Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

HAMISH GOULD | COUNTERTENOR

Kitty Xiao the intimacy of strangers
Declan Postlethwaite Bewilderment
Haydn Reeder Breathtaker
Janet Oates (UK) Le Roi s’explique
Lewis Horrigan Ingham A Brief Tour of Misguided Thoughts
Scott A. Aschauer Lapis Philosophorum
Wendy Suiter Waiting

In collaboration with the Melbourne Composers’ League, experience a very special concert that showcases a unique voice type and the extraordinary talents of 7 composers writing today. Hamish Gould shows off his chops by performing a variety of works written especially for him. Shatter your expectations of what a countertenor should sound like in this never before heard repertoire. Stay in and stay comfy or join us in the city at St. James Old Cathedral – this concert is simultaneously live and online.

This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website

Featured Australian Works

	Breathtaker (countertenor with keyboard and live electronics) (2021) by Haydn Reeder — World premiere — performed by Hamish Gould
	the intimacy of strangers (countertenor with live electronics) (2021) by Kitty Xiao — World premiere — performed by Hamish Gould
	Waiting : countertenor voice (2021) by Wendy Suiter — World premiere — performed by Hamish Gould
	A Brief Tour of Misguided Thoughts by Lewis Horrigan Ingham — World premiere
	Bewilderment by Declan Postlethwaite — World premiere
	Lapis Philosophorum by Scott A. Aschauer — World premiere

Featured artists

• New work by Postlethwaite Declan
• New work by Lewis Ingham
• New work by Scott A. Aschauer
• Performer Hamish Gould

Featured non-Australian music

Janet Oates