Australian Composer
Lee Bradshaw
Opera, orchestral and chamber music
Bio
Australian composer Lee Bradshaw works across opera, orchestral and chamber music, with a focus on projects that engage directly with contemporary historical and social narratives.
His opera Zarqa Al Yamama (2024), commissioned by the Saudi Ministry of Culture, marked the first grand opera staged in Saudi Arabia and premiered at the King Fahd Cultural Centre in Riyadh, bringing together an international and Saudi cast including Dame Sarah Connolly.
Recent works include the Requiem “For Those Left Behind” (2025), premiered at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina with conductor Nayer Nagui, and Four Rooms (2025), a string octet addressing youth mental health, created in collaboration with Flinders Quartet and the Australian Youth Orchestra Chamber Players.
Current projects include the chamber opera Theresienstadt/Terezín and the symphonic work Barefoot Through Hiroshima with the Dresdner Sinfoniker.
Bradshaw’s collaborators include Dame Sarah Connolly, Baiba Skride, Orchestra Svizzera Italiana and the Dresdner Sinfoniker.
SELECTED WORKS
Requiem
"FOR THOSE LEFT BEHIND"
Premiered Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2025.
Conceived as a Requiem for the living.
THERESIENSTADT/TEREZÍN
(In Development)
Chamber opera set in Terezín, where performance becomes an act of survival.
In development.