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CD Launch 12th August - Sydney Opera House 9.30 PM
CD Launch September - aboard Rainbow WArrior II
Performances:
Red Earth - The Australia Ensemble at the Clancy Auditorium, 9th of October 1999.
The outback - the red centre (center) - vastness - space...
Red Earth II - The Seymour Group at the Broadwalk
Studio, Sydney Opera House, Thursday the 11th of March 1999.
A 'psyche of place' piece featuring guitar with flute,clarinet(+bass),violin,cello,piano,prcussion.
Red Earth page for info on related piece.
The Rainbow Warrior - Prelude for Orchestra - 6'30" - an orchestral suite from the opera
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - The New Monash Orchestra
- June 23 at Robert Blackwood Hall (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia).
- June 29 at the Hanoi Opera House
- July 2 at Ho Chi Minh City National Conservatory
The Rainbow Warrior - Prelude for Orchestra - The New Monash Orchestra - May 29, 1999, Melbourne. Also
later throughout Asia.
War and Peace - Fuzzbug
and Happy Birthday Australia - The Song Company
(6 singers) on 29 May 1999 at Casula Powerhouse 2.30pm.
30 May 1999 at Austr Centre of Photography, Paddington 6.30pm.
War and Peace - The Song Company (6 singers) at the
Broadwalk Studio, Sydney Opera House, Saturday the 6th of March 1999, 8.30PM.
A set of songs on poems by Jas Duke - quirky Australian humour, wit and insight.
The Wild Boys page for the
full blurb.
Broadcasts:
Black Years - Red Years - broadcast: ABC-FM The Listening Room, 13th September 1999.
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - broadcast: ABC-FM The Listening Room, 13th December 1999.
Check - 24 hours - ABC (Australia) radio guide or Monday's - Sydney Morning Herald - The Guide
Recordings:
A radiophonic and CD version of - The Sinking
of the Rainbow Warrior - an opera, with
libretto by Amanda Stewart, has been recorded by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) during 1999.
Performers are The Song Company & austraLYSIS.
It was originally performed outdoors on Sydney harbour at the Sydney Festival 1997.
Broadcast & CD release expected late 1999 or early 2000.
Red Earth - release expected 1999 through Tall poppies.
Many Heads - Katatjuta - release expected 1999 through Tall poppies.
Curriculum Vitae
Colin Bright has received a Composers Fellowship and anInternational Fellowship from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council, as well as numerous commissions from Australia's leading ensembles. His music has been performed andbroadcast in 27 countries throughout the world. Australian Aboriginal music has had an important influence on Bright's music. He writes:-
‘For some years I have been interested in AustralianAboriginal music. The origins of this were a social awareness that Australian Aboriginals had little say in controlling their own destinies (too many decisions being made by whites) and that black culture and attitudes had not impinged greatly on white thinking even after 200 years. The ignominy of this being that such a two-way flow between cultures could only have enriched both cultures and created a closer understanding of each other.’
‘As a musician it seemed to me that there were aspects of Australian Aboriginal music that intrinsically reflected something of the larger environment. In the same way that Classical music reflected aspects of the elegant or refined culture of the courts of Europe, could not the flatness of the didjeridoo, the nasal vocal styles, the repetitive phrases and general stasis of Australian Aboriginal music similarly reflect aspects of culture and landscape in Australia? Whether such a subliminal relationship exists or whether it is merely coincidence, it was enough to inspire a personal enquiry and, for me, a point of departure for musical exploration.’
Also see: The Ideas behind the music
Chronology:-
Awarded Composer's Special Purpose Grant by the Music Board (Performing Arts Board) of the Australia Council, 1976.
Research trip to the Aboriginal Studies Institute, Canberra, 1977.
Attended UNESCO International Music Congress, (which was generally concerned with cross-cultural music), 1979.
Composer's Fellowship (12mths) awarded by the Music Board of the Australia Council, 1980.
Organiser for two chamber music recitals at Paddington Town Hall, on behalf of the APMIRA Festival Committee. The concerts were to publicise and raise money for aboriginal land rights, 1981. Performers gave their services free and composers wrote new pieces for the occasion. There were 12 world premiers.
International Fellowship (Europe - 9 mths), awarded by the Music Board of the AustraliaCouncil, 1982. Studies with Ton de Leeuw.
Innovative Project Grant, 1986, from the Music Board of the Australia Council, for production of Places Alien, a collaborative music-theatre piece combining live electronics and live art.
Guest composer at the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo, U.S.A., April 1986. The Festival presented three first overseas performances of the composer's work, including Red Earth, and invited him to join a panel and a public discussion on aspects of contemporary music.
Composer-in-Residence for Warringah Shire,1988.A project involving community members in composition workshops, resulting in three and a half hours of cassettes which were broadcast on public radio. The culmination was a free public performance at NarrabeenLakes: Echoes Now and Then... involving over 100 musicians, writers, actors and broadcastors, lasting 4 hours, and incorporating tapes of the composition workshops in a Music Walk through a bush track.
Words & Music Seminar - 1996 Adelaide Festival.Presented a paper with Amanda Stewart on The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a one-act opera presented at the Sydney Festival 1997.
Project Grant from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for a computer-based audio-visual project, 1996.
The Wild Boys - selected by the ABC as Australia's
entry for the Paris Rostrum 1997, and chosen in the Recommended-for-Broadcast List of 10 pieces (from
75 pieces from 38 countries), subsequently receiving the highest number of broadcasts.
- awarded Best Composition of the Year at the national Sounds Australian Awards 1997.
Composer-In Residence forCentral Coast Conservatorium, 2000.
Music Specialist - for disadvantaged Primary Schools.
Redfern, 1980,1981,1983,1984,1985.
Atholstane, 1984.
Darlington, 1985.
Canley Heights, 1986,1987.
Lecturer - for High School Music Teachers/Students on the Australian component of the music syllabus.
Sydney, Metropolitan East,1987.
North Coast, 1987.
Oak Hill College,1987.
M.L.C School, 1996.
Riverview College, 1997.
St.Francis Xavier College, 1998
Publications
An Australian Sound? - in Sounds Australian, the journal of the AustralianMusic Centre, no. 23, Spring 1989.
Defining the Culture - in Sounds Australian, no. 26, Winter 1990.
Credo - in Sounds Australian, no. 34, Winter 1992.
Recorded Works on CD
Kakadu - Jade JAD CD 1050 Arc of Light
Night - Tall Poppies TP 039 Windows in Time
Earth-Flowering Time - Tall Poppies TP 080 Mere Bagatelles
Tango Dreaming - New Albion Records NAD 073CD incitation to desire
Many Heads - Katatjuta - Tall Poppies TP
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