An Atlas of Joy
Music by Evan J Lawson

Stonnington Symphony 
Conducted by artistic director, Roy Theaker

Recorded by 3MBS 103.5FM

18 November 2023
Malvern Town Hall

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An Atlas Of Joy (2023) performed by Stonnington Symphony (live)

Mermeros & Pheres 
Music by Evan J Lawson

For two piccolos
Performed by Kim Tan & Ryan Lynch

Recorded at La Mama Theatre, as part of 'Waves' with Forest Collective
6 - 8 October 2023

Recorded by Old Skool Audio

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Mermeros & Pheres (2017) performed by Kim Tan & Ryan Lynch (live)

The Sea (2023)
Music by Evan J Lawson
Text by Nicole Butcher

Opera in 5 scenes and 2 interludes.

World premiere performance by Forest Collective & BK Opera, recorded by Old Skool Audio.
Evan J Lawson - Musical director
Kate Millett - Director
Jane Noonan - Costume Design
Gabe Bethune - Lighting Design

Aleise Bright - Soprano 
Amanda Windred - Soprano
S0daWater - Countertenor 
Daniel Szesiong Todd - Tenor
Archie Rumsam - Baritone 
Henry Shaw - Bass-Baritone 

Kim Tan - Flute
Ryan Lynch - Clarinet
Jasmin Buell - Recorder 
Phoebe Smithies - Horn
Trea Hindley - Trombone
Phillipa Safey - Keyboard 
Alex MacDonald - Viola
Ian Crossfield - Double Bass

December, 2023
Abbotsford Convent

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The Sea (2023) performed by Forest Collective (live)

The Sea (2023)
Music by Evan J Lawson
Text by Nicole Butcher

Opera in 5 scenes and 2 interludes.

World premiere performance by Forest Collective & BK Opera, recorded by 3MBS 103.5FM.

Evan J Lawson - Musical director
Kate Millett - Director
Jane Noonan - Costume Design
Gabe Bethune - Lighting Design

Aleise Bright - Soprano
Amanda Windred - Soprano
S0daWater - Countertenor
Daniel Szesiong Todd - Tenor
Archie Rumsam - Baritone
Henry Shaw - Bass-Baritone

Kim Tan - Flute
Ryan Lynch - Clarinet
Jasmin Buell - Recorder
Phoebe Smithies - Horn
Trea Hindley - Trombone
Phillipa Safey - Keyboard
Alex MacDonald - Viola
Ian Crossfield - Double Bass

December, 2023
Abbotsford Convent

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The Sea (2023) Part V performed by Forest Collective (live)

The Sea (2023) Part IV performed by Forest Collective (live)

The Sea (2023) Part III performed by Forest Collective (live)

The Sea (2023) Part II performed by Forest Collective (live)

The Sea (2023)
Music by Evan J Lawson
Text by Nicole Butcher

Opera in 5 scenes and 2 interludes.

World premiere performance by Forest Collective & BK Opera
, recorded by 3MBS 103.5FM.

Evan J Lawson - Musical director
Kate Millett - Director
Jane Noonan - Costume Design
Gabe Bethune - Lighting Design

Aleise Bright - Soprano
Amanda Windred - Soprano
S0daWater - Countertenor
Daniel Szesiong Todd - Tenor
Archie Rumsam - Baritone
Henry Shaw - Bass-Baritone

Kim Tan - Flute
Ryan Lynch - Clarinet
Jasmin Buell - Recorder
Phoebe Smithies - Horn
Trea Hindley - Trombone
Phillipa Safey - Keyboard
Alex MacDonald - Viola
Ian Crossfield - Double Bass

December, 2023
Abbotsford Convent

WEBSITE: www.evanjlawson.com/
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/evanjlawson/
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/evan.j.lawson1
SOUNDCLOUD: @evanjlawson

The Sea (2023) Part I performed by Forest Collective (live)

Wellington composer Micah Thompson has created a beautiful, vibrant new work for Stroma, Prosaic Notes from an Unwritten Journal, written in memory of Jenny McLeod. Based around the difficulty of translating culturally embedded ideas from one language into another, in this work the composer reflects on attempts to communicate what music ‘means’, where most of the meaning is (beautifully) lost in translation. 

Prosaic Notes from an Unwritten Journal

Recording with pianist Austin Philemon on March 10, 2020.

Casella - Fuor De La Bella Gaiba

“...the sonorities that emerged often proved extraordinary...”
— Clive O’Connell, The Music

Evan J Lawson (b.1989, he/him) is one of Australia’s leading queer artists, working at the forefront of contemporary culture as composer, curator, and conductor, chiefly as artistic director of Forest Collective.

Hailed by Bridget Davies in The Age that Lawson’s innovative musical imaginations...are striking… Evan is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has studied with Benjamin Northey, Richard Gill, Johanna Selleck, David Aronson (at the Wiener Staatsoper) and Matthias Pintscher (at Grafenegg Festival) who has said that his music is serene, deep, it's even breathing the heritage of Mahler.

www.evanjlawson.com

The Sea (2023) Part V performed by Forest Collective (live)

Evan J Lawson

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