Johanna Selleck
Johanna Selleck is a composer, musicologist, and flautist. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she is an honorary fellow. Her compositions have been performed by internationally renowned artists across Australia, Europe, the USA, Asia, and the Middle East.
As a flautist she performs regularly as a soloist and in chamber music, particularly with harpist Jacinta Dennett and at Melbourne Composers’ League concerts. Her research is published widely, including by Cambridge Scholars Press and Lexington Books, and in journals such as Australasian Music Research. Publishers of her music include Allans Music, Lyrebird Press, and the Australian Music Centre.
Her recordings appear on labels including Move Records, Tall Poppies, and Navona (USA). Her harp solo Spindrift appears on the CD Quest by American harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson (Albany Records), listed on the 2022 Grammy Awards under producer Elaine Martone (‘Producer of the Year, Classical’). Composition prizes include the Percy Grainger Prize for Composition (1990), the Albert Maggs Composition Award (2006), and the ANZVS (viola society) Composition Competition (2022).
Johanna Selleck is featured on the following titles
The Prospect and Bower of Bliss
The Prospect and Bower of Bliss presents two song cycles by Australian composer Johanna Selleck, setting poetry by Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Melbourne poet Graeme Ellis (1944–).
Compositions by Johanna Selleck also appear on
Inspirations
They say there is nothing new under the sun. New works of art challenge this notion. In this piano recording by Ian Holtham, all the works, commissioned from his Melbourne composer colleagues, are responses to major works in the piano literature. Something new has arisen, phoenix-like, out of something old.