Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The long-held tradition of the Melbourne Composers’ League’s Elbow Room concerts continues with an afternoon of music in the superb surroundings of the Montsalvat Barn Gallery. The Elbow Room concerts provide a valuable opportunity for composers to present their newest works and are known for their broad array of experimental as well as more traditional music by local composers, including acoustic and electronic works. For audiences, the diverse mix offers something for everyone to enjoy or be surprised.

This concert celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Melbourne Composers League with the launch of a triple CD and a ‘mini-festival’ of 2 hours of music, with time in the interval to enjoy refreshments at The Boulevard @ Montsalvat restaurant. Maintaining the MCL tradition of diversity, the concert includes works by George Dreyfus, Houston Dunleavy, Johanna Selleck, Peter Myers, Colin McKellar, Jacqui Rutten, Paul Moulatlet, Dindy Vaughan, and Evan Lawson.  Performers including Danae Killian-O’Callaghan (piano), Tristam Williams (trumpet) and Peter Sheridan (flutes) will bring to life a range of works featuring piano alongside a wind quintet, vocals, a trumpet trio, flutes (including bass and alto), and electroacoustics.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9758 2641 or by email to johannas@unimelb.edu.au

Featured Australian Works

	Binary system : flute duet (2016) by Paul Moulatlet — performed by Johanna Selleck and Peter Sheridan
	Capriccio (solo piano) (1963) by Peter Tahourdin — performed by Danae Killian
	Crossing points : flute with piano (2012) [Movements 1 and 5] by Johanna Selleck — performed by Johanna Selleck and David Laughton
	Drawing inflorescence : (firewheel) : for solo piano (2016) by Diana Blom — performed by Danae Killian
	Duet 1 : hidden melodies (2007) by Haydn Reeder
	Entasis III : for trumpet trio (2017) by Peter Myers — World premiere — performed by Fletcher Cox, Sarah Henderson and Michael Olsen
	Nature spirit : for solo piano (2016) by Corrina Bonshek — performed by Sine Winther
	Nu' day : twelve pieces for the year of the Apology (2008) ['February', 'November'] by Dindy Vaughan — performed by David Laughton
	Song of brother sun : treble choir with chamber ensemble by George Dreyfus — performed by Cantebella Girls Choir, Sharon Batterham and Southern Voices
	Tales of discovery : soprano with ensemble by Houston Dunleavy
	The Lake of Coolfin : medium/high voice and piano (2016) by Jacqui Rutten — World premiere — performed by Jacqui Rutten and Danae Killian
	Woolemi (solo piano) by Mark Viggiani — performed by Danae Killian
	Improvisation for guitar, piano, and elector acoustics by Gary Butler — World premiere
	Meditations by Susan Frykberg
	Rhapsody & fantasia by Alan Griffiths
	Rustic village dance by Henry Lewis
	Short piece for two low flutes by Colin McKellar — World premiere
	Sikinnis by Evan Lawson

Featured artists

• Music of Gary Butler
• Music of Colin McKellar
• Music of Evan Lawson
• Music of Henry Lewis
• Music of Alan Griffiths
• Music of Susan Frykberg
• Performer Fletcher Cox
• Performer Sarah Henderson
• Performer Michael Olsen
• Performer Johanna Selleck
• Performer David Laughton
• Arranger Sine Winther
• Performer Jacqui Rutten
• Performer Danae Killian
• Performer Peter Sheridan
• Performer Cantebella Girls Choir
• Performer Southern Voices
• Conductor Sharon Batterham