Ken Murray

Publications

• ‘Take Me to Spain’: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance ‘Take Me to Spain’: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance , by John Whiteoak, Melbourne, Lyrebird Press, 2019, xiii, 258 pp., ISBN-978-0-73403-792-3 (paperback), ISBN-978-0-73403-793-0 (ebook: pdf)
• Amidst the Peaks: Trumpet and Guitar at the 2024 Albanian Brass Festival
• Viotar: Trumpet and Guitar at 2024 DAM Festival (Kosovo)
• Conyngham at 75
• USA Performance Research Tour
• Return Journey: Ensemble Three Play Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum
• Despite Our Silent Elders
• Elliot Gyger at 50
• Punch: the brass music of Katy Abbott
• Three: Premiere Performances of New Sonatas
• Three - Global Perspectives, Australian Context
• "ANZAC," Concerto for Nine Soloists and Orchestra by Barry Conyngham
• Ensemble Three plays new Australian Works - ABC Live Broadcast
• Ensemble Three
• Contextualizing Carter: Australian Premieres of Modernist Masterpieces
• 'Take Me to Spain': Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance
• Other Worlds: Imitation and the Borrowing of Sound in Contemporary Trumpet Performance
• Ken Murray: Loop Sonata (2019) performed by Ken Murray, guitar
• Melodic Excursions: The Brazilian cavaquinho’s global journey
• Arranging Robert Schumann’s Piano Accompaniment to J.S. Bach’s Solo Violin Partita BWV 1002 For The Guitar: Historical Background and Process
• Manuel de Falla and The Guitar: A Discussion of Three New Transcriptions
• In Dowland's Own Words: Lachrimae and Flow my teares
• From the Yellow River to the Yarra River The Orchestral Works of Chu Wanghua, and their Performance
• The Hispanic Grainger: Encounters with the modern Spanish school
• The Hispanic Grainger: Encounters with the modern Spanish school
• Instrument of Change: Visions of the Guitar in the Early 20th Century
• The Thin Blue Line
• Plink-a-plong: The Belle Epoque Guitar and Percy Grainger
• INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE The International Rise of the Guitar (c. 1870-1945)
• "Homage to Brian Brown" -  improvisation performed by Les Craythorn, Ensemble Three, and Peter Neville
• Dai Fujikura: "Three" (2019) performed by Ensemble Three
• Alan Holley: "All Demons Run" (2021) performed by Ensemble Three
• Melody Eötvös: "Gamma" (2021) performed by Ensemble Three
• Voodoo Sonnets
• Ensemble Three: Life and Loss
• Turtle Totem
• Fujikura and Three: Commission, Premiere Performance and Video Release of New Work
• Stuart Greenbaum: A Trillion Miles of Darkness
• The Mutability of Bach: New Arrangements of J.S. Bach’s Accompanied Violin Music for the Saxophone
• Christopher Sainsbury - Simple Truths (2007)
• Ensemble Three: Midnight Songs
• Breath of Metamorphosis: Improvisation and Interdisciplinary Performance in Contemporary Recorder Playing
• Guitar Wizards: Brazilian Guitar Music and Modernism from Heitor Villa-Lobos to Arthur Kampela
• Ensemble Three: Despite Our Silent Elders
• Random Reflections; the guitar music of Ian Bonighton
• Dai Fujikura: Turtle Totem
• Singing Stone
• Ensemble Three: Voodoo Sonnets
• Leilehua Lanzilotti: the strong pulse beneath the charred earth (2023) performed by Ensemble Three
• Caerwen Martin: "Sleepless" (2018) performed by Joel Brennan and Ken Murray
• Random Reflections: Guitar 1970
• Three – Australian Premieres at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
• THREE China Conservatory Concert, Beijing
• In C
• Mt. Whitney: Determinants of Summit Success and Acute Mountain Sickness
• Spanish Music and its Representations in London (1878-1930): From the Exotic to the Modern.
• Call admission and handover in heterogeneous wireless networks
• Template-Based Structured Argumentation
• Melbourne Guitar Festival 2009, Melba Conservatorium of Music, Richmond. Saturday 24 January 2009, 8pm. Concert 4. Ken Murray guitar, Laila Engle flute
• ABC FM Sunday Live Sunday May 4 2008, 3pm Direct broadcast from the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne Odeon Guitar Trio Ken Murray, guitar, mandolin Doug de Vries, guitar, cavaquinho Jaime Smith, guitar
• Helen Gifford opera Exile. Produced by Chamber Made opera. Performed at the Iwaki auditorium 8pm 22 June 2010. This recording was broadcast on ABC FM 8pm Saturday 20 November 2010. Published as the worlds first iPad opera (iPad app). Ken Murray, mandolin.
• Crossing the Blue (Presented by the Melbourne Composer's League)Sunday, 9th November 2008, 3.00 pm.A concert of new music for voice and guitar from Australia and New Zealand featuring Ken Murray, Deborah Kayser and Geoffrey Morris. Trinity Uniting Church, 15 Black Street, Brighton, Melbourne.
• Aurora FestivalThurs 4th May, 8.00pm 2006Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSWLive broadcast on ABC FMKen Murray electric and classical guitarsSimon Docking, piano
• Saturday 28 July 20073.00pm Saturday SessionKen Murray, guitar and mandolinRecorded in the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, MelbourneSound engineer: Chris LawsonProducer: Duncan YardleyBroadcast on ABC FM on Saturday 28 July 2007 and Saturday 26 July 2008
• 11 June 2006, Santo Tirso Guitar Festival, Portugal 2006 (XIII Festival Internacional de Guitarra Santo Tirso)
• Monday 13 September 2010, 7pmGuitar Perspectives Concert SeriesCheio de Dedos: Guitar Music from BrazilKen Murray and Doug de Vries, guitars.
• Faculty of the VCA and Music, School of MusicClassical Guitar ShowcaseKen Murray and Antony FieldMelba Hall, University of MelbourneWednesday 26 May, 6.00pm
• Monday March 15, 1.10pmMelba Hall, University of MelbourneLunchtime concert seriesOdeon Guitar Trio (Ken Murray, Doug de Vries, Jaimie Smith)
• Friday 24th September, 2010, 6pmThe University of TasmaniaConservatorium of MusicModern MastersAn exciting range of contemporary works by Gnattali, Greenbaum, Guinga, Henze, Piazzolla, Reiner and Villa-Lobos.Performers:Deborah Kayser, sopranoLuciano Tristaino, fluteKen Murray, guitarGisbert Watty, guitar
• Friday 17th September, 2010, 8pmMelbourne Recital CentreModern MastersAn exciting range of contemporary works by Gnattali, Greenbaum, Guinga, Henze, Piazzolla, Reiner and Villa-Lobos.Performers:Deborah Kayser, sopranoLuciano Tristaino, fluteKen Murray, guitarGisbert Watty, guitar
• The FlowersRe-sound contemporary music ensembleReleased 2010 on the Move labelMCD 436
• Brian Ferneyhough – TerrainElision EnsembleReleased 2010 on the Kairos label0013072KAI
• Seven Missed Lessons
• Musical Portraits 3MBS - Ken Murray, 21 October 2010
• Three Pieces for Guitar
• Bash for guitar
• Yamandu Costa and the Evolving Brazilian Seven-String Guitar