LINES FOLDING – REEDS BENDING
Lines Folding is the name of a new work by Andrew Schultz for quintet of woodwind reed instruments: oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone and bassoon. The work has its premiere in Victoria on 1 and 3 May 2026 performed by Reeds Bending. Performing at the concerts...
PIANO CONCERTO – LONDON WORLD PREMIERE
Andrew Schultz’s new Piano Concerto is a large-scale 32-minute work in two movements and was commissioned by Australian, British-based pianist, Rosemary Tuck. She gives the world premiere on 15 October 2025 at Cadogan Hall, London with the New London Orchestra...
SYMPHONY NO. 4 – WORLD PREMIERE
"Suffused with joy and wonder." The premiere of Andrew Schultz’s new symphony given by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Otto Tausk, in their MACA Symphonic Series program at Winthrop Hall in Perth on Friday 20 June and Saturday 21 June 2025 at...
DARK WELL in Brisbane
Bernard Lanskey and Stephen Emmerson – pianos. 3pm Sunday 30th March 2025. Nickson Room, School of Music, Zelman Cowen Building, University of Queensland. Three graduates from the University of Queensland’s School of Music return decades later to the Nickson...
Recent music videos
Sonatina for Harp by Andrew Schultz. Five minutes of simple nature and music. A few years ago Andrew wrote a short piece for beginner harpists at the request of Alice Giles, AM – the eminent harp player and teacher who lives in Canberra. That piece, Heard on the Wind,...
The Children’s Bach in Melbourne
Andrew Schultz's opera The Children’s Bach, based on Helen Garner’s novel to a libretto by Glenn Perry, is being presented again - this time by Lyric Opera of Melbourne in August-September, 2024. Prior to that, at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August,...
Dark Well – European premiere
The European premiere of Andrew Schultz’s immersive, site-specific 60 minute work for two pianos, Dark Well, occurs at the Opera Schrattenbach 2023 Festival in Czechia on 30 November, 2023. The work will be performed by Martin Smutný and Kateřina Ochmanová in the...
BASSOON CONCERTO WORLD PREMIERE
The premiere of Andrew Schultz’s new Bassoon Concerto, performed by bassoonist Jane Kircher-Lindner with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch in their Symphonic Titans program at the Perth Concert Hall on Friday 2 June and Saturday 3 June...
Schultz Portrait Concert at Harvard
Listening in Paradise: an intimate portrait concert of music by Australian composer Andrew Schultz was presented at the John Knowles Paine Hall, Harvard University on Saturday evening, 25 March 2023. The concert featured outstanding performers from the US and...
The Children’s Bach, opera by Andrew Schultz, compact disc release
"At last, a recording of the 2008 chamber opera by Andrew Schultz...The music and subterranean, seething drama unfurls over 29 tracks, providing the kind of introduction to Bach's music imparted by generations of suburban music teachers. Memories of our musical past...
Music video releases
Some recent releases of videos of music by Andrew Schultz & new interviews with the composer. Watch a recent performance of Andrew Schultz's Elegy for soprano, viola and piano by Jéssika Arévalo, James Munro and Argentina Duran, performing in Mexico...
Maali release on ABC Classic
MAALI – CONCERTO FOR OBOE, CLARINET, HORN AND BASSOON WITH ORCHESTRA, OPUS 101 (2016) ABC Classic are releasing a new digital recording of Andrew Schultz's Maali. The recording is by the West Australia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young with soloists Peter...
Bayu, Song of Songs, Respiro, Meaning of Water and 12 Variations releases
Bayu, a meditative piano improvisation performed by Andrew Schultz with live electronic manipulation by Bob Scott has just been released. The piece is freely based on the Russian children's lullaby, Bayu Bayushki Bayu. The text of that song warns a child that they...
Deep Blue and Dirty – the animated film
Alyssa Rothwell's animated film version of Deep Blue and Dirty, Andrew Schultz's bassoon and piano piece from 2011, has won the people’s choice award at Melbourne International Animation Festival and was a finalist in the MIAF ‘Best of the Best’ Jury Prize. The film...
Century CD Release on ABC Classics
Andrew Schultz: Century Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Hamish McKeich conductor ABC Classics and the TSO announce the latest in their acclaimed Australian Composer Series. The latest release in the Australian Composer Series features orchestral works by Andrew...