Who are the new opera-makers shaking up the canon? Emerging Voices examines state-of-the-art and gender in contemporary opera, featuring interviews with diverse, leading, global practitioners. Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney. https://emergenceopera.com/podcasts (https://emergenceopera.com/podcasts)
Composer Du Yun discusses her work across opera, orchestral music, and performance art with Dr. Felicity Wilcox, revealing her unique approach to musical composition in this interview.
12 May 2025
Episode 2 - Christopher Sainsbury
In this episode of Emerging Voices, Dr Felicity Wilcox interviews composer, songwriter, guitarist, and educator Professor Christopher Sainsbury. This interview was recorded on 24 February 2024 via Zoom. https://www.sainsburymusic.com/ (https://www.sainsburymusic.com/)
Christopher Sainsbury composes in various genres and his recent works include a Flute Concertino for Sally Walker and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra 2025, an opera The Visitors commissioned by Richard Mills for the Victorian Opera Company's 2023 season (with libretto by Jane Harrison) and a string orchestra work String Talk commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for July 2024. Sainsbury is Professor in Composition at the Australian National University (ANU) Canberra. He won the APRA National Luminary Award in 2020 for effecting change within the classical and new music industry through the Ngarra-burria First Peoples Composers program, and a Classical:NEXT Innovation Award was awarded to the program in 2022 for innovation in practice.
Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney.
Emerging Voices is recorded and edited by Felicity Wilcox and produced by Elizabeth Jigalin
Trailer and Closer music by Felicity Wilcox, text by Alana Valentine, from the new opera Emergenc/y.
Singer credits: https://emergenceopera.com/emergency (https://emergenceopera.com/emergency)
http://emergenceopera.com (http://emergenceopera.com/)
3 Apr 2025
Episode 1 - Gelsey Bell
In the first episode of Emerging Voices, Dr Felicity Wilcox interviews composer, writer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Dr Gelsey Bell inside the HERE Theatre in Soho, New York City. This interview was recorded on 13 January 2023 during the Prototype Festival, where Gelsey's experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] premiered. https://gelseybell.bandcamp.com/album/m-n-morning-mourning (https://gelseybell.bandcamp.com/album/m-n-morning-mourning)
Gelsey Bell is a singer, songwriter, and scholar - a composer-performer, teacher, and sound artist. She has been described by the New York Times as “one of New York’s most adventurous musicians” and the “future of experimental vocalism.” She performs regularly as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, culling from a wide range of techniques and styles to create her own performance works, to literally voice those of contemporary composers, and to explore improvisation. https://gelseybell.com/ (https://gelseybell.com/)
Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney.
Emerging Voices is recorded and edited by Felicity Wilcox and produced by Elizabeth Jigalin
Trailer and Closer music by Felicity Wilcox, text by Alana Valentine, from the new opera Emergenc/y.
Singer credits: https://emergenceopera.com/emergency (https://emergenceopera.com/emergency)
http://emergenceopera.com (http://emergenceopera.com)
3 Apr 2025
Episode 0 - Introduction to Emerging Voices
Who are the new opera-makers shaking up the canon?
Emerging Voices examines state-of-the-art and gender in contemporary opera, featuring interviews with diverse, leading, global practitioners.
Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney.
Read more about the podcast: https://emergenceopera.com/podcasts (https://emergenceopera.com/podcasts)
Emerging Voices is recorded and edited by Felicity Wilcox and produced by Elizabeth Jigalin
Trailer and closer music by Felicity Wilcox, text by Alana Valentine, from the new opera Emergenc/y.
Singer credits: https://emergenceopera.com/emergency (https://emergenceopera.com/emergency)
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