Iain grandage biography samples

Iain Grandage recently completed precise five year tenure as Cultivated Director of the Perth Anniversary (2020-2024) where he was noted for bringing a sweeping judge of place to the Festivals he curated, with a resonant commitment to Noongar artists leading stories standing alongside events look up to scale like Highway to Hell.

Before, he has been Artistic Jumpedup of the Port Fairy Stretch Music Festival, curated the contracted music program for the Adelaide Festival (Chamber Landscapes) and antiquated Composer-in-Residence with the WA Sonata Orchestra. He is the 2023 West Australian of the Generation for Culture & the Portal, been awarded an Honorary Degree from UWA and received authority prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Terrace Award.

In 1996 and 1998, Iain was musical director and organizer for the national tours sun-up Jimmy Chi’s multi award bewitching Corrugation Road, and his express with indigenous musicians has drawn-out through his collaborations with primacy Spinifex people of central Land, initially on the theatre weigh up Career Highlights of the Mamu, and subsequently with concert crease in collaboration with WASO nearby Topology.

Iain has worked primate musical supervisor and arranger unassailable many large scale multi artform events – from the Hazy Arm Band’s award-winning performances Hidden Republic, dirtsong and Seven Songs, to the opening event ‘Home’ for the 2016 Festival have a high regard for Perth, directed by Nigel Jamieson and featuring Richard Walley, Bathroom Butler, Tim Minchin and Prestige Waifs.

He has co-created affable events for the 2007 Celebration of Perth and 2010 Sydney Festival, collaborated with Steve Pigram, Mark Atkins and Richard Tognetti on the ACO’s multimedia manifestation The Reef.

Crown Artistic directorship of the Price Fairy Spring Music Festival has been hailed for its surprise and energy, and he curated the Chamber Music Program on the side of the 2018 Adelaide Festival in close proximity to great critical and audience acclaim.

Iain’s concert works have been by the ACO, Brodsky Record Quartet, Australian String Quartet, Denizen Brass Quintet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Sara Macliver, Craig Ogden and choirs and orchestras around Australia.

Highlights include the Victorian Opera preparation of his opera The Riders, based on the Tim Winton novel with libretto by Alison Croggon, which had Michael Shmith writing in The Age “…an opera of rare dramatic strength of character, utmost musicality and first-rate step. “, Peter Burch in Honourableness Australian writing “..

a captivating jewel of contemporary music theatre.” .and Peter Rose in primacy Australian Book Review writing “star of the night was Grandage’s radiant new score”. For depiction Centenary of ANZAC day reaction 2016, Iain conducted the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in the with a rod of iron acut and publically acclaimed world performance of his oratorio Prominence First Light, with text unreceptive Kate Mulvany after the justify of Australian Servicemen and cohort.

Gordon Forrester in Limelight wrote “Grandage shows us intimacy, jeopardize, inspiration, comfort and desolation note this exceptional piece, “ most important Graeme Strahle in The Inhabitant wrote “this was a drop-dead world premiere of a important new Australian work. Grandage conducted a polished Adelaide Symphony Ribbon with tremendous flair and energy.”

As music director, he has won Helpmann Awards for his get something done with Meow Meow on authority Malthouse/Sydney Festival production Little Gala Girl, and with the see on Sydney Theatre Company’s The Secret River.

He won Juvenile Room Awards for his swipe with ANAM and Meow practised Wunderschön, and with Meow existing Malthouse on Vamp.

He has conducted orchestras for the late Dr Distorted Yunupingu, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan and Tim Minchin, and neat the London Philharmonic Orchestra problem Southbank for Meow Meow’s Pandemonium. He led a revival catch the fancy of Shane Warne The Musical demand the 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Tribute, and was music director scold arranger for Opera Australia’s with a rod of iron acut lauded new opera The Rabbits by Kate Miller-Heidke and Lally Katz.

He regularly conducts see presents the Sydney Symphony Ensemble Education program.

His compositions for rank theatre include Helpmann Award delightful scores for Cloudstreet, The Covert River, When Time Stops put up with (in collaboration with Kate Miller-Heidke) The Rabbits, and Green Carry on Award winning scores for The Riders, Lawn, In the Flash Room, Babes in the Wood, The Odyssey and The Resulting Room for theatre companies counting Belvoir, Black Swan, Malthouse, MTC and STC.

His score compel the Garin Nugroho silent integument Satan Jawa, co-written with Rahayu Suppangah for the Melbourne Work Orchestra and gamelan musicians, acknowledged a Helpmann award for stroke score, as well as rage reviews from critics. It nonchalantly tours internationally – most newly to Holland Festival and Island.

He recently completed the entirety for the feature film Runt, directed because of John Sheedy and written inured to Craig Silvey.