news/ Nachrichten/ noticias/ nouvelles
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overview
major works / premieres:
Variations for Orchestra (premiere 2002)
Ammerseelieder (premiere 2005)
Threnos for horn and wind orchestra (premiere 2007)
Euphonium Concerto (premiere 2008)
Resonance for unaccompanied 'cello (premiere 2009)
Eat Pianist septet: piano, strings, winds (for ballet)
Prometheus and Pandora septet: piano, strings, winds (for ballet)
Landscape Visions
Passacaglia and Gigues double-bass and chamber orchestra
Legends of the Old Castle harp and wind orchestra (premiere 2014)
Violin Concerto (premiere 2015)
current projects
Shoalhaven-Lieder for high voice and orchestra
Triptych saxophone and orchestra
full list of compositions
residencies:
Bundanon
The Brahmshaus, Baden-Baden
Lee Bracegirdle:
Composer;
Musical Director: Australian Chamber Ballet;
retired Associate Principal Horn: Sydney
Symphony Orchestra;
horn tutor at St Andrew's Cathedral School
and The King's School;
guest conductor: Orquesta Sinfónica de Oriente,
Santiago de Cuba
First Prize recipient: Zoltan Kodaly International
Composers' Competition 1998
Lee Bracegirdle earned his Bachelor and Master
degrees in french horn at the Juilliard School,
studied conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg,
Austria with Michael Gielen,
and was awarded an Honorary Diploma by the
Kodaly Academy and Institute in Chicago.
He has held positions as principal horn in
orchestras in Germany, America and Australia,
and has had an extensive career as an instrumentalist,
composer, conductor and arranger.
As a composer he is represented by The Australian Music Centre
His Variations for Orchestra, Ammerseelieder,
Threnos,
Euphonium Concerto, and Legends of the Old Castle are published by C.F. Peters.
Variations for Orchestra (2000)
received its world premiere in 2002 by the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Richard Gill in the Concert Hall of the Sydney
Opera House. CD recordings of this performance
are available through The Australian Music Centre
click here to listen to a recording of this performance
on Youtube
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| Richard Gill |
Radio station 2-MBS FM published an article/interview
with Lee
in their March, 2002 issue of "Fine
Music" magazine.
Read Blow me down, it's a serialist! on the
reviews / press reports page.
In their reviews of the world premiere, Sydney's newspapers
acclaimed:
"Bracegirdle's Variations exhibit ingenious, multi-coloured scoring,
with never a dull moment. This is clever
stuff!"
Sydney's North Shore Times, in its end-of-year
concert summary
described Variations as "Best Australian work" of 2002
Orchestras can hire score and parts from
the publisher C.F. Peters
| Ammerseelieder |
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| Ammersee (Lake Ammer) with Kloster Andechs and the Zugspitze |
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| Reinbert de Leeuw | Didier Frederic |
Threnos (2007) for Solo-Horn, Winds and Percussion
was premiered and recorded in 2007 by William Purvis, horn soloist, with the
American Wind Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of Robert Boudreau.
click here to order a complete set of parts
from C.F. Peters
click here to order a solo part with piano
reduction
click here to order a conductor's score
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| William Purvis |
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| Mr. Bracegirdle being interviewed during "pre- concert talk" with the SSO's education director Margaret Moore |
the composer with soloist Scott Kinmont and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the world premiere of "Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra"- Sydney Opera House, February 27, 2008 |
Scott Kinmont |
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| Timothy Walden performing the premiere of Resonance |
| choreographed music |
Landscape Visions (2010)
a work for full orchestra inspired by scenery
at selected places in Lee's home state of
New South Wales
Utilising a vast instrumental palette, 7
contrasting movements portray
musical manifestations of nature's beauty:
6 in the wilderness; one of urban environment
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| in New South Wales' Blue Mountains: the Jamison Valley |
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| Kees Boersma |
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Louise Johnson |
Simone Young |
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| The American Wind Symphony Orchestra in their Louis Kahn-designed floating stage, "Point-Counterpoint II" |
The "Old Castle", Schloss Hohenbaden, overlooking the city of Baden-Baden |
The "Rittersaal" ("Hall of Knights") in the "Old Castle" |
The aeolian harp installed in one of the windows of the Rittersaal |
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| Park Stickney (website) |
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| Michael Dauth, violinist |
Alexander Briger, conductor |
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| Adolph Friedrich von Schack |
James Agee | Clive James | Heinrich Heine | Charles Waterstreet |
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| Christina Leonard |
1997: Odd Couples (tango for ballet) - [violin, 'cello, horn,
piano]
1997: Devastated (tango for ballet) - [violin, 'cello, horn,
piano]
1998: Fanfare for the Extraordinary Individual - [3 trumpets, 3 horns, 3 trombones, tuba]
1998: Divertimento for Orchestra
2000: Variations for Orchestra
2002: Eat Pianist (ballet in 3 scenes) - [septet: flute, oboe,
horn, violin, viola, 'cello, piano] / [also
full orchestral version]
2003: Prometheus and Pandora (ballet in 3 acts) - [septet: flute, oboe, horn, violin, viola,
'cello, piano]
----------- full orchestra version 2004 /
Suite Box (chamber orchestra suite from the ballet,
2004)
2003: Resonance - [unaccompanied 'cello]
2005: Fanfára Miniatura - [brass quartet]
2005: Ammerseelieder - [low voice and orchestra]
2007: Threnos [solo horn, winds and percussion] - dedicated
to the memory of Jerome Ashby
2007: Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra
2010; Landscape Visions [full orchestra]
2011: Passacaglia and Gigues - [solo double-bass and chamber orchestra]
2012: Legends of the Old Castle - [solo-harp, winds and percussion]
2012: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
2015: Shoalhavenlieder - [high voice and orchestra]
2017: Triptych for saxophone and orchestra
residencies at Bundanon 2003 / 2013
The Bundanon Trust, a foundation created in 1998 through the
bequest of the Australian
artist Arthur Boyd, selected Lee for their
"Artists-in-Residence" program
in 2003 and 2013.
In the secluded, inspirational environment
of this historic property on the South Coast
of New South Wales
he joined other performing and graphic artists
in an intensive creative atmosphere
in order to bring to life new works. Compositions
that emerged through these residencies
have been Euphonium Concerto, Resonance and Shoalhavenlieder
Bundanon photo albumn:
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| the historic Boyd family home "Bundanon" |
inside Arthur Boyd's studio | The Artists' Centre, with residences and studios |
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| artists-in-residence August 2003: L.B., photographer Jennifer Gough-Cooper; painters Jennifer Joseph and Anthony Pelchen |
in the studio of Patrick Shirvington with his works |
artists-in-residence L.B., Patrick Shirvington and Hitomi Utami with Polly Boyd |
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| L. B. and "Sugarpuss" - an installation work by artist-in- residence Hitomi Utami |
L.B. at work in the "Writer's Cottage" with sketches for Euphonium Concerto - [photo by Jennifer Gough-Cooper] |
Wilhelmina the wombat: permanent resident under the Writer's Cottage |
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| the Musicians' Cottage, Lee's 2013 residence |
in the workshop of the Musicians' Cottage with sketches for Shoalhaven-Lieder |
with fellow residents Kit Lagréze (painter) Kay Armstrong (choreographer); and Bundanon staff Gary Hogan and Onni with Lagréze's drawings |
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| The "Brahmshaus" at Maximillianstrasse 85, Baden-Baden |
L.B. in the apartment that was Brahms' summer residence, now part of the Brahmsmuseum |
the composers' studio and workshop |
horn calls from the balcony to Lichtental |