Australia Ensemble
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Australia Ensemble @UNSW is an Australian Chamber Group
active since 1980.
The group was founded after a proposal put to the University of New South Wales
by musicologist Roger Covell
and clarinettist Murray Khouri, then colleagues at the University. Since that time it has occupied a prominent position in Australian music, frequently touring in addition to a Sydney-based concert series. International performances have taken the ensemble to the USA, the UK, the then Soviet Union, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, China, India, South America, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. The Ensemble collaborates with major Australian and international performers, and frequently performs new works by Australian composers.
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
active since 1980.
The group was founded after a proposal put to the University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
by musicologist Roger Covell
Roger Covell
Roger David Covell AM is an eminent Australian musicologist, critic and author. He is Professor Emeritus in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and continues to contribute articles and reviews to the Sydney Morning Herald, where he...
and clarinettist Murray Khouri, then colleagues at the University. Since that time it has occupied a prominent position in Australian music, frequently touring in addition to a Sydney-based concert series. International performances have taken the ensemble to the USA, the UK, the then Soviet Union, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, China, India, South America, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. The Ensemble collaborates with major Australian and international performers, and frequently performs new works by Australian composers.
Current members
Past members
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Commissioned Works
| Year | Composer | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Carl Vine Carl Vine Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985... |
Café Concertino |
| 1987 | Graham Hair | Concerto for clarinettist and double ensemble |
| 1988 | Carl Vine Carl Vine Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985... |
Miniature IV |
| 1989 | Gerard Brophy Gerard Brophy Gerard Louis Brophy is a first-class cricketer, presently contracted to Yorkshire. He has also played for Ireland, Free State, Northamptonshire and Transvaal in a well travelled career.... |
Seraphita |
| 1989 | Nigel Westlake Nigel Westlake -Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,... |
Reflections at Summercloud Bay |
| 1990 | Bozidar Kos | Catena 2 |
| 1992 | Roger Smalley Roger Smalley Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,... |
Poles Apart |
| 1993 | Gordon Kerry | Sonata da camera |
| 1995 | Brenton Broadstock Brenton Broadstock Brenton Broadstock is an Australian composer.Brenton Broadstock - Australian Composer - was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied History, Politics and Music at Monash University, and later composition and theory with Donald Freund at the University of Memphis in the USA and with Peter... |
Celebration – A Symphony for Chamber Ensemble |
| 1996 | Julian Yu | Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.37 |
| 1997 | Elliot Gyger | si doux for six instruments |
| 1997 | Liza Lim Liza Lim Liza Lim is an Australian composer.Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects... |
The Heart’s Ear |
| 1999 | Barry Conyngham Barry Conyngham Emeritus Professor Barry Conyngham AM is an Australian composer and academic. He has over seventy published works and over thirty recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. His... |
Yearnings |
| 2000 | Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:... |
Bottleneck Blues |
| 2000 | Martin Wesley-Smith Martin Wesley-Smith Martin Wesley-Smith is an Australian composer with an eclectic output ranging from children's songs to environmental events. He works in a range of musical styles, including choral music, operas, computer music, music theatre, chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual pieces which bring words,... |
fin/début |
| 2001 | Christine McCombe | Night Alchemy |
| 2002 | Mark Isaacs | Kensington Rags |
| 2002 | Raffaele Marcellino | The Art of Perception |
| 2003 | Andrew Ford Andrew Ford Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council... |
Chamber Concerto No. 4 |
| 2004 | Ross Edwards Ross Edwards Ross Edwards is a former Western Australian and Australian cricketer.Edwards played in 20 Tests for Australia, playing against England, West Indies and Pakistan. He also played in nine One Day Internationals including the 1975 Cricket World Cup series... |
Island Landfall |
| 2005 | Nigel Westlake Nigel Westlake -Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,... |
String Quartet |
| 2006 | Peter Sculthorpe Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West... |
Darwin Calypso |
| 2007 | Nigel Westlake Nigel Westlake -Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,... |
Rare Sugar |
| 2007 | John Peterson | Guilty Pleasures |
| 2007 | Andrew Ford Andrew Ford Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council... |
Oma Kodu |
| 2008 | Stuart Greenbaum | Easter Island |
| 2009 | Paul Stanhope | Light and Motion Studies |
| 2009 | Ross Edwards Ross Edwards Ross Edwards is a former Western Australian and Australian cricketer.Edwards played in 20 Tests for Australia, playing against England, West Indies and Pakistan. He also played in nine One Day Internationals including the 1975 Cricket World Cup series... Andrew Ford Andrew Ford Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council... Matthew Hindson Matthew Hindson Matthew John Hindson AM is an Australian composer.-Biography:Matthew Hindson was born in Wollongong in 1968. He studied composition at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards.Hindson's works have been... Martin Wesley-Smith Martin Wesley-Smith Martin Wesley-Smith is an Australian composer with an eclectic output ranging from children's songs to environmental events. He works in a range of musical styles, including choral music, operas, computer music, music theatre, chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual pieces which bring words,... Peter Sculthorpe Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West... Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:... Raffaele Marcellino |
Anniversary miniatures |
| 2010 | Matthew Hindson Matthew Hindson Matthew John Hindson AM is an Australian composer.-Biography:Matthew Hindson was born in Wollongong in 1968. He studied composition at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards.Hindson's works have been... |
Light is both a Particle and a Wave |
| 2011 | Barry Conyngham Barry Conyngham Emeritus Professor Barry Conyngham AM is an Australian composer and academic. He has over seventy published works and over thirty recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. His... |
Showboat Kalang |
External links
- http:// www.ae.unsw.edu.au/ Australia Ensemble @UNSW official website
- Australia Ensemble at Allmusic