About
Sideband is a contemporary music collective founded by composers Tristan Coelho, Brad Gill and Peter McNamara. The aim of the group is to develop and support the music of young and established Australian composers. Sideband has, and continues to collaborate with a close circle of outstanding local and international performers including Alicia Crossley, Jane Bishop, The Sam Gill Quartet, Claire Edwardes, Nicole Thomson, Ben Carey, Kerry Yong, Deborah Kim, Julia Ryder and Anthony Clarke. In 2014 the group released its debut CD and presented workshops and concerts with Sydney Conservatorium students and guest performers. Sideband is currently planning their second CD with new compositions and projects currently in development for 2017 and beyond.
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Tristan Coelho is a co-artistic director and sound technician for Sideband concerts and recording projects. He has worked across a range of disciplines including concert music, film and multimedia projects. His early musical training centred on piano performance with Stephanie McCallum before studying composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Royal College of Music, London. He has studied with Michael Smetanin, Damien Ricketson, Mary Finsterer, Trevor Pearce and David Sawer amongst others. In his music, Coelho draws inspiration largely from nature and especially the idea of amplifying otherwise delicate and soft sounds.
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Brad Gill is a co-artistic director and principal Sideband percussionist. He began serious musical studies with a focus on xylophone and percussion, later developing an interest in composition, which he explored while a student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (from which he has an Honours degree and Ph.D.) and University of Western Australia. During this time he developed an interest in non-Western music, undertaking study in Javanese Gamelan and Tabla, as well as studying jazz vibraphone in addition to composition studies, resulting in a broad and highly individual compositional style.
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Peter McNamara is a co-artistic director and logistics manager for Sideband. He is one of Australia’s talented emerging composers. McNamara’s works have been commissioned and performed by a variety of major international orchestras and ensembles including Ensemble Modern, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Insomnio, Orkest de Ereprijs, Ensemble Phace, Dutch Orchestra & Ensemble Academy and the Tokyo Sinfonietta. His work has been commercially recorded and performed at many international events including the 2008, 2010 and 2013 ISCM World New Music Days conferences, the 2008, 2009 and 2011 Gaudeamus Music Weeks in Amsterdam and the 2010 Irino Foundation concert in Tokyo.
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