performances & Engagements
2024
Composer; chamber music; Jessica Fotinos Thriambus No Vacancy Gallery August Melbourne and Queenscliffe Australia
Conductor; orchestra: Stonnington Symphony Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 8 and Song to the Moon, Alma Mahler 4 Songs and Felix Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey Overture June Melbourne Australia
Musical Director; choir: Monash University Choral Society Requiem & Tantum Ergo Gabriel Fauré, Sleepless Dreams Ethel Smyth and The Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre May Melbourne Australia
Curator, composer, sound designer; opera: Forest Collective, Midsumma Festival & Abbotsford Convent Labyrinth by Evan J Lawson and Daniel Szesiong Todd World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission February Melbourne Australia
2023
Musical Director; curator, composer; opera: Forest Collective, Abbotsford Convent & BK Opera The Sea by Evan J Lawson and Nicole Butcher World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission December Melbourne Australia
Composer; orchestra; An Atlas of Joy Stonnington Symphony, conducted by Roy Theaker World Premiere Malvern Town Hall November Melbourne Australia
Musical Director; choir: Monash University Choral Society and Forest Collective Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson October Melbourne Australia
Conductor, curator, composer; chamber music: Forest Collective Waves featuring two scenes from The Sea by Evan J Lawson World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission October Melbourne Australia
Composer; Chamber Music; Mermeros & Pheres World Premiere Forest Collective, La Mama Courthouse, October Melbourne Australia
Conductor; chamber music: Forest Collective Diapsalmata by Kym Alexandra Dillon July Geelong Australia
Conductor, curator, orchestrator; chamber-pop: Forest Collective Fountain by Max Lawrence World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission February Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia
Composer; Chamber Music; Echoes from the Labyrinth Australian Premiere Homophonic, Midsumma Festival La Mama Courthouse, February Melbourne Australia
2022
Composer; Chamber Music; Echoes from the Labyrinth World Premiere Tacet(i) Ensemble, IntAct Festival Bangkok Arts & Cultural Centre, December Bangkok Thailand
Conductor, curator, arranger; chamber music: Forest Collective Sun Songs & Cycles November Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia Evan J Lawson Sun Cycles World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Philip Glass Hymn to the Sun World Premiere of new arrangement
Composer; Chamber Music; Meditations World Premiere Helen Bower, Abbotsford Convent November Melbourne Australia
Rehearsal conductor & Repetiteur; Opera: BK Opera Jules Massenet Werther directed by Daniel Sinfield Southbank, Australia
Conductor & Musical Director; Choir: Melbourne Fringe Festival Robbie Blake Town Choir Australian Premiere Prahran, Australia
Conductor & Musical Director; Opera: BK Opera Peter Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse directed by Kate Millet September Brunswick & Southbank, Australia
Conductor, curator, arranger, composer; chamber music & dance: Forest Collective Tides choreographed by Jesse Matthews June Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia Evan J Lawson Tides World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Bjork Unison, Anchor Song, Come to me Claudio Monteverdi 2 Motets World Premiere of new arrangement
Composer; Vocal; After the Long Night / Gowidja djirrunga dhala World Premiere Deborah Cheetham Melbourne Pride, Midsumma Festival February Melbourne, Australia
Conductor, curator, arranger; chamber music: Forest Collective Shifting February Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia Micah Thompson Otaki Song World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Alex Turley Biome Lou Maishuo On that Mountain Road World Premiere of new arrangement Richard Meale Las Alboradas
Conductor, curator; chamber music: Forest Collective Pierrot Lunaire digital experience available online World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission
2021
Composer; Opera; Vois World Premier Festival d'Aix-en-Provence as part of Opera de-ci de-la June Aix-en-Provence/online France
Conductor, curator; chamber music: Forest Collective Emo Phase April Abbotsford Convent as part of Midsumma Festival Melbourne Australia You Are Jeff Dan Thorpe World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Lampi Cat Hope World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Takahe Dan Thorpe
Conductor, curator, arranger; chamber music: Forest Collective Diimpa x Forest Collective February Heide Museum of Modern Art as part of Midsumma Festival Melbourne Australia World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission
2020
Conductor; orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 96 as part of the Australian Conducting Academy, University of Tasmania, January Hobart, Tasmania
Conductor, curator, orchestrator; chamber-pop: Forest Collective Chlorophyll by Max Lawrence World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission February Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia
Composer; Chamber Music; After World Premier Danae Killian piano, on a live-streamed digital concert during the Covid19 lockdown
Composer; Orchestra: I breathe you in, I am breathless Workshop Bayside Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ingrid Martin March Melbourne, Australia
Conductor & Composer; Wind Symphony: Eurydice’s Death Dance Workshop Westgate Concert Band March Melbourne, Australia
2019
Musical director; Opera: Australian Contemporary Opera Company for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival Claudio Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea directed by Gale Edwards AM October Yarra Valley, Australia
Rehearsal conductor; Opera: Australian Contemporary Opera Company & Monk Parrots for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival Guiseppe Verdi Macbeth directed by Luke Landric Leonard October Yarra Valley, Australia
Conductor; Orchestra: Argonaut Ensemble for the opening night performance of the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music Dylan Lardelli Cleaving to Seconds World Premiere September Bendigo, Australia
Conductor; chamber music: Argonaut Ensemble for New Zealand student composers workshop for the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music all World Premieres Two Prisms Thomas Bedgood, Theory of Mind Oliver Bramah, Three Little Pigs Yi Min Chau, Sehnsucht Ihlara McIndoe, Lake Taupo Imogen Moore, Impasto Nathaniel Otley, Wake Micah Thompson, Incognito Na Weeney Xian
Conductor; curator, composer; Opera: Prismatx Ensemble & Density512 Orpheus June USA Premiere & Prismatx Co-commission June Austin, USA
Composer; Chamber Music: Sikinnis III Danae Killian piano April Hawthorn Melbourne Australia
Curator, Musical Director, Composer; Opera: Forest Collective Orpheus January-February Abbotsford Convent Midsumma Festival World Premiere & Forest Collective Co-commission January & February Melbourne, Australia
2018
Musical director, arranger, curator, Pop music: Forest Collective, Danielle Asciak Nico World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission September Melbourne Fringe Festival Hub Melbourne Australia
Curator: Forest Collective Skin Deep August Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia Nikki Edgar Skin Deep World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission, Chris Rechner Rosina World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission and Julie Hernwood 7 Words World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission
Conductor; curator, chamber music: Forest Collective Berceuse July All Nations Church Melbourne Australia Evan Lawson Part III of Orpheus World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission May Lyon Ode to Damascus Charles Peck Sunburst Australian Premiere Alexander Morris Turning Point World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission
Chamber Music; Thriambus World Premiere Jessica Fotinos harp July Jinji Lake Concert Hall, Suzhou China
Musical director, arranger, curator, Pop music: Forest Collective, Addison Hunt fluttering hearts // thinking machines World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission May Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia
Conductor; curator, chamber music: Forest Collective, Forest Relaunched March St Stephens Church Melbourne Australia Franz Schreker, Op.5 arranged for chamber ensemble by Evan, composer Unfolding World Premiere Ryan Williams recorder
2017
Composer; chamber Music: Sikinnis III Danae Killian piano Montsalvat November Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber Music: Ballad of Antinous World Premiere Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Percussion Ensemble conducted by Guy de Plut Justine Anderson soprano VCA October Melbourne Australia
Musical Director; choir & theatre: Come Away with Me to the End of the World, Ranters Theatre Co. September Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin Ireland William Byrd Mass for 3 Voices
Composer; chamber Music: Sikinnis III World Premiere Danae Killian piano St Stephens Church September Melbourne Fringe Festival Australia
Conductor; orchestra: Moravska Filharmonie Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 June Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc Czech Republic
Conductor; opera: Gertrude Opera for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte October assistant to Warwick Stengards Yarra Valley, Australia
Composer; chamber music: Crown of Phtheírein World Premiere Crystal Chu percussion University of Oregon Oregon U.S.A.
2016
Conductor; curator, chamber music: Forest Collective, Dancing on a Volcano December St Stephens Church Melbourne Australia various works including works by Kurt Weill, Isle Weber, Henri Dutilleux, Franz Schreker, Olivier Messiaen, Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg
Conductor; curator, chamber music: Forest Collective Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire November St Stephens Church Melbourne Australia
Conductor; curator, chamber orchestra: Forest Collective & New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Gerard Grisey Quatre Chants pour Franchir Le Seuil Victorian Premiere September, Melba Hall Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Sirens World Premiere Allotropy! String Quartet Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre August Melbourne Australia
Musical director; choir & theatre: Come Away with Me to the End of the World, Ranters Theatre Co. July Malthouse Theatre Melbourne, Australia William Byrd Mass for 3 Voices
Conductor; curator, chamber music: Forest Collective Sensuality in the City Melbourne Recital Centre May Melbourne Australia Evan Lawson Himeros World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission, Philip Venables Fuck Forever & Fight Music Australian Premieres and various works by Marc Yeats, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert and Georges Aperghis
Musical director; orchestra & choir: Performance Space Holcombe Waller Requiem Mass: LGBT Australian Premiere Carriageworks Sydney Australia February
Composer; chamber music: In the Red Fire of Passion Australian Premiere Forest Collective Rosemary Ball soprano Tanya Vincent flute Jessica Fotinos harp 75 Reid Street February Melbourne Australia
2015
Conductor; orchestra: Symphony In a Day Orchestra Reading Project Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 January Union Theatre Melbourne Australia
Conductor; orchestra: Symphony In a Day Orchestra Reading Project Gioachino Rossini William Tell Overture April VCA Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Threnoi II World Premiere Edges Duo Crystal Chu percussion Steve Sharp trumpet University of Oregon Oregon U.S.A.
Conductor, curator; chamber music: Forest Collective Evan Lawson Orpheus and the Cave World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission May Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne Australia
Musical Director; Opera: Australian Contemporary Opera Company & Forest Collective Benjamin Britten Curlew River May 45 Downstairs Melbourne Australia
Conductor; Chamber music: Soundscape New Music Festival Maccagno Auditorium Italy July Jesse Jones One Bright Morning World Premiere George Fentner Still Breaking World Premiere Antony Ciesielka follow the lines of flight taking shape at some particular moment or the other World Premiere Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire extracts
Composer; chamber music: In the Red Fire of Passion World Premiere Katelyn Isaacson soprano Cochlea Duo Maccagno Auditorium Soundscape New Music Festival July Italy
Conductor; Orchestra: Tonkünstler Orchestra Grafenegg Festival August Evan Lawson The Nephelai World Premiere
Conductor; Orchestra: Melbourne University Orchestra Percy Grainger The Warriors offstage conductor to Brett Dean August 2015 Iwaki Auditorium Melbourne, Australia
Conductor; Orchestra: Symphony In a Day Orchestra Reading Project Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 September VCA Melbourne Australia
Conductor; Chamber music: Australian National Academy of Music Melbourne Australia September 2015 Samuel Smith Elsewhere; Everywhere World Premiere
Conductor; Curator, Orchestra: Hopkins Sinfonia Fitzroy Town Hall Melbourne Australia October Robert Schumann Symphony No. 3, Evan Lawson Peane from Hyacinth & Gyorg Ligetti Fragment
Conductor; Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Melba Hall Melbourne Australia December Andres Noboa Las Cuatro Estaciones Quiteñas (o su inevitable ausencia) World Premiere & Jorge Oviedo Violashpa for Viola and Strings World Premiere
Conductor, Curator, Chamber music: Forest Collective Sunrise St Stephen’s Church Melbourne Australia December Luciano Berio Folk Songs & Michael Bakrencev Wonderdous Woman with the Watermelon World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission
2014
Conductor; chamber music: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Maurice Ravel Trois Poemes de Mallarme March VCA Melbourne Australia
Conductor; choir: Australian National Academy of Music Peter Eötvös Three Comedy Madrigals Australian Premiere March St Ali Melbourne Australia
Conductor; curator, chamber music: Forest Collective The Garden of Ice April Melbourne Recital Centre Lars Ekstrom The Garden of Ice Australian Premiere Kaija Saariaho Ariel’s Hall & Miranda's Lament Lisa Illean And the black water still breaks... World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Claude Debussy La Balcon New Arrangement Melbourne Australia
Conductor; orchestra: Symphony In a Day Orchestra Reading Project Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 May VCA Melbourne Australia
Conductor; curator, Chamber music & Theatre: Forest Collective The Garden May Kew Court House various works by Evan Lawson, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Benjamin Harrison, Stephen Sondheim, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, May Lyon & Coldplay Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Sikinnis I Forest Collective Naomi Johnson flute April Melbourne Recital Centre Metropolis New Music Festival Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Sikinnis I Italian Premiere Naomi Johnson flute Maccagno Auditorium Soundscape New Music Festival Italy July
Conductor; chamber music: New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Andre Jolivet 2nd Flute Concerto Melba Hall Melbourne Australia
Conductor; chamber orchestra: New Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Charles Wuorinen Archæopteryx & Archangel Melbourne Premiere July Melba Hall Melbourne Australia
Conductor; opera: Gertrude Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte Athenaeum Theatre October assistant to Warwick Stengards
Conductor, curator; chamber orchestra: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music November Arnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 & Verklarte Nacht Claude Debussy Danses Melbourne Australia
Conductor; chamber orchestra: Australian National Academy of Music Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio from Creatures of Prometheus Claude Debussy Danses Melbourne Australia
Conductor, curator; chamber music: Forest Collective The Mingled Yarn December Abbotsford Convent works by Evan Lawson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Honegger, William Byrd & Benjamin Britten Melbourne Australia
2013
Conductor; curator; chamber music: Forest Collective Shared Sounds April Abbotsford Convent Evan Lawson Interlude in a Dream World Premiere Mark-Anthony Turnage Three Farewells Johanna Selleck Aia World Premiere Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Sikinnis II World premiere Petrichor April Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Sikinnis II Petrichor August Medley Hall Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Dithyramb Forest Collective Katriona Tsyrlin violin June Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia
Conductor, curator; chamber music & Theatre: Forest Collective Shared Lines June Abbotsford Convent Franz Liszt Oh! Quand Je Dors New arrangement Richard Wagner Traume New arrangement Melbourne Australia
Conductor; chamber music: New Music Studio Melbourne Conservatorium of Music James David Pictures of a Floating World Australian Premiere Melba Hall Melbourne Australia
Conductor; curator; opera: Forest Collective Evan Lawson Calypso World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission December Abbotsford Convent Melbourne Australia
2012
Assistant Conductor; musical theatre: Angle Arts Maury Yeston Titanic April Ballarat Academy of Dramatic Arts Ballarat Victoria
Conductor; chamber Music: Claude Debussy Le Chanson de Bilitis June Australian National Academy of Music Melbourne Australia
Composer; Orchestra: Peane from Hyacinth World Premiere Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrick Burns the composer clarinet Catherine Ashley harp Melbourne High School August Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber Music: Gypsy World Premiere Megan Clune clarinet Alaska Projects September Sydney Australia
2011
Conductor; opera: In Good Company Georges Bizet Carmen February Lithuanian Club Theatre Melbourne, Australia
Conductor, curator; chamber music: Forest Collective May Lyon CreAture World Premiere July Top Shed Melbourne, Australia
Composer; orchestra: Prelude & Jason’s Song World Premiere Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brett Kelly Iwaki Auditorium January Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Ballad of the Crying Satyr Forest Collective conducted by Louis Sharpe sung by the composer May Richmond Uniting Church Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber Music: Ballad of Melierax & Circe World Premiere Syzygy Ensemble Kingston Arts Centre July Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber Music: Chestnut Room World Premiere Ballarat Harp Camp Ballarat Australia
Composer; chamber Music: Sikinnis I World Premiere Forest Collective Tamara Kohler flute Richmond Uniting Church Melbourne Australia
2010
Conductor, curator; chamber music & Choir: Forest Collective & Exaudi Youth Choir Evan Lawson 4 Early Songs World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission Camille Robinson Dreaming of Trees World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission May St John’s Melbourne Australia
Conductor, curator; orchestra: RMIT Symphony Orchestra RMIT University June Elena Roussanova Lucas Tatarian Dances Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41
Conductor, curator; chamber music: Forest Collective May Lyon Sylva World Premiere & Forest Collective Commission October Guildford Gallery Melbourne Australia
Conductor; Opera: Nina Sofo Laugh Out Loud World premiere October Federation Hall Melbourne Australia
Conductor, curator; Orchestra: Forest Collective Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Evan Lawson Nocturne November VCA Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music & Choir: 4 Early Songs World Premiere Forest Collective & Exaudi Youth Choir conducted by the composer May St John’s Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Domenico's Mask World Premiere Forest Collective Jessica Fotinos harp Lina Andonovska flute July VCA Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Dithyramb World Premiere Forest Collective Isabel Hede violin July VCA Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Ballad of the Crying Satyr Forest Collective conducted by the composer Joe Coghlin baritone November VCA Melbourne Australia
2009
Composer; chamber music: 3 Folksongs and Postlude Joe Coghlin baritone Tanya Vincent flute the composer clarinet October Federation Square Melbourne Australia
Composer; orchestra: Symphony No. 1 World Premiere VCA Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thaddeus Huang November Iwaki Auditorium Melbourne Australia
Composer; orchestra: Nocturne World Premiere Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raymond Yong St Michael’s Church Melbourne Australia
2008
Composer; chamber music: 3 Folksongs and Postlude World Premiere Joe Coghlin baritone Tanya Vincent flute the composer clarinet October VCA Melbourne Australia
Composer; chamber music: Ballad of the Crying Satyr World Premiere conducted by Christine Storey the composer baritone October VCA Melbourne Australia
2007
Composer; orchestra: Brightness & Fusion (since removed) World Premiere Chamber Strings of Melbourne conducted by Christopher Martin MLC Melbourne Australia