Australian composer/performer

 
   
Current Activities

The Opera Connection: 22 August 2011
World premiere of three songs from ‘Two Moon Smile’
performers:
Michael Halliwell, baritone  
Sue Newsome, clarinet/bass clarinet  
David Miller, piano  
Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
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January 2011: Summer Days in Australia
Padma is currently in Mallacoota and fending off koalas while dreaming of floods and paper horses. He has just completed a new piece for solo xylophone, Chromatic Mirror, commissioned by Dutch percussionist Arnold Marinissen. Padma will be on the road for Clogs' concerts in New York City (March) and London (May).

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8 December 2010
The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton received high praise at year's end as "one of the most evocative and appealing records of the year, in any genre" from John Schaefer, on NPR Music

3 March 2010
Release of Mallacoota, a collaborative CD project with Belgian poet, Daniel Hélin and composer/producer Padma Newsome. Preview the music at Mr. Hélin's website: danielhelin.be
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2 March 2010
Release of Clogs fifth album, The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton on Brassland. Featuring compositions by Padma Newsome. More about The Creatures and Clogs' 2010 EP, Veil Waltz, at clogsmusic.com.

30 November 2009
World premiere of Padma Newsome's Piano Sextet, Longifolia
Presented by The Firm, featuring The Langbein String Quartet
Also on the programme:
music by Peter Sculthorpe, Quentin Grant, Raymond Chapman Smith, Luke Altmann

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Records
The National
High Violet (Beggar's Group)
Boxer
Alligator
Cherry Tree
(Brassland)
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers

Clogs
The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
(Brassland)
Veil Waltz EP

Lantern
Stick Music
Lullaby for Sue
Thom's Night Out

Rachael Elliott
Polka the Elk

Daniel Hélin
Mallacoota

The Devastations
Coal

www.brassland.org

Padma Newsome's musical palette expresses colors of the modernist avant garde, folk music from India, chamber music remnants, along with an energy founded in the pop/rock world.

 

Contact Padma
Tel. +61 (0)3 5158 0095 (AUS)
Tel. 646-286-2326 (USA)
Email: padma (dot) newsome (at) yahoo (dot) com


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