Meet the Music: Composing Australia Night One
Years 9-12
Dates & Key Information
Wednesday 16 April 2025
7.30pm at Melbourne Recital Centre
Ticket price: $9
Our low ticket price is thanks to the support of an anonymous donor.
Duration: approx. 70 minutes, no interval
Meet the Music Bonus Holiday Event
Limited tickets available!
Tell your students not to miss an exclusive opportunity in the April school holidays to hear works by some of Australia’s best living composers in our Composing Australia events curated by the MSO Composer in Residence Liza Lim and Benjamin Northey, MSO’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor – Learning and Engagement.
Register your interest for this event on our booking form and we’ll send you a separate booking link to share with your students so they can access the $9 tickets.
Program
Holly Harrison Hi-Viz
Ella Macens The Space Between Stars
Fiona Hill Śūnyatā
Jessica Wells Concerto for Guzheng and orchestra (2024-25)*
*World premiere of an MSO Commission
From the urban to the natural world
Metropolis kicks off with Holly Harrison’s urban fanfare Hi-Viz in which the neon machine activity of roadworks is re-imagined through electronic dance music, bootscooting and disco!
Look up from the city lights and both Ella Macen’s lyrical The Space Between Stars and Fiona Hill’s yogic breath of a piece Śūnyatā take our attention to the vast expanses of time and space of the natural world.
MSO are proud to commission Jessica Wells to compose a Guzheng concerto for Mindy Meng Wang, one of the world’s finest players of this Chinese zither.
Duration: approx. 70 minutes, no interval
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor / curator
Liza Lim* curator
Mindy Meng Wang guzheng
*2025 Composer in Residence