Graham Hair

Graham Hair composes primarily for women's voice or voices, usually accompanied by solo instrumentalist, ensemble or orchestra, and often for the Glasgow ensemble Scottish Voices. There are also a few works in each of several other media (choral, orchestral, chamber, solo, electro-acoustic) and many arrangements of popular music.

• Professor at Glasgow University since 1990
• Australia Council Composition Fellow, 2003–2007
• Adjunct Professor, Australian National University, Canberra
• Visiting Professor, Radford University, Virginia, USA, 2003-4 and 2007
• Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, 1999-2005
• Head, Composition, Sydney Conservatorium (1980-90)
• Senior Lecturer, LaTrobe University (1975-1980)
• Visiting Professor, Princeton University; USA
• Composer-in-Residence, MIT

Recent Awards

• British Academy (3 awards)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (8 awards)
• Scottish Arts Council (2 awards)
• Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship
• Australian Research Council
• National Library of Australia (Harold White Fellowship)
• Potter Trust
• Carnegie Trust
• Royal Society of Edinburgh

Recordings

• Into the Shores of Light (Norfolk, Va: ERM)
• O Venezia (Glasgow: SV)
• American Waltzes (Glasgow: SV)

Publications (published by Southern Voices, Canberra, Australia, unless otherwise indicated) include .............

Choral Music

• Into the South (with orchestra or ensemble)
• The Flow of Occurence (with orchestra or ensemble)
• The Great Circle (with orchestra or ensemble)
• In Ecclesiis (with ensemble)
• Nunc Dimittis (unaccompanied)
• Hymn to St Peter (unaccompanied)
• Lament for Santa Sophia (with electro-acoustic sound)

Vocal Music

• Seven Words (4 women's voices, cor anglais and harmonium)
• The Setting of the Moon (soprano, ensemble)
• Somewhere in the Orange Tree (voice, piano)
• Serenissima (4 women's voices and harp)
• Venetian Vespers (4 women's voices and harp)
• Gospel Verses (SSATBB)
• Stanzas from Pascoli (sop, cor anglais, vibes)
• Lyrics from Salvatore Quasimodo (soprano, 3 instruments)
• Sibylline Voices (3 women's voices, 7 instruments)
• Snatches from Joyce (2 voices, 3 instruments)

Vocal Music Arrangements

• American Waltzes (3 women's voices and piano)
• Arlen Trios (3 women's voices and piano)
• Cole Porter Paraphrases (3 women's voices and piano)
• Gershwin Doubles (3 women's voices and piano)
• Gershwin Glosses (3 women's voices and piano)
• Gershwin Paraphrases (3 women's voices and 7 instruments)
• Gospel Paraphrases (4 women's voices and piano)
• Gospel Paraphrases (SSATBB)

Instrumental Music

• Concerto for Clarinettist and Double Ensemble (clarinet and 6 instruments)
• Concertino for Four Soloists
• Fantasy on Leopardi's The Setting of the Moon (9 instruments)
• Ganymede / Prometheus (4 instruments)
• Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy (clarinet)

Instrumental Music Arrangements

• Weather Report Studies

Orchestral Music

• Into the Shores of Light

Piano Music

• Wild Cherries and Honeycomb
• Dances and Devilment and Sunlit Airs
• Under Aldebaran

Book

A Guide to the Don Banks Collection in the National Library of Australia
(Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1999) ISBN 0 642 10711 4

Books Edited

• Loose Canons
• Modernism in Austrslian Music, 1950-2000: Eight Case Studies
• The Music of Thomas Wilson
• Musica Scotica: 800 years of Scottish Music/Proceedings from the 2004 and 2005 Conferences,

Editions

• Don Banks: Duo (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: Sonata (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: I'm Easy (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: Psalm 70 (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: Episode for Small Orchestra (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: An Australian Entertainment (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: String Quartet (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: Divertimento (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: Fantasy for String Orchestra (with introductory essay)
• Don Banks: One for Murray (with introductory essay)