Australian Chamber Music

The state base work orchestras, formerly managed under the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and now operating as different independent body, have played a significant role in performing normal orchestral repertoire for the general public as well as commissioning new works from Australian composers and making sure that works by contemporary international composer are introduced to the people. They include the Sydney Symphony orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony orchestra, the Queensland orchestra, the Adelaide Symphony orchestra, the West Australian Symphony orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony orchestra. Also, there are professional orchestra who role is related to the specifically to opera and ballet performance, also the Australian opera and ballet orchestra at the Sydney opera house and orchestra Victoria base in Melbourne.

There are many chambers of orchestra that are focused on works for smaller ensembles. They include the Australian chamber orchestra which tours regularly throughout Australian and has been well received overseas; the Melbourne chamber orchestra; the Adelaide chamber orchestra informed performance include the Australian Brandenburg orchestra and the orchestra of the antipodes.

The most leading chamber ensembles include the Australian String Quartet, the Goldner String Quartet, and the Australia ensemble, Synergy Percussion, Dean Emerson Dean, Trioz, the Sydney soloists, the Southern Cross soloists, Guitar Trek, Collusion, the Elandra String Quartet, the Zephyr Quartet, and the Tinalley String Quartet.

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Musica viva Australian, now have the largest entrepreneur or chamber music in the world, was founded in 1954 and has provided a main stimulus for public interest in chamber music by providing annual subscription programs of concerts from leading international and Australian ensembles.

Many Australian composers have written chamber works, within the older composers Peter Sculthorpe standing out because his 17 string quarters written up to 2010, with the performances in Australia and overseas as well as recordings by leading groups  such as the Kronos Quartet.

Other piano and chamber works of special merit include Peggy Glanville-Hicks concertino da camera for flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano, Richard Meale’s Las Alboradas for flute, violin, horn, and piano, Riccardo Formosa’s Vertigo for flute piccolo, oboe, clarinet and piano, Nigel Westlake’s Refractions at Summer Cloud Bay for flute, bass flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, violin, cello and piano, the piano works of Julian Cochran, Ross Edwards Laikan for flute, clarinet percussion, piano, violin, and cello, Carl Vine’s String Quartet number 2,3,4 and 5, his Elegy for flute.