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William Barton
He calls the yidaki the breath of life and of the land: it comes from the tree, it holds the memory of old trees, and it is handed on physically from one person to the next. What he does with it is carry the culture he grew up in into the concert hall. That is a performance and not a ceremony, and he has said himself that he wants to bring the oldest living culture in the world together with the musical inheritance of Europe.
He moved to Brisbane at seventeen and became a soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. He played in Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem, which premiered at the Adelaide Festival in 2004 and is held to be the first full symphonic work with a didgeridoo in it. In 2022 he was named Queensland Australian of the Year, and in 2023 he was the first Indigenous artist to receive the Richard Gill Award.
“It's the breath of life and the land.”William Barton
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