Holdsworth On His Upcoming Sydney Opera House Debut (2022)
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Mark Holdsworth Announced as 1 of 5 Australian Composers selected for Omega Ensemble’s CoLAB Program (2022)
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Holdsworth’s Excelsior Premiere Review— Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (Sydney Symphony Orchestra) - 4 1/2 stars (2021)
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Mark Holdsworth selected amongst 67 Australian composers for ANAM’s major commissioning project the ANAM Festival (2021)
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Mark Holdsworth selected amongst 50 Australian composers for SSO’s major commissioning project 50 Fanfares (2020)
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Holdsworth’s Cri de Coeur Premiere Review—Metropolis: Night Two (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) - 3 1/2 stars (2019)
“Cri de Coeur by Perth-based Mark Holdsworth, the orchestra’s 2019 Cybec Young Composer in Residence, is “a desperate plea for compassion and love in a time of prevalent discrimination, violence and loneliness”. Stylistically it draws upon various elements of 20th-century art music: the overarching lyricism and harmonic idiom resonates with mid-century America, while the jagged, rhythmically violent middle section tips its hat to Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring.
Holdsworth makes good use of his orchestral resources, holding the listener’s attention by deploying a variety of well-balanced textures and colours. A rising figure on solo violin announces the work’s main theme which is tenderly developed by the orchestra before being supplanted by menacing interventions. After a while, the main theme eventually reasserts itself after a number of thwarted attempts. Holdsworth manages this narrative well, creating an effective score.”
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Mark Holdsworth Announced as Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Cybec Composer in Residence (2019)
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Holdsworth’s Gage Roads to Recieve Premiere by Fremantle Symphony Orchestra (2019)
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A Chat with Australian Composer Mark Holdsworth (2018)
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Mark Holdsworth wins 2018 Arcadia Winds Composition Prize (2018)
Elliott Gyger: “The winning work stood out for its technical sophistication and inventiveness, but above all for its strong sense of individuality and purpose. It makes a strong statement and is not afraid to push the quintet to extremes of sonic intensity.”
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TSO Announces 2018-2019 TSO Australian Composers’ School Participants (2017)
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Marked for Success (2017)
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Music-Making for the World (2017)
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Composer Scores a Hit (2016)
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Celebration Turns to Lament, with Love (2015)
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Music to Mark's Ears (2015)
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Q&A Scoop Magazine (2015)
“Acclaimed local muso Mark Holdsworth recently won the prestigious Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize in Musical Composition, an award to UWA students for an orchestral arrangement of seven minutes or less. We chat about the inspiration behind his prize-winning composition, Odyssey.”
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UWA Exhibition Memento Mori Explores Our Preference to Ignore Death (2014)
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Young Composers Score Top Marks (2014)
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Mark Holdsworth Wins Appointment to the ASQ: National Composers Forum—Words and Pictures Inspire Winning Music (2010)