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OUR COMMITMENT TO AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS

Since its establishment in 1987, Wirripang has become  the leading Australian independent print music publisher of classical and jazz Australian music. The aim of Wirripang is to encourage Australian composers and musicians with a like-minded passion and vision for quality music and to assist them in every way possible by promoting their music.  In so doing, Wirripang is also publishing teaching resource books, compilation print music albums and producing CDs to showcase composer's works.  Wirriapng pays its composers 50% royalties on direct sales, so buy direct from Wirripang and support its composers.

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS

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ATHERTON
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BEATH
 

 

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BRUMBY
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BUTTERLEY
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CARR-BOYD

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CROSSMAN
 

 

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HYDE
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KEATS
high_profile_jl.jpg (31078 bytes)Jonathan
LITTLE
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PAVIOUR
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PETERSON
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SCHULTZ
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WILCHE
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JAZZ COMPOSERS

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O'Connell

 

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GOYER
   


RECENT CD RELEASES                   Image - DotFor more details

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NEW CD RELEASEE

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University of Western Sydney project - Creative Explosion in the West 2009.  Performed by Ensemble Offspring and Diana Blom.   An intercultural focus featuring Asia-Pacific traditions of Korean samul nori drumming techniques, Filipino kulintang percussion, Japanese shakuhachi ‘moment’ aesthetic and East Asian string techniques (Korea, Japan, China) interacting with contemporary music. The trajectory from modern violin through to Chinese erhu and Korean kayageum techniques interacting within contemporary composition and cutting edge digital technology forms a thread behind this collection.  Wirr 028
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NEW CD RELEASEE

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A collaboration of two brilliant musicians and composers - Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman - with intuitive improvisation, providing 73 minutes of enthralling listening.
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STEPHEN O'CONNELL saxophone
Music for saxophone, recorder, piano, bass, guitar and drums.  Inspired by the beauty and spirituality of the Luritja Country in the centre of Australia, Stephen has composed and recorded these fourteen jazz tunes and  together with Michael Baker and Austin Benjamin  (piano), Mark Scotland and Rafael Jerjen (double bass), David Condon and Aidan Lowe (drums) and Joshua O'Connell (guitar), there is more than an hour of fabulous music.  Wirr 027
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MARINA MARSDEN violin - CLEMENS LESKE piano.
This is a well researched and considered recording of violin and piano music by two of Australia's outstanding musicians.  They have artistically interpreted the music of some of Australia's finest composers - Anne Boyd, Ross Edwards, Matthew Hindson, Dulcie Holland, Miram Hyde, Stephen Leek, Wilfred Lehmann, Peter Sculthorpe, Margaret Sutherland and Stephen Yates. Wirr 025
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