A Selection of Media and Database Listings
■ Limelight Magazine (May 2019)
"Sainsbury’s recently launched Platform Paper for Currency House publishers is essential reading for Australian composers, performers and programmers, not to mention critics."
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■ Australian Book Review (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors gripping the audience from start to finish."
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■ The Blurb (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors is extraordinarily well composed…and totally engaging."
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■ Limelight (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors upends expectations of what is still, overwhelmingly, a culturally European art form."
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■ The Conversation (April 2019)
Article on Sainsbury’s Platform Paper published by Currency House, "Ngarra-burria New Music and the Search for an Australian Sound."
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■ Resonate Magazine (May 2019)
Concert review on Sainsbury’s Bark of the ‘bidgee premiere. Includes commentary on the Ngarra-burria book.
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■ Music Australia (2020)
Christopher Sainsbury - Winner of the Apra Art Music National Luminary Award (Individual).
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■ AMC Resonate Magazine (Year)
Interview with composer Dr Jodie Blackshaw for AMC Resonate magazine.
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■ Sydney Living Museums (2020)
The Ngarra-burria program (and composers) - part of the Sydney Living Museums 2020 award.
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■ Limelight Magazine (Year)
Limelight magazine article - Indigenous Composers Initiative (earlier operating name for Ngarra-burria composers group).
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■ ABC Classic (Year)
New Waves ABC Podcast program on Sainsbury’s music.
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■ SBS-TV (Year)
SBS-TV and online article - Indigenous Composers Initiative.
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■ Avondale College (Year)
Avondale College's 'The Promise' flagship a cappella group CD Songbook article.
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■ Canberra Times (Year)
Canberra Times article on the CSO commission In the Beginning.
■ The Techniques of Guitar Playing (Year)
Citation in The Techniques of Guitar Playing (Seth F. Josel and Ming Tao) - the world's leading contemporary guitar book.
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■ ABC Classic (Year)
ABC article on Ngarra-burria: First Peoples Composers (previously Indigenous Composers Initiative).
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■ Sheerpluck Database (Year)
Listing in Sheerpluck, world leading database on contemporary guitar music (Germany).
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■ Create NSW (Year)
Media release by NSW Minister for the Arts Troy Grant on major funding for two new works Civic Melancholy and the Brackish Songs exploring Sainsbury’s Regionalist trajectory.
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