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...
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 Australia: Sofia Troncoso...
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...
Andrew Schultz on Composition
Halcyon have released three videos on YouTube of Andrew Schultz discussing his work. In these interviews he discusses his approach to composing and creativity, expressing ideas and communication in music, and the importance and joy of working with words and text....
Ekstasis and Wildflower new release
Sedition have released The Song Company's exciting recordings of Andrew Schultz's two works for vocal sextet: Ekstasis, op. 43 (1990) and Wildflower, op. 71 (2006). Both works were written for The Song Company and their Artistic Director at the time, Roland Peelman,...
This moment must be sung
CD release – Chamber Songs of Andrew Schultz Halcyon’s new CD This Moment Must Be Sung was released by Tall Poppies on May 1, 2018. The CD showcases recent vocal works by Andrew Schultz and features three substantial song cycles: - To the Evening Star (winner of the...
Barren Grounds digital release
Sedition has released a digital version of the Perihelion recording of Andrew Schultz's Barren Grounds, opus 36 (1988) and it is now available on all digital music store websites including iTunesand online streaming networks including Spotify. The performers in...
Symphony No 2- Ghosts of Reason, CD release
Andrew Schultz's large-scale 2008 composition for orchestra, Symphony No 2- Ghosts of Reason, has been released on the US label, Navona, as part of a compilation of contemporary orchestral works. The performers in the work are the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra...
Southern Cantata premieres in Melbourne
Southern Cantata, a new advent cantata composed by Andrew Schultz to a libretto by Katherine Firth and commissioned by St Johns Southgate, Melbourne to celebrate their Bach Cantata Program’s 20th birthday, will have its premiere on Sunday 3 December 2017, at 9am.