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Showcasing today’s Australian composers who make music that embraces city rhythms and the natural world.

Peggy Polias’s Arachne references the Greek myth of a weaver woman turned into a spider and there are pages of her score where the music is literally represented by knotted strings.

Liza Lim’s Sappho/bioluminescence makes expressive bedfellows of a squid that camouflages itself by glowing like the night sky, Sappho’s poetry and luminous instruments.

William Barton and Matthew Hindson’s Kalkadunga has become a modern classic melding the propulsive energies of Barton’s didgeridoo with an orchestra in full flight.

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Artists

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor / curator
Liza Lim curator (2025 Composer in Residence)
William Barton yidaki, didgeridoo

Series

This production is part of the following series: