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Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife becomes a powerful new opera
By Ria Andriani

Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife is being transformed into an opera with music by George Palmer and starring soprano Nina Korbe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-10/new-australian-opera-the-drovers-wife-leah-purcell/106647650

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Graeme Koehne (b. 1956)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Koehne

"Time Is a River"
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Richard Mills
(ABC Classics 2016)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8061198--graeme-koehne-time-is-a-river

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Carl Vine (b. 1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Vin
"Child’s Play"
[Piano Quintet “Fantasia” (2013)
Strutt Sonata for cello and piano (2017)
String Quintet (2009, rev. 2015)
Piano Trio “The Village” (2013)
String Quartet No. 6 “Child’s Play”(2017)
Harbour Reverie (version for string quartet) (2014)]
Goldner String Quartet
Piers Lane (piano)
Umberto Clerici (cello)
(Hyperion 2026)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9850653--carl-vine-childs-play-piano-quintet-other-chamber-music

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George Palmer (b. 1947)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Palmer_(composer)

"Breaking The Silence"
[Breaking The Silence: Concerto For Cello And Chamber Orchestra
Ithaca, Quartet For Clarinet And Strings
Not Going Quietly, String Quintet
Time Out, For Oboe And Piano]
(Navona Records 2021)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8863331--breaking-the-silence

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