Piano Trio No. 1: In Search of Peace was awarded first prize in the competition in which composers from all over the world competed
Mirage News | Article | Bachelor of Music and Engineering graduate Michael Grebla won the 2024 Spectrum Chamber Music Society’s Composition Award for his piano trio.
Bachelor of Music and Engineering graduate Michael Grebla won the 2024 Spectrum Chamber Music Society’s Composition Award for his piano trio
National Tribune | Article | Bachelor of Music and Engineering graduate Michael Grebla won the 2024 Spectrum Chamber Music Society’s Composition Award for his piano trio.
Michael Grebla wins 2024 Spectrum Chamber Music Composition Award
Resonate Magazine | Feature Article | We extend our congratulations to AMC Associate Artist Michael Grebla on receiving the 2024 Spectrum Chamber Music Composition Award. Hailing from Western Australia and now based in New York City, Michael's work Piano Trio No. 1: In Search of Peace was awarded first prize in the international composition competition.
CreArtBox Unveils Anniversary Season
Queens Scene | News Article |CreArtBox is excited to unveil its 10th Anniversary Season for 2023/24. This remarkable milestone commemorates a decade of crafting, producing, and sharing exceptional music and art with audiences around the globe. The lineup of composers comprises two newly appointed resident composers, Hanna Selin and Andreas Casarrubios, along with the recipient of the open call for scores, Michael Grebla, and visual artists Guillermo Ordás, Tao Ho, and Sarah K. Williams.
Keene Delivers Double Delight
SeeSaw Magazine | Review | Stewart Smith | Grebla’s unashamedly tonal and neo-romantic Sfidare is both accessible and meaningful. The work is bookended by Grebla’s best music: a deliberate channelling of the opening gesture of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, dissolving into music of great depth and beauty.
World premiere ‘Sfidare’ by NYC-based WA composer Michael Grebla with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & John Keen
The West Australian | News Article | David Cusworth | World premiere ‘Sfidare’ by NYC-based WA composer Michael Grebla with Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & John Keen
Piano Trio No.1 World Premiere
I wasn’t able to attend the premiere of my first piano trio due to an enormous gap in geography, but some audience members took it upon themselves to write to me and let me know about their experience at the concert. One such individual was Bob Leschen who wrote this short article of what transpired that evening!
Thank you, Bob!
Australian composer Micheal Grebla’s new Piano Trio No. 1 “In Search of Peace,” was given its Australian premiere on Saturday 11th December, 2021 in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick at the Tempo Rubato theatre. Before a sell-out crowd of over one hundred, this attractive music was greeted with sustained applause and enthusiastic hooting.
Piano Trio No. 1 “In Search of Peace” sat comfortably within a well selected program consisting of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op 8, Arvo Pärt’s Mozart-Adagio, and Robert Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 2, Op 80. Melbourne Chamber Players, Natalia Harvey, violin, Anna Pokorny, cello, and Aidan Boase, piano, played the program with enthusiastic commitment and skill which appealed greatly to the appreciative audience. Interestingly like Michael, Anna and Aidan, and your reporter, all originally came from Western Australia. I am indebted to Aidan for offering the following comments on the content of Michael’s composition and Georgina for the photo and describing Michael’s music as “monumentally beautiful”.
Michael Grebla’s first piano trio is a powerful emotional journey. After a sweet and vulnerable opening from muted strings, the piano enters with the main theme of this work, a beautiful, searching chord progression – very soft and deeply resonant. The work returns to this theme twice more later, amidst episodes of immensely varied character and energy. Michael builds the intensity slowly at first, then there are sweeping lyrical passages, wild gypsy-like sections, frantic and breathless passages. The music dissolves back into stillness and tranquillity for the opening theme again. The next section has a kind of inevitable momentum, music that picks you up and sweeps you along, and soon everything is fiery and intense, and this time it doesn’t dissolve back into the opening theme, but crescendos into it for the final hearing, thunderous and resolute with massive piano chords and soaring string harmonics. It’s a triumphant return, but the last few bars seem to leave us with a question – how long will the peace last?
I’m a huge fan of Michael’s music and feel so happy to have been able to perform some of it at last. We cannot thank Michael enough for writing this wonderful piece of music, and can’t wait to perform it again and record it!
Bob Leschen
Hatched HOME Academy mentees announced!
News | Ensemble Offspring | Ensemble Offspring initiated Hatched HOME Academy in 2020 to provide new development opportunities for Australian musicians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now in its second year, Hatched HOME Academy will provide a new cohort of exceptional Australian artists with invaluable creative mentorship during the month of June.
Michael Grebla - 2020 Call for Scores winner collaborates with KSC music department
Review | The Equinox - Keene State College | Author: Caitlin Howard | The music of award-winning composer Michael Grebla was showcased at the Alumni Recital Hall on Saturday, February 27. The event follows Grebla’s win at Keene State’s 2020 International Call for Scores competition.
Composing In COVID19: Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize Winners Michael Grebla and Elizabeth Younan
News Article | University of New South Wales | COVID19-permitting, these new works are scheduled to be performed later this year, so we asked Elizabeth and Michael what audiences can expect at their eventual premieres.