Carl Vine
Carl Vine, AO (born 8 October 1954), is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.
Career
Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. A teenage fascination with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period of Modernism, which he explored until the mid-1980's.[1] He studied physics, then composition at the University of Western Australia, before moving to Sydney in 1975, where he worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles.
Vine first came to prominence in Australia as a composer of music for dance, with 25 dance scores to his credit. In 1979 he co-founded the contemporary music ensemble "Flederman", which presented many of Vine's own works. From 1980 to 1982 he lectured in electronic music composition at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane.
His catalogue includes seven symphonies, ten concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Although primarily a composer of modern classical music, he has undertaken tasks as diverse as arranging the Australian National Anthem and writing music for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics closing ceremony.
Since 2000, Vine has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world's largest entrepreneur of chamber music. In 2005, he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award, the highest accolade the Australia Council for the Arts can confer on a musician. Since 2006, he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival.
In 2012, his second piano concerto was premiered by Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,[1] and the Australian Chamber Orchestra with soprano Danielle de Niese premiered his solo cantata, The Tree of Man, after the 1955 novel by Patrick White.[2]
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer, conductor, academic and artistic director, and to the support and mentoring of emerging performers."[3]
Vine is based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer.
Works
Symphonic
- Symphony No. 1 MicroSymphony (1986)
- Symphony No. 2 (1988)
- Symphony No. 3 (1990)
- Symphony No. 4 (Symphony No. 4.2, 1992; revised 1998)
- Symphony No. 5 Percussion Symphony (1995)
- Symphony No. 6 Choral Symphony (1996)
- Symphony No. 7 Scenes from Daily Life (2008)
Concertante
- Percussion Concerto (1987)
- Concerto Grosso (violin, flute, oboe, horn and strings) (1989)
- Gaijin (koto, strings, pre-recorded electronics) (1994)
- Oboe Concerto (1996)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997; commissioned by Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
- Pipe Dreams (concerto for flute and strings) (2003)
- Cello Concerto (2004)
- Violin Concerto (2011)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (2012)
- Concerto for Orchestra (2014)
Other orchestral
- The Tree of Man (2012) (cantata for soprano and string orchestra)
- Gravity Road (2014) (a tone poem)
Chamber music
- String Quartet No. 1 (Knips Suite) (1979)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1984)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1994)
- String Quartet No. 4 (2004)
- String Quartet No. 5 (2007)
- String Quintet (2009)
- Miniature I Peace (solo viola) (1973)
- Miniature II (viola duet) (1974)
- Miniature III (flute, trombone, piano, percussion) (1983)
- Miniature IV (flute, clarinet, cello, violin, viola, cello, piano) (1988)
- Sonata for flute and piano (1992)
- Inner World (solo cello with pre-recorded electronics) (1994)
- Fantasia for piano quintet (2013)[4]
- The Village for piano trio (2014)
Piano
- Piano Sonata No. 1 (1990)
- Five Bagatelles (solo piano) (1994)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (1997)
- Rash (piano with CD) (1997)
- Red Blues (solo piano) (1999)
- The Anne Landa Preludes (solo piano) (2006)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 (2007)
- Sonata for Piano Four Hands (2009)
- Toccatissimo (2011)
Dance
- 961 Ways to Nirvana (1977)
- Incident at Bull Creek (1977)
- Poppy (1978)
- Everymans Troth (1978)
- Scene Shift (1979)
- Kisses Remembered (1979)
- Knips Suite (1979)
- Missing Film (1980)
- Return (1980)
- Donna Maria Blues (1981)
- Colonial Sketches (1981)
- Daisy Bates (1982)
- Hate (1982)
- A Christmas Carol (1983)
- Prologue and Canzona (1986)
- Legend (1988)
- On The Edge (1989)
- Piano Sonata (1990)
- The Tempest (1991)
- Beauty and The Beast (1993)
- Mythologia (2000)
- The Silver Rose (2005)
- Tribe's Desire (2010)
Theatre
- The Dreamers (play – 1975)
- New Sky (mime by Judith Anderson – 1981)
- Signal Driver (play by Patrick White – 1982)
- Shepherd on the Rocks (play by Patrick White – 1987)
- The Ham Funeral (play by Patrick White – 1989)
- The Master Builder (play by Ibsen – 1991)
- Night on Bald Mountain (play by Patrick White – 1996)
- A Hard God (play by Peter Kenna – 1997)
Film and television
- The Dunstan Documentaries (TV) (1982)
- You Can't Push the River (1993)
- Bedevil (1993)
- The Battlers (TV) (1994)
- Urn (short film) (1995)
- What Comes After Why? (short film) (1995)
- White Fella's Dreaming (documentary) (1997)
- Marriage Acts (TV) (2000)
- The Potato Factory (TV) (2000)
Discography (partial)
- Carl Vine: The Complete Symphonies, performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
- Carl Vine – Chamber Music Volume 1
- Carl Vine – Chamber Music Volume 2
- Carl Vine: The Piano Music
Awards and prizes
| Year awarded | Awarding body | Award |
|---|---|---|
| | Australian Society for Music Education Composers' Competition | First Prize (Under 18) |
| | Australian Music Examinations Board | A.Mus.A. (Associate in Music) with distinction – piano |
| | Perth Music Festival | Winner, Open Instrumental Solo Division (piano) |
| | Australian Broadcasting Commission Instrumental & Vocal Competition | W.A. State Division – piano |
| | Australia Council Appointee | Gulbenkian International Choreographic Summer School, Guildford, England |
| | Adams Award | Outstanding Contribution to Music for Dance in Australia |
| | Sounds Australian National Music Critics' Award | Best Instrumental or Ensemble Work, 'Miniature IV' |
| | John Bishop Commission | Symphony No 2 for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
| | Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award | Best Music for a Feature Film, Bedevil |
| | Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award | Best Theme for a Television Series, The Battlers |
| | Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award | Best Original Song, The Battlers – 'Love Me Sweet' |
| | Australian Commonwealth Government | Centenary Medal for Contribution to Australian Society |
| | APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards | Best Instrumental Work, Piano Sonata No 1 |
| | APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards | Best Performance of an Australian Composition, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Steven Isserlis playing Cello Concerto |
| | Australia Council for the Arts | Don Banks Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music |
| | APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards | Best Performance of an Australian Composition, West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing Symphony No 7 |
| | University of Western Australia | Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music |
| | Melbourne University and Friends of Melbourne Symphony | Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to music in Australia |
| | Collegiate of Specialist Music Educators | Honorary Fellow, for outstanding contribution to music education |
| | Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia | Officer of The Order of Australia (AO) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goldsworthy, Anna (November 2011). "Right Composition". The Monthly (Collingwood, Victoria) (73): 60–61. ISSN 1832-3421.
- ↑ The Tree of man, Carl Vine, January 2013
- ↑ "The Queen's Birthday 2014 Honours List" (PDF). 9 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ↑ Fantasia, Carl Vine, January 2013
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