Carl Vine

The catalogue of Carl Vine's music includes some twenty works for dance, music for film and theatre, electronic music and numerous solo instrumental and orchestral works, with six symphonies to his credit and more on the way. His works are among the most widely performed in Australia and may be heard around the world. Many are available on commercial recording.

Vine studied piano with Stephen Dornan and composition with John Exton at the University of Western Australia. Moving to Sydney in 1975, he worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a wide variety of ensembles, theatre and dance companies. He was resident composer with the Sydney Dance Company (1978), the London Contemporary Dance Theatre (1979), the New South Wales State Conservatorium (1985), the Australian Chamber Orchestra (1987) and the Western Australian University (1989). In 1979 he co-founded the contemporary music ensemble Flederman, which specialised in the performance of new Australian music and presented many of his own works. He gave the premiere performance of several Australian works for solo piano, and has appeared as conductor and pianist in Europe, the United Kingdom and the USA. From 1980 to 1982 he lectured in electronic music composition at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. In November 2000, Vine was appointed the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia while continuing to work as a freelance composer.

Amongst his most acclaimed scores are Poppy (1978) for the Sydney Dance Company, Elegy (1985) for Flederman, caf� ??ncertino (1984) for the Australia Ensemble, and LEGEND (1988) for the West Australian Ballet Company. His first three symphonies were released on a CD recording by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stuart Challender, and a CD of his chamber music featuring the Piano Sonata performed by Michael Harvey was released in 1992. His music for the feature film Bedevil (which won him the Australian Screen Composers Guild Award for Best Music for a Feature Film in 1993) and the television mini-series The Battlers were also recorded. His Piano Concerto, Symphony 4.2 and Choral Symphony (Symphony no. 6) have been released on an ABC Classics CD with the Sydney Symphony as well as a second volume of his chamber music, including his second piano sonata on the Tall Poppies label. His score for Graeme Murphy's Olympic Arts festival ballet Mythologia was hailed as masterwork and a recording has also been released.

Information from
Record number
1557177
Other names
  • Carl Edward Vine
Born
  • 08 October 1954, Perth, WA
Gender
male
Activities
  • composer
  • conductor
  • arts administrator
  • pianist
References

  • "Carl Vine", Australian Music Centre composer biography, http://www.amcoz.com.au/comp/v/cvine.htm accessed 10 May 2004

  • Information provided to Australian Music Centre by the composer current to 2001

  • "Vine, Carl Edward", in Bebbington, Warren (ed.), Oxford Companion to Australian Music (Melbourne: OUP, 1997), pp. 571-572

  • "Vine, Carl" in Schultz, Andrew (ed.), Biographical Directory of Australian Composers (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1996), p. 226

  • NLA Collections

Updated
10 May 2004
To cite this page
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Carl Vine (1954-)

Information from
Record number
000001557177
Other names
  • Carl Vine
Born
  • 1954
Updated
25 January 2005

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