David Chisholm
Lecturer
The Centre for Ideas
David Chisholm was awarded the National Young Achiever of the Year in 1994 for his work as a producer and composer, after graduating from the University of Wollongong in 1992 with Distinction, in Musical Composition. He has studied under Andrew Schultz, Andrew Ford, Barry Connyngham and currently Brenton Broadstock.
His orchestral works are rue b. (or dr.stravinsky’s bedside manor, pierre boulez a la discothéque, The Illusion of the End (after jean baudrillard) and the muster-book of the dynamical systems collective. The latter two have been performed by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. David’s olivier messiaen is dead and buried: a secular requiem was a major work for organ with soprano commissioned by City of Melbourne in 2002, one of several works broadcast nationally on ABC Classic FM.
His theatre scores include shrunk: music from The Shrinking Ledge (2002 Helpmann nomination for Best Original Score), Cazerine Barry’s Sprung (Melbourne Festival Adelaide Festival Centre, Sydney Opera House and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) and The Call (Melbourne Festival/Playbox) and he is the author of a vaudeville grotesque Revival to his own book and lyrics. In 2004 David collaborated with Koorie sound artist and historian, Genevieve Grieves, on his first installation piece, DIG: A Sonic Excavation presented in the Cato Street Car Park, Prahran for the Journey Festival.
David is currently composing an epic 90-minute song cycle The Beginning and the End of Snow in collaboration with revered French poet and translator Yves Bonnefoy and is completing a horror film chamber opera Doctor Couteau, a further collaboration with Cazerine Barry, and librettist Paul Magee.
David is Chair of Melbourne Fringe and a member of the Cultural Affairs Advisory Board for City of Melbourne for whom he is also Chair of the Cultural Venues Programming Reference Group. David currently sits on the Arts Development, Presentation Funding Panel for Arts Victoria and is a 2003 graduate of the Cranlana Programme Colloquia.