Evan J Lawson is one of Australia’s leading queer artists, working at the forefront of contemporary culture as composer, curator, and conductor, chiefly as artistic director of Forest Collective.

www.evanjlawson.com

Alexina Hawkins is an Australian violist living in Berlin. She has performed in various ensembles, including the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, ensemble interface, Streicherakademie Bozen, Geneva Camerata, amongst others, appearing in Europe, North & South America, Asia and Australia.

Alexina has performed in solo/chamber music/chamber orchestra formations at festivals including Bang On A Can Summer Festival (USA), Huntington Estate Music Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Bangalow Festival (Festival Quartet, 2017), Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Musikfest Goslar, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), Festival Opera Barga (Italy) and NOMUS Festival (Serbia).

Alexina studied viola with Tor Fromyhr, Caroline Henbest, Chris Moore and William Coleman, at the ANU School of Music (Canberra), Australian National Academy of Music (Melbourne) and privately in Berlin.

In 2020, she is particularly looking forward to taking part in the Winter Artist Exchange at Ponderosa (Germany, February/March), a European tour with s t a r g a z e and Damon Albarn (May/June), a duo recital with American composer/pianist Paul Kerekes in Berlin's iconic "unerhörte musik" series (October), continuing musical adventures with the Phoenix Trio and hear now berlin, and the as-yet-unknown and spontaneous activities that her freelance career and open musical heart bring her.

DOTODOT - Live plus heavily edited electronic music originally from Canberra-Australia in the 90s. Currently lives in Sweden.

Forest Collective is a not for profit arts organisation focusing on contemporary classical music. We commission, create, and present various art forms, often giving independent artists a platform to develop their practice and reach new audiences, within a supportive environment. Forest Collective is run by a volunteer team of creative, young professionals who strive to enrich audiences though multidisciplinary, innovative, collaborative, experimental, and traditional art forms from new, early and mid career artists. We pride ourselves on giving a voice to underperformed and underrepresented creators and composers. 

Led by Evan Lawson, Forest Collective was founded in 2009 by a group of students from the VCA. Forest Collective transformed from an artist collective of like minded individuals into one of Melbourne’s leading young arts companies and became a not for profit, multi-disciplinary arts organisation in 2012.

Since it’s first season Forest Collective has gone onto sell out performances at Melbourne Recital Centre, La Mama Court House, National Gallery of Victoria, Abbotsford Convent, Burrinja Cultural Centre and as a part of Metropolis New Music Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Highlights of past seasons include working with harpist Marshall Maguire, commissioning and performing the world premiere of Evan Lawson and Samuel Yeo’s opera Calypso, Elanor Webber’s dance work Texture of It for our 2014 interdisciplinary arts festival Flooding in the Garden, Michael Bakrencev’s chamber work The Virtuous Woman with the Watermelon, Evan Lawson’s spralling chamber work Orpheus and the Cave, Lisa Illean’s stunning And the black sea, Breaks… and Katriona Tsyrlin and Stephanie Osztreicher’s physical theatre and music work Holy Dying. In 2014 Forest Collective presented their own interdisciplinary festival, Flooding in the Garden, presenting various Melbourne artists to high acclaim.

Genre is A Construct for Commerce Not Pleasure.

Composer and Audio Engineer currently based in Berlin, DE.

Contact: atlasglaasaudio@gmail.com

Seth Jordan is an Australian-based Music Journalist, Radio Broadcaster, and Festival Consultant. He is the Pacific correspondent for Songlines magazine (UK), and was the Contributing Editor for the book 'World Music: Global Sounds in Australia' (2010 UNSW Press). 
Seth's national world/jazz/beats radio program 'The Tiki Lounge Remix' is produced at 2 Triple B in Bellingen NSW, Australia, and is networked to Community stations nationwide via the Community Radio Network (CRN). 
The program is made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation (cbf.com.au).

Play On is a performing arts company that showcases Australia’s most acclaimed young classical musicians alongside the country’s best electronic artists, connecting audiences and performers through its unique and unconventional concert format.

Composer of opera, orchestral music, electroacoustic music, and sound installations. 

Contact: bpetuch@gmail.com

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