PRESS QUOTES:
Neal’s compositions show great variety: one moment she is combining with video artist Mendel Hardeman for some sharp social satire (Holy Vessels), the next she explores micro-tonalities (Little Fury). Rabid Bay, for piano and big band, blends dense notation with bebop riffs’……
Martin Ball, The Australian, 2004
Review – Australian, Martin Ball
‘There’s nothing moribund about the music she has written for this remarkable eight-piece ensemble; her ‘dead horses’ literally leap with life’. Neal…. an Adrenalin-filled musical adventure a winner, at a gallop’…..
Jessica Nicholas, The Age Oct 2007
Adren. ReviewAge.
‘Composer Kate Neal represents the new wave of Australian composers and is the heart and brains behind dead Horse Productions. Neal’s Rabid Bay, a new work composed for Michael Kieran Harvey, is an explosion of scintillating colour and intoxicating movement’…..
Xenia Hanusiak, Herald Sun, 2004
Review – Herlad Sun
‘Transforming traditional parameters of the classical musical experience has been a challenge for many entrepreneurs. Dead Horse gets it right’…..
Xenia Hanusiak, Herald Sun 04
‘New music, new champion … … the program established Dead Horse as an exciting vehicle not only for Neal, but a wide range of new music’ …
Jonathan Marshall, Real Time 04
NewMusic.
‘It’s not every day that you go to a concert featuring a concerto for two Toyota Cressidas and a string orchestra. But that’s just the sort of thing to expect from [Kate Neals’] Dead Horse Productions’…
Martin Ball, The Australian, 2006
Australian 2006.
The evening’s finale, Kate Neal’s Concave City and A Love Story for Two Cars (2006) is the show-stopper. In the open space between the string Orchestra and the audience, 2 cars drive in, one gently crashing into the other. Two traffic weary drivers emerge to confront each other and begin an intense, agile and at times erotic dance in, on and around the cars. The miked sounds of slamming doors, indicators and windscreen wipers form part of the score. The excellent dancers – Lina Limosani and Choreographer Anton – portray frenetic urban life with power and energy, supported by Neal’s evocative composition for strings. This collaboration is the most effective and powerful blending of media’……
Chris Reid, Real Time 2006.
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