UE composers from Australia

Carlos Ramirez is a Mexican-Australian composer born in Mexico City in 1967. He is a self-taught composer with orchestral and chamber music in his repertoire. Carlos studied classical guitar at the State of Mexico Fine Arts School in 1986. From 1986-1992 he studied violin and music lessons with Professor Virgilio Valle, the assistant director of the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and a former student of Sergiu Celebidache. In 1986 Carlos joined the youth chamber orchestra SOFIJUM, touring parts of Mexico and reaching the principal violin chair. He started composing music without any formal composition education with a trio of two violins and a cello. This first piece was premiered by Carlos himself in Toluca, Mexico.

In 1987 he composed his First String Quartet and Symphony. In 1988 he composed the overture Silence Impressions Op.5 for which he received the 1988 CREA National Composition Prize in Mexico. Carlos also received the second award in the 1990 Felipe Villanueva National Composition Contest, which led to its premiere in 1991 with the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra (OSEM) under Enrique Bátiz. In 1991 he composed the “Jupiter” Variations for string orchestra on a theme by W.A. Mozart. This has been performed by youth ensembles in the State of Mexico Conservatory and the Orchestre de Chambre de Carthage in Tunisia. In 2013 he composed 11:15, Jubilee for Orchestra, in Warsaw, Poland. This is based on a trumpet call played every day at 11:15 am in the Warsaw Castle. In 2022 he composed September, Idyll for Orchestra.

His music has received positive comments from notable musicians such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Manuel Enriquez, Mario Lavista, Arturo Márquez, Francoise Legrand, Agustin Cullel, Enrique Bátiz, and Eduardo Diazmuñoz. Several of Carlos’s compositions are available in well-known music streaming platforms.

Carlos lived from 2012-2023 in Perth, Western Australia where he joined the violin section in the Fremantle Symphony Orchestra. In November 2014, the Orchestra performed Carlos’s Silence Impressions Overture. Carlos has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, and two Master of Science degrees from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Carlos now resides in Monterrey, Mexico where he works in the manufacturing industry and actively composing music.

Davide Remigio (Melbourne, 26th June 1963) is an australian and Italian composer, founder of the Quaternary Music. He graduated in Composition (MMus) in 1992 at the National Academy of S. Cecilia in Rome with Franco Donatoni and Music for Film (1991) with Ennio Morricone in Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. In 1989 was awarded the Silone Price Music for the composition Homage to Silone for narrator and orchestra and in 1993 the Gaudeamus Foundation of Amsterdam rewarded Mordenti for ensemble which was performered on the radio. In 1997 he conceives the Quaternary Music a composition technique with only four notes. In 2002 he participated in the Ateliers del Forum at IRCAM in Paris with electronic works. In 2012 he gave a lecture on the quaternary music at the Vernadsky National Library of Kiev and in 2017 he is invited to hold a workshop in quaternary music composition at the Irvine University (California). His compositions have been performed at the National Academy of S. Cecilia and Ravello Festival in Italy, at the Dutch and Belgrade radio, the Australian Foundation and the British Asian Music Society of Victoria in Melbourne, Di Menna center, Symphonic Space and National Opera Center in New York City. Professor of Composition in Milan Conservatory "G. Verdi", he publishes with Australian Autumn Music in Melbourne, Edipan in Rome, Casa Musicale Sonzogno and Casa Ricordi in Milan, and Universal Edition in Wien.

Tom Woods is one of the finest Australian conductors of his generation. He has conducted hundreds of performances of opera, ballet and concerts in Australia and New Zealand in a career of over 30 years. Since 2014 he has been resident in Germany, where he conducts for Theater Regensburg. In recent years he has composed a number of works for Theater Regensburg including Trump’s Tweets, Glauben and The Carnival of the Dinosaurs, which has been also performed in St Petersburg and Sydney. He has made hundreds of arrangements, including commissions for Theater Regensburg including double wind reductions of Debussy's La Mer and Ravel's Bolero. His reorchestration of Raff's opera "Dame Kobold" was performed and critically acclaimed in 2020. In 2020 he made a recomposition of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" using techno music and an orchestra including electric guitar and an amplified solo cello with effect pedals.