Mira Calix: Fables & other works

Mira Calix is not afraid to challenge musical convention or cross genre boundaries. She creates music of unconventional beauty, working with found sound, electronics, voice and classical instrumentation. Her prolific and innovative approach to composition has led to a critically-acclaimed catalogue of work. She has been commissioned to set both the words of one of Britain's most acclaimed and award winning contemporary poets, Alice Oswald and that of its most established; William Shakespeare, to music. She has released music alongside avant-garde classical composers like Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Jonathan Harvey and collaborated with indie innovators such as Malcolm Middleton (Arab Strap) and Brian McComber (Dirty Projectors). She has supported Radiohead on a leg of their Kid A tour and composed Nunu for the London Sinfonietta and a chorus of insects. She has released five albums on Warp Records.

This concert surveys Mira Calix’s works for ensemble and electronics, including the wonderfully strange Nunu for musicians and a choir of insects, and works by Ades, Ligeti and Saariaho. Mira also premieres her Made of Music commission inspired by, and incorporating the music of, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

Music for a Sunday Afternoon

2013 Winter Music in the Valley, Moonee Valley City Council

The Consort of Melbourne showcase their versatility in this free community concert, performing a capella repertoire spanning ten centuries from exquisite plainchant, sacred polyphony and passionate madrigals to arrangements of Cole Porter and The Beatles.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra -"The Crowd"

Directed by Richard Tognetti

Programme includes works by: Chopin, Crumb, Dean, Debussy, Feldman, Leifs, Schubert, Schostakovich & Tognetti

Richard Tognetti writes:
What is it we feel when part of a crowd? Is it fear or empowerment? Do we lose ourselves, or find our real selves? Is a crowd a mob, an ignorant mass of unthinking beings? Or is it an intelligent body, capable of thought processes and invention of which individuals alone would not be capable? We spend much of our life in crowds: when we go to the football or attend a concert, when we cross the street at peak hour, when we worship, mourn, protest or feast, we often do so as part of a crowd. The Crowd examines the nature of the crowd, in its many manifestations, both human and in the natural world.” With more than a hundred people on stage, two thousand in the audience and countless thousands from all walks of life projected onto the big screen, it's time for you to join the crowd.

Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria

2013 Advent Festival, Newman College

Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Missa Assumpta est Maria evokes the charm, elegance and passion of Louis XIV’s Paris in 1702. The Consort of Melbourne joins the Festival Baroque Orchestra to perform this Mass for six-part choir, strings and organ, played on period instruments.

'The Annunciation' by Brett Dean

Choir of Trinity College, Consort of Melbourne, St Johns Orchestra

As part of the Cantata series of services of St John's, Southgate.

This work will be performed in its liturgical context, directed by the composer.

Australian premiere of the 4th 2012 Thomanerchor Festmusik. Presented with support of the Robert Salzer Foundation and the Vizard Foundation