Lynette Lancini, born Lismore, 1970, is an Australian composer of a variety of works including orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal music.
Biography
Lynette Lancini studied music at the
University of Queensland, the
Australian Music Examinations Board
The Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) is a federated, privately funded corporation which provides a program of examinations for music, speech and drama in Australia.
The organisation had its beginnings at the Universities of Melbourne ...
, and the
Queensland University of Technology.
She is mostly self-taught as a composer, and she developed her lyrical neo folk/baroque musical style as a member of the new music collective Music for the Heart and Mind in the 1990s, with composers such as
Robert Davidson,
Tom Adeney,
Jo-Anne Abbott, and
Roland Adeney.
Lancini is a certified Wholebody Focusing Trainer, the practice of which has modified her style from abstract concert music towards more experimental, inner-directed and collaborative approaches.
Works
Lancini's works include a major cycle, Centaur, for
Topology, and Overt Operation for orchestra, composed for the
Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Her more recent works, megaMammal for the
Piano Mill
A Piano Mill is a hybrid building and musical instrument located at Willsons Downfall in Northern New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and purpose-built to house sixteen reclaimed pianos in a tower structure. The instrument is designe ...
, Invocation of the Whole Living Body for
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Amazing Women series and Musica Soma for the Muses Trio reflect her newer approaches.
References
External links
Biography of Lynette Lancini- maintained by the
Australian Music Centre
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1970 births
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Australian classical composers
Australian women classical composers
Living people
University of Queensland alumni
Queensland University of Technology alumni
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers