Connections with the wider world
A composer isn't always lonely...
I am married to Elsabeth Lang, a piano teacher.
Most of my formal composition study was with Graeme Koehne in Adelaide.
I try to catch up regularly for coffee with Anne Cawrse, whose tenacity and authenticity as a composer I greatly admire.
For many years I played trumpet with (and occasionally conducted) the Adelaide Wind Orchestra, who have also done me the honour of performing and recording most my music for wind band.
There was only one other composition student in my year at the Elder Conservatorium: Christopher Larkin. Chris is now a highly accomplished composer for film, games, commercials, all sorts of things. Sometimes we catch up for a piano duo jam session.
Other Adelaide-based composers whose music and company I have enjoyed include: Daniel Schricker, Jakub Jankowski, Sebastian Collen, and Rachel Bruerville.
I've had many wonderful exchanges of ideas with Suzanne Kosowitz, a composer from Perth. I first met her in the USA at the 2012 Atlantic Music Festival. This is also where I first came across several American composers whose music I greatly admire, including Cody W. Forrest, Katherine Balch, Matthew Recio and Daniel Valentine.
Another trip in 2016, this time to Alaska, put me in contact with a group of composers who share my love of the outdoors: Cassie To, Sam Young, Alondra Vega-Zaldivar, Shelley Washington, Gemma Peacocke, Dylan Librande, Paul Safar, Elizabeth Start and Stephen Lias.
Thanks to the Australian Youth Orchestra's National Music Camps, I have also met many other talented Australian composers, including Lisa Cheney, who was co-curator of the fantastic monthly playlist of new Australian music, Making Waves.
In the field of visual arts, I really love the work of Ana Maria Mendez Salgado, and the prints of Lucy Timbrell. I also enjoy the weird and wonderful illustrations of my cousin David Carvosso, the paintings of my grandmother Margaret Lang, and the drawings of my brother Stephen Lang. Finally, this website would be pretty boring without the creative photography of Eleanor Hebart and Mary-Ellen Parkinson.
I am married to Elsabeth Lang, a piano teacher.
Most of my formal composition study was with Graeme Koehne in Adelaide.
I try to catch up regularly for coffee with Anne Cawrse, whose tenacity and authenticity as a composer I greatly admire.
For many years I played trumpet with (and occasionally conducted) the Adelaide Wind Orchestra, who have also done me the honour of performing and recording most my music for wind band.
There was only one other composition student in my year at the Elder Conservatorium: Christopher Larkin. Chris is now a highly accomplished composer for film, games, commercials, all sorts of things. Sometimes we catch up for a piano duo jam session.
Other Adelaide-based composers whose music and company I have enjoyed include: Daniel Schricker, Jakub Jankowski, Sebastian Collen, and Rachel Bruerville.
I've had many wonderful exchanges of ideas with Suzanne Kosowitz, a composer from Perth. I first met her in the USA at the 2012 Atlantic Music Festival. This is also where I first came across several American composers whose music I greatly admire, including Cody W. Forrest, Katherine Balch, Matthew Recio and Daniel Valentine.
Another trip in 2016, this time to Alaska, put me in contact with a group of composers who share my love of the outdoors: Cassie To, Sam Young, Alondra Vega-Zaldivar, Shelley Washington, Gemma Peacocke, Dylan Librande, Paul Safar, Elizabeth Start and Stephen Lias.
Thanks to the Australian Youth Orchestra's National Music Camps, I have also met many other talented Australian composers, including Lisa Cheney, who was co-curator of the fantastic monthly playlist of new Australian music, Making Waves.
In the field of visual arts, I really love the work of Ana Maria Mendez Salgado, and the prints of Lucy Timbrell. I also enjoy the weird and wonderful illustrations of my cousin David Carvosso, the paintings of my grandmother Margaret Lang, and the drawings of my brother Stephen Lang. Finally, this website would be pretty boring without the creative photography of Eleanor Hebart and Mary-Ellen Parkinson.