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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Upcoming Songs from the Heart CD release April 7 2022 at Hyperion / 1equalmusic

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 2022. Click on this link to order : https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc,asp?dc=D_1EMFTH Continue reading Upcoming Songs from the Heart CD release April 7 2022 at Hyperion / 1equalmusic

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Composing Kaouwi Two Children Cooee for The Song Company’s “Songs from the Heart”

Elizabeth Sheppard

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”

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Songs from the Heart at Christ Church Cathedral with Antony Pitts, Sonya Holowell, Elias Wilson and The Song Company

Elizabeth Sheppard

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

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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 Francis Greep, with commissioned music by Sonya Holowell and myself, Elizabeth Sheppard, is designed as a musical interface between Australia’s 252 years … Continue reading Walking Uluru Treaty Tracks with The Song Company’s Songs from the Heart

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Koordaboodjar Heartland at the NSW Art Gallery’s 150th Anniversary Resonate Concert, 18 April 2021

Elizabeth Sheppard

In March 2021, I was commissioned to arrange the third movement of my Kooranginy Suite (2017) for flute and harp. My arrangement was performed by harpist Emily Granger and flautist Sally Walker, at the NSW Art Gallery’s 150th Anniversary Resonate … Continue reading Koordaboodjar Heartland at the NSW Art Gallery’s 150th Anniversary Resonate Concert, 18 April 2021

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Covid Safe Music Performance Strategies : 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 Covid Safe Music Performance Strategies : 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 . . .

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Closing the Gap between Academic Music and Community Music in Australia

Elizabeth Sheppard

It seems that the ongoing Coranavirus pandemic has woken Australians up to the important role that local community and country based music can play, in maintaining human mental health and community peace. Dreaming, performing, and paying attention to community music … Continue reading Closing the Gap between Academic Music and Community Music in Australia