Daryl BUCKLEY, Artistic Director, ELISION
guitar
Daryl Buckley
(born February 1957, Melbourne) studied politics and history at
The The University of Melbourne and music at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is the Artistic Director
of ELISION Ensemble, Australia's premier contemporary music
group. In this capacity, Daryl has been responsible for the development of
innovative projects in the domains of contemporary opera, site-specific
installation, improvisation and electronic music.
As the Artistic Director for the 21 members of ELISION, Daryl has developed
a broad experience of national and international cultural infrastructure,
the handling of international collaborations involving participants from
several different countries, concert and recording negotiations, and a
practical understanding of the need for funding diversification and
inter-arts collaborations in the practice of contemporary arts companies.
He has organised nineteen international tours to over fourteen
different countries with highlights including performances at the
Hebbel Theater of Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Wien
Modern Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the Deutschlandfunk and Radio Bremen, Festival
Ars Musica of Brussels, the Züricher TheaterSpektakel, Saitama Arts
Theatre, IRCAM as part of the Agora festival in Paris and the Ultima
Festival of Oslo. Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting) a Ritual Street
Opera by Liza LIM (music) and Beth YAHP (libretto) was premiered at the
Adelaide and Melbourne festivals, and in 2002 toured to Berlin, Zürich
and Japan for the Saitama Arts Centre. Other major international
projects managed by Daryl include the performance-installation works
DARK MATTER with Richard BARRETT and Norwegian visual artist
Per Inge BJØRLO performed in Brisbane, Berlin and Oslo. Daryl has also
managed a large number of international composer commissions and
cross-artform projects collaborating with visual artists from
Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland, and Norway and has
instigated the visits of over one hundred and twenty composers,
performers, conductors, singers, visual, new media and sound artists to
Australia.
In 1997 an invitation was received and accepted by Daryl to be part of
an Australian Cultural delegation to Japan in a visit jointly organised
by the Japan Foundation and the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, Australia. In 1998 Daryl also participated in the
Danish-Australian cultural interaction through his involvement in the
Vision is to change Vision conference,
held in Århus, Denmark. In 1999
Daryl curated a series of installation and concert projects as the
music component of the Queensland Art Gallery's Third Asia-Pacific Triennial
Triennial. Currently Daryl is advising and formulating a programme
entitled Music Ex Machina for the Liverpool Capital of
Culture 2008 Programme.
Daryl's recent compact disc recording of Richard BARRETT's
transmission
for electric guitar and electronics was recently critically received in
the UK's Gramophone magazine as a `tour de force'.
September 2006
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