Lamorna Nightingale

Lamorna Nightingale - flautist

Lamorna Nightingale is a freelance flautist, concert presenter, educator and publisher who is passionate about the future of art music in Australia. Full Biography

Photo credit Richard Hedger (Ensemble Offspring)

Photo credit Richard Hedger (Ensemble Offspring)

Ensemble Offspring

Lamorna Nightingale is a core member of the new music group - Ensemble Offspring and has been performing with them since 2007. Recent performance highlights performing with the ensemble include Sydney Festival 2020 ‘Bird Song at Dusk’ ; 2020 ‘Mesmerism’ for the Sydney Opera House digital program ‘From Our House to Yours’; 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Group Award; 2019 showcase performance at the international music market, Classical:NEXT (Rotterdam); 2019 Nominated for ARIA Award in the Best Children’s Album category; 2016 APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Organisation. Recent tours to Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Ensemble Offspring have released several recordings including their annual project Offspring Bites which showcases chamber works commissioned by the group. 

Ensemble Offspring also have an extensive collection of performance videos on YouTube

Photo Credit Rolling Media

Photo Credit Rolling Media

Freelance Career

Lamorna has many years experience working in the orchestral and music theatre sectors performing regularly with many of Australia’s finest ensembles, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra . In 2016 she played classical piccolo with early music ensemble Brugge Anima Eterna at the Sydney Festival and Lincoln Centre in New York. (2016)

She has performed in several seasons of the musical ‘Miss Saigon’ as well as Sydney seasons of ‘Les Miserables’ 2016 and ‘The Wizard of Oz’ 2018. In 2019 she performed in the musicals Sweeney Todd at the Sydney Convention Centre.

BackStage Music

Since 2017 Lamorna has curated and produced a new concert series dedicated to new music in Sydney - BackStage Music. This series was initiated to create a community that supports, encourages and fosters a culture for living music. As Artistic Director director Lamorna has curated, produced and presented three seasons of programs featuring emerging artists alongside more established artists from Australia and internationally. Since then BackStage Music have presented over 50 performances at various venues around Sydney showcasing over 100 performers and 60+ new Australian compositions.  In 2021 BackStage presented Now You Hear Her a month long festival in a pop-up shopfront venue in Sydney’s World Square shopping precinct. 

 

 

Fluteworthy

Fluteworthy is a highly successful sheet music publication business dedicated to the production of flute teaching resources for Australian students. Materials are created in partnership between experienced flute teachers Jocelyn Fazzone, Christine Draeger and Lamorna Nightingale. Resources include 

  • two albums of Australian music appropriate for young performers with a particular focus on the HSC core topic Australian Music of the last 25 years

  • Lamorna’s Beginner Flute Book (over 2,000 copies sold between 2017-2021)

  • Graded collections of repertoire and etudes and technical workbooks.

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Educator

Lamorna performance career is closely intertwined with her work in the education sector as a flute teacher, examiner, mentor, content creator and publisher. Lamorna has an active teaching studio and is a senior examiner for the AMEB. From 2012-14 Lamorna was the President of the Flute Society of NSW in this role she was responsible for organising several large scale events such as Eisteddfods.She also enjoys working with young composers and performers on developing the strong connections that keep the music industry relevant and exciting for future generations

Solo Projects

Lamorna has created several albums of new Australian flute music including Eat Chocolate and Cry and Spirit of the Plains with associate artists Christine Draeger and Jocelyn Fazzone and Other Voices with associate artist Jane Sheldon (project supported by APRA/AMCOS Art Music Fund Commission and Australia Council). Ensemble Offspring’s Lone Hemispheres solo performance project of 2020 involved video recordings of solo works Liza Lim’s Bioluminescence and Tristan Murail Unanswered Questions. In 2020 Behind Doors Phoenix Central Park video recording of Amanda Cole’s Oracle Chamber for bass flute and baritone saxophone with James Nightingale (commissioned by performers.) 

‘Other Voices’ is a performance, recording and education project based on new Australian electroacoustic works for flute. The project aims to enable young composers, performers and their teachers to have a richer understanding of the electroacoustic genre through the development of an Education Kit, related Professional Development Courses and student workshops. The album includes new works by Cat Hope, Tristan Coelho, Fiona Hill, Rosalind Page, Peggy Polias and Kate Moore. More information about Other Voices Project

 

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