conducting repertoire

  • LION BART

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

    GEORGES BIZET

    • Carmen (In Good Company) directed by Greg Eldridge

    ROBBIE BLAKE

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

    MATT BOEHLER

    • Fat Pig (BK Opera, Forest Collective) Australian Premiere

    BENJAMIN BRITTEN

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

    PETER MAXWELL DAVIES

    • The Lighthouse (BK Opera Melbourne Premiere)

    CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

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

    WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

    • 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)^

    EVAN J LAWSON

    JULES MASSENET

    • Werther* (cover conductor)

    DANA P. ROWE 

    • The Witches of Eastwick (University of Melbourne)

    RICHARD STRAUSS

    • Zerbinetta’s Aria from Ariadne auf Naxos (in concert, with Japan-German Music Foundation Orchestra, Ryoko Nakamoto soprano, Saitama Arts Theatre)

    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)

    GUISEPPE VERDI

    MAURY YESTON

  • SAMUEL BARBER

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

    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 (ANAM Orchestra)

    GEORGES BIZET

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

    JOHANNES BRAHMS

    • Symphony No. 1 (Moravska Filharmonie)

    • Symphony No. 3 (Masterclass with Naoki Sugiyama Japan-German Music Foundation Orchestra, and with the Melbourne Conservatorium Conductor’s Orchestra)

    • Tragic Overture (Masterclass with Naoki Sugiyama Japan-German Music Foundation Orchestra)

    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)

    ANTONIN DVORAK 

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

    • Song to the Moon from Rusalka (Stonnington Symphony Orchestra, Teresa Ingrilli soprano)

    GABRIEL FAURÉ

    • Requiem (Monash Univerity Choral Society, Nicholas Dinopolous bass-baritone, Teresa Ingrilli soprano)

    PERCY GRAINGER

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

    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)

    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)

    JACQUES IBERT 

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

    CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON

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

    ELENA ROUSSANOVA LUCAS

    • Tatarian Dances (RMIT Symphony Orchestra )

    DYLAN LARDELLI

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

    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)

    EVAN J LAWSON

    • Nocturne (Forest Collective Orchestral Project)

    • The Nephelai (World Premiere Tonkünstler Orchestra, Grafenegg festival) 

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

    GYÖRGY LIGETI

    • Fragment (Hopkins Sinfonia)

    ALMA MAHLER

    • 4 Songs (Stonnington Symphony Orchestra, Teresa Ingrilli soprano)

    MODEST MUSSORGSKY

    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^, Stonnington Symphony Orchestra)

    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)

    JORGE OVIEDO

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

    MAURICE RAVEL

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

    JOAQUIN RODRIGO

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

    GIACHINO ROSSINI

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

    ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

    • Kammersymphony op. 9 (Melbourne University Orchestra) 

    • Verklächt Nacht (Melbourne University Orchestra) 

    FRANZ SCHUBERT

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

    ROBERT SCHUMANN

    • Symphony No. 2 (Tasmania Symphony Orchestra)^

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

    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)

    • Zabinetta’s Aria from Ariadne auf Naxos (Ryoko Nakamoto, soprano, Japan-German Music Foundation Orchestra)

    STEPHAN SONDHEIM

    • Kiss Me from Sweeny Todd (Forest Collective)

    PETER TCHAIKOVSKY

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

    • Piano Concerto No. 1^ (Moravska Filharmonie)

    GUISEPPE VERDI

    • Overture from La Forza del Destino*^

    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

    CARL MARIA VON WEBER

    • Overture from Der Freischütz^*

  • 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)

    THOMAS BEDGOOD

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

    LUCIANO BERIO

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

    BJÖRK

    • 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)

    OLIVER BRAMAH

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

    BENJAMIN BRITTEN

    • Finale from Midsummer Nights Dream (Forest Collective)

    YI MIN CHAU

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

    ANTHONY CIESIELKA

    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)

    CLAUDE DEBUSSY

    • Les Chansons de Billitis (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)

    HENRI DUTILLEUX

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

    LARS EKSTROM

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

    PETER EÖTVÖS

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

    GEORGE FETNER

    PHILIP GLASS

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

    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, Piano Dan Thorpe)

    LISA ILLEAN

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

    JESSE JONES

    ANDRÉ JOLIVET

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

    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 J LAWSON

    • Interlude in a Dream (World Premiere Forest Collective)

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

    • 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)

    FRANZ LISZT

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

    MAY LYON

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

    • CreAture (World Premiere & Commissioned by Forest Collective)

    • Ode to Damascus (Forest Collective)

    IHLARA MCINDOE

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

    RICHARD MEALE

    • Las Alboradas Forest Collective

    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)

    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)

    NATHANIEL OTLEY

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

    CHARLES PECK

    • Sun Burst (Australian Premiere with Forest Collective)

    STANISLAV PRISTÁŠ

    • Septum (Australian premiere with Forest Collective)

    MAURICE RAVEL

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

    • Fountains (World premiere arrangement Forest Collective)

    CAMILLE ROBINSON

    • Dreaming of Trees (World Premiere with Forest Collective)

    KAIJA SAARIAHO

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

    ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

    • 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

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

    ROBERT SCHUMANN

    • 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, AustralianNational 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)

    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)

    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)

    NA WEENEY XIAN

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

  • ANDREW ARONOWICZ

    • Archephony (World Premiere Forest Collective)

    ROBBIE BLAKE

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

    WILLIAM BYRD 

    • Sanctus (Forest Collective)

    • Mass for 3 Voices (Forest Collective)

    BANJAMIN BRITTEN

    • A Boy Was Born (U3A Choir)

    JOHN DOWLAND

    • My Thoughts are Wing'd (Forest Collective)

    • Flow my tears (Forest Collective)

    PETER EÖTVÖS

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

    GABRIEL FAURÉ

    • Tantem Ergo (Monash Univerity Choral Society, Teresa Ingrilli soprano

    ANTONIO LOTTI 

    • Crucifixus (Forest Collective)

    CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

    • Madrigals (Forest Collective)

    ERIC WHITACRE

    • The Seal Lullaby (Monash Univerity Choral Society)

    ETHEL SMYTH

    • Sleepless Dreams (Monash Univerity Choral Society, Nicholas Dinopolous bass-baritone)

    ISLE WEBER

    • Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt (Forest Collective)

* - with piano

^- in masterclass

~ - in rehearsal