CG has completed a new work for large chamber ensemble entitled A Quick Look Around. At just under four minutes in length it is a reworking of his piece for bass trombone and piano A Short Life. Instrumentation is wind quintet, string quintet and piano. The full score and parts will be available from the Australian Music Centre in the near future.
Gondwana Choirs commissioned CG to arrange a new version of his popular choral work Peace On Earth for their 21st anniversary concert at the Sydney Opera House on 4 July 2010. This new arrangement reduces the orchestra to an ensemble of 2 pianos, 2-3 percussion and strings (minimum 2.2.2.2.1) and is suitable for both the original treble voices version and the SATB version. The full score and parts will be available from the Australian Music Centre in the near future.
CG has completed a new and possibly humorous work for Bass Trombone and Piano entitled A Short Life. Written at the request of UK bass trombonist Jonathan Warburton it is just under four minutes in length. Sheet music can be purchased through the Australian Music Centre.
CG has completed Onward and Upwards, a ten minute piece for children’s choir, adult choir, piano and percussion. Its first performance is 23 January 2010 at the Verbruggen Hall, Sydney, by Gondwana Choirs and Synergy Percussion conducted by Lyn Williams.
Lightfall for Horn and Orchestra was premiered this evening by the Sydney Symphony at the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House, with Robert Johnson, soloist, and Richard Gill conducting. Two further performances will be given over the next two days.
CG has kept an extensive blow-by-blow blog about the composition and preparation of the concerto at www.hornconcerto.net. A webcast of the premiere can be viewed and pdfs of the full score and the solo part are available for download.
Emily Dickinson
CG has just completed a setting of the Emily Dickinson poem, Will There Really Be a “Morning’? for mixed choir and piano. It was written for the Australian Boys Choir to commemorate their 70th anniversary and will be premiered by the ABC and the Vocal Consort at the Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne on 23 August 2009.
A new recording especially made for this website is now uploaded.
Night Is What Remains, a 16 minute work for strings, is performed by:
Sun Yi, violin and Timothy Walden, violoncello with the Magic Fire Orchestra conducted by CG
A score is also uploaded in pdf form, along with composer’s notes.
CG has commenced his blog at www.hornconcerto.net. A forum has also been activated.
The website will follow, step by step, the process of composing a large orchestral work.
CG was back in the studio on 1st March to record some additional music for Daybreakers.
He also recorded Night Is What Remains (for violin, violoncello and strings) which will be on the website in late April.
A four minute excerpt of the Horn Concerto was also recorded with Robert Johnson for later inclusion on HornConcerto.net.
The rest of the week was devoted to finalizing the editing and mixing of the soundtrack albums of both Daybreakers and Mao’s Last Dancer.
CG has commenced fulltime work on the Horn Concerto.