A Selection of Media and Database Listings
- 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."
- Limelight Magazine (July 2024)
About String Talk for the SSO, "This was a lovely curtain raiser, serene and tonal, with some lovely solo moments."
- Australian Book Review (Oct 2023)
About the opera The Visitors, "gripping the audience from start to finish."
- The Blurb (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors is extraordinarily well composed…and totally engaging."
- Limelight (Oct 2023)
"The Visitors upends expectations of what is still, overwhelmingly, a culturally European art form."
- ClassikON (Oct 2023)
About The Visitors, "Composer Christopher Sainsbury is the master of the chorus."
- 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."
- Resonate Magazine (May 2019)
Concert review on Sainsbury’s Bark of the ‘bidgee premiere. Includes commentary on the Ngarra-burria book.
- AMC Resonate Magazine (Year)
Interview with composer Dr Jodie Blackshaw for AMC Resonate magazine.
- Limelight Magazine (Year)
Limelight magazine article - Indigenous Composers Initiative (earlier operating name for Ngarra-burria composers group).
- 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.
- ABC Classic (Year)
ABC article on Ngarra-burria: First Peoples Composers (previously Indigenous Composers Initiative).
- Sheerpluck Database (Year)
Listing in Sheerpluck, world leading database on contemporary guitar music (Germany).
