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2025

                       10 June - Swiftly Fly the Wings for solo flute, commissioned and performed by Eliza Shephard, Melba                                      Collective 'Still Life' Concert, Parish of the Parks (St Silas) Anglican Church, Albert Park, 6.30pm

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2023           

                       19 November - Shifting for violin, clarinet and piano, performed by PLEXUS, Music at McClelland PLEXUS:                           Perspectives Concert, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, 2pm 

 

                       11 September - Shifting for violin, clarinet and piano, performed by PLEXUS at the Desert Song Festival,

                       Alice Springs, NT 

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                       7 September - world premiere of Awaken for full orchestra, commissioned and performed by the                                              Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Schumann and Mendelssohn: Abundant Spring Concert, Hamer                                           Hall, 7.30pm

 

                        24 August - world premiere of Theatre of the Everyday for mixed ensemble, commissioned and performed

                        by musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and MSO Academy, MSO at NGV: Pierre Bonnard,                             Modernism & Music Concert, NGV Great Hall, 7.30pm

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                        15 February - world premiere of Ascension for full orchestra, commissioned and performed by the                                           Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Myer Music Bowl Concert: Mosaics, 7.30pm

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Previous Performances: 

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                        29 January 2022 - world premiere of Wave Variations for chamber orchestra, performed by the MSO at the                            MSO Cybec Composers Showcase, Hamer Hall, Southbank, 6.30pm

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                        17 July, 2020 - Shifting, performed by PLEXUS at the PLEXUS: Prism Concert for the Women in Music                                     Festival, Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, 7pm

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                        24 August, 2019 - To A Wild Rose, an orchestral arrangement performed by the Dandenong Ranges                                         Orchestra, as part of the Victorian Community Orchestra Gala Concert, 5pm, Malvern Hall, Melbourne

 

                        8 July, 2019 - world premiere of Shifting, for violin, clarinet and piano, commissioned and performed                                        by  PLEXUS for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor exhibition, NGV,                                    Melbourne

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                        11 July, 2018 - Croatian premiere of Spheres, performed by the Polaris Duo at the 2018 World Saxophone                                 Congress, 5.15pm, Zagreb, Croatia

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                        29 June, 2018 - Performance of Spheres by the Polaris Duo, Bury Parish Church lunch recital, 1.30pm, Bury

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                        May/June 2018 - The Ascent for solo viola, commissioned and performed by Katherine Clarke in London: St                           Stephen Walbrook (22/05), St Olave’s (23/05) and Southwark Cathedral (12/06).

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                        19 April, 2018 - Premiere of Spheres for alto saxophone and harp, performed and commissioned by the                                   Polaris Duo, premiered at the Polaris Duo album launch of 'illuminate', 7.30pm, the International Anthony                             Burgess Foundation, Manchester. 

                        Spheres was recorded by the Polaris Duo in December 2017 and features in their debut album, 'illuminate',                             digitally released on April 20, 2018.

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                        21 October, 2017 - Two works premiered: Remember Me and Barren Hills for soprano and piano, performed                           by Elinor Jane Moran and Elspeth Wilkes, commissioned by ShivaNova/Equator for the Women of the World                         Festival: Women and Words - Poetry and Music Concert, 7.30pm, Kings Place, London

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                        12 August, 2017 - Love Is for solo piano, original music for Wedding Ceremony, 12.30pm, Christ Church                                 Roxeth, Roxeth Hill, Harrow

                        - performed by Melissa Douglas

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                        1 July, 2017 - The Greatest of These for violin and cello, original music for Wedding Ceremony,

                        12.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire

                        - performed by Ben and Ellie Horrigan

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                        23 April, 2017 - Premiere of Reverie for oboe, bassoon and piano, commissioned and performed by the                                   Magnard Trio, Templewood Hall, Cromer Music Evenings Concert Series, Cromer

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                        1 October, 2016 - Premiere of Restless for oboe and piano, performed by the Shion Duo

                        as part of the ‘Women of the World 2016: Jane Eyre Reimagined’ Festival, Kings Place, London

                        23 June, 2016 - Premiere of Kristallnacht  for chamber opera, AHRC funded ‘Performing the Jewish Archive:                           Out of the Shadows’ Festival, Clothworkers Centenary Hall, Leeds. Performed by Royal Northern College of                             Music students Freya Holliman, Matthew Palfreyman, Cressida McKay Frith, Freya Chambers, Michael                                   Smith, Clemence Prudhomme and Ines Mota Pino

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                        12 May, 2016 - Premiere of Ever-fixed Mark for soprano and clarsach, (three performances), performed by                              Joanna Harries and Kathryn Mason, part of 'Neon Sonnets' Concert series in celebration of Shakespeare's                                sonnets, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester

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                        10 May, 2016 - Recording of Glint for the Carnelian Quartet (saxophone quartet), RNCM Studio, Manchester


                        5 March, 2016 - Premiere of Silhouettes for percussion quartet, RNCM Chamber Music Festival ‘Songs                                     Without Words’, RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester

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                        24 November, 2015 - BBC Composition workshop of Bless the Lord (Psalm 103) for SATB chorus, performed                           by the BBC Singers, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London

                        
8 October, 2015 - Premiere of Woven for symphony orchestra, performed by the RNCM Brand New                                           Orchestra, RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester

                        
12 May, 2015 - Workshop of piece Silhouettes on Scarlatti with the RNCM Saxophone Orchestra, RNCM                                 Studio, Manchester

                        6 May, 2015 - Workshop of piano work Elusive, performed by concert pianist Clare Hammond, RNCM                                     Lecture Theatre, Manchester

                        8 March, 2015 - BBC Radio 3 Commission for solo piano work Solo Gratia, performed by concert pianist                                 Grace Francis, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and digitally released on LMI and iTunes on album ‘SACRED’.

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 © MELISSA DOUGLAS 2025

  • Melissa Douglas Composer
  • Melissa Douglas Composer
  • Melissa Douglas
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