Composer, Clarinettist, Educator and Visual artist

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Anne Brigid Burke has performed extensively in solo and chamber recitals, both nationally and internationally. Highlights of performances in 2001-2 were at the Cybersonica International Festival of Digital Music and Sound 2002 at The ICA, London; MAXIS 2002 Festival / Symposium of Audio & Art in England; art@radio on the River Hull Time Based Arts, Hull England; and Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2001 & 2002 as well as solo and chamber performances at various Melbourne venues. Brigid has also received twelve art awards and exhibited throughout Japan in the Japanese International Hand Printed & Shhin Kohanga competition.

As a freelance performer / composer, Brigid is broadcast on ABC FM local and overseas radio and has recently completed a commission from the Australian Broadcasting Commission Listening Room and presented a concert of her works on Sunday Live in the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne with her ensemble TRIO DUO PLUS. Her most recent CD recordings have been reviewed and broadcast internationally. The Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council; Japanese Printing Corporation; ANAT; South Australian Government; Community Arts Centres and Universities have also supported Brigid in her performances and compositions. She has a Master of Music in Composition from Melbourne University and is currently lecturing in Composition and Clarinet at Victoria University Melbourne.

Reviews

Brigid Burke's 'Lands Collide' utilised computer, live performance and percussionist Wendy Couch, and a series of slides that, ' in the context of opening concert, shone out as humane in intent, making its individualistic and quiet statements on cultural intermingling and juxtapositions' Clive O'Connell, The Age, Melbourne, July 2002.

Australian artist Brigid Burke playing a very expressive set of effected voice and clarinet with prerecorded backing. While she played, nay of her paintings and prints played behind adding extra levels to her sounds.' Mike Hodgeskin, ICA, London, 2002.

Brilliance was due to the coherency with which Brigid Burke was able to exhibit in the intensive web of sound.lights added a theatrical layer to the music and admirably supported the ever-present edginess of the soundscape' Joel Crotty, Arts & Entertainment, The Sun, Melbourne, December 1996.

Her music is challenging, as it concentrates on electro-acoustic techniques. None the less, the music has integrity.' The Age Melbourne, Arts & Entertainment, April 1998.

The multiphonics, flutter tonguing, pitch bends and quarter tones are all admirably executed The playing is excellent and electronic sounds are interesting . Brigid Burke must be admired and congratulated for this CD. She is not only the composer and performer, but has jointly produced and is responsible for the artwork. Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Reviews, March 1999.

The physical presence of Burke added significantly to the persuasiveness of the performance. One was struck by the genuine depth of her commitment to the music ' Tom Sankey, The Advertiser, Adelaide, Thursday, July 27, 2000..

CDs TRI DUO and INTERSECT are highly inspirational to any clarinetist seeking to expand his/her timbral palette and appreciation of the cutting edge new music performance The musical interaction on INTERSECT is extremely rich, fresh, probing, and lively. Brigids music in TRI DUO is contemplative, intellectually challenging and non-visceral. Brigid Burkes playing is free, and her skills as an improviser are highly evident, as the structures and sound worlds arrived at through rehearsal require a tremendous fluency in the timbral possibilities of the clarinet' International Clarinet Society, The Clarinet, Reviews, Volume 27, Number 1, December 1999.