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

Australian high tenor Dr Leighton H. G. Triplow is a classical singer with much experience as a soloist in genres spanning Renaissance to contemporary music.

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.

Jean-Marc is a composer, sound designer, and pianist based in NYC.

For any inquiries, please contact:
jmymusicmail@gmail.com

Welcome to my SoundCloud : I’m Elizabeth Sheppard, an Australian Indigenous composer, poet, artist and church cantor. Scores of my works are published on scoreexchange.com, and performance / cover licenses for my music can be purchased through APRA AMCOS, the Australian performing right association. My new and upcoming releases include - Karollini (ten brand new Australian Christmas carols, released on iTunes and Spotify in 2021) The Reveille Mass (scoreexchange.com), Minninup Pool String Quartet (coming soon to scoreexchange.com and iTunes), and commissioned choral works for River City Voices Choir and The Song Company’s forthcoming Songs from the Heart Australian mainstage tour in September-October 2022.

Andrew Aronowicz (b1989) is a Melbourne-based composer, writer and teacher. 

He has written music for various instrumental forces, including solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works, with a sound world that draws inspiration from literature, philosophy, architecture and made-up worlds. 

His music has been performed by various prominent ensembles and individuals, including the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and students from the Australian National Academy of Music, and has been broadcast around Australia on 3MBS Fine Music and ABC Classic FM.  

He has received commissions from a range of performers, ensembles and organisations, including violinist Sarah Curro, flautist Naomi Johnson, bass trombonist Benjamin Anderson, the Tudor Choristers of Melbourne, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Arts Centre Melbourne. 

Highlights from 2014 include the performance of his orchestral work 'Strange Alchemy' by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the Melbourne Recital Centre Metropolis New Music Festival, and participating in the 2014 Speak Percussion Emerging Artists program at RMIT's SIAL studios.

He studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Stuart Greenbaum, Elliott Gyger and Katy Abbott, and was awarded his Masters of Music with First Class Honours in 2014, with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award.

He is a recipient of an Australia Council ArtStart grant in 2015, and is engaged to write music for Melbourne-based Forest Collective, Plexus Trio, and Syzygy Ensemble. 

Misson’s compositions are inspired by psychology, the complexities of nature, politics, the extremes of the human condition and the ever-present imperfection central to it. His music often expresses a desire to reimagine familiar musical tropes in surreal, and blackly humorous ways.

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