Opera / Theatre

Chika

Commissioned score for interactive multimedia performance
for small ensemble, live interactive computer projections
Chika is a documentary performance, a multi-layered production which crosses the genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews to tell a story - the story of Chika Honda, a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit.
Duration: 50:00

» 2008 The Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival 2008

Original Music Composition: Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura.

Concept/Photography: Mayu Kanamori

Choreography: Yumi Umiumare

Director of Music: Thomas Fitzgerald

Producers: Mayu Kanamori & Malcolm Blaylock

Director: Malcolm Blaylock

Artists: Mayu Kanamori (Narrator), Tom Fitzgerald (Violin/Keyboards), Yumi Umiumare (Dance), Satsuki Odamura (Koto), Bronwyn Kirkpatrick (Shakuhachi), Toshinori Sakamoto (Taiko Drums)

» 2008 Sydney Season: Carriageworks

Artists: Mayu Kanamori, Yumi Umiumare, Tom Fitzgerald, Satsuki Odamura, Anne Norman, Toshinori Sakamoto, Andrei Shabunov, Nick Franklin, Malcolm Blaylock, Keith Tucker

» 2005 C.U.B. Malthouse
» 2004 Broadcast on Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
» 2003 Performed/Recorded at Chapel-off-Chapel

Chika Soundtrack CD

Chika Flash Clip

chika.asia

Midsummer Nights Dream

Thomas Fitzgerald: Music Composition, Director of Music
Melbourne Theatre Critics Award for Best Musical Composition & Direction.

» 1997 Midsummer Nights Dream

Child Support - 110 Bed Nights

Thomas Fitzgerald: Music Composition, Director of Music
for small ensemble, live interactive computer projections
Duration: 50:00

» 2002 "Hello, Hello" Workshop concert

The Three Tenants

Thomas Fitzgerald: Music Composition, Director of Music

» 2004 Melbourne Town Hall (winter season 2)
» 1997 Melbourne Town Hall

Avalanche

Thomas Fitzgerald: Sound Designer, Composition: ´Birth´ for voice & electronic sounds, ´Spiders Web´ electronic sounds
for small ensemble, live interactive computer projections

Contemporary dance work choreographed by Lindy Ferguson
Duration: 50:00

» 2004 Avalanche 2 at Fringe at Dancehouse

Dancers: Harriet Richie, Rikki Mace, Tanya Voges
Costumes: Natalie Boll

Avalanche I website

» 2003 Premiere performance at Chapel off Chapel

Dancers: Lindy Ferguson, Abigail Gibson & Anna Gantz
Flute: Megan Kenny
Piano: Tom Fitzgerald
Choir : Aspiration in Harmony, Conductor - Andrew Blackburn

Avalanche II website