James Ledger is an ARIA award-winning composer with a breadth of work spanning solo, chamber, electronic and orchestral music.
His first orchestral work, Indian Pacific, from 1996 is still regularly performed around Australia and has had twelve performances so far in 2022. He has held residencies with the West Australian, Adelaide and Christchurch (NZ) Symphony Orchestras, the Australian National Academy of Music (Melbourne) and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (Townsville). He has received commissions from Australia’s leading ensembles including the Melbourne, Sydney and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian String Quartet.
Ledger has collaborated with Australian musician Paul Kelly on two song-cycles: Conversations with Ghosts (2012) and Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds (2019). Both of these albums won ARIA awards. He has won APRA Art Music Awards
for Viola Concerto (2019), Golden Years (violin concerto) (2011) and Chronicles (2009).
He is Chair of Composition at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Western Australia.
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/ledger-james
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Rashomon confessions for clarinet quintet by James Ledger
First performance 13 December 2009, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House WASO Chamber Players (Allan Meyer – clarinet) . Commissioned by Sydney Opera House with funds provided by Regina Ridge Trust.
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4938391