glacier by Melody Eötvös
Above Knowing by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon
Forever Singing Winter into Spring by Ade Vincent and Lior
Capital Hill by Alexander Voltz
What Was Just a World is a Star by Ade Vincent
Of Paradise Lost by Matthew Laing
The Rest Is Silence by Anne Cawrse
Lungs by Alex Turley
Suite for clarinet and cello by Paul Dean
My Mother Plays the Cello by Angus Davison
you are meadow by Joseph Franklin
Whirl by Katy Abbott
Vita Nostra by Christopher Healey
Works commissioned and written for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Cross currents by Alicia Grant
90 minutes circling the earth : hymn to freedom by Stuart Greenbaum
Three portraits of Scheherazade by Natalie Williams
Nextwave fanfare by Mary Finsterer
Symphony no. 3 by Ross Edwards
Beggars and angels by Brett Dean
Between silence and moonlight by Nigel Westlake
Federation flourish by Brenton Broadstock
The end of all journeys by Andrew Batterham
Falling man, dancing man, op. 68 by Andrew Schultz
The glass soldier by Nigel Westlake
Clouds and trumpets by Gordon Kerry
the air a bright shatter of wings by Luke Paulding
Dulce et Decorum Est by David Keeffe
The surge, the sounds, the pull by Anthony Lyons
CDs, Books and Kits featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
View all CDs, Books and Kits featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
CD: Australian composers / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: Oleg Caetani / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: Peter Sculthorpe / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: Popular classics / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: The first sixty years / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Digital Audio Album: Musaic : Anne Cawrse / performed by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: Babe : orchestral soundtrack / Nigel Westlake, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: John Hopkins conducts Percy Grainger / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
CD: Before the beginning, after the end : Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (strings) / Katy Abbott.
Events featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
24 Feb 2024 VIC: When We Were Young : 2024 Sidney Myer Free Concerts
16 Jul 2022 VIC: Petrenko Conducts Elgar, Laing
15 Jul 2022 VIC: Petrenko Conducts Elgar, Laing
World premieres given by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Nextwave fanfare : per orchestra by Mary Finsterer—
Between blue rocks : chamber orchestra by Michael Whiticker—
River : full orchestra by Alex Turley— 24 Feb 24 (Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne/Naarm, VIC)
WATER. RUINS. EVERYTHING. : (or, the quaking zone) by Joseph Franklin— 7 Dec 23 (Iwaki Auditorium, Southbank, )
you are meadow : for orchestra by Joseph Franklin— 28 Jan 23 (Deakin Edge (Federation Square), Melbourne)
Qualifying : for full orchestra by Nicole Brady— 18 Oct 22 (Iwaki Auditorium )
Of Paradise Lost : concerto for bassoon and orchestra by Matthew Laing— 14 Jul 22 (Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC)
Baparripna : orchestra by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon— 25 Feb 22 (Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC)
Shīghratā : for orchestra by John Rotar— 29 Jan 22 (Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC)
My Mother Plays the Cello : chamber orchestra by Angus Davison— 29 Jan 22 (Hamer Hall)
The Rest Is Silence : Concerto for Cor anglais and Orchestra by Anne Cawrse— 24 Jun 21 (Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC)
Hellbent (trumpet with orchestra) by Holly Harrison— 22 Apr 21 (Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC)
Opal : Double Concerto for Horns and Orchestra by May Lyon— 25 Mar 21 (Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC)
Nanyubak (viola with orchestra) by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon— 26 Feb 21 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Wata (full orchestra with multiple soloists) by David Yipininy Wilfred, Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred and Paul Grabowsky— 20 Feb 21 (Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC)
Capital Hill : for chamber orchestra by Alexander Voltz— 22 Jan 21 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, VIC)
Far south : orchestra by Gordon Hamilton— 5 Mar 20 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Island Signal Island Song by Richard Mills— 14 Feb 20 (Sidney Myer Music Bowl, VIC)
How to Grow Your Own Glacier : for chamber orchestra by Melody Eötvös— 25 Jan 20 (Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne)
If they knew : orchestra by Matthew Laing— 25 Jan 20 (Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Southbank VIC)
Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace (multiple choirs with full orchestra) by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon— 15 Jun 19 (Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne VIC)
Forever Singing Winter into Spring (tenor with orchestra) by Ade Vincent and Lior— 4 May 19 (Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, VIC)
Cri de Coeur : orchestra by Mark Holdsworth— 4 May 19 (Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, VIC)
One small step by Barry Conyngham— 2 May 19 (Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, VIC)
Clarinet Concerto (clarinet with orchestra) by Paul Dean— 4 Apr 19 (Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC)
A Hero's Journey : full orchestra by Mark Holdsworth— 20 Feb 19 (Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne)
Penumbral Shadow : for chamber orchestra by Lisa Cheney— 5 Feb 19 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
All the World’s a Stage : orchestra by Iain Grandage— 11 Oct 18 (Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, VIC)
The Enchanted Loom : Symphony No. 8 : full orchestra by Carl Vine— 30 Aug 18 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
What Was Just a World is a Star : for orchestra by Ade Vincent— 2 Jun 18 (Hamer Hall, Southbank, VIC)
Hood Yourself in Stars : for orchestra by Ade Vincent— 19 Apr 18 (Robert Blackwood Concert Hall, VIC)
The Lost : Missed Tales No. 3 : concerto for viola and cello with orchestra & electro-acoustics by Mary Finsterer— 5 Apr 18 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Drum kit concerto (drum kit with full orchestra) by Joe Chindamo— 25 Mar 18 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Ignition : For Chamber Orchestra by May Lyon— 21 Feb 18 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
L'appel du Vide : orchestra by Mark Holdsworth— 21 Feb 18 (Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre, Southbank, Melbourne)
Rituals of Heartland : orchestra by Catherine Likhuta— 21 Feb 18 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Big Rhap : full orchestra by Elena Kats-Chernin— 25 May 17 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Orpheus: Prolog & Toccata : for tenor and orchestra by Elena Kats-Chernin— 4 May 17 (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, VIC)
Ancient Letters : Concerto for amplified harpsichord and orchestra by Elena Kats-Chernin— 5 Apr 17 (Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC)
The Secret Motion of Things : full orchestra by Ade Vincent— 28 Jan 17 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne VIC)
Flute concerto : flute with orchestra by Ian Munro— 17 Nov 16 (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, VIC)
Hollow Kings : Four pieces after William Shakespeare for optional narrator, electric guitar and orchestra by James Ledger— 24 Jun 16 (Costa Hall, VIC)
Flying dream : Suite for orchestra from the movie Paper Planes by Nigel Westlake— 13 Apr 16 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
City of Ghosts : for orchestra by Alex Turley— 10 Feb 16 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne)
Worlds within worlds : chamber orchestra by Sally Greenaway— 10 Feb 16 (Iwaki Auditorium, Victoria)
Dances with devils : Concerto for percussion and orchestra by Iain Grandage— 17 Jul 15 (Costa Hall, VIC)
Replica : overture for orchestra by Natalie Williams— 19 Nov 13 (Hamilton Performing Arts Centre, VIC)
Concerto for piccolo flute and orchestra (piccolo with full orchestra) by Paul Stanhope— 6 Jun 13 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
The Happiness Box (full orchestra with narrator) by Bryony Marks— 8 May 13 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne)
Frumious : orchestra by Holly Harrison— 5 Feb 13 (Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, MElbourne)
Finding Kensho : chamber orchestra by Daniel Portelli— 28 Jan 12 (Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne)
Gardener of Time : for symphony orchestra by Barry Conyngham— 18 Nov 11 (Melbourne Town Hall, VIC)
Ancestors : 2. Night Dances : for orchestra by Tom Henry— 11 Oct 11 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne as part of a Young Composers’ Workshop, with the support of the University of Melbourne)
Sinfonia chaconnissima by Julian Yu— 29 Sep 11 (Melbourne Town Hall, VIC)
Organ concerto de caelo sonus (organ with full orchestra) by Richard Mills— 26 Aug 11 (Melbourne Town Hall, VIC)
the air a bright shatter of wings : for small orchestra by Luke Paulding— 4 May 11 (CUB Malthouse, MSO Metropolis Series)
Symphony No. 2 : double planet by Stuart Greenbaum— 29 Mar 11 (Loreto Mandeville Hall, VIC)
Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli : for symphony orchestra, SATB chorus & male treble solo by Nigel Westlake— 19 Feb 11 (Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne)
I dance myself to sleep : full orchestra by Joseph Twist— 29 Jan 11 (Iwaki Auditorium ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne)
Icy disintegration : for orchestra by Annie Hsieh— 5 May 10 (CUB Malthouse, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Metropolis Series (Blood on the Floor))
Still : chamber orchestra by Charlie Sdraulig— 2 Feb 10 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Lunatic Fringe by Amy Jørgensen— 2 Feb 10 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Particle Transform by Alex Pozniak— 2 Feb 10 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Tyranny of distance (full orchestra with choir) by Brenton Broadstock— 17 Oct 09 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Re-collecting ASTORoids : full orchestra by Elena Kats-Chernin— 1 Oct 09 (Hamer Hall, VIC)
Made in Heaven (trumpet with full orchestra) by Brenton Broadstock— 4 Sep 09 (Costa Hall, VIC)
Moda by Elias Constantopedos— 2 May 09 (The CUB Malthouse, VIC)
Dulce et Decorum Est : an impression after Wilfred Owen by David Keeffe— 21 Apr 09 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne)
A succession of madness : orchestra by Mark Wolf— 4 Feb 09 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Light without heat : for chamber orchestra by Lorenzo Alvaro— 4 Feb 09 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Curse of Greyface by Benjamin McDonald— 4 Feb 09 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Moda by Elias Constantopedos— 4 Feb 09 (Iwaki Auditorium, VIC)
Clarinet concerto (clarinet with full orchestra) by Ross Edwards— 30 Nov 07 (Melbourne Town Hall)
The surge, the sounds, the pull : for orchestra by Anthony Lyons— 11 Sep 07 (Iwaki Auditorium ABC Centre, Southbank, Melbourne)
Musaic : large chamber ensemble by Anne Cawrse— 5 May 07 (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's 2007 Metropolis Series. CUB Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.)
Metric Leisure for Orchestra : orchestra by Christian O'Brien— 20 Apr 07 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne)
Clouds and trumpets : for orchestra by Gordon Kerry— 11 Dec 06 (Hamer Hall, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne)
Machinations : for orchestra by Paul Stanhope— 24 Nov 06 (Melbourne Town Hall)
Te Matua Ngahere : for chamber orchestra by James Wade— 15 May 06 (Malthouse, Melbourne)
The little mermaid (sa choir with full orchestra) by Richard Mills— 26 Aug 05 (Melbourne Town Hall)
Three portraits of Scheherazade : reflections on texts by Kate Middleton by Natalie Williams— 23 May 05 (CUB Malthouse, Melbourne)
Glass Canvas : for orchestra by Tristan Coelho— 21 May 05 (Part of the Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne)
Tableaux : for orchestra by Cyrus Meurant— May 05 (The Malthouse, Melbourne)
The heart of night : for shakuhachi and orchestra by Ross Edwards— 7 Apr 05 (Hamer Hall, Melbourne)
Jet-stream : fanfare for orchestra by Paul Stanhope— 5 Feb 05 (Myer Bowl, Melbourne)
Moments of bliss : for large orchestra by Brett Dean— 2 Dec 04 (Hamer Hall, Melbourne)
Moondani Music : chamber orchestra by Taran Carter— 27 Mar 04 (Malthouse Theatre, Southbank, Melbourne)
Canticle : for trumpet and orchestra by Mark Isaacs— 22 Aug 03
The end of all journeys : full orchestra by Andrew Batterham— 22 Jun 02
Willow and wattle : full orchestra by Julian Yu— 15 Jun 02 (CUB Malthouse, Melbourne)
Shadow music : for small orchestra by Brett Dean— 13 Jun 02 (Metropolis Festival, Melbourne (CUB Malthouse))
Symphony no. 3 : Mater magna by Ross Edwards— 25 May 01 (Melbourne Town Hall)
Advance Australia fair : for orchestra with or without unison voices by Peter Dodds McCormick and Peter Sculthorpe— 9 May 01 (Commemorative Meeting of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, where, on 9 May, 1901, the first Parliament was opened.)
Between silence and moonlight : for symphony orchestra by Nigel Westlake— 25 Mar 00 (CUB Malthouse, Melbourne)
Beggars and angels : music for orchestra by Brett Dean— 4 Nov 99 (Melbourne, Australia.)
In tempore stellae : for solo voices, choir and orchestra by Andrew Schultz— 6 Dec 98 (Hamer Hall, Melbourne Concert Hall)
Moments of falling : for string orchestra by Stuart Greenbaum— 20 Feb 97 (Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne)
The Truman Show (film/tv soundtrack) by Burkhard Dallwitz— 1997 (Alan Eaton Studio, St Kilda, Melbourne)
'A' day : full orchestra by Edward Primrose— 1 Dec 96
Descent : Metropolis, the workers' view, for film projection and orchestra by Carl Vine— 28 Nov 96 (Melbourne Town hall)
Close to the edge : 8 pieces for orchestra by Roger Smalley— 24 Aug 95
Aaron Copland 'In memoriam' : for orchestral brass and percussion by Stuart Greenbaum— 20 Mar 93 (Melbourne Concert Hall)
Tartengk : full orchestra by Michael Whiticker— 1993 (Melbourne Concert Hall)
Wild is the wind : bass clarinet concerto by Michael Whiticker— 1993 (CUB Malthouse)
Stars in a dark night : Symphony no. 2 by Brenton Broadstock— 11 Nov 89 (Melbourne Concert Hall)
Cinema music : full orchestra by Edward Primrose— 1982 (ABC Meet the Composer series)
Essay II : for orchestra by Robert Hughes— (ABC 50th anniversary concert, Melbourne Concert Hall, Victorian Arts Centre)
Winter steps : for large orchestra by Douglas Knehans— 1981 (Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne)
Violin Concerto : violin with orchestra by Barry McKimm— 1980 (ABC studios, Glen Waverley, Melbourne)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (violin with full orchestra) by Richard Mills— 14 Aug 78 (Melbourne)
Imperium : full orchestra by Helen Gifford— 7 Nov 70 (ABC Waverley Orchestral Studio, Melbourne)
Three temperaments : full orchestra by Margaret Sutherland— May 64
The fifth continent : for speaker and orchestra by Peter Sculthorpe— 10 Nov 63 (Melbourne studios of the ABC.)
Symphonic overture : full orchestra by Miriam Hyde— 20 Nov 42 (Australian Composers' Concert, Melbourne Town Hall)
Analysis & Media
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