Thomas Reiner
Artistic Director of the ensemble re-sound, Thomas Reiner has received numerous awards for his compositions, including second prize in the International Witold Lutosławski Composers' Competition for Two Movements for Orchestra, the Dorian Le Gallienne Award, and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.
Thomas Reiner is an award-winning composer with prizes from the International Witold Lutosławski Composers' Competition, the ALEA III International Composition Competition at Boston University, and the International Boswil Composers' Competition. Locally he has received the Dorian Le Gallienne Award for Composition and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.
His prolific output spans solo pieces, chamber works, orchestral scores, music theatre, vocal works, concept pieces, and electroacoustic and electronic music. His work has been performed, broadcast and recorded in many countries by leading exponents of contemporary music. Most of it is published by the Australian Music Centre.
In 1996 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne for research into the semiotic nature of musical time. Peter Lang in New York published his book Semiotics of Musical Time in 2000. He wrote the entries on techno music, DJ culture and dance parties for the Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia. In 2003 Move Records released Hard Chamber (MD 3280), a compilation of his chamber music, launched at the Monash University Centre in Prato by the Italian trio Altrove 1.3.
In 2004 he became a councillor of the Music Council of Australia and was elected to the Individual Member position for Computer Music and Multimedia. In 2005 he joined the Board of Directors of the Australian Music Centre. He is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, where he coordinates music composition and designed a PhD programme in research-based composition.
He is the founder and artistic director of re-sound, a contemporary music group that has made a substantial contribution to Australian work.
Thomas Reiner is featured on the following titles
Hard Chamber
A retrospective of chamber works by Melbourne contemporary composer Thomas Reiner, written for varied small forces. Soloists from Monash University and ensemble re-sound present music that asks for close, unconditioned listening.
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Performing as re-sound
re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.
Quiet on the Bridge
Like the group's earlier releases, this disc ranges across electronic and electro-acoustic music, contemporary chamber writing, interactive computer pieces, open indeterminate works and improvisation.
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Ephemeral Densities
ephemeral densities is re-sound's third CD, devoted to new Australian work by members Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner. It brings together contemporary chamber writing, computer music and popular electronic idioms.
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In C
Melbourne ensemble re-sound gives Terry Riley's minimalist landmark In C its first electroacoustic reading, folding chamber forces into beats, sequences and electric bass and guitar.
The Flowers
All works on this recording are Australian compositions exploring the aesthetics of contemporary art music. The disc offers a fresh perspective on Australian music-making through starkly varied new pieces.
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Producer: Executive producer and artistic director
re-sound
re-sound's first, self-titled album gathers chamber works by John Cage and five Australian composers – Brendan Colbert, Paul Moulatlet, Ken Murray, Thomas Reiner and Harvey Sollberger – in a programme of late twentieth-century sound.
Compositions by Thomas Reiner also appear on
Fantasie Australis
Compositions by living Australian composers, most based in Melbourne, performed by the Monash University Flute Ensemble under Peter Sheridan. Australia’s flute-ensemble repertoire is still small beside other national traditions, yet the country has a rich store of fine woodwind writing.
KAPPA
Italian chamber group Trio Altrove 1.3 joins six Australian composers of contemporary classical music – Steve Adam, Melanie Chilianis, Brendan Colbert, Philip Czaplowski, Paul Moulatlet and Thomas Reiner – in a programme of works written or arranged for the ensemble.
Conversations
The recording of Conversations is an outcome of a research project at Monash University’s School of Music. Six composers worked with performers to shape this electro-acoustic piece, joining team-based composition, contemporary performance practice, and music technology.
Mistika
Composer and keyboardist Linda Ceff sets past and present inspirations beside her own contemporary works. Homages to Stravinsky, Messiaen and Skryabin sit with multi-tracked piano, synthesised colour, bells and Asian-inflected writing.
Thomas Reiner is a member of
re-sound
re-sound has established itself as one of Australia's most progressive contemporary music ensembles. Its thought-provoking, challenging and dynamic performances explore the sounds of our time across a wide range of genres, styles, and performance contexts.