conducting repertoire

ADDISON 

• fluttering hearts // thinking machines (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective, Addison vocals *commissioned by Evan through Forest Collective. Including arrangements by Evan Lawson, Alexander Turley and William Elm) video excerpt

ANDREW ARONOWICZ

• Archephony (World Premiere Forest Collective)

Samuel Barber

• Adagio for Strings^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

LION BART

• Oliver (assistant to Geoff Davie, Cheltenham Secondary College)

THOMAS BEDGOOD

• Two Prisms (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

Ludwig van Beethoven 

• Symphony No. 1 (Symphony In a Day - orchestral reading project, Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Symphony No. 3 (Symphony In a Day - orchestral reading project, Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Symphony No. 4 (Forest Collective Orchestral Project)

• Symphony No. 5 (Symphony In a Day - orchestral reading project, Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Symphony No. 7^ (Melbourne Youth Music Summer School Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Egmont Overture^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Adagio from Creatures of Prometheus (Australian National Academy of Music Orchestra)

LUCIANO BERIO

• Folk Songs (Forest Collective, Stefanie Dingnis Mezzo Soprano)

Georges Bizet

• Carmen Suit No.1 (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Carmen (In Good Company) review directed by Greg Eldridge

Bjork

• The Anchors Song (Forest Collective World Premiere arranged by Evan Lawson)

• Unison (Forest Collective World Premiere arranged by Evan Lawson)

• Come to me (Forest Collective World Premiere arranged by Evan Lawson)

robbie blake

• Town Choir (Melbourne Fringe Choir, Exuaid Youth Choir, The Cho!r, Scrub Choir Australian Premiere)

Johannas Brahms

• Symphony No. 1 (Moravska Filharmonie) video excerpt

• Symphony No. 3 first and second movements^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

OLIVER BRAMAH

• Theory of Mind (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere) audio recording

WILLIAM BYRD 

• Sanctus (Forest Collective)

• Mass for 3 Voices (Forest Collective)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

• Finally from Midsummer Nights Dream (Forest Collective)

• Curlew River (Forest Collective, Gertrude Opera) review directed by Linda Thompson

• A Boy Was Born (U3A Choir)

YI MIN CHAU

• Three Little Pigs (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

ANTHONY CIESIELKA

• follow the lines of flight taking shape at some particular moment or the other (SoundSCAPE New Music Festival World Premiere) video excerpt

Coldplay

• Viva, la vida! (Forest Collective, Rosemary Ball soprano, Michael Lampard baritone. Arranged by Evan Lawson)

JAMES DAVID

• Pictures of the Floating World (New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Australian Premiere)

Peter maxwell davies

• The Lighthouse (BK Opera Melbourne Premiere)

Claude Debussy 

• Prelude to an afternoon of the Faun^ (Melbourne Youth Music Summer School Conductor’s Orchestra, Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Danses for Harp and Strings (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Jacinta Dennett soloist, Australian National Academy of Music, Jacinta Dennett soloist) video available here - http://www.evanjlawson.com/materials/

• Les Chansons de Billitis (the Australian National Academy of Music)

• La Balcon for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Forest Collective arranged by Evan Lawson Soprano Rosemary Ball)

DIIMPA

• Bunya (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Tall Branches (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Night Gone (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Wasteland (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective arranged by Evan Lawson)

• Speck (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective arranged by Evan Lawson)

• Bergamot (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Soft Machine (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

John dowland

• My Thoughts are Wing'd (Forest Collective)

• Flow my tears (Forest Collective)

HENRI DUTILLEUX

• Oboe Sonata (Forest Collective - World premiere arranged by Jasper Ly, Oboe Jasper Ly)

Antonin Dvorak 

• Symphony No. 8^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

LARS EKSTROM

• The Garden of Ice (Forest Collective Australian Premiere) review

PETER EÖTVÖS

• Natascha-Trio (Forest Collective, Aleise Bright mezzo-soprano Australian Premiere)

• Three Comedy Madrigals (Australian Premiere Australian National Academy of Music)

GEORGE FETNER

• Still Breaking (SoundSCAPE New Music Festival World Premiere) video excerpt

Philip glass

• Hymn to the Sun from Akhnaten (Forest Collective, Aleise Bright Soprano)

Percy Grainger

• The Warriors - off-stage brass (University of Melbourne Orchestra, assistant to Brett Dean)

Gerard Grisey

• Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil for Soprano and 15 Instruments (Victorian Premiere Forest Collective, New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Justine Anderson Soprano)

Joseph haydn

• Symphony No. 96 - (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)

Paul Hindemith

• Trauermusik for Viola and Strings (Members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Simon Gangotena Oritz soloist)

Gustav Holst

• Jupiter from The Planets~ (Melbourne Youth Music Summer School Philharmonic Orchestra)

ARTHUR HONEGGER

• Chant d'Ariel arranged for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Forest Collective World Premiere arranged by Evan Lawson Soprano Rosemary Ball)

CAT HOPE

• Lampi (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

Jacques Ibert 

• Concerto for Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra (VCA Chamber Orchestra, Assistant Musical Director to Marco van Pagee Jessica Voigt soloist)

LISA ILLEAN

• And the black sea, Breaks… (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON

• Considering Matthew Shepard (Forest Collective, Monash University Choral Society)

JESSE JONES

• One Bright Morning (World Premiere SoundSCAPE Faculty Ensemble Soprano Tony Arnold, SoundSCAPE New Music Festival)

André Jolivet

• Suite En Concert (2nd Flute Concerto) for Flute and Percussion (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Naomi Johnson soloist )

Elena Roussanova Lucas

• Tatarian Dances (RMIT Symphony Orchestra )

dylan lardelli

• Cleaving to Seconds (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premier)

Max Lawrence

• Chlorophyll (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective, Max Lawrence vocals Including arrangements by Evan Lawson, Alex Morris and Matt Hirst)

• Fountain (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective, Max Lawrence vocals Including arrangements by Evan Lawson, Alex Morris and Matt Hirst)

Evan Lawson

• Nocturne (Forest Collective Orchestral Project)

• Interlude in a Dream (Forest Collective) audio excerpt

• The Nephelai (World Premiere Tonkünstler Orchestra, Grafenegg festival) video excerpt & pre-concert interview

• Peane from Hyacinth - Concerto for Clarinet, Harp and Orchestra (Hopkins Sinfonia, Ashley Smith Clarinet, Catherine Ashley Harp) audio excerpt

• Orpheus (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective) reviews available here video & audio excerpt

• Calypso (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective) review available here video & audio excerpt

• …I know now... (World Premiere Forest Collective) audio excerpt

• Ballad of the Crying Satyr (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective Joe Coghlin Baritone)

• Orpheus and the Cave (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Himeros I (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Tides (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Sun Cycles (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

Györg Ligeti

• Fragment (Hopkins Sinfonia)

FRANZ LISZT

• Oh! Quand Je dors for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective - arranged by Evan Lawson Soprano Rosemary Ball)

ANTONIO LOTTI 

• Crucifixus (Forest Collective)

MAY LYON

• Sylva (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective and Lyra Winds)

• CreAture (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Ode to Damascus (Forest Collective)

jules massenet

• Werther* (cover conductor)

IHLARA MCINDOE

• Sehnsucht (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

RICHARD MEALE

• Las Alboradas Forest Collective

Felix Mendelssohn

• Nocturne from Midsummer Nights Dream^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Symphony No. 4 “Italian” - first and second movements*^

• Calm Sea, prosperous journey Overture (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)^

IMOGEN MOORE

• Lake Taupo (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

ALEX MORRIS

• Turning Point (World Premiere with Forest Collective *commissioned by Evan through Forest Collective)

Modest Mussorgsky

• Night on Bald Mountain^ (Moravska Filharmonie)

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

• L’coronatione di Poppea (Australian Contemporary Opera Project, Yarra Valley Opera Festival) directed by Gale Edwards

• Madrigals (World Premiere with Forest Collective *commissioned and arranged by Evan for Forest Collective)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

• Symphony No. 41 (RMIT Symphony Orchestra)

• Overture from Die Zauberflöte^ (Melbourne Conseravtorium of Music conductor's orchestra)

• Overture from Le nozze di Figaro*^

• Overture from Don Giovanni^ (Melbourne Conseravtorium of Music conductor's orchestra)

• Die Zauberflöte (2014 & 2017 assistant to Warwick Stengårds, Gertrude Opera,)

• La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni (Forest Collective)

• Deh vieni non tardar from Le Nozze di Figaro (Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, Emilia Bartolini soprano)^

• Zephyretten Leicht gefiedert from Idomeneo (Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, Emilia Bartolini soprano)^

NICO (CHRISTA PÄFFGEN)

• Nico: Songs they Never Play on the Radio (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective, Danielle Asciak vocals with arrangements by Evan Lawson, Alex Turley and William Elm)

OTTO NICOLAI

• Nun eilt herbei from Merry Wives of Windsor (Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, Emilia Bartolini soprano)^

Andrés Noboa

• Las Cuatro Estaciones Quiteñas (o su inevitable ausencia) for Viola and Strings (World Premiere Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Simon Gangotena Oritz soloist)

NATHANIEL OTLEY

• Impasto (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

Jorge Oviedo

• Violashpa for Viola and Strings (World Premiere Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Simon Gangotena Oritz soloist)

CHARLES PECK

• Sun Burst (Australian Premiere with Forest Collective)

STANISLAV PRISTÁŠ

• Septum (Australian premiere with Forest Collective)

Maurice Ravel

• Tombeau de Couperin - Minuet^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Trois Poemes de Mallarme (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Soprano Emily Lanham)

CAMILLE ROBINSON

• Dreaming of Trees (World Premiere with Forest Collective)

Joaquin Rodrigo

• Concerto de Aranjuez (Geelong Symphony Orchestra, assistant to Warwick Stengards)

Gioachino Rossini

• Overture from William Tell (Symphony In a Day Orchestral reading program)

DANA P. ROWE 

• The Witches of Eastwick (University of Melbourne)

KAIJA SAARIAHO

• The Tempest Song Book (Forest Collective, Soprano Rosemary Ball, Harp Marshall Maguire)

Arnold Scheonberg

• Kammersymphony op. 9 (Melbourne University Orchestra) 

• Verklächt Nacht (Melbourne University Orchestra) 

• Pierrot Lunaire (SoundSCAPE New Music Festival, Soprano Tara Khozein; Forest Collective, Mezzo-Soprano Aleise Bright)

FRANZ SCHREKER 

• 5 Lieder op. 4 (Forest Collective - arranged by Evan Lawson, Mezzo-Soprano Lotte Betts-Dean; Forest Collective, Mezzo-Soprano Aleise Bright)

Franz Schubert

• Symphony No. 5^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Various songs (Forest Collective, Rosemary Ball soprano, Michael Lampard baritone. Arranged by Evan Lawson)

Robert Schumann

• Symphony No. 2 (Tasmania Symphony Orchestra)^

• Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" (Hopkins Sinfonia)

• Various songs (Forest Collective, Rosemary Ball soprano, Michael Lampard baritone. Arranged by Evan Lawson)

JOHANNA SELLECK

• Aia (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

SAMUEL SMITH

• Elsewhere; Everywhere (World Premiere, Australian National Academy of Music)

stephen sondheim

• Kiss Me from Sweeny Todd (Forest Collective, Rosemary Ball soprano, Michael Lampard baritone. Arranged by Evan Lawson)

MISCHA SPOLANSKY

• Ich bin ein Vamp! (Forest Collective - arranged by Alex Morris, Mezzo-Soprano Kate Bright)

Igor Stravinsky 

• The Firebird, 1919 suite^ (Melbourne Youth Music Summer School Conductor’s Orchestra, Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Pulcinella^ (Moravska Filharmonie)

• Dumbarton Oaks (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)^

RICHARD STRAUSS 

• Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments Op.7 (Melbourne Youth Music Summer School Conductor’s Orchestra)

Nina sofo

• Laugh Out Loud (World Premiere 2010, Victorian College of the Arts) directed by Greg Eldridge

STEPHAN SONDHEIM

• Kiss Me from Sweeny Todd (Forest Collective)

Peter Tchiakovsky

• Symphony No. 6 - first movement^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra) 

• Piano Concerto No. 1^ (Moravska Filharmonie)

DAN THORPE

• You Are Jeff (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

• Takahe (Forest Collective, Aleise Bright soprano)

ALEX TURLEY

• Biome (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

MICAH THOMPSON

• Wake (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

• Otaki Song (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

MARK ANTHONY TURNAGE

• Three Farewell’s (Forest Collective)

RICCARDO VAGLINI

• Inventario (World Premiere as Assistant Conductor to John McCaughy, Astra Chamber Music Society)

PHILIP VENABLES

• Fuck Forever (Australian Premiere, Forest Collective)

• Fight Music (Australian Premiere, Forest Collective)

Giuseppe Verdi

• Overture from La Forza del Destino*^

• La Traviata (assistant to David Kram, More then Opera)

• Macbeth (assistant to David Kram, Gertrude Opera Yarra Valley Opera Festival)

Richard Wagner

• Overture from Die Meistersingers von Nuremberg^ (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Sigfried Idyll (Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

• Träume (Forest Collective - arranged by Evan Lawson, Soprano Olivia Cranwell)

Holcombe Waller

• Requiem Mass: LGBT (Australian Premiere Performance Space, Carriageworks)

Carl Maria von Weber

• Overture from Der Freischütz^*

ISLE WEBER

• Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt (Forest Collective)

KURT WEILL

• Nana's Lied (Forest Collective - arranged by Alex Morris, Mezzo Soprano Kate Bright)

RALPH VAUGHN WILLIAMS

• Three Shakespeare Songs (Forest Collective, Rosemary Ball soprano. Arranged by Evan Lawson)

Charles Wuorinen

• Archæopteryx for Bass Trombone and 10 Instruments (New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Benjamin Anderson soloist)

• Archangel for Bass Trombone and String Quartet (Melbourne Premiere New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Benjamin Anderson soloist)

MAURY YESTON

• Titanic (assistant to Trevor Jones, Angel 5 Arts)

NA WEENEY XIAN

• Incognito (Argonaut Ensemble, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music World Premiere)

* - with piano

^- in masterclass

~ - in rehearsal