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Thursday, 13 October 2011

A work by a composition lecturer from The University of Western Australia has been voted the Classical Masterpiece in The Monthly magazine's ‘20 Australian Masterpieces since 2000'.

The vote places James Ledger, from UWA's School of Music, alongside winners in other categories including, in television, Chris Lilley for Summer Heights High and, in popular music, Sarah Blasko for ‘As Day Follows night'.

James Ledger's orchestral piece ‘Chronicles' also won the recent 2011 Art Music Award in the category ‘Work of the Year: Orchestral'.  Other finalists in the category were Andrew Ford, Elena Kats-Chernin and Christopher Gordon.

‘Chronicles'was first performed by the WA Symphony Orchestra in 2009.  It has been described as an imaginative work with excellent craftsmanship and finely balanced textures.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra will perform another of Ledger's compositions ‘Indian Pacific' at a Gala Concert on Tuesday 25 October as part of the Commonwealth Festival Perth, to coincide with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

James Ledger, who has been with the UWA School of Music for six years, has been composer-in-residence for the Australian National Academy of Music, the Australian String Quartet and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Already this year, he has had over 30 performances of his works.

In 2008, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to Europe to research contemporary compositional practice with a particular focus on new music in Estonia.

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Danielle Loiseau , Administrative Officer (School of Music)  (61 +8)  6488 3994
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Pip White , Administrative Officer (School of Music)  (+61 8)  6488 7835
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Michael Sinclair-Jones (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 3229  /  (+61 4) 00 700 783

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