GORDON KERRY

COMPOSER

 Click here for short biography suitable for printed programs

Click here for more extensive biographical material.

For information on purchase and hire of scores visit the Australian Music Centre;

to purchase recordings visit www.buywell.com

To purchase New Classical Music: Composing Australia visit UNSW Press

ABC Classic FM has uploaded two pieces.

Click to listen to the Sinfonietta: like meteors from elysium

played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Roger Smalley

or the Clarinet Concerto

played by Francesco Celata and the Sydney Symphony under

Sir Mark Elder

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Comprehensive listing:

• music catalogue

Gordon has recently been awarded the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Music Fellowship for 2009.

This will support the creation of new works for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra,
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Bendigo Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Chamber Choir.
He will also complete the opera on which he is currently working with Louis Nowra.

articles by Gordon Kerry:

• Patronising bastards and other angels
• Composing myself
• The composer as critic
• Nigel Butterley at sixty
• Barry Conyngham
• Shakespeare and music
• Bruckner and the vision splendid
• Feux d’artifice
• Community
• Taste
• Completing Mozart’s Requiem
• Classical music bites back
• Death and poetry

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