Daybreakers popular at Toronto
September 20th, 2009
Daybreakers was voted the runner-up most popular film in the Midnight Madness (horror) program at the Toronto International Film Festival
Lightfall Premiere 09/09/09
September 9th, 2009
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.
Mao’s Last Dancer Trailer
August 14th, 2009Two World Premieres in Toronto
July 22nd, 2009
Mao’s Last Dancer will receive its world premiere in the the Special Presentation program and Daybreakers will receive its world premiere in the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The festival runs from 10th to 19th September 2009
Will There Really Be a ‘Morning’?
July 15th, 2009
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.
Night Is What Remains
June 30th, 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.
Daybreakers Trailer
June 26th, 2009
Lionsgate have released a Daybreakers trailer exclusively on Yahoo.com
View it here.
Mao’s Last Dancer in Concert
June 15th, 2009
Bruce Beresford will be presenting a Night at the Movies with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tom Woods at the Christchurch Town Hall on Friday 26 June 2009.
The concert will include the Mao’s Last Dancer Suite.
Details and booking here.
Mao’s Last Dancer
May 15th, 2009
The Australian release date of Mao’s Last Dancer is 1st October 2009
Daybreakers
May 8th, 2009
Lionsgate Films have announced 8 January 2010 as the new release date for Daybreakers.