Meet the AYO Episode 6 | Sarah Elise Thompson, composer

Australian Youth Orchestra

Sarah is in her final year at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and brought along to camp her witty personality and determination to experiment with new musical ideas. The most appealing part of coming along to camp, for Sarah, was the incentive of being able to work alongside some of the industry’s leading performers during the creation process. The result of her two-week stint at camp was Flint, a composition based upon a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti. The poem tells of the beauty of precious stones, and yet how, whilst they are beautiful, they do not possess the fire and passion of flint, albeit less pleasing to the eye. Hear Sarah as she talks in detail about her new work, and her time at AYO National Music Camp. We'd like to acknowledge we’ve recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Kaurna Nations and pay our respects to Elders both past, present and future.