AUSTA News 2024

Deborah Cheetham

March 28th, 2022 by AUSTA Conference

Prof. Deborah Cheetham AO DUniv, BMus Ed, AmusA Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and Artistic Director, has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). Deborah Cheetham’s list of commissions for major Australian ensembles including works for the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and West Australian Symphony orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, Rubiks Collective, The Sydney Philharmonia, Plexus Collective, the Flinders Quartet and the Goldner Quartet. Awards and acknowledgements include; Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial…


Barbara Hornung

March 28th, 2022 by AUSTA Conference

Barbara Hornung New Music from the Pandemic Session: A performance of captivating music composed in 2021. Featured are three excellent Australian composers, Dr Roger Alsop, Melvyn Cann and Dr Johanna Selleck. Performers: Barbara Hornung – Viola, Dr Johanna Selleck- Flute, Dr Roger Alsop – Electronic Spatialisation Program: EPISODIC REVERIE, MELANCHOLIC for Flute and Viola – Dr Johanna Selleck (Commissioned by Barbara Hornung) Johanna explains, ‘This piece may be thought of as a conversation between flute and viola. At times, it follows a ‘question and answer’ line of conversation; at other times, the voices come together in agreement of surprise and…