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12 Composers you should know about! – 2. Evan J Lawson

In our occasional interview series for 2021, classikON Ambassador Alan Holley discusses the aftermath of 2020 and the future with composer Evan J Lawson Alan Holley: Evan, my understanding is that you are a very active composer on the Melbourne scene and my question is: did 2020 put a dampener on your career and will the effect impact this 2021

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CD Review: Eve Duncan | Elephanstasy

The majority of the tracks in this recently released CD by Melbourne composer Eve Duncan are the result of an ABC concert recording at the Salon of the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2016 completely dedicated to the music of Duncan and gives a wonderful and broad insight into the creative thinking of a major musical voice from our southern capital.

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12 Composers you should know about! – 1. Cathy Likhuta

In our occasional interview series for 2021, classikON Ambassador Alan Holley discusses the year that wasn’t with Cathy Likhuta Alan Holley: Cathy, I have only come across your music on YouTube so far and it is my understanding that you are a very active composer in Brisbane. However, so many of your performances seem to come from the USA. Did

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CD Review: Christopher Pidcock | Immersed in Bach

One of Australia’s most versatile and thoroughly musical cellists Christopher Pidcock has recently released a wonderfully inventive CD of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat BWV1010 and has interspersed with each of the 6 movements a solo cello work by Australian, USA, German and Italian composers that have all been written since the middle of the 20th century.

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Reflection of Podium Festival, Croatia, July 2016

Alan Holley composer in residence at Podium Festival, Croatia In the utterly picturesque coastal town of Fazana and the island of Brijuni in the northern part of Croatia the 2016 Podium Festival presented world class chamber musicians from six countries. This is a reasonably new festival on the European circuit and is characterised by its dynamic performers, directors and choice

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Alan Holley 60th birthday concert

On a gorgeous afternoon, 50 music lovers settled into an art gallery on leafy Riley Street to celebrate the 60th birthday of composer Alan Holley, one of Sydney’s best-loved music figures.

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Velika Gorica Brass Festival in Croatia

The Brass Festival Just south of the Croatian capital Zagreb is the city of Velika Gorica and for the last eight years Tom Spoljar has been the tireless and visionary music director of the VG Brass Festival. Spread over just five days. The opening with Tempera displaying their virtuosity and musicianship The Israeli ensemble Tempera opened the festival with a

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The Watters Gallery Recitals Series: Variety and virtuosity

This was the third and final of the series for 2013. The first had the theme of modernism. Alan Holley, the curator and one of the featured composers said there no theme in the third recital but I detected both modernism sitting alongside programmatic music with a modernist edge. Like the first concert (I didn’t make the second) it featured

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Solos series launched at Watters Gallery with virtuosity

Contemporary music can be challenge for many, for others it a declaration that music is for now and not just to be preserved an aural museum. Sometimes presenters of contemporary recitals make it more difficult by being entirely uncompromising in matters of presentation. Alan Holley, who doubled as composer of three of the pieces as well as compare, avoided this

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