Work TBA
Composed for Robin Hall
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of the ANAM Set 2027 and written for Robin Hall, to be premiered during ANAM’s 2027 recital season.
The 2027 ANAM Set commissions are supported by the Anthony and Sharon Lee Foundation.
About the composer:
Nicholas Vines is an Australian composer particularly active at home in Sydney, Australia, and in the US. His works have been performed in Australia, North America, the UK, Europe, China and Japan by interpreters ranging from high school students to specialist new music ensembles. Dr. Vines’ compositions have received prizes from the US, UK and Poland, as well as Australian honours, such as APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards and - most recently - the University of New South Wales 2025 Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Published by Faber Music, Wirripang and the Australian Music Centre, his music has also been released on Navona and Move Records. Dr. Vines has lectured in music at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, having received a PhD from the former and other qualifications from the Universities of Sydney and New England.
Presently, he is a senior master of academic extension at Sydney Grammar School, as well as an expert musicologist in legal contexts. Recent composition projects include a large sinfonietta work for the Australian Youth Orchestra Momentum Ensemble; a showpiece for Australian clarinettist Georgina Oakes, Austrian bass clarinettist Anna Koch and a virtual ensemble; a major song cycle for American soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough; and two Colour Music string quartets after Roy De Maistre’s painting of the same name for the Sydney Art Quartet.
Nicholas is based in NSW on Cammeraygal Country.
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Image credit: Supplied by composer.