Benjamin Thorn
Benjamin Thorn is an Australian composer and recorder player based in Armidale, New South Wales. He is best known for his works for the recorder.
Benjamin Thorn is a composer and recorder player based in Armidale, NSW. He has written music for a wide range of instrumental and vocal combinations, though he has gained greatest recognition for his works for the recorder.
He edited the acclaimed two-volume collection of mostly Australian recorder music Recorders at large (Currency Press), and has edited various seventeenth-century works for Saraband (three of which, by Strozzi and Caccini, appear on this CD). He edits and produces music publications for Orpheus Music in Armidale.
He has performed as a soloist and with a number of groups around Australia, including the Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra and the Renaissance Players. In 1993 he joined the trio Dolcimelo with Wayne Madden and fellow recorder player Christine Lucerne. The group has performed concerts in Tasmania each year since then.
Press quotes
There is no doubting the talent of Benjamin Thorn … and, on the evidence of the pure music he has contributed to this exploration of songs of love and marriage spanning six centuries, he is capable of creating tunes of high quality.
Benjamin Thorn is featured on the following titles
Songs of Love and Marriage
Benjamin Thorn and Wayne Madden present a journey through 600 years of music on the theme of love. Rarely heard works by Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini sit beside the more familiar music of Telemann and Ortiz.
Composer
Compositions by Benjamin Thorn also appear on
Phoenix Songs
Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, the recorder is enjoying something of a renaissance. Six well-known Australian contemporary composers pair it with piano, harpsichord, voice and live electronics.