Melissa Douglas
Composer
WOMEN IN MUSIC FESTIVAL – PLEXUS: PRISM ★★★★
"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 2020
Music
"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
Spheres (2018) features on Polaris Duo's 'illuminate' album: