It sketches a wonderful music picture of the grandeur of mountains. A touch of Aussie Copeland.

2018 Waves

2nd movement of String Quartet no.2 by Paul Stanhope, performed by the Pavel Haas Quartet

String Quartet no. 2 - 2nd movement

Elegies And Dances

This piece was written on AYO National Music Camp 2015 and was performed by the AYO tutors and conducted by James Judd. The work has two movements entitled ­­The Ridge and The Valley. The musical motifs throughout the work reflect the turbulence and tranquility of nature so evident in the appearance of mountains. While the work is not literally programmatic, I experimented with different melodies, rhythms and harmonies that could convey images of mountains and valleys in sound.

Mountains

“In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbours—the beach nomads of Australia. ‘These people mixed with ours, ’wrote a British observer soon after landfall, ‘and all hands danced together’”.

Dancing With Strangers

Performed by Julia Bentley, mezzo soprano, and Kuang-Hao Huang, piano. 

The text for “What is the Grass” was taken from lines 90-101 of Song of Myself, the first book of Leaves of Grass by the American poet Walt Whitman. The text is modified from its original version, cutting lines and reworking sentences, in order to get across the message clearly in the music – that all humans are created equal; we share the same world and are made of the same stuff, much like the grass of the earth.

What is the Grass

Awarded the 2016 WSOC/102.5 Fine Music Young Composer Award.  Performed by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra with clarinet soloist Som Howie. Conducted by Paul Fitzsimon. Audio Engineer - Jayson McBride. Composed by Elizabeth Younan.

Clarinet Concerto

Performed by Claire Edwardes. Composed by Elizabeth Younan (2016).

Agitation

VERVE | composed for and performed by percussionist Claire Edwardes [2016].

Ella Macens's Album

VERVE for Solo Marimba

Composition Masters Folio USyd

Moonlight

Performed by Arcadia Winds at the Musica Viva Festival (23/04/17). Recorded by ABC Classic FM. Composed by Elizabeth Younan (2015).

Shoreditch Grind

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)

Awarded the Fine Music FM 102.5 Young Composer Award for 2017.

Performed by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Matthew Wood.

FLIGHT | For Symphony Orchestra

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

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.

Drought (choral)

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Clare Strong (née Johnston) is an Australian composer, based in Melbourne.
Clare has composed works for some of Australia’s leading performers and ensembles including: the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Goldner String Quartet, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Plexus, Claire Edwardes (percussion), Sarah Curro (violin), Stefanie Farrands (viola), Virginia Taylor (flute), Alice Giles (harp) and Louise Johnson (harp). She has completed a Masters as part of the inaugural National Women Composers' Development Program run by the Sydney Conservatorium. 

Clare completed a Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne in 2013, where she was awarded the Esther Rofe Award for Composition. In 2015 she won the David Henkels Award for Composition and had her Gypsy Trio performed at the 3MBS Performer of the Year Awards.

In 2015 Clare was selected to participate as a composer in the Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat in New Hampshire, USA. She studied with composer Martin Bresnick and had one of her compositions performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble from New York City. Clare was also selected to participate in the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, USA where she studied with leading American composers and had her works performed and recorded by the Contemporary Ensemble at the festival and the AMF Orchestra.

Clare was chosen as one of four composers at the AYO National Music Camp 2015 where her music was conducted by James Judd and performed by leading international musicians.

Mountains

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