Author: Elizabeth Sheppard

Australian composer Elizabeth Sheppard’s music is recorded and broadcast by the ABC, and released on ABC CDs. She is an Arts, Philosophy and Theology graduate, an accredited Cathedral Cantor, a music graduate of Eora Aboriginal College, an Aboriginal Law / Aboriginal Studies graduate of Tranby IAE College, and a graduate of the Australian National University’s Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers Program, currently studying Postgraduate composition at the Australian National University. In 2022 her SSAATTBB a capella Kaouwi ex Cordis cantata, ‘Cross Country, Noonakoort Karnya and Koorlangka Children, composed in response to the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, were streamed on the Australian Digital Concert Hall.
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Songs from the Heart CD April 7 2023

Elizabeth Sheppard

After The Song Company’s successful September – October 2022 tour of Songs from the Heart produced rave reviews from Classikon’s Pepe Newton and Sydney Arts Guide’s Lynne Lancaster (see links below), the live audio recording of the Cell Block Theatre production was mastered, and will be released internationally by Hyperion Records, on the 1equalmusic label, on April 7 2023. Click on this link to order : https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc,asp?dc=D_1EMFTH Continue reading Songs from the Heart CD April 7 2023

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Walking Uluru Treaty Tracks with The Song Company’s Songs from the Heart

Elizabeth Sheppard

https://the.song.company/songs-from-the-heart The Song Company’s upcoming Songs from the Heart tour in September-October 2022, directed by Antony Pitts and administered by Francis Greep and Eva Frey, with commissioned music by Sonya Holowell and myself, is designed as a musical interface between … Continue reading Walking Uluru Treaty Tracks with The Song Company’s Songs from the Heart

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“Koordaboodjar Heartland for Flute and Harp” NSW Art Gallery, 18 April 2021

Elizabeth Sheppard

In March 2021 Dr. Sally Walker, a flute lecturer at the Australian National University, commissioned me to rearrange the third movement of my Kooranginy Suite (2017) for flute and harp. My rearrangement was performed by harpist Emily Granger and flautist … Continue reading “Koordaboodjar Heartland for Flute and Harp” NSW Art Gallery, 18 April 2021

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CovidSafe Music Performance : Sally Walker’s Flute Concerts for One

Elizabeth Sheppard

Today I attended an ANU Music School Postgraduate Zoom Seminar, to hear brilliant Australian flautist Sally Walker speaking about her wide ranging work as a performer, conference presenter, music teacher and author. Sally’s versatile performance repertoire includes early music, flute … Continue reading CovidSafe Music Performance : Sally Walker’s Flute Concerts for One

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Homespun songs from Australia . . .

Elizabeth Sheppard

As an Australian composer and singer, I make music that’s deeply engaged with, and inspired by, the vast, wonderful country that has always nourished and sustained my people. My music records and celebrates the everyday lived experience of my generation, … Continue reading Homespun songs from Australia . . .