Charles Ives (1874 – 1954)
George Gershwin (1898 – 1937)
Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990)
Elliot Carter (1908 - 2012)
Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981)
Milton Babbitt (1916 – 2011)
Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)
Copland sought to capture the pioneering spirit of American settlement through a musical language that was more immediate and accessible than his European couterparts.
Percy Grainger (1882 – 1961)
John Antill (1904 - 1986)
Peter Sculthorpe (1929 - 2014)
Richard Meale (1932 – 2009)
Nigel Butterley (1935 - 2022)
Ross Edwards (born 1943)
Barry Conyngham (born 1944)
Anne Boyd (born 1946)
Carl Vine (born 1954)
Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
Nigel Westlake (born 1958)
Attempt to find a musical language that “describes” the outback. Inspired by the iconic paintings of Sidney Nolan and Fred Williams
Inspired by the repetitive and evolving sounds of Balinese gamelan and the sounds of insects
