Yuin composer Brenda Gifford’s concerto for Double Bass player Benjamin Ward is shaped by their field work on the NSW South Coast and reflects on custodianship and connection to Country.

A striking new work by Kate Milligan flows from her long engagement with water – its movements, logics and histories – tracing waterways shadowed by imperial and industrial legacies.

Two further works by Rachel Myers and Nathaniel Otley have been created for this concert, which celebrates the ongoing partnership between our Fellows and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music – an exchange that nurtures artistic collaboration, experimentation, and responsiveness to place.