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Tristan COELHO - Solace |
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Tristan Coelho (b. 1983) graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2006 receiving a Bachelor of Music in composition with honors class 1 and university medal. His teachers have included Michael Smetanin and Trevor Pearce for composition and Stephanie McCallum for piano. In 2005 the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra premiered his orchestral work, Glass Canvas and he was composer and musical director of Strangelove the Musical which traveled to the Melbourne Comedy Festival in early 2007. Tristan is currently pursuing a masters degree at the Royal College of Music London studying with David Sawer, and is generously supported by a Leverhulme Trust Award and a Sydney University traveling scholarship. |
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Mary-Anne KYRIAKOU – Expanded Light |
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Mary-Anne a lighting designer and composer and holds degrees in music and lighting from the University of Sydney/Conservatorium. Mary-Anne is interested in the relationship between design + technology + music + science on raising the public’s awareness and appreciation for more creative, interesting and energy efficient built environments and art works. Mary-Anne has had held several solo installation/exhibitions and written and put on two of her music theatre works at the Seymour theatre and the Conservatorium Music Workshop. Mary-Anne is principal lighting designer for Meinhardt Australia and festival director in 2009 for the Sydney International Smart Light Festival. www.makproductions.com.au |
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Julian DAY – Beginning to Collapse |
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Julian is a composer, radio presenter and writer based in Sydney. He studied with Gerard Brophy at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, with Elena Kats-Chernin at the National Academy of Music in Melbourne and with Louis Andriessen at the Bang On A Can Summer Institute of Music in Massachussets, USA. He participated in Symphony Services’ Composer Development Program with Orchestra Victoria and in ModArt03 with The Song Company and was an official delegate at the 2007 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Until 2005 he co-directed the composers’ collective COMPOST, presenting large-scale projects at festivals such as Liquid Architecture in Brisbane, the Melbourne Fringe Festival and National Science Week, Sydney. Julian also hosts New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM. Inspired by such artists as Gyorgy Ligeti, Michael Gordon, The Books, Andy Warhol and Matthew Barney, Julian’s music tends towards the mysterious, the comical, the abject and the bizarre. |
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Paul CASTLES – Two Songs for Voice and Piano |
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Paul Castles was born and raised in Sydney, studying at the Conservatorium of Music under Mary Finsterer, Nigel Butterley, and Michael Smetanin, and graduating in 2005 with Honours Class I. He is currently completing a Masters in Composition under the supervision of Trevor Pearce as well as participating in the 2007-2008 season of the Cybec 21st Century Young Composers program with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. |
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Elias CONSTANTOPEDOS – Deipnosophist |
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Elias Constantopedos is a specialist producer/composer. He has worked on a range of projects from film to contemporary dance, corporate events, audio-visual installations, electro-acoustic, and has received performances and broadcasts of his work throughout Australia. He has produced a range of artists in the genres of Pop, Heavy Metal, R&B, House, Classical and Corporate show.
He holds a Bachelor of Music Composition (Hons 1st) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and an A.Mus.A in Piano. |
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Amy BASTOW – On The Rebound
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Amy Bastow, a recent BMus (Hons1) graduate from the Sydney Con, has studied composition with Anne Boyd, Damien Ricketson, Mary Finsterer, Michael Smetanin, and piano with Daniel Herscovitch. Amy is a recipient of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Board of Governors Award, Roy Agnew Prize and Doris Burnett Ford Award, all for Music Composition. A music scholar at The Women’s College for three years between 2004 and 2006, Amy wrote music for the resident musicians and performed at various events. In 2005, Amy was commissioned to write a fanfare for the Governor of NSW, Dr. Marie Bashir, for the Louisa MacDonald Oration. Earlier this year, Amy received a highly commended in the Miriam Hyde Competition for Piano Composition and is due to participate in the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Composition Program at National Music Camp in January 2008. Amy is also an educator of musicianship, piano and accompaniment withMusicalis Australis, a member of the Sydney Conservatorium Choir and the St. Paul’s College Chapel Choir, and is a keen conductor. amyfaithbastow@gmail.com |
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Peggy POLIAS – 3 Witches |
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Peggy Polias was born in Sydney in 1981, the eldest of five children. As a school student Polias learned to play the piano and often wrote original pieces for the instrument. Later she graduated from Sydney University in 2002 with a B.Mus. (Composition). Since graduating, Polias has worked as a music copyist setting works by leading contemporary Australian composers, and teaches piano and music theory from her home studio, as well as composing. At the start of 2007 Polias commenced M.Mus. composition studies in the Arts-Music Unit of the Sydney Conservatorium under the supervision of Professor Anne Boyd. In recent years Polias has played in the Langen Suka Sydney Javanese Gamelan ensemble. She also enjoys computers and recently built her latest one. www.peggypolias.com, peggypolias@hotmail.com |
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Daniel ROJAS - Danzas Amorosas
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Daniel Omar Rojas (b. 1974) was born in Chile and migrated to Australia at the age of six. Rojas has cultivated an interest in the music of Peruvian Indigenous, folk and Afro-Hispanic cultures. Rojas holds a Bachelor of Music Composition (1st Class Hons and Medal) and a Master of Music from the University of Sydney. He is working towards a PhD in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium. His composition mentors have included Ross Edwards, Anne Boyd, Ian Shanahan, Richard Meale and Edward Primrose. Rojas has won several first prizes including the Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, Frank Albert Prize, the Miriam Hyde Memorial Award, and the Keys National Piano Composition Competition with Danza de Montañas. He has received commissions for the MSO, SYO, SSO Fellows, Kammer Ensemble, and the Prima Musica Philharmonic Orchestra of Gent, Belgium. Work in progress includes an overture for the Omega Ensemble commissioned by Ars Musica Australis. http://www.amcoz.com.au/composers/composer.asp?id=33571, rojascomposer@gmail.com |
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