Composer, Writer & Broadcaster
These pieces include solo vehicles for singers/actors, with and without instruments.
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Text: Cathryn Strickland (libretto)
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music
First performance by Andrew Ford (speaker), Orchestra of Australian National Academy of Music conducted by Brett Dean, ANAM, South Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, 20 May 2010
Text: Margaret Morgan (libretto)
Commissioned with funds from the Major Festivals Funding Initiative. Composed during the composer's time at Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, Paddington, Sydney.
First performance by Music Theatre Sydney, Gerald English (tenor), George Whaley (director), Eamon D'Arcy (designer), Adelaide Festival, The Opera Studio, Adelaide, 8 March 2000
Text: Margaret Morgan (libretto)
Commissioned by Sydney Metropolitan Opera with funds from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council
First performance by the Sydney Metropolitan Opera: Lyndon Terracini (Casanova), John Wregg (producer), Dan Potra (designer), Barossa International Festival, Red Floor Theatre, Angaston, South Australia, 6 October 1995
Text: Rodney Hall (libretto)
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First performance by Gerald English (tenor & conductor) and the Seymour Group, Barrie Kosky (producer), Michael A R Anderson (designer), Seymour Centre, Sydney, 30 August 1990
Text: Barbara Blackman (poems)
First performance by Richard Moore and Annette Tesoriero, Bronwen Jones, Daryl Pratt and Lisa Moore, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 7 September 1990
Commissioned by the Yorkshire Arts Association
First performance by Joan Dixon and Peter Seymour, Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford, 28 January 1982