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GLYN LEHMANN

• COMPOSER - television, film, theatre
• SONGWRITER - choirs, bands, schools, special events
• ARRANGER and ORCHESTRATOR - live performances, recordings

COMPOSER • SONGWRITER • ARRANGER

Latest News

Giant of the Forest has been announced as the winner of the Australian National Choral Association (ANCA) Composition Competition - Primary School/Children's Choir Section.

The song is my tribute to a great survivor, the Centurion Tree in Tasmania. This 100 metre tall Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash) is the tallest flowering plant in the world and is thought to be 500 years old. In February this year it survived the bushfires that swept through the Huon Valley.

Thanks to ANCA for providing this wonderful opportunity for Australian composers.

Giant of the Forest was performed by Gondwana Novus at the National Choral School 2020 Finale Concert in Sydney and Young Adelaide Voices will perform the song during their upcoming European tour. In July it will be sung by 500 children at Tasmania’s Festival of Voices, accompanied by the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra.

Preview and purchase the piano/vocal score. Available for SA, SSA(A) and SATB.
2019 was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
To commemorate this event, author Phil Cummings and I composed a special song-cycle. The songs trace the big moments in the human endeavour to explore space.

The world premiere of Space Race was performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Young Adelaide Voices in September 2019.
The Space Race song cycle is available now for choirs to perform.

  1. Gagarin (Beyond Blue Sky) - in 1961 the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit the planet.
  2. Space Race (To Every Question) - in 1962 President Kennedy announced the goal to land man on the moon by the end of the decade.
  3. The Children of the World (July 1969) - the moon landing and its profound effect on the imaginations of children around the world.
  4. Apollo 11 (Homecoming) - the goal had been achieved, now for the tense drama of returning the three astronauts home safely.
Find out more about SPACE RACE…

SOUNDS

Vocal

Giant of the Forest - Gondwana Novus, 2020
Apollo 11 (Homecoming) - from the Space Race song cycle, 2019
Unleashing The Power - World Conference on Information Technology 2002 opening ceremony. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders please note - may contain images of persons now deceased.
I Am The Earth - composed for the United Nations Year of Planet Earth, 2008

Instrumental

The Fire Within - Leigh Warren and Dancers - World Conference on Information Technology, Adelaide. Listen on Apple Music or purchase in iTunes. Listen on Spotify
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Medley - excerpts of my music for television and theatre
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The Gift - composed and orchestrated for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Behind The News - theme from ABC TV news and current affairs program
Phases - an album of piano music.

Arrangement and Production

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Iron In The Blood by Sia Furler (1997). Arranged by Glyn Lehmann, produced by Glyn Lehmann and Mick Wordley.
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The Giant and the Dwarf from Murray Cooper’s Magic Show. Music composed and orchestrated by Glyn Lehmann
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Everything That Rises by Seven Stories. Strings and French horn arranged by Glyn Lehmann.
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A Chance Worth Taking by Jess Milford (2015). Arranged and produced by Glyn Lehmann.

BIO

  • 1950s

    50s

    • Born 1959
  • 1960s

    60s

    • Listening to all kinds of 60s pop music on AM radio
    • First movie experience as a 6-year-old, Sound Of Music
    • Piano lessons on our old upright
  • 1970s

    70s

    • Bought my first album, Let It Be by The Beatles (1970)
    • Began playing the French horn in high school
    • Started recording on a 4-track reel-to-reel
    • Completed a university degree in music performance
    • Performed in stage bands, concert bands, orchestras, quintets…
  • 1980s

    70s

    • Rock band Seven Stories signs international record deal with Sony Music - I play keyboards, French horn and co-arrange/produce songs
    • Play French horn for Adelaide Festival Centre productions of Sound Of Music and Evita, including original cast recordings
    • Music copyist for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Richard Meale, Graeme Koehne…
  • 1990s

    70s

    • Two albums recorded by Seven Stories with producers T-Bone Burnett (Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Elton John) and Kevin Moloney (U2, Sinead O’Connor)
    • Seven Stories perform with INXS, Midnight Oil, The Black Sorrows, Hothouse Flowers
    • First major composition - Kookookachoo a Beatlesque rock opera for Patch Theatre
    • Composed and orchestrated songs for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
  • 2000s

    70s

    • ABC TV (Australia) - composing music and songs for multiple education series and documentaries including Behind The News
    • Music and sound design for State Theatre Company of South Australia and Windmill Theatre
    • Composer for the 2002 World Congress on Information Technology including an extended work for the opening ceremony attended by Bill Clinton
  • 2010s

    2010s

    • Established the SongLibrary - an online collection of my songs for children aged 5-13 years to sing
    • Composed and arranged commissioned works for the South Australian Primary Schools Music Festival and the West Australian Massed Choir Festival
    • Collaborated with award winning author Phil Cummings to create two musicals for schools to perform and a song-cycle commemorating the 1969 moon landing.
    • April 2019 - Winner of the Australian National Choral Association Composition Competition - Primary School/Children's Choir Section for Giant Of The Forest.
    • September 2019 - The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Young Adelaide Voices perform Space Race.
  • 2020s

    2010s

    • Giant of the Forest performed by Gondwana Novus at the National Choral School 2020 Finale Concert, Sydney Australia.

CONTACT






PO BOX 412
Bridgewater
South Australia 5155
Australia