BRENTON BROADSTOCK AM - COMPOSER
MY STUDENTS & COMPOSITION TEACHING
Since 1982 I have been fortunate and proud to teach harmony and counterpoint, orchestration and twentieth century music to hundreds (thousands!) of very talented music students.
In 1990, when I became Head of Composition at the University of Melbourne, I devised and implemented a new composition curriculum that is still in use today (2019).
It consists of a series of graduated projects that are designed to build compositional technique. Each project requires reading and listening, practical exercises and the completion of a work that highlights a specific compositional technique, structural device, orchestrational or media challenge e.g. minimalism, moment form, serialism, electronic media, extended technique etc. The number of projects decreases over a 4 year degree but their complexity increases. In 1st year there are 8 short projects, 2nd year there are 6 medium projects, 3rd year, 4 longer projects, 4th year and Honours, 2 or 3 major projects.
I have supervised and mentored many outstanding COMPOSITION students. Here are some of them (in alphabetical order):
Postgraduate Students:
Katy ABBOTT (MMus, PhD 2007) - freelance composer, lecturer at the University of Melbourne, lives in Melbourne
Opeloge AH SAM (MMus) - composer and conductor, lives and works in New Zealand.
Michael BAKRNčEV (MMus)
Lindsay BRUNDSON (MMus)
Brigid BURKE (MMus, PhD) - composer, performer and teacher, completed PhD at University of Tasmania, lives in Melbourne
Robert CASTEELS (PhD) 2004 - eminent composer, conductor lives in Singapore
Tim DAVIES (MMus) - film, TV and big band composer/orchestrator/conductor (Grammy nominee), lives in Los Angeles
Chris DENCH (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer
Eve DUNCAN (MMus) - composer, completing PhD at UWS, lives in Melbourne
Mark ELLIOTT (MMus) - completed PhD at the VCA
Nirmali FENN (MMus) - completed PhD at Oxford University, lives in Hong Kong
Mary FINSTERER (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer - was Professorial Fellow at Monash University
Linden GREATWOOD (MMus)
Stuart GREENBAUM (MMus, PhD) - composer and Professor and Head of Composition at the University of Melbourne
Martin GREET (PhD) - lectures at the University of Melbourne
Jesmond GRIXTI (MMus, PhD) - composer and teacher, lives in Malta
Matthew HINDSON (MMus) - composer and Professor at University of Sydney
David HIRST (PhD) - Lecturer at the University of Melbourne
David HOROWICZ
David JOSEPH (MMus) - now a lawyer in Benalla
William HUGHES (PhD)
Dominic KARSKI (PhD) - completed PhD, lives in Poland
Ada Nga-ting LAI (PhD) - composer and teacher, lives in Hong Kong
Graham LLOYD (MMus) - former CO of the Defence Force School of Music in Melbourne, now freelance composer, arranger, educator and adjudicator
Philip NUNN (MMus) - freelance composer, lives in London
King Pan NG (MMus) - PhD student at the University of Hong Kong
Estelle PIZER (MMus)
Andrian PERTOUT (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer, teaches at the VCA
Peter RATNIK (MMus) - arranger, composer, former Director of the Murray Conservatorium, Albury
Haydn REEDER (PhD) - freelance composer
Johanna SELLECK (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer, teaches at Melbourne University
Sam SMITH (MMus)
Peter SULLIVAN (MMus) - freelance film and TV composer, arranger, pianist and band director
Imen TANG (MMus) - composer and teacher, lives in Hong Kong
Tony TENACE (MMus) freelance composer
Lesleigh THOMPSON (MMus)
Natalie WILLIAMS (MMus) - completed PhD at Indiana University, now Lecturer at Australian National University
Julian YU (DMus) - freelance composer, teaches at Melbourne University
Supervised theses by:
Linda KOUVARAS (MMus, PhD) - composer, performer and musicologist, Assoc-Prof at Melbourne University
Patricia SHAW (MMus) - musicologist
Patrick PICKETT (BMus) - former CO of the Defence Force School of Music in Melbourne, now CEO/conductor of the Queensland Pops Orchestra
BMus students - just a few (if I have forgotten you please let me know):!
Lorenzo ALVARO - completing PhD
Newton ARMSTRONG - teaches in London
Glyn AYRES
Andrew BATTERHAM - freelance composer and teacher
Nicholas BUC - successful international conductor and composer
Joanna CANTY
Eleanora CAPRIOLO
Rebecca CHAPMAN - singer, actress, composer www.myspace.com/bekchapman
Simon CHARLES
Sonny CHUA - Director of Music, MacRobertson Girls High
Angie COFFEY - freelance composer
Johanna CRAVEN - composing for film and TV
Judy CRISPIN
Hugh CROSTHWAITE - composing for film & TV with Nic Buc
Robert DAHM
Darren EMERSON
Rod ENNIS - successful composer, arranger, producer, lives in Adelaide
Stefan FRIEDEL
Gavin FRY
David GILD
Joe GOODMAN
Yi Ting GU - lives in Shanghai
Ebony HACK
Paul HEALY
David HISCOX
Steve HODGSON
Nancy HOSKING
Raelene HOWELL - composer, pianist and director of the Sunwrae Ensemble
David HOWELL
Annie HSIEH
Thaddeus HUANG
Shaun JONES
Tom JONES
Barbara KERR
Paul KOPETZ
Gareth de KORTE
Tom KRISTOF
Alan LEE - works for the Victorian Government
Yee Fang LU
Mun Leong LOW
Isaac LO
Sue MANCHOULAS - lives in England
Ben MARKS
Vaughn McALLY
Nicholas McROBERTS - conducts and composes in Europe, lives in Paris
Kate MIDDLETON
Damian MIZZI
Scott McINTYRE - completed PhD at University of Tasmania
Sarah MOORE
Duane MORRISON
Benjamin DE MURASHKIN - composer lives in Amsterdam
Michelle NELSON
Andrew NEWCOMBE - is a composer and web designer and lives in Oxford, UK
Gary NICHOLLS
Sonoko NISHIO
Greg OLSEN - now a social worker
Catherine OXWORTH
King Pan NG - lives in Hong Kong
John PAX
Anne PEEL
Katherine RAWLINGS - freelance composer
Stephen SCHOLTE
Charles SDRAULIG
Harry SDRAULIG
Luke SERRANO
Alessandro SERVADEI - now works for Melba Records
Lisa SPEAKMAN
David TALACKO
Daniel TECHANE
Michael TEO
John THORN - freelance music director, arranger and composer
David THORNTON - very sadly died after a fall in December 2007
(David's father has posted the following web page http://web.mac.com/lesliethornton)
Demetrio TROMBI
Madeleine TUREWICZ
Ian VITCHEFF
James WADE - very sadly died in June 2017. Was completing his PhD
Andrew WHEELER - conductor, entrepreneur - lives in Amsterdam & Viterbo, Italy
Lachlan WILSON
Nicholas WILSON
Duncan YARDLEY - recording engineer/producer for the ABC
David YOUNG - freelance composer
Ningyi ZHANG
2013-18 Students at University of Melbourne and VCA
Andrew ARONOWICZ (MMus)
Michael BAKRNčEV (MMus)
Zinia CHAN (Grad Dip)
Tim DARGAVILLE (PhD)
Tom DICKSON (VCA 3rd year)
Elliott HUGHES (MMus)
Alice HUMPHRIES (MMus)
David KEEFE (PhD)
Caerwen MARTIN (MMus)
Max McCONNELL (Comp 4)
John PAX (MMus)
Caitlin REES (Honours)
Eli SIMIC-PROSIC (Honours)
Harry SDRAULIG (MMus)
Sam SMITH (MMus)
Donald U’REN (VCA 3rd year)
James WADE (PhD)
Matthew WESTWOOD (Honours)
Sam WILLIAMS (Comp 4)
Samantha WOLFE (Honours)
Irene Zhong (Comp 4)
Private Students
David CHISHOLM - short-listed for the Outstanding Musician Award, Melbourne Prize
Brendan COLBERT - freelance composer. Twice selected for the National Orchestral Composers' School
Julian LANGDON - winner of Development Award, Melbourne Prize
Kate NEAL - awarded 2007 Australia Council Fellowship and founder of the Deadhorse Band
James RUSHFORD - participant, 2007 Cybec Program (MSO)
Mark WOLF - participant, 2008 Cybec Program (MSO) now in England
Lisa ILLEAN - participant, 2011 Cybec Program (MSO) now in England
Jeanette LITTLE - participant, 2012 Cybec Program (MSO) now works for ANAM.
Sally GREENAWAY - participant, 2015 Cybec Program (MSO)
Mentor:
Ade Vincent - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Composer In Residence 2017-18
ACOF and CYBEC
I have also been privileged to mentor many outstanding composers at the
Australian Composers' Orchestral Forum (ACOF):
TSO 2004 - David Chisholm, Alicia Grant, Andrian Pertout, Adeline Wong (Malaysia), Anthony Young (NZ)
TSO 2003 - David Chisholm, Alicia Grant, Padma Newsome, Andrian Pertout, Daniel Salecich, Jane Stanley
WASO 2002 - Damian Barbeler, Freeman McGrath, Chris Watson (NZ), Toby Wren, Mark Zadro
TSO 1994
and
CYBEC 21 Composers' Program with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra:
2021 - John Rotar
2020 - Alexander Voltz
and
as Head Mentor 2007-2018:
(M) = the composers I personally mentored
2018 - Lisa Cheney (M), Jordan Moore, Daniel Riley
Cybec 20182017 - May Lyon (M), Catherine Likhuta, Dan Thorpe, Mark Holdsworth
2016 - Connor D’Netto, Ade Vincent (M), Stephen de Filippo, Cassie To
2015 - Sally Greenaway (M), Sam Smith, Alex Turley, Michael Bakrnčev
2014 - Alice Humphries (M), John Pax (M), Harry Sdraulig (M), Alexander Garsden
2013 - Andrew Aronowicz (M), Lisa Cheney, Elliot Hughes (M), Kym Dillon
2012 - Jeanette Little (M), Sam Pender-Bayne, Lachlan Skipworth, Holly Harrison
2011 - Lisa Illean (M), Catherine Sullivan (M), Simon Charles, Daniel Portelli
2010 - Joseph Twist, Luke Paulding (M), Evan Lawson, Chris Williams
2009 - Annie Hsieh (M), Charles Sdraulig (M), Amy Bastow, Alex Pozniak
2008 - Elias Constantopedos, Lorenzo Alvaro (M), Mark Wolf, Benjamin MacDonald (M)
2007 - Paul Castles, Robert Dahm, Nicole Murphy, James Rushford (M)
University of Melbourne Composers' Dinner December 2006
David Collins (Techo), Antonio Tenace, David Thornton, BB, Charles Sdraulig, Lorenzo Alvaro, Stuart Greenbaum, Stephen Scholte, Paul Healy, Jo Canty, Linda Kouvaras, Kelly Day, Russell Hodges, Scott Sanders, (friend of Emma?), Annie Hsieh, Emma Knight, Andrian Pertout, Thaddeus Huang, Katija Pertout, David Gild, Richard Ward
Barrie Webb - Composers' Workshop 2005
Back Row: Steve Hodgson, Daniel Techane, James Wade, Paul Healy, Lorenzo Alvaro, Thaddeus Huang, Adrian Vincent, Glyn Ayres, Jo Selleck
Mid Row: Tom Kristof, Jo Canty, David Howell, Barrie Webb, Linden Greatwood, Annie Hsieh, Nancy Hosking, Scott Sanders, Andrian Pertout
Sitting: Stuart Greenbaum, BB