The Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers' Program is organised and
run by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
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The program is advertised annually, and several young composers are selected to take part in
the program. Each composer is commissioned to compose a 10-minute piece, which is publicly performed
by the Orchestra during the Metropolis Concert Series. Each composer is mentored by an established
Australian composer during the composition period.
The program was introduced in 2003. The following composers have participated in the program:
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2003 |
Roxanne Della-Bosca: Zden: Fanfare for Self
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Alicia Grant: Cross Currents
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Peter McNamara: Die Nacht fällt
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Anthony Pateras: Chromatophore for 8 amplified strings
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2004 |
Taran Carter: Moondani Music
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Daniel Rojas: Festival AfroAndino
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2005 |
Tristan Coelho: Glass Canvas
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Cyrus Meurant: Tableaux
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Nicholas Ng: Secret of the Golden Flower: Spirals
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Natalie Williams: Four portraits of
Scheherazade. A musical impression of three poems by Kate Middleton |
  
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Tristan Coelho, Natalie Williams & Nicholas Ng (2005)
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The Cybec 21st Century Composers team 2005
Conductor Martyn Brabbins, Composer Tristan Coelho, Poet Kate Middleton, Composer Natalie Williams, Composer Nicholas Ng, Performer Warwick Lynch
Natalie Williams' work was inspired by Kate Middleton's poems, and Warwick Lynch produced special sound effects for Nicholas Ng. (Cyrus Meurant was unable to be present.)
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Anne Cawrse & Julian Langdon (2007)
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Adrian Mansukhani & James Wade (2006)
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The following composers completed the 2007 program:
The following composers were selected for the 2008 program:
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2008 |
Paul Castles: Aurelian unturning
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Robert Dahm: Noumen
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Nicole Murphy |
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James Rushford |
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Robert Dahm & Paul Castles (2008)
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The following composers were selected for the 2009 program:
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2009 |
Lorenzo Alvaro: Light without heat
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Elias Constantopedos: Moda
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Benjamin McDonald |
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Mark Wolf |
The following composers were selected for the 2010 program:
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2010 |
Amy Bastow: Lunatic Fringe
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Annie Hsieh: Icy Disintegration
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Alex Pozniak: Particle Transform |
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Charlie Sdraulig: Still |
The following composers were selected for the 2011 program:
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2011 |
Evan Lawson: Prelude & Jason's Song
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Luke Paulding: The air a bright shatter of wings
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Joseph Twist: I Dance Myself to Sleep |
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Chris Williams: A Strange Communion |
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Elias Constantopedos & Lorenzo Alvaro (2009) |
Benjamin McDonald & Mark Wolf (2009)
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The following composers were selected for the 2012 program:
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2012 |
Simon Charles: Atropos
This piece was inspired by Thoreau's book Walden,
which is a meditation on the experience of solitude.
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Lisa Illean: Veils
Lisa wrote this to try to recreate the feel of a noisy florist's shop, where she once worked, in
which a very distorted radio occasionally injected snatches of music into the general racket.
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| Daniel Portelli: Finding Kensho
This piece pictures the Zen journey through self-doubt to experience Kensho, or seeing one's true self.
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Catherine Sullivan: Vidova Gora - Svitanje
In this Catherine recaptures the experience of sunrise, while she was on the way to
climb Vidova Gora, a mountain on the island of Brac.
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Daniel Portelli, Lisa Illean, Simon Charles & Catherine Sullivan |
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