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 engage with a close circle of outstanding local and international performers. Recent collaborators include vocalists Chloe Lankshear, Deepka Ratra and Zoe Drummond, cross-cultural flautist Chloe Chung, renowned pianist Stephanie McCallum, recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley, and flautist Jane Bishop. In 2014 the group released its debut CD and presented workshops and concerts with Sydney Conservatorium students and guest performers. Sideband has also recently released a second CD, with a third album currently in production.
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Brad Gill is a composer, percussionist and co-artistic director of the composer-performer collective Sideband as well as member of the experimental improvisation project ‘Mind on Fire’ and the Dreambox Collective. 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 (Honours degree and Ph.D.) and University of Western Australia. He has also seriously studied Javanese Gamelan and North Indian Tabla and jazz improvisation. Current focusses are projects incorporating collective exploratory improvisation and intersections with non-Western music traditions and building and developing creative collaborations with like-minded artists. His personal composition and vibraphone approaches are grounded in and extensions of Chan practice.
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Peter McNamara is an award-winning Sydney-based composer and sideband co-artistic director, gaining a reputation as one of Australia's most talented and innovative emerging voices across a wide variety of musical genres including orchestral, chamber, electronic, installation and film composition.
His work has appeared at numerous international events including the ISCM World New Music Days conference and the Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands, commissioned and performed by leading international orchestras and ensembles including Ensemble Modern, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Insomnio, Orchestra Victoria, Orkest de Ereprijs, and Ensemble Offspring. McNamara’s work has also been commercially recorded by Australian virtuoso performers Claire Edwardes (Kammerklang 2009) and Alicia Crossley (Duo-Blockstix 2017). He is also a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Excelsia College. |