Meet the Music: Composing Australia Night Two
Years 9-12
Dates & Key Information
Thursday 17 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
Liza Lim Sappho/Bioluminescence
Peggy Polias Arachne
William Barton & Matthew Hindson Kalkadungu
Squids, spiders and an orchestra in full flight
Liza Lim’s Sappho/bioluminescence makes expressive bedfellows of a squid that camouflages itself by glowing like the night sky, Sappho’s poetry and luminous instruments.
Peggy Polias’ Arachne references the Greek myth of a weaver woman turned into a spider and there are pages of her score where the music is literally represented by knotted strings.
William Barton and Matthew Hindson’s Kalkadunga has become a modern classic melding the propulsive energies of Barton’s yidaki (didgeridoo) with an orchestra in full flight.
Duration: approx. 70 minutes, no interval
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor / curator
Liza Lim* curator
William Barton yidaki (didgeridoo)
*2025 Composer in Residence