Christopher Sainsbury
Composer | Songwriter | Guitarist | Educator

A Selection of Media and Database Listings

Resonate Magazine (May 2019)
"Surely this year's Australian musician of the moment."
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 Limelight Magazine (May 2019)
"Sainsbury’s recently launched Platform Paper for Currency House publishers is essential reading for Australian composers, performers and programmers, not to mention critics."
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Limelight Magazine (July 2024)
About String Talk for the SSO, "This was a lovely curtain raiser, serene and tonal, with some lovely solo moments."
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 Australian Book Review (Oct 2023)
About the opera The Visitors, "gripping the audience from start to finish."
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 The Blurb (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors is extraordinarily well composed…and totally engaging."
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 Limelight (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors upends expectations of what is still, overwhelmingly, a culturally European art form."
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ClassikON (Oct 2023)
About The Visitors, "Composer Christopher Sainsbury is the master of the chorus."
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The Australian (2024)
About the Singing Stone album, "Here is a composer who has created a really distinctive voice." (Vincent Plush, The Australian, 2024)

ClassikON (2024)
About Singing Stone, "The music on this CD should be a hit in the 'drive time' slots."

ArtsHub (2024)
"Singing Stone is a stunning collection of Christopher Sainsbury's uniquely Australian compositions." 

 The Conversation (April 2019)
Article on Sainsbury’s Platform Paper published by Currency House, "Ngarra-burria New Music and the Search for an Australian Sound."
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 Resonate Magazine (May 2019)
Concert review on Sainsbury’s Bark of the ‘bidgee premiere. Includes commentary on the Ngarra-burria book.
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 AMC Resonate Magazine (Year)
Interview with composer Dr Jodie Blackshaw for AMC Resonate magazine.
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 Limelight Magazine (Year)
Limelight magazine article - Indigenous Composers Initiative (earlier operating name for Ngarra-burria composers group).
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Gordon Yemm (Australian elder flautist of yesteryear)
"Beautifully crafted, and always received with enthusiasm by both the members of the orchestra and the audience alike."

 The Techniques of Guitar Playing (Year)
Citation in The Techniques of Guitar Playing (Seth F. Josel and Ming Tao) - the world's leading contemporary guitar book.
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 ABC Classic (Year)
ABC article on Ngarra-burria: First Peoples Composers (previously Indigenous Composers Initiative).
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 Sheerpluck Database (Year)
Listing in Sheerpluck, world leading database on contemporary guitar music (Germany).
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