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2025

Japan Federation of Composers programmes Bruce Crossman’s Fragility and Sonorousness (pn) for Asian Music Festival 2025 in Kawasaki, Japan

Vanessa Sharman (pn) programmes Bruce Crossman’s Entangled Stillness (solo piano) for Vanessa Sharman – The Australian Lullaby Project, Tempo Rubato, Melbourne, Australia

Vanessa Sharman (pn) performs Entangled Stillness on Kawai Live Sessions, 3MBS Radio, Melbourne, Australia

Raymond Shon (pn) to record Bruce Crossman’s Cicada Swells (in O ch’ae chul kut) (solo piano) at 3MBS Recording Studio, Melbourne, Australia

Luis José Recart and Orquesta Marga Marga to première Light Glances Between Things for the at PUENTE Festival Interoceánico, Valparaíso, Chile

2024

Luis José Recart Echenique commissions Light Glances Between Things (string orchestra) for Orquesta Marga Marga, Valparaíso Chile

Vanessa Sharman commissions Entangled Stillness for Tall Poppies album, Melbourne and artist residency in Luberon, France.

Knight-Smyly-Encarnação Make It Up Concert & Knight Workshop curated by Bruce Crossman, Western Sydney University, Australia

Japan Federation of Composers select Fragility and Sonorousness for Asian Music Festival 2025 in Kawasaki, Japan

Vincent Tay filming Open Spaces—Hoheub: Every Last Breath with Tito Siania Stowers, Bella Smith, Bruce Crossman, Chris Mallas, Billy Moa, and Abubakr Sajid, Western Sydney, Australia

2023

Melbourne Composers League features Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love performed by Michael Kieran Harvey (pn) and Peter Neville (perc) at Too Jazzy, Church of All Nations, Melbourne, Australia

3MBS Fine Music Melbourne 103.5FM, Contemporary Visions radio programme features Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love, Melbourne, Australia

Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music: paper “A Korean-Australian Aesthetic within Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being,” Nanhua University, Taiwan

Research Creation Showcase 2023—Lightening Talk, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Sydney Australia

Recording of Hoheub features Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and James Larter (percussion) at Studio Polaris, London, United Kingdom

Work-in progress film showing: Hoheub & Winnowing Light, School of Humanities & Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia

2022

Hyelim Kim Daegeum Recital—Tradition and Creativity features Gyeonggye: Border performed by Hyelim Kim at the National Gugak Center, Seoul, South Korea

K-Music, Gugak FM Inc radio programmes feature Heaven to Earth Border House & Gyeonggye: Border, Seoul, South Korea

ANAM Set Festival features Fragility and Sonorousness performed by virtuoso pianist, Kane Chang at the at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, Australia

The Music Show, ABC Radio National, features Fragility and Sonorousness with pianist, Kane Chang and interview with Bruce Crossman, Melbourne, Australia

Hyelim Kim at ‘Sentimento Coreano: Han,’ Korea Week Bari 2022, Kursaal Santalucia Theater, Bari, Italy

Scholar/Artist-in-Residence, International Music Workshop and Concert (IMWC) College of Music, Seoul National University & SNU Korean Music, Seoul, South Korea

Research Creation Showcase 2022 at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, features Gyeonggye: Border (short film), Western Sydney

Orquesta Marga Marga, at the 2022 PUENTE Festival Interoceánico: Encuentro interoceánico de culturas (2022 BRIDGE Interoceanic Festival: Interoceanic Meeting of Cultures), Valparaíso, Chile

Seoul National University, Graduate School of Music, Doctoral Program (III) Eonhwa Lee Gayageum Recital, features Bower: Keobeu Nolae, Seoul, South Korea

2021

New Creativity Seminar at 2021 SNU Online Winter Music Festival: Korean Music, Seoul National University, Korea

Melbourne Composers’ League Compact Disc Recording for pianist Raymond Shon, Melbourne, Australia

Composition Seminar 2021 at Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia

Composition Seminar at Note-ify 2021, Himig Sanghaya Chorale/ Asian Composers League Philippines, Manilla, Philippines

Composition released, on ABC Classic Breath by Breath album, with soprano saxophonist Katia Beaugeais

Keynote presentation, Music & Spirituality Symposium, Sydney Sacred Music Festival and Western Sydney University, Australia

Heaven to Earth Border House album, on Navona Records, North Hampton, USA

Spirit-Presence at Musical Connections Amid the Global Pandemic – Series 2, Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University, Australia

Gyeonggye: Border music featured at  Research Creations Showcase 2021, Western Sydney University, Australia

Short introductory film, From Sydney to Seoul—Beyond Area 21, Seoul National University, Korea

The ANAM Set, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), commission for pianist Kane Chang, Melbourne, Australia

2020

Research Grant for Korean-Australian Heaven to Earth Multimedia Expressions, Western Sydney University, Australia

Recording Project: Korean-Australian Heaven to Earth Border House, Seoul National University, Korea and London, United Kingdom

WSU-Create NSW & Make Music Australia: Make Music Day 2020, Western Sydney University, Australia

Sydney Sacred Music Festival Forum Seminar Sessions: Sacred Creativity, Western Sydney University, Australia

Research Creation Showcase: Western Sydney University, Australia

Korea-Australia Creativity Seminars: Something Inexplicably Subtle, Western Sydney University, Australia

2019

ABC Classic radio, New Waves podcast, Katia Beaugeais: New Australian Sax Music, Australia

The Keyboard in the 21st Century, Participating Composer, Hong Kong

Composer-in-Residence, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Western Sydney University, HCA Researcher of the Year Award 2019, Australia

Discipline Leader, Music and Music Therapy, Western Sydney University, Australia

2018

ISCM World New Music Days, Australian ISCM’s Official Selection, China

The XVIII World Saxophone Congress, Zagreb, Croatia

Sanjo Recital, Seoul, Korea

Three Perfections, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Australia

ABC Classic FM recording, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Studios, Australia

35th Asian Composers League Conference and Festival, Concert, Taiwan

2017

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Cybec Program, Mentor, Iwaki Auditorium

Chinese New Year Celebration, Australia-China Institute for Arts & Culture

Japan Federation of Composers/Melbourne Composers League Concert, Japan

PARMA/Navona Records, compact disc release, USA

Poetic Energies Across Sonic Space, Australia-China Institute for Arts & Culture

Creativity Unlimited 2017, Western Sydney University

Royal Northern College of Music/Saxophone premiere, Manchester, England

ArtsNSW Development Program, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney

2016

Japan Federation of Composers Concert, Tokyo, Japan

ABC Classic FM Radio, New Waves Podcast, Australia

Routledge publication: Asian-Pacific Conceptual Frame, United Kingdom

Creativity Unlimited Festival, Western Sydney University, Australia

PARMA compact disc release for 2017, USA

China Cultural Centre (Sydney), Dialogue Across Time & Space, Australia

ArtsNSW Development Grant for 2017, Australia

2015

World Saxophone Congress, Strasbourg, France

Melbourne Composers League-ABC Classic FM Concert, Australia

ABC Classic FM Radio Broadcast, Friday 6 November 2015, 10:00pm

Collaborator, Aichi University of the Arts, Japan

2014

ABC Classic FM radio Broadcast, Gentleness-Suddenness, 5 July, Australia

Asian Music Festival 2014, Japan

European Shakuhachi Society Summer School 2014, Germany

2013

Gentleness-Suddenness Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2012

Living Colours of Asia, University of Western Sydney

Australia Council for the Arts Grant

2009-11

Asian Composers League Conference and Festival 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

Asian Music Festival 2010 in Tokyo, Japan

ISCM World New Music Days 2010, Sydney, Australia

Melbourne Composers League Winter Concert 2009, Australia

The Confluence of Cultures: Music of the Pacific Rim 2009, Los Angeles, USA

Tongyeong International Music Festival 2009, Korea

1997-2008

CANZ/NZSM New Zealand Composers Conference, 2008

Aurora Festival 2008, Australia

NZSO-SOUNZ Readings, 2007, New Zealand

Aurora Festival 2006, Australia

Pacific Rim Music Festival, 2005, United States

Asian Contemporary Music Festival 2002, Seoul, Korea

NZSO-SOUNZ Readings, 2001, New Zealand

Asian Music Week 2000, Japan

Tunugan 1997, Philippines

1990

Pacific Music Festival, Sapporo, Japan

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