Music of the last 25 years
HSC Music 2 - 2015
Meet the Composers
Stuart Greenbaum
"I often conceive of music in terms of journeys, but I also believe that music should be appreciable as pure, abstract sound in time. Either way, my music aims to evoke an atmosphere apart from the routine of modern life.
I believe in the need to cultivate space in a world increasingly filled with commercialism, light and noise pollution and 24/7 thinking. At times, I think we lose a sense of wonderment at our earthly surrounds.
Therefore, when I write, I seek an experience in sound to take me beyond mundane imperatives."
http://www.stuartgreenbaum.com
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/greenbaum-stuart
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Nigel Sabin
Katia Beaugeais
Thomas Adès
Jason
Robert Brown
"Sabin's music is influenced by the American minimalists and shows a command of traditional harmonic practice coupled with rhythmic buoyancy. It is sometimes humorous and has variously been described as 'evocatively poetic' and 'sure to convert the enemies of contemporary music'."
One of Sabin's most popular piano works is Another Look At Autumn (1992)
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/workversion/sabin-nigel-another-look-at-autumn/5763
Katia Beaugeais (born in Sydney) is a French-Australian award winning composer and saxophonist based in Sydney. Katia’s music has established an innovative and unique repertoire ranging from solo saxophone to full orchestra, promoting new Australian music to an international audience. Her music has been played in America, Croatia, Slovakia, Austria, France, Peru, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.
Katia was recently awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award and the prestigious Sydney University Alumni scholarship for her PhD in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she is analysing the role of a composer-performer.
In September 2014, as part of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Centenary Commissioning Project, Beaugeais will compose a new saxophone concerto (Terra Obscura) and will perform it with the Modern Music Ensemble.
Katia teaches composition and chamber music ensembles at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and is currently doing a PhD (Doctorat) in music composition.
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/beaugeais-katia
Born in London in 1971, Thomas Adès studied piano (Michael Blackmore and Paul Berkowitz), composition (Erika Fox and Robert Saxton) and percussion at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and read music at King's College, Cambridge. In 1993 he made his recital début as pianist and composer at the Park Lane Group in London.
Adès’ music has attracted numerous awards and prizes, including the Grawemeyer Award (2000) of which he is the youngest-ever recipient. He is the only composer to have won the Royal Philharmonic Prize for Large-scale composition three times.
Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of his generation, including the recently revived “The Last Five Years”, his debut song cycle “Songs for a New World”, and the seminal “Parade”, for which he won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score.
Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances. The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical.”
