Hildegard + Flowermuscle at New York's Mezame Festival

Update: Both shows now sold out.

Update: The September 26 show is now sold out. A second show has been added on September 25.

New York’s Ambient Church is turning 10 this year. To celebrate they’re launching Mezame Festival. Jane will sing Flowermuscle as part of Visions of Hildegard, a program of Hildegard von Bingen, with Modern Medieval. Sung in the glorious acoustic of Manhattan’s 1000-seat St Francis Xavier.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.


Liza Lim's The Oresteia with Sydney Chamber Opera

Jane is thrilled to be singing with a dream team of colleagues to bring Liza Lim’s The Oresteia to life at Carriageworks.

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The Sydney exclusive of a key work of Australian opera by our leading composer internationally, Liza Lim.

Electra, Cassandra, Orestes, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon are summoned to relive their murderous hatreds in Liza Lim’s first opera The Oresteia. A landmark in Australian music, Lim’s “visceral, confrontational, and totally compelling” (The Guardian) work exploded onto the scene in the early 90s, yet The Oresteia has never been produced after its world premiere in Melbourne.

With a libretto adapted by Barrie Kosky, this opera marked Lim out as the leading Australian composer of her generation, an epithet borne out today by her music’s ubiquity on the world stage and her recent win of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (the highest international honor for new music). A new generation of Australian artists now take on Lim’s taut hour-long distillation of this immensely powerful Greek classic. Imara Savage (Antarctica) directs six of Australia’s most adventurous and virtuosic singers in this unique collaboration with the world-leading instrumental specialists in Lim’s music – ELISION Ensemble, returning to Carriageworks after more than a decade.

Image: Brett Boardman

Flowermuscle 2027 tour dates to be announced in November...

Jane will tour Flowermuscle in Australia, with the amazing Bob Scott on sound and Fausto Brusamolino on lighting. Dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra announced in November. We’ve booked some amazing spaces to showcase the spatialised performance originally made for Sydney’s Phoenix Central Park.

Stay tuned for date announcements.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Environmental Art & Design Prize

To the Heart: A Calling, created by Julia Davis and Jane Sheldon, has won the Interdisciplinary Collaboration category at the 2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Awards. The work will be on exhibit at Manly Art Gallery until August 28.

Artist: Julia Davis

Composer, vocalist: Jane Sheldon

Video Editor: Blue Lucine

Double Bass: Clayton Thomas

Mix: Bob Scott

Camera: Tom Waugh

Drone Operator: Rian Taylor

Colourist: Angela Cerasi

4k video, stereo sound
Duration: 12:39

Sound Collectors Lab: Bloodwood Premiere at Melbourne Recital Centre

The Bloodwood Series is a performance-installation for voice, violin, percussion, electronics and porcelain, light and sound sculptures, created for Jane Sheldon, Anna McMichael, and Louise Devenish by composer and ceramicist Kate Moore. This work evokes a dystopian landscape filled with ghosts and fragmented memories, telling the story of dislocation and a search for identity through place.

Monday 15 August 2022 6pm

Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre

Duration: 1 hour (no interval)

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Commissioned by APRA Art Music Fund.

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