News
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The album features “Meta Cohen's extraordinary song cycle a love is a love is a love, ‘a love letter to queerness and the LGBTQIA+ community’: an affirmation of sexual desire and romantic love, but also of the myriad other kinds of queer connections, from platonic love, friendships and kinships to the experience of navigating the world as a queer person.”
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Meta’s queer song cycle ‘a love is a love is a love’ was released as an EP album by ABC Classic. The work was commissioned as part of the ABC’s Composer Commissioning Fund.
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Meta’s piece we was part of the official Australian Section submission to the ISCM World New Music Days 2023.
Interviews
and Panels
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LISTEN HERE (Interview can be heard 1 hour into the recording)
Meta joins Lyric Opera of Melbourne Artistic Director Patrick Burns to discuss their new song cycle and opera-in-development, Kiss My Sword.
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Composer and dramaturg Meta Cohen says they approach their music like a dramaturg and their theatre like a musician. It’s a creative combination that’s led to their choral and vocal writing being a finalist in the 2023 Art Music Awards. They join Andrew Ford to talk about all that plus their ABC-commissioned song cycle a love is a love is a love.
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Meta was a panellist in the Postmillennial Dramaturgies in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand event, Critical Stages, held at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2024)
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Meta was a panellist in the Dramaturgical Thinking: a creative conversation about Australian dramaturgy event, chaired by Chris Mead, held at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2023).
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Meta discussed their artistic practice in an interview with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne
Reviews
Awards
Coming soon.
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Meta’s piece Swerve was a finalist in the 2023 APRA AMCOS/Australian Music Centre Art Music awards for Work of the Year: Choral
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Meta’s piece Caedo won third prize in the 1st Leonardo da Vinci International Composition Competition in Florence, Italy
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Meta was awarded the ABC’s inaugural composer commissioning fund for their song cycle a love is a love is a love.