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Harry Sdraulig : Associate Artist

For me, the musicians are everything. They've spent years in the practice room, developing technique and an extraordinary capacity for musical expression. I can't ignore that - I want to engage with it. My aim is always to give musicians a vehicle to express profound musicality to their audience.

Random Audio Sample: String Quartet No. 1 : string quartet by Harry Sdraulig, from the CD Harry Sdraulig: String Quartet No. 1


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Harry Sdraulig is one of Australia's most frequently commissioned and performed young composers. His music - at turns serious, playful, contemplative, or exuberant - is characterised by its passionate melodic lyricism, harmonic richness, and intricacy of rhythmic interplay and drive.

In recent years, Harry's work has risen to prominence through a string of collaborations with arts organisations including the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Tasmanian, and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Goldner, Orava, Chroma, and Australian String Quartets, Musica Viva Australia, the UKARIA Cultural Centre, the Australia Ensemble, the Australian National Academy of Music, PLEXUS, Ensemble Three, and Ensemble Q. His Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda, commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott and released by Sony Classical, is widely broadcast internationally, whilst his piccolo concerto for Lloyd Hudson and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Icarus, was a finalist in the Large Ensemble category of the 2020 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards.

Harry's music is predominantly published by the Australian Music Centre, for which he is a represented artist. He completed Bachelor of Music (Honours) and Master of Music degrees at the University of Melbourne and is presently undertaking a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Sydney, at which he also lectures in composition.


Harry Sdraulig — current to November 2023

Studied with

Stuart Greenbaum (2013)

Elliott Gyger (2013 - 2016)

Brenton Broadstock (2014)

Paul Stanhope (2017 - current)

 

Mentored by

Matthew Hindson (2018 - 2019)

Natalie Williams (2018)

 

Influenced by

Carl Vine

 

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for
2013 Adolph Spivakovsky Scholarship for the Composition of Music Winner

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Digital sheet music sample Piano Quartet : for violin, viola, cello and piano (2023) Commissioned by Rod and Elizabeth King for premiere performance at the 2023 Bendigo Chamber Music Festival
Beyond the ridge, the ranges far : for solo cello and orchestra (2023) Commissioned by Gisela Pullen and Karl Gordon
Digital sheet music sample Slanted : for string orchestra (2022) Commissioned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, generously supported by Rob and Nancy Pallin
Digital sheet music sample Torrent : for orchestra (2021) Commissioned by Sydney Symphony Orchestra, supported by the Sharon & Anthony Lee Foundation
Digital sheet music sample Meridian : for wind quintet (2021) Commissioned by Arcadia Winds.
String Quartet No. 1 : string quartet (2021) Jointly commissioned by the ABC Fresh Start Fund and the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival for premiere performance by the Goldner String Quartet