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COMPOSER: CLAIRE JORDANThe most exciting thing to come out of Townsville since Ross River Virus, Claire Jordan has been playing piano, singing and composing from the age of five.
In 1997, she was awarded a Master of Music degree, majoring in composition and including a research project on Australian Film Music, from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has won many composition awards, including the 2MBS-FM Young Composers' Competition in 1992 and 1998, and the ABC Young Composer Award in 1985. She has written and performed music extensively for theatre, including New Theatre, Iron Cove, Voices and Stables Theatre productions, and for many short films, including the comedy drama Stitched, numerous AFTRS film and documentary productions, and the claymation film Feline, by independent filmmaker May Trubuhovich, which won the Yoram Gross Animation Award at the 1998 Sydney Film Festival. She has taught Harmony at the Sydney Conservatorium, and sings with the Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir and The Contemporary Singers.
Her most recent composition Time and Motion, for bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello, is being performed by the Sydney String Ensemble at the newly opened new music Studio at the Sydney Opera House.
about Feeling Sexy....
"The essential idea from which the score for Feeling Sexy flowed came to me in a dream. The score is driven by a feeling of strong, slow, deep, sensual breathing, or the gentle, rhythmical rolling of waves, evoked by an endlessly repeated pattern of two chords (an in and an out breath). A simple eight note melody persists throughout the score in one guise or another. The solo violin represents the imagination, spirit and creativity of the central character Vicki. Over this foundation is laid a collection of gentle dance rhythms, flowing water patterns, and many shifting orchestral colours and moods."
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