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January 2010

February 2010

March 2010

Kakadu
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School [ UK]

April 2010

May 2010

Earth Cry
Brighton Youth Orchestra, Steve Heath/Andy Sherwood; Brighton Festival, St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton [UK]

June 2010

Kakadu
Settlebeck High School, Sedburgh Festival [UK]

July 2010

August 2010

September 2010

October 2010

November 2010

New Norcia (for brass and percussion)
Sydney Symphony Discovery Series, Richard Gill (conductor)
City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney NSW

String Quartet No 6 (1965)

December 2010

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January 2009

21 Wed

Performance [UK]

The Fifth Continent
Your Requests with Marian Arnold, 92.9 ABC Classic FM; 10:05h; Peter Sculthorpe (speaker); Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor); ABC CLASSIC CD 456 363-2 [30:20]

February 2009

4 Wed

Performance [DE]

Sun Music II
Staatstheater Wiesbaden Orch.; Nicholas Milton (conductor); Wiesbaden [DE]

6 Fri

Performance [US]

String Quartet No 16
Stephen Kent (didjeridu); Del Sol String Quartet; URI Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI [US]; 20:00h

8 Sun

World Premiere [AU]
(in the presence of the composer)

Song of the Yarra (2008)
GRAND OPENING CONCERT OF THE ELIZABETH MURDOCH HALL
Gidon Kremer (violin), Guy du Blêt (percussion), Victorian Opera Chorus; Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne [AU]

“In celebration of the life of the late Clifford Hocking, generous support from the Harold Mitchell Foundation has made it possible for Melbourne Recital Centre to commission Peter Sculthorpe to create a new work to inaugurate Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Song of the Yarra is Peter’s commemoration of the Indigenous custodians of the river and its surrounds, bridging the ritual smoking ceremony conducted by Elders of the Kulin Nation and the European music that follows.”
 

March 2009

5 Thu

Performance [ES]

Sun Music III
Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA); Kynan Johns (conductor); Casa de la Cultura de Avilés, 20:15h http://www.ospa.es/

6 Fri

Performance [ES]

Sun Music III
Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA); Kynan Johns (conductor); Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, Oviedo, 20:00h http://www.ospa.es/

22 Sun

Performance [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

“A celebration with Australia’s most eminent composer, Peter Sculthorpe, in his 80th birthday year. Peter is known the world over for his extraordinary music, often evoking the beauty and majesty of the Australian landscape. In this concert the renowned Australia Ensemble will play a program of his works including the String Quartet No 17 and Dreamtracks, along with Small Town – a tribute to the town of Thirroul and its counterparts around the country. As a special treat Peter Sculthorpe himself will read extracts from D.H Lawrence’s novel on Australian life Kangaroo, written while Lawrence and his wife Frieda lived in Thirroul. The concert will be preceded by a champagne reception and private viewing of the Archibald Prize. Doors open at 7pm. Seating commences at 7.45pm”
 
- Resonate Magazine (Australian Music Centre)

28 Sat

Performance [AU]

My Country Childhood
TASMANIAN SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor); Burnie Town Hall, Burnie TAS [AU], 19:00h

29 Sun

Performance [UK]

Memento Mori
Uttlesford Orchestra; Richard Hull (conductor); Saffron Waldon Town Hall [UK]

30 Mon

Performance [AU]

My Country Childhood
TASMANIAN SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor); Federation Concert Hall, Hobart TAS [AU], 20:00h

April 2009

29 Wed

PETER SCULTHORPE’S 80TH BIRTHDAY

30 Thu

Performance [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

Small Town (for string quartet)
& other works for string quartet TBA
A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Goldner String Quartet; Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul NSW [AU]

Sculthorpe will talk about D. H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo and his own 1963 composition The Fifth Continent, illustrated with images of Garry Shead’s D. H. Lawrence paintings

May 2009

Various dates (TBC)

Performances [CH]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
TOUR OF CHINA
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor)

1-3 May

Festival [AU]

Peter Sculthorpe was guest composer at the
Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, NSW [AU]; further details TBA

1 Fri

Performance [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

String Quartet No 6
String Quartet No 8
String Quartet No 12 (From Ubirr)
String Quartet No 14
PLUS other short works for string quartet TBA
A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Goldner String Quartet; William Barton (didgeridoo)
Official Festival Opening Concert; Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, Marquee, Kangaroo Valley Golf & Country Resort, NSW [AU], 20:00h (Red Carpet Supper after the concert with Sculthorpe and the artists)

The concert marks the CD launch of Volume 3 of the Goldner Quartet’s COMPLETE SCULTHORPE QUARTETS on the Tall Poppies label

3 Sun

Performance [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

Works for solo cello TBA
David Pereira (cello); Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, Barrengarry House, Kangaroo Valley NSW [AU], 11:00h

3 Sun

Performance [AU]

Requiem (for chorus and orchestra)
A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Central Coast Philharmonic, NSW [AU]

3 Sun

Performance [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

String Quartet No 11 (Jabiru Dreaming)
A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Goldner String Quartet; William Barton (didjeridu)
Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, Marquee, Kangaroo Valley Golf & Country Resort, NSW [AU], 14:30h

7-10 May

Event [AU]

Peter Sculthorpe is guest composer at the
Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra [AU]

7 Thu

World Premiere [AU]
(in the presence of the composer)

Island Dreaming for strings (in memory of Richard Hickox)
Governor General’s Gala, details TBA

7 Thu

Performance [AU]AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE(introduced by the composer)

Sun (1960) for voice and piano AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Program TBA
Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra [AU], National Portrait Gallery, Canberra [AU]

The new home of the nation's portrait collection, the National Portrait Gallery building, opened in 2008, is on King Edward Terrace, Parkes, Canberra, bounded by the High Court of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. Among some 400 portraits of people who have shaped Australia and who continue to shape our nation is Eric Smith’s 1982 portrait of Sculthorpe.

8 Fri

Gala Performance
(in the presence of the composer)

Sculthorpe Songbook
– Jazz reworking of Sculthorpe standards by Phil Slater, Matt McMahon, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst, Timothy Constable and others; Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra [AU]
 

9 Sat

Performance [AU]
(in the presence of the composer)

Rites of Passage (1973); new concert version (2009)
Synergy/WOOD/Canberra Festival Choir/Peter Sculthorpe, Roland Peelman; Canberra International Music Festival; Glassworks, Fitters Workshop, Kingston, Canberra ACT [AUS]; 19:00

9 Sat

Film screening [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

Age of Consent
(dir: Michael Powell, Australia/UK, 1968, 105 mins, 35mm)
Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive
at the Canberra International Music Festival, Arc Theatre, NFSA, Canberra ACT [AU], 16:30h

Sculthorpe’s original score has been reinstated, deploying the original quarter-inch-tape recordings preserved in the NFSA’s collections. In celebration of Peter Sculthorpe’s 80^th birthday, the NFSA is honoured to have the composer introduce the film at this screening.

9 Sat

Performance [AU]

Night Song (for piano, violin and cello)
Selby & Friends, TrioZ; Recital Room, Oxley College, Bowral, NSW [AU], 17:30h

10 Sun

Performance [AU]
(introduced by the composer)

The Loneliness of Bunjil (1954) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
String Quartet No 7 (1966)
Irkanda IV (for string quartet)
String Quartet No 10
How the Stars Were Made (premiered at the 1971 Canberra Spring Festival)
Canberra International Music Festival; National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT [AU]

12 Tue

Performance [AU]

Night Song (for piano, violin and cello)
Selby & Friends, TrioZ; City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney; 19:00h

13 Wed

Performance [AU]

Night Song (for piano, violin and cello)
Selby & Friends, TrioZ; Melba Hall, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC [AU]; 19:00h

14 Thu

World Premiere [AU](in the presence of the composer)

Mrs Fraser Songs (2009) on texts by Patrick White from the libretto from the abandoned 19964-65 Sculhtorpe/White opera, A Fringe of Leaves
PATRICK WHITE VOSS CONCERT
A National Film and Sound Archive event, Canberra ACT [AU]

14 Thu

Performance [AU]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Perth Concert Hall, Perth [AU]

15 Fri

Performance [AU]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Perth Concert Hall, Perth [AU]

18 Mon

Performance [JP]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Fukuoka, Japan, 7pm

19 Tue

Performance [JP]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); The Symphony Hall, Osaka, Japan, 7pm

20 Wed

Performance [JP]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Aichi Prefectural Arts Theatre, Nagoya, Japan; 6.45pm

20 Wed

Performance [AU]
(in the presence of the composer)

Kakadu
ASHKENAZY CONDUCTS SCULTHORPE
SYDNEY SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Meet the Music, Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, 18:30h

"Kakadu opened the program in a performance that brought out the heart of the work in a beautifully balanced counterpoint of cor anglais and string melody in the central section." - Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 2009),

21 Thu

Performance [AU]
(in the presence of the composer)

Kakadu
ASHKENAZY CONDUCTS SCULTHORPE
SYDNEY SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Meet the Music, Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, 18:30h

23 Sat

Performance [JP]

Kakadu (with didjeridu)
WASO’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 7pm

June 2009

19 Fri

Performance [DE]

Memento Mori (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zdenek Macal (conductor), Tonhalle Düsseldorf [DE], 20:00h

21 Sun

Performance [DE]

Memento Mori (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zdenek Macal (conductor), Tonhalle Düsseldorf [DE], 11:00h

21 Sun

Performance [AU]

22 Mon

Performance [DE]

Memento Mori (with didjeridu)
William Barton (didjeridu), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zdenek Macal (conductor), Tonhalle Düsseldorf [DE], 20:00h

27 Sat

World Premiere [AU]

Autumn Song (arranged by the composer for choir and guitar)
Slava Grigoryan (guitar); Sydney Chamber Choir; Paul Stanhope (conductor); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 19:30h

July 2009

14 Tue

Performance [UK]

String Quartet No 8
Australian String Quartet
Lichfield Festival, Lichfield Cathedral [UK]

17 Fri

Performance [UK]

String Quartet No 8
Australian String Quartet
Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham [UK]

"The Antipodes was represented by the Australian Quartet who brought a fresh breezy tone of Haydn's Quartet in D minor, Opus 76 and plenty of Aussie exuberance to Mendelssohn's Quartet in D. It was particularly pleasing that they should bring some home-grown music with them in the shape of Peter Sculthorpe's String Quartet No 8. Fascinating sounds permeate this atmospheric work including paddy beating and bird song from the Australian outback." - Roger Jones

August 2009

4 Tue

Performance [AU]

Little Suite for Strings
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor), Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts, Ballarat VIC [AU], 20:00h

5 Wed

Performance [AU]

Little Suite for Strings
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor); The Capital, Bendigo Performing Arts Centre, Bendigo VIC [AU]; further details TBA  

6 Thu

Performance [AU]

Little Suite for Strings
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor); Shepparton VIC [AU]

8 Sat

World Premiere [AU]

 

Chaconne (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin and director)
Llewellyn Hall, Canberra ACT [AU]; 20:00h
ONE OF FIVE AUSTRALIAN WORKS SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED BY THE ACO TO MARK THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF RICHARD TOGNETTI’S LEADERSHIP

"For many years, I have used chaconne-like ground-basses in my music but I have never actually written a chaconne. I use ground basses, and also long-held pedal-notes, to suggest the contours of the outback Australian landscape and its uninterrupted continuity. Because of this, it seemed fitting to write a chaconne to mark Richard Tognetti’s 20th anniversary as Leader and Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The music is influenced by Bach. This, too, is fitting: Bach is a favourite composer of Richard’s and mine." - Sculthorpe's program note for the first performance

“Sculthorpe's Chaconne, commissioned by the ACO to celebrate Richard Tognetti's 20th Anniversary Season, was a fitting opening piece with its lyrical triplet figures and sustained pedal notes preparing the listener for an evening of music calculated to provoke deep thought and stimulate inquiry.” - The Canberra Times (11 August 2009)

"To celebrate Tognetti's 20 years of ACO leadership composer Peter Sculthorpe has written a new work, Chaconne for Solo Violin and Strings. ''In Peter Sculthorpe we have the most reputable, respected and reasonable of all composers,'' Tognetti says. ''It's a blessing to have him. Peter's our first nationalist composer of note.'' Sculthorpe says he would have preferred to write a longer piece. ''The piece is so short. Only three minutes. ''I would have liked to write a longer piece, but that's what I was commissioned to write. I enjoy writing popular music from time to time and I think that almost all the violinists I know would like to be rock stars,'' he laughs. ''Therefore the strings play rather in the style of Bach but the violin solo Richard plays in the style of a rock ballad. But I wrote the accompaniment in the style of Bach because he's one of both my and Richard's favourite composers. Oh, and because Bach's Chaconne is in D minor, mine, too, is in D minor.'' Sculthorpe has observed the convention of using a dotted beat but in an interesting variation has written this on the third rather than the second beat. ''When Richard came back to the ACO in 1989 I'd been commissioned to write a guitar concerto for John Williams so at the very first rehearsal Richard was there with John Williams and Richard Hickox was conducting so there's a lot of sentimental attachment to this group,'' he says." - The Canberra Times (28 July 2009)
 

9 Sun

Performance [AU]
Local Premiere

Chaconne (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin and director); The Arts Centre, Melbourne VIC [AU]; 14:30h

10 Mon

Performance [AU]

 

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); The Arts Centre, Melbourne VIC [AU]; 20:00h

“The concert began with Peter Sculthorpe's desperately beautiful Chaconne, newly commissioned to celebrate Tognetti's 20 years with ACO.” - Anna McAlister, Herald-Sun (12 August 2009)

11 Tue

Performance [AU]
Local Premiere

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA [AU]; 20:00h

15 Sat

Performance [AU]
Local Premiere

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 20:00h

16 Sun

Performance [AU]

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW [AU]; 14:30h

17 Mon

Performance [AU]
Local Premiere

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD [AU]; 20:00h

18 Tue

Performance [AU]

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 20:00h

19 Wed

Performance [AU]

Chaconne  (2009) for solo violin and strings
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU], 19:00h

Small Town
Sydney Sinfonia, Richard Gill (conductor)
Springwood Civic Centre NSW [AU]

25 Tue

Performance [AU]

Small Town
Sydney Sinfonia, Richard Gill (conductor); City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 18:30h http://www.sydneysymphony.com/event_detail.asp?s=792

September 2009

Tailitnama Song (solo cello)
Alone (solo violin)
String Quartet No 11 (Jabiru Dreaming)
Solstice String Quartet, Sunday 6 September, 6.30pm
Fonmon Castle, Fonmon, UK; Vale of Glamorgan Festival [UK]

October 2009

16 Fri

Performance (Australia)

Earth Cry
ADELAIDE SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; James Judd (conductor) www.aso.com.au
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide [AU] 2000h

17 Sat

Performance (Australia)

Earth Cry
ADELAIDE SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; James Judd (conductor) www.aso.com.au
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide [AU] 1830h

21 Wed

World Premiere (Australia)

Port Essington (2009) (new version for full orchestra)
Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor)  www.cso.org.au
Llewellyn Hall, Canberra [AU] 1930h

“The CSO celebrates the 80th birthday of Australia's most influential music voice, Peter Sculthorpe, with a World Premiere performance of one of the most remarkable evocations of the Australian outback you will ever hear.  In a special honour for the CSO, Peter has revisited his 1977 work Port Essington and imbued it with breathtaking new effects.”
 

22 Thu

Performance (Australia)
 

Port Essington (2009) (new version for full orchestra)
Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor)
Llewellyn Hall, Canberra [AU] 1930h

24 Sat

Performance (Mexico)

Sun Music III
Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM (OFUNAM); Alun Francis (conductor)
Ofunam [Mexico]

25 Sun

Performance (Mexico)

Sun Music III
Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM (OFUNAM); Alun Francis (conductor)
Ofunam [Mexico]

29 Thu

Performance (Australia)
(in the presence of the composer)

An Australian Anthem (string quartet and clarinet)
Djilile (for solo piano)
Left Bank Waltz (for solo piano)
Sun in Me (for voice and piano)
Dream Tracks (for clarinet, violin and piano)
Irkanda IV (for string quartet) 
Peter Sculthorpe in Concert, 2009 Composer in Focus
Catherine McCorkill (clarinet), Tamara Anna Cislowska (piano), Nicole Thomson (soprano), Chris Latham (violin), Sculthorpe String Quartet
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW [AU] Secondary Schools’ Performance 11:00h www.jspac.com.au

“We are thrilled to announce that Australia’s most prominent and popular composer, Peter Sculthorpe will be leading our 2009 Composer-in-Focus project. [...] In 1999, Peter Sculthorpe was named as one of Australia’s 45 Icons, described as, ‘a visionary, an opinion maker, one who is making statements about something the nation needs to think about at this time’. [...] Sculthorpe is Australia’s most prolifically published and lauded composer with a catalogue of over 350 works. His works are heavily influenced by the Australian identity, and in particular the Australian landscape.”
 

 31 Sat

Performance (Australia)
(in the presence of the composer)

Eliza Frazer Sings (new version)
An Australian Anthem (string quartet and clarinet)
Djilile (for solo piano)
Left Bank Waltz (for solo piano)
Sun in Me (for voice and piano)
Dream Tracks (for clarinet, violin and piano)
Irkanda IV (for string quartet)
Catherine McCorkill (clarinet), Tamara Anna Cislowska (piano), Nicole Thomson (soprano), Chris Latham (violin), Sculthorpe String Quartet
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW, 19:30h www.jspac.com.au

November 2009

Night Pieces (1971)
Kristian Chong (piano)
Pilgrim Church, Adelaide [AU] 2000h www.firmmusic.com.au

7 Sat

Performance (Australia)

Lament (for solo cello and strings)
Julian Smiles (cello), Penrith Symphony Orchestra, Paul Terracini (conductor)
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW [AU] 2000h www.pso.org.au

19 Thu

Performance (UK)

Port Essington (1977)
Manchester Camerata, Michael Gurevich (conductor)
The Muni, Colne [UK] 1930h www.manchestercamerata.co.uk 

20 Fri

Performance (UK)

Port Essington (1977)
Manchester Camerata, Michael Gurevich (conductor)
Lyceum Theatre, Crewe [UK] 1930h www.manchestercamerata.co.uk 

27 Fri

Performance (Australia)

Earth Cry (with didjeridu)
TQO’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
The Queensland Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
QPAC Concert Hall Brisbane [AU] 2000h www.thequeenslandorchestra.com.au

28 Sat

Performance (Australia)

Earth Cry (with didjeridu)
TQO’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
The Queensland Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane [AU] 2000h www.thequeenslandorchestra.com.au

December 2009

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