Joseph Twist
Joseph Twist composes across choral, orchestral, stage and screen music. Sacred settings and concert works sit alongside film and television scores, with a steady focus on voices, text and liturgical colour.
His Lamentation of Jeremiah sits among recent Australian sacred works for choir, music shaped for liturgical use and cathedral resonance. Twist also works in opera, orchestral music, jazz, musical theatre and cabaret, and has composed and arranged for film and television. Concert pieces are taken up by professional ensembles; the writing keeps text and vocal colour to the fore whether the brief is plainchant, contemporary poetry or the screen.
Compositions by Joseph Twist appear on
Mass of the Dreaming
It is remarkable that 2016 brought the first recording by an Australian choir devoted entirely to Australian sacred choral music. This disc fills that long gap with newly commissioned and recent works.