New Music Central: Anthony Pateras

This concert will feature two new large scale works for solo piano & electronics from 2024-2025, by Australian composer/performer Anthony Pateras.

Anthony Pateras (b. 1979, Naarm/Melbourne) is an Australian composer, pianist and electronic musician. He works across many contexts: modern classical, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, free improvisation, experimental rock and various mutations of electronica. Performing hundreds of concerts worldwide, Pateras has co-founded the Pateras/Baxter/Brown & North of North trios, the piano-drums duo PIVIXKI, the electro-acoustic ensembles Thymolphthalein & Twitch, the abstract hip-hop quartet Beta Erko & the bands Sulla Lingua & tētēma.

Completing a PhD in 2008, he’s written for leading ensembles & avant-garde musicians, composing a 90+ catalogue of pieces which combine instruments, electronics, improvisation and notation in idiosyncratic ways. Pateras also has over 50 releases on international labels including Tzadik, Editions Mego, Ipecac, Another Timbre, Futura Resistenza, Shelter Press, Cave 12 & Hallow Ground. From 2012-19, he produced & edited his own Immediata text/music project.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia.