I originally composed this piece as a simple children’s song. The transliterated word Cooee comes from the Dharug Aboriginal language, the First Contact Australian Aboriginal language of the place the English renamed Sydney. Soon after the English landed in 1788, … Continue reading Composing Kaouwi Two Children Cooee for The Song Company’s “Songs from the Heart”

At Newcastle’s Christ Church Cathedral yesterday, The Song Company performed Songs from the Heart, a mainstage program of twenty four SSAATTBB choral responses to the Uluru Statement from the Heart from three Australian First Nations composers – Dharawal soprano Sonya … Continue reading Songs from the Heart at Christ Church Cathedral with Antony Pitts, Sonya Holowell, Elias Wilson and The Song Company