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International award-winning composer and pianist Australian born Amanda Lee Falkenberg began her journey into composition through years spent in ballet studios as an accompanist, including the Australian Ballet company in 2000. She wrote over 120 pieces to accompany ballet dancers as they trained, which led to her Moving With Music CD series. 

 

In 2003 her first full-length orchestral ballet was commissioned, Edge of the World, and performed by the International Barossa Music Festival Orchestra with the prestigious Leigh Warren and Dancers, which received glowing reviews from the national press. 

 

Inspired by visual imagery, Falkenberg's natural progression led her to write for film and TV, stage plays, documentaries, animation series and feature films, including her cinematic soundtrack to the screen adaption of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands.

 

In 2017, she conducted the world premiere of her orchestral suite Sea Trilogy with the London Film Music Orchestras at their Gala Concert. Later that year, she completed her Arabian inspired concerto for piano and orchestra, CROSSING of the CRESCENT MOON, after which she began her next large scale project, THE MOONS SYMPHONY®.

 

THE MOONS SYMPHONY® is a cinematically rich visual experience merging the worlds of art & science. In seven movements, it explores moons of our outer solar system while celebrating past, present, and future missions after consulting with some of the world greatest scientists from NASA, ESA and astronauts from the International Space Station.  

 

In May 2022, both CROSSING of the CRESCENT MOON and THE MOONS SYMPHONY® will be recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra with Maestra Marin Alsop conducting and Ben Parry leading the London Voices to record the chorus at Abbey Road Studios.