management team

Andrew Batt-Rawden (b1984) http://www.myspace.com/musicprodboi, http://musicprodboi.blogspot.com, http://twitter.com/musicprodboi  http://www.facebook.com/musicprodboi.

Andrew Batt-Rawden grew up in Belrose, NSW. He took up the oboe from an early age but discovered affection for composition early on. He graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Music (Hons) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he studied with (amongst others) Nigel Butterley, Anne Boyd, Michael Smetanin and Damien Ricketson. In 2004 Andrew was the recipient of the John Antill Scholarship.

Andrew’s compositional highlights include a solo piano commission for a London based ensemble (which incidentally served as inspiration for chronology), an electro-acoustic string quartet premiered in Cannes, and a piece for The Song Company as part of their ModArt07 program (hear it here or this link for more info and score excerpt), a performance at the Why Note Festival in Dijon, a piece for Christian Bonnelykke and his string quartet, and a commission for the inaugural opening of Ryde Argyle Arts. In 2008 he collaborated with Dan Walker for Stations of Creation, and had Les Mots premiered by Roland Peelman and Melbourne Soprano Jessica Aszodi . Also that year chronology premiered his string quintet Quintessence which Andrew considers his most successful work yet. Andrew has established a presence both locally and nationally as not only a talented artist but also a business entrepreneur. Andrew has worked previously as Project and Marketing Manager for The Song Company, Sales Manager for BT Publishing, and is now simply composing his own music and managing chronology arts whilst working as an arts consultant.

Alex Pozniak (b. 1982) has recently completed 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. He has had works performed by the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bourbaki Ensemble, the Sydney Symphony Fellows, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Kammer, the Song Company, the Arditti Quartet, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and has attended two AYO National Music Camp composition programs, working with Graeme Koehne and Joby Talbot.

In 2009 Alex was named composer-in-residence for the 2009 Verge Arts Festival at the University of Sydney during which he staged his first composer portrait concert, INFOCUS, presented by chronology arts, featuring eight works of both chamber and electronic music drawn from 2005-09. Alex was also a finalist in the Classical category of the 2009 APRA Professional Development Award. He is Artistic Director of chronology arts, which he co-founded with Andrew Batt-Rawden and which was named one of the top 100 Creative Catalysts in 2009 as part of the Creative Sydney arm of the inaugural Vivid Sydney Festival. Alex is Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s Music Department in composition and digital music techniques, teaches composition at the Sydney Conservatorium High School and The McDonald College and is a committee member of the New Music Network and the Aurora Festival.