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The innovative multimedia experience ZOFOMOMA
featuring Carl's "Arrival of Implacable Gifts"
is receiving more performances from the ZOFO Piano Duet in the USA.
They will appear in Jacksonville Florida at Friday Musicale on
March 6,
and in Torrance California at the El Camino College Center for the Arts
on July 16. |
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Lindsay Garritson
continues her worldwide premiere of Carl's
Fourth Piano Sonata in 2020 with performances
at the Melbourne
Recital Centre on 16 April,
and at the Esplanade Recital Studio in Singapore
on 2 May. She has the exclusive right to perform the work until mid-2020. |
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On 18 and
19 March 2020,
the Canberra Symphony Orchestra
will play Carl's Percussion Symphony conducted by
Nicholas Milton AM. The program includes
Saint-Saën's famous Organ Symphony and 'XPT' by Australian composer
Natalie Williams. |
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On 26 June 2020 the
Piano Duo Hayashizaki-Hagemann
performs Carl's Sonata for Piano Four Hands
at the
Art Museum Spendhaus in
Reutlingen, Germany.
This "Memories" program for piano four hands celebrates 50 years of the musica nova
concert series in Reutlingen. |
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| Recent Highlights |
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Carl's Piano Sonata No 4 was
commissioned by Lindsay Garritson
who gave the first performance at Carnegie Hall (New York) on
November 11
2019. Ms Garritson gave further performances in Barcelona at the
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Jan 26),
and in London at the
Royal College of Music (Jan 28)
and at the
University of West London (Jan 29). |
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CDBaby Music has released a new album of
Carl's piano music performed by American pianist
Lindsay Garritson.
It features the premiere recording of Carl's Fourth Piano Sonata alongside his First Piano Sonata,
the Anne Landa Preludes, Five Bagatelles and
Toccatissimo. |
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Carl's Sixth String Quartet, Child's Play,
was played by the Goldner String Quartet
on 9 November at the Ukaria Cultural Centre
in Mount Barker (South Australia).
They performed it again in late November at the
2019 Huntington Estate Music Festival
in Mudgee, New South Wales. |
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Carl composed a new work to be the last music ever heard at the 30th and final
Huntington
Estate Music Festival in November 2019.
"A Farewell to Music" featured every musician appearing at the festival. It is a solo cantata
setting of Shelley's evocative poem, Music, When Soft Voices Die. |
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Accomplished Thai pianist
Poom Prommachart played Carl's Piano Sonata No 1 at the
Steinway Piano Gallery Ottawa on
27 October. Poom is co-founder and Artistic Director of the
VP Agency in Singapore managing an exclusive roster
of exceptional international pianists. |
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"Then and Now" is Carl's new song for
Katie Noonan and the
Australian String Quartet using the poetry of remarkable
activist and artist Oodgeroo Noonuccal. It was premiered in an
extensive concert tour of Australia starting at the
Sydney Opera House on 28 October. The complete project is available on Katie's CD
The Glad Tomorrow. |
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The Jupiter String Quartet performs Carl's piano quintet,
"Fantasia", with pianist
Bernadette Harvey on a new CD on the
Marquis Classics label.
The album features the world premiere recordings of four works commissioned by the
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. Available at the
Marquis Website and on
Amazon. |
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Carl's Choral Symphony (Symphony No 6) was performed at the
Grant Park Music Festival
in Chicago in June 2019.
Carlos Kalmar conducted the
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus at Millennium Park. |
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The ZOFO Piano Duet presented its
ZOFOMOMA multimedia experience throughout Australia
in May 2019.
The performance included Carl's
"Arrival of Implacable Gifts" for piano four hands,
commissioned especially for the production. |
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Conductor Arvo Volmer directed the
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in the Estonian premiere of Carl's Symphony No 7 in
February 2019
at the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn. |
