Commissioned Australian Composers
Commissioned Australian Composers
1980 - 2019
1984 – Carl Vine, Café Concertino commissioned by Musica Viva Australia
1985 – Mark Isaacs So It Does commissioned by Musica Viva Australia
1987 – Graham Hair, Concerto for clarinettist and double ensemble
1988 – Carl Vine, Miniature IV
1989 – Gerard Brophy, Seraphita (first performance, commissioned by the NSW Premier’s Award for Composers)
1989 – Nigel Westlake, Refractions at Summercloud Bay
1990 – Bozidar Kos, Catena 2
1992 – Roger Smalley, Poles Apart
1993 – Gordon Kerry, Sonata da camera
1995 – Brenton Broadstock, Celebration – A Symphony for Chamber Ensemble
1995 – Andrew Schultz, Circle Ground
1996 – Julian Yu, Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.37
1997 – Elliott Gyger, si doux for six instruments
1997 – Liza Lim, The Heart’s Ear
1999 – Barry Conyngham, Yearnings
2000 – Elena Kats-Chernin, Bottleneck Blues
2000 – Martin Wesley-Smith, fin/début
2001 – Christine McCombe, Night Alchemy
2002 – Mark Isaacs, Kensington Rags
2002 – Raffaele Marcellino, The Art of Perception
2003 – Andrew Ford, Chamber Concerto No. 4
2004 – Ross Edwards, Island Landfall
2005 – Nigel Westlake, String Quartet commissioned by K.W.Tribe for the Goldner String Quartet through Musica Viva Australia
2006 – Peter Sculthorpe, Darwin Calypso
2007 – Nigel Westlake, Rare Sugar
2007 – John Peterson, Guilty Pleasures commissioned by University of Melbourne, Albert H Maggs Composition Award
2007 – Andrew Ford, Oma Kodu
2008 – Stuart Greenbaum, Easter Island
2009 – Paul Stanhope, Light and Motion Studies
2009 – Anniversary miniatures
Ross Edwards, Retrospective
Andrew Ford, On Winter’s Traces
Matthew Hindson, Beauty
Martin Wesley-Smith, Invention 1
Peter Sculthorpe, A Little Song of Love
Elena Kats-Chernin, Birthday Miniature
Raffaele Marcellino, Les Darcy Dances
2010 – Mark Isaacs, String Sextet commissioned by University of Melbourne, Albert H Maggs Composition Award
2010 – Matthew Hindson Light is Both a Particle and a Wave commissioned by Justice Jane Mathews
2011 – Brett Dean Sextet International co-commission with the Nash Ensemble and eighth blackbird
2011 – Barry Conyngham Showboat Kalang
2012 – Elena Kats-Chernin Interludes and a rag commissioned by 2MBS-FM
2012 – Andrew Schultz One Sound
2012 – Maria Grenfell Ten Suns Ablaze commissioned by Sean Buck
2013 - John Peterson Double entendre for piano quintet and two dancers, supported by the Creative Practice Lab in the School of the Arts and Media UNSW
2015 - Ross Edwards Animisms commissioned in celebration of Peter Maxwell Davies' 80th birthday
2016 - Gordon Kerry while the music lasts commissioned by Dr Patricia Brown in honour of Professor Roger Covell
2016 - Andrew Ball Three Dreams in Pulse for clarinet and piano commissioned by Dr Andrew Kennedy, and dedicated to Catherine McCorkill
2016 - Ian Munro Three Birds for soprano, clarinet, cello and piano commissioned by Norma Hawkins in memory of Dr Bruce Hawkins
2017 - Felicity Wilcox Vivre sa vie - Composer's cut for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano and film
2018 - Natalie Williams Letters to Clara
2019 - Jessica Wells Heartbeat
