Australian Composers Orchestral Forum provides emerging composers the opportunity to work with a professional symphony orchestra
IAIN GRANDAGE : C_C_C Participant
Biography
Iain Grandage is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Youth Orchestras of Australia and has recently completed a similar residency with the WA Symphony Orchestra.
He has won Helpmann and Green Room Awards for theatre scores, which include Cloudstreet, The Blue Room, Babes in the Wood, Plainsong, Merry-Go-Round in the Sea & True West.
He has been a member of Bulletin Magazine's Smart 100, and in 2005 he won a Classical Music Award (West Australian State Award) for his orchestral work Sleep.
With an interest in multimedia, he has composed an opera for children, scores for dance projects, and incidental music for BBC Radio3 and Radio4.
In 1996 and 1998, Grandage was musical director and arranger for the national tours of Jimmy Chi's multi award-winning Corrugation Road, and his involvement with indigenous musicians has continued through his collaborations with the Spinifex people of central Australia – initially on the theatre work Career Highlights of the Mamu and more recently with concert works in collaboration with WASO, and Topology.
His concert compositions have been performed throughout Australia and overseas by the Australian Voices, Australian Boys’ Choir, St Peter's Chorale, Collegium Musicum, WA Youth Orchestra and the WA Symphony Orchestra.
As a performer, he plays in the funk cello band wood, contemporary ensemble Pi, the Australian Art Orchestra, and moonlights with a cabaret singer called Meowmeow.
Future projects include a 45-minute work for narrator and orchestra The Silence for the WA Symphony Orchestra; a work for Craig Ogden and the Brodsky Quartet; a song cycle for Sara Macliver, touring in Europe with the dance-theatre work Lawn; and an opera for the WA Opera Company.
