Exuberant conclusion to the 'Violin Sonata' (2021) by Paul Stanhope. Performed by Andrew Haveron and Simon Tedeschi

'Ringing the Changes' (excerpt) from Violin Sonata, Movt 3

Daniel Riley Trinity Te Deum 1st Performance

The Resurrection - Brenton Broadstock (b. 1952)
From Via Crucis: 15 Stations of the Cross (2006)

Claire Burrell-McDonald – Soprano
Paul Stanhope – Conductor

29th March 2015, Great Hall. 
Recorded by ABC Classic FM

The Resurrection

Variations was originally composed for the Hillel Quartet as part of my third year composition studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under the tutelage of Paul Stanhope (whose name I have subtly included as a musical quotation in the opening measures). It was first performed at St John's College, Sydney on November 10, 2013, and subsequently received the 2014 Fairweather Family Prize for Composition.

The present recording included here is taken from a live performance by the Hillel Quartet at St James' King Street, Sydney on December 14, 2016. For this performance a number of substantial revisions were completed addressing practical and technical issues from earlier performances, whilst preserving the four-part continuous-variations structure of the original version (Slow-Fast-Slow-Fast).

Daniel Riley, November 28, 2017

Hillel Quartet
Violin I - Ben Adler
Violin II - Victoria Bihun
Viola - Elizabeth Woolnough
Violoncello - Bethan Lillicrap

Riley - Variations, for string quartet (2016 Live Performance, St James' King St)

Variations, for string quartet (2016 Live Performance)

An interactive performance piece, built from a graphic score of 10 separate systems. The duet of percussionists interpret the score together, focusing on the relationships between player and score, player and instruments, instruments and score and the duet with each other.  A meditative and somewhat other-worldly feeling of connection between the performers and the audience is felt, with naturalistic sounds of birds, rocks, bamboo and water flow throughout the soundscape that is 'Unity'; a soundscape that reminds us of balance, of connection, and of equality.
This work was first performed on the 26th of July 2019 by Eugene Ughetti and Robyn Schulkowsky at Monash University, Melbourne Australia, as part of the international TENOR conference.

Unity - For Percussion Duet

This live recording was performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tianyi Lu. Recorded by the ABC on February 5, 2019 at the Iwaki Auditorium in Melbourne and is shared with all necessary permissions for online display only.

Pandaemonium for large chamber orchestra was commissioned by the MSO for the 2018–2019 Cybec 21st Century Composers' Program.

With exhilarating force and momentum this piece propels the orchestra through a journey of dramatic transformations in nature and character, constantly flitting between explosive personalities and more subtle, mysterious guises. With gleeful abandon the instruments let loose in an arena of warring musical characters; a mayhem of all the potential forms the orchestra could become. Some heroic and ecstatic, yet some also violent and sinister. The effect is utter Pandæmonium, an appellation that, in its original form, stems from the archaic Greco-Latin compound of “pan” meaning “many”, and “daemons” meaning “little spirits”, “personas” or “demons.” Amidst the chaos of characters a core, triumphant theme attempts to break free to the surface, subduing all the other voices of the orchestra into one simple, united musical entity.

Pandaemonium

Joshua Adams - Jesu Dulcis Memoria (2017)
Jesu Dulcis Memoria is an ancient Christian hymn with origins that can be traced back to at least the 12th century. This work weaves the original chant melody into varied textures of contemporary choral harmony.

This recording is a live performance by 'From the Top', a self-directed consort of singers from the National Youth Choir of Australia (NYCA) who assembled in Fremantle, Western Australia for Choralfest, 2019.
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Performance: 15th April 2019 - Wesley Uniting Church, Fremantle.
Soprano: Jade Hansen (WA), Rachel Singer (WA)
Alto: Gabrielle Scheggia (WA), Alex Ritter (VIC)
Tenor: Kieran Lynch (WA), Joshua Adams (WA)
Bass: Daniel Price (WA), Jack Stephens (SYD)

Jesu Dulcis Memoria

Jesu Dulcis Memoria (2017)

"Raqad" is a Hebrew word meaning to 'leap' or 'dance'. There are plenty of leaping intervals and dancing rhythms in this short marimba duet.

RAQAD II for two marimbas

A recording of Liza Lim's work 'bioluminescence' [2018/19]. Recorded at the Ian Potter Southbank Centre, University of Melbourne - Melbourne Conservatorium, March 2020.

Performer: Sean Quinn - www.seanquinncomposer.com

Bioluminescence - Liza Lim

A brand new setting of some William Blake by Daniel Riley. Forgive the Sibelius piano sound!

Daniel Riley A Cradle Song

This is the world premiere of the new work for double-bell horn, developed during the Virtual Brass Academy with Christine Chapman and Ensemble MusikFabrik, July 2020. This performance took place on July 30th, 2020 - in Cologne.
I am indebted to Ensemble MusikFabrik and the fantastic work they did with us in introducing us to the worlds of double-bell instruments, and to the ever-expanding repertoire of new music for these instruments they are bringing to the world.

The work explores a sense of dual forces that act and react upon each other, and how the relative mediator (the performer) indeed interacts with the score, the instrument and it's two bells, and finally how the theatre of the piece - both through actions and the position of the instrument - is transmitted to the audience. In the four sections of the piece that each explore a different facet of the manipulation of the horn - first through the use of a contra-bassoon reed to produce aggressive yet fulfilling multiphonics; then in the second and third exploring the two bells and their range of possibilities. The final section condenses the instrument down to only it's single-bell form and the mute and interacts briefly with it to express a settling within the performance. Gasping, grunting, growling and grandeur are all some of the ideas explored in this short miniature.

Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/1/15721268/gravitational-waves-ligo-future)

Understated Matter - for solo double-bell horn [premiere]

Daniel Riley (b. 1992) is an Australian composer and musician, born and raised in Melbourne.
 
He first achieved recognition as a treble singer with the National Boys Choir of Australia (2000-2006), performing as soloist in Britten's The Golden Vanity (2004). During this period, he also performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Blake's The Snowman (2004), the Melbourne Chorale in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms (2005), and with Opera Australia in productions of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Puccini's La Bohéme (2005).
 
As a composer, Daniel recently completed his Master of Music (Composition) at the University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Stuart Greenbaum and Elliott Gyger. Prior to that, he completed a Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, graduating with First Class Honours in 2014. Past teachers have included Damien Ricketson, Paul Stanhope, Carl Vine, and Matthew Hindson. As a typesetter and copyist, he has also worked closely with Ross Edwards.
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He has previously participated in the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp (Gravitations, 2016), the inaugural Flinders Quartet Composer Workshop (Ballade, 2014/16), and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers' Program (Web of Evil, 2018). In 2019, Recognition was commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the 5x5x5: Inside Out project, and his trumpet concerto Nearer, My God, To Thee was awarded the APRA Encouragement Award. Noted musicians to have performed his music include Ole Böhn, Calvin Bowman, Brett Kelly, Sam Allchurch, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Chris Watson, Michael Fulcher, Flinders Quartet, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Polyphonic Voices, and the Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne. In 2014, he was the recipient of the Fairweather Family Prize for Composition.
 
In addition to his work as a composer, Daniel maintains an active schedule as a freelance singer (countertenor and tenor), choral conductor, and as a casual staff member at the University of Melbourne. He is currently the conducting scholar with the Choir of Christ Church South Yarra, and from 2015-2018 was a member of the Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne. He has also previously collaborated with Polyphonic Voices, Old Cathedral Voices, the Choir of St John's East Malvern, Choir of St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne, and the Consort of Melbourne.
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Upcoming projects include a short orchestral work as part of the New Overtures project, a new work for solo flute, a small collection of organ postludes, and a second string quartet. Selected choral works are now available for purchase through Crescendo Music Publications, whilst Land of Dreams, Nativitie and Coventry Carol have also been recorded for commercial release with Acis Productions.

Variations, for string quartet (2016 Live Performance)

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