Carl Vine
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Carl Vine is an Australian composer
of contemporary classical music
.
. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen
inspired a period as a teenage modernist
, a direction which he abandoned in 1985. 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. His catalogue includes seven symphonies, seven 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 'Sydney 2000' presentation.
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.
His second piano concerto will be performed by Piers Lane
and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
in 2012 and Danielle de Niese
will premiere a cycle of songs for soprano and strings.
Vine is now based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer. Since 2006, he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
of contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
.
Career
Vine was born in Perth, Western AustraliaPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
inspired a period as a teenage modernist
Modernism (music)
Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with the past or common practice.- Defining musical modernism :...
, a direction which he abandoned in 1985. He studied physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, then composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
at the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
, 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. His catalogue includes seven symphonies, seven 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 'Sydney 2000' presentation.
Since 2000, Vine has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia
Musica Viva Australia
Musica Viva Australia is the oldest independent performing arts organisation in Australia and the world's largest entrepreneur of chamber music. It was formed in 1945 in Sydney by violist Richard Goldner...
, the world's largest entrepreneur of chamber music. In 2005, he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award
Don Banks Music Award
The Don Banks Music Award was established in order to publicly honour a senior artist of high distinction who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. The award was founded in honour of Don Banks, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of the music board...
, the highest accolade the Australia Council for the Arts can confer on a musician.
His second piano concerto will be performed by Piers Lane
Piers Lane
Piers Lane is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works.- Early life :...
and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...
in 2012 and Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese is a lyric soprano. After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the USA where she developed an operatic career...
will premiere a cycle of songs for soprano and strings.
Vine is now based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer. Since 2006, he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival.
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)
- Percussion Concerto (1987)
- Concerto Grosso (violin, flute, oboe, horn and strings) (1989)
- Gaijin (koto, strings) (1994)
- Oboe Concerto (1996)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997; commissioned by Sydney Symphony OrchestraSydney Symphony OrchestraThe Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...
) - Pipe Dreams (concerto for flute and strings) (2003)
- Cello Concerto (2004)
- Violin Concerto (premiére 2011)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (2012)
Chamber Music
- String Quartet No. 1 (KnipsSuite) (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) (1994)
Piano
- Piano Sonata No. 1 (1990)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (1997)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 (2007)
- Five Bagatelles (solo piano) (1994)
- Rash (piano with CD) (1997)
- Red Blues (solo piano) (1999)
- The Anne Landa Preludes (solo piano) (2006)
- Sonata for Piano Four Hands (2009)
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)
Theatre
- The Dreamers (play – 1975)
- New Sky (mime by Judith Anderson – 1981)
- Signal Driver (play by Patrick WhitePatrick WhitePatrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...
– 1982) - Shepherd On The Rocks (play by Patrick White – 1987)
- The Ham Funeral (play by Patrick White – 1989)
- Night on Bald Mountain (play by Patrick White – 1996)
- A Hard God (play by Peter KennaPeter KennaPeter Joseph Kenna was an Australian playwright, radio actor and screenwriter.Born in Balmain, New South Wales, Kenna left school at fourteen and took up various jobs. He started working in the theatre by participating in concert parties at the camps in Sydney during World War II...
– 1997) - The Master BuilderThe Master BuilderThe Master Builder is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's most significant and revealing works.-Performance:...
(play by Ibsen, 1991)
Film and television
- The Dunstan Documentaries (TV) (1982)
- You Can't Push the River (1993)
- BedevilBedevilBedevil is a 1993 Australian horror film directed by Tracey Moffatt. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Lex Marinos - Dimitri* Tracey Moffatt - Ruby Morphet* Riccardo Natoli - Spiro...
(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 FactoryThe Potato FactoryThe Potato Factory is a 1995 historical-novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into an Australian miniseries in 2000. The book is the first in a three-part series, followed by Tommo & Hawk and Solomon's Song...
(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 | Awarding Body | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Australian Society for Music Education Composers' Competition | First Prize (Under 18) |
| 1972 | Australian Music Examinations Board | A.Mus.A. (Associate in Music) with distinction – piano |
| 1972 | Perth Music Festival | Winner, Open Instrumental Solo Division (piano) |
| 1974 | Australian Broadcasting Commission Instrumental & Vocal Competition | W.A. State Division – piano |
| 1976 | Australia Council Appointee | Gulbenkian International Choreographic Summer School, Guildford, England |
| 1983 | Adams Award | Outstanding Contribution to Music for Dance in Australia |
| 1989 | Sounds Australian National Music Critics' Award | Best Instrumental or Ensemble Work, 'Miniature IV' |
| 1990 | John Bishop Commission | Symphony No 2 for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
| 1993 | Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award | Best Music for a Feature Film, Bedevil |
| 1994 | Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award | Best Theme for a Television Series, The Battlers |
| 1994 | Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award | Best Original Song, The Battlers – 'Love Me Sweet' |
| 2000 | Australian Commonwealth Government | Centenary Medal for Contribution to Australian Society |
| 2002 | APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards APRA Awards The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.... |
Best Instrumental Work, Piano Sonata No 1 |
| 2005 | APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards APRA Awards The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.... |
Best Performance of an Australian Composition, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Steven Isserlis playing Cello Concerto |
| 2005 | Australia Council for the Arts | Don Banks Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music |
| 2009 | APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards APRA Awards The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.... |
Best Performance of an Australian Composition, West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing Symphony No 7 |
| 2010 | University of Western Australia University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the... |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music |