Carl Edward Vine, (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of

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. 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 eight symphonies, twelve concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. From 2000 until 2019 Carl was the Artistic Director of

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. Within that role he was also Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival from 2006, and of the Musica Viva Festival (Sydney) from 2008. In 2005 he was awarded the

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. 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." Vine currently lectures in composition and orchestration at the

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Career

Vine was born in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...

, 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

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inspired a period of

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, which he explored until the mid-1980s. He studied

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, then

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at the

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(now the UWA Conservatorium of Music), 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 Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...

composition at the

Queensland Conservatorium of Music Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (formerly the Queensland Conservatorium of Music) is a selective, audition based music school located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is part of Griffith University. History The Conservatori ...

in Brisbane. His catalogue includes eight symphonies, twelve 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

, the world's largest chamber music presenter. In 2005, he was awarded the

, 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, and the

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with soprano

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premiered his solo cantata, ''The Tree of Man'', after the 1955 novel by Patrick White. In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the

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(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." Vine is based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer. His

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concerto ''Five Hallucinations'' was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in October 2016. Since 2014, Vine has also worked at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as a senior lecturer in composition.

Works

Symphonic

*Symphony No. 1 ''MicroSymphony'' (1986) *Symphony No. 2 (1988) *Symphony No. 3 (1990) *Symphony No. 4 (1992; Symphony No. 4.2, revised 1998) *Symphony No. 5 ''Percussion Symphony'' (1995) *Symphony No. 6 ''Choral Symphony'' (1996) *Symphony No. 7 ''Scenes from Daily Life'' (2008) *Symphony No. 8 ''The Enchanted Loom'' (2018)

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) *''The Village'' for piano trio (2014) *''Strutt Sonata'' for cello and piano (2017) *Clarinet Quintet (2022)"Clarinet Quintet by Carl Vine"

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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) * Piano Sonata No. 4 (2019)

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

*''The Dreamers'' (play – 1975) *''New Sky'' (mime by

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– 1981) *''Signal Driver'' (play by Patrick White – 1982) *''Shepherd on the Rocks'' (play by Patrick White – 1987) *''

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'' (play by Patrick White – 1989) *''

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'' (play by Ibsen – 1991) *''

Night on Bald Mountain ''Night on Bald Mountain'' (russian: Ночь на лысой горе, translit=Noch′ na lysoy gore, links=no), also known as ''Night on the Bare Mountain'', is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian ...

'' (play by Patrick White – 1996) *''

A Hard God ''A Hard God'' is a semi-autobiographical play by Peter Kenna.Leslie Rees, ''Australian Drama in the 1970s'', Angus & Robertson, 1978 p 192-194 The play was very popular and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic. 1974 Film The Nimrod ...

'' (play by

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– 1997)

Film and television

*''The Dunstan Documentaries'' (TV) (1982) *''You Can't Push the River'' (1993) *''

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'' (1993) *'' The Battlers'' (TV) (1994) *''Urn'' (short film) (1995) *''What Comes After Why?'' (short film) (1995) *'' White Fella's Dreaming'' (documentary) (1997) *''Marriage Acts'' (TV) (2000) *''

The Potato Factory ''The Potato Factory'' is a 1995 fictionalised historical novel by Bryce Courtenay, which was made into a four-part miniseries in Australia in 2000. The book is the first in a three-part series, followed by '' Tommo & Hawk'' and '' Solomon's So ...

'' (TV) (2000)

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

ARIA Music Awards

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Bernard Heinze Memorial Award

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Don Banks Music Award

The

was established in 1984 to publicly honour a senior artist of high distinction who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. It was founded by the

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in honour of

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, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of its music board. , - , 2005 , Carl Vine , Don Banks Music Award , , -

References

External links

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Interview with Carl Vine
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