Composer & Conductor

Clarinettist Jason Noble has premiered Music in Sweatpants for Clarinet at Casula Powerhouse as part of Ensemble Offspring‘s Lone Hemispheres series. Music in Sweatpants was written to be paired with Magnus Lindberg‘s Ablauf and was commissioned by Ensemble Offspring with the support of Kim Williams. Composer Tristan Coelho reviewed the concert for Classikon. “Huw Belling’s…

The Joubert Singers have premiered Huw’s arrangement of The Cherry Tree Carol, (a set of three medieval Christmas Carols). Commissioned by the choir, led by artistic director Erzsi Marosszeky.

Richard Narroway has released a recording of Huw’s solo cello work Bourrée Echo on the ABC Classic label on his Requiem Album of Australian Cello music. “The cello is a messenger of exhilarating and pensive authority in Narroway’s hands.”Gramophone

The National Gallery of Australia is remounting Belling/Wilcox Victory over the Sun (Design and Concept, Justene Williams) in Canberra as part of its 40th Anniversary celebrations. Performances are sold out.

Belling/Wilcox’s Fumeblind Oracle has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 APRA/AMCOS awards.

Violinist Felix Pascoe has premiered Shadow Partita 1004 commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music as part of the ANAM Set initiative.

Christopher Graham Bennett premieres Huw’s Sydney Bach Society solo cello commission titled Fantasia sul Preludio after Bach’s Suite 1 for Cello (BWV 1007), at Christ Church St Laurence. Score available at the Australian Music Centre.

A new work premiered in the Sydney Festival commissioned by Sydney Chamber Opera – (for further info on the production), performed by Jack Symonds and Jessica O’Donoghue. Fumeblind was in a diptych Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared. ‘Thought provoking and excellent‘ ★★★★½ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Intelligent and entertaining‘ ★★★★ Limelight Huw’s interview article…

The Manchester Collective presents Inside Mr Enderby by Huw Belling (text Pierce Wilcox after Anthony Burgess) Details here

by Annarosa Berman, courtesy of Sydney Chamber Opera In Victory Over the Sun, a reworking of Russian composer Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 futurist opera, SCO and performance and installation artist Justene Williams collaborated to create a contemporary production of a work which librettist Pierce Wilcox has laughingly described as “a strange project even by our standards”.…