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Jessamie is a Melbourne-based composer for live performance and film.

Commissions include "Cascades" [2016] for Sarah Curro of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (a piece for semi-acoustic violin and backing track), "Awakenings" [2018] for the Stratus Chamber Orchestra, Colorado (for orchestra and live electronics), and "The Dream Is Not Yet Realised" [2020] by the Arts Centre Melbourne (for small ensemble).

Jessamie has also scored for motion picture, from the award-winning British psychological thriller Damaged (2015), to the Australian documentary The Gladsome Centaur (2018) highlighting women's place in the Australian film industry.

Having studied film scoring with Berklee Music Online, Jessamie interned for Film Composer Chris Doucet in 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah, before returning home to complete her Bachelor of Music (Composition and Music Production) at the Australian Institute of Music, Melbourne. 

In 2017 Jessamie backpacked solo throughout Europe, seeing the Berlin Philharmonic, the Sibelius Festival in Finland, Stratus Chamber Orchestra (USA) in Prague, and the world premiere of Danny Elfman's Violin Concerto in Prague.

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.

Australian Composer
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Melbourne violinist Sarah Curro’s non-traditional ventures focus on the constant discovery, purchase and promotion of new, mostly local compositions using the fascinating and unique instruments of Melbourne's SPUR Violins, her solo series VOLUME has been going since 2007. (Violin hand painted by ReVerse Butcher, photo by Kylie Supski)

A diverse selection of creative professionals describe the nature of their job and how they got there.

My primary aim as a composer is to bring improvisation into the foreground of contemporary art music.

Chris Sivak (b. June 14th, 1982) is a talented multi–instrumentalist and composer residing in Victoria, BC. His output covers a wide variety of ground ranging from the soberly serious to the seriously absurd; all lush and lasciviousness, hunting for the perfect musical moment, to manic chamber opera featuring casts of characters out to tickle your funny bone.

Chris was the composer in residence with the Laudate Singers of North Vancouver from 2014 to 2016 and is an Associate Composer of The Canadian Music Center.

Chris has been commissioned to write music for the Vancouver Chamber Choir,Red Shift Music Society, The Vancouver Peace Choir, The Amicus Duo, The Nu:BC Collective, and OperaFeHk.

Chris is also a freelance writer whose words are often found in the pages of Vancouver’s local papers and maintains a blog at http://www.chris-sivak.com where he dissects music in his own quirky way. Chris holds a Bachelor’s Of Music in composition from UBC, loves to cycle, dance, and wear silly socks.

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