Calendar 2025
4 February: Japan Federation of Composers programmed Bruce Crossman’s Fragility and Sonorousness (piano) for performance at the Asian Music Festival 2025 in Kawasaki, Chamber Music Concert 1 Piano +, MUZA Kawasaki Assembly Room, Kawasaki, Japan.
8 February: Vanessa Sharman (pianist) commissioned Bruce Crossman’s Entangled Stillness (solo piano) for her Tall Poppies album release and as part of her artist residency in Luberon, France, in December and January 24/25. The work was premièred in the concert Vanessa Sharman – The Australian Lullaby Project, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia.
26 March: Vanessa Sharman (pianist) performs Entangled Stillness on Kawai Live Sessions, 3MBS Radio, Melbourne, Australia.
5 August: Raymond Shon (pianist) to record Bruce Crossman’s Cicada Swells (in O ch’ae chul kut) (solo piano) at 3MBS Recording Studio, Melbourne, Australia.
15 November: Luis José Recart Echenique and Orquesta Marga Marga to premiere Light Glances Between Things at 2025 7th PUENTE Festival Interoceánico: Encuentro interoceánico de culturas, 11-15 November 2025, Valparaíso, Chile.
Calendar 2024
28 April: Luis José Recart Echenique commissions Bruce Crossman’s Light Glances Between Things (string orchestra) for Orquesta Marga Marga, Chile.
12 June: Vanessa Sharman commissioned Bruce Crossman’s Entangled Stillness for Tall Poppies album, Melbourne and artist residency in Luberon, France.
5 September: Bruce Crossman curated Knight-Smyly-Encarnação Make It Up Concert & Knight Workshop, Western Sydney University, Australia.
7 September: Japan Federation of Composers selected Bruce Crossman’s Fragility and Sonorousness for Asian Music Festival 2025 in Kawasaki, Japan.
15 December: Vincent Tay (DOP) filming Open Spaces—Hoheub Every Last Breath with Tito Siania Stowers (choreographer/designer), Bella Smith (dancer), Bruce Crossman (composer) with camera operators Chris Mallas, Billy Moa, and Abubakr Sajid at Charlie Bali Reserve, Doonside, Western Sydney, Australia.
Calendar 2023
11 February 2023: Bruce Crossman’s Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love (piano, percussion) performed by Michael Kieran Harvey (pn) and Peter Neville (perc) at the Melbourne Composers League concert, Too Jazzy: New Music from Australia, Thailand and the Philippines at the Church of All Nations, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.
21 March 2023: Bruce Crossman’s Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love (Michael Kieran Harvey, pn, Timothy Phillips, perc) featured on Tony Thomas’s Contemporary Visions, 3MBS Fine Music Melbourne 103.5FM radio, Melbourne, Australia.
27 May 2023: Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music: Contemporary Music, Present and Future, paper presentation and publication “A Korean-Australian Aesthetic within Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being,” Nanhua University, Department of Ethnomusicology, Taiwan.
17 November 2023: Research Creation Showcase 2023, Lightening Talk, Korean-Australian aesthetics and Hoheub: Every Last Breath for Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and James Larter (percussion), Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Australia. The event was presented by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University in association with the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.
21/28 November-7 December 2023: Open Spaces, Hoheub: Every Last Breath, with Kate Fagan’s poem “Bower,” recorded by Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and James Larter (percussion), and Øyvind Aamli at Studio Polaris, London, United Kingdom with mastering by Ian Stevenson and filming by Vincent Tay, WSU Recording Studio and Penrith Campus, Western Sydney, Australia.
13 December 2023: Hoheub: Every Last Breath (Crossman/Fagan) & Winnowing Light (Maclean/Fagan) excerpts of films (work-in progress) by Vincent Tay shown at End of Year Meeting, School of Humanities & Communication Arts, Parramatta South Campus, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Calendar 2022
9 January 2022: Bruce Crossman’s Heaven to Earth Border House (taegŭm, gayageum with poetry by Kate Fagan) (performers: Hyelim Kim, Yi Jiyoung) was featured on the radio programme Sunshine on the Window, “Scent of Sound,” K-Music, Gugak FM Inc, 7-8.55 with Heo Hee (host), Min Byeong-hwan (director), Seoul, South Korea.
9 February 2022: Bruce Crossman’s Gyeonggye: Border (solo taegŭm, voice, Korean Temple bell) was featured by Korean taegum virtuoso, Hyelim Kim at her Daegeum Recital—Tradition and Creativity, National Gugak Center, Pungryu Sarangbang (chamber concert hall), Seoul, Korea.
8 March 2022: Bruce Crossman’s Gyeonggye: Border (solo taegŭm) (Hyelim Kim) was featured on the radio programme Kim Hye-rim Daegeum Recital (Tradition and Creation) K-Music, Gugak FM Inc, 20.00-21.00 with Hyun Kyung-chae (host), Jeon Seong-hee (director), Seoul, South Korea.
13 -15 May 2022: Fragility and Sonorousness (solo piano) will be performed by Melbourne-based ANAM virtuoso pianist, Kane Chang at the ANAM Set Festival in the ‘Sounds of an Agenda’ at Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, Australia.
14 May: ABC Radio National, The Music Show, 2.30pm, The Linen Room (Delayed Broadcast Recording);
14 May: ‘Sounds of an Agenda,’ 3.45pm, North Magdalen Laundry;
15 May: ‘Sounds of an Agenda,’ 1.45pm, North Magdalen Laundry.
15 May 2022: Fragility and Sonorousness (solo piano) was performed by Melbourne-based ANAM virtuoso pianist, Kane Chang on Andrew Ford’s The Music Show, ABC Radio National, 11.05am, in ‘Tailoring a composition—live from ANAM Set Festival,’ The Linen Room, ANAM Set Festival, Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, Australia.
21 & 22 May 2022: Bruce Crossman’s Gyeonggye: Border (solo taegŭm, voice, Korean Temple bell) was featured by Korean taegum virtuoso, Hyelim Kim at ‘Sentimento Coreano: Han,’ Korea Week Bari 2022, Kursaal Santalucia Theater, Bari, Italy.
21-24 June 2022: Scholar/Artist-in-Residence at the International Music Workshop and Concert (IMWC) College of Music, Seoul National University and SNU Korean Music, Seoul, South Korea.
21 June: Workshop 1, 12.30pm: SNU students, Seoul National University;
22 June: Workshop 2, 9am: SNU students, Seoul National University; Lecture 2, 3.30pm: Bruce Crossman ‘A Korean-Australian Aesthetic within Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being,’ Seoul National University;
23 June: IMWC Concert II, 7.30pm: Bruce Crossman’s Gyeonggye: Border (solo taegŭm, voice, Korean Temple bell), National Gugak Center, Pungryu Sarangbang (chamber concert hall), Seoul, South Korea.
3 November 2022: Bruce Crossman, Hyelim Kim, and Pedro Velasco’s short film Gyeonggye: Border will feature at Research Creation Showcase 2022: Western Sydney University, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (Theatre venue). The event is presented by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University in association with Casula Powerhouse.
15 November, 2022: Bruce Crossman’s Dancing Deep-Sadness was performed by Luis José Recart Echenique (conductor) and Orquesta Marga Marga, at the 2022 PUENTE Festival Interoceánico: Encuentro interoceánico de culturas (2022 BRIDGE Interoceanic Festival: Interoceanic Meeting of Cultures), Valparaíso, Chile.
20 December 2022: Bruce Crossman’s Bower: Keobeu Nolae for solo sanjo gayageum (2022), was performed by Eonhwa Lee at SNU Graduate School of Music Doctoral Program (III) Eonhwa Lee Gayageum Recital, Seoul National University Arts Center, Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea.
Calendar 2021
18 February 2021: Bruce Crossman’s Heaven to Earth: Border House (sanjo gayageum, taegŭm) and Gyeonggye: Border (solo taegŭm) were featured at the 2021 SNU Online Winter Music Festival: Korean Music Camp, Seoul National University, Korea.
28 February 2021: Bruce Crossman completes Cicada Swells (in O ch’ae chul kut) for Korean-Australian pianist Raymond Shon for the Melbourne Composers’ League Compact Disc Recording, Australia.
29 April 2021: Bruce Crossman will present on his Chinese opera and Japanese Honkyoku influenced music in a zoom Composition Seminar at Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, Australia.
29 May 2021: Bruce Crossman presents on Shy Like Blushing Flowers at the Composition Seminar at Note-ify 2021, Himig Sanghaya Chorale/ Asian Composers League Philippines, Manilla, Philippines.
19 July 2021: Bruce Crossman’s solo soprano saxophone work, Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter released on ABC Classic Breath by Breath album with Katia Beaugeais (soprano saxophone), Sydney. Australia.
13 September 2021: Bruce Crossman presents a Keynote on Strange Invisible Perfume at the Music & Spirituality Symposium, Sydney Sacred Music Festival and the Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture (IAC), Western Sydney University, Australia.
24 September 2021: Bruce Crossman’s Heaven to Earth Border House album released on Navona Records, North Hampton, USA.
8 October 2021: Bruce Crossman’s Spirit-Presence at Musical Connections Amid the Global Pandemic – Series 2, Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University, Australia.
29 October, 2021: Bruce Crossman’s Gyeonggye: Border featured at Research Creations Showcase 2021, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia.
24 November 2021: Bruce Crossman’s Short Introductory Film, From Sydney to Seoul, Beyond Area 21, K-Music Makers, Seoul National University, Korea.
1 December 2021: Bruce Crossman’s solo piano work Memory and Raw Materiality for Chinese-Australian pianist Kane Chang premieres at The ANAM Set, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.
Calendar 2020
21 June 2020: Bruce Crossman’s music-theatre work, Shy Like Blushing Flowers, featured at the online showcase of music WSU-Create NSW & Make Music Australia: Make Music Day 2020, Western Sydney University, Australia.
11-16 August 2020: Bruce Crossman’s Heaven to Earth: Border House (gayageum, taegum) will be recorded and filmed with traditional Korean performers Ji-young Yi (Seoul, gayageum) and Hyelim Kim (London, taegum) as part of a multimedia project ‘Heaven to Earth Multimedia Expressions’ with WSU researchers, Kate Fagan (poet), Bruce Crossman (composer/piano improviser), Waldo Garrido (bass improviser) and Vincent Tay (filmmaker) at Western Sydney University, Australia. This project is postponed to 2021 due to the world pandemic.
9 September 2020: Bruce Crossman, panelist in the Sydney Sacred Music Festival Forum Seminar Sessions, ‘Sacred Creativity: The Situation Now,’ Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University, Australia with Dr Nicholas Ng, Prof Jocelyn Chey, Geoff Wood and Dr Mahesh Radhakrishnan.
October 2020: Bruce Crossman and Kate Fagan’s Heaven to Earth: Border House (sanjo gayageum, taegŭm) and Gyeonggye: Border (solo taegŭm) will be studio recorded by Dr Hyelim Kim (Stella Polaris Studios, London, UK) and Professor Yi Ji-young (Seoul National University, Korea).
23 October 2020: Bruce Crossman’s improvisation trio—Garrido-Crossman-Muru—featured in the online Research Creation Showcase: Western Sydney University, Australia.
15, 22 October & 19 November 2020: Bruce Crossman, organiser of Korea-Australia Creativity Seminars: Something Inexplicably Subtle, Western Sydney University, Australia with special guests Dr Gerardo Dirié (Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University), Professor Yi Ji-young (Seoul National University) and Dr Hyelim Kim (Barbican Third Orchestra, London).
Calendar 2019
22 March 2019: Bruce Crossman’s Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter Sculthorpe (soprano saxophone, Katia Beaugeais) is available as part of a podcast on ABC Classic radio, New Waves ‘Katia Beaugeais: New Australian Sax Music’, Australia.
4-5 April 2019: Bruce Crossman, Qi Colour from Hidden Resonances (piano), selected as Participating Composer for the 2019 The Keyboard in the 21st Century: An International Conference for Composers in Hong Kong, SAR China.
29 April-May 4 2019: Bruce Crossman’s Fragrant Rain Clouds of Love (percussion, piano) will be performed at “The Conversation with Contemporary Composers,” Department of Music, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
Calendar 2018
19-26 May 2018: Bruce Crossman, Garden of Fire (mezzo-soprano, percussion, piano & video), selected as Australian ISCM section’s national submission and the Beijing Modern Music Festival’s international selection for the 2018 ISCM World New Music Days in Beijing, China.
14 July 2018: Bruce Crossman, Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter, Katia Beaugeais (soprano saxophone), MM Center, University of Zagreb, The XVIII World Saxophone Congress, Zagreb, Croatia.
July 2018: Bruce Crossman, commission: Silky Mist Softly Lingers…Red (guzheng), with guzheng performer Chiu Tanching, Hong Kong.
19 September 2018: Bruce Crossman, Rushing Spirit Breath, Hyelim Kim (taegum) and Korean traditional percussionist (percussion), Sanjo Recital, Seoul, Korea.
22 September 2018: Bruce Crossman’s Blooms late when spring has gone… , Ying Liu (erhu), Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University, Australia.
17 October 2018: Bruce Crossman, Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter, Katia Beaugeais (soprano saxophone), ABC Classic FM recording session, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Studios, Sydney, Australia.
20 October 2018: Bruce Crossman, Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter (alto saxophone), Chamber Music Concert 1, Song Yi Hall, Soochow University, 35th Asian Composers League Conference and Festival, Taiwan.
October 2018: Bruce Crossman, commission: New Work, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chinese Music Ensemble, with Nicholas Ng, Sydney, Australia.
December 2018: Bruce Crossman, commission: Heaven to Earth: Sensual-Juxtaposional Pansori Project (soprano, taegum, kayageum, percussion & video) with Hyelim Kim (taegum), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Kate Fagan (poet), London, Seoul, Sydney.
Calendar 2017
27-28 January 2017: Bruce Crossman, mentor for Cassie To, 2016-2017 MSO Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank.
15 February 2017: Joseph Tabua (electric guitar) and Bruce Crossman (electric keyboard): Improvisation on Qiyun Energies. Chinese New Year Celebration, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University, Parramatta Campus.
29 March 2017: Bruce Crossman, Emergence from Darkness, Reine Takano (harp), Japan Federation of Composers/Melbourne Composers League Concert in the prestigious Millennium Hall, Taito City, Ueno, Tokyo.
12 May 2017: Bruce Crossman, compact disc release, Living Colours: Pacific Sounds and Spirit, PARMA/Navona Records (USA) with Naxos distribution.
20 July 2017: Poetic Energies Across Sonic Space, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University, Playhouse, Penrith Campus (Kingswood):
(1) Bruce Crossman, Blooms late when spring is gone… (solo erhu)—collaboration with Ying Liu (erhu) and Shen Wednesday (painter/calligrapher) with poetry by Tang Xianzu.
(2) Bruce Crossman, Strange Invisible Perfume (guzheng, percussion)—collaboration with Chiu Tan Ching (guzheng), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Luping Zeng (painter/calligrapher) with poetry by Tang Xianzu, Shakespeare, and Song of Songs.
10-11 August 2017: Bruce Crossman, Rushing Spirit Breath, Hyelim Kim (taegum) and Claire Edwardes (percussion), Noise as Momentary Sonic Grit and Rhythmic Undulation, Creativity Unlimited 2017, Western Sydney University, Playhouse, Penrith Campus (Kingswood).
26-27 September 2017: Bruce Crossman, Dying of the Light: Pacific Resonance for Peter (solo saxophone)—Katia Beaugeais (saxophone), Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England.
11 October 2017, 3-4pm: Bruce Crossman (composer), NSW Government & Create NSW 2016/17 Arts and Cultural Development Program (ACDP) with Simon Killalea (filmmaker/projectionist), Ian Stevenson (sound design/ diffusion), Anna Fraser (soprano), Claire Edwardes (percussion) & Linda Yim (piano; HKNME); development showing of Shy Like Blushing Flowers at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre (Q Theatre), Penrith.
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