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Artist website: http://www.johncarmichael.com
John Carmichael's recently released ABC Classics CD 'Sea Changes' (also the title of the disc's featured Piano Quartet), illustrates well the position of a composer, now resident in Britain, but harking back to his roots and his fascination with the sea and its continually changing aspects - still surrounded by it now as he was during his formative years in Australia. Study at the Paris Conservatoire, and privately with Arthur Benjamin, were stages on the way to a style favouring melodic interest and finely wrought structures. Wind instruments, clarinet, saxophone, flute and trumpet continue to attract his interest, with publication in the USA by the Southern Music Company of Aria & Finale for soprano saxophone and the Fantasy Sonata for Flute. Fetes Champetres for clarinet, Phoenix - Concerto for flute (premiered and recorded by James Galway) the Concierto Folklorico for piano and string orchestra and works for solo piano and piano duet are regularly broadcast on ABC Classic FM, the BBC and continental stations.
His Trumpet Concerto is due for CD release in May 2005, recorded by John Wallace and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Fetes Champetres, is also scheduled for CD release with Ian Scott and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Barry Wordsworth. Kyle Horch, leading American saxophonist and professor at the Royal College of Music, London, featured Carmichael in a Purcell Room recital, giving, among other of his works for Saxophone, the premiere of his Latin American Suite for alto sax and piano.
Biography provided by the composer — current to 2005
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