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SONGS FROM THE HEART

by Elizabeth Sheppard and Sonya Holowell
performed and toured by The Song Company
Sept 29 – Oct 9 2022

“A sacred oratorio for our time …”

Pepe Newton, ClassikON Review, October 2022

• Minninup Pool String Quartet24 Dec 2023
  Click on this link to listen to my Minninup Pool String Quartet on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lxGJkrY6z18DE40euKq5jpZfscLqtyKg8&feature=shared Performing music on European stringed instruments is an esoteric art, and composing Indigenous Australian themed music for a string quartet is… Read more: Minninup Pool String Quartet
• Karollini Christmas24 Dec 2023
  KAROLLINI CHRISTMAS . . . ten new Australian carols . . . NOW ON ITUNES, SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC & YOUTUBE (search Karollini Christmas to listen) PREMIERE PERFORMANCES AT BLUE SKY COUNTRY CHRISTMAS St Patricks Cathedral Parramatta… Read more: Karollini Christmas
• ‘Tis Post Referendum Season . . .24 Dec 2023
  Australian holiday time is upon us, but it’s still Post Voice Referendum Season in the quixotic Land of Oz. Like poor old Don Quixote, have we been tilting at windmills? Or are the scary threats that… Read more: ‘Tis Post Referendum Season . . .
• Blue Sky Country Christmas Concert Dec 8 2023 | River City Voices / Ngarra Burria / St Patricks Cathedral Parramatta | Humanitix5 Dec 2023
  Parramatta’s River City Voices Choir and the ANU Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers present a concert of uniquely Australian Christmas music
• Concert Repertoires & Playlists27 Nov 2023
  Strangely, Australian media music curators rarely promote uniquely Australian music. Pieces of new Australian music are presented once only, as if they are exotic curiosities, and are soon forgotten. New Australian composers are classified as “emerging”… Read more: Concert Repertoires & Playlists
• Australian Music: Past, Present, Future11 Aug 2023
  Visitors to Australia are astounded to find that in Australia, First Nations cultures and musics are denigrated, neglected, tokenised and buried in a flood of foreign music shows. When they come to Australia they see foreign… Read more: Australian Music: Past, Present, Future
• “We Are Your Witnesses” at St Johns Cathedral Evensong, Brisbane, 30 July 202330 Jul 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/live/B_VDdNG_18o?feature=share Evensong from St Johns Cathedral Brisbane. The Choral Evensong Service of 30 July 2023 at St Johns Cathedral Brisbane, livestreamed on the St Johns Cathedral YouTube channel, will include my SATB Indigenous anthem “We Are… Read more: “We Are Your Witnesses” at St Johns Cathedral Evensong, Brisbane, 30 July 2023
• Songs from the Heart : Hyperion CD release April 7 202310 Jul 2023
  After The Song Company’s successful September – October 2022 tour of Songs from the Heart received rave reviews from Classikon’s Pepe Newton and Sydney Arts Guide’s Lynne Lancaster, The Song Company’s live recording of the Cell… Read more: Songs from the Heart : Hyperion CD release April 7 2023
• Composing Kaouwi Two Children Cooee for “Songs from the Heart”3 Oct 2022
  I originally composed Kaouwi Two Children Cooee 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, the… Read more: Composing Kaouwi Two Children Cooee for “Songs from the Heart”
• Songs from the Heart at Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle1 Oct 2022
  At Newcastle’s Christ Church Cathedral on 29 September 2022, The Song Company premiered Songs from the Heart, a mainstage program of twenty four SSAATTBB choral responses to the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart from three… Read more: Songs from the Heart at Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle
• The Yoora Tattoo Saga . . .26 Aug 2022
  . . . Ngarra Burria . . . to listen to sing . . .
• Walking Treaty Tracks with “Songs from the Heart”8 Jul 2021
  https://the.song.company/reviews/songs-from-the-heart-2022 The Song Company’s upcoming Songs from the Heart tour in September-October 2022, with commissioned music by Sonya Holowell and myself, and two co-composed pieces from Anmatjere Arrernte singer singwriter Rhubee Neale, is designed as a… Read more: Walking Treaty Tracks with “Songs from the Heart”
• “Koordaboodjar Heartland for Flute and Harp” NSW Art Gallery, 18 April 202127 Apr 2021
  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… Read more: “Koordaboodjar Heartland for Flute and Harp” NSW Art Gallery, 18 April 2021
• CovidSafe Music Performance : Sally Walker’s Flute Concerts for One3 Sep 2020
  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… Read more: CovidSafe Music Performance : Sally Walker’s Flute Concerts for One
• Homespun songs from Australia . . .3 Sep 2020
• Closing the Gap : Academic Music and Community Music3 Aug 2020
  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… Read more: Closing the Gap : Academic Music and Community Music
• Live Music vs. Covid-19 Music-at-a-Distance16 Mar 2020
  As Australia comes to terms with COVID-19 protocols, musicians and composers are working out how to “do” music online. This photo of the first Ngarra Burria concert at Eora Aboriginal College in 2017, shows how Australian… Read more: Live Music vs. Covid-19 Music-at-a-Distance
• Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers at Eora College, the Australian Music Centre, ANU and Mooghalin Arts16 Mar 2020
  In 1788 the British arrived in Australia, bringing European music with them. Attempts were made – in bungling, unsuccessful ways – to connect with the Dharug speaking tribes they encountered. As Aboriginal hunting grounds were stolen,… Read more: Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers at Eora College, the Australian Music Centre, ANU and Mooghalin Arts
• Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education & Training Centre16 Mar 2020
  Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education Centre in Glebe, NSW, formerly known as Tranby Aboriginal College, was started by local Aboriginal Elders in collaboration with Catholic, then Anglican, nuns and clergy. Tranby is now entirely governed by… Read more: Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education & Training Centre
• Overcoming creative challenges at ANU . . .14 Mar 2020
  Negotiating last year’s Australian election, surviving the New Year bushfire and hail crisis, and being suddenly plunged into unprecedented nationwide pandemic health precautions, posed challenges for creative work of any kind, including my craft of composition.… Read more: Overcoming creative challenges at ANU . . .

Posts of Interest

Sheppard’s Kooranginy Suite is on the ABC’s recent Ngarra Burria CD “To Listen To Sing”

To Listen To Sing
was nominated for an ARIA Award in 2023

https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/to-listen-to-sing-ngarra-burria-first-peoples-composers

. . . take a piece of our blue sky . . .
. . . send it out to bless the children of the world . . .

UPCOMING PREMIERE

BLUE SKY COUNTRY CHRISTMAS CONCERT

RIVER CITY VOICES CHOIR

7.30 pm December 8 2023
St Patricks Cathedral Parramatta

together with Ngarra Burria music by Deborah Cheetham, Christopher Sainsbury, Nicola Smede, Tim Gray, and Gavi Duncan, and new music by eminent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin

https://events.humanitix.com/blue-sky-country-christmas