Andrew Batt-Rawden
Managing Director
Andrew’s music concentrates on the current, widely relevant issues of communication and humanity. His most recent composition <<click your username.>>, written for The Song Company as part of their Modart07, about cyber-miscommunications in our modern world (follow this link for more info and score excerpt). Also this year, Andrew wrote “Enfer et Paradis” for string quartet about the juxtaposition of extremes in Cannes, a town for both the affluent and destitute, which was performed in Cannes in August07. Andrew graduated from the Sydney Con with Honours in 2006 where he studied with (amongst others) Nigel Butterley, Anne Boyd, Michael Smetanin and Damien Ricketson. He is the Managing Director of chronology arts, an organisation he co-founded with Alex Pozniak, dedicated to the production and promotion of new music, and is also the Secretary of the Fellowship of Australian Composers. |
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Alex Pozniak
Artistic Director
Alex Pozniak (b. 1982) is currently in his final year of a Masters in Musical Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under the guidance of Matthew Hindson. Working with composers Anne Boyd, Nicholas Routley and Ian Shanahan during his undergraduate years at the University of Sydney (beginning in 2000), Alex went on to obtain First Class Honours and the University Medal in 2005. Alex completed a BA alongside his music studies in which he studied philosophy, psychology, art history and theory, while majoring in English literature. His musical inspirations come from such wide sources as contemporary classical music, avant-garde rock, heavy metal, Merzbow’s Noise music, electronic/computer music and free improvisation. Alex has had works performed by the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Bourbaki Ensemble, the Sydney Symphony Fellows, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Kammer and the Song Company. He recently co-founded chronology arts with Andrew Batt-Rawden and is currently a board member of the Fellowship of Australian Composers. |
