Still image by Michaela French from her motion graphics for Gothic
MUSIC THEATRE AND CHAMBER OPERA
2023 Three Marys (executive producer, composer) a chamber opera with libretto by Dr Christine Evans. Supported by RISE, the Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, Australian Cultural Fund, MFI, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Opera Queensland and Inner West Council. Evans’ libretto completion supported by the Howard Foundation, Brown University, Rhode Island. For two soprano, alto, bass-baritone, flute, violin, oud, cello, tuba, keyboards/piano, double bass, percussion and sound design. Premier season presented by Sydney Opera House, The Playhouse, May 11-13 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. 80 mins.
2018 City of Lost Souls (co-creator, co-composer, choral conductor, voice, ukulele). Stories from the borough of St Kilda and beyond, August 29-31, Theatre Works. Co-created with writer Maryanne Lynch and songwriter/composer Hugo Race. Featuring Roomers Inc. with the Decibelles Female Pop Choir and the Albert Park College Community Choir, cello, trombone, keyboard, autoharp, percussion and sound design. 70 mins.
2015/18 Gothic (artistic director, composer, arranger, vocalist). A song-cycle surveying ideas of gothic from medieval to contemporary times. An international collaboration between Andrée Greenwell and motion graphics artistic Michaela French (UK). Premier season May 27-29, Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, Vivid NSW. Original lyrics by Australian writers Hilary Bell, Maryanne Lynch, Hugo Race, Felicity Plunkett and Alison Croggon. Including songs by Goethe and Shubert, Kate Bush, Rod Temperton, a German medieval hymn, and the Cure. Awarded a Project Fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Performances supported by Create NSW and Australia Council of the Arts.Two voices, string quartet, electric guitar/audio design and triple screen motion graphics.
Remount tour with Ad Hoc Collective (Victoria) and GRM (NSW). Riverside, Parramatta, Nov 9; The Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, Nov 25. Supported by Create NSW. Two voices, string quartet, electric guitar/audio design and triple screen motion graphics. A Green Room Music production. 63 mins.
2013 The Hanging of Jean Lee (artistic director, composer, digital image director and producer). Based upon the verse history by Jordie Albiston, libretto by Jordie Albiston and Abe Pogos, Arts House, North Melbourne, Dec 7 & 8. Supported by Arts Victoria, Robert Salzer Foundation, New Music Network and Arts House. Cast: Max Sharam, Jeff Duff, Hugo Race and Simon Maiden. Violin, trumpet, w/w, electric guitar, keyboard, bass, drumkit and audio design. A Green Room Music production. 83 mins.
2011 Night Songs (composer and project initiator). wr. Alison Croggon and Daniel Keene, dir. Matthew Lutton. Creative development of a new music-theatre work for young audiences, Bell Shakespeare Company ‘Mind’s Eye’. Three actor/singers, w/w, electric guitar, guitar, bass and audio design. 50 mins.
2011 Behind the Cane (co-composer and co-music director with David Bridie). A new music theatre work, commissioned by 2011 Queensland Music Festival artistic director, Deborah Conway. Wr. Margery and Michael Forde, dir. Sean Mee. Telling the story of the peoples of Queensland who stayed beyond the White Australia policy, involving over 100 performers from the Australian South Sea Islander community of Bowen. Presented to 8,000 people at the shores of Bowen, North Queensland. Adult choir, childrens’ choir, soloists, rock band, SSI percussion, violin, cello, and brass trio. 85 mins.
2008/9 Venus and Adonis (composer, music director) dir. Marion Potts, Malthouse/Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company co-production. Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney and Malthouse, Melbourne. Cast: Melissa Madden Gray (aka Meow Meow) and Susan Prior. Electric guitar, recorders, percussion. Tour to Auckland Festival of Arts. 75 mins.
2006 The Hanging of Jean Lee (artistic director, composer, digital image director). based upon the verse history by Jordie Albiston. Libretto by Jordie Albiston and Abe Pogos, dir. by Timothy Maddock. Made possible through receipt of the biennial award: the NSW Ministry of Arts Women in Arts Fellowship. Premier season at the Studio Sydney Opera House, August 2 – 6, 2006. Supported by the Sydney Opera House Producers Unit, the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW, the City of Sydney, and the Myer Foundation. With Max Sharam, Jeff Duff, Hugo Race and Josh Quong Tart. Violin, trumpet, clarinets/saxophones, electric guitar, keyboard, bass and kit. A Green Room Music production. 83 mins.
2003/4 Dreaming Transportation: Voice Portraits of the First Women of White Settlement at Port Jackson (artistic director, composer, conductor, digital image director). A music-theatre work for six amplified singers, seven musicians and triple screen projections, based upon the poetic history ‘Botany Bay Document’ by Jordie Albiston. commissioned by the Sydney Festival of the Arts 2003, supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Playworks, Parramatta City Council, the Myer Foundation and the Arts NSW. dir. Chris Ryan, projected images dir. Andrée Greenwell. Vocalists: Deborah Conway, Justine Clarke, Christine Douglas, Miriam Allan and Amie Mc Kenna. Remounted at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, 2004, dir. Marion Potts, prod. Performing Lines. Amplified violin, cl/sax, cello, piano, bass, percussion, guitar/mandolin/hurdy-gurdy, piano accordion. A Green Room Music Production. 83 mins.
Excerpts of Dreaming Transportation were performed at the APRA/AMC Classical Music Awards, 2004 and at the Australian International Music Market, Brisbane Festival.
1999 Laquiem: Tales From the Mourning of the Lac Women (artistic director, composer, vocalist). A new music performance work based on writings from Kathleen Mary Fallon’s novella, The Mourning of the Lac Women. Premiered at the Studio, Sydney Opera House May 12-15, 1999. Spoken voice, contemporary voice, soprano, vln, vc, w/w, perc, harp. A Green Room Music Production. 55 mins.
1999 War Poems (composer). for Songs of Love and War, conceived by Grant Smith, poet Stephen J. Williams, dir. Lindy Hume, OzOpera, Melbourne. Baritone, alto saxophone, piano, drumkit. 8 mins.
1994 Passion (composer, vocalist). A contemporary oratorio by Andrée Greenwell. Cathedral Room, ANZ Gothic Bank, Collins St Festival, Nov 6. Adapted from the score for the theatre work of the same name, by the Sydney Front.
Soprano, tenor, voice, trumpet, cello, baroque organ and sampled audio soundtrack. 55 mins.
1991 Sweet Death (composer). A chamber opera in which the heroine gorges herself on gourmet pastries and sweets, to death. Based upon the novel Une Mort Sucrée by Belgian writer Claude Tardat. Libretto by Abe Pogos, dir.
Douglas Horton, cond. Peter Locke. Commissioned by the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 1991, produced by Chamber Made Opera. Recorded and broadcast by ABC Classic FM. Two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, flute, violin, cello, trombone, percussion, keyboard. 75 mins.
1990 Seven Slipped Discs and a Couple of Tracks off the Record (artistic director, composer, vocalist). Covers of pop songs from the ‘70’s and ‘80’s in seven languages. The Shrieking Divas, produced by Chamber Made Opera, Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, 1990. Voices, violin, oboe, cello, electronics. 30 mins.
1989 Lovesongs/-Fragments (artistic director, composer, vocalist) a song cycle exploring the Western love song, The Shrieking Divas, 1989. Above Syd's, Darlinghurst; also at the Fringe Gallery, Melbourne; Women's Gallery, Melbourne. Tour of Northern and North-West coast of Tasmania. Voice, two violins, vibraphone and mixed media on tape. 45 mins.
VOCAL AND CHAMBER WORKS
2021 ‘Royal National Park’ to a poem by Ross Gibson. For SATB choir. 4 mins.
2021 ‘An die Musik’ to the poem by Rilke c.1918, trans. Cliff Crego. For SATB choir; also Mezzo soprano and piano. 3 mins.
2020 ‘Diderot Once Said’ from Lovesongs/-Fragements originally created for the Shrieking Divas (1989) to a quote from the French writer. Arranged for voice, violin, cello and piano. 6 mins.
2020 ‘Waiting’ from Lovesongs/-Fragements originally created for the Shrieking Divas (1989). Arranged for piano; alt treble instrument and accompaniment, 3 mins.
2020 ‘Angels in the Night’ lyric by Felicity Choir, SATB choir; also soprano and piano. 4 mins.
2020 ‘Moonlight #1’ lyric by George Franklin arranged from The Backdoor Songs
(1986). Soprano and piano. 4 mins.
2019 ‘Pardon Goddess of the Night’ lyric by William Shakespeare arranged from the score commissioned by Bell Shakespeare Company for the 2019 national touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. For mezzo soprano, or alto or baritone, optional backup vocal, with piano and/or guitar. 3 mins.
2019 ‘Sonnet 116’ lyric by William Shakespeare arranged from the score commissioned by Bell Shakespeare Company for the 2019 national touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. For SATB choir and piano. 4 mins.
2019 ‘Sigh No More Ladies’ lyric by William Shakespeare arranged from the score commissioned by Bell Shakespeare Company for the national touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. For solo voice with piano and/or guitar. 3 mins.
2019 ‘Dreaming Transportation’ lyric by Jordie Albiston, title aria arranged from the music theatre of the same name (2004). Soprano and piano. 6 mins.
2019 ‘Moonfish’ lyric by Jordie Albiston, arranged from the music theatre work Dreaming Transportation (2003). Mezzo-soprano and piano. 4 mins.
2019 ‘Divorce File’ lyric by Jordie Albiston, arranged from the music theatre workThe Hanging of Jean Lee (2006). Mezzo-soprano and piano. 2 mins.
2019 Voices Crossing (artistic director, composer, music director) new vocal works by Andrée Greenwell and Kon Koukias, Balmain Town Hall, Nov 24. Featuring vocalists Jessica O’Donoghue, Maissa Alameddine, The House that Dan Built, violin, cello, tuba, synthesiser, percussion, electronica and creative audio. Supported by Inner West EDGE. 30 mins.
2018 Listen to Me (artistic director, composer, sound design, vocalist) a Podcast and online music work in eleven sections as a creative response in words, music and audio, to the problem of gendered violence in Australia. Broadcast ‘All the Best’ FBi Radio, 94.5FM, Sydney, July 28. Writers: Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alison Croggon, Donna Abela, Candy Royalle, Eunice Andrada and Ania Walwicz. Dramaturgy by Hilary Bell. Music engineer and mastering David Trumpmanis. Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Four Winds and Musica Viva Countrywide. 32 mins.
2017 Wings Like Eagles (composer) commissioned by the family of Richard and Jenny Kaan to celebrate the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, Feb 17. For the St Swithin’s Pymble Anglican Church Choir. SATB choir and organ. 5 mins.
2017 Arrows I,II (composer, vocalist, vocal director) for After Julia a commissioned program presented by the West Australian electro-acoustic ensemble, Decibel, July 10, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Melbourne; July 13,14, Metro Arts, Brisbane. Lyric by Hilary Bell. For six vocalists, violin, soprano saxophone, cello, percussion and electronics. 12 mins.
2015 Dotty (composer). Rare Sounds 2 concert, St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, August 1, XL Arts Inc. Soprano, violin, flute, oboe, clarinet, cello, and piano. 10 mins.
2014/5 Arrows I,II (composer, vocal director) for After Julia a commissioned program presented by the West Australian electro-acoustic ensemble, Decibel, Nov 8, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Studios, Ultimo; April 20, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 2015 with choir directed by Aaron Wyatt. Lyric by Hilary Bell. For six vocalists, violin, soprano saxophone, cello, percussion and electronics. 12 mins.
2009 Two songs from Venus and Adonis (composer) performed at Artists Unite, the Bell Shakespeare Company’s contribution to the benefit concert following the Victorian bushfires. Dame Joan Sutherland Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, February 22. With Melissa Madden Gray, Susan Prior, amplified recorders, electric guitar and percussion. 7 mins.
2008 The Villainelles (artistic director, composer, sound designer, vocalist) Andrée Greenwell and Donna Hewitt vocals, violin, cello, trombone, electric guitar, T keyboards, bass guitar, drumkit and percussion, prepared audio. Premier performances May 22, 23 at the Performance Space, Carriageworks, Redfern. Further performances August 21 and 22 at Arts House, North Melbourne. 55 mins.
2000 Resurrection/Dance Mix (composer) a composition project involving six Dutch, Australian and German composers. Commissioned by Red House Editions for the Tüchlingsfung festival in Germany. Flute, guitar, piano, double bass and audio. 10 mins.
1997 Sydney Snapshots (composer, vocalist) for ‘Della Laguna’ Concert of Glass curated by Jennifer Phipps, Contemporary Music Events, Sydney Festival & Carnivale; Ten New Music Works, for the Public Address System, 1996. Voice, alto sax, cello, marimba, audio. 9 mins.
1997 Four Chambers of the Heart (composer). Poems by Helen Grützner, Third Australian Women Composers' Festival, Great Hall, University of Sydney. Also performed by Verismo, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, recorded and broadcast by ABC Classic FM. Two sopranos, clarinet, cello, piano. 22 mins.
1996 Songs With a Few Words (composer, vocalist) commissioned by the Song Company, Sherman Art Gallery. SSA/TTB choir. Various international and national tours, 18 mins.
1994 Dotty (composer, conductor). 2nd Composing Women’s Festival, Contemporary Music Events Company, Malthouse Theatre Melbourne. Amplified soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. 10 mins.
1990 Rhythm and Repetition (composer) for instrumental ensembles and dancers.
Chor. Daryl Pellizer. Commissioned by Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, music director Pamela Burnard. Seven instrumentalists and four dancers.
1987 Studies for string quartet and drum machines (composer, conductor, sequencing) Linden Art Gallery St.Kilda. String quartet, two Yamaha RX11 drum machines. 12 mins.
1987 Five Songs (composer, keyboard) The Backdoor Sinfonietta, Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne. Poems by George Franklin. Soprano, violin, cello, guitar, bass clarinet, keyboard, tape. Also the School of Music, Victoria College of the Arts. 17 mins.
1986 Luna Park (composer) Elision, Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne University.
Violin, guitar, mandolin, clarinet, percussion, double bass. 15 mins.
1985 Three Songs (composer). Eureka Ensemble, Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne University. Soprano, flute/picc, guitar, trombone, percussion. 12 mins.
COMPOSER/DIRECTOR OF SHORT FILMS, MUSIC-VIDEO
2021 Maria Walks (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Video artwork - Michaela French, editor - James Manché. This track also appears on the earlier album and performance work Gothic, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2021 Trio (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Video artwork - John GIllies, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2021 Languour #2 (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Cinematographer - Steve Macdonald, editor - James Manché.
2021 Spanish Cowboy (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Featuring footage from the feature-documentary film 'Refugio Tx', written directed, photographed and edited by Anne-Maree Hess, music video editor - James Manché, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2016 Chosen (composer, director) music video clip of the song from the album Gothic. Choreography and dance - Scout Higgins, cinematographer - Justine Kerrigan, editor - James Manché, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2002 Laquiem (director, composer, script adaption). Developed from sections of the music performance work by writer Kathleen Mary Fallon and Andrée Greenwell. Screened at: Flickerfest Sydney 2002; Commonwealth Film Festival 2002; Sao Paolo Short Film Festival Brazil 2002; Molodist Film Festival Kyev 2002; Manchester Short Film Festival; 2002, St Kilda Film Festival, 2002; Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival 2002; Sydney Film Festival 2003; Rhode Island International Film Festival 2003; Sacramento Film & Music Festival 2003; Cinema des Antipodes 2003; Foyle Film Festival 2003; Zebra- Poetry Film Award, Berlin 2004. Operatic, contemporary & spoken voices, violin, cello, cl/sax, harp, percussion. Purchased by SBS Eat Carpet. Supported by the NSW Film & Television Office Young Film Makers Fund, a Roof Tops Media and Green Room Music production. 7 mins.
1997 Medusahead: a video-opera clip for decapitated soprano and 3D animated snakes (director, composer, mixer) AFTRS, 1997. Cin. Anthony Jennings, prod. des. Katerina Stratos, Flame 3D des. Paul Butler. Featuring Helen Noonan as Medusa. Screened at: Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam; Champs Libres, Montreal; Cyberart, Valencia; Transmediale, Berlin Film Festival; The Edge of the World film festival, Hobart; awarded best use of the medium Bathurst Film Festival; as part of d.ART, 45th Sydney International Film Festival, 1998; Video Brazil, 1998; Imago Festival, Perth, 1999; as an installation at ISCM World Music Days, Luxembourg, 2000; Purchased by Kunst Kanal Holland & Eat Carpet, SBS. Cast: Rebecca Smee. Soprano, violin, soprano, saxophone, cello, double bass, electric bass, harp, snare drum, Kurzweill samples, audio. 7 mins.
1995 Seams (director, composer, sound design) for the Interventions Project. Installation and video project between Dance Exchange and SBS Eat Carpet. cur. Russell Dumas. Soprano and tenor saxophones, audio.
ORCHESTRA
1998 GO! (composer) Commissioned by Symphony Australia for the ‘New Voices’ project, performed by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Mills. Performed in Hobart and live broadcast by the ABC. 11 mins. Broadcast ABC Classic FM 1998 and 2014.
1995 Life and Death (composer) score for short film drama by Justine Kerrigan, AFTRS. Lyrics by Virginia Baxter and Keith Gallasch. Featuring soprano Karen Cummings and Sydney Youth Orchestra, cond. Henry Pisarek. Also used in the film documentary City of Dreams, wr./dr. Belinda Mason, ABC television and Film Australia.
COMPOSER FOR THEATRE
2019 Much Ado About Nothing (composer, sound designer) dir. James Evans, Bell Shakespeare Company national tour of 104 performances including seasons at Melbourne Arts Centre, Heath Ledger Theatre Perth, Canberra Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Voice/s, ukulele, guitar, bass, electronics, creative audio.
2017 2071: A Performance About Climate Change (composer, sound designer) wr. Duncan Macmillan and Prof. Chris Rapley, dir. Timothy Jones, Seymour Centre, in association with Vivid, NSW. Electronic score and children’s voices.
2011 Tis Pity She’s a Whore (composer) dir. Marion Potts, Malthouse Theatre. For soprano Julia County, harpsichord and sampler instruments with live digital manipulations by laptop artist/sound designer Jethro Woodward.
2003 The Glass Menagerie (composer) dir. Jennifer Flowers, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1. Digital audio, synth and cello.
2002 Volpone (composer) dir. Marion Potts, Sydney Theatre Company, The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House. Songs for Paul Capsis & Jennifer Vuletic with clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, bass, percussion & synth.
2001 The School for Scandal (music director) dir. Judy Davis, Sydney Theatre Company. Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House.
2001 Morning Sacrifice (composer) dir. Jennifer Flowers. Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf Theatre, Sydney. Girls’ choir, from Sydney Girls’ High School, audio.
2001 Cyrano (composer) dir./trans. Marion Potts, adapt. Andrew Upton, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre. This score was also played for the launch of the 2002 Sydney Theatre Company season, by artistic director Robin Nevin. Soprano, trumpet, violin, cello, harpsichord, double bass, percussion, and audio soundtrack.
1999 Ship of Fools (composer) dir. Ros Horin, wr. Andrew Bovell, Griffin Theatre Company. The Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst. Voices, soprano and alto saxophones, violin, double bass, kbd, percussion.
1998 Navigating (composer, sound designer) dir. Marion Potts, Sydney Theatre Company, Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Voices, piano, audio.
1997 Black Mary (composer, music director) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Julie Janson, Belvoir Street Theatre Company, for the Festival of the Dreaming. With songs composed by Jimmy Little. Voices, violin/viola, guitar pedal effects, piano, percussion.
1997 The Herbal Bed (composer) dir. Marion Potts, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre. Soprano, voice, recorder, violin, cello, harpsichord.
1995 Fright (composer) dir. Nigel Kellaway, Sidetrack Theatre Company. Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Soprano, voice, violin, cello, harpsichord, sound FX.
1995 Orientalia (composer) wr./dir. Sally Sussman, Performance Space, Sydney. Music workshopped in collaboration between Chinese Opera and Western musicians. Chinese opera singers, voice, erhu, jinghu, Chinese and Western percussion, synthesisers and sampled audio soundtrack.
1994 Factory Girl (composer, music director, voice, piano) dir. Angela Chaplin, Deckchair Theatre Company Fremantle. Six actors’ voices, piano.
1993 Passion (composer) The Sydney Front, the Performance Space, Sydney. A theatre work performed by the audience. Soprano, tenor, trumpet, cello, organ, sampled soundtrack.
1993 Matebian Nia Lian (composer, music director) dir. James McCaughey, wr. Julieanne O'Brian in conjunction with the Timorese cast, Timorese Cultural Community Group, Theatreworks, St Kilda, Melbourne. Timorese and African instruments, flutes, drums and found objects.
1993 Heroes (composer) dir. Annette Downs, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Hobart. Electronic Soundtrack with voice over.
1992 Frankenstein’s Children (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. David Carlin, Deckchair Theatre Company, Fremantle Prison. For eight actors' voices, harmonium, thunder sheets, wind machine, found percussion.
1991 White Paper Flowers (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Mary Hickson, Magpie Theatre Company, State Theatre, Adelaide. Violin, percussion and six actors' voices.
1990 The Wooden Child (composer) dir. Douglas Horton, wr. Ken Harper, Handspan Theatre Company, Melbourne. Synthesised and sampled soundtrack.
1990 The Arbor (composer, narrator) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Andrea Dunbar, Magpie Theatre Company, Site 59, Adelaide Festival of the Arts. Atari computer, synthesiser, voices, digital FX.
1989 Alice (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Gillian Rubenstein. Magpie Theatre Company, Adelaide. Actors voices, synthesiser, drum machine.
1989 Coupl’A Kids (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Julianne O’Brien, Magpie Theatre Company, Come Out Festival, Adelaide. Voice, flute, electronics.
1988-9 The Pornography of Performance (composer, with Sarah de Jong) The Sydney Front, Performance Space, Sydney; Adelaide Fringe Festival; Roskilde Festival, Denmark; Danslab Amsterdam 1989; Petersbornhof Sommer Szene Festival Salzburg; Die Werkstatt Dusseldorf; Riverside Studios, London. Yamaha DX7, mixed media on tape. 100 mins.
1988 The Rainbow Warrior (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Julianne O’Brien, Arena Theatre Company, Melbourne. Custom-made instruments designed by Rodney Berry. Actors’ voices, drums, marimba.
1987 Macbeth dir. James McCaughey, graduating students, School of Drama, Victorian College of the Arts. Oboe, bass clarinet, custom designed instruments by Rodney Berry, found percussion.
1987 John Laws/Sade (composer) The Sydney Front, the Performance Space, Sydney. Also The Fringe Festival, Adelaide. Yamaha DX7, mixed media on tape. 60 mins.
COMPOSER FOR FILM
2021 Contact Trace film version of an 11-minute immersive installation work with visual artist John Janson-Moore and screen producer Jacqui North, supported by a City of Sydney Creative Fellowship. Installation May 2021 at Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital, Macquarie St, Sydney. As short film, screened at the Sydney Science Fiction Festival 2022, awarded 'Best Experimental Film, Solaris Film Festival, Nice, France'.
2020 The Gathering (composer) short film wr./dir. Rebecca O’Brien, Screen NSW.
2007 X-Ray Vision (composer) short film dir./des. Katerina Stratos, cinematographer Toby Oliver. Flute, electronics, synthesisers.
2003 Home: Refugio Tx (composer) a feature-length documentary written and directed by Anne-Marie Hess, New York, USA.
2003 Becoming Julia (composer) dir. Ruth Cullen, SBS documentary. Sydney Film Festival, winner audience favourite film. Jazz trio, digital synth, oboe, French horn, string ensemble.
2000 City of Dreams (composer) wr./dir. Belinda Mason, Film Australia, 2000. An award- winning documentary surveying the architecture of Marion Mahoney Griffin and Sir Walter Burleigh Griffin. Melbourne International Film Festival; winner of the Gold Hugo Award at the Chicago International Competition; Royal Australian Institute of Architects Special Award; Atom Award finalist; Premier’s History Prize. String quartet, piano, orchestra.
1998 Back to the Back of Beyond (composer/arranger) a feature-length documentary dir. Robert Francis, Total Films. Oboe, string quintet, keyboard.
1998 Lake Pedder (composer) documentary dir. Anna Grieve/Steve Best, Film Australia. Violin, digital audio processing, bassoon, harp, Kurzweill sampler.
1996 Life and Death (composer, sound design, mixer) short film drama dir. Justine Kerrigan, AFTRS. Words by Virginia Baxter and Keith Gallasch. Soprano, Sydney Youth Orchestra.
1995 The Sinking of the Twentieth Century (composer, sound design, mixer) short film drama wr./dir. Michael James Rowland, AFTRS.
1995 Savageries (composer) short film drama dir. Marcella Paolacci, AFTRS. Boy soprano, tenor, baritone, two violins, clarinet, cello, double bass, 4 drummers, samples, Rodney Berry's original instrument, ‘Percy’s laundry organ’.
1995 A Taste for Rafaella (sound recordist, sound editor) short film drama wr./dir. Sandy Lepore, AFTRS.
1995 Interventions Project ‘Seams’ (director, composer, sound design). Installation and video project between Dance Exchange and SBS Eat Carpet. August 21-September 10, 1995, Artspace Sydney. Cur. Russell Dumas. Soprano and tenor saxophones, audio.
1995 Women in Power (composer) documentary dir. Kay Pavlou, SBS. Violin, marimba, percussion.
1994 Voices (composer) promotional video dir. Sylvia Shaw, Australian Council for Women. Samples, synthesiser, cello.
1992 Bigger than Texas (composer) dir. David Noakes, Market St Films, Fremantle, 1992. Trumpet, cello, piano, didgeridoo, percussion.
COMPOSER FOR DANCE
1994 Cantadora (composer and vocalist) chor. Sue Peacock for Sue Peacock and Dancers, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Voice, cello, harpsichord, audio samples.
1991 Five pieces for string quartet and drum machines chor. Helen Herbetson, Danceworks, Malthouse Theatre. Also tour to Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide.
1990 Three Wings (composer, vocalist, keyboards, Atari computer) chor. Beth Shelton, Danceworks, South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne. Also tour to Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide. Voice, synthesiser, sampler, digital FX.
1989 Twisted Australian Dance Theatre, Balcony Theatre, Adelaide. March 22,23 and March 28 to April 1. String Quartet and drum machines.
RADIO - MUSIC RECORDINGS, FEATURES AND COMMISSIONED SCORES FOR RADIO DRAMA
2014 Passion – the dynamic and emotive music of Andrée Greenwell a 90-minute feature broadcast, surveying Greenwell’s works of the past twenty years, including an interview with Julian Day, for the ABC Classic FM program, ‘New Music Up Late’. Broadcast 10:30pm, Sat 14 June.
2013 ‘An underbelly song cycle, The Hanging of Jean Lee’. ABC Books and Arts, interview with Jordie Albiston and Hugo Race. Thursday December 5, 2015.
2009/13 The Hanging of Jean Lee (composer, music producer, music director) full broadcast on ‘Poetica’, ABC Radio National, April 11, 2009. Repeats April 16, and December 2014. With Pippa Grandison, Amie Mc Kenna, Jeff Duff, Hugo Race, Mark Seymour, Simon Maiden and Josh Quong Tart. Violin, trumpet, clarinets/saxophones, electric guitar, keyboard, bass, drum kit and percussion.
2008 Wings Up to the Light (composer, music producer, music director) Produced by Robyn Ravlich, ABC Radio Drama and Music Units. Featuring the ABC studio recordings of the music theatre work, interviews of musicians involved in Green Room Music’s The Hanging of Jean Lee.
2004 The Butcher’s Wife (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Noel Janacewska, produced by Anna Messariti. Featuring Vietnamese-Australian musician Judy Dheng on voice and Dhan Tranh, virtual and software synthesisers, percussion.
2003 The Daphne Massacre (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Donna Abela, produced by Anna Messariti. Voices, saw, trumpet, cello, bass, audio.
2003 Redfern Heights (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Alana Valentine and produced by Elizabeth Douglas. Drumkit and electric base.
2003 A Child into the World/A World Into a Child (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Katherine Zimdahl and produced by Anna Messariti. Harp, software synthesiser and samplers.
1992 Dear John (composer, vocalist) John Cage Tribute, ABC, Melbourne, curated by Jonathon Mills. Andrée Greenwell - voice, Helen Mountfort – electric cello, fireworks, and digital tape sampling John Cage’s “Sonatas and Interludes”.
1991 Sweet Death (composer) an opera in which the heroine gorges herself on gourmet pastries and sweets, to death. Based upon the novel by Claude Tardat. Commissioned by the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 1991, produced by Chamber Made Opera. Libretto by Abe Pogos, dir. Douglas Horton, cond. Peter Locke. Two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, flute, violin, cello, trombone, percussion, and keyboard. 75 mins.
UNSCORED WORKS, COLLABORATIONS, INSTALLATIONS
2021 Contact Trace an 11-minute immersive installation work with visual artist John Janson-Moore and screen producer Jacqui North, supported by a City of Sydney Creative Fellowship. Installation May 2021 at Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital, Macquarie St, Sydney.
2000 Medusahead video installation Centre d’Arts Pluriels, Ettelbruck, ISCM World Music Days, Luxembourg, Sept 29-October 8.
1994 Mother Tongue sound installation for 7 cassette decks and 14 wall-mounted speakers, curated by Sonia Leber for ‘Earwitness’, Experimenta, Contemporary Music Events, Melbourne.
1993 Ten Minute Work co-composed with cellist Helen Mountfort, for ‘Theatre of the Dome’ concert, Metrodome, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, produced by Contemporary Music Events. Andrée Greenwell – voice and harmonium, Helen Mountfort – cello. 10 mins.
1992 Songs We Like to Play Co-composed/performed in a duo with Helen Mountfort: for La Mama Musica, Melbourne; also Theatreworks, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne 1992; Andrée Greenwell – voice and harmonium, Helen Mountfort – cello.12 mins.
1986 Five Times 5 x 2 minute improvisations for five metronomes, Yamaha DX7 and tape, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne. Electronic keyboard improvisation by Andrée Greenwell with tape. 10 mins.
AUDIO PUBLICATIONS
2021 Cinéaste, Helixed label, distributed by MGM, May 28, digital release, also Bandcamp.
2020 City of Dreams, Green Room Music, May 16, digital audio, Bandcamp.
2020 Pieces for String Quartet and Drum Machines, Green Room Music, May 1, digital audio, Bandcamp.
2018 Listen to Me, Green Room Music, July 16, digital audio, Bandcamp.
2016 Gothic Green Room Music, online and CD.
2012 The Hanging of Jean Lee Green Room Music, Nov 25, CD.
2009 New Music Network New Music Network, Sydney, CD.
2004 Dreaming Transportation ABC Audio, CD
2001 Anthology 1988 – 2001 Chamber Made, CD
2000 Tuchfülung 2 Resurrection Project, Red House Music, CD
1999 Laquiem, Green Room Music, CD
1995 The Sounds of Floriade, ABC Enterprises, CD
1993 Passion, Newmarket Music, CD
1993 ‘A Lovely Time’ Australian Piano Miniatures, Redhouse Publishing, CD
1992 Excerpts from Sweeth Death, Chamber Made Opera, MIFA, NMA Cassette 10
1989 ‘Two Studies for Drum Machines’, Mixed Doubles, NMA Cassette 5
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
2023 Book chapter ‘Carnivals of Voice, Musical Playgrounds: music from text in works of Andrée Greenwell’, for ‘The Composer, Herself' ed. Linda Kouvaras, Natalie Williams and Maria Grenfell, Springer Nature.
2019 ‘Much Ado About Nothing – songs for theatre and vocal performance’, Resonate Magazine, Australian Music Centre,
2018 ‘Listen to Me: making a vocal work as a creative response to the problem of gendered violence in Australia: reflections upon creative, performativity and publication’ Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference, Monash University, conference paper and performance, July 7.
2018 ‘Gothic’, Resonate Magazine, Australian Music Centre, blog article, Oct 31.
2013 ‘‘Theatres of Music’: recent composition-led works of Andrée Greenwell’, Doctoral exegesis UoW.
2012 ‘The Hanging of Jean Lee’ Resonate Magazine, blog article, Oct 12.
1992 ‘Notes on an opera’, NMA 10 magazine, pp.12-13.
MUSIC THEATRE AND CHAMBER OPERA
2023 Three Marys (executive producer, composer) a chamber opera with libretto by Dr Christine Evans. Supported by RISE, the Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, Australian Cultural Fund, MFI, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Opera Queensland and Inner West Council. Evans’ libretto completion supported by the Howard Foundation, Brown University, Rhode Island. For two soprano, alto, bass-baritone, flute, violin, oud, cello, tuba, keyboards/piano, double bass, percussion and sound design. Premier season presented by Sydney Opera House, The Playhouse, May 11-13 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. 80 mins.
2018 City of Lost Souls (co-creator, co-composer, choral conductor, voice, ukulele). Stories from the borough of St Kilda and beyond, August 29-31, Theatre Works. Co-created with writer Maryanne Lynch and songwriter/composer Hugo Race. Featuring Roomers Inc. with the Decibelles Female Pop Choir and the Albert Park College Community Choir, cello, trombone, keyboard, autoharp, percussion and sound design. 70 mins.
2015/18 Gothic (artistic director, composer, arranger, vocalist). A song-cycle surveying ideas of gothic from medieval to contemporary times. An international collaboration between Andrée Greenwell and motion graphics artistic Michaela French (UK). Premier season May 27-29, Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, Vivid NSW. Original lyrics by Australian writers Hilary Bell, Maryanne Lynch, Hugo Race, Felicity Plunkett and Alison Croggon. Including songs by Goethe and Shubert, Kate Bush, Rod Temperton, a German medieval hymn, and the Cure. Awarded a Project Fellowship from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Performances supported by Create NSW and Australia Council of the Arts.Two voices, string quartet, electric guitar/audio design and triple screen motion graphics.
Remount tour with Ad Hoc Collective (Victoria) and GRM (NSW). Riverside, Parramatta, Nov 9; The Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, Nov 25. Supported by Create NSW. Two voices, string quartet, electric guitar/audio design and triple screen motion graphics. A Green Room Music production. 63 mins.
2013 The Hanging of Jean Lee (artistic director, composer, digital image director and producer). Based upon the verse history by Jordie Albiston, libretto by Jordie Albiston and Abe Pogos, Arts House, North Melbourne, Dec 7 & 8. Supported by Arts Victoria, Robert Salzer Foundation, New Music Network and Arts House. Cast: Max Sharam, Jeff Duff, Hugo Race and Simon Maiden. Violin, trumpet, w/w, electric guitar, keyboard, bass, drumkit and audio design. A Green Room Music production. 83 mins.
2011 Night Songs (composer and project initiator). wr. Alison Croggon and Daniel Keene, dir. Matthew Lutton. Creative development of a new music-theatre work for young audiences, Bell Shakespeare Company ‘Mind’s Eye’. Three actor/singers, w/w, electric guitar, guitar, bass and audio design. 50 mins.
2011 Behind the Cane (co-composer and co-music director with David Bridie). A new music theatre work, commissioned by 2011 Queensland Music Festival artistic director, Deborah Conway. Wr. Margery and Michael Forde, dir. Sean Mee. Telling the story of the peoples of Queensland who stayed beyond the White Australia policy, involving over 100 performers from the Australian South Sea Islander community of Bowen. Presented to 8,000 people at the shores of Bowen, North Queensland. Adult choir, childrens’ choir, soloists, rock band, SSI percussion, violin, cello, and brass trio. 85 mins.
2008/9 Venus and Adonis (composer, music director) dir. Marion Potts, Malthouse/Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company co-production. Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney and Malthouse, Melbourne. Cast: Melissa Madden Gray (aka Meow Meow) and Susan Prior. Electric guitar, recorders, percussion. Tour to Auckland Festival of Arts. 75 mins.
2006 The Hanging of Jean Lee (artistic director, composer, digital image director). based upon the verse history by Jordie Albiston. Libretto by Jordie Albiston and Abe Pogos, dir. by Timothy Maddock. Made possible through receipt of the biennial award: the NSW Ministry of Arts Women in Arts Fellowship. Premier season at the Studio Sydney Opera House, August 2 – 6, 2006. Supported by the Sydney Opera House Producers Unit, the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW, the City of Sydney, and the Myer Foundation. With Max Sharam, Jeff Duff, Hugo Race and Josh Quong Tart. Violin, trumpet, clarinets/saxophones, electric guitar, keyboard, bass and kit. A Green Room Music production. 83 mins.
2003/4 Dreaming Transportation: Voice Portraits of the First Women of White Settlement at Port Jackson (artistic director, composer, conductor, digital image director). A music-theatre work for six amplified singers, seven musicians and triple screen projections, based upon the poetic history ‘Botany Bay Document’ by Jordie Albiston. commissioned by the Sydney Festival of the Arts 2003, supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Playworks, Parramatta City Council, the Myer Foundation and the Arts NSW. dir. Chris Ryan, projected images dir. Andrée Greenwell. Vocalists: Deborah Conway, Justine Clarke, Christine Douglas, Miriam Allan and Amie Mc Kenna. Remounted at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, 2004, dir. Marion Potts, prod. Performing Lines. Amplified violin, cl/sax, cello, piano, bass, percussion, guitar/mandolin/hurdy-gurdy, piano accordion. A Green Room Music Production. 83 mins.
Excerpts of Dreaming Transportation were performed at the APRA/AMC Classical Music Awards, 2004 and at the Australian International Music Market, Brisbane Festival.
1999 Laquiem: Tales From the Mourning of the Lac Women (artistic director, composer, vocalist). A new music performance work based on writings from Kathleen Mary Fallon’s novella, The Mourning of the Lac Women. Premiered at the Studio, Sydney Opera House May 12-15, 1999. Spoken voice, contemporary voice, soprano, vln, vc, w/w, perc, harp. A Green Room Music Production. 55 mins.
1999 War Poems (composer). for Songs of Love and War, conceived by Grant Smith, poet Stephen J. Williams, dir. Lindy Hume, OzOpera, Melbourne. Baritone, alto saxophone, piano, drumkit. 8 mins.
1994 Passion (composer, vocalist). A contemporary oratorio by Andrée Greenwell. Cathedral Room, ANZ Gothic Bank, Collins St Festival, Nov 6. Adapted from the score for the theatre work of the same name, by the Sydney Front.
Soprano, tenor, voice, trumpet, cello, baroque organ and sampled audio soundtrack. 55 mins.
1991 Sweet Death (composer). A chamber opera in which the heroine gorges herself on gourmet pastries and sweets, to death. Based upon the novel Une Mort Sucrée by Belgian writer Claude Tardat. Libretto by Abe Pogos, dir.
Douglas Horton, cond. Peter Locke. Commissioned by the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 1991, produced by Chamber Made Opera. Recorded and broadcast by ABC Classic FM. Two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, flute, violin, cello, trombone, percussion, keyboard. 75 mins.
1990 Seven Slipped Discs and a Couple of Tracks off the Record (artistic director, composer, vocalist). Covers of pop songs from the ‘70’s and ‘80’s in seven languages. The Shrieking Divas, produced by Chamber Made Opera, Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, 1990. Voices, violin, oboe, cello, electronics. 30 mins.
1989 Lovesongs/-Fragments (artistic director, composer, vocalist) a song cycle exploring the Western love song, The Shrieking Divas, 1989. Above Syd's, Darlinghurst; also at the Fringe Gallery, Melbourne; Women's Gallery, Melbourne. Tour of Northern and North-West coast of Tasmania. Voice, two violins, vibraphone and mixed media on tape. 45 mins.
VOCAL AND CHAMBER WORKS
2021 ‘Royal National Park’ to a poem by Ross Gibson. For SATB choir. 4 mins.
2021 ‘An die Musik’ to the poem by Rilke c.1918, trans. Cliff Crego. For SATB choir; also Mezzo soprano and piano. 3 mins.
2020 ‘Diderot Once Said’ from Lovesongs/-Fragements originally created for the Shrieking Divas (1989) to a quote from the French writer. Arranged for voice, violin, cello and piano. 6 mins.
2020 ‘Waiting’ from Lovesongs/-Fragements originally created for the Shrieking Divas (1989). Arranged for piano; alt treble instrument and accompaniment, 3 mins.
2020 ‘Angels in the Night’ lyric by Felicity Choir, SATB choir; also soprano and piano. 4 mins.
2020 ‘Moonlight #1’ lyric by George Franklin arranged from The Backdoor Songs
(1986). Soprano and piano. 4 mins.
2019 ‘Pardon Goddess of the Night’ lyric by William Shakespeare arranged from the score commissioned by Bell Shakespeare Company for the 2019 national touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. For mezzo soprano, or alto or baritone, optional backup vocal, with piano and/or guitar. 3 mins.
2019 ‘Sonnet 116’ lyric by William Shakespeare arranged from the score commissioned by Bell Shakespeare Company for the 2019 national touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. For SATB choir and piano. 4 mins.
2019 ‘Sigh No More Ladies’ lyric by William Shakespeare arranged from the score commissioned by Bell Shakespeare Company for the national touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. For solo voice with piano and/or guitar. 3 mins.
2019 ‘Dreaming Transportation’ lyric by Jordie Albiston, title aria arranged from the music theatre of the same name (2004). Soprano and piano. 6 mins.
2019 ‘Moonfish’ lyric by Jordie Albiston, arranged from the music theatre work Dreaming Transportation (2003). Mezzo-soprano and piano. 4 mins.
2019 ‘Divorce File’ lyric by Jordie Albiston, arranged from the music theatre workThe Hanging of Jean Lee (2006). Mezzo-soprano and piano. 2 mins.
2019 Voices Crossing (artistic director, composer, music director) new vocal works by Andrée Greenwell and Kon Koukias, Balmain Town Hall, Nov 24. Featuring vocalists Jessica O’Donoghue, Maissa Alameddine, The House that Dan Built, violin, cello, tuba, synthesiser, percussion, electronica and creative audio. Supported by Inner West EDGE. 30 mins.
2018 Listen to Me (artistic director, composer, sound design, vocalist) a Podcast and online music work in eleven sections as a creative response in words, music and audio, to the problem of gendered violence in Australia. Broadcast ‘All the Best’ FBi Radio, 94.5FM, Sydney, July 28. Writers: Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alison Croggon, Donna Abela, Candy Royalle, Eunice Andrada and Ania Walwicz. Dramaturgy by Hilary Bell. Music engineer and mastering David Trumpmanis. Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Four Winds and Musica Viva Countrywide. 32 mins.
2017 Wings Like Eagles (composer) commissioned by the family of Richard and Jenny Kaan to celebrate the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, Feb 17. For the St Swithin’s Pymble Anglican Church Choir. SATB choir and organ. 5 mins.
2017 Arrows I,II (composer, vocalist, vocal director) for After Julia a commissioned program presented by the West Australian electro-acoustic ensemble, Decibel, July 10, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Melbourne; July 13,14, Metro Arts, Brisbane. Lyric by Hilary Bell. For six vocalists, violin, soprano saxophone, cello, percussion and electronics. 12 mins.
2015 Dotty (composer). Rare Sounds 2 concert, St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, August 1, XL Arts Inc. Soprano, violin, flute, oboe, clarinet, cello, and piano. 10 mins.
2014/5 Arrows I,II (composer, vocal director) for After Julia a commissioned program presented by the West Australian electro-acoustic ensemble, Decibel, Nov 8, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Studios, Ultimo; April 20, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 2015 with choir directed by Aaron Wyatt. Lyric by Hilary Bell. For six vocalists, violin, soprano saxophone, cello, percussion and electronics. 12 mins.
2009 Two songs from Venus and Adonis (composer) performed at Artists Unite, the Bell Shakespeare Company’s contribution to the benefit concert following the Victorian bushfires. Dame Joan Sutherland Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, February 22. With Melissa Madden Gray, Susan Prior, amplified recorders, electric guitar and percussion. 7 mins.
2008 The Villainelles (artistic director, composer, sound designer, vocalist) Andrée Greenwell and Donna Hewitt vocals, violin, cello, trombone, electric guitar, T keyboards, bass guitar, drumkit and percussion, prepared audio. Premier performances May 22, 23 at the Performance Space, Carriageworks, Redfern. Further performances August 21 and 22 at Arts House, North Melbourne. 55 mins.
2000 Resurrection/Dance Mix (composer) a composition project involving six Dutch, Australian and German composers. Commissioned by Red House Editions for the Tüchlingsfung festival in Germany. Flute, guitar, piano, double bass and audio. 10 mins.
1997 Sydney Snapshots (composer, vocalist) for ‘Della Laguna’ Concert of Glass curated by Jennifer Phipps, Contemporary Music Events, Sydney Festival & Carnivale; Ten New Music Works, for the Public Address System, 1996. Voice, alto sax, cello, marimba, audio. 9 mins.
1997 Four Chambers of the Heart (composer). Poems by Helen Grützner, Third Australian Women Composers' Festival, Great Hall, University of Sydney. Also performed by Verismo, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, recorded and broadcast by ABC Classic FM. Two sopranos, clarinet, cello, piano. 22 mins.
1996 Songs With a Few Words (composer, vocalist) commissioned by the Song Company, Sherman Art Gallery. SSA/TTB choir. Various international and national tours, 18 mins.
1994 Dotty (composer, conductor). 2nd Composing Women’s Festival, Contemporary Music Events Company, Malthouse Theatre Melbourne. Amplified soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. 10 mins.
1990 Rhythm and Repetition (composer) for instrumental ensembles and dancers.
Chor. Daryl Pellizer. Commissioned by Mentone Girls’ Grammar School, music director Pamela Burnard. Seven instrumentalists and four dancers.
1987 Studies for string quartet and drum machines (composer, conductor, sequencing) Linden Art Gallery St.Kilda. String quartet, two Yamaha RX11 drum machines. 12 mins.
1987 Five Songs (composer, keyboard) The Backdoor Sinfonietta, Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne. Poems by George Franklin. Soprano, violin, cello, guitar, bass clarinet, keyboard, tape. Also the School of Music, Victoria College of the Arts. 17 mins.
1986 Luna Park (composer) Elision, Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne University.
Violin, guitar, mandolin, clarinet, percussion, double bass. 15 mins.
1985 Three Songs (composer). Eureka Ensemble, Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne University. Soprano, flute/picc, guitar, trombone, percussion. 12 mins.
COMPOSER/DIRECTOR OF SHORT FILMS, MUSIC-VIDEO
2021 Maria Walks (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Video artwork - Michaela French, editor - James Manché. This track also appears on the earlier album and performance work Gothic, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2021 Trio (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Video artwork - John GIllies, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2021 Languour #2 (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Cinematographer - Steve Macdonald, editor - James Manché.
2021 Spanish Cowboy (composer, director) video clip from the album Cinéaste. Featuring footage from the feature-documentary film 'Refugio Tx', written directed, photographed and edited by Anne-Maree Hess, music video editor - James Manché, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2016 Chosen (composer, director) music video clip of the song from the album Gothic. Choreography and dance - Scout Higgins, cinematographer - Justine Kerrigan, editor - James Manché, music engineered and mixed by David Trumpmanis.
2002 Laquiem (director, composer, script adaption). Developed from sections of the music performance work by writer Kathleen Mary Fallon and Andrée Greenwell. Screened at: Flickerfest Sydney 2002; Commonwealth Film Festival 2002; Sao Paolo Short Film Festival Brazil 2002; Molodist Film Festival Kyev 2002; Manchester Short Film Festival; 2002, St Kilda Film Festival, 2002; Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival 2002; Sydney Film Festival 2003; Rhode Island International Film Festival 2003; Sacramento Film & Music Festival 2003; Cinema des Antipodes 2003; Foyle Film Festival 2003; Zebra- Poetry Film Award, Berlin 2004. Operatic, contemporary & spoken voices, violin, cello, cl/sax, harp, percussion. Purchased by SBS Eat Carpet. Supported by the NSW Film & Television Office Young Film Makers Fund, a Roof Tops Media and Green Room Music production. 7 mins.
1997 Medusahead: a video-opera clip for decapitated soprano and 3D animated snakes (director, composer, mixer) AFTRS, 1997. Cin. Anthony Jennings, prod. des. Katerina Stratos, Flame 3D des. Paul Butler. Featuring Helen Noonan as Medusa. Screened at: Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam; Champs Libres, Montreal; Cyberart, Valencia; Transmediale, Berlin Film Festival; The Edge of the World film festival, Hobart; awarded best use of the medium Bathurst Film Festival; as part of d.ART, 45th Sydney International Film Festival, 1998; Video Brazil, 1998; Imago Festival, Perth, 1999; as an installation at ISCM World Music Days, Luxembourg, 2000; Purchased by Kunst Kanal Holland & Eat Carpet, SBS. Cast: Rebecca Smee. Soprano, violin, soprano, saxophone, cello, double bass, electric bass, harp, snare drum, Kurzweill samples, audio. 7 mins.
1995 Seams (director, composer, sound design) for the Interventions Project. Installation and video project between Dance Exchange and SBS Eat Carpet. cur. Russell Dumas. Soprano and tenor saxophones, audio.
ORCHESTRA
1998 GO! (composer) Commissioned by Symphony Australia for the ‘New Voices’ project, performed by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Mills. Performed in Hobart and live broadcast by the ABC. 11 mins. Broadcast ABC Classic FM 1998 and 2014.
1995 Life and Death (composer) score for short film drama by Justine Kerrigan, AFTRS. Lyrics by Virginia Baxter and Keith Gallasch. Featuring soprano Karen Cummings and Sydney Youth Orchestra, cond. Henry Pisarek. Also used in the film documentary City of Dreams, wr./dr. Belinda Mason, ABC television and Film Australia.
COMPOSER FOR THEATRE
2019 Much Ado About Nothing (composer, sound designer) dir. James Evans, Bell Shakespeare Company national tour of 104 performances including seasons at Melbourne Arts Centre, Heath Ledger Theatre Perth, Canberra Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Voice/s, ukulele, guitar, bass, electronics, creative audio.
2017 2071: A Performance About Climate Change (composer, sound designer) wr. Duncan Macmillan and Prof. Chris Rapley, dir. Timothy Jones, Seymour Centre, in association with Vivid, NSW. Electronic score and children’s voices.
2011 Tis Pity She’s a Whore (composer) dir. Marion Potts, Malthouse Theatre. For soprano Julia County, harpsichord and sampler instruments with live digital manipulations by laptop artist/sound designer Jethro Woodward.
2003 The Glass Menagerie (composer) dir. Jennifer Flowers, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1. Digital audio, synth and cello.
2002 Volpone (composer) dir. Marion Potts, Sydney Theatre Company, The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House. Songs for Paul Capsis & Jennifer Vuletic with clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, bass, percussion & synth.
2001 The School for Scandal (music director) dir. Judy Davis, Sydney Theatre Company. Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House.
2001 Morning Sacrifice (composer) dir. Jennifer Flowers. Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf Theatre, Sydney. Girls’ choir, from Sydney Girls’ High School, audio.
2001 Cyrano (composer) dir./trans. Marion Potts, adapt. Andrew Upton, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre. This score was also played for the launch of the 2002 Sydney Theatre Company season, by artistic director Robin Nevin. Soprano, trumpet, violin, cello, harpsichord, double bass, percussion, and audio soundtrack.
1999 Ship of Fools (composer) dir. Ros Horin, wr. Andrew Bovell, Griffin Theatre Company. The Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst. Voices, soprano and alto saxophones, violin, double bass, kbd, percussion.
1998 Navigating (composer, sound designer) dir. Marion Potts, Sydney Theatre Company, Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Voices, piano, audio.
1997 Black Mary (composer, music director) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Julie Janson, Belvoir Street Theatre Company, for the Festival of the Dreaming. With songs composed by Jimmy Little. Voices, violin/viola, guitar pedal effects, piano, percussion.
1997 The Herbal Bed (composer) dir. Marion Potts, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre. Soprano, voice, recorder, violin, cello, harpsichord.
1995 Fright (composer) dir. Nigel Kellaway, Sidetrack Theatre Company. Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Soprano, voice, violin, cello, harpsichord, sound FX.
1995 Orientalia (composer) wr./dir. Sally Sussman, Performance Space, Sydney. Music workshopped in collaboration between Chinese Opera and Western musicians. Chinese opera singers, voice, erhu, jinghu, Chinese and Western percussion, synthesisers and sampled audio soundtrack.
1994 Factory Girl (composer, music director, voice, piano) dir. Angela Chaplin, Deckchair Theatre Company Fremantle. Six actors’ voices, piano.
1993 Passion (composer) The Sydney Front, the Performance Space, Sydney. A theatre work performed by the audience. Soprano, tenor, trumpet, cello, organ, sampled soundtrack.
1993 Matebian Nia Lian (composer, music director) dir. James McCaughey, wr. Julieanne O'Brian in conjunction with the Timorese cast, Timorese Cultural Community Group, Theatreworks, St Kilda, Melbourne. Timorese and African instruments, flutes, drums and found objects.
1993 Heroes (composer) dir. Annette Downs, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Hobart. Electronic Soundtrack with voice over.
1992 Frankenstein’s Children (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. David Carlin, Deckchair Theatre Company, Fremantle Prison. For eight actors' voices, harmonium, thunder sheets, wind machine, found percussion.
1991 White Paper Flowers (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Mary Hickson, Magpie Theatre Company, State Theatre, Adelaide. Violin, percussion and six actors' voices.
1990 The Wooden Child (composer) dir. Douglas Horton, wr. Ken Harper, Handspan Theatre Company, Melbourne. Synthesised and sampled soundtrack.
1990 The Arbor (composer, narrator) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Andrea Dunbar, Magpie Theatre Company, Site 59, Adelaide Festival of the Arts. Atari computer, synthesiser, voices, digital FX.
1989 Alice (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Gillian Rubenstein. Magpie Theatre Company, Adelaide. Actors voices, synthesiser, drum machine.
1989 Coupl’A Kids (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Julianne O’Brien, Magpie Theatre Company, Come Out Festival, Adelaide. Voice, flute, electronics.
1988-9 The Pornography of Performance (composer, with Sarah de Jong) The Sydney Front, Performance Space, Sydney; Adelaide Fringe Festival; Roskilde Festival, Denmark; Danslab Amsterdam 1989; Petersbornhof Sommer Szene Festival Salzburg; Die Werkstatt Dusseldorf; Riverside Studios, London. Yamaha DX7, mixed media on tape. 100 mins.
1988 The Rainbow Warrior (composer) dir. Angela Chaplin, wr. Julianne O’Brien, Arena Theatre Company, Melbourne. Custom-made instruments designed by Rodney Berry. Actors’ voices, drums, marimba.
1987 Macbeth dir. James McCaughey, graduating students, School of Drama, Victorian College of the Arts. Oboe, bass clarinet, custom designed instruments by Rodney Berry, found percussion.
1987 John Laws/Sade (composer) The Sydney Front, the Performance Space, Sydney. Also The Fringe Festival, Adelaide. Yamaha DX7, mixed media on tape. 60 mins.
COMPOSER FOR FILM
2021 Contact Trace film version of an 11-minute immersive installation work with visual artist John Janson-Moore and screen producer Jacqui North, supported by a City of Sydney Creative Fellowship. Installation May 2021 at Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital, Macquarie St, Sydney. As short film, screened at the Sydney Science Fiction Festival 2022, awarded 'Best Experimental Film, Solaris Film Festival, Nice, France'.
2020 The Gathering (composer) short film wr./dir. Rebecca O’Brien, Screen NSW.
2007 X-Ray Vision (composer) short film dir./des. Katerina Stratos, cinematographer Toby Oliver. Flute, electronics, synthesisers.
2003 Home: Refugio Tx (composer) a feature-length documentary written and directed by Anne-Marie Hess, New York, USA.
2003 Becoming Julia (composer) dir. Ruth Cullen, SBS documentary. Sydney Film Festival, winner audience favourite film. Jazz trio, digital synth, oboe, French horn, string ensemble.
2000 City of Dreams (composer) wr./dir. Belinda Mason, Film Australia, 2000. An award- winning documentary surveying the architecture of Marion Mahoney Griffin and Sir Walter Burleigh Griffin. Melbourne International Film Festival; winner of the Gold Hugo Award at the Chicago International Competition; Royal Australian Institute of Architects Special Award; Atom Award finalist; Premier’s History Prize. String quartet, piano, orchestra.
1998 Back to the Back of Beyond (composer/arranger) a feature-length documentary dir. Robert Francis, Total Films. Oboe, string quintet, keyboard.
1998 Lake Pedder (composer) documentary dir. Anna Grieve/Steve Best, Film Australia. Violin, digital audio processing, bassoon, harp, Kurzweill sampler.
1996 Life and Death (composer, sound design, mixer) short film drama dir. Justine Kerrigan, AFTRS. Words by Virginia Baxter and Keith Gallasch. Soprano, Sydney Youth Orchestra.
1995 The Sinking of the Twentieth Century (composer, sound design, mixer) short film drama wr./dir. Michael James Rowland, AFTRS.
1995 Savageries (composer) short film drama dir. Marcella Paolacci, AFTRS. Boy soprano, tenor, baritone, two violins, clarinet, cello, double bass, 4 drummers, samples, Rodney Berry's original instrument, ‘Percy’s laundry organ’.
1995 A Taste for Rafaella (sound recordist, sound editor) short film drama wr./dir. Sandy Lepore, AFTRS.
1995 Interventions Project ‘Seams’ (director, composer, sound design). Installation and video project between Dance Exchange and SBS Eat Carpet. August 21-September 10, 1995, Artspace Sydney. Cur. Russell Dumas. Soprano and tenor saxophones, audio.
1995 Women in Power (composer) documentary dir. Kay Pavlou, SBS. Violin, marimba, percussion.
1994 Voices (composer) promotional video dir. Sylvia Shaw, Australian Council for Women. Samples, synthesiser, cello.
1992 Bigger than Texas (composer) dir. David Noakes, Market St Films, Fremantle, 1992. Trumpet, cello, piano, didgeridoo, percussion.
COMPOSER FOR DANCE
1994 Cantadora (composer and vocalist) chor. Sue Peacock for Sue Peacock and Dancers, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Voice, cello, harpsichord, audio samples.
1991 Five pieces for string quartet and drum machines chor. Helen Herbetson, Danceworks, Malthouse Theatre. Also tour to Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide.
1990 Three Wings (composer, vocalist, keyboards, Atari computer) chor. Beth Shelton, Danceworks, South Melbourne Town Hall, South Melbourne. Also tour to Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide. Voice, synthesiser, sampler, digital FX.
1989 Twisted Australian Dance Theatre, Balcony Theatre, Adelaide. March 22,23 and March 28 to April 1. String Quartet and drum machines.
RADIO - MUSIC RECORDINGS, FEATURES AND COMMISSIONED SCORES FOR RADIO DRAMA
2014 Passion – the dynamic and emotive music of Andrée Greenwell a 90-minute feature broadcast, surveying Greenwell’s works of the past twenty years, including an interview with Julian Day, for the ABC Classic FM program, ‘New Music Up Late’. Broadcast 10:30pm, Sat 14 June.
2013 ‘An underbelly song cycle, The Hanging of Jean Lee’. ABC Books and Arts, interview with Jordie Albiston and Hugo Race. Thursday December 5, 2015.
2009/13 The Hanging of Jean Lee (composer, music producer, music director) full broadcast on ‘Poetica’, ABC Radio National, April 11, 2009. Repeats April 16, and December 2014. With Pippa Grandison, Amie Mc Kenna, Jeff Duff, Hugo Race, Mark Seymour, Simon Maiden and Josh Quong Tart. Violin, trumpet, clarinets/saxophones, electric guitar, keyboard, bass, drum kit and percussion.
2008 Wings Up to the Light (composer, music producer, music director) Produced by Robyn Ravlich, ABC Radio Drama and Music Units. Featuring the ABC studio recordings of the music theatre work, interviews of musicians involved in Green Room Music’s The Hanging of Jean Lee.
2004 The Butcher’s Wife (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Noel Janacewska, produced by Anna Messariti. Featuring Vietnamese-Australian musician Judy Dheng on voice and Dhan Tranh, virtual and software synthesisers, percussion.
2003 The Daphne Massacre (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Donna Abela, produced by Anna Messariti. Voices, saw, trumpet, cello, bass, audio.
2003 Redfern Heights (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Alana Valentine and produced by Elizabeth Douglas. Drumkit and electric base.
2003 A Child into the World/A World Into a Child (composer) ABC Radio Drama. Written by Katherine Zimdahl and produced by Anna Messariti. Harp, software synthesiser and samplers.
1992 Dear John (composer, vocalist) John Cage Tribute, ABC, Melbourne, curated by Jonathon Mills. Andrée Greenwell - voice, Helen Mountfort – electric cello, fireworks, and digital tape sampling John Cage’s “Sonatas and Interludes”.
1991 Sweet Death (composer) an opera in which the heroine gorges herself on gourmet pastries and sweets, to death. Based upon the novel by Claude Tardat. Commissioned by the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 1991, produced by Chamber Made Opera. Libretto by Abe Pogos, dir. Douglas Horton, cond. Peter Locke. Two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, flute, violin, cello, trombone, percussion, and keyboard. 75 mins.
UNSCORED WORKS, COLLABORATIONS, INSTALLATIONS
2021 Contact Trace an 11-minute immersive installation work with visual artist John Janson-Moore and screen producer Jacqui North, supported by a City of Sydney Creative Fellowship. Installation May 2021 at Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital, Macquarie St, Sydney.
2000 Medusahead video installation Centre d’Arts Pluriels, Ettelbruck, ISCM World Music Days, Luxembourg, Sept 29-October 8.
1994 Mother Tongue sound installation for 7 cassette decks and 14 wall-mounted speakers, curated by Sonia Leber for ‘Earwitness’, Experimenta, Contemporary Music Events, Melbourne.
1993 Ten Minute Work co-composed with cellist Helen Mountfort, for ‘Theatre of the Dome’ concert, Metrodome, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, produced by Contemporary Music Events. Andrée Greenwell – voice and harmonium, Helen Mountfort – cello. 10 mins.
1992 Songs We Like to Play Co-composed/performed in a duo with Helen Mountfort: for La Mama Musica, Melbourne; also Theatreworks, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne 1992; Andrée Greenwell – voice and harmonium, Helen Mountfort – cello.12 mins.
1986 Five Times 5 x 2 minute improvisations for five metronomes, Yamaha DX7 and tape, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne. Electronic keyboard improvisation by Andrée Greenwell with tape. 10 mins.
AUDIO PUBLICATIONS
2021 Cinéaste, Helixed label, distributed by MGM, May 28, digital release, also Bandcamp.
2020 City of Dreams, Green Room Music, May 16, digital audio, Bandcamp.
2020 Pieces for String Quartet and Drum Machines, Green Room Music, May 1, digital audio, Bandcamp.
2018 Listen to Me, Green Room Music, July 16, digital audio, Bandcamp.
2016 Gothic Green Room Music, online and CD.
2012 The Hanging of Jean Lee Green Room Music, Nov 25, CD.
2009 New Music Network New Music Network, Sydney, CD.
2004 Dreaming Transportation ABC Audio, CD
2001 Anthology 1988 – 2001 Chamber Made, CD
2000 Tuchfülung 2 Resurrection Project, Red House Music, CD
1999 Laquiem, Green Room Music, CD
1995 The Sounds of Floriade, ABC Enterprises, CD
1993 Passion, Newmarket Music, CD
1993 ‘A Lovely Time’ Australian Piano Miniatures, Redhouse Publishing, CD
1992 Excerpts from Sweeth Death, Chamber Made Opera, MIFA, NMA Cassette 10
1989 ‘Two Studies for Drum Machines’, Mixed Doubles, NMA Cassette 5
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
2023 Book chapter ‘Carnivals of Voice, Musical Playgrounds: music from text in works of Andrée Greenwell’, for ‘The Composer, Herself' ed. Linda Kouvaras, Natalie Williams and Maria Grenfell, Springer Nature.
2019 ‘Much Ado About Nothing – songs for theatre and vocal performance’, Resonate Magazine, Australian Music Centre,
2018 ‘Listen to Me: making a vocal work as a creative response to the problem of gendered violence in Australia: reflections upon creative, performativity and publication’ Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference, Monash University, conference paper and performance, July 7.
2018 ‘Gothic’, Resonate Magazine, Australian Music Centre, blog article, Oct 31.
2013 ‘‘Theatres of Music’: recent composition-led works of Andrée Greenwell’, Doctoral exegesis UoW.
2012 ‘The Hanging of Jean Lee’ Resonate Magazine, blog article, Oct 12.
1992 ‘Notes on an opera’, NMA 10 magazine, pp.12-13.