Keene Delivers Double Delight
SeeSaw Magazine | Review | Stewart Smith | Grebla’s unashamedly tonal and neo-romantic Sfidare is both accessible and meaningful. The work is bookended by Grebla’s best music: a deliberate channelling of the opening gesture of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, dissolving into music of great depth and beauty.
Fremantle Chamber Orchestra | Sfidare for String Orchestra | World Premiere
16 July 2023, Redemptorist Monastery, 190 Vincent St, North Perth, Western Australia. The Fremantle Chamber Orchestra give the world premier of Sfidare for Orchestra conducted by John Keene.
Fremantle Chamber Orchestra | Sfidare for String Orchestra | World Premiere
15 July 2023, Fremantle Town Hall, Fremantle, Western Australia. The Fremantle Chamber Orchestra give the world premier of Sfidare for Orchestra conducted by John Keene.
World premiere ‘Sfidare’ by NYC-based WA composer Michael Grebla with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & John Keen
The West Australian | News Article | David Cusworth | World premiere ‘Sfidare’ by NYC-based WA composer Michael Grebla with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & John Keen
(2022) The President's Own United States Marine Band Call for Scores Competition
Semi-finalist | Sfidare for String Orchestra
St John's in the Village Australia Day Concert [Webcast]
Australian performers join together in helping newly arrived refugees in the USA. A webcast of String Quartet #1: "Sfidare" in celebration of Australia to support "Ads-Up", US charity helping refugees from Australian detention camps on Nauru and Manus Island build new lives for themselves here in the USA.
Event webcast can be found here: https://youtu.be/FjrIaawPA8k
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Zodiac Virtual Festival 2020
Delighted to be invited to record a short video and share the 2018 performance of Sfidare as part of Zodia’s 2020 Virtual Festival.
Zodiac Academy & Festival (July 2018)
Valdeblore, Nice, France
A two-week festival set in the French Alps outside of Nice. The festival involved extensive rehearsals with the festival’s string quartet and the subsequent premiere of String Quartet #1: Sfidare. Each day we participated in seminars, presenting our music to each other in addition to receiving instrumentation lectures from faculty. The composition program was overseen by Prof. Andrew List of Berklee Conservatory with whom I also received a number of private lessons. During the festival, there was a performance of Fugue No.1 in G Minor and my own quartet arrangement of Schumann’s Kinderszenen No. 1 for string quartet, at a salon-style concert for the other participants.
