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ItemThis is a Trombone: Music for trombone and piano(Common Tone Arts, 2022)
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ItemLyrebird Brass - Apex Predators(Common Tone Records, 2022)Lyrebird Brass (LB) is a research cluster of University of Melbourne staff and professional collaborators dedicated to commissioning, performing and recording brass chamber music. In creating Lyrebird, continuing research staff Carla Blackwood, Joel Brennan, Don Immel are establishing themselves as one of the most exciting ensembles on the Australian chamber music scene. Lyrebird is expanding available brass chamber repertoire through new commissions with a particular emphasis on Australian music and works by composers from underrepresented demographics. Through superlative performances and recordings, LB is reframing the historic, limited perceptions about brass chamber music and about what it means to be a musician in the 21st century. LB is the first professional Australian brass ensemble to feature women as core members. "Apex Predators" consists of world-premiere recordings of five new works (17 tracks) for brass quintet, including four by living Australian composers and one about Australia by a living American composer. The multi-movement, major new works “Melbourne Mosaic” by Andrew Batterham and “Neptune’s Treasures” by Robert Cohen were both commissioned by LB, and significant workshopping has taken place with all five composers towards creation of these recordings. This output represents an important addition to the recorded brass chamber music repertoire.
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ItemLyrebird Brass and Melbourne Recital Centre: Top of the Food Chain, Bottom of the World(Melbourne Recital Centre, 2022)Lyrebird Brass is a research cluster dedicated to commissioning, performing and recording brass chamber music. Lyrebird are expanding available brass chamber repertoire through new commissions with a particular emphasis on Australian music and works by composers from underrepresented demographics. Through superlative performances and recordings, Lyrebird Brass is reframing the historic, limited perceptions about brass chamber music and about what it means to be a musician in the 21st century. LB is the first professional Australian brass ensemble to feature women as core members. Lyrebird Brass presents a major concert of new music for brass quintet, presented at the invitation of a major, peer-reviewed venue. The concert consisted of new brass quintets by living composers, including: Australian composer Alan Holley’s major new work “The Goodchild Canzonas” (World Premiere, commissioned by LB), Ukrainian-Australian composer Katherine Likhuta’s “Apex Predators” (Australian Premiere), British-Australian composer Luke Styles’ “Solder,” Melbourne composer Kate Neal’s “Fanfare,” American composer Robert Cohen’s 4 movement piece about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (commissioned by Lyrebird Brass), and University of Melbourne PhD recipient Andrew Batterham’s multi-movement piece, “Melbourne Mosaic” (commissioned by Lyrebird Brass).
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ItemLyrebird Brass and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Present: New Works for Brass Chamber Ensemble(University of Melbourne, 2021)Lyrebird Brass (LB) is a research cluster dedicated to commissioning, performing and recording brass chamber music. LB are expanding available brass chamber repertoire through commissions with a particular emphasis on Australian music and works by composers from underrepresented demographics. Through superlative performances and recordings, LB is reframing the historic, limited perceptions about brass chamber music and about what it means to be a musician in the 21st century. LB is the first professional Australian brass ensemble to feature women as core members. Presented live and live-streamed from Melba Hall, this sold-out performance is published online and remains available. A culmination of several years of research activity, this concert sets a clear foundation for the expanding performance-as-research trajectory of the LB research cluster.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableFujikura and Three: Commission, Premiere Performance and Video Release of New Work(Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, 2019)University of Melbourne research cluster Ensemble Three collaborated with Dai Fujikura, one of the most prominent and successful current international composers, to commission, video-record and premiere a new piece.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableUSA Performance Research Tour(PSK: Princeton Sound Kitchen, 2019)Expanding both individual and combined research cluster agendas (Ensemble Three), Immel, Brennan and Murray workshop and premiere new pieces at the invitation of Princeton University, the University of Southern California, Highline College, Bellevue College and the Wayward Music Series (Seattle). Non Traditional Research Outputs, including practice-led P1 (major) performances as defined on the FFAM Staff Hub Research web page. Activities are in line with a continuing and developing research agenda, and remain directly in line with our University of Melbourne Grand Challenges. As stated in the document RESEARCH AT MELBOURNE: ENSURING EXCELLENCE AND IMPACT TO 2025, this research: · Is outward-looking and best met by engaging with external partners and collaborators; · Is about engaging our society in the performing arts in the digital world; · Is global in reach, but with Australian and local dimension; · Engages other organisations drawn from industry, the community, our partners and affiliated institutions; · Builds international partnerships with research communities in the United States Extensive workshopping of new works written for our research team, and for premiere international performances (P1 Major Non Traditional Research Output activity) at peer research institutions (USC, Princeton et. al).
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ItemBrabancon Trombone Lecture Recital(COIN/ACOFT 2003 Secretariat, 2019)More than a century’s worth of music featuring the trombone sits forgotten in the Conservatoire libraries in and around Belgium; my current 3-year project will rediscover, reintroduce, and realise the premiere recordings of important historical pieces from this volume of neglected repertoire ca. 1860 - 1975. Although trombone music written for the Paris Conservatoire concours system is well researched and remains widely performed,1 this is in contrast to repertoire written for other competing music schools. Analogous to Paris, portions of curricula at music conservatoires in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Liege were also based on a concours system, at the very least for entrance into instrumental courses.2 As a result it is expected that a significant breadth of literature specifically written for testing students entering and/or exiting from each conservatory is located within their libraries. This dissertation comprises two components: Premiere recordings of the best literature will be made. A written component will contextualise and underscore the value of the rediscovered literature from historic, artistic and educational perspectives. This is the first comprehensive research and practical study of its kind, will make a highly valuable contribution to knowledge in the field.
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ItemUndercurrents: The Natural World Augmented(Melbourne Recital Centre, 2018-02-19)
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ItemEnsemble Three, Mount Macedon Victoria(Macedon Music, 2017-09-17)This record is for a rendered live performance of three musicians on trumpet, trombone and guitar. The performance comprised of compositions: Slow Air, Andrew Ford; Country Crow Shuffle, Jane Hammond; Pinwheel, Wally Gun; Despite Our Silent Elders, Elliott Hughes; Undercurrent, Katy Abbott Kvasnica; and New Work, Harry Sdraulig. Four compositions written for this group were premiered in this performance - Country Crow Shuffle, Despite Our Silent Elders, Undercurrent and New Work. A capacity audience enjoyed Ensemble Three's eclectic mix of new Australian repertoire.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMidnight Songs(Tall Poppies Records, 2016)