MODART provides emerging compsoers with the opportunity to develop a new work for vocal ensemble and receive a public performance by the Song Company
MODART
MODART is a professional development project that provides opportunities for emerging composers to develop works for vocal ensemble, and which then receive public performance by The Song Company.
Biography: Ahana Star
Ahana Star began her BA(Music) in 1998 at the University of Western Sydney and has since been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Shane Simpson Composition Award. Under the guidance of Dr. Ian Shanahan, Ahana then gained First Class Honours and the University Medal for Academic Excellence in 2001. Ahana has had works performed by Topology, the Blue Mountains choir She Sings, and the Sydney–based Very Small Opera Company. She is currently studying her Masters in Composition with Professor Anne Boyd at Sydney University.
Program Notes: The Poet
The Poet, entitled Simplex, Simplicior, Simplicissimuss by Judith Wright, presents for me the journey of the creative individual and in particular the plight of the creative soul to maintain its identity amongst societal restrictions. This couldn't be more pertinent than under today's Government. The Poet, although seemingly 'simple' in action, is far from it: in the same way that the 'simple' daisy is a complex and intricate artform in being the externalisation of the life force of nature. In this piece I have attempted to reflect this energy and its depiction. This work is dedicated to Jan.
