Work TBA
Composed for Sarah Chick
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of the ANAM Set 2027 and written for Sarah Chick, 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:
Rachel Lewindon is an award-winning, interdisciplinary composer and sound designer working in a diverse array of mediums such as theatre, dance and live performance. She has firmly established her voice in the Australian live performing arts scene, her passion for the immersive experience of sound within a live performance setting, particularly the electro-acoustic boundaries of composition and sound design using voice, piano and synthesis, garnering her much critical acclaim.
She has been hailed as “one of Melbourne theatre’s best composers working to date...” by the Australian Book Review and was awarded a 2022 Green Room Award for Best Composition/Sound Design for her work on The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven. Her own work Orlando: A New Musical premiered to critical acclaim in 2023, being described as "(a) beautifully wrought chamber opera", "profoundly formative in a risk-averse industry… Stephen Sondheim meets Brian Eno". She has had work developed and premiered internationally with So Percussion (USA), Banff International Artist Residency Program (CAD), BRAZZA Artists Residency Program (France), CPH Hit Copenhagen (Denmark), Wuzhen Theatre Festival (China), BIRCA Climate Residency (Denmark), and nationally with Speak Percussion, Melbourne Theatre Company, FortyFive Downstairs, Darwin Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and other local music venues.
Rachel hails from Brisbane Meanjin on Turrbal and Jagera Land, and now calls Melbourne, Naarm on lands of the Wurundjeri and Woiwurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation home.
Instagram: @rachellemmaa
Image credit: Darren Gill, supplied by composer.