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On 20
October the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Concertmaster
Dale Barltrop
will play Carl's Smith's Alchemy at
Carnegie Hall, (Zankel Hall)
New York. The program includes Schubert's third symphony and All the World's A Stage
composed by fellow Australian Iain Grandage.
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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 will be performed in an
extensive concert tour of Australia
starting at the Sydney Opera House on 30 October.
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Carl recently completed his Fourth Piano Sonata,
commissioned by American pianist
Lindsay Garritson.
Ms Garritson will give the first performance at
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall (New York), on
November 11
2019, and has the exclusive right to perform the work until mid-2020.
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Carl's Sixth String Quartet, Child's Play,
will be played by the Goldner String Quartet
on 9 November at the
Ukaria Cultural Centre in Mount Barker (South Australia).
They perform it again on 17 and 21 November at the
2019 Huntington Estate Music Festival
in Mudgee, New South Wales.
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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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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.
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 for the production.
The duo also presented ZOFOMOMA in Tucson Arizona on April 18, 2019 for the
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music.
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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.
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At the Huntington
Estate Music Festival in November 2018
Carl's piano trio, "The Village", was played by pianist
Jayson Gillham with Dimity Hall (violin) and Julian Smiles (cello).
The festival also included his solo cantata "Our Sons", in memory of the Anzacs, sung by renowned soprano Taryn Fiebig accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of the Australian National Academy of Music.
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In Switzerland last November, the
Sinfonieorchester TriRhenum Basel
performed Carl's fifth symphony, "Percussion Symphony".
The orchestra was joined by the
Black Forest Percussion Group
and conducted by Julian Gibbons.
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As the culmination of his time as 2018 Composer in Residence for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,
Carl's eighth symphony, The Enchanted Loom, was premiered by Chief Conductor
Sir Andrew Davis
in Melbourne in August and September.
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Other performances by the Melbourne Symphony through 2018 conducted by Sir Andrew Davis included Carl's
MicroSymphony (Season Gala Concert in March),
Concerto for Orchestra (May),
the orchestral fanfare "V" (BBC Proms concert in July),
"Smith's Alchemy" (August) and
"The Tree of Man" (September).
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Carl's new concerto for two pianos, Implacable Gifts,
was commissioned by the West Australian and
Tasmanian symphony orchestras with support from philanthropist Geoff Stearn.
It was premiered by outstanding international pianists Piers Lane and Kathryn Stott conducted by
Rory Macdonald in Perth and Hobart in May 2018.
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In early 2018, the Australian Ballet's
tribute to iconic Australian choreographer Graeme Murphy included
Carl's orchestral music for the ballet "The Silver Rose".
The production had extended seasons at the Victorian Art Centre in March,
and at the Sydney Opera House in April.
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Carl's 2nd Piano Concerto
received its Russian premiere on
30 December 2017
at the Mariinsky (3) Concert Hall in St Petersburg as part of the
XIIth Mariinsky International Piano Festival.
Pianist Mira Yevtich and the
Mariinsky Orchestra
were conducted by Valery Gergiev.
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Carl's new work for cello and piano, the Strutt Sonata,
was premiered by
Julian Smiles and
Ian Munro at the
Huntington Estate Music Festival
in November 2017.
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Carl's Sixth String Quartet, Child's Play, was premiered by the
Takács Quartet in August 2017 on its Australian
national concert tour for
Musica Viva Australia.
The group gave further performances of the work in October at
Carnegie Hall (New York) and Colorado University (Boulder),
and at Wigmore Hall (London) in November.
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In September 2017, flautist Jiro Yoshioka
gave the first Japanese performance of Carl's flute concerto
Pipe Dreams at the
Yomiuri Otemachi Hall in Tokyo.
The Otemachi Million Concert Orchestra was conducted by
Takeshi Ooi.
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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gave the
Australian premiere of Carl's trombone concerto,
"Five Hallucinations" at the Sydney Opera House
in April 2017.
Chicago Symphony trombonist
Michael Mulcahy,
to whom the work is dedicated, was conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
The world premiere was given in October 2016 by Michael with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Professor
Rhod McNeill, Head of Arts and Communication at the
University of Southern Queensland, has written
an encyclopaedic reference and analysis of Carl's concert music.
It is available at
Wildbird Music,
which has produced an accompanying
Spotify playlist.
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