The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is excited to realise an ambitious project that will see 67 Australian composers working in close partnership with ANAM's 67 musicians to create 67 new solo/duo Australian works to be premiered in 2021.
In addition to creating over six hours of new Australian music, this project (made possible by support from the Commonwealth Government’s RISE fund) seeks to provide each ANAM musician with the experience of collaborating with a composer to produce a new work that compliments and enriches their musical strengths.
MEDIA RELEASE: THE ANAM SET
MEDIA RELEASE: COMPOSERS ANNOUNCED
MUSICIAN/COMPOSER PAIRINGS AND PIECE TITLE
VIOLIN
Emily Beauchamp / Alexander Voltz – Prayer for a Lost Friend
Adrian Biemmi / Felicity Wilcox – To the Sea
Josephine Chung / Damien Ricketson – Touch Point
Phoebe Gardner / Ben Hoadley – Zigzag Road
Josef Hanna / Kate Milligan – Lux Levis
Rachael Kwa / Kirsten Milenko – Lapse
Lynda Latu / Ben Robinson – Stepping Out
Felix Pascoe / Huw Belling – Shadow Partita 1004
Fiona Qiu / John Rotar – Romanza
Mia Stanton / Charlie Sdraulig – Aside for Solo Violin
Emily Su / Natalie Williams – Skrípka
Donica Tran / Andrea Keller – Other Selves
Claire Weatherhead / Thomas Green – So, Am I Shouting
Grace Wu / Emma Greenhill – Metamorphosis
VIOLA
Dasha Auer / Luke Altmann – Untitled
Andrew Crothers / Paul Dean – Roll out the pork barrel
Henry Justo / Andrian Pertout – Mīmēsis
Murray Kearney / Alexander Turley – Nowhere in Particular
Ariel Postmus / Melody Eötvös – Pilgrimado
Harry Swainston / Richard Mills – Che Scorre
Kate Worley / Paul Grabowsky – Helix Variation
CELLO
Nadia Barrow / Mark Holdsworth – Diabolus
Daniel Chiou / Gordon Kerry – Soliloquy for cello
Hamish Jamieson / Kitty Xiao – In Flesh
Shuhei Lawson / Andrew Anderson – Theme and Variations
Nick McManus / Erkki Veltheim – Heiligenschein
Charlotte Miles / Catherine Likhuta
James Morley / Liza Lim – Cello Playing - as Meteorology
Oliver Russell / Jack Symonds – Eau Vivante
DOUBLE BASS
Hamish Gullick / Samantha Wolf
Ken Harris / Elizabeth Younan – Fantasia no. VII
Benjamin Saffir / Deborah Cheetham – Fault Lines
FLUTE
Lily Bryant / Matt Laing – Destructive interference
Rachel Lau / Rosalind Page – Respirare
Lilly Yang / Ian Whitney – An Architecture of Butter and Sugar
OBOE
Alexandra Allan / James Ledger – Fanfares for Libraries
Alexandra King / Mark Wolf – This Teetering Bulb
Noah Rudd / Ross Edwards – Windsong for Sacred Earth
CLARINET
Oliver Crofts / Elena Kats-Chernin – Grand Rag
Clare Fox / Anne Cawrse – Ruby
Jarrad Linke / Alex Pozniak
BASSOON
Jack Cremer / David Chisholm – Temporal Sweetness
Thomas St John / Elliott Gyger – Elude
Jye Todorov / Lilijana Matičevska – You Can Call Me CV01
HORN
Tim Allen-Ankins / Catherine Milliken
Josiah Kop / William Barton
Claudia Leggett / Yitzhak Yedid – Yedid-Bach
Eve McEwen / Andrew Ford – Confused Alarms
Nicola Robinson / Noemi Liba Friedman – The Eleventh Partial
TRUMPET
Nicholas Corkeron / Kate Tempany – Honeyeater
Darcy O’Malley / Dominic Flynn – Gorge
Joel Walmsley / Andrew Batterham – A black dog near me
TROMBONE
Jarrod Callaghan / Brenton Broadstock – Memento
William Kinmont / Nicole Murphy – Vector
Cian Malikides / Chris Dench – un petit mot crabe-c'est-ma-faute
BASS TROMBONE
James Littlewood / Cat Hope – The Long Now
TUBA
Rachel Kelly / Anthony Pateras – Human Sensory Motor Schema
PIANO
Kane Chang / Bruce Crossman – Fragility Sonorousness
Kathy Chow / Emile Frankel – Cradlesong
Amanda Pang / Brett Dean – Byrdsong Studies
Hannah Pike / Michael Kieran Harvey – Death Cap Mushroom
Caleb Salizzo / Harry Sdraulig – Watch
Oscar Wong / Tim Dargaville – Unfolding to an Infinite Number
PERCUSSION
Alison Fane / K. Travers Eira – [sound is] A Body in Space
Nathan Gatenby / Thomas Meadowcroft – Rolando Continuo
James Knight / Jet Kye Chong – 食JIAH8 for solo percussion
Alexander Meagher / Graeme Leak – THIS is IT
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE ANAM SET COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS BELOW
SCHEDULE:
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February 2021 |
Composers confirmed |
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March 2021 |
Composers paired with musicians |
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June - September 2021 |
Delivery of scores/parts |
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Late 2021 |
Public performances and recordings |
ABOUT ANAM
The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to training the most exceptional classical musicians – aged 17-27 years – from Australia and New Zealand. ANAM provides an intense studio-based program of individually-tailored lessons, classes, coaching, seminars and rehearsals, which underpins the only professional performance training program in Australia, and one of the few in the world. Founded in 1995, ANAM is funded by a mix of Commonwealth Government funding and private fundraising revenue and is currently training 67 of the country's most outstanding musicians.
FROM OUR MUSICIANS
“Through these collaborations I am hoping to extend my awareness of the social-political issues that surround us in our current environment. By collaborating with like-minded artists and composers, our horizons are extended and challenged in ways we may not have considered before.”
Alison Fane (VIC) percussion
“The ANAM Set is one of the most enabling and important projects in Australian music I am yet to see, and I am so grateful to be a part of it! As a young performer the process of collaborating with composers in the creation of new works can be the most exhilarating form of the creative process, and I am thrilled to build a new creative dialogue with a composer and discover how we can enlighten each other.”
Henry Justo (QLD) viola
“Working with a composer is one of the most rewarding and fascinating experiences you can have as a performing musician. I cannot wait to embark on this journey with ANAM in 2021, and I look forward to hearing the incredible music that comes out of this project.”
Hannah Pike (QLD) piano
Supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative