Latest NewsThu 12 June 2025
If it looks a little quiet on here, that's because most of my composition efforts this year have been devoted to Mark Illuminated (which is 41% complete as I write this!). But earlier this year I also completed another musical 'landscape' piece, this time about a river. It's called Windy River (pronounced both ways!) and it's being premiered this month as part of the Australian Combined Schools Music Festival. Writing that piece gave me an excuse to hike the length of Sturt River / Warripari... Sun 22 December 2024
I'm here to announce that I've embarked on my biggest (and already most difficult) project yet. It's so big that I've made a separate website for it: Mark Illuminated. Please check it out! That will certainly be the more relevant website for what I'm currently working on, at least for the next few months... This project has been many years in the planning, but perhaps the biggest hurdle has been plucking up the courage to give it a go. It's a very different kind of composing to anything I've done before, and no one is commissioning it (yet!). Wed 9 October 2024 Last week I was in Sydney, where I got to hear the Sydney Symphony Fellows record my fanfare Give Thanks. This was the culmination of my part in the 50 Fanfares project, somewhat delayed due to COVID-19. I'm looking forward to sharing when the recording will be broadcast on ABC Classic... sometime in November, I believe... 
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...
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Sun 22 Jun, 1:30pm 23rd Australian Combined Schools Music Festival GALA Concert Program includes: David John Lang –Windy River [world premiere] Westminster School, Marion, SA, Australia Tickets/Details Sat 23 Aug, time TBA South Australian Band Championships C Grade concert band test piece: David John Lang – On Further Reflection Walford Anglican School, Hyde Park, SA, Australia Tickets/Details Past Performances
Simply 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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