Elissa Goodrich
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Elissa’s works play in festivals across Europe, North America and Australasia, and in internationally exhibited audio-visual collaborations. Elissa performed her Dusk to Dawn:Forgotten Songs Of Flight with Caerwen Martin, National Opera Centre (New York City, NY). Elissa co-led Shannon-Goodrich Ensemble with 2 nominations for Australian Jazz Work of the Year. Multi-Green Room Award winner, Elissa’s independent theatre work includes long-time collaborations with Australian-based directors and writers.
Since 2015 Elissa’s practice includes collaborating at intersections of climate science and new mu-sic. Elissa’s “Gene Tree” (ArtMusicFund, Australia Council for the Arts) culminated in: Opening National Science Week, Vic Parliament, 2017, and in partnership with St Martin’s YPAC, Royal Botanic Gardens, (2022), and 2x 2023 Green Room Awards for ‘Best Production’, and ‘‘Outstanding Composition’. Elissa was commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral to create feature-length composition “Rotations” for World Earth Day (2022). Elissa was selected as artist/presenter for CRiSaP’s Wild Energies (UK) and her soundart “Beneath_Above” featured at Sonorities Festival (Belfast), 2022, “Sounding with the Whales” featured in Polar Sounds (UK/Europe), and “Bubbles and Waves ii” for Tempo Reale/FKL’s “Soundstainability”, (Italy), 2023.
Elissa’s “The Waves Project” (Creative Australia, Creative Victoria) continues in partnership with Professor Manasseh’s ‘Surf Sounds’ (Swinburne).
Elissa is an invited artist-member of UNESCO’s Ocean Decade Network.
