Picture: Courtesy of Dominic Flynn

Dominic Flynn Awarded the
2025 Continuo Commission

“This is fantastic news! Thanks to you, the selection panel, and the Commissioning Circle members for making this possible!

I’m thrilled — so keen to get started on this new work!”

from Dominic Flynn, 2025 Continuo Composer on 22 April, 2024

In his application, Dominic wrote:
 
“The motivations behind the composition are intensely personal as they have emerged from the recent discovery of my family’s Indigenous ancestry and the death of my father. The title is a reference to my paternal grandmother’s maiden name which was given to my Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestors in the eighteenth century by English colonisers on Bruny Island. Pickett will explore several historical transcriptions of Indigenous music by non-Indigenous musicologists as a means of dissecting my own music practice as an Indigenous classical musician. The work will be dedicated to the Picketts, in particular my father who recently passed away shortly after our ancestral revelation.”
 
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Please join us in congratulating Dominic Flynn and Ensemble Mania on being awarded the Continuo Commissioning

Dominic’s music has been commissioned and performed both at home in Australia and overseas in Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, and England.

Pieces of his have been selected for the official Australian submission to the ISCM World New Music Days festival as well as for the inaugural ANAM Set commissioning project, and have featured in the Ossa Music Prize winning concert and in the APRA Art Music Award nominated Two Minutes from Home project.

Dominic writes:

“Through this opportunity from the Continuo Commissioning Circle, I hope to reflect on a few key things: firstly, the political implications within my own artistic practice as a classical music composer in colonised Australia, secondly, the plethora of thoughts, feelings, questions, and answers that have arisen from the news of my Indigenous heritage, and finally on my father’s recent passing following a two year battle with cancer.”

The Continuo Directors would like to thank all the other applicants for your outstanding submissions. We recognise the passion and creativity that went into your submissions and encourage you to reapply for future rounds.

Finally, we extend our gratitude to this year’s Selection Panel for their kind and thoughtful consideration of each candidate. Thank you to Leigh Harrold, Elizabeth Younan and Marshall McGuire for their time and expertise in making this difficult decision.

More about Dominic Flynn

Dominic Flynn – “Mill” | Ensemble Mania 2022