Emily Granger

'beautiful… showcases the instrument’s versatility and depths of colour and timbre attainable.'

– BBC Music Magazine

In a time that often feels fast, noisy, and unsettled, A Thing of Beauty is a return to something quieter.

This new ABC Classic album release and tour from Emily Granger, Principal Harpist of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, brings together music that lingers — works by Australian women composers, alongside new commissions and a series of deeply personal transcriptions. These are pieces that don’t demand attention so much as invite it, unfolding at their own pace.

Threaded through the program are moments of poetry and reflection, offering a glimpse into the ideas and images that shaped the music. The result is an experience that moves between stillness and motion, simplicity and depth — a space to listen, and perhaps to breathe.

Created almost entirely by women, from composition through to visual realisation, A Thing of Beauty is both a celebration and a quiet act of focus: on sound, on presence, and on the small things that hold us.

Elena Kats-Chernin
Unsent Love Letters (2016)

Hilary Kleinig
A Thing of Beauty (2025)*

Alice Chance
Emily’s Suite (2025)*

Anne Cawrse
Come to me (2025)*

Ulpia Erdos
Reminiscing (1998)

Margaret Tesch-Muller
Snow and Shadow (2017)

Katy Abbott
Not Just Another Day (2001)

Nat Bartsch
Call and Response (2017)

Tara Minton
Alby’s Lullaby (2015)

Christina Sonnemann
Karoola Seasons (2006)

Sally Greenaway
Encore di Lirico (2014) and Perhaps Tomorrow (2009)

*World Premiere