About the austraLYSIS Members
Roger Dean : see
separate page.
Sandy Evans (saxophones) After studying at the NSW Conservatorium
Sandy played with the Bruce Cale Orchestra, the KMA Orchestra, and Great White
Noise. She formed the important group Women and Children First in 1982-3, which
recorded, and toured extensively in 1984-5, reaching most parts of Australia.
Later she played at the Esso Australian Jazz Summit with her trio, and joined
the group Ten Part Invention with which she still plays. In 1987 she worked
in the UK, and co-led the saxophone quartet SAXTC with Scottish saxophonist
Tony Gorman, while also working in a rhythm and blues band and on Scottish
TV. She currently co-leads the band Clarion Fracture Zone, and plays with many
other groups including the catholics. She has composed two suites for Ten Part
Invention, and much material for her own groups. She also composed and performed
music for the dance/ performance piece Walking Long Country and for the Australian
Art Orchestra. She has been acclaimed as one of the leaders of a new generation
of Australian jazz musicians, and her recordings, such as Blue Shift (an ARIA
award winner) with Clarion Fracture Zone have been extremely well received.
Subsequent Clarion Fracture Zone releases have appeared on Rufus records, and
Sandy is also to the fore on most austraLYSIS recordings including Moving the
Landscapes and The Next Room (Tall Poppies). Outside Australia she has performed
in Europe, India and Canada, and with austraLYSIS in New Zealand. She was extensively
featured, in interview and performance, in the TV series Jazz Az Now on Australian
jazz, and in the films Beyond El Rocco and Dr Jazz. In 1993, she was commissioned
by austraLYSIS to produce with Hazel Smith the sound-text work Black Desert,
presented in the 1993 season, and broadcast on ABC radio in December 1993.
In 1995 she became a 'Young Keating' fellow. In 2000 she performed at the opening
ceremony of the Paralympics in Sydney, and was featured as a soloist on the
roof of the Sydney Opera House at the dawn of the new millennium playing Ross
Edwards' 'Dawn Mantras' to a worldwide tv audience. She dueted with drummer
Han Bennink at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, 2000, and is a member of Waratah,
an innovative trio of saxophone, koto and percussion. She composed Testimony,
a major music theatre work for ABC Radio Drama. This piece is a tribute to
Charlie Parker and features the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa. It has been adapted
and evolved for performance by the Australian Art Orchestra during the Sydney
and Melbourne Festivals in 2002. Sandy was the winner of the Inaugural Bell
Award for Australian Jazz Musician of the Year (2003). Sandy has recorded with
her own trio, of which the first CD release was Not in the Mood (Newmarket
Records). Currently she also has a larger ensemble Gest8, colead with Tony
Gorman, and involving Greg White on computer, as well as Satsuki Odamura on
koto. It released its first CD on Tall Poppies in 2007.
Peter Jenkin (Clarinets) Born in London, Peter grew up in Adelaide,
where he studied with Alan Bray and David Shepherd. He began his professional
career as principal clarinet with the State Opera of South Australia. After
completing a music degree at Adelaide University he studied with Antony Pay
in London and worked with the London Sinfonietta and the Nash Ensemble, and
also the Britten Pears Orchestra. Subsequently he was principal clarinet in
l'Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon. Since 1985 he has freelanced in Sydney, often
appearing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as guest associate principal clarinettist.He
is now with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. He has recently given
many premieres of solo clarinet works, including those of Margaret Sutherland,
Riccardo Formosa, Greg White and Roger Dean. A recording of his performance
of a work of Rolf Gelhaar is available on Etcetera; and he is featured on austraLYSIS'
cd Windows in Time. He has worked with many ensembles, including recently that
for Calculated Risks Opera Productions piece 'Tales of Love', and was a founder
of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. He is also on the staff of the Sydney Conservatorium
of Music. His first solo cd was released by Tall Poppies, with the financial
support of the Australia Council, and he has edited music of Margaret Sutherland
(Currency Press).
Stephanie McCallum (Piano) has pursued something of a two-pronged career
as a soloist. She is known both for her performances of virtuosic music of
the
19th-century and also for her advocacy of demanding contemporary solo and ensemble
scores. Her CDs of the music of Alkan, Magnard, Boulez, Xenakis and of contemporary
Australian composers have received widespread international acclaim. Stephanie
was born in Sydney, Australia, and studied at the Sydney Conservatoriumof Music
with Alexander SVERJENSKY and Gordon WATSON. After advanced studies in England
with noted Alkan exponent, RonaldSMITH, she gave a critically acclaimed Wigmore
Hall debut in 1982 including what is believed to have been the first performance
of Alkan's Chants, opus 70. She is also credited with the first complete performance
of his Trois Grandes Etudes, opus 76, in London. Stephanie has appeared extensively
as a soloist in the United Kingdom, France and Australia, and has toured Europe
with The Alpha Centauri Ensemble. She has appeared as soloist in many festivals,
including Brighton, Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Festival of Sydney, Sydney Spring
and Mostly Mozart. She was a member of the former contemporary music ensemble
Sydney Alpha Ensemble, as joint artistic director. She
has played and recorded with austraLYSIS, ELISION and
theAustralia Ensemble, and has performed and broadcast as recitalist, chamber
performer and concerto soloist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Stephanie appears as soloist on two recently-released CDs by the Sydney Alpha
Ensemble, Strange Attractions, and Clocks (works of Elena KATS-CHERNIN) and
released a solo CD, Illegal Harmonies: The 20th C Piano. Amongst
Stephanie's other recordings is a two-CD release from ABC Classics of
all the piano sonatas of Weber. Stephanie has performed the notorious
Lemma-Icon-Epigram by Ferneyhough..
Daryl Pratt (percussion) Daryl is one of the most versatile
and innovative percussionists. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts
from California Institute of the Arts, and an MA from the University
of California at San Diego. He has studied with John Bergamo,
Jean-Charles Francois, Ronald George, Stanley Lunetta and T.H.Subashchandran
(South Indian mridangam), amongst others. He has received numerous
American awards, and in 1979 was selected as one of America's
top ten tertiary percussionists and performed in an International
Percussion ensemble at the Percussive Arts Society convention
in New York. As a specialist in the performance of contemporary
music Daryl has worked with some of the world's foremost composers.
He was a member of the Cal Arts Contemporary Players (1976-7),
and Sonor, directed by Bernard Rands (1977-84). He has been timpanist
with the La Jolla Civic Orchestra, and with the Canberra Symphony
Orchestra (since he came to Australia in 1985, and until 1991).
He has also performed with the San Diego Symphony. He remains
a member of Pipeline, a contemporary music project that he founded
with Simone de Haan in 1987. He also leads his own jazz-oriented
group Sonic Fiction, with cds on Naxos and Tall Poppies. He has played
with austraLYSIS since 1991, both in composed and improvised contexts.
He has also recorded with Atmasphere, with fellow percussionist
David Jones. Daryl is a composer and educator, and his compositions
include commissions funded by the Australia Council, and premieres
by Synergy Percussion. He has taught at ECC, UCSD, and Canberra
School of Music, and moved to Sydney in 1991 to head the percussion
department at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His current
involvement is particularly with MIDI-computer interaction. He currently performs
also with
Chad Wackerman.
Ian Shanahan (recorders; composer) Ian's compositions, most of which
are now commercially available on CD, have been performed both locally and internationally
to much critical acclaim. His work [p]s(t)ellor/mneme won the inaugural Sydney
Spring Composition Award in 1997. Ian is also actrive as a self taught recorder
virtuoso, and promoter of new music for his instrument. He has commissioned
composers from Australia and overseas to write for him, given many performances,
workshops and recordings of their works, as well as lecturing, broadcasting
and writing widely about the rich possibilities of the recorder. Several of
Ian's recordings involve performances by austraLYSIS or solo performances presented
by austraLYSIS.
Phil Slater (trumpets, computers) Phil is an outstanding member of the generation of Australian jazz musicians which also includes Matt McMahon and Simon Barker, with whom he has often performed (in the Band of Five Names, and otherwise), and introduced/presented radio programmes (on EastSide Radio, Sydney). Phil has performed with a massive array of different bands, including several of Mike Nock (with whom he has recorded), Rick Robertson, Lily Dior, Nigel Kennedy, and many others. He was a winner of the Freedman award for jazz musicians, and has performed with austraLYSIS since 2001. He is also a member of the Australian Art Orchestra.
Hazel Smith : see separate page.
Greg White (sound manipulation, sound projection, computers)
Greg is a composer, music producer and performer
whose creative output has been performed, published, broadcast and exhibited
throughout Australia, USA, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Hong Kong, China, New
Caledonia, Venezuela and Brazil. Greg has composed or produced music for 14
feature films, 5 TV series, 25 theatre productions, 12 installations in public
spaces and over 100 CD releases. As an educator he has designed and presented
music courses at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Australian Film Television
and Radio School, Macquarie University and the Australian Institute of Music.
He has been a member of austraLYSIS for 15 years, performs with the improvisation
ensemble Gest8, and is currently head of Composition & Music Production
at the Australian Institute of Music.
As composer/guitarist with such ensembles as 'Plash' (in the 1970's with Jim Denley and Peter Ready) and 'Orison' (in the 1980's with Peter Schaefer and Keith Manning) he was drawn towards the emerging music technology as a creative tool. His current interests lie in the new performance directions possible with computer technology, both live and in the studio. In an early collaborative project he applied the new object software technology to music composition and performance, and these ideas continued in his activities at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; and at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and Macquarie University, in innovative work with Jon Drummond and Richard Vella. His commissions include Purple Rain, for string quartet and digital processing (ABC Commission), Trace for voice, clarinet, guitar and samplers (2MBS commission), Orchid for clarinet and interactive MIDI (for Peter Jenkin), Blast for trumpet and drum machine (for Ivan Hunter) and The Silence of Eyes for speaker, clarinet, keyboard and computer program (for austraLYSIS). The Glass Bead Game is one of his MAX-interactive works (also for austraLYSIS). Greg's website is at www.greatwhitenoise.com.au.
David Worrall (composer. programmer, sound spatialisation expert)

Became a member of austraLYSIS in 2004. Freelance experimental composer and artist working in sound sculpture and immersive polymedia as well as traditional instrumental composition. He performs and exhibits internationally.
David (b. 1954) is freelance experimental composer and sound artist working
in sound sculpture and immersive polymedia. He performs and exhibits internationally.
Worrall studied music composition at the Universities of Sydney and Adelaide
with Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Richard Meale and Tristram Cary. He
has won several composition and research awards. He joined the Faculty of
Music at Melbourne University in 1979 where he taught twentieth-century music
composition techniques and orchestration as well as undertaking research
in computer music. In 1981 He designed and taught the first undergraduate
course in computer music in Australia. In 1986 he was appointed Director
of the Electronic Music Studios at the Canberra School of Music. He established
and became the Foundation Head of the Australian Centre for the Arts and
Technology (ACAT) at the Australian National University in 1989, a position
he held for over a decade. During that time ACAT offered the first Australian
postgraduate degrees in Electronic Arts. David has held artist-in-residence
and visiting fellowship positions in universities in Australia, UK, France,
Spain and the USA. He was a founding member of the Electronic Music Foundation
and the Music Council of Australia and the has served on a number of organisational
boards, including the Australia Council’s Music and Innovative Projects
(later Mixed Media) Boards and the Australasian Computer Music Association
as president, 1997-2000. In addition to his artistic activities, David designs
and builds portable multimedia event spaces, speculates in the capital markets
and teaches technical analysis
and trading. He received Australia Council funding to develop a voice-synthesiser
with Australian dialect pronunciation. He is currently undertaking a research
degree in the
sonification of the capital
markets
at the University
of Canberra
in
the
Sonic
Communications Research Group.
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