Forest Collective
Flutes - Kim Tan
Recorder - Ryan Williams
Clarinet - Ryan Lynch
Horn - Phoebe Smithies
Trombone - Trea Hindley
Keyboard - Evan J Lawson
Cello - Rosanne Hunt

Audio recording by Old Skool Audio.
La Mama Theatre, October 2023.

The full opera 'The Sea' plays at Abbotsford Convent 7-10 December, presented by Forest Collective and BK Opera.
www.forestcollective.com.au/projects/thesea

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

I spoke with Phillipa Edwards on Arts Weekly, 3MBS 103.5FM.
11 November 2023.

In this interview I talk about Forest Collective, my new work for them the opera 'The Sea' and my new orchestral work 'An Atlas of Joy.'

'The Sea' plays 7-10 December at Abbotsford Convent.
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Interview on 3MBS for 'The Sea' and 'An Atlas of Joy'

I spoke with Ian Parsons on The Sound Barrier, PBS.
25 November 2023.

In this interview I talk about my new work for Forest Collective and BK Opera 'The Sea' and about composition in the 21st century.

'The Sea' plays 7-10 December at Abbotsford Convent.
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Interview on PBS Interview for 'The Sea'

Electronic track for my new opera 'Labyrinth.'

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Thread Dance (electronics)

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)

Tides (2022)
Music by Evan J Lawson

For Electronics and quartet.

World premiere performance by Forest Collective, recorded by Old Skool Audio.
Ryan Lynch (Bass Clarinet & Cor Anglais)
Rosanne Hunt (Cello)
Trea Hindley (Trombone)
Zela Papageorgiou (Percussion)

June, 2022
Abbotsford Convent

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Tides (2022) performed by Forest Collective (live)

After the long night - Gowidja djirrunga dhala

Music by Evan J Lawson
English and Yorta Yorat text by Deborah Cheetham AO

Sung by Deborah Cheetham AO.
Featuring Jesse Matthews, Daniel Szesiong Todd, Chenelle Sheehan, S0daWater, Kim Tan & Ashley McConnell. 

Presented as part of Victoria's Pride, Midsumma Festival.
February 2022.
---
After the long night,
We wake beneath our beautiful mutual sky,
All the sweetness of life’s possibilities laid out before us.
Dawn sits powerfully on the endless horizon
Longing for your return.
Time has ceased to be linear, if it ever was
Our carolling fills the air
Pierced with blue solitude.
Rise now, rise now with me.
We will walk together with our ancestors in this rare light
As our dreams are carried away by the morning star.

Gowidja djirrunga dhala
Ngalak ganbina ngalan yurratha
Wuta bangarra bome banga dhona ngangaburraya damuga
Baparripna gahnu dunguludja wamadaman burraya woka
Dhomin danuk yakarrumdja
Imilang gathagana dana ginuna
Galnya wowatjumatj wurrumatj angin
Gota garrulyenek bata gukul
Ganibina garra, ganbina inyabaknalyin nganin
Ngalak yanha yapaneyepuk inyabaknalyin yenbena in deya-win yita motjin yinya
Gaka-yarwul daya barpirdhila ngina gukun
---
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After the long night (2022) performed by Deborah Cheetham

Electronic track used as part of the new dance-opera 'Labyrinth'

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The Beast from the Labyrinth (electronics)

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)

Music and Lyrics - Christa Paffgen
Orchestration - Alex Turley

Danielle Asciak - Vocals 
Evan Lawson - Conductor 
Erica Tucceri - Flutes 
Isabel Hede - Violin 
Vilan Mai - Clarinets 
Ali Fyffe - Saxophones
William Elm - Accordion
Trea Hindley - Trombone
Nikki Edgar - Cello
Bec Scully - Double Bass

Photo - Melvin Haxaire-Christophe

Performed as part of Nico, premiered at Melbourne Fringe 2018.

Nico - Secret Side (live)

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.

Nico - Secret Side (live)

Forest Collective

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