Latest News![]() Tue 9 July 2024
It's finally finished! Elsabeth and I are very excited to be officially launching our first home-made album of piano music later this month: Portraits: Volume I (yes, I realise the title implies that we're going to go through all this again sometime in the future!). We are having an album launch "afternoon tea", cabaret-style, in the café of our church on Saturday 27th July – please come along to support us if you can. In the meantime, here are a few other recently-released recordings of my compositions that I've neglected to post up here before now...
Thu 30 May 2024
The Portraits Album continues to progress towards completion. It's been taking me a lot longer than I wanted, because of all the other life things that have happened this year, but the end is in sight (almost all the music has now been recorded at least!). I'm very excited that the Adelaide Wind Orchestra – who I've been involved with for many years – are going to South Korea in July, to participate in the 20th International Conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands & Ensembles. I wish I could go myself, but I'll have to be content with sending some of my music there in my stead. AWO will be playing my portrait piece Stephen as part of their program over there, giving it an international audience. Another project currently in the works is a setting of the Communion Service (or 'Mass', but in English) for the choir of Christ Church North Adelaide. This is a text that I've been wanting to set to music for many years, and now I have an opportunity to do it. I'm writing it specifically for church use, so it will be an offering of shared worship to God! Tue 23 January 2024 I'm in the middle of recording an album of my piano music, Portraits. Many of these pieces have been performed before, but this time they will all be brought together into a single album, to be made available online. Thu 14 December 2023 I'm very excited about this album from Adam Zinatelli, a Canadian trumpet player: it's got a bunch of great new trumpet music on it, and also a piece that I wrote, song without words. Technically, my piece is actually for flugelhorn (accompanied by a piano played by a timpanist!), and if fact there's actually quite a bit of variety on this album, which is far more than "just trumpet". I hope you will check it out! Tue 10 October 2023
Scoring more than 45 minutes of string quintet music for Kaurna Yerta: The Seasons was a gigantic project for me – but that's all done now, and it's over to the musicians, dancers, narrators, and others who are hard at work rehearsing and preparing for this weekend. I'm looking forward to being there as a mere audience member! A host of extra talks and events have been added to this event, beginning from 4pm – check the link for details, and come along when you can... I am hopeful that there will be many more opportunities to share this project in future, but there's something extra special about that first public performance... Sun 27 August 2023 I'm currently hard at work on some music for a big project which is happening in October. Kaurna Yerta: The Seasons is an artistic collaboration involving several Kaurna elders, dancers, narrators, Jamie Goldsmith, Bowerbird Collective, some extra string players, and myself as a composer. I'm really excited about this, and have been learning so much about the place in which I live – the area now known as Adelaide – its people, its history, its landscape, its wildlife, and (of course) its seasons. It's amazing how much more there is to learn about a place where I have spent my whole life! This project has been brewing for a long time, but suddenly it's all happening and I have been working very hard to finish the music. There's still some way to go... I'm probably going to be a bit of a hermit until its done! Sat 17 June 2023 One of the pieces I composed last year for the Adelaide Wind Orchestra proved very popular with many of the players and with their conductor, Bryan Griffiths. This piece is named Stephen, and it's a wind band version of a piano "portrait" of my brother which I composed a few years ago. I'm delighted to be able to present the recording they made of it earlier this year... I will complete a self-published version of the score soon, but if you can't wait for it, contact me! News Archive
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2024
Tue 16 Jul, 8:00pm WASBE Conference: Adelaide Wind Orchestra Program includes: David John Lang - Stephen Grand Theatre, Namhansanseong Art Hall, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea Tickets/Details Sat 27 Jul, 3:00pm Album Launch: Portraits (Volume I) Talks, refreshments, and live selections from our home-made album of piano music – all DJL compositions! Broadview Baptist Church Café, Broadview SA, Australia Tickets/Details Sun 11 Aug, 10:00am Choral Eucharist [Church service] Music will include: David John Lang - Communion Service [world premiere] Christ Church North Adelaide, SA, Australia Past PerformancesSimply want to listen to some music? Head over to my SoundCloud page...
Or, for something different, check out the podcast that Elsabeth and I made a few years ago, when researching musical portraiture...
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