the music of david lang

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  david lang

  American composer david lang (b. 1957) is one of the most influential voices in contemporary classical music. Co-founder of the Bang on a Can collective in New York, david lang has helped redefine how new music is created, presented, and received, often dissolving boundaries between concert, gallery, and theatre spaces. Lang won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2008 for the little match girl passion, a chamber work that fuses Hans Christian Andersen’s story with the structure of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. He has since written for major ensembles and festivals worldwide, with performances at the Lincoln Center, the BBC Proms, and theatres and concert halls across Europe, North America, and Asia. His style often draws on post-minimalism: clear harmonies, steady pulses, and repetition, in the service of text and drama. Lang frequently collaborates with theatre and dance makers, and his work has appeared in film and opera, including the acclaimed chamber opera anatomy theater, and the film score for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, nominated for an Academy Award. His music bridges experimental practice and human storytelling.

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  Anna Schwartz Projects

  After more than four decades exhibiting and representing Australian and international artists, the seminal gallery has developed a new iteration as a project and event practice. Located on the first floor of the DCM gallery conversion of the 1930’s building in Flinders Lane, Anna Schwartz Projects continues its uncompromised conceptual position and contribution to culture with a programme including installation, performance, talk, publishing and music. Anna Schwartz Projects works with collections and facilitates com­mis­sions, continuing to present artists’ exhibitions and facilitate sales, advice and visibility, collaborating with other galleries and institutions in supporting their practices.

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  Australian Contemporary Opera Company

  Melbourne-based Australian Contemporary Opera Company (ACOCO ) has delivered 53 new productions, including 21 Australian premieres. In 2015, the company launched the Southern Hemisphere’s only contemporary opera festival, championing Australian work and aritsts, and building international partnerships. The major commission of William Barton’s first opera, THE INCIDENT, underscores ACOCO’s commitment to creating bold, new opera, while partnering with philanthropic partners, such as the Mietta Foundation, to support new song presentations and commissions ACOCO’s work has been recognised with major awards, including Opera Chaser’s Outstanding Production by an Independent Company (2018, 2019) and a Green Room Award for Programming (2020) for a world-first, ten-day online contemporary opera festival. Through inventive work spanning traditional, site-specific, and immersive forms, ACOCO continues to forge the future of opera and song in Australia and beyond.