Iain grandage biography sample

  • Iain Grandage is a music director, cellist and composer of scores for theatre, dance and the concert hall.
  • Ian Lilburne was the founding director of the Perth Artrage Festival, a former manifestation of the Perth Fringe, now Fringe World.
  • Born in 1962, Alison Croggon is one of a generation of Australian poets which emerged in the 1990s.

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    Wheatbelt

    Program note:
    wheatbelt is an a cappella vocal setting of WA poet Kevin Gillam’s poem of the same title. In it, I have attempted to stay true to his wonderful evocation of the West Australian wheatbelt and my own experiences of that strange semi-wild environment.
    In addition to emulating native Australian bird calls and wind noises, the choir are required to play harmonic whirlies, wind chimes and small hand percussion instruments. These are utilized in an attempt to highlight the stillness and vastness of a countryside that dwarfs its human inhabitants while, paradoxically being utterly changed by them. Harmonically, I have emphasised modes utilising the flattened 2nd – an interval which Henry Tate in Australian Musical Possibilities (1926) suggested he heard in the call of the butcher bird and could be the basis for a characteristic “Australian scale”(Skinner, 2006).
    This work was composed for the wonderful WAYM Chorale and their conductor Dr. Robert Braham, having

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    Perth Festival 2024: A bonus for, and from, Artistic Director Iain Grandage

    Arts festivals are one of the few things that can generate culture. Perth now has many festivals, all of which, to varying degrees, have helped shape this city’s cultural life, but none more so than Perth Festival—it is woven into the fabric of this town.

    Into its eighth decade, Perth Festival has brought many of the world’s most important artists to this most isolated of cities. Over the past seventy years, the world’s great orchestras, theatre, dance, and street performance companies have appeared in festival programs allowing the audience here to gain a rich cultural education.

    On the flip side, key WA-based artists and companies have been provided with a high-profile showcase through which they can pit their work against their international counterparts. Robert Juniper, Chrissie Parrott, Miriam Stannage, Cathie Travers, katt Hope, and Richard Walley, as well as Black Swan State Theatre Company, the Nov

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    MEOW MEOW

    Meow Meow’s original works include Vamp, Beyond Glamour, Feline Intimate,Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid, His Master’s Choice, Apocalypse Meow, and An Audience with Meow Meow. These shows have played from Edinburgh International Festival to Berkeley Rep, from the Southbank Centre to the Sydney Festival and Shakespeare’s Globe, and from Shanghai to Slovenia and most recently the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). They have garnered numerous awards including the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award, Green Room, and Australian Helpmann Awards. Meow’s Pandemonium and More Pandemonium “orchestrated chaos” concerts have played Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Festival with the Bergen Philharmonic, Norway and most recently New Year’s Eve at Seattle Symphony and with the Western Australian Symphony for Perth International Arts Festival 2020

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