Episode 2 - Christopher Sainsbury
May 12, 2025 ·
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In this episode of Emerging Voices, Dr Felicity Wilcox interviews composer, songwriter, guitarist, and educator Professor Christopher Sainsbury. This interview was recorded on 24 February 2024 via Zoom. https://www.sainsburymusic.com/ Christopher...
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In this episode of Emerging Voices, Dr Felicity Wilcox interviews composer, songwriter, guitarist, and educator Professor Christopher Sainsbury. This interview was recorded on 24 February 2024 via Zoom. https://www.sainsburymusic.com/
Christopher Sainsbury composes in various genres and his recent works include a Flute Concertino for Sally Walker and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra 2025, an opera The Visitors commissioned by Richard Mills for the Victorian Opera Company's 2023 season (with libretto by Jane Harrison) and a string orchestra work String Talk commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for July 2024. Sainsbury is Professor in Composition at the Australian National University (ANU) Canberra. He won the APRA National Luminary Award in 2020 for effecting change within the classical and new music industry through the Ngarra-burria First Peoples Composers program, and a Classical:NEXT Innovation Award was awarded to the program in 2022 for innovation in practice.
Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney.
Emerging Voices is recorded and edited by Felicity Wilcox and produced by Elizabeth Jigalin
Trailer and Closer music by Felicity Wilcox, text by Alana Valentine, from the new opera Emergenc/y.
Singer credits: https://emergenceopera.com/emergency
http://emergenceopera.com
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Christopher Sainsbury composes in various genres and his recent works include a Flute Concertino for Sally Walker and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra 2025, an opera The Visitors commissioned by Richard Mills for the Victorian Opera Company's 2023 season (with libretto by Jane Harrison) and a string orchestra work String Talk commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for July 2024. Sainsbury is Professor in Composition at the Australian National University (ANU) Canberra. He won the APRA National Luminary Award in 2020 for effecting change within the classical and new music industry through the Ngarra-burria First Peoples Composers program, and a Classical:NEXT Innovation Award was awarded to the program in 2022 for innovation in practice.
Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney.
Emerging Voices is recorded and edited by Felicity Wilcox and produced by Elizabeth Jigalin
Trailer and Closer music by Felicity Wilcox, text by Alana Valentine, from the new opera Emergenc/y.
Singer credits: https://emergenceopera.com/emergency
http://emergenceopera.com
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| Author | Dr Felicity Wilcox |
| Organization | University of Technology Sydney |
| Website | emergenceopera.com |
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