Moya Henderson
Moya Henderson's music is warm, sincere and distinctively Australian: chamber works such as G'Day Africa and Cross Hatching, art songs and carols, and scores that remember Gallipoli and the land with directness.
Her writing ranges across chamber, vocal, choral, orchestral and electronic music, and often carries a music-theatre instinct. Cross Hatching opens colour and light at the piano; G'Day Africa drives with rhythmic bite for clarinet, viola, piano and cello. She sets Judith Wright in an intriguing multi-voice Woman's Song, contributes carols and arrangements that sit easily in the ear, and marks national memory without grandstanding. The opera Lindy, on the Azaria Chamberlain case, turns a travesty of justice into staged music. She also invented percussion instruments including the alemba and Tosca Bells, and a string 'noose' that frees natural harmonics across the orchestra's range.
Moya Henderson is featured on the following titles
Remembering Gallipoli
Premiere recordings of two Australian works—one contemporary, one nearly a century old—mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings. Thomas Jones (violin), Laura Chislett Jones (bass flute) and Rachel Valler perform.