Jane Hammond
Jane Hammond has composed original music for mainstream and community theatre and the concert stage, for ensembles and companies including Ensemble Liaison, Victoria State Opera, Opera Australia, and the Melbourne International Festival. Her works, heard throughout Australia and abroad, have been described as of “ravishing beauty and rare artistic distinction”.
Her concert works include Slip and Francis Morgan, recorded on The Flowers (MCD 436). As pianist and composer she is heard on Sonorous Sonatas (MD 3375), among them her Song Without Words and Sonata, Op. 99 for low flute and piano.
She also prepared the transcription of Percy Grainger’s Random Round performed on Midnight Songs (TP237). Her music has been described as of “ravishing beauty and rare artistic distinction”.
Compositions by Jane Hammond appear on
Sonorous Sonatas
Peter Sheridan set out to bring the larger, lower flutes to centre stage, testing their sound and colour within one of Western music’s most traditional forms: the sonata. Commissioned works and substantial duo writing put alto, bass, contrabass and subcontrabass flutes in the foreground.
Composer
The Flowers
All works on this recording are Australian compositions exploring the aesthetics of contemporary art music. The disc offers a fresh perspective on Australian music-making through starkly varied new pieces.
Jane Hammond also appears on
Monologues & Dialogues
This recording features the resonant, meditative colours of modern low flutes. Austere, breathy and at times eerie, these deep registers open a sound-world still little explored in woodwind writing, and invite a wide range of musical imaginings.
The Glass Soldier
Music from Hannie Rayson’s play The Glass Soldier. Based on a true story, it is a sincere tribute to Australians who fought in the Great War: people who had little, yet gave everything.
Conversations
The recording of Conversations is an outcome of a research project at Monash University’s School of Music. Six composers worked with performers to shape this electro-acoustic piece, joining team-based composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology.