Johanna Selleck
Johanna Selleck is a composer, musicologist, and flautist. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she is an honorary fellow. Her compositions have been performed by internationally renowned artists across Australia, Europe, the USA, Asia, and the Middle East.
As a flautist she performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber music, particularly with harpist Jacinta Dennett and at Melbourne Composers’ League concerts. Her research is published widely, including by Cambridge Scholars Press and Lexington Books, and in journals such as Australasian Music Research. Publishers of her music include Allans Music, Lyrebird Press, and the Australian Music Centre.
Her recordings appear on labels including Move Records, Tall Poppies, and Navona (USA). Her harp solo Spindrift appears on the CD Quest by American harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson (Albany Records), listed on the 2022 Grammy Awards under producer Elaine Martone (‘Producer of the Year, Classical’). Composition prizes include the Percy Grainger Prize for Composition (1990), the Albert Maggs Composition Award (2006), and the ANZVS (viola society) Composition Competition (2022).
Johanna Selleck is featured on the following titles
Becoming
Becoming is Johanna Selleck’s hour-long song cycle for soprano, countertenor, bass, shakuhachi and string quartet, setting haiku and renga across French, English and Tibetan.
Composer
Compositions by Johanna Selleck also appear on
The life in between
Michael Kieran Harvey anchors this solo piano programme with Martin Friedel’s final work, …the life in between…, then sets it among virtuoso scores by Pertout, Crossman, Spiers, Selleck and McAlley.
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 3
The third release in Derek Jones’s series, Flute Perspectives 3 continues to convey the synergy of Australia’s varied classical flute repertoire, with newly commissioned works, some recorded here for the first time.
Giants in the Land
Recorded in Melba Hall, this world premiere finds Melbourne pianist Ian Holtham in a brilliant cross-section of Australian contemporary piano works by Brenton Broadstock, Linda Kouvaras, Stephen Ingham, Stuart Greenbaum, Johanna Selleck and Christine McCombe.
Fable
This solo harp collection spans sixty-six years of original Australian composition. Jacinta Dennett performs works by Australian women composers, showing the instrument’s distinctive colour, range and expressive force.
Johanna Selleck also appears on
Elegy: Reflections on the music of Peter Tahourdin
A companion to the Australian composer's other Move CD Exposé, this album showcases solo pieces for cello and flute, electronic scores, and small ensemble works.
Chronicle: Orchestral Music of Tony Gould
The definition of the word “chronicle” — put briefly “a record of events” — aptly fits this recording. Chronicle forms an inspiring record of musical events in the life of Tony Gould, one of Australia’s most creative musicians and composers.
Solos Duos Trios
Chamber music by Haydn Reeder for soloists and small ensembles, composed between 1998 and 2023. Piano, strings, flute and harp in solos, duos and trios, nearly all recorded here for the first time.