Kammerklang

23/06/2025

Wonderful review for our Sydney performance of Out of the Shadows: A Hidden Curiosity with Phoebe Green.

"Phoebe [Green] sculpted a one-hour long event which was as exciting as an extended statement about place and the landscapes within ourselves as it was for a promotion of each individual piece and the creative behind it."
-Paul Nolan, for Sydney Arts Guide

Read more below:

Above: Curator and performer for this latest Sydney instalment of Kammerklang’s ‘Hidden Curiosity’ series-violist Phoebe Green. Kammerklang’s established series of performer curated concerts contin…

14/06/2025

Thanks for having us Church Street Studios

14/06/2025

Important Announcement 📣
We are saddened to announce that today's concert At First Light: A Hidden Curiosity has had to be cancelled due to performer injury. This concert will be rescheduled to a date later in the year. Ticket holders have been emailed and issued a refund.

While our 4pm concert has had to be cancelled, our 7:30pm performance of Out of the Shadows: A Hidden Curiosity is still going ahead, so we hope to see you at tonight.

13/06/2025

Composer Spotlight: Cameron Lam

Cameron Lam (he/they) is Melbourne-based composer, obsessive dabbler, excitable research nerd, and joyful collaborator. He creates music-based works that connect multiple artforms (and hopefully multiple humans) with his production company/record label Kammerklang and on other freelance projects. They are also a passionate curator and champion of the Australian art music community, running the Australian Art Music playlist and 1,000 Curious Ears projects on Spotify.

His music has been described by Limelight Magazine as “a fantastical world in which mythological stories come to life” and “infused with a Northern European sensibility – dark, emotional, restrained”. Cameron excels at vocal and chamber music where each performer has agency and a chance to contribute to collective art making. This has most recently led to being shortlisted for Australia’s prestigious Paul Lowin Prize for their spectral a ca****la song cycle about getting naked and loving your q***r self, The Splendour of Lying Naked in the Sun.

12/06/2025

Composer Spotlight: Angus Davison
Come hear James Wannan perform Angus' music in At First Light, this Saturday June 14th at Church Street Studios. Tickets on the Kammerklang website.

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Angus Davison composes music with “considerable poignancy” (The Mercury). Described as possessing “an uncanny ability to capture the beauty of small things” (ClassikON), Angus’s music for chamber and orchestral ensembles draws inspiration from diverse and unexpected sources. Recent works have explored the religious life of worms, promoted lime appreciation, and even summarised the history of Western Classical Music.

Angus’s compositions have been performed in Australia, North America, Europe, and South Africa. Performers of his work include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Omega Ensemble, The Song Company, Ensemble Offspring, and Michael Kieran Harvey among many others. In 2023 his work represented the Australian section at the 100th anniversary edition of the ISCM World New Music Days Festival.

Angus’s music has been recognised in international awards, receiving Audience Choice in the 2022 Tampa Bay Symphony Orchestra Prize and 3rd place in the 2025 Red Note New Music Festival Competition. Closer to home, his music has also received the TSO Student Composition Prize, alongside runner up placings in the Jean Bogan and Willoughby Symphony young composer awards.

He has been selected for all of Australia’s most sought after young composer programs, including the Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship, Australian Composers’ School, Cybec 21st Century Composer Program, and CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program. He has also participated in Composing in the Wilderness, a summer school in Alaska.

Angus holds a Bachelor of Music from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music and a Masters of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In 2025, he was granted Full Representation with the Australian Music Centre and is currently one of the five youngest composers to hold that status. His music is available from the Australian Music Centre and from TSO Publishing.

11/06/2025

Fresh from her first performance in Melbourne last month, we're excited to bring violist Phoebe Green to Sydney to perform Out of the Shadows: A Hidden Curiosity for new ears!

Come along on June 14 for a collection of solo viola gems from all over Australia! Tickets below.

Get Tickets Get PROGRAM Hidden Curiosities is a new Kammerklang series championing existing, under-performed, Australian repertoire drawn from an open call for scores. Two performers pour over this…

10/06/2025

Composer Spotlight: Rhys Little
We're keen to present Rhys' work on June 14 at At First Light, performed by James Wannan. Come along to Church Street Studios for the show, tickets on the Kammerklang site.

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An alumni of the Conservatorium High School, Rhys Little (b.1998) completed a Bachelor of Music (Composition) with first class Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was the recipient of a full scholarship.

Rhys has had the privilege of studying under many of Australia’s leading composers, including Liza Lim, Jack Symonds, Damien Ricketson, Gerard Brophy, Huw Belling, Sandy Evans and Trevor Pearce. Each of these mentors has had an inedible impact on his musical thinking—fostering a broad, deep and insatiable desire to improve his craft through learning, experience and a strong philosophical underpinning. 

In 2024, Rhys organised, conducted and composed a program of entirely his own music for chamber orchestra, featuring the premieres of his Concerto for Piccolo Flight, and Chamber Symphony Visions.

As a founding member of the Konzertprojekt composer’s collective, Rhys has managed and performed in a multitude of diverse new music concerts including for VIVID Sydney in 2019

As a performer, Rhys is Australia’s leading new-music Euphonium player. He has performed with many of Sydney’s leading ensembles, including with Ensemble Offspring in Sticky Notes  and Night Songs in 2022.

Major upcoming projects include a Piano Sonata Finding the Sea, and the full premiere of Symphony No. 1.

09/06/2025

We're back in Sydney, with twice the viola!
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Come hear James Wannan & Phoebe Green present Hidden Curiosities at Church Street Studios on Saturday June 14.

08/06/2025

Composer Spotlight: Elizabeth Younan
We can't wait to hear James Wannan perform Elizabeth's work at At First Light: A Hidden Curiosity in Sydney. Come along to Church Street Studios on June 14! (Tix at the Kammerklang website)

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Elizabeth Younan is quickly gaining a reputation as one of Australia’s finest young composers. Her violin solo “…your heart dreams of spring” is featured on Jennifer Koh’s 2022 GRAMMY award-winning album “Alone Together”, and she has twice been a featured Australian composer of Musica Viva Australia’s International Concert Seasons.

Accolades include an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the UNSW Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship, and the Kendall National Violin Competition’s Watermark Composition Prize, among others.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition with First Class Honours and a Master of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with Carl Vine AO and was awarded the Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Elizabeth graduated from her composition studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2021, which all students attend on full scholarship. She graduated with the Charles Miller “Alfredo Casella” Award for excellence in composition. She studied with Dr. Jennifer Higdon, Dr. David Serkin Ludwig, and Dr. Richard Danielpour as the first Australian composer to ever be admitted to Curtis’ composition department in its nearly 100-year history.

Elizabeth was recently awarded a prestigious 2024 Australian Universities’ John Monash Scholarship from the General Sir John Monash Foundation, which provides postgraduate scholarships to outstanding Australians to study overseas. Elizabeth is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts at New York’s famed Juilliard School where she studies with Dr. Amy Beth Kirsten on full-tuition scholarship as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.

05/06/2025

Composer Spotlight: Natalie Nicolas
Excited to feature Natalie's work in James Wannan's Hidden Curiosities concert, At First Light, on June 14th at Church Street Studios. (Tix on the Kammerklang site)

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Dr. Natalie Nicolas, a Sydney-based composer, researcher, and lecturer, holds a Master of Music (Composition) and a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, earned via scholarship. Focused on evoking calm and catharsis, her emotionally driven music aligns with her research in music and emotions. Her work “We Won’t Let You Down” for ACO Collective, funded by the Hush foundation, exhibits this, and the album received an ARIA nomination in 2019.

Nicolas has had the pleasure of writing for the Sydney, Tasmania, Canberra, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Goldner SQ, Claire Edwardes, The Song Company, and others. Her accolades include the ASQ Andrew Ford National Composers Forum (2013), National Women Composer’s Development Program (2016-2018), and the Harold and Gwenneth Harris Endowment for Medical Humanities Harris Award (2019/20).

Her achievements extend to winning the Flinders Quartet Composition Competition (2017, 2019), the MSO Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers’ Program (2021), and being featured on ABC Classic’s ‘AusMusic Month’ and ‘Best of Australian Classical Music’ playlists in ’18, ’20 and ‘22. In 2021, her music premiered at QPAC with the Southern Cross Soloists and Slava Grigoryan to their largest audience in 26 years.

Internationally recognised, Nicolas’ compositions have resonated in China, the US, and Canada. She participated in the Connecticut Summerfest in 2021, collaborating with Grammy-nominated ZOFO piano duo on her piece ‘Bloom’, which has since been on a US tour by Alex Raineri and Maxwell Foster. Heading a research team at the Charles Perkins Centre, she created an immersive string orchestra work for their 10th anniversary with Ensemble Apex, inaugurating her new research node.

19/11/2024

"The lush smorgasbord of Ripples and Echoes celebrated the talents of emerging composers. It offered the assembled audience, star-studded with bassists of all backgrounds and training, substantial recent works which should find a secure place in the performance canon."

Thank you Paul Nolan and Sydney Arts Guide for this excellent review capturing Will's incredible performance at Church Street Studios this past weekend. We're excited to continue the Hidden Curiosities series into 2025 (with more announcements next week).

And yes, double bassists around the world, do check out the incredible music of these composers: Declan Postlethwaite Music, Elissa Goodrich, Keyna Wilkins: Composer/Musician, Mark Oliveiro - Composer, Naomi Dodd, Stephen Hornby, William Varga, Zoe Gougousidis and our very own Cameron Lam - Composer

Above: Featured performer and curator of this programme, bassist Will Hansen. Photo credit: Jared Underwood. Featured image- Graphic design by Luke Adrian Moseley featuring in concert artwork and t…