Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

#IGNITION 3

Violin, Electronics | Hannah Solveij
Conductor & Composer | Gordon Hamilton

10 May 2022
Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Works by Schönberg, Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Gordon Hamilton and Hannah Solveij.

Bergische Symphoniker

ON FIRE! #15 – Danzón Cubano

Piano | Marialy Pacheco
Conductor & Arranger | Gordon Hamilton

25 May 2022
Theater Remscheid

27 May 2022
Solingen, Theater und Konzerthaus, Großer Konzertsaal

Cuban music and compositions by Marialy Pacheco.

Nürnberger Symphoniker

Loop Guts – Geige trifft Elektronik und Orchester

Violin & Electronics | Hannah Solveij
Conductor, Electronics & Harpsichord | Gordon Hamilton

31 Mai 2022

Works by by Vivaldi, John Adams, Hannah Solveij and Gordon Hamilton.

WDR Funkhausorchester

Wunderschön – Norwegen

Conductor | Frank Strobel
Keyboards & Composition | Gordon Hamilton

15 June 2022
Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Cologne

Music by Gordon Hamilton from the film Wunderschön – Norwegen.

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Requiem-Recomposed

Choir | The Australian Voices
Conductor | Johannes Fritzsch
Composer | Gordon Hamilton

9 July 2022
Federation Concert Hall, Hobart

As part of Hobart Festival of Voices, Mozart’s iconic Requiem is revisited by contemporary composer Gordon Hamilton. Shrouded in mystery surrounding its composer and incompleteness. Hamilton has reworked the music to fill in many gaps within the original mass, and while nodding respectfully to Mozart’s style, has reinvented the soundscape to include boundary-pushing harmonies and an inventive and kaleidoscopic orchestration. The vibrancy of the piece reinforces the drama of the original Requiem while transforming it into a cutting edge 21st Century work.

Nürnberger Symphoniker

Berlin – New York

Singer | Lyambiko
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

26 & 27 July 2022
Serenadenhof (Kongresshalle), Nürnberg

New Classic Duo

Garden of Animals

Violin | Julia Smirnova
Cello|Konstantin Manaev
Conductor, Composer, Electronics | Gordon Hamilton
(with a string ensemble of peers)

25 October 2022
Kühlhaus, Berlin

World-premiere of Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra “Garden of Animals”.

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

#IGNITION 1

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

3 November 2022
Tonhalle Düsseldorf

WDR Funkhausorchester

Swinging Christmas

Singer | Tom Gaebel
Choir | WDR Runfunkchor
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

22 December 2022
Philharmonie Cologne

Nürnberger Symphoniker

Symphonisches Konzert

Violin & Hardangerfidel | Ragnhild Hemsing
Video Artist | Daniel Michael Kaiser
Conductor & Composition | Gordon Hamilton

28 January 2023
Meistersingerhalle

Works by Kaiser, Grieg, Hamilton. World-premiere of Suite “Far North”.

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

#IGNITION 2

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

8 March 2023
Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Nürnberger Symphoniker

Peter-Vischer-Schulkonzert - “PLAY”

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

15 March 2023
Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg

Works by Beethoven, Copland, Collins, Graves, Hamilton

Nürnberger Symphoniker

“U-Turn – Orchestival”

20-22 April 2023
KIA-Arena Nürnberg

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

#IGNITION 3

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

6 June 2023
Tonhalle Düsseldorf

PAST CONCERTS

Thum Prints Album Launch – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Cancelled due to flooding

Beatboxer | Tom Thum
Conductor & Keyboards | Gordon Hamilton

8 April 2022
QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane

#IGNITION 2 – Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

Percussion Quartet | Repercussion.
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

19 January 2022

INTERSTELLAR

Music by Hans Zimmer, John Williams, John Psathas.

Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton
PIano | Marialy Pacheco

11 November 2021

BACH Harpsichord Concerto No.7 in G minor, BWV 1058

Re:Arranged - WDR Funkhausorchester

2-6 November 2021

Video Recording

FAR AND NEAR – The Australian Voices

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Sunday 29 August 2021
Maleny Community Centre

Join The Australian Voices for Gordon’s final concert as Artistic Director. The program features music commissioned by the group in 2020 on the theme of "Far and Near', as well as works by Elgar Bruckner and J. S. Bach.

KLIMA & WANDEL – WDR Funkhausorchester

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton
Percussion Ensemble | Reperucussion

Thursday 23 September 2021
Kölner Philharmonie, 7pm

The WDR Funkhausorchester joins forces with ensemble Repercussion. Rhythms, electronics, soundscapes, light effects and animations to address the most urgent topic of our time: climate change. The program features the world premieres of John Psathas’ Orbital and Gordon Hamilton’s It’s Melting.

JENSEITS ALLER GRENZEN – Nürnberger Symphoniker

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Fri 15 & Sat 16 October, 2021

HAMILTON Far South, Suite aus der Antarktis
MOZART Symphonie Nr. 40 g-Moll KV 550

#IGNITION 1 – Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

SONIC LANDSCAPES

Tue 26 October, 2021
Tonhalle, Düsseldorf

With music by Debussy, Haydn, Sculthorpe.

OBSCURA – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor & Harpsichord | Gordon Hamilton

Thu July 8, 2021, 6pm
Odeon Theatre, Hobart

Winter Journey is the first concert in the TSO’s new Obscura series. From the wilds of Tasmania to the vast, icy spaces of Antarctica. A voyage in sound, light and vision, Winter Journey features music by Arvo Pärt, Antonio Vivaldi, Jabra Latham and Gordon Hamilton together with bespoke lighting design and imagery.

MOZART’S REQUIEM RECOMPOSED @ Hobart Festival of Voices

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Hobart Chamber Orchestra
The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Hobart Festival of Voices

Sat 10 July, 2021, 7:30pm
Federation Concert Hall

Mozart’s iconic Requiem is revisited by contemporary composer Gordon Hamilton. Shrouded in mystery surrounding its composer and incompleteness. Hamilton has reworked the music to fill in many gaps within the original mass, and while nodding respectfully to Mozart’s style, has reinvented the soundscape to include boundary-pushing harmonies and an inventive and kaleidoscopic orchestration. The vibrancy of the piece reinforces the drama of the original Requiem while transforming it into a cutting edge 21st Century work.

MUT UND AUFBRUCH – Bachchor Salzburg

Sat 24 April 2021

J.C. Bach, Hildegard von Bingen, Bruckner, Praetorius, Whitwell, Hamilton.

THUM PRINTS – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Beatboxer | Tom Thum
Conductor & Synthesizers | Gordon Hamilton

Fri 21 + Sat 22 Aug, 2020
Brisbane Powerhouse

Tom Thum, the man with the orchestra in his mouth, joins forces with composer Gordon Hamilton. Armed with just a microphone, this magnificently talented dude produces an inexhaustible vocal inventory of glorious and weird noises. Gordon and Tom smoosh together the sounds of a real-life orchestra with all the surprising possibilities of beatboxing. 

IGNITION – Düsseldorfer Symphoniker

28-30 January 2021
Tonhalle, Düsseldorf

GÖTTINGER SYMPHONIEORCHESTER

Friday 12 + Sunday 14 March 2021

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Max Richter’s ‘Four Seasons Recomposed’ w/ Omega Ensemble

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Thursday 19 Mar 2020, 7:30pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
Tickets & info

Omega Ensemble
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

PROGRAM
Max Richter | The Four Seasons Recomposed
Béla Bartók | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Krzysztof Penderecki | Sinfonietta No. 2

THE CONCEPT OF PLACE – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Seymour Centre – York Theatre

Wed 1, 2 & 3 April 2020

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

PROGRAM
Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky | Nutcracker Suite
Sculthorpe | Kakadu
Bartók | Romanian Folk Dances
Guàrnieri | Dansa Brasileira
Grieg | Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

FOUR WINDS EASTER FESTIVAL, Bermagui (NSW)

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Tickets & info

Thursday 9 April
House Concert

Friday 10 April, 5pm
Of Land, Sea and Sky

Sunday 12 April, 10:30am
Faure Requiem

The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

TAV is in residence at Four Winds Easter Festival. The performances will celebrate the rich diversity of The Australian choral tradition, featuring many different styles of singing, from arrangements of folk and popular songs as well as Faure’s Requiem and new works.

EARTH AND ICE – The Australian Voices at Ukaria

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Sunday 19 April 2020, 2.30pm
Ukaria Cultural Centre (SA)

The Australian Voices present an earthy, soaring program unified by gleaming soundscapes and female compositional voices. From light, comes darkness: the ensemble presents their freshly-devised darK, an ambient, pulsing, quasi-improvised luminal sound bath to performed in near darkness. We also include a set of motets from Caterina Assandra (c. 1590 – after 1618), an Italian composer and Benedictine nun, whose surviving Opus 2 Motets are very highly-regarded.

PROGRAM
Lisa Young | Other Plans
Lisa Young | Misra Chappu
Caterina Assandra | Iubilate Deo
Caterina Assandra | Factum est silentium
Caterina Assandra | Duo Seraphim
Sally Whitwell | O Wisdom
Sally Whitwell | Home
The Australian Voices | darK [15 min version]
Samuel Barber | Agnus Dei
Gordon Hamilton | Turing Believes Machines Think
Michael Kennedy (arr. Isabella Gerometta) | Lay Fallow
Wilma Alba Cal | Jacarandá
Joe Chindamo | [Commissioned Work]
Gordon Hamilton | Antarctica

THUM PRINTS – Orchestre national de Lyon

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Orchestre national de Lyon
16 May 2020, 3pm & 6pm
Auditorium Lyon
Tickets

Beatboxer | Tom Thum
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

thumprints.info

Tom Thum, the man with the orchestra in his mouth, joins forces with composer Gordon Hamilton. Armed with just a microphone, this magnificently talented dude produces an inexhaustible vocal inventory of glorious and weird noises. Gordon and Tom smoosh together the sounds of a real-life orchestra with all the surprising possibilities of beatboxing. 

DANZÓN CUBANO – Bergische Symphonikern & Marialy Pacheco

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Friday 5 June 2020
Konzertsaal Solingen

Saturday 6 June 2020
Theater Remscheid

Bergische Symphoniker
Piano | Marialy Pacheco
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Works and arrangements by Marialy Pacheco & Gordon Hamilton. Featuring Joo Kraus (trumpet).

MUSICA EX MACHINA – Omega Ensemble

[postponed due to COVID-19]

Thursday 23 July 2020, 7:30pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
Tickets & info

Omega Ensemble
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

PROGRAM
John Adams | Son of Chamber Symphony
Christopher Gordon | Chamber Symphony ‘Freefall’
Nico Muhly | Motion [Australian Premiere]
Aaron Copland | Sextet

FAR SOUTH – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Thursday 5 March, 7:30pm & Saturday 7 March 2020 at 2:00pm
Hamer Hall

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Alexander Shelley

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will premiere Antarctic work Far South in their first Masters program. My thanks to The Australian Antarctic Division! Read more about my composition and Antarctic experience here.

TEDx Gateway (Mumbai, India)

Sunday 23 February, 2020

Bombay Chamber Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Premiere of ‘FOONF’ – WDR Funkhausorchester

Klassik mal anders: BEAThoven - Livestream

Friday 24 January, 7pm
Kölner Philharmonie

WDR Funkhausorchester
Conductor | Wayne Marshall

WINTER WONDERLAND – Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie (SWP) Konstanz

Sunday December 15, 6pm
Milchwerk Radolfzell, Konstanz

Saturday December 28, 7:30pm
Bodenseeforum, Konstanz

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

EXTENDED PLAY – The Australian Voices

Saturday 31 August (noon – midnight)
City Recital Hall Angel Place

Extended Play Festival

The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

City Recital Hall Angel Place and Lyle Chan have joined forces to create a spectacular program jam-packed with twelve hours of eclectic and dynamic new music across the entire four floors of the venue. Last year’s festival was described by The Australian as “the best new classical music initiative Sydney has seen in years”.

ETERNAL REQUIEMS – Omega Ensemble & The Australian Voices

Tuesday 5 November, 2019
7:30 pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place (Sydney)

Omega Ensemble & The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Faure, Mozart, Britten, Hamilton

'THUM PRINTS'– Nürnberg, Malaysia, Beethovenfest Bonn & Florida

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
2 & 3 March 2019
Dewan Filharmonik Petronas
(w/ Hamilton: Opposites, Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances & Riley: In C

Nürnberg Symphoniker
27, 28 & 29 March 2019
Musiksaal in der Kongresshalle
(w/ Mozart Symphony No. 25)

Podium Strings @ Beethovenfest Bonn
27 September 2019, 8:00pm
Telekom Forum

Imperial Symphony Florida
15 November 2019, 8:00pm
Polk Theatre

Beatboxer | Tom Thum
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Tom Thum, the man with the orchestra in his mouth, joins forces with composer Gordon Hamilton. Armed with just a microphone, this magnificently talented dude produces an inexhaustible vocal inventory of glorious and weird noises. Gordon and Tom smoosh together the sounds of a real-life orchestra with all the surprising possibilities of beatboxing. 

B.I.F.F. – Live performance to SILENT film ‘Aelita: QUEEN OF MARS’ w/ Tom Thum & Ben Walsh

Friday 11 & Saturday 12 October 2019 (6:30pm)
Brisbane International Film Festival
GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art), Brisbane

This 1924 Soviet silent film is widely credited for its early and influential science fiction elements. Beatboxer Tom Thum, percussionist Ben Walsh and I join forces to smash out a noisy live film score.

YE XIAOGANG ‘GARDENIA’ (new version) PREMIERE @ AFCM

Friday 2 August 2019, 7:30pm
Townsville Civic Centre

Wu Man (pipa), David Griffiths (clarinet), Robert Oetomo (percussion), Aura Go (piano), Ben Jacks (horn), Rachael Clegg (oboe), Australian String Quartet, Roberto Carrillo-Garcia (double bass)

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Australian Festival of Chamber Music

The world premiere of Xiaogang’s Gardenia (new version), a movement for 11 mixed instruments including the pipa – an exciting AFCM moment in musical history! The city flower of Yueyuang City in China's Hunan Province is the gardenia. In creating this work, Xiaogang Ye adapted folk songs and operas from the region to convey a sense of loss and his longing for the beautiful scenery of Southern China.

ROUGH NOTES – The Australian Voices

Sunday August 18 2019, 2:00 pm
Maleny Community Centre

Maleny Winter Festival

The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Join The Australian Voices at the Maleny Winter Festival for an afternoon of stunning sounds followed by a relaxed reception on the deck to meet the singers. Of note is the Australian premiere of 'Rough Notes by American composer Nico Muhly. The program features compositions by Margaret Tesch-Muller, Dan Walker and Gordon Hamilton, as well as the much-loved Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) by Samuel Barber.

AMERICAN MASTERS – Omega Ensemble

Tuesday 2 July 2019, 7:30pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place (Sydney)
Tickets

Omega Ensemble
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Glass, Adams, Muhly (world premiere)

Schooled in the American tradition of Glass and Reich, composer Nico Muhly’s work ranges widely, incorporating stylistic fragments from Byrd to Webern, as well as his film work and collaborations with contemporary musicians such as Björk and Sufjan Stevens. This commissioned work by Muhly for Omega Ensemble, is a setting of a tenderly erotic poem by Constantine Cavafy.

RICEBOY SLEEPS – Jónsi & Alex + Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Friday 14 June, 7–8pm (doors 6pm)
Saturday 15 June, 6–7pm (doors 5pm)
Federation Concert Hall
Tickets (SOLD OUT)

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra + Chorus
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Dark MOFO

Sigur Rós singer Jónsi Birgisson and film composer Alex Somers join forces with the TSO for a rare live performance of their sweeping, ambient debut album Riceboy Sleeps, ten years after its release.

'Danzón Cubano' w/ NürnbergER Symphoniker, SWP Konstanz

Nürnberger Symphoniker
Thursday 21 March 2019, 8:00pm
Friday 22 March 2019, 8:00pm
Musiksaal in der Kongresshalle, Nürnberg

Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Sunday 24 March 2019, 8:00pm
Schänzlehalle, Konstanz

Nürnberger Symphoniker

Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 7:00pm
Meistersingerhalle, Nürnberg

Nürnberger Symphoniker
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Rossini, Kálmán, Hamilton.

U.S. Premiere of 'Turing Believes Machines Think'

Ensemble NOTUS
Conductor | Hana Cai
Tuesday 9 April 2019, 8:00pm
Indiana University (Auer Hall)
Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

International Orange Chorale of San Francisco
Artistic Director | Zane Fiala

Saturday 8 December, 7:30pm
2138 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, USA

Saturday 15 December, 7:30pm
1111 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA, USA

'Red Live Breath' Tour w/ The Australian Voices

St Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Armidale (25 Nov.) / St John's Anglican Church, Mudgee (26 Nov.) / Holy Trinity Anglican, Orange (27 Nov.) / St Patrick's Catholic Church, Lithgow (28 Nov.) / Wesley Music Centre, Canberra (30 Nov.) / Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney (1 Dec.)

The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Tickets

Join one of the country’s premiere vocal ensembles for Red Live Breath by Cathy Milliken. In this stunning ritualistic work, the choristers gather to sing short phrases, play stones, exchange sonorities with whirlies and interact with torches: all actions that set the space as a magical place. The program also includes Australian works and sacred classical music.

BBC Concert Orchestra – performance of ‘Baby Steps First’

Sunday 18 November 2018 7:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor | Bramwell Tovey

London Jazz Festival

Armistice @ QPAC

Sunday 11 November 2018, 2:00pm & 6:00pm
QPAC (Playhouse)
Tickets (free)

Armistice is a new theatrical performance reflecting on Australia’s wartime and peace-keeping history combining song, music, dance, spoken word and archival footage. The performance includes The Australian Voices singing Dark Hour.

VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE w/ QMF

Queensland Music Festival

9 November 2018
Empire Theatre, Toowoomba

10 November 2018
Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns
Grafton Street, Corner of Minnie Street

Conductor | Patrick Pickett

Including the premiere of two commissioned works Eleven and Imperial Snapshot, as well as Dark Hour, Queensland Music Festival will stage two concerts in Toowoomba and Cairns in the lead up to Remembrance Day. The concert features songstress and QMF Artistic Director Katie Noonan, and renowned New Zealand baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes. 

Horrorshow x The Metropolitan Orchestra

Thursday 1 November, 2018, 8:00 pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place
Tickets

Tuesday 6 November, 2018, 8:00pm
Melbourne Recital Centre (Elisabeth Murdoch Hall)
Tickets

The Metropolitan Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Australian hip hop act Horrorshow recreate their much-loved classics with the power and emotion of an 18-piece orchestra. Working with conductor Gordon Hamilton, this is a collision of two musical worlds and an experience never to be repeated. Horrorshow with The Metropolitan Orchestra is exclusively part of ET20, a celebration of 20 years of Elefant Traks, and is presented by Elefant Traks, WME and The Music.

‘The Happiness Box’ w/ Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Sunday 4 November, 2018, 2:00 pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Bryony Marks | The Happiness Box

‘The Happiness Box’ is the inspiring story of three friends – a lizard, a monkey and a frog – who find a magical box and embark on a journey through the jungle to discover the secret of happiness. The story was written in secret in 1942 by two Australian Prisoners of War (David Griffin and Leslie Greener) to lift the spirits of the child prisoners in Changi Jail. Australian composer Bryony Marks has captured the story in a musical celebration of humour, courage and friendship.

'THUM PRINTS' in SYDNEY & COLOgne

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 16 September 2018, 14:00
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Also featuring 482 Variations on a Very Short Theme & Opposites (World Premiere)

WDR Funkhausorchester
Friday 11 October 2018 (+ Live stream)
Kölner Philharmonie (Cologne)
Also featuring Baby Steps First

'Everyday Requiem' w/ edc & TAV

The Australian Voices and Expressions Dance Company
12 – 20 October 2018
QPAC Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane

Melding beautiful new choreography by Natalie Weir and an acapella score by Gordon Hamilton performed by The Australian Voices, 'Everyday Requiem' celebrates the ordinary moments of life.

QSO Performance of Arr. of ‘Bolero’

Tuesday 11 September 2018
Jubilee Hall, Roma State College
Roma, QLD

Recently I arranged Ravel’s Bolero for single instruments (it wasn’t easy!) Thanks to QSO for the performance.

Performance of '482 Variations on a Very Short Theme'

Not The Last Night of the Proms
Thursday 9 August 2018, 7:30pm
QPAC Concert Hall

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Alondra de la Parra

‘The Music of Comic Con' w/ New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Friday 27 July 2018, 7:30pm
Auckland Town Hall

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Comic Con is one of the largest celebrations of science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels and popular culture in the world. For the first time the NZSO performs a special Comic Con-themed concert presenting some of the most popular music from television, film and video games.

PerformanceS of 'Dark Hour' in Galway & Canberra 

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 8:00pm
St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway
Cois Cladaigh
Conductor | Dr. Brendan O'Connor

Tuesday 1 May 2018
10:00am & 12:30pm
Canberra International Music Festival
Australian War Memorial
Luminescence Chamber Singers

The text of my piece 'Dark Hour' is from Prime Minister Billy Hughes' off-the-cuff remarks at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1916. He was summing up the Australian experience at Gallipoli. Download the score here.

Premiere of 'Macquarie' w/ Rapper-Poet Luka Lesson and QSO

Friday 20 April 7:00pm
QSO WAVE Festival
Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre
Tickets

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Sarah Grace Williams

Rapper-poet Luka Lesson and I wrote 'Macquarie', an orchestral-hiphop interrogation of Lachlan Macquarie's legacy.

"...a harrowing piece exploring the realities and romanticisms of Lachlan Macquarie... Truthfully, I’m just not sure anything could follow ‘Macquarie’ and garner the same attention and awe as its predecessor... never doubt an orchestra’s ability to kick ass." – Kyley Thompson for Scenestr.com [read in full]

HORRORSHOW x QSO

Friday 20 April 9:30pm
QSO WAVE Festival
Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre
Tickets SOLD OUT

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Arranger | Gordon Hamilton

Horrorshow x QSO collab... Solo on the mic and Adit on the fader. And I got to conduct in a merch shirt!

"If only all collaborations between orchestras and contemporary musicians were done with such joy and flair! One of the QSO’s secret weapons is Gordon Hamilton, a musical chameleon with bonafides in the territories of Hip Hop and Classical music. His arrangements were authentic, used imaginative colour and crucially, celebrated rather than patronised the orchestral force." – Gillian Wills for ArtsHub [read in full]

Performances of 'Vrbanja Bridge' in Germany & NORWAY

Friday 11 March, 7pm
Schloss Erbdrostenhof, Münster, Germany
(Premiere)

Wednesday 11 April, 7pm
Stavanger Konserthus Fartein Valen, Norway

Cello | KONSTANTIN MANAEV
Piano | ANASTASSIYA DRANCHUK

My new piece for cello and piano, based on the tragic story of Admira Ismić (a Bosniak) and Boško Brkić (a Bosnian Serb) living in Sarajevo during the the Siege of Sarajevo. As they crossed Vrbanja Bridge, sniper bullets killed them. 

PREMIEREs of 'Outer Landscape' & 'PARAPHRASE on CIELITO LINDO' w/ Alondra... en México

Wednesday 13 Dec. 2017, 21:00
Auditorio Pabellón M, Monterrey, NL
Tickets

Saturday 16 Dec. 2017, 21:00
Auditorio Metropolitano, Puebla
Tickets

Tuesday 19 Dec. 2017, 19:00
Explanada De La Bandera

Thursday 21 Dec. 2017, 20:00
Club de golf puerto Cancún

Conductor | Alondra de la Parra

Two short works, premiering in Mexico as part of Navidad en México (programmed and conducted by Alondra de la Parra). Outer Landscape is scored for orchestra with solo overtone singer (a type of multiphonic for the voice). Paraphrase on Cielito Lindo is my re-imaginging of Mexico's most famous song... "Ay ay ay ay!"

The Singing Politician

Sunday 7 May 2017, 2pm
Canberra International Music Festival
National Gallery of Australia – Gandel Hall
Tickets ($57 / $52 / $30 / $25)

Sunday 23 July 2017, 5pm
Unashamedly Original Festival
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
Tickets ($25)

Topology and The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

“A fascinating and artistically absorbing musico-political event”
– Limelight Magazine

“It is simultaneously quite serious, quite moving and absolutely hilarious”
– James Morrison

Prime Ministerial speeches set to music: Topology and The Australian Voices bring iconic speeches and exceptional musicianship together to celebrate pivotal moments in Australian history. Composed by Robert Davidson, John Babbage and Gordon Hamilton, The Singing Politician takes the words right out of our Prime Ministers’ mouths – from Robert Menzies to Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser to Paul Keating, Bob Hawke to Tony Abbott – and marries them seamlessly to an overlay of stirring music and choral work.

PREMIERE of 'AGE OF THE UNIVERSE'

Saturday 10 June, 7:30pm
Sydney University Great Hall

Sydney University Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Luke Spicer

A melody is heard. As it repeats, it halves in tempo and new layers are brought in, each time halving the tempo. Eventually, the initial melody moves so slowly that it would take longer than the current age of the universe to play just once: an other-worldly and spacey piece.

'THUM PRINTS' in LITHUANIA and Dampier W.A.

St. Christofer Chamber Orchestra (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Sunday 16 July 2017, 19:00
Christopher Festival
Vilniaus universiteto Botanikos sodas, Vilnius

Perth Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 17 September 2017, 17:00
Red Earth Arts Festival
Hampton Oval, Dampier

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Faure Requiem w/ QSO

Saturday 16 September, 12:30pm
QSO Studio, Southbank, Brisbane

Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Open rehearsal with WDR Funkhausorchester at Kölner Philharmonie

Thursday 21 September 2017, 12:30pm
Kölner Philharmonie

WDR Funkhausorchester (Cologne)
Marialy Pacheco Trio
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

'DANZóN Cubano' WITH WDR FUNKHAUS & Marialy Pacheco

Friday 22 September 2017, 8:00pm
Jazzfestival Viersen
Festhalle Viersen, Germany

WDR Funkhausorchester (Cologne)
Marialy Pacheco Trio
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Works and arrangements by Marialy Pacheco & Gordon Hamilton, including the world premiere of Gordon's 'Baby Steps First' (paraphrase on Coltrane's 'Giant Steps') for orchestra.

Brückenklang: Vielfältige NRW-Chöre

Sunday 24 September 2017, 5:30-7:00pm
Landesmusikrat NRW
Romaneum Neuss

Free admission

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Featuring a newly-commissioned choral work on the theme of immigration.

More info (DE)

MSO / Ears Wide open: SCHUMANN

Monday 23 October 2017, 6:30pm
Melbourne Recital Centre

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Tickets

Part concert, part guided musical journey. One of Schumann’s finest orchestral creations, the Manfred Overture, brings Byron’s semi-autobiographical poem to the concert stage. Find out more about this satisfying work in a part concert/part interactive lecture with Gordon Hamilton and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Bizet: CARMEN

Fri. 27, Sat. 28, Sun. 29 October

Hart's Mill, Port Adelaide
Elephant in the Room Productions

with Charlotte Campbell, Andrew Turner, Megan Fishers, Verity Colyer, Peter Deane, Christian Evans, Dione Baker and James Moffatt.

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Director | Tessa Bremner (OAM)

THe AUSTRALIAN VOICES – RECITAL IN SYDNEY

Friday 20 October, 8:00pm
Randwick Town Hall, Sydney

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Freshly-commissioned works and other contemporary choral music.

QSO in Concert in Beaudesert & Premiere of 'Notebook Symphony'

Friday 3 November, 7:00pm
The Centre, Beaudesert

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Tickets ($20 / $12)

The Queensland Symphony Orchestra will be in residence in Beaudesert to provide a special musical experience for local children and families. The concert will feature some classical repertoire and popular music scores, presented in a way that helps audience members of all ages explore classical music. Also featured is the premiere of 'Notebook Symphony' by Gordon Hamilton.

'Red Live Breath' w/ Cathy Milliken & TAV

Thursday 9 November, 6:00pm
Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium Courtyard

Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

In this ritualistic new work by Berlin-based Australian composer Cathy Milliken, the choristers set up portable lights; gathering to sing short phrases, all actions that set the courtyard as a magical place. The text is taken from Picasso poetry.

TAV IN GUATEMALA

26 November – 5 December 2017

Festival 'Enlace Coral'
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

Thursday 30 November 2017, 6:00pm
Liceo Chapero, Guatemala

Friday 1 December, 6:00pm
Comalapa, Guatemala

Saturday 2 December, 6:00pm
Tepcán, Guatemala

Sunday 3 December, 6:00pm
San Martin, Guatemala

Tuesday 5 December, 6:00pm
Antigua Guatemala