New Music Commissions

ELISION's Australian and international new music commissions are listed here, in reverse order of their completion. A number of these commissions have been assisted by the Australian or overseas funding bodies indicated by the note and listed at the bottom of the table. The note also indicates if the work is available on a compact disc recording by ELISION.

Commissions List

Currently in Preparation
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Dominik KARSKI	Australia	Open Cluster 45
Dominik KARSKI	Australia	The Source Within
Liza LIM	Australia	Mother Tongue
Ming TSAO	USA	(new work)
Davíð Brynjar FRANZSON	USA	Hrif
Completed 2005
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Richard BARRETT	Germany	Nothing Elsewhere
Completed 2004
Composer	Country	Title	Note
John RODGERS	Australia	TULP, the body public	15
Brian FERNEYHOUGH	USA	No time (at all)
Completed 2003
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Michael FINNISSY	UK	Sorrow, and its beauty	16
Chris DENCH	Australia	The Blinding Access of the Grace of Flesh	1
Brian FERNEYHOUGH	USA	Les Froissements des Ailes de Gabriel
Matthew SHLOMOWITZ	Australia	Fate (and the butterfly effect)
Completed 2001
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Liza LIM	Australia	Sonorous Bodies
Richard BARRETT	Germany	DARK MATTER	12
Completed 2000
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Richard BARRETT	Netherlands	interference
Richard BARRETT	Netherlands	transmission
John RODGERS	Australia	Inferno	14
John RODGERS	Australia	Malabolgia
Completed 1999
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Chaya CZERNOWIN	USA	Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song
Liza LIM	Australia	Yuè Lìng Jié	13
Timothy O'DWYER	Australia	Lament of Desire	10
Timothy O'DWYER	Australia	Sige	11
Completed 1998
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Chris DENCH	Australia	ik(s)land[s]	1
Keiko HARADA	Japan	heavy wood
Akira NISHIMURA	Japan	Threnody
Completed 1997
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Richard BARRETT	Netherlands	Opening of the Mouth	10
Karlheinz ESSL	Austria	elision	9
Mary FINSTERER	Australia	Monkey	1
Liza LIM	Australia	PERTH (initiation)	3
Akira NISHIMURA	Japan	River of Karuna II
Michael VAUGHAN	UK	Infinite Skies  . . .
David YOUNG	Australia	Rent
Completed 1996
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Mary FINSTERER	Australia	Ceres di Lingua	1
Richard HAMES	Australia	Finnian's Rant	1
ITO Ken	Japan	Subjectile forcene--ou projection de corps sans organes
ITO Ken	Japan	Voyage de l'eau
Liza LIM	Australia	The Alchemical Wedding	3
Liza LIM	Australia	INGUZ (fertility)	3
Benjamin MARKS	Australia	17 I.R.R. The Black Shapes
Stephen McINTYRE	Australia	Bohr's Orbit
Adam YEE	Australia	Yashar yeHezu panemo	1
Adam YEE	Australia	Zephania
Completed 1995
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Chris DENCH	Australia	'e/meth	1 for Stephen ROBINSON
Jean-Baptiste DEVILLERS	France	Via Ultima	8
Volker HEYN	Germany	PSYC
Completed 1994
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Chris DENCH	Australia	ruins within	1 for Carl ROSMAN
Franco DONATONI	Italy	Refrain III
Helen GIFFORD	Australia	Music for the Adonia	1
Liza LIM	Australia	Bar-do'i-thos-grol	4
Liza LIM	Australia	Koto	1
Giorgio NETTI	Italy	note all'Empedocle
Timothy O'DWYER	Australia	Improvisation upon Air
Alessandro SOLBIATI	Italy	Vezelay
David YOUNG	Australia	Scant
Completed 1993
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Gerard BROPHY	Australia	La Domaine Enchantee	1
Brendan COLBERT	Australia	Agité IV
Liza LIM	Australia	The Oresteia	3 CD
Gabriele MANCA	Italy	Conduite d'Approche III
Maurizio PISATI	Italy	Derscialet
Michael SMETANIN	Australia	Hot Block	1 CD
Michael SMETANIN	Australia	Skinless Kiss of Angels	3 CD
Giuseppe SOCCIO	Italy	Pulsar Songs III
Completed 1992
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Richard BARRETT	UK	negatives	CD
Aldo CLEMENTI	Italy	Plainte
Volker HEYN	Germany	NUUH (or Max the Fiddler's Complaint)
Liza LIM	Australia	Amulet	1 CD, for Jennifer CURL
Haydn REEDER	Australia	Games of Balance	1
Michael WHITICKER	Australia	After the Fire	1 CD
Completed 1991
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Brendan COLBERT	Australia	Glimeren
Chris DENCH	Australia	driftglass	1 CD
Chris DENCH	Australia	quattro frammenti
Alastair MacDONALD	UK	Trace of Infinity	5 CD
Alessandro MELCHIORRE	Italy	Terra Incognita	CD
Andrew SCHULTZ	Australia	Mephisto	1
Completed 1990
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Richard BARRETT	UK	Another heavenly day	5 CD
John BOURKE	Canada	Alberich Dances	6
Brenton BROADSTOCK	Australia	In Chains	1
Giulio CASTAGNOLI	Italy	Sei Haiku	CD
Brendan COLBERT	Australia	Agité II
Franco DONATONI	Italy	Refrain II
Mary FINSTERER	Australia	Cyme	1
Sandro GORLI	Italy	Le vie dei canti n.2	CD
Richard RIJNVOS	Netherlands	QUAD	7
Michael WHITICKER	Australia	Ad Parnassum	1
Completed 1989
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Mauro CARDI	Italy	Effetto Notte	CD
Ada GENTILE	Italy	Perelision
Richard HAMES	Australia	Danses Gothiques	1
Douglas KNEHANS	Australia	Elegies for Merilee
Liza LIM	Australia	Garden of Earthly Desire	1 CD
Completed 1988
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Michael BARKL	Australia	The Laird of Drumblair	1
Brendan COLBERT	Australia	Altered States
Theodore DOLLARHIDE	Australia	Bull
Theodore DOLLARHIDE	Australia	Dark Horse
Richard HAMES	Australia	Fiddler's Crus	1
David HOROWICZ	Australia	Five Songs--On poems of Emily Dickinson	1
Gordon KERRY	Australia	Ambages
Gordon KERRY	Australia	Ongaku
Liza LIM	Australia	Tarocchi	1
David LUMSDAINE	Australia	A Dance and a Hymn to Alexander Maconochie	1
Peter MYERS	Australia	Antipathy	1
Peter MYERS	Australia	Vex	1 for Susan PIEROTTI
Mark POLLARD	Australia	A Sympathetic Resonance	1
Mark POLLARD	Australia	With Seven Nailed Sorrows	1
Peter TAHOURDIN	Australia	Raga Music III--ELISION	1
Completed 1987
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Stephen BULL	Australia	The Timekeeper's Stutter
Brendan COLBERT	Australia	Murderers of Calm
Andrew FORD	Australia	On Canaan's Happier Shore	1
Douglas KNEHANS	Australia	Exiles	1
Peter MYERS	Australia	Of Mind and Minds
Mark POLLARD	Australia	Highly Strung	1
Haydn REEDER	Australia	Dance in a Mirror of Time
Thomas REINER	Australia	Journey and Contemplation	1
Ian SHANAHAN	Australia	Arcturus Timespace
Michael WHITICKER	Australia	Orpheus and Persephone	2
Michael WHITICKER	Australia	Venus Asleep	2
Completed 1986
Composer	Country	Title	Note
Theodore DOLLARHIDE	Australia	Madness in Paradise	1
Andree GREENWELL	Australia	Luna Park
Gordon KERRY	Australia	Phaselus
Liza LIM	Australia	Blaze

Funding and co-commissioning Bodies