Eve Christina Duncan Art Music CV
Education Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Western Sydney University, Master of Music, University of Melbourne, Honours in Music Composition, Latrobe University
Prizes and Awards: Excellence Award Thaksin University First International Symposium of Creative Fine Art Festival, Thailand (2021) APRA Award for Music Composition (2017) for the opera The Aspern Papers, Western Sydney University Postgraduate Conference Award for ‘Composing the Opera of Henry James’ The Aspern Papers: Japanese Oku, an Australian Space‐Time Sensibility and the Architectural Spaces of Venice in Music’ (2014),, APRA Award for Music Composition (2013) for the piano concerto Sydney Opera House. Australia-Korea Foundation Travelling Grant (2003), Vienna Summer Seminar for New Music Honours Award (1992).
First Prize, International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition, Greece (2010) The Submerging City for violoncello and piano, Second Prize, Recital Music Double Bass Composition Competition, England (2010) Europa for contrabass and piano Third Prize, International Modern Music Award for
Recent Commission: Wooden Boat, Little Star and Archer (2021), Strings of Unity Rondalla, the Philippines, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring: the Seasons od St Mark (2021) for solo piano, Michael Kieran Harvey.
International Performances
2022 Marga Marga String Orchestra, Chile (Wooden Boat, Little Star, Archer)
2018 Taiwan Music Festival, Taipei, (Seahorses for percussion quartet)
2016 ACL Vietnam Festival, Hanoi, (The Banquet of Cleopatra, In a Corner of the MacIntyre for brass sextet)
2015 Reconfiguring Music, Nature and Myth Festival, the Philippines, (Approaching Venice performed by the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra)
2009 Asian Composers League Festival, Seoul, Korea (The Titans for flute, viola and Korea gayageum))
2008 Carnegie Hall, New York, U.S.A. (Below the Star-Stretched Sky for trombone and string quartet)
2007 Virginia Woolf Conference, Dallas, U.S.A. (Wave to the Depths for solo piano)
2006 Music of the Whole World Festival, Dornach, Switzerland (Exusiai for solo organ)
2005 Bangkok Music Festival (Orchestral Work: Buddha on Mars)
2004 Asian Music Week, Israel (Wave to the Depths for solo piano)
2003 International Festival of Women in Music Today, Korea (Star Traiect for chamber ensemble)
2003 International Week of New Music, Bucharest, Romania, (Star Traiect)
2002 Asian Music Week, Korea (Runner of Light for string quartet and didjeridu)
2001 Days of New Music Festival, Kishnev, Moldova (Oceanic Quartet for string quartet)
2001 Federation Music Week, Melbourne (Cherubim for solo violin)
2000 International Meetings of New Music, Braila, Romania (Star Traiect)
1999 ISCM World Music Days, Romania (Ariel for timpani and piano)
1999 Asian Music Week, Yokohama, Japan (Spiritus Solaris for string quartet)
1997 Tunungan Festival, the Philippines (Thrones for solo violin)
1998 Asian Composers League Festival, Bangkok, Thailand, Thrones
1994 International Days of New Music, Kishnev, Moldova, (Oceanic Quartet)
1992 Summer Seminar for New Music, Vienna, (Thrones)
Recent Australian Performances
2023 Time and the Tides. Whackollective, Mission for the Seafarers, Melbourne
Marie Claude Jacinta Dennett (harp), Donna Coleman (piano), Melba Hall, Carlton
Autumn, Summer: the Seasons of St Mark, Wave to the Depths, From a Star Afar, Danae Killian (piano), Christian Community Church, Hawthorn
Wilde Honie, Pulling Us Together, Unsuitable, Throw Me a Rope, Falling Falling, Out of the Wild, Eve Duncan & Who Are These Guys, Amos Roach (didjeridu), Gianni Marinucci (trumpet, flugelhorn), Eve Duncan (voice, guitar), Craig Fermanis (guitar), Alex Spicer (drums), Ben Robertson (doublebass) Paris Cat, Melbourne
Winter Persephone Tristram Williams (tpt),Michael Kieran Harvey (piano)
Church of All Nations, Carlton
2022 Summer: the Seasons of St Mark, Wave to the Depths, From a Star Afar, Danae Killian (piano), Christian Community Church, Hawthorn, December 17th
2021 Come With Me to Crystal Creek, lir Kodhima (horn), Paola Budani (piano) October 18th 7 pm, University of Arts-Tiranë, Tirana, Albania
Alexander’s Elements Melissa Coleman (flute), Ian Sykes (clarinet), Alison Evans (bassoon) (bassoon), Glebe, June 5th, 7 pm
The Memory of the Glance of God Benjamin Alexander (trombone) Peter Neville (percussion) Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, March 4th, 6 pm
2022 Summer: the Seasons of St Mark, Wave to the Depths I, From a Star Afar, Gabriel’s Song Danae Killian (piano), Christian Community Church, Hawthorn, April 7th
The Memory of the Glance of God Peter Neville’s student, ANAM concert, Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, November 8th
Wilde Honie, Pulling Us Together Eve Duncan and Who Are These Guys,
Eve Duncan (vocals, guitar), Melchior Martin (guitar), Rohan Anderson (drums), Tom Lynch (keyboard) Jorge Rodriguez (doublebass), Fiftieth Anniversary Concert, School Hall, Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School, 213 Wonga Rd, Warranwood, 16th October
Fireflies Bronwen Gibbs (flute) Eve Duncan (guitar) St Stephens Church, Church Street, Richmond, 2 pm, March 26th
2020 Heat for Hattie, Harriet Channon, Harbord Park, Harbord, Sydney,
August 2nd 4.30 pm
2019 Promise the Clouds (choir), Astra Choir conducted by John McCaughey,
Abbotsford
Aer Turas Sirius Ensemble (Lisa Breckenridge (flute), Ian Sykes (clarinet), Clare Kahn (violoncello), St Oswalds Church, Glen Iris November 10th, Church of All Nations Carlton, November 9th, St Stephen’s Uniting Church Sydney, November 1st
From a Star Afar Danaë Killian, August 2, also Christ Church Lavender Bay, Sydney, August 3, 2019
Love Never Faileth Southern Cross Philharmonia conducted by Houston Dunleavy, St Oswalds Church, Glen Iris, May 19th
2018 Seahorses Taiwan ACL Fusion and Transformation Music Festival, Taipei, Taiwan October 22nd, 2018, Ju Percussion, TNUA Concert Hall, Taipei
Wave to the Depths Danae Killian (piano) ‘Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference Music Auditorium, Clayton Campus, Monash University, July 6th
2017 Fireflies Hyelim Kim (daegum), Clare Edwardes (marimba). Playhouse Theatre, Western Sydney University, Penrith, August 11th
2016 Sydney Opera House (piano concerto performed by Michael Kieran Harvey), The Aspern Papers (opera extracts), chamber orchestra conducted by Timothy Phillips, Deep in Summer (performed by Tristram Williams, MK Harvey) Recital Centre, Southbank
Australian Art Gallery Performances
2013-14 Seahorses (with photographer Siri Hayes), Sea of Dreams – Port Phillip Bay (Part Two) Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
2011 Butterfly Modernism for Desire and Identity: the Architecture of Chancellor and Patrick, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
2010 Seahorses, Time and the Tides (with photographer Siri Hayes) Dredge, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
2010 Seahorses, Time and the Tides (with photographer Siri Hayes) Dredge, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
2010 Dredae Dragon (with photographer Siri Hayes) Gallerysmith, North Melbourne
2010 Seahorses (with photographer Siri Hayes) Grant Pirrie Gallery, Redfern
2007 Four Blackboard Pieces - piano quintet, commissioned as part of the exhibition Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition: the Blackboard Drawings of Joseph Beuys and Rudolf Steiner National Gallery of Victoria
Commissions: Arts Victoria (2010) Butterfly Modernism for piano quintet, Arts Victoria (2008) Dredge for percussion quartet Rudolf Steiner Archive and Estate, Switzerland (2007) Four Blackboard Pieces, National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition Joseph Beuys & Rudolf Steiner: Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition Arts Section of the Goethaenum, Switzerland (2005) Exusiai for organ Arts Victoria (2002) Wave to the Depths, piano solo for Michael Kieran Harvey, Speak Percussion (2001) Dragonfly, Butterfly, Mosquito for percussion ensemble, Australian Government Centenary of Federation (2000) Tiger Snake for soprano and chamber orchestra, Tom E. Lewis,(1999) Runner of Light for didjeridu and string orchestra, City of Port Philip (1999) Remembering Mirrabooka for four simultaneously performing ensembles in a park, Peter Neville (1999) The Bee Dance for vibraphone, Carinya Strings (1994) Freya’s Frolic for string orchestra, Danae Killian (1994) Elemental Sonata for solo piano for the final of the 1994 Sydney International Piano Competition
Solo CDs (Move Records)
2020 Elephantasy, orchestral, operatic and chamber music by Eve Duncan,
2013 Butterfly Modernism – Chamber Music by Eve Duncan
2007 Curiosities– Chamber Music by Eve Duncan
2001 Recorded Messages- Violin, Chamber Music by Eve Duncan
Group CDs
2018 Fireflies music for flute and guitar
2014 Out of Bounds, Bass Trombone music by Michael Eversden,
Aliud Records, the Netherlands
2008 Rear Vision, Melbourne Composers League
2005 Hoy! Australian and Filippino trombone and Percussion Music
MPS Music and Video, England
Publications
Eve Duncan’s music is available at the Australian Music Centre
Related Activities
2018 Launched the Music Archives Monash University Exhibition Women’s Contribution to Music in the Australian and Korean Contexts, 6 July – 30 November 2018. Included as Exhibit 38: Eve Duncan. Part of the International Conference on Gender Diversity in Music Making 2018,
Committees
2014-2022 Executive Committee, Asian Composers League
2013-2016 Chairman, Melbourne Composers League
2004- 2009 Chairman, Melbourne Composers League
2003-2004 Executive Committee Member, Asian Composers League
1998– 2004 Asian Composer League Australian Delegate
1995- 1998 Chairman, Melbourne Composers League
Links:
Websites:
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/duncan-eve
www.melbournecomposersleague.com
Podcasts:
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/new-waves/feed/9089554/podcast.xml .
ABC Classic FM Archive Podcast File_Duncan 'Sydney Opera House’
ABC Classic FM Archive Podcast File_Duncan ‘The Aspern Papers’
Youtube
Alexander’s Elements Melissa Coleman (flute), Ian Sykes (clarinet), Alison Evans (bassoon), Glebe, June 5th 2021 https://youtu.be/M_CJPdQW7Gg
Aer Turas Lisa Breckenridge (flute), Ian Sykes (clarinet) Clare Kahn (violoncello) November 9th, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E09dPGufPsY
Una Limosna Por El Amor de Dios Augustin Barrios, arranged by Eve Duncan, Bronwen Gibbs (flute), Eve Duncan (guitar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sd_ntWtAeo
From a Star Afar Danae Killian, (piano), August 1st, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unUrc5WzWIM
Heat for Hattie Harriet Channon (trumpet), November 6th, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhtCKjIEYGw
Wave to the Depths I Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) April 15th 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDsSk6U8CVo
Runner of Light Monash Flute Ensemble conducted by Peter Sheridan, October 13th, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVPTNB4ufI&list=PLVwd1_TzYMVCa8zuuwdHl4Y02aaOz5Usf&index=10&t=0s&app=desktop
Spiritus Solaris I & II Aaron Barnden, Atilla Kuti (violins, Ceridwen Davies (viola), Caerwen Martin (violoncello) September 14th, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sunw7kOjTs
Archai Tim Veldman, Yi Wang (violins), Gabrielle Halloran (viola), CHien Hsui Wung, Alister Barker (violoncellos) November 24th, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHlwi6B6PdA
Madonna and Child with Goldfinch Deborah Kayser (mezzosoprano), Aaron Barnden, Jessica Bell (violins), Ceridwen Davies (viola), Caerwen Martin (violoncello) Oct 24th, 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNfORYL-UA
Dynamis Tim Veldman (violin) Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) September 24th, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnO3rxiuQ4k
The Submerging City Michael Kieran Harvey (piano) Alister Barker (cello) February 8th, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXg7v7qfT_o
Thrones Rupert Guenther (violin) May 30th, 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uex6mal-12U
Ariel Peter Neville (timpani), Danae Killian (Piano), Tom Hungerford-Gerth (dance) Feb 15th, 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV08O8K4PRU
Articles:
2015 Interview with Corrina Bonshek, Resonate Magazine
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/.../eve-duncan-s-butterfly-modernism
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