10.26180/5d9aa3fb4f7ef
Nat Grant
Nat
Grant
Cat Hope
Cat
Hope
Gabriella Smart
Gabriella
Smart
Towards the Summers Night
Monash University
2019
female composers
mentoring
music composition
australia
Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Music Composition
Music Performance
2019-10-07 02:33:54
Presentation
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/presentation/Towards_the_Summers_Night/9943757
The Summers Night Project is a composers mentoring program established in 2018 by musicians Cat Hope and Gabriella Smart, with the support of new music organization Tura New Music. The project aims to support and mentor emerging Australian composers identifying as women to create new compositions for performance, with the aim of growing the gender diversity of composers in music programs Australia-wide. Three new works were workshopped, recorded then performed on a short tour of Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia in July 2018. Three composers were chosen from a national call-out and the works were performed by an ensemble consisting of members from the Decibel and Soundstream new music ensembles.