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NPG — March 2019 including first prizes at both Australian Series Of Drum Dreamer, Clapham the 2000 Tromp Percussion The Power Of One writes: Competition and the 2001 Drum Dreamer is a dream CLAIRE EDWARDES Llangollen International RHYAN CLAPHAM sequence that takes me Instrumentalist. Edwardes back to 2009 as a high school was the 2005 MCA/ student. The dream depicts a Percussionist Freedman Fellow and she is Drum Dreamer (2019) confrontation that I had with a the three-time winner (2007, bully named Dylan, who wanted 2012, 2016) of the APRA Art to take my rhyme book. Drum Music Award for Excellence Dreamer fuses rap and snare Internationally acclaimed by an Individual for her 25-year-old Rhyan Clapham drum into a unifying rhythm percussion soloist, contribution to Australian is a rapper, drummer, of momentum to tell a story chamber musician music. In 2014 she was speaker and workshop of bullying, confidence, and and artistic director granted a prestigious facilitator under the rap perhaps even time travel. It was of Ensemble Offspring, Australia Council Music pseudonym DOBBY. He written for Claire Edwardes and Claire Edwardes has been Fellowship and in 2016 proudly identifies as a commissioned by CSO. described as a ‘sorceress Ensemble Offspring won Filipino and Aboriginal of percussion’ performing the APRA Art Music Award musician, whose family is with ‘spellbinding for Excellence by an from Brewarrina on Ngemba intensity’ and ‘graceful Organisation. land, and is a member of virtuosity’. Her award- Edwardes has the Murrawarri Republic winning performances performed concertos in Weilmoringle, New combine a theatrical energy with all the Australian South Wales. Clapham’s with charismatic and orchestras, as well as accomplishment as a original interpretations of numerous European composer was recognised a wide-range of repertoire orchestras, and has in 2017 when he was Edwardes studied at premiered works by awarded the prestigious the Sydney Conservatorium a veritable roll call of Peter Sculthorpe Fellowship. of Music with Daryl Pratt, composers – globally graduating as Student of – including Harrison the Year (1997) and went Birtwistle, Matthew Hindson, on to win the coveted Elena Kats-Chernin and Symphony Australia Young Matthew Shlomowitz. Performers Award (1999). In her role as Artistic She subsequently relocated Director of Ensemble to the Netherlands to Offspring she programs and undertake a Masters Degree performs some of the most at the Rotterdam and innovative and cutting- Amsterdam Conservatories edge music being presented under Richard Jansen, Peter in the world today. Claire Prommel and Jan Pustjens. Edwardes is endorsed by Whilst resident Mike Balter Mallets and for seven years in the Adams Percussion. She Netherlands, Edwardes teaches percussion at the received numerous Sydney Conservatorium international awards of Music and maintains a busy international concert schedule. Canberra Symphony Orchestra 4 Season 2019 5 NPG — March 2019 the Schoenberg Ensemble Australian Series Stained Glass – in Amsterdam in 2007. The Power Of One featuring vibraphone Smetanin has also accompanied by electronics MICHAEL SMETANIN composed works for ensembles BENJAMIN DRURY – was written shortly after including Crash (Ireland) and Drury returned from a trip Insomnio (Holland) whilst to Europe. Temple (2018) his fourth opera Mayakovsky Stained Glass (2018) Drury writes of his work: premiered in 2014. Most recently, Klang-Tek (2016) Stained Glass explores how was premiered in Holland by new experiences can change Michael Smetanin is one of the Ensemble Klang, whilst pianist Canberra-based Benjamin and colour familiar places – most distinctive figures among Zubin Kanga premiered Four Drury is a composer, like stained glass transforming Australian composers. Born Angels (2018). Michael Smetanin improviser and sound light into new and unexpected in Sydney in 1958 of Russian is an Associate Professor of artist. His work across patterns. The electronics were parents, he completed study Composition at the Sydney experimental, popular created using manipulated at the Sydney Conservatorium Conservatorium of Music, and classical genres is sounds of tapping, bowing and in 1981 and then having been University of Sydney. concerned with acoustics, scraping glass objects found in awarded an International noise and indeterminacy. my mother’s kitchen. This work Of Temple, Smetanin writes: Fellowship by the Music Drury’s work has been was written on the land of the Board of the Australia Council Temple is a short piece for one performed by Eighth Ngunnawal people. and a Netherlands Ministry percussionist playing one set of five Blackbird, Ensemble of Education and Science temple blocks. It was composed in Offspring and Lisa Moore, Stained Glass was scholarship went on to study 2015 for German percussionist Max whilst the site-specific commissioned by Arn with leading Dutch composer Riefer, who premiered the work in installation Pieces for Cars, Sprogis and Margot Woods Louis Andriessen at the Royal Kuala Lumpur. The piece is ideally Tunnel and Hexagonal Vents for performance by Claire Conservatorium in The Hague. performed on traditional style was included as part of the Edwardes at the 2017 Smetanin’s music has been Chinese temple blocks which are You Are Festival (2016). Canberra International extensively performed and bell shaped and in possession of a As performer, Drury Music Festival. recorded internationally with less diatonic and tempered pitch set has appeared at the works appearing on over 30 than the modern factory-made temple Canberra International individually released CD albums. blocks which are rectangular prisms Music Festival, SoundOut The title of his work in shape. Festival, the International The Ladder of Escape was The music is made of materials Conference of Auditory appropriated as the name of mainly based on a non-retrogradable Design, Electrofringe and an entire new music CD series rhythm of time units with the length Art Not Apart. His first released by Attacca records 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3. This rhythmic material album Sentence Fragment: and performances include is predominantly measured in 16th Consider Revising was a Bremer Podium (Portrait) notes and overlaid in canon of varying released in 2017. Drury Konzert at Radio Bremen in numbers of voices at any one time. also appears regularly Germany. Major works include Claire Edwardes has now taken this as a member of the ANU his Piano Concerto: Mysterium work into her repertoire and has Experimental Music Studio Cosmographicum premiered added an improvised cadenza at and New Music Ensemble. by the Sydney Symphony approximately three quarters of the Orchestra with Lisa Moore as way into the piece. soloist in 2005 and Microgrpahia commissioned and premiered by

Canberra Symphony Orchestra 6 Season 2019 7 NPG — March 2019 Australian Series In 2015 Strong won The Power Of One the David Henkels Award for Composition and had CLAIRE EDWARDES CLARE STRONG her Gypsy Trio performed at the 3MBS Performer of the Year Awards. Concurrently, Ether Lines (2018) Moonlight (2017) Strong was a selected composer at the Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat in New Hampshire, The waterphone is an Clare Strong (née Johnston) USA. She studied with instrument not many people is an Australian composer, Martin Bresnick and her are familiar with. My work based in Melbourne. Strong work was performed by Ether Lines is a study in holds a Bachelor of Music the Wet Ink Ensemble all the possibilities of (2013) from the University (New York City). this unusual and original of Melbourne where she Other engagements instrument which looks like was awarded the Esther have included the Atlantic a birdcage with its spiky Rofe Award for Composition. Music Festival (Maine), spokes – and sounds like As recipient of the Doris where her works were an eerie movie soundtrack Burnett Ford Scholarship, performed and recorded by mixed. Using implements Strong later completed a the festival’s Contemporary such as a superball, hot Masters degree from the Ensemble and the AMF rods, double bass bow University of Sydney as part Orchestra. Clare was also and a temple bowl beater of the inaugural National a selected composer I gradually unfurl all the Women Composers’ for the Australian Youth sonic possibilities of the Development Program at Orchestra’s National Music waterphone in a blossoming the Sydney Conservatorium. Camp (2015), where her sound world which takes us Strong also completed her music was conducted by into the ether. AMusA with Dr Mark McGee James Judd. (2012). Of her new work Strong — Claire Edwardes Strong has composed writes: for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Moonlight was composed Goldner String Quartet, for Claire Edwardes using a Sydney Philharmonia special selection of five metallic Choirs, PLEXUS, Claire instruments that she owns and Edwardes, Sarah Curro, helped select in consultation Stefanie Farrands, Virginia with me. Claire demonstrated Taylor, Alice Giles and different effects she could Louise Johnson. produce on these instruments with mallets and a temple bowl beater which helped to inspire the piece. This work is to be listened to as a reflective meditation.

Canberra Symphony Orchestra 8 Season 2019 9 NPG — March 2019 including ASKO|Schönberg, Australian Series Contribution to Dance and Alarm Will Sound, The The Power Of One Producer of The Year. Bang on a Can All-Stars His original theatre KATE MOORE and Icebreaker. Her works PAUL MAC & CLAIRE EDWARDES work, The Rise and Fall of have been performed St George – developed in venues including The with playwright, Lachlan Spel (2016) Concertgebouw, Carnegie Dual Attractor (2018) Philpott – has recently Hall and The Sydney been premiered at the Opera House and at major 2019 Sydney Mardi Gras festivals including The Festival, Sydney. Mac has Australian-Dutch musician Holland Festival, ISCM Paul Mac is one of the also recently composed and composer Kate World Music Days and leading figures in Australian music for the Sydney Moore holds a Masters MATA. electronic music. He is Theatre Company’s new degree from The Royal a composer, songwriter, production of How to Rule Moore writes of her work: Conservatory of The musician and producer. the World by Nakkiah Lui. Hague and a Ph.D. from Spel (English: Game) is the Mac is a conser-vatorium Mac is currently studying at the University of Sydney. first movement in a suite for graduate and a multi ARIA the Sydney Conservatorium In 2017 she was the percussion entitled Coral Award winner for his work of Music, completing a recipient of the Matthijs Speak, a collection of laments with underground dance Doctor of Musical Arts in Vermeulen Prize – the most and playful dances in homage pioneers Itch-E & Scratch-E composition. prestigious Dutch prize to the fragility of the Great and for his own solo work. Dual Attractor was for composers – for her Barrier Reef, where the corals His collaborators include jointlywritten by Mac and work The Dam, originally are currently under threat Sia, Kylie, Daniel Johns, and Edwardesduring a residency commissioned for The due to climate changes and Ngaiire. at Bundanonand conceived Canberra International human intervention. Each piece Mac scores music for of as the finalefor the dance Music Festival. Her major imagines the colourful interplay films, TV and theatre and he show: RECITAL. work Sacred Environment of movement between the living has previously worked with Mac writes of the work: was premiered by The corals, joyful sentient creatures Bangarra Dance Theatre on Netherlands Radio celebrating their idyllic the acclaimed productions This solo drum piece with Philharmonic Orchestra surrounding and utopian waters. – Blak and Miyagan from pre-recorded manipulated and choir, taking place at The pieces have a melancholic OUR land people stories. percussion accompaniment The Holland Festival Proms edge at the prospect of the Credits for Mac’s remix also exists as a standalone in The Concertgebouw. corals retreating and dissipating duo, Stereogamous, work [without dance], it’s Her works have been as the water changes. The include remixes for LCD driving repetitive rhythms released on major labels ebullient dance of life and Soundsystem, Rufus Du Sol, exploring polyrhythmic including the Grammy beauty comes to an abrupt halt George Michael and Kylie combinations of two lines on and Eddison nominated as it is silenced and abandoned, and he has also released a simple combination of three album Dances and Canons, leaving behind a skeleton like an album under the small drums. In RECITAL the released on ECM New a ruined underwater city that moniker, The Dissociatives, dancer, Richard Cilli repeats his Series and Cantaloupe once thrived, never to return. with Daniel Johns. In movements in a similar manner, release Stories for Ocean addition to his multiple over and over, until he is a Shells. Active on the ARIA awards and APRA whirling sweaty mess! international scene, Moore song writing award, Mac’s has had works performed career highlights include by acclaimed ensembles Australian Dance Music Awards for Outstanding

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