Shaun Rigney is an award-winning composer and music producer. He is also a video artist, writer, musician, orchestrator and arranger. His music includes symphonies, concertos, chamber music, solo pieces, songs, film scores, electronica, and works composed for radio. Shaun has collaborated with fine musicians from all over the world, including Slava Grigoryan, Leonard Grigoryan, Michael Kieran Harvey, Edin Karamazov, the Guitar Quartet of Versailles, Australian String Quartet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and many others.
His discography reflects his diverse interests. The ABC has commercially released many of his classical works, while recordings in other genres (post-rock, ambient, radiophonic) have also been released commercially. In the role of music producer, his two recordings of the Bach Cello Suites performed by Slava Grigoryan, on baritone and standard guitars, won consecutive ARIAs (Australian Recording Industry Award) for Best Classical Album in 2017 and 2018. Volume One spent 13 weeks at number 1 on the ARIA Classical Music chart, a new national record.
In 2009, Shaun worked as orchestrator on Peter Weir’s film The Way Back. In 2007/8, Shaun was artistic director and composer for the Aquamarine Project. Inspired by the Great Barrier Reef and its people, the Aquamarine Project helped create two new orchestral works as well as musical collaborations with Kuku Yalanji elder Bennett Walker.
In 2006, Shaun travelled with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra as the ABC’s recording producer on the orchestra’s first tour of China.
He recently collaborated with the City of Melbourne, LASERVISION and Orchestra Victoria on the production of his multimedia work Sky Symphony, based on his second symphony Portraits of the Air.
Photograph by Luke Howard.
Shaun Rigney Contemporary Music 