Canberra Centenary – Premiere of Symphony No 3: Century by Andrew Schultz
Symphony No 3: Century by Andrew Schultz WORLD PREMIERE played by the Canberra Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Milton featuring the Centenary Choir. MONDAY, 11 MARCH at 8pm The culmination of events on this stage and of the day will be the world premiere of...
Antony Gray’s new Bach Transcriptions CD features Sleepers Wake by Andrew Schultz
Antony Gray has recorded a three CD set of piano music featuring transcriptions and reworkings of Bach's music; the set has now been released on ABC Classics. The CDs are a great achievement and include Andrew Schultz's Sleepers Wake - Karalananga - a piece...
Kühn Choir of Prague record Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Andrew Schultz
The Kühn Choir, conducted by Marek Vorlicek, recorded the unaccompanied choral works, Magnifcat and Nunc Dimittis by Andrew Schultz in January 2013 at the Prague Academy of Music, Czech Republic. A CD of the recordings will be released on the US label, Navona Records...
European Premiere of Schultz’s Symphony No 2 – Ghosts of Reason
The Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester (The South Jutland Symphony Orchestra) conducted by David Porcelijn present the European premiere of Andrew Schultz’s Symphony No 2 – Ghosts of Reason in Germany and Denmark in January 2013…
Music and Emotion: ABC-TV Big Ideas
The next episode of the ABC-TV show, Big Ideas has performances of Andrew Schultz' One Sound and After Nina (played by the Australia Ensemble) and a discussion with Emery Schubert, Emma Ayres and Andrew Schultz about Music and Emotion. The program can be viewed at...
Two recent reviews: ‘eloquent, spare writing’
"Having been very impressed a few years ago by Andrew Schultz’s cantata, Journey to Horseshoe Bend, I approached this collection of his orchestral works with great anticipation. I was not disappointed. He is, in my opinion, one of the finest composers in this country...
“This is music for eternity” – a recent CD review from Germany.
“…the loss of nature and the diversity of species on our planet and the disappearance of beauty in a completely exploited and spiritually vacuous world. This pain is, however, not articulated via atonality and harsh dissonances, rather with an almost transcendental harmony in which the melancholy regarding all that is irretrievable assumes the form of a beauty that takes leave of this world and yet remains facing toward it. Precisely in its serenity and inner calm, this music has something both heartbreaking and deeply moving…”
One Sound – Quintet for flute and strings. Sydney Morning Herald review.
A galaxy full of possibilities explored in a single sound Reviewed by Peter McCallum April 24, 2012 AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE University of NSW, April 21 By selecting the title One Sound for his quintet for flute and strings, Andrew Schultz was suggesting that a single...