Donald Hollier
Donald Hollier is a Sydney-born Australian composer, organist and choral director whose work spans opera, choral and orchestral music, chamber works and solo keyboard pieces.
Donald Hollier's own compositions include an opera, works for chorus and orchestra, stage works, chamber music, and solo pieces for piano, harpsichord and organ. He has received many commissions, among them from the ABC, the Sydney Organ Society, the University of Melbourne, Duo Contemporain and the Sydney Philharmonia. He was composer-in-residence with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 1990 and 1991.
Compositions by Donald Hollier appear on
A Sympathetic Resonance
Peter Constant presents classical guitar works by Australian composers, joined by Marion Schaap on guitar, Mardi McSullea on flute and Helen Noonan, soprano.
Donald Hollier also appears on
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ
Historic recordings from the 1979 inaugural recital series that launched the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ, Ronald Sharp’s vast mechanical-action instrument.