Songs of the Sea

A 30-minute song cycle for voice and piano.

Eight characters from sea history and mythology.

The widow’s walk/A fiddle, fife and whistle and a drum/The fish wife song/Siren song/King of the sea/Selkies/Crossing the line/Lighthouse

Into the Night Before the Sun: Songs of Travel

A song-cycle for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano and Alto.

How travel shapes our lives.

Alessandra/Kolmanskop/Two houses/Dead Ohio sky/The architraves of San Sebastian/Ruth/Spice.Trade.Gin/Fall/Cypresses/Birds

A new choral work in development. About changing light over a day.

Sunrise/The morning’s come/In eternal sun/We call upon the water/The sun returns/Night descends/Light of aurora

Christie & Howell are a writer and composer team from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. They specialise in art song, opera and cabaret works.

From 2009 to 2017 they ran the opera collective BegOpCoOp, collaborating with writers, designers and performers based locally and overseas.

Christie & Howell have previously developed works for Short and Sweet Cabaret Festival, Testing Grounds and Deakin University's School of

Creative Arts.

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