Music for Transitions - Private Patrons Only Album Preview Event
Dec 9, 2023 - Melbourne, Private patrons only preview event of Music for Transitions with the Penny Quartet. This informal social event is the presentation of a work in progress ahead of album recording hosted at a private residence with drinks and nibbles.
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.
July 17, 2023
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
July 3, 2023
(2022) Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects for Individuals Grant
Highly selective grant. This program funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences. Grants are available from $10,000 to $50,000. Supported activities must last no longer than two years from the proposed start date.
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.
(2018) Zodiac Festival & Academy Composition Award
Winner for String Quartet #1: "Sfidare". Most outstanding new work of the festival.