Source: Prue Vercoe – Director, Vine Communications

Published: 9 August 2011

lineup announced for national composers' forum

The Australian String Quartet has announced the composer line-up for its National Composers' Forum, running 12-14 August 2011.

Committed to fostering new Australian works by emerging composers, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) hosted a pilot Composers' Forum in 2009, with Adelaide University. Proving so successful they expanded nationally in 2010 and this year its National Composers' Forum, held at The University of Adelaide 12-14 August, attracted a staggering 33 submissions from across Australia.

With the support of composers-in-residence, Matthew Hindson and James Ledger, ASQ announces four compositions have been selected as part of the 2011 Program. They include 'Bad Angel Fire' from Daniel Masmanian (WA), 'Event Horizon' from James Wade (VIC), 'So she moaned, and as she uttered her moans' from Michael Sollis (ACT), and 'Quartet No.2 in C Major (1st movement)' from Benjamin Betelli (SA). The program will also include new commissions; How Dragonflies Cross the Ocean' from Melody Eötvös and 'Breathing Through a Hole' from Amy Bastow.

Each new work will be workshopped with the Quartet and composers, culminating in a Forum Concert in the Hartley Concert Room, The University of Adelaide, on Sunday 14 August 2011, 4:30pm.

The full schedule is available at www.asq.com.au. ASQ is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide and is generously supported by the Government of South Australia and the Australia Council.