Carl Vine

Carl Vine, AO (born 8 October 1954), is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue includes seven symphonies, eleven concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Since 2000 he has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia. In 2005 he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award. In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer, conductor, academic and artistic director, and to the support and mentoring of emerging performers."

Career

Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. He played the cornet from the age of 5, and took up the piano when he was 10. A teenage fascination with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period of Modernism, which he explored until the mid-1980s.[1] He studied physics, then composition at the University of Western Australia, before moving to Sydney in 1975, where he worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles.

Vine first came to prominence in Australia as a composer of music for dance, with 25 dance scores to his credit. In 1979 he co-founded the contemporary music ensemble "Flederman", which presented many of Vine's own works. From 1980 to 1982 he lectured in electronic music composition at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane.

His catalogue includes seven symphonies, eleven concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Although primarily a composer of modern classical music, he has undertaken tasks as diverse as arranging the Australian National Anthem and writing music for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics closing ceremony.

Since 2000, Vine has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world's largest chamber music presenter. In 2005, he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award, the highest accolade the Australia Council for the Arts can confer on a musician. Since 2006, he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival.

In 2012, his second piano concerto was premiered by Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,[1] and the Australian Chamber Orchestra with soprano Danielle de Niese premiered his solo cantata, The Tree of Man, after the 1955 novel by Patrick White.[2]

In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer, conductor, academic and artistic director, and to the support and mentoring of emerging performers."[3]

Vine is based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer. His trombone concerto Five Hallucinations was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in October 2016.[4]

Works

Symphonic

  • Symphony No. 1 MicroSymphony (1986)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1988)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1990)
  • Symphony No. 4 (Symphony No. 4.2, 1992; revised 1998)
  • Symphony No. 5 Percussion Symphony (1995)
  • Symphony No. 6 Choral Symphony (1996)
  • Symphony No. 7 Scenes from Daily Life (2008)

Concertante

  • Percussion Concerto (1987)
  • Concerto Grosso (violin, flute, oboe, horn and strings) (1989)
  • Gaijin (koto, strings, pre-recorded electronics) (1994)
  • Oboe Concerto (1996)
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997; commissioned by Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
  • Pipe Dreams (concerto for flute and strings) (2003)
  • Cello Concerto (2004)
  • Violin Concerto (2011)
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 (2012)
  • Concerto for Orchestra (2014)
  • Five Hallucinations (concerto for trombone and orchestra) (2016)
  • Wonders (cantata for soprano, baritone, two choirs and orchestra) (2016)
  • Implacable Gifts (concerto for two pianos and orchestra) (2018)

Other orchestral

  • The Tree of Man (2012) (cantata for soprano and string orchestra)
  • Gravity Road (2014) (a tone poem)

Chamber music

  • String Quartet No. 1 (Knips Suite) (1979)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1984)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1994)
  • String Quartet No. 4 (2004)
  • String Quartet No. 5 (2007)
  • String Quartet No. 6 (Child's Play) (2017)
  • String Quintet (2009)
  • Miniature I Peace (solo viola) (1973)
  • Miniature II (viola duet) (1974)
  • Miniature III (flute, trombone, piano, percussion) (1983)
  • Miniature IV (flute, clarinet, cello, violin, viola, cello, piano) (1988)
  • Sonata for flute and piano (1992)
  • Inner World (solo cello with pre-recorded electronics) (1994)
  • Fantasia for piano quintet (2013)[5]
  • The Village for piano trio (2014)
  • Strutt Sonata for cello and piano (2017)

Piano

  • Piano Sonata No. 1 (1990)
  • Five Bagatelles (solo piano) (1994)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (1997)
  • Rash (piano with CD) (1997)
  • Red Blues (solo piano) (1999)
  • The Anne Landa Preludes (solo piano) (2006)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 (2007)
  • Sonata for Piano Four Hands (2009)
  • Toccatissimo (2011)
  • The Arrival of Implacable Gifts (piano four hands) (2017)

Dance

  • 961 Ways to Nirvana (1977)
  • Incident at Bull Creek (1977)
  • Poppy (1978)
  • Everymans Troth (1978)
  • Scene Shift (1979)
  • Kisses Remembered (1979)
  • Knips Suite (1979)
  • Missing Film (1980)
  • Return (1980)
  • Donna Maria Blues (1981)
  • Colonial Sketches (1981)
  • Daisy Bates (1982)
  • Hate (1982)
  • A Christmas Carol (1983)
  • Prologue and Canzona (1986)
  • Legend (1988)
  • On The Edge (1989)
  • Piano Sonata (1990)
  • The Tempest (1991)
  • Beauty and The Beast (1993)
  • Mythologia (2000)
  • The Silver Rose (2005)
  • Tribe's Desire (2010)

Theatre

Film and television

Discography (partial)

  • Carl Vine: The Complete Symphonies, performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
  • Carl Vine – Chamber Music Volume 1
  • Carl Vine – Chamber Music Volume 2
  • Carl Vine: The Piano Music

Awards and prizes

Year awardedAwarding bodyAward
1970
Australian Society for Music Education Composers' CompetitionFirst Prize (Under 18)
1972
Australian Music Examinations BoardA.Mus.A. (Associate in Music) with distinction – piano
1972
Perth Music FestivalWinner, Open Instrumental Solo Division (piano)
1974
Australian Broadcasting Commission Instrumental & Vocal CompetitionW.A. State Division – piano
1976
Australia Council AppointeeGulbenkian International Choreographic Summer School, Guildford, England
1983
Adams AwardOutstanding Contribution to Music for Dance in Australia
1989
Sounds Australian National Music Critics' AwardBest Instrumental or Ensemble Work, 'Miniature IV'
1990
John Bishop CommissionSymphony No 2 for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
1993
Australian Guild of Screen Composers AwardBest Music for a Feature Film, Bedevil
1994
Australian Guild of Screen Composers AwardBest Theme for a Television Series, The Battlers
1994
Australian Guild of Screen Composers AwardBest Original Song, The Battlers – 'Love Me Sweet'
2000
Australian Commonwealth GovernmentCentenary Medal for Contribution to Australian Society
2002
APRA-AMC Classical Music AwardsBest Instrumental Work, Piano Sonata No 1
2005
APRA-AMC Classical Music AwardsBest Performance of an Australian Composition, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Steven Isserlis playing Cello Concerto
2005
Australia Council for the ArtsDon Banks Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music
2009
APRA-AMC Classical Music AwardsBest Performance of an Australian Composition, West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing Symphony No 7
2010
University of Western AustraliaHonorary Degree of Doctor of Music
2012
Melbourne University and Friends of Melbourne SymphonySir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to music in Australia
2012
Collegiate of Specialist Music EducatorsHonorary Fellow, for outstanding contribution to music education
2014
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of AustraliaOfficer of The Order of Australia (AO)

References

  1. 1 2 Goldsworthy, Anna (November 2011). "Right Composition". The Monthly. Collingwood, Victoria (73): 60–61. ISSN 1832-3421.
  2. ↑ The Tree of man, Carl Vine, January 2013
  3. ↑ "The Queen's Birthday 2014 Honours List" (PDF). 9 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Ward, Brendan (20 February 2016). "A Vision Splendid". Weekend Australian: "Review, p.4".
  5. ↑ Fantasia, Carl Vine, January 2013
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