Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The program reflects the diversity of influences on Australia's multi-cultural musical landscape, in response to ​the Association Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale conference held at the Tasmanian Conservatorium 13-15 November 2019 entitled 'Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture'

With the help of staff and advanced students of the Tasmanian Con the audience experiences Australian music from the sublime solo cello music of Westlake to the modernism of Meale's Coruscations and Flynn's Torgo, the sensuality of Williams' and Gifford's music for winds to the electro-acoustic dystopia of Harvey's Kazohinia.

Does this music represent "belonging" or "detachment"? It's for the listener to decide!"

PROGRAM

Richard Meale (1932-2009) Coruscations (1971)

Nigel Westlake (b.1958) White Birds Fly Over the Valley of the Somme (2018)

Graeme Koehne (b.1956) Twilight Rain (1979)

Helen Gifford (b.1935) Celebrations of the Asparas (2013) and Parvarti (2013)

Dominic Flynn (b.1997) Torgo (2019) (premiere)

Natalie Williams (b.1977) Vignettes of Paul Klee (2010)

Michael Kieran Harvey (b.1961) Kazohinia (1998/2017 rev)

PERFORMERS

Alexandra Legg, cello

Angus Deeth, clarinet

Ben Cannings, bass guitar/lead guitar

Damian MacDonald, piccolo

Alistair Dobson, Thomas McGee, saxophones

Gabrielle Cayoun, Ansel Luk, Michael Kieran Harvey, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey, piano and keyboards

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 6226 7306

Featured Australian Works

	Celebrations of the Asparas : clarinet solo (2013) by Helen Gifford — performed by Angus Deeth
	Coruscations : for piano solo (1971) by Richard Meale
	Kazohinia : for French horn, piano, synthesizer and drumkit (1998) by Michael Kieran Harvey
	Parvati : clarinet solo (2013) by Helen Gifford — performed by Angus Deeth
	Torgo : for 2 pianos (2019) by Dominic Flynn — World premiere — performed by Arabella Teniswood-Harvey and Michael Kieran Harvey
	Vignettes of Paul Klee : three sketches for piccolo and soprano saxophone (2010) by Natalie Williams
	White Birds Fly Over the Valley of the Somme : Lament for Cello & Piano (from 'The Glass Soldier') (2018) by Nigel Westlake

Featured artists

• Performer Angus Deeth
• Performer Michael Kieran Harvey
• Performer Arabella Teniswood-Harvey