I have been notably absent from the blog over the last three or so weeks. This is a consequence of my being nosedown in a pair of pieces, both now provisionally finished. The first is luminous for solo vibraphone, written…
Well, who would have guessed it? After years of being a finalist here and there, a work of mine has finally won an Art Music Award outright: passing bells: day, performed and nominated by the outstanding Brisbane pianist Alex Raineri,…
Those of you with long memories might remember Peter de Jager winning the APRA AMCOS 2017 Performance of the Year Award for his 2016 rendition of my Piano Sonata at ANAM. That was for the performance though, not the music,…
A change in my notation occurred in about 1995. Previously I had adopted a semiotically information-rich notation that I thought conveyed a considerable amount of useful information to the perceiver. However, a couple of decades of explanations and performances seemed…
Someone recently described Carl Rosman, precisely, as ‘the Compleat Musician’. Clarinetist extraordinaire, conductor, educator, I’ve known Carl for 25 years now, and not only is he is one of my favourite people, but also at the top of the list…