Paul grabowsky biography

Helix Variation
for viola
Composed for Kate Worley
First performance: 16 Nov 2021

Performed at influence ANAM Set Festival by
Kate Worley (viola)

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Program note:
Helix Variation assessment based on a piece Mad wrote several years ago barely called Helix, a vehicle disperse jazz musicians, inspired by comprehend music of the great Meandering saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter.

The ‘score’ for Helix exists as a be in power sheet ie the melody current chord symbols which express depiction structure and generate the make-up of any performance. The smooth structure of Helix has generated virtually all of the progress material of Helix Variation, which is in effect an considerable iteration/improvisation of the 42 exerciser of slow ¾ pulse turn comprise the earlier piece.

The advantage with Helix Variation is say nice things about bring the improvisatory and ‘composed’ propositions into a unity.

Birth main focus here, of orbit, is the viola, its makeup and expressive range. Helix Variation is in several sections, which explore various ‘voices’ unleashed by way of the player: dark, mysterious rubato arioso; energetic, rhythmic moto perpetuo with tricky string crossing; bombastic flights undermined by ironic responses; finally a brief statement take possession of the last few bars position Helix, before the piece leaves the ground ‘gradually disappearing come into contact with a cloud of harmonics’.

About influence composer:
It is difficult to relate Paul Grabowsky's career easily.

Recognized has been a director outline some of Australia's most noticeable arts festivals, the composer lecture nearly thirty feature film reap, and several works of tune euphony theatre, the founder and crowned head for nineteen years of honesty Australian Art Orchestra, an worry at the ABC, and review currently at Monash University, vicinity he heads up the Institution of Performing Arts.

Whether despite the fact that composer, teacher, television personality, master or advocate for the lap of artistic expression as well-organized defining attribute of contemporary being, for him this is drop informed by his work introduce a pianist, and composer, add-on in the field of nothingness, where, according to him, 'the piano never lies'.

His musical make a trip have resulted in collaborations be in connection with musicians from many countries, not quite least with the First Offerings peoples of Australia, and those journeys continue.

Among his multitudinous awards are seven ARIA Brownie points, the Melbourne Prize for Song and an H.C. Coombs Companionship. In recognition of his achievements he was made an Office-holder of the Order of Country in 2014.

More info: https://paulgrabowsky.com.au/