Evan J Lawson 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.

www.evanjlawson.com

Composer, flutist and sound artist from Melbourne, Australia.

Born in 1789 off the south coast of Antarctica, Lilijana Maticevska managed to kill Mozart at the precocious age of 2 before being raised by wolves in the Bavarian forest. Right before Napoleon's rise to power, she was abducted by aliens and cryogenically preserved aboard their UFO until it crash-landed somewhere in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. She disguised herself as a boy for some years around the turn of the millennium and developed a passion for music to make amends for her terrible murder. As a very distracted and introverted child she was encouraged by her well-meaning primary school music teachers to take up composition, possibly to steer her away from a path to evil. Nowadays, she spends her time composing propaganda songs, fangirling over Wagner and kicking the gender binary's bum into oblivion.

Lili’s music has been performed in Europe, North America and around Australia. Her composition Palimpsest was given its American premiere by JACK Quartet in November, 2019. After its world premiere in Hannover the previous year, she was described in the press as a 'mordlustigen [Australierin]'—a badge she wears with pride. Other recent commissions include 'Electric Revolution' for the esteemed Thereminist Thorwald Jørgensen and the Acacia String Quartet, premiered at the Albury Chamber Music Festival in 2019, Black Cat Sonata for guitarist Harold Gretton, premiered at the Melbourne Guitar Festival that same year.

She has worked as a composer for ensembles and musicians as wide-ranging as Plexus Collective, Ziggy and Miles Johnston, Syzygy Ensemble, Melbourne Women's Choir, ELISION Ensemble and Musica Assoluta (Hannover).

https://samuel-smith-composer.com

Sam is a Melbourne-based composer working primarily in the field of notated, acoustic music.

radio show archive:

https://www.mixcloud.com/lily-tait/playlists/hog-melodics/

I started out as a student oboist (then saxophone, and a bit of piano and voice). The choice of oboe came from hearing Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to "The Mission" on my mum's stereo at home when I was 8... it's been quite a journey since then. I did my undergrad at the Sydney Conservatorium graduating in 2007, after which I mainly concentrated on writing instrumental chamber music and electronic music. Recently, I've gravitated towards writing more for voice. I'm currently writing for solo instruments, choirs, and a couple of larger format pieces. I'm completing a masters, if only I could find time to finish my thesis, at the Sydney Conservatorium supervised by Matthew Hindson. I've written for the Song Company, Dirty Feet dance company, Chronology Arts ensemble, the Orkest de Ereprijs, Alicia Crossley and Pemulwuy Male Voices festival. My debut album "Seven Stations" was written in collaboration with poet Chris Mansell (who provides me with most of my texts!), and is released by Hospital Hill Records.

I directed, produced and curated festivals of music (Vivid at Seymour, Bellingen Music Festival). I ran Chronology Arts since its inception at first in partnership with composer Alex Pozniak (then moving on to other structures). I established Arts Illuminated Pty Ltd in 2013 to buy Limelight Magazine to ensure its continuation and subsequently sold it in 2018 for the same reason. I am currently working with my partner, Dean Walsh, on physical theatre works whilst working at Legs on the Wall, teaching, learning and making music.

This is a collection of some of my concert music. See links below for more more more more more more more more more more more more more.

Please feel free to get in touch: peterabwilson@icloud.com

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