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Ross Edwards AM (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music.
One of Australia’s best known and most performed composers, Ross Edwards has created a distinctive sound world aligned with principles of deep ecology while seeking to reconnect music with elemental forces and restore its traditional association with ritual and dance.
Ross Edwards is one of Australia’s most distinctive and recognisable musical voices. His unique sound world evokes and is drawn from the natural environment, elemental forces and human connectedness.
Ross Edwards AM (b.1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera, ballet and film music.
Dec 17, 2018 · With few composer role-models, and in desperate need of further musical training, one day the 19-year-old Edwards tracked down the great Australian composer Richard Meale and made an unsolicited ...
Ross Edwards’s compositions include five symphonies, concertos, choral, chamber and vocal music, children’s music, film scores, a chamber opera and music for dance. His Dawn Mantras greeted the dawning of the new millennium from the sails of the Sydney Opera House in a worldwide telecast.
by Andrew Robbie. Image: Ross Edwards. The dominant narrative of Australian music includes a distinctively restricted account of composition in the mid-1970s. Many countries remember the seventies as a time of cultural nationalism, when composers benefited from increased public funding and institutional support for new music.
