MELISSA DOUGLAS
2023 MSO Cybec Young Composer in Residence
MSO Media Release
Performances
24 August
world premiere of Theatre of the Everyday for mixed ensemble
Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and performed by musicians from the MSO and MSO Academy
MSO at NGV: Pierre Bonnard, Modernism & Music Concert
5.30pm for exhibition, 7.30pm for concert at NGV Great Hall
7 September
world premiere of Awaken for full orchestra
Commissioned and performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Xian Zhang
Schumann and Mendelssohn: Abundant Spring Concert
7.30pm at Hamer Hall, with pre-concert talk at 6.45pm: Hamer Hall Stalls Foyer
15 February at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
world premiere of Ascension for full orchestra
Performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey
Wave Variations, premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Davis
29th of January 2022, 6.30pm
Hamer Hall, Southbank VIC
Commissioned by the Cybec Foundation and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
More music
Shifting (2019), commissioned and performed by PLEXUS:
"Responding to the mobiles of American artist Alexander Calder, Shifting by Melissa Douglas created a disembodied, weightless sense of freedom through upward melodic spirals anchored by piano."
Tony Way, The Age
WOMEN IN MUSIC FESTIVAL – PLEXUS: PRISM ★★★★
"From the delicate beginnings of floating single notes, the music developed with a free rise and fall of sharply contoured patterns until an expressive chordal piano solo developed. We felt a virtual wind blow through the mobiles as the instruments took up wider tonal gyrations with more expansive colour and energy.”
Julie McErlain
Classic Melbourne Music News and Reviews 2020