AYO Chamber Players_Threads of Time

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Flinders Quartet (FQ) is instantly recognisable as one of Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles. They are a quartet for the 21st century and a highly respected force in Australian chamber music, entering their third decade with acknowledged musical skill and maturity.

For almost twenty-five years, FQ has followed a unique path and lives up to their motto of “caring for tradition, daring to be different” through a busy schedule encompassing live and online performances, commissioning, recording, education and mentorship programs including the successful composer development programs ‘Ascend’ and ‘Emerge’, and outreach activities through their artistic patronage of John Noble’s Itet regional quartet program, Resonance String Orchestra, and Musica Viva’s Strike a Chord championship.

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Lee Bradshaw is a Melbourne-born Australian composer. His works exhibit a profound intimacy with the craft of composition, compelling the performer to delve deeply into their own artistic and creative reservoirs. His writing redefines the possibilities of expression for the modern musician, whilst the music – rare, uncompromising and arresting in its beauty – offers solace to the listener.

Bradshaw’s music has been premiered and performed by Artists such as: Baiba Skride, Harriet Krijgh, The Flinders String Quartet, The Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Svizzera Italiana, Amira Medunjanin, Ivan Vukčević, Wilma Smith, Quartetto Energie Nove, The Fidelio String Quartet, Anna Sleptsova and Sally Anne Russell.

He is the creative director and producer of “The Death of Beethoven” – a recording cycle of the late-Beethoven String Quartets performed by Quartetto Energie Nove, in collaboration with Radio Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.

Lee is Composer-in-Residence at St John’s Festival of Chamber Music and was commissioned by Wilma Smith to compose the set string quartet piece for the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.

Lee Bradshaw signed a recording agreement with PARMA/Navona Records in 2021, and his Album “The Ties That Band” was issued on August 26th, 2022.