29 April 2014
Works by Crossman, Dillon, Pertout, and Portelli at the ACL Festival in Japan
[Updated 2 May - final selection includes works by four Australian composers.]
Works by four Australian composers - Bruce
Crossman, Howard Dillon, Andrián
Pertout and Daniel Portelli - are included in the program of
the 32nd Asian Composers League (ACL) Festival & Conference
in Japan, 1-7 November 2014.
Crossman's
Spirit-Presence for two shakuhachis will be performed at
Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall as part of the opening concert, while
Howard Dillon's Möbius for piano will feature at the
'Meditation: East & West' concert in Tokyo's Sakura Hall.
Other works include Pertout's Riesenschritte for alto
saxophone, piano, double bass, jazz drum set and computer, which
will form part of the 'MALTA-Denshi' concert at the Yokohama Red
Brick Warehouse. Daniel Portelli is the young composer selected
to represent Australia at the Asian Composers League Young
Composer Competition and his work Undulations for two
soprano saxophones will compete for a commission to be premiered
during the next ACL festival in the Philippines.
Official member countries and regions of the Asian Composers
League, established in 1973, are Australia (Melbourne Composers'
League), Hong Kong (Hong Kong Composers Guild), Israel (Israel
Composers' League), Japan (Japan Federation of Composers), Korea,
Malaysia (Malaysian Composers Collective), New Zealand (Composers
Association of New Zealand), Philippines, Singapore (Composers
Society of Singapore), Taiwan, Thailand (Composers Association of
New Music) and Turkey (Composers Association of New Music).
Further links
Japan Federation of Composers
(www.jfc.gr.jp)
Asian Composers' League
(www.asiancomposersleague.com/)
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