Tall Poppies Records is an Australian record label founded in September 1991 by Belinda Webster. It focuses on recording solo and
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small num ...
in the
classical genre. It is particularly dedicated to promoting the work of Australian composers.
The name of the label derives from the "
tall poppy syndrome
The tall poppy syndrome is a cultural phenomenon in which people hold back, criticise or sabotage those who have or are believed to have achieved notable success in one or more aspects of life, particularly intellectual or cultural wealth; "cut ...
", because those involved feel that, in Australia, there is a tendency to criticise or downplay those who achieve success.
Musician list
Composers
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Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighboring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigin ...
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Ross Edwards
Ross Edwards (born 1 December 1942) is a former Australian cricketer. Edwards played in 20 Test matches for Australia, playing against England, West Indies and Pakistan. He also played in nine One Day Internationals including the 1975 Cricket ...
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Nigel Westlake
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Georges Lentz
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Carl Vine
Carl Edward Vine, (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.
From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue inclu ...
*David Stanhope
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Andrew Ford
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Andrew Schultz
Andrew Schultz (born 18 August 1960 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an acclaimed Australian classical composer. A musician with a large and widely performed output and an international sphere of activity he has, since 2008, lived in Sydney, Ne ...
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Anne Boyd
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Nigel Butterley
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Tristram Cary
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Elena Kats-Chernin
Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian pianist and composer, best known for her ballet '' Wild Swans''.
Early life and career
Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzb ...
*Anne Ghandar
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Graeme Koehne
Graeme John Koehne (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral tr ...
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Rik Rue
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Martin Wesley-Smith
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Bruce Cale
Performers
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Australia Ensemble
Australia Ensemble UNSW is an Australian chamber group active since 1980.
The group was founded in 1980 as the University of New South Wales Ensemble after a proposal put to the University of New South Wales by musicologist Roger Covell and cl ...
*Song Company
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Australian Youth Orchestra
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David Pereira
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David Pereira (born 21 September 1953) is an Australian classical cellist, considered one of the finest working today. He was Senior Lecturer in Cello at the Canberra School of Music from 1990 to 2008. Later he worked there as a Distingui ...
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Ian Munro
*Merlyn Quaife
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Lisa Moore
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Michael Kieran Harvey
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Stephanie McCallum
*David Stanhope
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Geoffrey Lancaster
Geoffrey Lancaster (born 20 August 1954) is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with ...
*Timothy Kain
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Riley Lee
Riley Kelly Lee (born 1951) is an American-born Australian-based shakuhachi player and teacher. In 1980 he became the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai Shihan (grand master) in the shakuhachi tradition. He is a recipient of tw ...
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Roy Howat
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David Bollard
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Sydney Chamber Choir
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Goldner String Quartet
See also
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List of record labels
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References
External links
Tall Poppies website
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Australian record labels
Australian independent record labels
Record labels established in 1991
1991 establishments in Australia