This concert coincides with the 340th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The four new Australian works premiered today all include a 'hint' of Bach.

jsbach@340 - Michael Hannan (première)
Arioso - Howard Dillon (première)
Flute Sonata in E major BWV1035 - J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750)
(i) Adagio ma non tanto
(ii) Allegro
(iii) Siciliano
(iv) Allegro assai
Somnial - Alan Holley (première)
Earth to Air, Tolling of the Bells - Johanna Selleck (première)

Johanna Selleck is a composer, musicologist, and flautist. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she is currently an honorary fellow. Her compositions have been performed by internationally renowned artists including in Australia, Europe, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Malta, Israel, the USA and Chile. As a flautist, she performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber music, particularly in collaboration with harpist Jacinta Dennett and at Melbourne Composers' League concerts. Johanna's research focuses on Australian music and cultural history and is published widely including by Cambridge Scholars Press, Lexington Books, Palgrave Macmillan, and this year, Hollitzer Verlag, Vienna.

Publishers of her music include Lyrebird Press and the Australian Music Centre. Her recordings appear on labels including Move Records, Tall Poppies, Albany (USA) and Navona (USA). Johanna's awards for composition include the Percy Grainger Prize, the Albert Maggs Composition Award, and the ANZVS Viola Composition Competition.

In 2024 Johanna completed a Creative Residency in collaboration with First Nations artist Amos Roach at the University of Melbourne.

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 working with 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. Sumiko has been involved in the premiere performances of many works by Australian and European composers, often in conjunction with the clarinetist Richard Rourke.

These composers include Enis Mullaj, Eriona Rushiti, Johanna Selleck, Andrián Pertout, Paul Moulatlet and Alan Holley and many more.