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SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS CONCERTS 2O23
Video recording concerts for contemporary composers

The Sydney International Composers Concerts 2023 is a festival of new music. It is an annual event, designed to engage with and foster the local music scene through interactive festival activities led by professional musicians and composers from Australia and around the world.

This video recording project consists of two parts:

  1. 4 video recording concerts
  2. 9 open rehearsals

The video recording concerts will be hosted by the musicians of the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra, experts in modern music:

  1. Contemporary String Quartets
  2. Contemporary Orchestral Music (I)
  3. Contemporary Piano Music 
  4. Contemporary Orchestral Music (III)

     

  5. The open rehearsals will provide opportunities for composers, musicians, and audiences to meet each other to share ideas, and observe how the musical ideas originated and developed, in order to stimulate composers' creativity and innovation.

 

A Message from the Artistic Director

Welcome to the Sydney International Composers Concerts 2023!

This year we will be presenting four video recording concerts with the newest and freshest modern music by contemporary composers from countries and regions around the world. These composers will contribute their innovative and original musical ideas to our audiences in Sydney giving us an opportunity to challenge and refresh our ideologies.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to those composers - for their creative work, efforts, and contributions.

I would also like to give my sincere thanks to our wonderful musicians - for their dedication and interpretation of the music. Special thanks to our Management Committee, without their voluntary dedication all of these great events could not be possible. 

Brian Chatpo Koo
Artistic Director
Sydney Contemporary Orchestra

 

 

PROGRAM 

CONTEMPORARY STRING QUARTETS 2023
SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS CONCERTS 2023
A video recording concert for contemporary composers

Friday, July 14, 2023 (Sydney time)
7:30 pm
TLC Theatre, Sydney Australia

 PROGRAM

Paesaggio No.4 by Massimo Malavasi  (Italy)  (World premiere)

Luo Jiang Yuan - A bit blue for String Quartet by Yangfan Xu (USA)  (World premiere)

Movimenti intrecciati by Andrea Montalbano (Italy)  (World premiere)

La nuit de la mer by Stefano Penazzi (Italy)  (World premiere)

String Quartet No.2 by Brian T Field (USA)  (World premiere)

 

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA
STRING QUARTET 2023

Conductor - Dr Brian Chatpo Koo
1st Violin - Stevie Maston
2nd Violin - Alice Yang
Viola - Parvin Afandiyeva
Cello -Samantha Knutsen

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Sydney International Composers Concert 2023
Contemporary Orchestral Music I (SCOC No.18)

Saturday, July 8, 2023
TLC Theatre, 
Sydney Australia

Sydney Contemporary Orchestra
Conductor - Dr Brian Chatpo Koo
Concertmaster - Alastair Duff-Forbes
Narrator - Xia Lian Wilson

Program

Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas by Yangan Xu (USA) (Australian Premiere)

Staying at Home for chamber orchestra by Paul Dice (USA) (World Premiere)

Light of Faith for chamber orchestra by Chan Wing Wah (Hong Kong)

Mountain Spirits by Brian Chatpo Koo (Australia) 

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CONTEMPORARY PIANO MUSIC 2023
SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS CONCERTS 2023
A video recording concert for contemporary composers
scoc no.19

Sunday, September 24, 2023 (Sydney time)
7:30 pm
TLC Theatre, Sydney Australia


SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA

Benjamin Kopp (pianist)

PROGRAM

Shifting States by Richard Campanelli (USA)  (World Premiere)
Three Passions for our Tortured Planet by Brian Field (USA)  (World Premiere)
Five Preludios by John Tellez (Colombia)  (World Premiere)
Piano Sonata by Sami Koivuneva (Finland)  (World Premiere)|
Perspectives on Healing for solo piano by Chen-Hsin Su (Taiwan)

I N T E R M E Z Z O

Variazioni contaminate by Ugo Raimondi (Italy)  (World Premiere)
Nocturnes I - II by Paolo Fradiani (Italy)  (World Premiere)
One for Mr. Taylor by Randall Snyder (USA)  (World Premiere)
Picture of Lipo Reciting  A Poem for piano solo by Brian Chatpo Koo (Australia) (Sydney premiere)

  

 

Sydney International Composers Concerts 2023

Contemporary Orchestral Music III 2023
(triple winds orchestra)
A video recording concert for contemporary composers

October 6, 2023. 8:00 pm (Sydney time)
Verbrugghen Hall
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
scoc no.20

Sydney Contemporary Orchestra
Dr Brian Chatpo Koo - Conductor
Robert Smith - Concertmaster

 

PROGRAM

Yankınınt
by Cem Güven (Turkey)
 (World Premiere)

Dulce et Decorum Est
by Isabelle Ryder (UK)
 (World Premiere)

Bya
by Yangfan Xu (USA)
(Australian Premiere)

Symphony No.1
'A Time For Everything
Brian Chatpo Koo (Australia)
(World Premiere)

Musicians of the Contemporary Orchestral Music III 

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

 

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are proudly supported by 

 

THE HILLS SHIRE COUNCIL

 

BAULKHAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

 

 

THE SCO FOUNDATION

 

Special thanks to our Management Committee.
Without this wonderful volunteer team, nothing would get done!

UPCOMING CONCERTS

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COMPOSITIONS PROMOTED

 

 

Composer Ion
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Composer chatpo.piano
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sicc21.Paul Dice
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sicc21.Toccata
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Composer Eric chamber 22
sicc21.poster.chamber
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Composers.chatpo
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Composer brian
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Composer Brian chamber 22
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Composer Brian
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Composer Matteo
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Seasons
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Composers.paolo
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Composer Massimo
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Composer Marco Molteni
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Composer Pierluigi
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Composers.andre
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Composer Su
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Composer Alejandro
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sicc21.Francesco Sgambati
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Composer Zaq
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Composers.peter
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sicc21.William
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sicc21.fb.poster.orchestral2
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Composers.brian
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Federick
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I really want to thanks a lot for this beautiful opportunity, the performance was great, I'm very happy of that.
I hope to collaborate again with you again in the future.

Matteo Tundo - Composer (Italy) 

 

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....an amazing energy, funding and collecting works is needed to organize and realize an orchestra such as SCO and all these wonderful concerts, you make the quality of music rise in every musical work and there are not a lot of you out there.

Trimor Dhomi - Composer (Kosovo)

 

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"Thank you so much for providing such wonderful opportunities for composers! The December 22 concert marked the first time my music has been performed in Australia. Without SCO’s program I may never have reached this important milestone in my composing career. "
 
Paul Dice, Composer President, International Friendship Through the Performing Arts)

 

Copyrights and Performing Rights & Privacy Policy

 
Copyrights and Performing Rights

To promote composers' works, the works are to be recorded, broadcast on international radio and television, or retransmitted over the Internet. The Sydney Contemporary Orchestra Inc. (SCO) may photograph, record and video the participants for advertising and promotion purposes. SCO will photograph all events. SCO may not be held liable for any payments to participants arising out of materials derived from the events. Therefore, by participating in the event, submitting scores, parts, audio files, biographical materials, the participants agree to give their permissions or to release the performance licenses* from their all copyrights and performing rights, and broadcast and recording rights of all kinds, as well as the ensuing rights, and the rights to future use of all photographs, recording and videoing of their compositions and performances without any financial compensation to the Participants, for an indefinite time period.

For the SCO, as a charity non-profit organization (registered by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission), none of the materials of the composers will be used commercially, or to make any profits. All revenue will go toward the SCO Foundation (as defined in Taxation Ruling TR95/27, it operates as listed on the Register of Cultural Organisations under Subdivision 30-BA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997) to be used for the promotion of new music. 

Composers invariably own the copyrights of their works and are entitled to use all recordings for their personal purposes.  Or by writing to us to obtain permissions for the usage of commercial purposes.

*For the composers who are registered with any performing rights authorities must provide the permission letter from their performing rights authorities/associations. Or you may need to purchase the performance license from your association by yourself if the work is selected

 

Privacy Policy
 
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