Scalp: Sounds From The Floorboards

Live at The Church

13 July 2025

About Louis Wishart - Conductor/Pianist
Louis Wishart is a Sydney-based Composer and Musician, whose sound synthesises post-Coleman free-improvisation aesthetics, with industrial music and contemporary Eastern European composition stylings.

Graduated in 2023 from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Composition), First Class Honors, Louis has honed his craft as an Art Music composer. With a first year full scholarship, Louis has studied closely under leading Australian composition such as Liza Lim, Carl Vine and Gerard Brophy, carving his unique practice in limited-aleatorism. Louis has composed for a wide range of ensembles, from solos and trios all the way to Full Orchestra.

Louis is an internationally performed composer, with premieres by ensembles such "AURA Ensemble'' from the Houston Moores School of Music, Ensemble Garage, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Orchestra and New Music Ensemble. Recently, Louis was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2023 Ostrava Days Institute and Festival in the Czech Republic, where he had the opportunity to study closely with leading musical figures such as Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Eric Wubbels, George Lewis, Raven Chacon, Annesley Black, Peter Ablinger and Amina Claudine Myers.

Louis was also recently awarded the Encouragement Award for the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra Young Composer Award, 2024. Louis is currently preparing for the launch of his Art Music Ensemble "Scalp", set debut March, 2025, with a program feature new Australian composition (one of which by Louis), as well as his arrangement of "John Gavanti", by no-wave bands The Mars and DNA.

This performance will take place at The Church.

The Church is a meticulously restored 19th-century Gothic church in Alexandria, NSW owned by Judith Neilson AM that houses rehearsals and work development for musicians by invitation.

Program

JOHN GAVANTI (ARR. LOUIS WISHART)
Mars and DNA

LOUIS WISHART
Are Ye Then With God?

MADDY BRIGGS
First Dog in Space

CLANCY REYNOLDS
Bongpeople

Featured Performers

  • Louis Wishart

  • Josh Shipton

  • Aidan Eccleshall

  • Alia Timmins

  • Uma Volkmer

  • Alex Tucker

  • Isabella Rahme

  • Alison Eom

  • Leo Apollonov

Performance

Performance

Sunday 13 July, 4:00pm

Location

The Church
9 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria

Tickets

Free, by ballot only

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