Name: Circles In Life by nadiaburgesscomposer in 2018 Waves
Duration: 9 min 9 s
Description: Inspired by "The First Circle" by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. Performed by Divergence Jazz Orchestra conducted by Jenna Cave 26 July 2013. Recorded by Greg Ghavalas.

2018 Waves

Paul Cutlan composed Times Past for the Seaven Teares for viol consort, commissioned by Jennifer Eriksson. He also plays the bass clarinet on this live recording.

Times Past by Paul Cutlan

Inspired by "The First Circle" by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. Performed by Divergence Jazz Orchestra conducted by Jenna Cave 26 July 2013. Recorded by Greg Ghavalas.

Circles In Life

Compas (composition for world-jazz quartet) by Elissa Goodrich (2013) 
Excerpt from full-length mix (7min07sec). Phil Bywater – flute, Tamara Murphy – dbl bass, Elissa Goodrich – vibes, Daniel Farrugia – drums. Recorded live @ ABC studio sthbank, engineer Russell Thompson, producer Elissa Goodrich. From self-titled recording States of Play (2013) (NEW 3233.2) 

This composition for world-jazz ensemble (drawing upon the Spanish, Andalusian jota berber)
 
Image - original artwork Slide Into Sound remix (2013) by Gabby O'Connor

Compas by Elissa Goodrich

"Black" is the second movement of "Blue, Black and White," Concerto for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra by Nadia Burgess. It was recorded on 3 April 2012 by The Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Steven Hillinger, with Loretta Palmeiro - alto saxophone, Andrew Scott - piano, Dave Groves - double bass, Jamie Castrisos - drums. Recording by Greg Ghavalas.

"Black" from "Blue, Black and White," Concerto for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra

“Conversation 5” (1 minute 56 sec) from “Bach Conversations” (2013) a work for solo marimba and responding duet improvisations by Elissa Goodrich, adapted from JSBach's Cello Suite no 3.

Elissa's original composition draws on classical and folk traditions (in this case JS Bach and Northern Indian and Javanese traditional music). 

Ria Soemardjo - voice and frame drum, 
Elissa Goodrich - bolivian rattle and marimba

Sound Engineer - Russell Thomson, recorded Live at ABC Studio (Southbank)
Mastered by Adam Dempsey.

Image: Ria Soemardjo and Elissa Goodrich in performance at Chapter House, Melbourne (2013) - Photo by Anon

Conversation 5_Bach Conversations

Pondside was originally composed in 1993 when Denson was studying with George Russell at the New England Conservatory. It celebrates Jamaica Pond, a much-loved landmark in the neighbourhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston. Surrounded by trees and frequented by swans and ducks, the pond was an oasis of beauty and calm in a large and violent American city. This arrangement is one of three saxophone quartet settings of compositions which date from this important period in Denson’s musical life. Pondside is available on Barega Saxophone Quartet's album "Three Serpents" http://baregasaxquartet.bandcamp.com/releases

Pondside - Louise Denson

An arrangement of one of the most beautiful traditional South African lullabies.

Thula Babana (Hofmeyr) - Stellenberg Girls Choir, André Van Der Merwe

Composition by Carlin Hara-Crockford. Recording performed by the Qld Conservatorium Saxophone Orchestra (2015) as part of their 'Australian Made 2015' CD. 

You can purchase the CD & Nomads at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/queenslandconservatorium2

QldSaxOrch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QueenslandConservatoriumSaxophoneOrchestra/?fref=ts

QldSaxOrch Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/qldsaxorchestra

Nomads

This is a recording from the MCBB Summer Series Concert in 2016. Original composition by Sally Greenaway

Recorded by Sloth Studios, Jan 2016

The Melbourne Composers Big Band are a nationally renowned composition initiative, designed to give anyone and everyone the chance to have their own music performed and recorded by one of the countries leading jazz ensembles. The MCBB were formed with the sole purpose of encouraging and promoting Australian composition and big band music. With so many talented composers, arrangers, musicians and educators across the country, the MCBB plan to give opportunity to all individuals who wish to contribute and celebrate the ever-growing Australian big band and composition scene.


Falling Of Seasons MCBB - Comp. Sally Greenaway

This is an excerpt of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey premiering Greenaway's orchestral work 'Worlds Within Worlds' (which was commissioned by the orchestra as part of the Cybec 21st Century Composers Program).

Date of performance: 10 February 2016 at Iwaki Auditorium (Melbourne). 
Recorded by ABC Classic FM (this excerpt is used by permission from ABC and MSO)

The piece was inspired by Canberra artist Paul Summerfield's work 'Chaos at the Sky Regatta', which was commissioned for the Children's ward at the Canberra Hospital. 

Worlds Within Worlds (excerpt) [Melbourne Symphony Orchestra]

1st movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Lorikeet (Live)

5th movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Cicada (Live)

Also known as "Sol Tempest", if you want the more pretentious title. Written in December 2011, revised January 2012 at National Music Camp.

Summer Thunderstorm

Matthias Bamert
West Australian Symphony Orchestra

This work was commissioned as an education piece, and is
designed to showcase the sections of the orchestra at the circus or at the zoo:
Brass (opening): fanfare, welcome to the circus/zoo;
Woodwinds: the monkeys;
Strings: the trapeze/the swans;
Percussion: lions and tigers;
Tutti, and brass fanfare to end.
The conductor may pause at each new section to introduce the instruments
of the orchestra, or may have the opening few bars of each section of music
played before performing the piece without pause.

Roar!

For solo soprano and SSAATTBB. Commissioned and recorded by The Australian Voices, 2012. Conducted by Gordon Hamilton.

Dedicated to William Duckworth and Jocelyn Wolfe.

Text:
DROUGHT

BY JUDITH WRIGHT

The summer solstice come and gone,
now the dark of the moon comes on.
The raging sun in his pale sky
has drunk the sap of the world dry.
Across the plains the dustwhirls run
and dust has choked the shrivelling tree.

This is my world that dies with me, 
cries the curlew in the night.
I have forgotten how the white
 birdfooted water in the creek
used in spring to call and speak.
All is fallen under the sun
and the world dies that once I made.

The strength that brandished my green blade,
the force uncoiling from the cell,
 drains like water from a wrecked well,
 says the dried out corn of the earth.
The seed I cherished finds no birth.

Now the dark of the world comes on.

Drought (choral)

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