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Hyperion Records has released
Child's Play, a new album featuring the
Goldner String Quartet with
Piers Lane and Umberto Clerici
in world premiere recordings of six of Carl's chamber works.
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On 19 and 20 February
2027 pianist Poom Prommachart
will perform Carl's
Second Piano Concerto with the
Hong Kong Philharmonic conducted by
Nathanaël Iselin at the Shaw Auditorium. |
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Time's Fell Hand, Carl's new setting for
choir and orchestra of Shakespeare's 64th sonnet was premiered by the
Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Elizabeth Scott in the Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House on
16 May. |
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On 20 and 21 February Camerata Queensland
played Carl's Smith's Alchemy in Brisbane and Toowoomba,
at QPAC and the Armitage Theatre respectively. Full details are
here. |
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In December 2025,
Poom Prommachart presented the Singapore premiere of Carl's piano solo Three Fantasies, at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. The concert of Fantasias also features pianist Marianne Huang Yueyin and guzheng player Chen Shanhui Indra. |
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HKU MUSE (Hong Kong University Cultural Management Office)
has released a video of Carl's Three Fantasies filmed at the
world premiere by Poom Prommachart at Hong Kong University in October 2025. |
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Carl's orchestral miniature, The 440 Seasons,
was premiered in November 2025 by the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roger Benedict.
This is one in a set of SCM Orchestral Miniatures
celebrating the 110th birthday of the Con. |
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In November 2025, the Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performed Carl's Choral Symphony (No. 6) at Verbrugghen Hall in Sydney conducted by Elizabeth Scott as part of the Conservatorium's celebration of its 110th birthday. |
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Pianist Poom Prommachart gave the world premiere performance of Carl's piano solo, Three Fantasies, at the University of Hong Kong in October. Carl also delivered a
lecture on the work at the University
as the Rayson Huang Lecture for 2025. |
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The world premiere of Carl's orchestral overture
Dreams Undreamt was presented by the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra in
February 2025, conducted by the brilliant
Simone Young,
the orchestra's first Australian Chief Conductor in 30 years. |
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Cellist and conductor Daniel Pini
has released a new album of Australian music
for solo cello called Being, which includes Carl's
Inner World for cello with electronics.
It's available on Apple Music,
Spotify ,
Amazon Music and YouTube. |
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The Goldner String Quartet
performed Carl's Third String Quartet at the
Melbourne Recital Centre in
October 2024
as the group farewelled the concert stage after 30 years of magnificent music making. |
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The Queensland Youth Symphony conducted by
Simon Hewett performed
Carl's Third Symphony at the
Queensland Performing Arts Centre in
May, 2024.
The Modern Masterpieces program included the world premiere of
Paul Dean's Second Symphony. |
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The Enchanted Loom
is an album of Carl's
recent orchestral music produced by
ABC Classic. It features world premiere recordings of his
8th symphony (The Enchanted Loom),
Concerto for Orchestra and the orchestral fanfare
"V" ("vee").
It won the
2022 Aria Award for Best Classical Album. |
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Professor Rhod McNeill,
formerly Head of Arts and Communication at the
University of Southern Queensland, has written
an encyclopaedic reference and analysis of Carl's concert music.
It is available at
Wildbird Music,
with an accompanying
Spotify playlist. |
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YouTube contains many clips of Carl's music of variable quality. This curated list of clips contains some of Carl's favourite performances available on the internet. |
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Carl's new string orchestra arrangement of his guitar quintet,
Endless, was premiered by
Camerata Queensland and
Karin Schaupp in Brisbane and Toowoomba (Queensland) in May 2024. |
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Carl's saxophone quartet, Sawtooth, was commissioned by
Nexas Quartet with the generous support
of Carmen Jarrett and Kathie & Reg Grinberg. It was premiered by Nexas in
November 2023
at ACO Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay, Sydney. |
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In May 2024,
the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic performed Carl's
Choral Symphony with the
Melbourne University Choral Society and the
National Boys Choir of Australia conducted by
Andrew Wailes at
Melbourne Town Hall.
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In March 2024 the
Goldner String Quartet
performed Carl's String Quartet No 5
in a concert of Australian music from the start of the century presented by the
Adelaide Festival.
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Carl's saxophone quartet, Sawtooth, was commissioned by
Nexas Quartet with the generous support
of Carmen Jarrett and Kathie & Reg Grinberg. It was premiered by Nexas in
November 2023
at ACO Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay, Sydney. |
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The Nexas Quartet continued its advocacy
of Carl's Sawtooth quartet at the
Orange Chamber Music Festival
on 10 March 2024 at
Tonic restaurant in Millthorpe,
western New South Wales. |
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Andrey Gugnin, winner of the 2016
Sydney International Piano Competition
performed Carl's 2nd Piano Sonata in November 2023 at the
Melbourne Recital Centre
and
Sydney City Recital Hall,
and again at the Brucknerhaus in Linz (Austria) in December. |
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The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
performed Carl's solo cantata
Poets & Fighters with Award-winning baritone
Stephen Marsh
on a regional tour to Moorabbin, Merimbula and Mallacoota in
October and November 2023. |
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Carl's new piano solo, Gothic Fantasy,
was premiered by Janice Carissa
at a Gilmore Rising Star concert in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in
September 2023.
The work was commissioned by Janice as her prize for the 2022
Gilmore Young Artist Award. |
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Carl's guitar quintet Endless celebrates
the life of architect and dedicated environmentalist
Jennifer Bates. The world premiere
was presented in February and March 2023 by
Karin Schaupp and the
Flinders Quartet on a
national concert
tour. |
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Carl's Five Intermezzi is now available from
Faber Music.
This collection of character pieces was sparked by the first in the set,
Resolve, commissioned by the
Olga Kern International Piano Competition and premiered at that competition in October 2022. |
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Lindsay Garritson presented
the world premiere of Carl's Five Intermezzi for solo piano on
Sunday Feb 5 in Naples, Florida.
Lindsay gave the Australian premiere of the third and fourth Intermezzi,
a gift from the composer to the pianist, in September 2022. |
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Carl's second piano concerto was performed
by the Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Scott Wilson
at Cadogan Hall (London) in November 2022.
The soloist was Piers Lane, who gave the world premiere
performances of the work in 2012. |
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In September 2022, American pianist
Lindsay Garritson gave the
Australian premiere performance of Carl's Fourth Piano Sonata at the
Melbourne Recital Centre. The program included the Australian premiere of "Three Pieces", a set of
short character works, a gift from Carl to Lindsay. |
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Carl's concerto for piano four hands, Zofomorphosis, was commissioned
by the ZOFO Piano Duet from San Francisco.
They gave the world premiere performance at the Grant
Park Music Festival in Chicago in August 2022, conducted by
Carlos Kalmar. |
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Pianist Xiaoya Liu has released
the first album featuring all four of Carl's piano sonatas. It is available from
Naxos
Direct and on
Apple Music (and iTunes), Spotify and other streaming services. |
