Compositions

Mythical Waves (April 2018)

2018 Waves

International Women's Day 2019

Performed by orkest de ereprijs and Enikő Gősi, and conducted by Rob Vermeulen, at the 20th Young Composers Meeting, Apeldoorn, 2014. Awarded the ensemble ereprijs commission.

Cabbages and Kings

'Athena' for soprano, cello, and piano (A. Mellos 2013, rev. 2014)
Madeline Cain, soprano; Daniel Pesca, piano; Hyun Ray Kim, cello
Live recording: November 12, 2014, Kilbourn Hall
The Eastman School of Music 
Text by: Emily Kendal Frey (used here with permission)

Athena (soprano version) A. Mellos

Commissioned by the Silo Collective and performed by the Enigma Quartet, this is my recording of the world premiere performance of my String Quartet, "The First Movement" on November 17, 2015. 

String Quartet: The First Movement [Live recording]

Version one for 3 Flutes and Clarinet dur. 6:30" commissioned and premiered by Forest Collective at their 2015 concert Celestial Nights March 2015 performed by Tanya Vincent, Katie Clarke, Hank Clifton (Flutes) and Vilan Mai (Clarinet) 

Version two for String Quartet dur. "10 premiered by Allotropy! Pop Up String Quartet, September 26th 2015 Loop Bar, Melbourne

And version three for String Quartet and Soprano dur. "15 commissioned and to be premiered by Allotropy! Pop Up String Quartet and soprano Rosemary Ball at Forest Collective's 2016 concert series, presented as apart of Bayside City Council's Resonance series.

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Sirens (2016) performed by Allotropy String Quartet (live)

@2016 
Performed by the Briar String Quartet (Matthew Rigby- Violin 1, Navin Gulavita- Violin 2, Georgia Stibbard- Viola, Sage Fuller- Cello) 
Premiered at the Composer's Concert, St Stephen's Church Richmond, Victoria

Recorded at Sing Sing Studios, South Yarra, Victoria
Engineer: Aaron Dobos 

I always heard the phrase ‘The first step is always the hardest’.
Beginnings spark a potential energy, waiting to burst out. The endless possibility and avenues a road can lead is enthralling; blossoming new and dynamic waves. It’s exhilarating, yet restrained, not knowing where the road leads or how it will end.

This piece is my first step.

String Quartet No. 1 - "First"

Commissioned by Luminescence Chamber Singers, 2016. 
Performed by Luminescence Chamber Singers conducted by Gordon Hamilton.

Infernal Women [Live Performance]

SONATA for solo piano
Bernadette Harvey, piano
Recorded at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, January 2017

I. We ate the stars
II. Cardinal Spada's Gallery
III. Vanishing Point

III. Vanishing Point

II. Cardinal Spada's Gallery

I. We ate the Stars

La Tessitrice, A. Mellos 2016 / Text, A. Negri
Paulina Swierczek, soprano; Daniel Baer, piano
Kilbourn Hall, September 4 2016

La Tessitirce

SOMA, Aristea Mellos, 2014 
Cherry Tsang, piano; Mariel Robert, cello; Sammy Lesnick, clarinet
Hatch Hall, April 4, 2014

SOMA Excerpt

1st movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Lorikeet (Live)

5th movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Cicada (Live)

Also known as "Sol Tempest", if you want the more pretentious title. Written in December 2011, revised January 2012 at National Music Camp.

Summer Thunderstorm

What is 'space'? Where is 'nohwere'? How do we understand these concepts? How do we cultivate 'nowhere' and 'space'? These are questions that I considered when approaching this work. Into Ethereal Space responds to the exhibition title 'Nowhere=Space' by exploring contrasting peaceful, meditative sections and flurried rhythmic sections. This piece invites you to enter into a space of contrasts and to explore, contemplate and consider what 'nowhere' and 'space' might mean.

This piece was commissioned for the opening of 'Nowhere=Space' at 107 Projects. This is a live recording of the premiere performance, 11 July 2018.
Performed by Quart-Ed: Caitlin Sandiford, Sarah Qiu, David Tocknell and Karen Cortez.

July 2018.

Inside the Mosaic

Into Ethereal Space

Matthias Bamert
West Australian Symphony Orchestra

This work was commissioned as an education piece, and is
designed to showcase the sections of the orchestra at the circus or at the zoo:
Brass (opening): fanfare, welcome to the circus/zoo;
Woodwinds: the monkeys;
Strings: the trapeze/the swans;
Percussion: lions and tigers;
Tutti, and brass fanfare to end.
The conductor may pause at each new section to introduce the instruments
of the orchestra, or may have the opening few bars of each section of music
played before performing the piece without pause.

Roar!

For solo soprano and SSAATTBB. Commissioned and recorded by The Australian Voices, 2012. Conducted by Gordon Hamilton.

Dedicated to William Duckworth and Jocelyn Wolfe.

Text:
DROUGHT

BY JUDITH WRIGHT

The summer solstice come and gone,
now the dark of the moon comes on.
The raging sun in his pale sky
has drunk the sap of the world dry.
Across the plains the dustwhirls run
and dust has choked the shrivelling tree.

This is my world that dies with me, 
cries the curlew in the night.
I have forgotten how the white
 birdfooted water in the creek
used in spring to call and speak.
All is fallen under the sun
and the world dies that once I made.

The strength that brandished my green blade,
the force uncoiling from the cell,
 drains like water from a wrecked well,
 says the dried out corn of the earth.
The seed I cherished finds no birth.

Now the dark of the world comes on.