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Senses - Monique diMattina
 After nearly 2 years in New York City, accomplished pianist, singer, songwriter Monique diMattina returns to Melbourne to release SENSES - a mesmerising collection of original solo piano compositions and improvisations. |
The Michael Kieran Harvey Collection
 Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey is tireless in his promotion of contemporary piano music. Dimensions of night which has just been released is the tenth instalment in his landmark series of modern piano music, the 'Michael Kieran Harvey Collection'. |
Pictures at an Exhibition: reflected and refracted
 Unique orchestral arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition, Gliere's Coloratura Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, Glinka's The Nighingale, and two movements from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons. |
Houghton ¥ Piazzolla ¥ Kats-Chernin ¥ Hansen ¥
 Crossing over between ragtime, tango, modern classical and folk music of various cultures, this collection of recent works for violin and guitar spans a period of a shade over twenty years, from Astor Piazzolla's 1986 composition Histoire du Tango, to Tim Hansen's 2007 re-scoring of Earwig for Zo‘ and Daniel |
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Latest Recordings:
Michael Kieran Harvey performs Larry Sitsky's epic piano work
Larry Sitsky's "Dimensions of Night" draws on ancient legend, myth and spiritual history. It reflects on the connectedness of the world's religious mythologies and their frequent exploitation to cause harm to the vulnerable. The epic employs a series of chords to underpin the sequence of harmonies throughout the whole cycle. Click here for full details of this CD.
Michael Kieran Harvey plays new music for keyboard
All my life I have been fascinated by the interaction of science and art, especially with music. In an age where art music seems to have been relegated to the area of palliative care by "market forces", the uncompromising approach of some composers still willing to embrace science and the natural world seems to me very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment: to oppose the monolithic hegemonies of church, state and ideology, and instead fight for pluralism and individual freedom, to think for oneself, and to pursue one's curiosity. Michael Kieran Harvey Click here for full details of this CD.
Zoë Black Violin and Daniel McKay, Guitar
Crossing over between ragtime, tango, modern classical and folk music of various cultures, this collection of recent works for violin and guitar spans a period of a shade over twenty years, from Astor Piazzolla's 1986 composition Histoire du Tango, to Tim Hansen's 2007 re-scoring of Earwig for Zoë and Daniel. Click here for full details of this CD.
Jonathan Paget guitar
Here begins an enchanted journey of magic, mischief, dreams, and romance - a fantastical world akin to that of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with its capricious fairies casting love-spells over mortals lost in the woods at night. Click here for full details of this CD.
John Sangster, Music - Edward Lear, words
Uttered nonsense, (the Owl and the Pussycat), consists eight works of Mr Edward Lear, spoken with the utmost gravity by Mr Ivan Smith, and set to music of the most nonsensical nature by John Sangster. Click here for full details of this CD.
Chamber music by Eve Duncan
A collection of chamber music by Australian composer Eve Duncan. This new CD features recordings of her work performed by artists from Australia and overseas including the Australian National Academy of Music String Ensemble and Michael Kieran Harvey. Click here for full details of this CD.
the piano music of Kanako Okamoto
This instalment of the Michael Kieran Harvey Collection features the piano music of Kanako Okamoto. Click here for full details of this CD.
Michael Kieran Harvey
Broadway Boogie is a collection of new music for piano featuring works by Nigel Westlake, Andrew Ford, Andrew Byrne, Mark Pollard and Michael Kieran Harvey. It won the best classical CD of 2008 in Melbourne's Herald-Sun. Click here for full details of this CD.
arranged by Julian Yu / Australia Pro Arte Orchestra / Jeffrey Crellin
Unique orchestral arrangements of Pictures at an Exhibition, Gliere's Coloratura Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, Glinka's The Nighingale, and two movements from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons. Coming soon. Click here for full details of this CD.
Recorded in concert during the inaugural concert series in 1979
The Sydney Opera House Grand Organ is in many ways a unique instrument. With 10,500 pipes, of which 2700 can be sounded simultaneously, it is both the largest instrument in the country, and the largest mechanical action organ in the world. Click here for full details of this CD.
Piano transcriptions as you have never heard them before played by Cameron Roberts
This disc by Australian pianist-composer Cameron Roberts is a tour-de-force of piano virtuosity and originality. His original piano transcriptions of orchestral showpieces: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Vivaldi's Summer and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, amongst others, have recently been premiered in London and Madrid to full houses and standing ovation. Here he puts them on disc in his second studio recording for MOVE. Click here for full details of this CD.
Peter Carroll-Held
Extraordinarily popular with children, especially to accompany activities such as rollerblading and skateboarding, these light musical classics are performed live by former circus musician and well known Sydney organist Peter Carroll-Held. This new album release by Move Records (MCD 391) employs state-of-the-art audio media content creation technologies that transport the listener to a virtual reconstruction of an early 1900's town hall pipe organ concert of upbeat theatrical music that is sure to entertain children of all ages. Click here for full details of this CD.
Mark Lockett
Although he first came to prominence on the jazz scene a half century ago, Ornette Coleman still scares people. But his compositions, rooted as they were in classic blues, have long appealed to jazz listeners of every stripe. It's to Mark Lockett's credit that he has chosen four of Ornette's most accessible yet stimulating tunes and included them on this CD. Click here for full details of this CD.
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Artists & Composers:
Michael Kieran Harvey is one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music of his generation. A champion of Australian music and himself a composer, he regularly commissions new Australian music and has performed Australian music with Australia's leading contemporary music ensembles and orchestras
Click here for more about Michael Kieran Harvey.
Pastance came together in 1993 to perform Mediaeval and Renaissance music. Pastance has performed for the early music fraternity but also for a wide range of audiences, from folk festivals and formal concerts to schools, corporate feasts and open air markets.
Click here for more about Pastance.
"one of a rare breed of pianists not frightened of showing his emotions when he plays"
(Leon Gettler, The Age 'Green Guide') Melbourne born musician Tony Gould is well known and admired in both classical and jazz musical circles. As a musician, Tony Gould is characterised by a desire to encompass as broad a range of activities as possible, aiming to reduce often prejudiced judgements about the relative worth of different musical styles. Click here for more about Tony Gould.
Norman Kaye (17-1-1927 - 28-5-2007) was a distinguished organist and actor. Norman studied organ with Pierre Cochereau of Notre Dame de Paris and won a Premier Prix for conducting at the Nice Conservatoire.
Click here for more about Norman Kaye.
re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.
Click here for more about re-sound.
Andrew's music intentionally crosses the boundaries between classical and popular music.
Click here for more about Andrew Blyth.
Certainly a group to follow, Collusion is a four-piece contemporary classical music ensemble formed in late 2002, comprised of young, vibrant and imaginative artists Benjamin Greaves (violin), Therese Milanovic (piano), Shannon Tobin (cello) and Stephen Wylks (clarinet). As well as performing as an ensemble of four, the group also invites guest artists of different artistic mediums including guest musicians, dance, spoken word, film, visual arts, circus arts, photography and theatre to contribute, in part, to their productions.
Click here for more about Collusion.
Mike Nock returned to Australia in 1985 after spending 25 years in the US where he established an international reputation through his many tours and recordings. Although primarily known as a jazz composer his music has been commissioned and performed by such as the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra (USA), The New Zealand Piano Quartet & New Zealand String Quartet, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Synergy, Ensemble 24 and Melbourne Windpower among many others.
Click here for more about Mike Nock.
"It takes more than technical mastery to compose music and play it on the guitar in a way that really touches people's hearts. Australia's John Mills, has just such artistic talent. He uses even the silence between notes to shape his tender, lyrical melodies. Rather than blister the ears with cascades of notes, Mills has the courage to place each note like a precious star, allowing the emotion of the melody to carry through. . . . . Mills also happens to be among the 10 best guitarists that I've ever heard."
Click here for more about John Mills.
Kanako OKAMOTO is rapidly gaining an international profile as an exciting and significant Japanese composer. Kanako OKAMOTO is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers' (JFC) and the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).
Click here for more about Kanako Okamoto.
Christa Rumsey was born in Vienna, Austria in 1943. In 1961 she became a student of the renowned organist, conductor and composer Anton Heiller at the Vienna Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, and graduated in Organ Performance in 1966
Click here for more about Christa Rumsey.
Born in 1981 in Sarawak, Malaysia, Matthew moved with his family to Australia in 1992 and in 1996, Max Cooke, who formerly trained in Paris with Alfred Cortot, recognized Matthew's potential and decided to accept him as one of his protégés.
Click here for more about Matthew Kam.
"a fine musician with brilliant technique" [Soundboard]
"near-peerless command of the instrument which, in his hands, seemed not so much an inanimate construction of wood, varnish and glue than an extension of his musical being" {The West Australian] Click here for more about Jonathan Paget.
Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra is an Australian chamber orchestra based in Melbourne, Victoria. With APA, experience the emotionally engrossing and intellectually inspiring works of the baroque era, sprinkled with works of today that celebrate and relate to life as we know it.
Click here for more about Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra.
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