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  • 2021 Performances
    • Songs of Love and Death
    • Crimson
    • Wonderland
    • Enoch Arden
    • Beethoven’s Cello
    • Celestial Spirits
    • Butterflying
    • Shepherd on the Rock
    • Archduke
    • Something’s Come Between Us
    • Orava
    • Karin
    • How Strange the Change
    • Liza Lim Portrait Concert
    • The Lark Ascending
    • A Poet’s Love
    • Natsuko
    • Mythology of Naked Flesh
    • Both Sides Now
    • Intercurrent
    • Reception: The Musical
    • Girl with the Flaxen Hair
    • Night Wind
    • Trio Argenti
  • 2021 Creative Team
    • Francis Atkins, Piano (BMF Young Artist)
    • Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Composer
    • Shaun Brown, Baritone
    • Sarah Butler, Trumpet
    • Adam Chalabi, Violin
    • Anna Colville, Viola
    • Matthew Connell, Actor
    • Sarah Crane, Soprano
    • Peter de Jager, Pianist / Composer
    • Trish Dean, Cello
    • James Dobinson, Arranger
    • Jemima Drews, Flute (BMF Young Artist)
    • Melody Eötvös, Composer
    • Jai Farrell, Audio Engineer / Videographer
    • Erik Griswold, Composer
    • Rebekah Hall, Violin (BMF Young Artist)
    • Jordon He, Arranger
    • Julia Hill, Violin (BMF Young Artist)
    • Brendan Joyce, Violin
    • Monika Koerner, Flute
    • Shuhei Lawson, Cello (BMF Young Artist)
    • Liza Lim, Composer
    • Tabatha McFadyen, Voice
    • Patrick Murphy, Cello
    • Jonny Ng, Violin
    • Luke Paulding, Composer
    • Andre Oberleuter, Bassoon (BMF Young Artist)
    • Orava Quartet
    • Katherine Philp, Cello
    • Alex Raineri, Artistic Director / Piano / Harpsichord
    • Laura Raineri, Voice (BMF Young Artist)
    • Jenna Robertson, Soprano
    • Thea Rossen, Percussion
    • Jodie Rottle, Composer
    • Jak Scanlon, Film Maker
    • Dario Scalabrini, Clarinet (BMF Young Artist)
    • Karin Schaupp, Guitar
    • Elaine Seeto, Associate Producer
    • Jane Sheldon, Soprano
    • Leonardo Silva, Composer
    • Bethany Simons, Voice / Actor
    • Jeremy Stafford, Guitar
    • Katie Stenzel, Soprano
    • Harrison Swainston, Viola (BMF Young Artist)
    • Donica Tran, Violin (BMF Young Artist)
    • Victorian Theatre Company
    • Alexander Voltz, Composer
    • Yitzhak Yedid, Composer
    • Natsuko Yoshimoto, Violin
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Chris Dench

Chris Dench – Photo: Jake Turner

Born in London, Chris Dench arrived in Australia in 1989 and was naturalised in 1992. After periods living in Sydney, Armidale, Melbourne, Canberra, and Newcastle, he now lives in Ballarat. He has been writing music for fifty-five years and has produced an extensive catalogue of works performed, broadcast, and issued on CD, world-wide. He spent his early working life selling LPs in South London; he has also worked as a reviewer, a peripatetic interviewer, a copyright licensing officer, a bookshop chain manager, at a telephone company call-centre, in the ATO, and, for ten of the last seventeen years, in Melbourne’s premier classical CD shop. He is now entirely freelance, working as a composer and, intermittently, in the CD industry.

http://chrisdench.com/

 

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Meet BMF young artist Francis Atkins 🎹. Francis is a feature artist in two upcoming shows next week, ‘Butterflying’ on Saturday 24th and ‘Shepherd on the Rock’ on Sunday 25th.
Meet BMF young artist and recent winner of the QSO Young Instrumentalist prize @andreplaysbassoon who features as concerto soloist and recitalist in two upcoming performances ‘Celestial Spirits’ on April 24th and ‘Shepherd on the Rock’ on April 25th.
BMF followers will recall @trishello and her stunning performance of Rachmaninoff and Brahms in last years streamed series. Trish is once again featured in this years festival and takes to the live stage of St Mary’s on Friday 23rd of April for a full cycle of the Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano with AD @alexplaysthepiano 🎶
Meet our incredible cohort of 2021 young artists; Jemima Drews (flute), Dario Scalabrini (clarinet), Andre Oberleuter (bassoon), Laura Raineri (music theatre performer), Julia Hill (violin), Rebekah Hall (violin), Donica Tran (violin), Harrison Swainston (viola), Shuhei Lawson (cello) and Francis Atkins (piano).
In our first ever socials takeover, BMF young artist @dario_scalabrini takes the reins on April 13th. Stay tuned 🔥🎶👌 #takeover #clarinet #darioscalabrini
BMF followers will recount the stunning performance of @jennarobertsonartist in our 2020 streamed series. Jenna is back in 2021! She will feature in ‘Celestial Spirits’ on April 24th with an extract from a new opera of her own creation ‘Spirit Orphan’ and also in ‘Shepherd on the Rock’ on April 25th singing Schubert’s famous song of the same name.

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