To watch the live premiere performance - go to https://vimeo.com/channels/284823/36073473

Live recording of the premiere performance of KURSK:An Oratorio Requiem at the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre on October 22, 2011 for the Melbourne Festival. 

Music David Chisholm
Poetry Anzhelina Polonskaya

Conductor Eric Dudley

Producer Sarah Greentree
Recording Producer Myles Mumford

Bass-Baritone Christopher Richardson
Soprano Jessica Aszodi
1/4 tone Flugel Horn/B♭ Trumpet Tristram Williams

Male Consort
Steven Hodgson, Jerzy Kozlowski, Irving Dekterev, Anthony Mackey, Timothy Reynolds, James Payne, Brenton Spiteri, Daniel Todd

Arcko Symphonic Project
Flute 1/Pic 2 Emma Sholl
Flute 2/Pic 1 Andrew Macleod
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Aviva Endean 
Contrabassoon/Bassoon Brock Imison
Wagner Tuba/French Horn Geoff Viking Lierse 
Trombone John Gluyas
Bass Trombone Charles MacInnes
Tuba Jonathan Woods
Timp and Aux Percussion Timothy Phillips 
Percussion Arwen Johnston
Holographic Singing Bowl Liz Millar
Harp Jessica Fotinos
Prepared Piano James Rushford
Violin 1 Aaron Barnden, Andrea Keeble, Charlotte Ryssenbeek
Violin 2 Jessica Bell, Zachary Johnston, Elizabeth Welsh
Viola Ceridwen Davies, Phoebe Green, James Munro 
Cello Caerwen Martin, Judith Hamman, Edwina Cordingly
Bass Nic Synot, Chloe Smith

Male Consort Preparation Timothy Phillips 
Russian Language Coach Nicholas Cowall 
English Translation Andrew Wachtel 
Répétiteur Kim Bastin
Orchestral Assistant Kiya Van der Linden-Kian

KURSK-AN ORATORIO REQUIEM (2011 Live recording)

David Chisholm is internationally recognized as a composer defined by diverse and hybrid collaboration and a curator and producer of vision and courage. He was composer in residence for Philip Adams’ BalletLab and an Associate Artist for Malthouse Theatre, before becoming the founder and director of the highly acclaimed Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music and its roster ensemble Argonaut. David has been an artist in residencee at HIAP in Helsinki, EMPAC in New York, Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle and Camargo Foundation in Cassis. He was the first Australian composer to be a featured guest of the Encuentro Internacional de Compositores in Santiago, Chile. David was an inaugural recipient of the Victorian Government’s Creator Grants. He holds a PhD from University of Melbourne and is currently Urumatua o te whare o ngā pukōrero pūoro|Head of the School of Music at Waipapa Taumata Rau|University of Auckland, Aotearoa|New Zealand.  A member of SOUNZ and the Australian Music Centre, David is published by Babel Scores, Paris.

KURSK-AN ORATORIO REQUIEM (2011 Live recording)

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