Lyle Chan
Lyle Chan is an Australian composer known for cumulative works with only one composition per genre. His music often functions as diary or memoir, most fully in the long autobiographical string quartet known as the AIDS Memoir Quartet.
These cumulative pieces carry highly abstract titles such as Solo Piano and String Quartet, each built from self-contained sections. The quartet material covering 1991 to 1996 forms the AIDS Memoir Quartet, which chronicles his years as an HIV/AIDS activist at the height of the epidemic in Australia.
On Muse (MCD 587) he contributes Three Bilitis Movements for tenor recorder and string quartet.
He spent more than a decade as Artists & Repertoire Manager for ABC Classics and is regarded as an authority on John Cage.
Compositions by Lyle Chan appear on
Muse
Australian recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley joins the Acacia Quartet for the premiere recording of six Australian works for lower-voiced recorders and string quartet, drawing on poetry, mythology, historic song and storybook characters.
Other credits
The Shepherd and the Mermaid
The winning combination of voice, clarinet and piano delighted intimate gatherings and inspired many lovely works. Australian soprano Elena Xanthoudakis is joined by clarinettist Jason Xanthoudakis and pianist Clemens Leske as TrioKROMA.