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.

For as long as she can remember, Naomi has been moved by the all-encompassing power of music. Her desire now as a composer, is to create music which will affect audiences similarly. Naomi graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2019 with a Bachelor of Music Composition. Naomi has written many chamber works for ensembles such as Sydney Conservatorium’s Modern Music Ensemble and Geist String Quartet. In 2018 she was selected to write for Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra under the tutelage of Matthew Hindson AM and wrote Salt to the Senses - inspired by her travels through South America. In 2019 Naomi was the recipient of the Penrith Symphony Orchestra's Young Composer Prize, writing Scarlet Sculptures. In 2019 Naomi also received 2nd place in the Australian Flute Festival's Composition Competition with her piece Breath for bass flute and piano. In 2020 Naomi received Highly Commended in the Flute Society of NSW’s composition competition for her work Cerulean Plunge for flute and piano. In 2021 the KPO commissioned Naomi to write Deep Calls to Deep, her third orchestral work which was premiered in March 2021 and again performed by KPO at their 50th anniversary concert in December 2022. In 2022 Naomi was selected to participate in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program for which she wrote Dawn ‘til Dusk in Kosciuszko which is being premiered by MSO in January 2023. In 2022 Naomi was also the winner of the under 30 emerging composer prize in Matt Withers’ Australian Music Composition Competition for which she has written a work for guitar duo to be premiered later in 2023. 

Naomi’s inspiration is deeply connected to her emotional sensitivities, with compositions often finding their genesis in various experiential sensations such as Australian landscapes, scuba diving, home and family. Her work ranges from intensely passionate and colourful moments to gentle fragments echoing the ethereal. 

Naomi’s belief that all people possess an innate potential for musical appreciation shapes her desire to create music that reaches and impacts all who listen.

Maximalist improvised music where contradictory sonorities collide in an eclectic flow of sound and/or music. Onsemble Ensembol is made up of Sydney composer improvisers and acts as a testing ground for both notated and improvised music.

ensembleonsombl@gmail.com

fluid state: performer, flutist + composer. Collector and maker of sounds.

Composer and flautist.
Classically trained with an interest in electronics and experimental sounds.
Usually exploring contrasts between processed and unprocessed material, and human and machine collaboration.

Isabella Rahme is a composer, harpist & vocalist living and making music on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia)

Kristina is a Bristol based composer educated at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and currently studying music composition for film and television at the University of Bristol. Her works cover a variety of styles, including electroacoustic, chamber music, structured improvisation and orchestral music. 
She is involved in many performance groups, such as improvisation group Ensemble Onsombol, Ad Lib Choir and the newly established Thpicey Saxophone Quartet. Last semester, her work for wind orchestra was premiered by the Sydney University Wind Orchestra.

composição (CMU - ECA - USP)

eletrônica experimental
música eletroacústica
música de concerto contemporânea

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