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Press
Lament For Matthew Shepard
Lament for Matthew Shepard…was the embodiment of the principles of the Dandenong Ranges Music Council: bringing together members of the community, diverse and disparate, to make music together. This new composition was received with enthusiasm, and audience and performers alike reported being very moved by it.
- Peter de Ryk; Artistic Director of Spring Sessions, Dandenong Ranges Music Council
If Not In This World
The work takes its title from Robins’ last written words – ‘Till we meet again, if not in this world, in the next.’ Harrison brings a resonant lyricism to these phrases, combining both voices in resigned pairing…to reinforce a simple memorial to the sombre dignity of death and grief.
- Clive O’Connell; O’Connell The Music blog (Lest We Forget)
If Not In This World
Andrew Harrison’s cantata…made a moving impression…
- Clive O’Connell; O’Connell The Music blog (2018 In Review)
The Laramie Project
The music for The Laramie Project was quite dramatic.
- Bendigo Advertiser
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project was well complemented by the original music score by Andrew Harrison, which was excellent.
- Theatrecraft Magazine
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project music composed by Andrew Harrison is dramatic and moving. As it underscores some of the more intense moments in the play, it adds another dimension to the already compelling docu-drama. The music is reminiscent of the rich textual quality of underscoring in film. Don’t produce the play without Andrew’s music.
- Janet Hollier, director; Assoc. Professor of Communication and Theatre, Georgia Perimeter College, USA
The Laramie Project
Thank you for allowing us to licence your music for our production. It added a great deal to the mood and authenticity to the show.
- Kim Martin, director; Lee College Theatre Department, Baytown, Texas, USA
The Laramie Project
Thank you so much for allowing us to use your music in The Laramie Project! The different tones you use throughout each piece tells a story on its own, and when it’s been woven with the text from the script it creates such an intensity and character to the production as a whole, every note adds a new dimension to the story. The students in our show have found incredible timing with so many of the songs we chose to use and I could not have asked for any other composition. It has been such a pleasure to support your music and have it be such a strong aspect of our production.
- Kolie Shaw, director; The Northern Starz Center for the Performing Arts, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA
The Laramie Project
Love your album…the students in the cast have heard your ‘Opening Theme’ and love it.
- John Cummins, director; Kings College, Auckland, New Zealand
The Laramie Project
The music was haunting and we heard several compliments on the use of it.
- Laura Darce, technical theatre director; Liberty High School, Frisco, Texas, USA
The Drumfire Was Incessant, And Continued All Night With Unabated Fury
The Drumfire…inspired by an account of the Battle of Pozieres in 1916 and the involvement of a relative, was clamorous and intense. An imperious whistle, blown from the audience, signalled the start of interpolated sections creating unpredictable dynamic tension in the structure.
- Peter Maccallum; The Sydney Morning Herald
The Drumfire Was Incessant, And Continued All Night With Unabated Fury
The suggestion of menace in the triple-piano bass clusters and lurching middle middle register material was impressively conceived…this work presented as solid, subterranean sound blocks with rapid slashes in alt to heighten tension.
- Clive O’Connell; O’Connell The Music blog (Lest We Forget)
Piano Fantasia No. 1
His Piano Fantasia No. 1 is a big work, using a fully developed technique and incorporating some improvisational elements within tightly controlled parameters.
- Larry Sitsky; Australian Piano Music of the Twentieth Century
Piano Fantasia No. 1
“Connected with physical expression is Harrison’s interest in industrial music, where power tools and smashing glasses become part of a bizarre ambience…” “Andrew Harrison swims with ease through the changing currents of jazz, pop, rock and classical music…”
- Canberra Times
Shol
Blending all their influences and references into a seamless, homogenous sound, they prove themselves above labels – but, what’s even more important, they do so with the brilliance of their performance and the power of their beautiful compositions.
- Nikos Fotakis; australianjazz.net
Shol
The Skepper/Harrison/Lewis/O’Hagen quartet open proceedings with their post-Electric Milesian avant-jazz…mercurial eddies of digital keyboard from Harrison suggest Herbie Hancock in his fertile post-Bitches Brew, pre-Headhunters phase…there are constantly shifting groupings of call and response with tight conversational interplay.
- Aeternal Flux blogspot
Breaker Morant
Special mention must go to Andrew Harrison for his score.