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    • Francis Atkins, Piano (BMF Young Artist)
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Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Composer

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh (Joanne Hobern)

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer, performer, sound artist, and freelance editor and curator with an interest in working across disciplines, particularly with speech and language.

Antonia’s work often challenges notions of hierarchy within the classical music context, and investigates fumblings and failures that occur in conversation and relationship; the question of how to perform a combination of techniques simultaneously; and, how these everyday moments can be articulated in exploring ideas of “virtuosity”. How can a performer’s virtuosity be embodied and showcased in very ordinary ways to create a new form of expression, a new relationship with an audience?

Her performances incorporate slippage and forced failure, improvisation, and the live space. Her works with words investigate speech as music: the pitches, rhythms, conversational overlaps of our everyday. In occasionally using elements of theatricality, she notates actions as a means to expose sound as the byproduct of those actions.

Antonia collaborates extensively with musicians, theatre and filmmakers, dancers, visual artists and poets. Her style of working across disciplines has raised important questions about audience expectation, the social and professional structures of respective disciplines, and artistic value. Through these experiences with the process of collaboration, she devises moments of tension, surprise, and also humour to create communal experiences whereby spectators are welcomed as participants in a compositional process. This implies that listening in itself is active: audience members are not mere recipients of music as finished form, but drawn into the piece’s compositional questions where listening and spectating can be viewed as a form of composition.

Visit Antonia’s personal website.

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Big thanks to @myvillagenewsbris for the shout out in their March edition 😍 #news #music #brisbanemusicfestival #villagenews #newfarm
Meet Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Auckland-based composer of ‘The thing is, I think’ which receives its Australian premiere performance at ‘Crimson’ next week.
Festival Artistic Director Alex Raineri @alexplaysthepiano is the featured performer in 'Crimson'. Three shows next week on March 1, 3 + 5 (each almost at capacity, jump in quick!).
Next up! ‘Crimson’ features AD @alexplaysthepiano with a solo recital of music both old and new. Three extremely limited capacity shows (almost sold out!) in BMF headquarters, Raineri’s own music studio. Don’t miss this unique chance to experience incredible music up close and personal 👌🎶 #livemusic #brisbane #brettdean #rebeccasaunders #brahms #beethoven #antoniabarnettmcintosh #alexraineri #piano #classical #contemporary
BMF Artists; Alex Raineri, Jane Sheldon, Jenna Robertson, Corrina Bonshek, @operaqueensland AD Patrick Nolan, and guests, enjoying a well earned glass of vino after ‘Songs of Love and Death’. #concert #wine #harawi #festival #song #opera #janesheldon #alexraineri #operaqueensland
Huge thanks to all who attended 'Songs of Love and Death' and to our friends at @operaqueensland for co-presenting our festival opening show.

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