Love is always born (Michael Leunig)

October 24, 2015

[Update December 2015: the above recording was made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at the City Recital Hall concert in November. My thanks to producer Don Bate and engineer Matthew Dewey.] The wonderful Song Company and its artistic director Roland Peelman will premiere a new vocal piece of mine, Love is always born, in its […]

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Wind Farm Music, Dedicated to Tony Abbott

August 11, 2015

[update Sept 2016: a video of Estivo Trio playing this work in Sydney] __________ Last month Julian Burnside and I were chatting at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and I realised he was sizing me up for an unusual commission. Julian said, “Normally when I commission a piece, I give the composer a completely free […]

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Double Double Bass

May 3, 2015

My lovely friends Kees Boersma and Kirsty McCahon, a sublime husband-and-wife duo who are respectively Principal Double Bass of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, will perform a short piece of mine called Double Double Bass at their concert Bass Extravaganza. See this Calendar Entry for concert details. The unusual concert features a reading of […]

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Untitled (Thomas Brand gewidmet) for String Quartet

May 2, 2015

Update, June 2015: The following recording was made at Australia Hall on May 28, which was piece’s second performance. My gratitude to Fine Music 102.5 FM for permission to share the recording and of course Acacia Quartet for the heartfelt performance. On 23 and 28 May, my dear friends the Acacia Quartet will give the […]

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Untitled (Dec 2014) for Orchestra

May 2, 2015

Update, July 2015: The following tracks are from the live recording made at the world premiere concert. Following this performance, the middle section “Sea of Flowers” became the most-requested moment, so I have excerpted it to be played and heard on its own. You can hear its original context by listening to the entire “Untitled […]

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In September (from AIDS Memoir Quartet)

May 15, 2014

Lyle Chan · In September The Light Changes (from AIDS Memoir Quartet) For the past 2 years I have been writing a string quartet fleshed out from the sketches I wrote while I was an AIDS activist in the 1990s. The music has now been recorded by the incomparable Acacia Quartet and released digitally on ClassicsOnline, iTunes […]

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Smoke Weather Stone Weather

April 30, 2014

In 2013 I received 2 grants from the Australia Council. One was to compose Chaconne for Voices and Saxophone, and the other was to create this unusual set of ten bagatelles for the unusual group The NOISE, a string quartet that usually plays its own fully-improvised compositions but decided to start working with composers as […]

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Chaconne for Voices and Saxophone

August 16, 2013

Photo: Lisa Tomasetti On 24 & 25 August 2013, the Sydney Philharmonia Choir, Michael Duke, saxophonist and Brett Weymark, conductor will give the world premiere of this work. I’m so grateful to the Philharmonia and to the Australia Council for commissioning this work, and to all the choristers, Michael and Brett for the months of […]

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Dextran Man, Part 2 (1992/2013) from String Quartet

June 26, 2013

______ Acacia Quartet plays the world-premiere of this brief work at Armidale Town Hall on June 27, 2013. I’m grateful to them for devoting the entire second half of the concert to sections from my AIDS memoir quartet. My thanks also go to the University of New England for hosting this concert. Below is a […]

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Night Vigil (1993/2013) from String Quartet

May 30, 2013

At two concerts next month (14 June and 15 June), my dear friends the Acacia Quartet will premiere this work, Night Vigil. During those concerts, they will also perform another excerpt from my memoir quartet, Don’t Leave Me This Way. As ever, I’m moved and grateful for Acacia’s embrace of this music. Update: the recording […]

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