Colin McKellar has a strong background in the practice of poetry/painting and music. A turning point in musical influence came in his late teens, in the form of Experimental Free Jazz.

Playing and teaching piano and trumpet has acted as a point of leverage into ensemble writing.

Growing up in a rural community, and later attending a very free-thinking art school in a rural environment, has shaped an open horizon of artistic interest, without a predominance of technical and formalistic presumptions.

Originally written for Piano and Viola, Panpiper Goes to Town in this version is arranged for clarinet and piano. The clarinet part is simple and tonal in 4/4 while the piano part creates a shimmering mesmeric mist in 5/4 surrounding the clarinet’s melodic lines.

The piano harmonies are taken from the progressions underlying the clarinet’s melodies, and worked with polychords and altered harmony referencing the montuno style of breaking the chords with the inner notes of the chord dancing around the actual chord tones.


Paul Moulatlet is a Melbourne-based composer whose works have been performed in Australia, Europe, South-East Asia, the UK and the USA. He holds a Master of Arts (Composition) from Monash University gained under the supervision of Thomas Reiner, and his music has been interpreted by many noted Australian performers. His works have also been performed and recorded by various international artists including the UK-based contemporary music exponent and virtuoso trombonist Barrie Webb, and one of Italy’s leading contemporary music ensembles, Trio Altrove 1.3.

The Flowers is based on the poem Les Fleurs by the 19 th Century French modernist poet Stephane Mallarmé. Translated into English by Mallarmé’s biographer Henry Weinfield, the translation’s words and syllables were used to generate both the pitch materials and rhythmic surface of the music. The poem’s words and meanings were used to develop articulations and dynamics within the work. Originally composed for soprano and piano, the work has been arranged and performed in versions for voice and guitar, saxophone and piano and now clarinet and piano.

Sumiko Yamamura is a freelance accompanist born in Japan. She completed her Bachelor of Music in performance with Elizabeth Powell, and a Graduate Diploma in piano accompaniment with David Miller at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She is an active ensemble pianist. She has worked with many musicians, both instrumentalists and singers including recitals with , Berlin Philharmonic Principal Trombone Jonathon Ramsay, former SSO Principal Bassoon John Cran (with ABC-FM), Orana Trio (ABC-FM), Kammer Trio, Sirius Ensemble and many others.

Richard Rourke spent two years freelancing in London before becoming a permanent member of the Opera Australia Orchestra in 1992. In August this year he will be performing in Opera Australia’s national tour of The Barber of Seville.

Richard has recorded and performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician performing with The Gallery Players, the Sydney Symphony and the Australia Ensemble. In 2010 he played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on their trans-Atlantic tour, performing at the Tanglewood Festival in the US and major European summer festivals. Richard is a Yamaha Music Australia Artist.

Gregory van der Struik holds the position of Principal Trombone with the Opera Australia Orchestra. As well as being a leading orchestral player Greg is one of Australia's most active and important trombonists in the field of recitals and CD recordings and has composed extensively for brass instruments.

Kurt Ison is amongst a small handful of Australia’s professional organists. He was educated to post-graduate level at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and had private lessons in Europe. He has given solo organ recitals in prestigious venues around the world including Notre Dame de Paris, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, London, Washington National Cathedral and St Thomas’s Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City and the Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert Hall. He regularly engages in concert tours to Europe. He has performed extensively throughout Australia including solo concerts in the Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide Town Halls and cathedrals in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. 

He has been broadcast on the radio numerous times both here and in Europe and some years ago was uploaded to YouTube playing JS Bach’s monumental Toccata and Fugue in D Minor at the Sydney Town Hall which has so far attracted 9.3 million views. 

Kurt is also a published composer especially of sacred music for equal voices and organ which have been published in Germany and Melbourne. He was commissioned by the Aachener Dom Mädchenchor (Aachen Cathedral Girls’ Choir) to compose a mass setting for them which was co-premiered at Aachen Cathedral in September 2019 and St James King st, Sydney in October 2019.

Kurt is Organist at both Mary Immaculate Catholic Church and St Mary’s Anglican Church in Waverley, Organist and Organ Teacher at SCEGGS Darlinghurst and Newington College and Organ Teacher at The Shore School, Pymble Ladies’ College and PLC Sydney.