Daryl BUCKLEY

Profile

The Artistic Director of ELISION Ensemble, Australia's premier contemporary music group, developed innovative projects at home and abroad such as contemporary opera, site-specific installation, improvisation and electronic music.
Organized nineteen international tours such as the Hebbel Theater of Berlin, the Berlin Phiharmonie and Konzerthauus, Wien Modern Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the Deutschlandfunk and Radio Bremen, Festival Ars Musica of Brussels, the  Züricher Theater Spektakel, Saitama Arts Theater, IRCAM as part of the Agora festival in Paris and the Ultima Festival of Oslo. Yue  Ling Jie, a Ritual Street Opera by Liza Lim and Beth YAHP at the Adelaide and Melbourne festivals.
Managed international performance-installation works in Brisbane, Berlin and Oslo. Also managed in the Danish-Australian cultural interaction. In 1999, created a series of installation and concert projects as the music component of the Queensland Art Gallery's Thierd Asia-Pacific Triennial. Currently he is advising and formulating a program entitled Music Ex Machina for the Livepool Capital of Culture 2008 Program.
His recent compact disc recording of Richard BARRETT's transmission for electronic auitar and electronics was critically received in the UK's Gramophone magazine as a 'tour de force.'