Johanna Selleck : Represented Artist
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Johanna Selleck is a composer, flautist, and musicologist. She completed a PhD in composition at the University of Melbourne in 2006, studying under Brenton Broadstock. She currently teaches composition in the Faculty of VCA and MCM at the University, where she is an honorary fellow. Johanna has been widely commissioned, including groups such as the Australian Contemporary Chorale and the Cairnmillar Institute, and her compositions have been performed by some of Australia's foremost ensembles, including the Queensland, Tasmania, and Melbourne Symphony orchestras; Astra; the Song Company; and Silo String Quartet. Her work as a composer and researcher has been presented at national and international festivals and conferences including the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, the Castlemaine State Festival, the Barwon Heads Festival of the Sea, and the Fourth CHOMBEC conference in Bristol, UK.
In October 2012, her flute concerto,
Unspoken Dialogues, was performed by the
Israel Chamber Orchestra at the opening concert of the
30th Asian Composers' League Festival in Tel Aviv,
Israel. She was again a featured composer at the ACL Festival in
Singapore in September 2013. In 2010, she collaborated with the
internationally renowned, Chicago-based harmonica player, Corky
Siegel, in the creation of a new concerto for blues harmonica
orchestra, and she will collaborate with Corky again in
2015.
Selleck won the Percy Grainger Prize for
Composition in 1990 and was awarded First Prize in the Albert H.
Maggs Composition Award for Australian Composers in 2006. Her
music appears on Move Records, Tall Poppies, and the Fluteworthy
label and is published by Reed Music, Allans Music, Centre for
Studies in Australian Music, Lyrebird Press, and the Australian
Music Centre. Johanna's research, reviews, and other articles
have been published in a wide range of magazines and journals
including Cambridge Scholars Press and the
Australasian Musicological Research
Journal.
Johanna's compositional style draws upon diverse influences as can be seen in her a song cycle and multimedia piece, Becoming, for soprano, countertenor, bass, shakuhachi, and string quartet. Themes behind much of her more recent work include ideas about 'connectedness' and her passion for the environment. A strong interest in human rights issues also finds expression in works such as Unspoken Dialogues.
Johanna Selleck — current to January 2015
Awards & Prizes
Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for |
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2006 | Albert H Maggs Composition Award | First Prize | Four Tapestries |
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Crossing points : flute with piano (2012) | Commissioned by Andrew Day. |
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Spindrift : for solo harp (2008) | Commissioned by Jacinta Dennett. |
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Soundscapes and Omens : for Symphony Orchestra (1998) | Commissioned by the Australian Composers' Orchestral Forum 1998 |
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Déjà Vu : for solo flute (1994) | Composed for an audition for a masters degree at the Victorian College of the Arts. |
Symphony no. 1 : the four elements (1992) | Written for the 1992 National Orchestral Composers School. |
Analysis & Media
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