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Night
(for SATB choir, piano, percussion
and didgeridoo in C)

This is a setting of Judith Wright's poem of the same name. Premiered at the 12th International Handbell Symposium, the score has been arranged in 2008 for SATB choir, piano, percussion & didgeridoo in C.

Upcoming performance:
15 & 16 November, 2008
ProjectKoor /cond. Paul Gieles,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Full details: 




Tides of Ocean
(for a cappella SATB choir)


Taipei

ABOVE: "Tides of Ocean" (for a cappella SATB choir)
continues its travels around the globe!

Purchase "Tides of Ocean"
sheet music for your choir:
Published by Morton Music
& available worldwide from

www.musical-resources.com

Recent performances of
"Tides of Ocean" include:


San Francisco State University Chamber Singers
in 2008 @ Anaheim, California, USA;

Mt Eden Chamber Singers
at the 2008 Golden State Choral Festival, USA;

Taipei Chamber Singers
2007 World Window Series Concert Tour;

National Finals of the 2006 ABC Classic FM
Choir of the Year Awards (Concordis, VIC, Australia);


• 2007 Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival,
Golden Hall, Musikverein, Vienna
(1st Prize performance, Wesley Institute Choir);

Wesley Institute Choir

ABOVE: 1st Prize performance of "Tides of Ocean" by Wesley Institute Choir, Vienna, 2007.



Two Australian Christmas Carols

Commissioned for performance at Christmas 2008.
More details coming soon!




White Horses
(for symphonic wind orchestra)


Commissioned by Reed Music in 2008 with financial assistance from the Australia Council. Exciting premiere performances announced soon!



Waratah
(for SATB choir, brass and percussion, 2001, rev.2008)


waratah

Revised especially for performance in January 2008 at the 59th Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival, Great Hall, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.



Midnight Mass
(for SATB choir, organ, orchestra and soloists)


This Mass received its premiere performance on Christmas Eve 2007 (Midnight Mass) at St Patrick's Church, Allawah Street, Blacktown, NSW. For hire of score and parts, contact the composer.




Crazy Logic
(for alto sax and piano)

Wigmore Hall

ABOVE:"Crazy Logic" (for alto sax and piano) receives UK premiere on September 15, 2007.


UK Premiere

Saxophonist Gerard McChrystal and pianist Mary Dullea
gave "Crazy Logic" its UK premiere performance at
Wigmore Hall, London, on September 15, 2007.

Click to view the concert flyer!

Canadian Premiere

Barry Cockcroft and Adam Pinto present the
Canadian debut of "Crazy Logic" at Rolston Hall,
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
on 27th September, 2007.


"Crazy Logic" has also recently been
released on CD featuring
Barry Cockcroft (sax)
and Adam Pinto (piano). (See side panel).




Lo, there is light!
(for a cappella SATB choir)


A splendid performance of "Lo, there is light!" (for a cappella SATB choir) by the amazing Choir of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, is now available on an ABC DVD entitled "Hymns of Glory". (See side panel).

Other recent performances of "Lo, there is light!" have taken place at Christ Church Cathedral,  Michigan, USA, and at The National Cathedral, in Washington D.C., USA.


The piece is a setting of words by Bishop Reginald Heber and A.B. (Banjo) Paterson. Originally, the piece was commissioned, premiered and recorded by The Harvard University Choir (USA), and it has subsequently been recorded by the Canberra based choir 'The Resonants'.

Other performers have included the Briar Cliff University Choir in Sioux City, Iowa, USA, the Choir of London, UK and
St George's Choir in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.



Canadian Tour

"Gum Tree Country" (for a cappella choir) was  recently
performed in Canada by the globe-trotting, Newcastle-based
Waratah Girls' Choir, directed by Wynette Horn.



12th International Handbell Symposium, 2006

Handbells detailha

ABOVE: Rehearsing for the premiere performance of "Night".
Click the picture to see my full size photograph!

My composition entitled "Night" recently received its world premiere at the 12th International Handbell Symposium,
in Brisbane, Australia.


The work, commissioned by the Symposium, was written for 2,500 handbells, didgeridoo, SATB choir and clap sticks. 'Night' is based on the Judith Wright poem of the same name, and was performed by players from around the world, aged from five to 85, at the closing concert of the Symposium.


Cheers until next time,
Best wishes,
Matt

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I write music for soloists, chamber ensembles, choirs, orchestras, as well as music for theatre.
 
My compositions have been performed throughout Britain and Europe, as well as in Canada, the Middle East, the USA, Australia and New Zealand by leading groups including the Zurich Ensemble for New Music, Sydney Philharmonia, the Choir of London, The Australian Voices, Seymour Group, The Song Company, The Harvard University Choir, as well as the Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras.
 

 
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School Days

NEW BOOK: School Days / John Kinsella (editor).
ISBN: 978 1 921064 71 5

Recollections of schooldays often provide some of our earliest - and for many, happiest - memories.

John Kinsella has gathered short memoirs from more than twenty well-known Australians, from writers to sports-people, to politicians and others. Gary Bennett, Veronica Brady, Julian Burnside, Greg Chappell, David Fagan, Charmaine Green, Peter Goldsworthy, Marion Halligan, Rodney Hall, Malcolm Knox, Carmen Lawrence, Kate Llewellyn, Kate Lilley, Merv Lilley, Melissa Lucashenko, Brett McDermott, Frank Moorhouse, Justice Robert Nicholson, Matthew Orlovich, Peter Porter, Eva Sallis, Peter Sculthorpe, Rachel Siewert, Sam Watson Snr, Robert Gerald Wheeler, Ouyang Yu. Visit Fremantle Press




Crazy Logic

NEW CD:
Crazy Logic: Australian, American and New Zealand music for saxophone and piano.






NEW DVD:
Hymns of Glory from Adelaide, Australia.





The Listening Land

THE LISTENING LAND:
"This superb work could easily become an Australian classic". [Herald-Sun, VIC.]





NEW CD FROM AWARD-WINNING CONCORDIS CHAMBER CHOIR: featuring "Araluen" and "Tides of Ocean"






Matthew is associated with the following Australian music organisations:

















AMC

Represented Composer,
Australian Music Centre;

















FAC

Committee Member, Website & Newsletter Editor,
Fellowship of Australian Composers;













APRA

Full Writer Member,
Australasian Performing Right Association;


















OZCO

Matthew gratefully
acknowledges the support of the
Australia Council for the Arts.

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