Works

  • OPERA - HIROSHIMA mon AMOUR, in association with Carte Blanche Theatre, Chants Libres and Quatuor Bozzini, premiering FTA: Festival TransÁmerique, June 2025

    CD with Kreutzer Quartet – Three String Quartets & Pelagos for solo violin (UK 2025)

  • Merging her aesthetic of interconnectedness, Rósa Lind's works are expressed across expansive series.

    Being and Time- inspired by the artworks of Latvian-Australian artist Imants Tillers
.

    1. Lacrimae rerum (piano, cello, clarinet and cymbal)


    2. Tabula Rasa (piano and dice)

    3. Paradiso (cello, cymbal and dice)


    4. Infinite Distances (string quartet no.3)


    5. HORIZON (SATB choir, with texts in Latin, Latvian and English)

    6. If I Close My Eyes (piano, cello, violin, clarinet and flute)

    7. Empatia (violin and piano)

    Time and Water

    1. Ata whenua ~ Land of reflections (piano, cello and violin)


    2. Luxe, calme et volupté (chamber orchestra)

    3. Le Temps et l’eau: Aquarelle (baroque string quartet)

    
Water and Dreams

    1. Sonnerie - solo piano

    2. Aquarelle - baroque string quartet

    3. Eclogue: the LIVE album (2007) for clarinet, bass clarinet, electronics

    4. Et Drömspell (2015) - A Dream Play for chamber choir SATB

    KANDINSKY KUNSTWERKE

    1. Macula lutea - flutes, piano, cello, percussion and pulsars


    2. Extrema: A Galilean Sarabande - cello, cymbal and Jovian sounds


    3. Courbe dominante - flute and Saturnian sounds


    4. Trente: thirty constellations for solo piano

  • Pelagos for solo violin (UK premiere July 12, 2024)
    Peter Shepherd-Skærvard, violin

    Respirare for solo flute (2021)
    ANAM Set Commission - Solo flute.
    Premiered by Rachel Lau, Australian National Academy of Music, 2021

    Time and Water 3. Tystnad ~ Silence (2018) for amplified alto flute, Blue Whale sounds and electronics)
    LE TEMPS ET L’EAU
    Composed for and premiered by Anna Svensdotter.

    Being and Time III: Paradiso (2015) cello and dice
    Duration: ca.10’
    Year: 2015
    Commisioned by Dr Arn Sprogis and Dr Margot Wood for the Canberra International Music Festival 2015

    Being and Time II: Tabula rasa (2012) for piano and dice.
    Duration: ca.9’
    Year: 2012
    Commissioned, premiered and recorded by Zubin Kanga
    CD recording: Piano Inside Out - MOVE records MD3391 (2015)

    Sonnerie (2014) for piano
    Duration: ca.10’
    Year: 2011
    Commissioned by Sydney Conservatorium 101 Commissions
    Premiered by Clemens Leske, Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 24, 2011

    Courbe Dominante for solo flute and Saturnian sound sources (2006)
    Flute in C, alto flute (1 performer), tape 10’. Third work in the Kandinsky/astronomy cycle, inspired by Kandinsky’s Courbe dominante (1936) and the rings of Saturn.
    Premiered 29 June 2006, Pelt Gallery, Sydney.
    Recorded and performed by Laura Chislett Jones - KANDINSKY KUNSTWERKE and Flute Vox CD ABC Classic.

    L’amour et la mort (2007) solo theorbo
    Solo theorbo 12’
    Commissioned by ABC, Australian Music Unit for The Lute Project,
    Aurora Festival 2008.
    Premiered by Tommie Andersson, 20 April, 2008.

    ishi ~ sono (garden) (2006) for bass koto.
    Solo bass koto 10’
    Commissioned by Satsuki Odamura for dance project In Repose
    Premiered 17 May 2007, National Trust Heritage Week Festival,
    Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland. Further performances: Thursday Island, Broome Shinju Matsuri Festival 2008
    Japan Foundation, Sydney, April-May, 2010.

    ishi ~ sono: stone garden for percussion (2006)
    ca. 10’
    Premiered by Daryl Pratt at the Kangaroo Valley Music Festival.

    Extrema: A Galilean Sarabande for cello (with wind gong) (2001)
    Amplified cello, Chinese gong and tape 12’.
    Dedicated to cellist Geoff Gartner.
    Second work in the Kandinsky/astronomy cycle, linking Kandinsky’s
    Small Dream in Red (1925) with the moons of Jupiter.

    Soma for solo clarinet (1992)
    7’30”
    Composed for and premiered by Peter Jenkin, Conservatorium of Music, NSW, March 1992.

  • Empatia: Being and Time VII (2023) for violin and piano. Premiered by Sofia Kirsanova(violin) and Timothy Young (piano). Melbourne Recital Centre May 19, 2023

    Columba (2013), for Viola da gamba and theorbo.
    Program note: ca. 6’
    Premiered by Jenny Eriksson (viola da gamba) and Tommie Andersson (theorbo) April 11, 2013, Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D2AA3Dd7gY

    Eclogue: the LIVE album (2007) for clarinet, bass clarinet, electronics
    10’
    Commissioned by Ilma Peters. Premiered for the New Music Network
    By Jason Noble and Diana Springford, 22 November, 2007, Seymour Centre, Sydney
    Audio: ABC recording

  • Being and Time I: Lachrimae rerum (2012) piano, cello, wind gong and clarinet, v. 2015
    v.2012 Premiered by Ensemble Offspring, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House.
    October 23, 2012 (piano, cello, flute)
    v.2015 Premiered National Gallery of Australia, Canberra International Music Festival
    May 8, 2015 (piano, cello, clarinet).

    Ravensongs (v.2014) instrumental for piano, violin, cello
    Performed by Clemens Leske (pianist), Georg Pedersen (cello), Ole Buhn (violin), October 21, 2014, Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

    Ata whenua (2012) for piano, violin, cello
    Image: score excerpt
    12’
    Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Arnold and Mary Bram.
    Premiered by the Saguaro Trio: John Chen, piano,
    Luanne Homzy, violin and Peter Myers, cello
    Melbourne Recital Hall, Elizabeth Murdoch Hall,
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, August 16, 2011

  • String Quartet No.3. Infinite Distances (v.2017, v.2022)
    Image: Iceland – my photograph
    Programme note: pdf from score
    20’
    Premiered by Kreutzer Quartet, Goldsmiths University, London May 11, 2017

    String Quartet No.2. Zerkalo (2013)
    Image: ‘ Mirror’
    17’
    Amplified string quartet and electronics
    Commissioned by The NOISE
    Recorded by Vexations840 with NOISE quartet
    Released on Composed Noise CD Distributed by NAXOS International.
    http://vexations840.com

    String Quartet No. 1. nous sommes embarqués (2012)
    Image: ‘Wings of Desire’
    ca. 10’
    Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by The Silo Collective.
    Premiered by the Australian String Quartet at the Huntington Music
    Festival, Mudgee, NSW, Australia, November 24, 2011

    Aquarelle (2008) for baroque violin, viola da gambas (2), theorbo
    Commissioned by The Marais Project.
    The Marais Project, directed by Jennifer Eriksson, gave the premiere of “Aquarelle” at The Independent Theatre on November 1, 2009, “Old Masters: New Directions”. 
    Further performance 14 August 2011 at the Sydney Conservatorium.

  • Ecchymoses (2008), a double quartet for sax and guns
    Image: CD cover
    7’45”
    Commissioned by Continuum Sax
    Released on Length and Breath: Australian Music for Saxophone
    Continuum Sax CD
    http://continuumsax.com/Recordings/recordings.html

  • If I Close My Eyes (2021) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello
    Image: score excerpt
    Premiered by Syzygy Ensemble, Melbourne Recital Centre
    ABC Studio recording Syzygy Enseble – contact composer

    Macula lutea (1999, rev. 2005) for flutes (1 performer), piano, cello, percussion (2 performers) and pulsars
    Image: structure projection
    12’30”
    flutes, piano, two percussionists, cello and pulsars
    First work in Kandinsky/astronomy cycle. Inspired by Kandinsky´s Yellow-Red-Blue (1925) and epic stellar life cycles.
    Premiered 10th Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music,5 September, 1999, The Studio, Sydney Opera House.
    Further performances in Sydney and USA by NOISE ensemble at The
    Atheneum Library, San Diego, 23 October, 2005.

    Elachista (1991) for mixed woodwind/brass ensemble. 8’
    five timbral peregrinations for mixed woodwindwind/brass ensemble
    I. Gravitation, II. Transience, III. Fibrillation, IV. Polemikos, V. Plenum

  • Time and Water: Ett drömspel (2015)
    ca. 6’
    Commissioned and premiered by the Sydney Phlharmonia Choir for programme ‘To Be Sung on Water’. Premiered in the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, November 21, 2015

    Flow (2006)
    Image: pdf first page of score
    5’
    Commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia for premiere 7 July, 2007
    Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, NSW

  • Bloodwood (pirrki-pirrki) with didgeridoo (2008)
    7’20”
    Commissioned and premiered by The Song Company as part of
    Kalkadunga Man in association with William Barton (didgeridoo).
    Premiered 21 February, 2009, Bathurst, Sydney, Melbourne and
    Internationally at The Flanders Festival, 25 November 2009

    Motet à six (2004)
    Motet à six : O virtus sapientiae bhur bhuwah swah tapisserie
    for six voices and optional Balinese gong
    Image: A mon seul Desir
    Programme note and song texts
    8’
    A setting of texts in Latin, French and Sanskrit
    Premiered by The Song Company, conducted by Roland Peelman
    Australi an Centre for Photography, Paddington, NSW, 8 October 2004.

  • Einziges Lied

  • Floreana (2009) for soprano, piccolo, flute, clarinet, harp, viola, cello, harp, percussion
    ca. 7’
    Image:
    Score excerpt
    Commissioned by Peter Godfrey-Smith and Jane Sheldon as the final movement in The Origin Cycle, setting the concluding remarks of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
    Premiered by Firebird Ensemble with Jane Sheldon, soprano, and Jeffrey Means, conductor, Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, April 28, 2009, with further performances at Stanford University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canberra and Sydney
    http://janesheldonsoprano.com/dir/projects/

    Sonetos del Amor Oscuro (2004, 2010)

    for soprano and chamber ensemble (2004)

    for soprano and piano (2010)
    First Prize 2006 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize
    Chamber setting for soprano, lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, percussion (2 players)
    and soundtrack
    26’
    A setting of five Spanish texts by Federico García Lorca.
    1. El poeta habla por teléfono con el amor
    2. Noche del amor insomne
    3. Soneto de la guirnalda de rosas
    4. Llagas de amor
    5. El poeta pide a su amor que le escriba
    Chamber setting recorded on COOL BLACK
    Setting for soprano and piano
    A setting of six Spanish texts by Federico García Lorca.
    1. El poeta habla por teléfono con el amor
    2. El amor duerme en el pecho del poeta
    3. Noche del amor insomne
    4. Soneto de la guirnalda de rosas
    5. Llagas de amor
    6. El poeta pide a su amor que le escriba
    Recorded by Jane Sheldon and Zubin Kanga on CHIAROSCURO (Phosphor

    Hrafnsöngvar (Ravensongs) (2005, 2007, 2017)
    soprano, piano, cello, harp, celeste (2005, 2007)
    soprano and piano (2017)
    Image:
    23’
    A tone poem with two cello intermezzi, setting seven texts in Icelandic by Hrafn Andrés Har› arson.
    1. Í Upphafi,
    2. Morgunn, Intermezzo I,
    3. Fuglar himins,
    4. Lífi› Sjálft,
    5. Spá, Intermezzo 2,
    6. Perluregn,
    7. Ó Frón, flín Mó›ir
    Premiered by Halcyon 29 October, 2005, Music Workshop, Sydney
    Conservatorium of Music. Attended by the poet and Icelandic Consul
    Sigrún Baldvinsdóttir.

    Apollinairesongs (2001, 2017)
    Versions available:
    mezzo soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, cello and piano (2001)
    mezzo soprano and piano
    tenor and piano (2017)
    baritone and piano (2017)
    Image:
    Programme note and texts
    20’
    A song cycle setting French texts by Guillaume Apollinaire
    1. Le Pont Mirabeau (1991)
    2. Toujours (1991)
    3. Claire de lune (1998)
    4. L’univers (2001)
    Chamber version available on COOL BLACK CD

    Aquila’s Wing (2014)
    soprano and mezzo soprano 3’
    Programme note and text
    Kingfisher: Songs for Halcyon CD Tall Poppies TP236

  • Calme, luxe et volupté
    for flute orchestra: piccolo, flute in C, alto flute, bass flute and contrabass flute
    Premiered by Pierre-Yves Artaud and Orchestre de Flûtes français, Paris, 15 May 2017

    Einziges Lied (2004)
    for SATB, oboe d’amore, baroque string orchestra, Japanese bell (bonshou)
    A setting in German of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonett 19, Teil I Sonnets to Orpheus. Commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia.
    Premiered Sydney Philharmonia, conducted by Brett Weymark, 25 November 2005, Eugene Goosens Hall, ABC Centre Ultimo, NSW.
    Further performances in USA, Philadelphia Choral Arts

    Fracture: a noh play for cello and orchestra (2003)
    Highly Commended 2004 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize
    20’
    Commissioned by Ars Musica
    Premiered SYO conducted by Matthew Wood, with guest soloist
    Geoffrey Gartner, City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney 24 June, 2004

  • Unspeakable (Japan 2008)

    Back to Front (Carriageworks, Sydney 2006-8)

    In Repose (Satsuki Odamura, bass koto, Maya Kanomori, images & dancer, Adelaide Festival, 2007)

    Red Shoes (VCA, Melbourne 2003)

    Molly Sweeney (Melbourne Theatre Company, Fairfax Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, 1996)