Projects
Four Rooms
by Lee Bradshaw
A collaborative project involving Flinders Quartet, Australian Youth Orchestra and Headspace,using music to explore youth mental health broadly, and specific to the music industry. A string octet, Four Rooms depicts four states of mental struggles.
Requiem: For Those Left Behind
by Lee Bradshaw
Premiered at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, this large scale orchestral and choral work bears witness to the pain of those left behind.
Songs for Manny
by Ella Macens
Commissioned for The Sutherland Trio and inspired by aspects of Manny's life, this is a suite of five songs without words:
1. Where Light Meets Water (for Violin, Cello and Piano)
2. In Rivers and Streams (for Violin, Cello and Piano)
3. Sunbeams (for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano)
4. Song for Mothers (for Piano)
5. Songbird, Amongst the Trees (for Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and Piano)
Recorded by the ABC, to be released soon. First performance 20 October, Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Centre, Southbank.
Sicilienne
by Anthony Doheny
A work for violin (viola) and piano, by composer Anthony Doheny, this work is dedicated to Manny, and recognises the beauty of his melody. Anthony was a string faculty member at the Melbourne Conservatorium, where the piece will first be performed.
7.30 PM
20 October, 2026
Hanson Dyer Hall,
Ian Potter Centre, Southbank.
Missa Emmanuel
by Phillip Carmody
Missa Emmanuel is a Missa brevis composed by the Director of Music at the school Manny attended, where he was a Chapel Choir chorister from 2016–2021. Filled with the glorious choral sounds Manny loved — sounds that surrounded him, filled the chapel and lifted his heart — it is sung regularly in the school’s Chapel services. Movements include: Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
St Peter's Eastern Hill, 10 December 2023
2026 performance TBC
