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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

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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

Northern Lights

Seven Variations of Light

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

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About

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

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

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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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To enquire about a performance, collaboration or commission.

Art song |Opera| Cabaret 

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