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Judith Dodsworth as Vida Goldstein
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Jenny Game
Jenny is a composer, saxophonist and improviser who has released several albums as performer composer. She also composes music for the stage including the celebrated 2019 physical theatre piece Dispersion, and the 2013 premier of her chamber opera The Aqueduct at the Restrung Chamber Music Festival. She also composes music for contemporary new music ensembles.
Recent highlights include the 2022 premiers of In the Hocket by the Icarus Quartet’s at the Vienna Summer Music and her string quartet Marianne by Argus Quartet in New York.
Jenny is the Deputy Dean of the Higher Education College at Chisholm and is currently composing an electroacoustic piece, The Hills Are Alive, to be performed at the Grainger Museum as part of 'Reimagining Landscapes' in collaboration between First Nations artist Amos Roach and Johanna Selleck.
Caitlin Vincent
Caitlin Vincent is an award-winning librettist and lyricist whose writing has been praised as ‘nuanced and honest’ (DC Theatre Scene), ‘intriguing’ (The Baltimore Sun), and ‘luminous’ (The Huffington Post).
Vincent’s works have been performed by Washington National Opera, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the University of Connecticut, the Schubert Club of Minnesota, Semperoper Dresden, the Oxford Lieder Festival, and Wigmore Hall, among others. In August 2017, Vincent and composer Douglas Buchanan won the 2017-19 Sackler Music Composition Prize for Bessie and Ma, an opera about aviator Bessie Coleman and Governor Miriam “Ma” Ferguson.
In 2022, Vincent and composer Timothy C. Takach won the Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize for Computing Venus, an opera based on the life of astronomer Maria Mitchell, which will premiere at SUNY Potsdam in Fall 2024. A classically trained ballet dancer and former professional opera singer, Vincent is on faculty at the University of Melbourne.
Judith Dodsworth
Dodsworth has long been a champion of new and diverse vocal repertoire, ranging from the pre- baroque to works upon which the ink is still drying.
Operatic roles have included Carmen (OzOpera), Greta in Metamorphosis (Victorian Opera), Sophie in From a Black Sky (The Street Theatre), lead roles in Rameau’s Pygmalion (theoperaproject/STOPERA), Opiume (Singapore and Hong Kong Festivals), Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot (with Syzygy Ensemble) and A Drone Opera (Experimenta); A Drone Opera continues to be featured internationally as a short film/installation.
Judith sang the role of Clara in the premiere of Gordon Kerry’s Midnight Son for Victorian Opera with less than twenty-four hours’ notice, and did the same as the Secretary in Menotti’s The Consul. She was one of four soloists in the premiere of Cat Hope’s acclaimed new opera Speechless for the 2019 Perth Festival, awarded APRA’s Work of the Year.
Giovanni De Simone
Giovanni grew up a member of the National Boys Choir of Australia, gaining tour and television experience. He is currently studying a Bachelor of Music at the University of Melbourne under the tutorship of Stephen Grant, where he was awarded the Ellinor Gertrude Harris Bequest during his first year.
Some of his significant performances include being a chorister for the Hugh Jackman World Tour 2019, Joseph Twist’s The Grumpiest Boy in the World 2021, “Fidelio” in Schubert’s The Friends of Salamanca (online) 2021 and “Peter Quince” in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2022.
This year, Giovanni was a finalist at Liederfest, winning the Brian Hansford Award.
Josh Duncan and Lily Akers
The Allotropy String Quartet
The Allotropy String Quartet is one of Melbourne’s experimental pop-up string quartets. They perform and record new works primarily by Melbourne composers and older works often presented in new ways or pop-up venues.
Contact Jenny Game for Your Next Musical Project
Jenny is most excited about upcoming projects that push her creative boundaries. She is in the process of composing new large-scale musical creations and is exploring opportunities to collaborate with fellow musicians.
While innovation is a signature of her work, her music also conveys deep emotion and connects with listeners and musicians alike. Moreover, her current goal is to make her music accessible and a source of inspiration to young female and LGBTQI+ artists.
For commissions, collaborations, or upcoming performances, Jenny welcomes opportunities to work with artists and producers who share her passion for pushing the boundaries of contemporary music.