SANDRA FRANCE

Australian Composer

Sandra France is an Australian composer, based in the nation’s capital, Canberra. Her unique compositional voice reflects a broad, eclectic taste in music, resulting in highly original and identifiable works in which lyrical melodies and innovative textures are at the forefront.

..Her writing is assured and masterly, and despite its complexity, also melodic and approachable…

France’s score is complex, both melodically and rhythmically, in keeping with the conflicting forces at play; and the orchestration is a tour de force, pioneering a new model for operatic writing.

…Every song stood on its own. The highly inventive and very well-composed music was backed up with excellent performances and singing from the three leads, especially the voices of Leisa Keen and Michelle Nicolle...

…Flight Memory is a truly brilliant work, which offers outstanding innovation. It is highly intellectual and thoroughly captivating. It surely must tour widely, especially given every plane in the air carries a Black Box Flight Recorder…

Act two was some of the strongest opera writing I have heard from an Australian composer.