Composer & Conductor

ABC Classic have released ‘Undead’ – an Album recorded by Jack Symonds and Jessica O’Donoghue. The album features two tracks by Belling from his opera Fumeblind Oracle. Listen Here or fine The Belling tracks are on Youtube:

Huw Belling was Guest Director for The Song Company‘s season Pairings and Odd Couples which, in addition to Sydney Opera House performances in the Utzon Room, toured in NSW and the ACT. Belling composed two works for the program, Fuego Y Agua (after Flecha) and Partita Fragment (after Bach). Reviews ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Limelight | ⭑⭑⭑⭑ Sydney…

Belling has premiered his own 75 minute Oratorio St Luke’s Passion at St Stephen’s Macquarie St, Sydney. The work is for Soloist, Choir, Organ, Brass and Percussion and featured soloists Anna Fraser and Simon Lobelson; the Outback Brass Quintet; The Choir of St Stephens; Andrei Hadap, Organ; and Tim Brigden on percussion.

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.