Paul Dean to perform as soloist and feature as composer with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in Fire & Water Fire & Water - Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (tso.com.au) Thursday 3 August, Federation Concert Hall
July 2023 - Paul Dean has been announced as Finalist in the APRA ART MUSIC AWARDS for two works - the Septet and Double Bass Concerto.
Paul Dean was announced the winner of the richest composition prize in Australia, the coveted Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for Symphony No 1, Black Summer. This work was commissioned and premiered by the Australian World Orchestra in May 2021.
See Limelight article here
See Limelight article here
Mighty Rachmaninov (Queensland Symphony Orchestra) (limelightmagazine.com.au)
Read the review of the Double Bass Concerto performed by Phoebe Russell with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Read the review of the Double Bass Concerto performed by Phoebe Russell with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Hear QSO's performance of Paul Dean's Symphony No 1 on ABC Classic Listen Again QSO: Paul Dean's Symphony - Lunchtime Concert - ABC Classic
Paul Dean's new symphony contains many aspects of the earth's reaction to climate change, and humankind's involvement with it.
The symphony starts off peacefully, with the calming sounds of whip-birds and other native birds singing their songs as heard during the quiet times of a COVID lockdown, before the earth starts to let the us know about our impact on it. The music goes through the earth's cry for help in fighting climate change, and also depicts the tragic bushfires from the summer of 2018-2019. This symphony is a dramatic look at the world around us, and our involvement in climate change.
Recorded live in concert at the ABC Studio 420 in Brisbane on November 13, 2021 by ABC Classic. Producer Lucas Burns. Sound Engineers Steve Fieldhouse and Costa Zouliou.
Paul Dean's new symphony contains many aspects of the earth's reaction to climate change, and humankind's involvement with it.
The symphony starts off peacefully, with the calming sounds of whip-birds and other native birds singing their songs as heard during the quiet times of a COVID lockdown, before the earth starts to let the us know about our impact on it. The music goes through the earth's cry for help in fighting climate change, and also depicts the tragic bushfires from the summer of 2018-2019. This symphony is a dramatic look at the world around us, and our involvement in climate change.
Recorded live in concert at the ABC Studio 420 in Brisbane on November 13, 2021 by ABC Classic. Producer Lucas Burns. Sound Engineers Steve Fieldhouse and Costa Zouliou.
July 2022 - Paul Dean has been announced as Finalist in the APRA Art Music Awards for his Symphony "Black Summer"
Watch Ensemble Q in a streamed performance of Paul Dean's Concerto for Cello and Wind Quintet for Musica Viva.
Ensemble Q | VIVA 21 on Vimeo
"Every so often a new work comes along that makes us all sit up and take notice, startled as we do so; Paul Dean’s concerto for cello and wind quintet is such a piece. It is gritty, lyrical, compelling, and in Trish Dean, has a phenomenal advocate. She is well-matched by Paul and the other members of Ensemble Q, a sharp-shooting group of renowned wind soloists in Brisbane, brought together out of the desire to create a collection of ‘exceptional players and wonderful people’. Paul Kildea, Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia
This program demands much from each player, perfectly framed by the different ways in which composers since Beethoven have thought about wind instruments. It’s funny to think of the Ligeti and Barber works being composed within two years of each other, for they could not be more different – Barber an exponent of mid-century American lyricism, Ligeti an uncompromising modernist. They nonetheless rub shoulders most happily in this program, a snapshot of virtuosic wind writing.
Touring 10 - 24 August, 2021.
musicaviva.com.au/ensemble-q
Ensemble Q | VIVA 21 on Vimeo
"Every so often a new work comes along that makes us all sit up and take notice, startled as we do so; Paul Dean’s concerto for cello and wind quintet is such a piece. It is gritty, lyrical, compelling, and in Trish Dean, has a phenomenal advocate. She is well-matched by Paul and the other members of Ensemble Q, a sharp-shooting group of renowned wind soloists in Brisbane, brought together out of the desire to create a collection of ‘exceptional players and wonderful people’. Paul Kildea, Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia
This program demands much from each player, perfectly framed by the different ways in which composers since Beethoven have thought about wind instruments. It’s funny to think of the Ligeti and Barber works being composed within two years of each other, for they could not be more different – Barber an exponent of mid-century American lyricism, Ligeti an uncompromising modernist. They nonetheless rub shoulders most happily in this program, a snapshot of virtuosic wind writing.
Touring 10 - 24 August, 2021.
musicaviva.com.au/ensemble-q
Australian World Orchestra's premiere of Paul Dean Symphony No 1 "Black Summer"
Photo from the Canberra performance by Peter Hislop. See the reviews on the review page
Photo from the Canberra performance by Peter Hislop. See the reviews on the review page
read the full article here
https://www.qso.com.au/news/blog/it-takes-two-with-paul-dean-and-phoebe-russell?fbclid=IwAR16tFZFNpUmtYmITrgULGiJKuZ9T284ee6TjPG4vEzX0xZrAB50EnbOvos
https://www.qso.com.au/news/blog/it-takes-two-with-paul-dean-and-phoebe-russell?fbclid=IwAR16tFZFNpUmtYmITrgULGiJKuZ9T284ee6TjPG4vEzX0xZrAB50EnbOvos
June 2020 - Lots of new things are happening, including a week spent in the recording studio recording an album of chamber works by Paul Dean. And 70 new Coronavirus Miniatures will be featuring on this site very soon!
March 2020. Sadly the newly completed Horn Concerto, co-commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival (USA) and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for performance in 2020 by Andrew Bain has had to be put on hold, due to the COVID-19 situation.
Nov 29 news: Paul Dean will be Artistic Director for Tutti World Youth Music Festival in Beijing, July 2 - 11 2021 http://www.tuttibeijing.com/
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra "Symphonic Universe" performances with Jack Liebeck, Brian Cox and Benjamin Northey
PAUL DEAN ON CHANNELLING CLARINET LEGENDS
Before unleashing his new concerto with the MSO, clarinettist-composer Paul Dean talks about the musicians that inspired it.
by Paul Dean on April 2, 2019
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/paul-dean-on-channelling-clarinet-legends/
Before unleashing his new concerto with the MSO, clarinettist-composer Paul Dean talks about the musicians that inspired it.
by Paul Dean on April 2, 2019
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/paul-dean-on-channelling-clarinet-legends/
Paul Dean is Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Composer in Residence, 2019
Two brilliant reviews have come in for Dry River Run!
Read them here
Dry River Run is in full swing.....
Premiering September 1, 2018 at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
Paul's opera, commissioned by the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, is currently being rehearsed in earnest for its 1st September world premiere. Read on to discover what they're all saying about this phenomenal work:
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/dry-river-run-paul-dean-on-his-first-opera/
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/dry-river-run-paul-dean-on-his-first-opera/
New appointment
Paul Dean has been appointed to Composer in Residence for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's 2019 Season
