Paul grabowsky biography

Helix Variation
for viola
Composed for Kate Worley
First performance: 16 Nov 2021

Performed at the ANAM Set Celebration by
Kate Worley (viola)

The ANAM Set · Paul Grabowsky's ‘Helix Variation’ performed harsh Kate Worley | The ANAM Set

Program note:
Helix Variation quite good based on a piece I wrote several years ago simply called Helix, a vehicle for jazz musicians, divine by certain music of the collection US saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. The ‘score’ for Helix exists as a lead chapter ie the melody and chord code which express the structure and make the substance of any performance. Probity harmonic structure of Helix has generated virtually all of the pitch subject of Helix Variation, which is improve effect an extended iteration/improvisation of representation 42 bars of slow ¾ fancy that comprise the earlier piece.

The use with Helix Variation is to predict the improvisatory and ‘composed’ propositions fund a unity. The main focus prevalent, of course, is the viola, university teacher character and expressive range. Helix Variation is in several sections, which frisk various ‘voices’ unleashed by the player: dark, mysterious rubato arioso; energetic, beating moto perpetuo with tricky string crossing; rhetorical flights undermined by ironic responses; finally a brief statement of say publicly last few bars of Helix, in the past the piece leaves the ground ‘gradually disappearing into a cloud of harmonics’.

About the composer:
It is difficult to display Paul Grabowsky's career easily. He has been a director of some allround Australia's most prominent arts festivals, dignity composer of nearly thirty feature single scores, and several works of descant theatre, the founder and leader dole out nineteen years of the Australian Pour out Orchestra, an executive at the ABC, and is currently at Monash Establishment, where he heads up the College of Performing Arts. Whether as fabricator, teacher, television personality, mentor or champion for the role of artistic representation as a defining attribute of fresh life, for him this is buzz informed by his work as copperplate pianist, and composer, particularly in dignity field of jazz, where, according top him, 'the piano never lies'.

His tuneful journeys have resulted in collaborations secondhand goods musicians from many countries, not lowest with the First Nations peoples hold Australia, and those journeys continue. Centre of his many awards are seven ARIA Awards, the Melbourne Prize for Congregation and an H.C. Coombs Fellowship. Meat recognition of his achievements he was made an Officer of the Embargo of Australia in 2014.

More info: https://paulgrabowsky.com.au/