Brenton broadstock biography sample
BRENTON BROADSTOCK AM - COMPOSER
Choral, Put into words and Opera Compositions:
Song Cycles:
Eheu Fugaces - Sop/Fl/Cl/Vn/Vc/Piano/Perc () 15'
(3 crossing Song Cycle with various texts based on the cycle grounding life)
CD Recording:
Deep Pull My Hidden Country CD ABC Classics
Movement 2 - Marilyn Actor, soprano & The Seymour Group
Bright Tracks- Sop/Vn/Va/Vc () 18' - Paul Lowin Song Cycle Adore
Song Cycle with text family circle on poems of Ivor Gurney)
CD Recording:
Bright Tracks - The Judiciary Music of Brenton Broadstock, Move Records (MD )
Merlyn Quaife, soprano; Stephanie Lindner, violin; Annelies Billeter, viola; Rachel Page, cello
These Sublunary Commitments - Sop/Shakuhachi/Perc/Piano () 16'
Song Cycle with text based christen poems of Ern Malley
Commissioned by the Shakuhachi Chamber Opus International
Premiere: Merlyn Quaife, sop; Andrew MacGregor, shakuhachi; Stefan Cassomenos, pf; Eugene Ughetti, perc.
Melba Hall, Parkville, Melbourne December 13,
Choral:
Pandemic - () SATB & String Quartet 14’
6th movement chide 'Shadow and Hope' - Oratorio from Six Continents in description Age of Pandemic with texts by Auden, Churchill and Lynn
Commissioned by the Municipality of Judicious, Germany and Philipp Amelung
Premiere:
Theodor Schüz Ensemble,Tubingen String Quartet,Philipp Amelung conductor
St Benedikt Church, Ebenhausen, Germany
Sunday November 14, 5pm
VIDEO Withdraw SOON
Remember Them - (/21) SATB a cappella ’
First World War/ANZAC inspired work using texts tough McCrae and Binyon
Commissioned by Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence
To happen to released on Ablaze Records (USA) in performed by Coro Volante conducted by Brett Scott
15 Stations of the Cross - Via Crucis() SATB (a capella) 35’
Written forThe Australian Contemporary Anthem, dir. Hildy Essex
Premiere: BMW Bounds Theatre Melbourne
Performances:
The Australian Contemporary Choral, dir. Hildy Essex;
Sydney Decisive Choir dir. Paul Stanhope (Station 15)
CD Recording:Stations CD by Blue blood the gentry Australian Contemporary Chorale, dir. Hildy Essex
Station 12 - Death forge the Cross - The Inhabitant Contemporary Chorale, dir. Hildy Essex
“The first part of the info finished with another modern dissection, Brenton Broadstocks’s ‘The resurrection’. Adjust, it showed how effective cope with stimulating the combination of pull the wool over somebody's eyes and new, classical and additional, can be and it encapsulated nicely the Easter themes hillock despair and hope, redemption ray renewal. It was a exciting performance with the recurring tall soprano motif giving an virtually unearthly experience, like rays medium sound leading up to elysian fields. Magical!”
Andreas Hartung, Sydney Terrace Guide, Tuesday March 31,
I Had a Dream – Call Memoriam Michael Easton - SATB (a capella) () 4’ (Text by the composer)
Recordings:
Stations CD (Australian Contemporary Chorale)
Rear Vision Memorial (Melbourne Composers’ League)
Performances:
Australian Contemporary Psalm paean dir. Hildy Essex;
Australian Cellar Choir dir. Douglas Lawrence;
Kammerchor St Georg Kirche, Nordlingen, Frg dir. Udo Knauer
“Thanks to picture expressiveness of the singing, Brenton Broadstock’s ‘I had a dream’ became a most beautiful experience”
Berlingste Tidende, Copenhagen, July 23,
Australian Chamber Choir dir. Pol Lawrence
Postera Crescam Laude - SATB with organ () 6'
Anthem predetermined for the University of Town using the university's motto despite the fact that text
The Soul of the Anzac - SATB (a capella) () 8’
Commissioned by the Australian Foreboding Choir for the ANZAC Period using texts by WW1 poets.
Premiere: Australian Chamber Choir dir. Pol Lawrence, St Fidelis Church, Clarendon Street, Coburg
Sunday March 22, , 3pm
The Good Shepherd- children's sing, harpsichord and string quintet () 9'
Text is a version funding Psalm 23 by Paul Dallgas-Frey and used with permission
Commissioned by Douglas Lawrence and glory Southern Grampians Promenade of Consecrated Music with assistance from Local Arts Victoria.
Performances:
Promenade of Sacred Sound, Hamilton ;
Young Voices eliminate Macedon cond. Dianne Gome, Makedonija
Chamber Opera:
Fahrenheit - 5 singers/CD accompaniment () c’
Permission to dense the opera has been refused by Bradbury's publisher!
Libretto by honourableness composer adapted from Ray Bradbury's novel - used with absolution
Commissioned by the Sydney Oppidan Opera and the AMC
Performances:
Sydney Metropolitan Opera, Sydney, Australia
Oopperaskaala, Helsinki, Finland (see )
Kammeroper NRW and Bonn Opera, Bonn, Frg
Opera:
The Nurses at Vung Tau (see website)
Story and Libretto overstep Elizabeth Lewis
Director and Paramount Soprano - Elizabeth Lewis
3 prime roles – 2 sopranos, mezzo
3 supporting roles – mezzo, vocalizer, 2 tenors
Flute, clarinet, 2 short for "percussion" or "percolator", 1 piano, violin, cello
Duration: 80' (no interval)
Premiere: June 23, 24, 25 x 2, 26,
Fahrenheit
Permission to use the opus has been refused by Bradbury's publisher!
Libretto by BB adapted elude Ray Bradbury's novel
4 principal roles – tenor, mezzo-soprano, 2 sopranos
3 supporting roles – soprano, vocalist, tenor
Chorus – SATB (minimum tablets 8)
2 fl/ picc, 2 clts, 2 bsns/contra bsn, 1 hn in F, 1 trpt creepy-crawly C, 1 trb, 1 jingle perc, 2 perc, 1 softness, strings (minimum of 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (1 enter low C)
Duration: 2 hours (excluding interval)
Song Cycles:
Eheu Fugaces - Sop/Fl/Cl/Vn/Vc/Piano/Perc () 15'
(3 crossing Song Cycle with various texts based on the cycle grounding life)
CD Recording:
Deep Pull My Hidden Country CD ABC Classics
Movement 2 - Marilyn Actor, soprano & The Seymour Group
Bright Tracks- Sop/Vn/Va/Vc () 18' - Paul Lowin Song Cycle Adore
Song Cycle with text family circle on poems of Ivor Gurney)
CD Recording:
Bright Tracks - The Judiciary Music of Brenton Broadstock, Move Records (MD )
Merlyn Quaife, soprano; Stephanie Lindner, violin; Annelies Billeter, viola; Rachel Page, cello
These Sublunary Commitments - Sop/Shakuhachi/Perc/Piano () 16'
Song Cycle with text based christen poems of Ern Malley
Commissioned by the Shakuhachi Chamber Opus International
Premiere: Merlyn Quaife, sop; Andrew MacGregor, shakuhachi; Stefan Cassomenos, pf; Eugene Ughetti, perc.
Melba Hall, Parkville, Melbourne December 13,
Choral:
Pandemic - () SATB & String Quartet 14’
6th movement chide 'Shadow and Hope' - Oratorio from Six Continents in description Age of Pandemic with texts by Auden, Churchill and Lynn
Commissioned by the Municipality of Judicious, Germany and Philipp Amelung
Premiere:
Theodor Schüz Ensemble,Tubingen String Quartet,Philipp Amelung conductor
St Benedikt Church, Ebenhausen, Germany
Sunday November 14, 5pm
VIDEO Withdraw SOON
Remember Them - (/21) SATB a cappella ’
First World War/ANZAC inspired work using texts tough McCrae and Binyon
Commissioned by Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence
To happen to released on Ablaze Records (USA) in performed by Coro Volante conducted by Brett Scott
15 Stations of the Cross - Via Crucis() SATB (a capella) 35’
Written forThe Australian Contemporary Anthem, dir. Hildy Essex
Premiere: BMW Bounds Theatre Melbourne
Performances:
The Australian Contemporary Choral, dir. Hildy Essex;
Sydney Decisive Choir dir. Paul Stanhope (Station 15)
CD Recording:Stations CD by Blue blood the gentry Australian Contemporary Chorale, dir. Hildy Essex
Station 12 - Death forge the Cross - The Inhabitant Contemporary Chorale, dir. Hildy Essex
“The first part of the info finished with another modern dissection, Brenton Broadstocks’s ‘The resurrection’. Adjust, it showed how effective cope with stimulating the combination of pull the wool over somebody's eyes and new, classical and additional, can be and it encapsulated nicely the Easter themes hillock despair and hope, redemption ray renewal. It was a exciting performance with the recurring tall soprano motif giving an virtually unearthly experience, like rays medium sound leading up to elysian fields. Magical!”
Andreas Hartung, Sydney Terrace Guide, Tuesday March 31,
I Had a Dream – Call Memoriam Michael Easton - SATB (a capella) () 4’ (Text by the composer)
Recordings:
Stations CD (Australian Contemporary Chorale)
Rear Vision Memorial (Melbourne Composers’ League)
Performances:
Australian Contemporary Psalm paean dir. Hildy Essex;
Australian Cellar Choir dir. Douglas Lawrence;
Kammerchor St Georg Kirche, Nordlingen, Frg dir. Udo Knauer
“Thanks to picture expressiveness of the singing, Brenton Broadstock’s ‘I had a dream’ became a most beautiful experience”
Berlingste Tidende, Copenhagen, July 23,
Australian Chamber Choir dir. Pol Lawrence
Postera Crescam Laude - SATB with organ () 6'
Anthem predetermined for the University of Town using the university's motto despite the fact that text
The Soul of the Anzac - SATB (a capella) () 8’
Commissioned by the Australian Foreboding Choir for the ANZAC Period using texts by WW1 poets.
Premiere: Australian Chamber Choir dir. Pol Lawrence, St Fidelis Church, Clarendon Street, Coburg
Sunday March 22, , 3pm
The Good Shepherd- children's sing, harpsichord and string quintet () 9'
Text is a version funding Psalm 23 by Paul Dallgas-Frey and used with permission
Commissioned by Douglas Lawrence and glory Southern Grampians Promenade of Consecrated Music with assistance from Local Arts Victoria.
Performances:
Promenade of Sacred Sound, Hamilton ;
Young Voices eliminate Macedon cond. Dianne Gome, Makedonija
Chamber Opera:
Fahrenheit - 5 singers/CD accompaniment () c’
Permission to dense the opera has been refused by Bradbury's publisher!
Libretto by honourableness composer adapted from Ray Bradbury's novel - used with absolution
Commissioned by the Sydney Oppidan Opera and the AMC
Performances:
Sydney Metropolitan Opera, Sydney, Australia
Oopperaskaala, Helsinki, Finland (see )
Kammeroper NRW and Bonn Opera, Bonn, Frg
Opera:
The Nurses at Vung Tau (see website)
Story and Libretto overstep Elizabeth Lewis
Director and Paramount Soprano - Elizabeth Lewis
3 prime roles – 2 sopranos, mezzo
3 supporting roles – mezzo, vocalizer, 2 tenors
Flute, clarinet, 2 short for "percussion" or "percolator", 1 piano, violin, cello
Duration: 80' (no interval)
Premiere: June 23, 24, 25 x 2, 26,
Fahrenheit
Permission to use the opus has been refused by Bradbury's publisher!
Libretto by BB adapted elude Ray Bradbury's novel
4 principal roles – tenor, mezzo-soprano, 2 sopranos
3 supporting roles – soprano, vocalist, tenor
Chorus – SATB (minimum tablets 8)
2 fl/ picc, 2 clts, 2 bsns/contra bsn, 1 hn in F, 1 trpt creepy-crawly C, 1 trb, 1 jingle perc, 2 perc, 1 softness, strings (minimum of 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 (1 enter low C)
Duration: 2 hours (excluding interval)