Custodians of the Sky - Le Balcon
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A wide mix of opera, concertos, chamber music, jazz and voices.
Interconexiones
A critically acclaimed new album of Oboe Quartets. Purchase HERE or stream on all major services.
MOONSCRAPER
A solo album of my chamber music. Available to purchase HERE and to stream on all major services.
Tangled Pipes
Featuring my spiky recorder quintet, Three Stages. Purchase HERE or stream on all major services.
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Photos from Pinch Pleat, premiere Oulu Festival Finland, August 2023
Pinch Pleat is created for three aerialists and 3 musicians, and combines aerial techniques with contemporary music, and it's the third collaboration between Ilona Jäntti and Luke Styles, since they first started working together in 2009 in London. In Pinch Pleat they collaborate with Norwegian circus company KompaniTO and Uusinta Ensemble from Helsinki.
The atmosphere of Pinch Pleat is relentlessly intense, sometimes wildly festive, sometimes more casually fervent. Despite the visual and musical darkness, it is not dark but gentle. TEATTERIVERKKOARTIKKELI – 4/2023
Photos from, Awakening Shadow, Sydney Chamber Opera production October 2022
A private window to the soul – a sequence of desperate prayers – a crusade from belief to doubt. Awakening Shadow channels Benjamin Britten’s crisis of faith through the singing body. In a first Australian staging, Britten’s five Canticles are entwined with a new work by leading Australian composer Luke Styles: a fevered photo negative. Photos by Zan Wemberley. Director, Imara Savage. Video Artist, Mike Daly. Set & Costume/Design, Elizabeth Gadsby. Lighting Design, Alexander Berlage.
Photos from Custodians of the Sky, Le Balcon, Paris, April 2023
A selection of rehearsal and performance photos from Custodians of the Sky, premiere/performances April 15th and 16th 2023, Paris, by Le Balcon. The work focuses on astronomy from a uniquely Australian perspective: the constellations as Australians can see them, incorporating recordings from Australian stargazing sites. The work links the listeners through our shared connection to space and celestial bodies and references different cultural interpretations of space and the stars.
New photos by Sam Walton
Photos from the rehearsal room of Handspun. 23-25 Feb, 7:30pm, ROH2, Exposure Dance
The choreographer (Ilona Jantti) and composer (Luke Styles) approached this work each from their particular fields, music and aerial work. They both focused on showing the virtuosity and very different difficulties of playing an instrument and of dancing on a rope while closely listening to each other and intertwining these two solos into a duet of aerial dance and live cello. Handspun is one of my most internationally performed works, with performances at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sirkuslandsbyen, Torshovparken Oslo, Norway, Helsinki Music Center as part of Cirko Festival Finland, in Trutnov, Czech Republic, at Jackson’s Lane Theatre, London, at the Panama Aerial Festival, Panama City, at Subcase Nordic Circus Fair/Dansens Hus, Stockholm, at the Kokkolan Festival, Finland, by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra for their Chamber Series, Helsinki, at the Oulu Music Festival, Finland, at DIOD, Jihlava, Czech Republic, at the XV. International Festival of New Circus and Theatre, Letni Letna, Prague, CZ, in Latvia (Riga), Switzerland and Germany.
Macbeth, 1st October 2015
Commissioned by Glyndebourne and performed at the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Festival Opera singers. Composer Luke Styles, Director/Librettist Ted Huffman, Conductor Jeremy Bines. © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Robert Workman
