IHOS Management
| Artistic Director | Constantine Koukias |
| Project Managers | Elvio Brianese & Peta Heffernan - KIMISIS |
| Project Manager | Kristen Molhuysen - Kitchen Table Rondo |
| Project Manager | Lyndall Edwards – Borders |
| Project Manager | Ted Hearne – Prayer Bells, USA |
| Associate Producer | Isobel Ferrier - International Touring |
| Treasurer | Desmond Moores |
| Financial Consultant | Paul Duncombe |
| Bookkeeper | Sarah Briggs |
Constantine Koukias - Artistic DirectorKoukias is one of Australia’s most prolific composers in the genre of opera and music theatre.
His avant-garde approach to the presentation of opera has resulted in hybrid opera such as Days and Nights with Christ, To Traverse Water, MIKROVION (Small Life 36 Images in a Phantom Flux of Life), The Divine Kiss and Tesla - Lightning in His Hand.
His works range from large scale site - specific to gallery pieces.
Compositions written prevalently for orchestra / voice or for various ensemble line-ups, have been always remarkable for their peculiar, mesmerising atmosphere created by temporal, spatial and sound effects. Into his recent works, exotic flavours have been introduced through Eastern timbres and melody-design.
His work Prayer Bells - Pentekostarion, which draws on traditions of religious chant, was commissioned for the Melbourne Federation Festival in 2001 and has toured extensively with US & European premieres taking place in 2010 & 11.
Constantine has been the recipient of numerous international commissions and awards. In 2004 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship. Within a Prayer at Lamplighting was commissioned by the China National Symphony Orchestra Australian Tour, to commemorate thirty years of diplomatic ties with China. In 1997 his Incantation II for soprano and digital delay won the International Valentino Bucchi Vocal Prize in Rome.
Since the formation of his company IHOS in 1990, he has created and presented five full scale operas, nine music theatre works and commissioned nationally 29 short to 50 minutes Laboratory works for his IHOS Young Singers Laboratory Program.
Elvio Brianese Project Manager KIMISIS
Elvio is Director of the architectural practice Forward Brianese + Partners. He has over 20 years’ experience in fine art, design, industrial design and architecture.
His expertise encompasses a broad range of project scales and types, both in the public and private sector, internationally, nationally and locally. His ability to articulate strong design and sustainable principles has resulted in multiple award-winning projects.
Elvio’s active role in the education and design community has resulted in frequent invitations by the UTAS School of Architecture to participate in its assessment programs and by the Australian Institute of Architects (Tasmanian Chapter) to be the Awards Chair and jury member.
Peta Heffernan - Project Manager KIMISIS
After completing a Bachelor of Architecture with Honours at the University of Melbourne in 1999 and working in Sydney and Melbourne, Peta is currently an Associate at Forward Brianese + Partners in Hobart. Her experience extends across residential, sport, commercial, education and arts projects.
Further design and cultural contributions include being the architecture editor of Hobart Design Index, co-founder and participator of the annual Australian Institute of Architects (Tasmanian Chapter) 10x10x10 event for Architecture Week, and an invitation to host In Conversation with Chris Bosse, which was part of the conversation series for 10 Days on the Island in 2009.
Curatorial credits include Realisation of the Conceptual for 10x10x10 in 2008, Restraint, for 10x10x10 in 2009 and God is in the Details: Architectural Thresholds as part of Design Island 2009.
Kristen Molhuysen Borders
Kristen’s arts experience includes roles as general manager of Terrapin Puppet Theatre (1997 - 2000) and administration manager for the inaugural Ten Days on the Island Festival in 2001.
Kristen worked with Ripe Online as guest liaison for the monthly online forum hosted by the highly succesful international arts-marketing site. For LAB, a program of the Salamanca Arts Centre, Kristen coordinated LabChat, where local artists gathered to discuss their business practice and strategies for success.
Recently Kristen has worked on projects with the Salamanca Art Centre, MONA FOMA, the Tasmanian Landcare Association and Greening Australia. In 2010 Kristen has worked IHOS Opera as project manager for Kitchen Table Rondo.
Kristen holds a Business Administration degree from RMIT and has begun a Bachelor of Fine Arts through the University of Tasmania.
Lyndall Edwards Project Manager, Borders
Lyndall Edwards’ career has been divided equally between performance on the operatic stage and writing. Her experience in repertory opera and contemporary music performance gives her a unique insight into the opportunities and scope of contemporary music theatre and opera production.
Lyndall commenced her vocal training at the Conservatorium of Music in Hobart and completed her study at Australia¹s leading opera training school at the Queensland Conservatorium. Lyndall commenced work with the Opera Queensland Company before graduating from the Conservatorium program and continued to work with the company for 10 years before returning to Tasmania in 2002.
Her interest in performing and producing contemporary composition began in Queensland while performing with the Music for the Heart and Mind series, which spawned one of Australia¹s best-known contemporary music ensembles, Topology.
While working in arts administration and writing for journals, marketing and creative outlets, Lyndall began work as a co-producer and performer with IHOS Music Theatre and Opera. She has since worked in various capacities backstage and on stage with IHOS in Euphonic Temples, Da Ponte, The Lunchbox, Kitchen Table Rondo and Borders.
Ted Hearne Music Director - Prayer Bells, USA
Ted is an active composer, conductor, and performer of new music in the New York and Chicago areas.
He is Artistic Director of Yes is a World, a nonprofit organization working to promote peace and social change through musical diversity and the collaboration of young artists. Since their inception in January 2002, Yes is a World has produced seven performances integrating music and text from different artistic traditions, including a production of Tony Kushner's one-act play, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy, and Kiss the Speaker Wire, an exploration of protest music from America and South Africa.
Yes is a World most recently produced Body Soldiers, a concert about the ways South Africans are using choral music in the fight against HIV-AIDS.
Ted was a recipient of the 2008 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He was also chosen for participation in the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, during which his work Patriot was performed on a subscription concert under the direction of Osmo Vänskä.
Performances in 2009 include a new commission from Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and the New York premiere of his work Cordavi and Fig by The Knights on the 2009 MATA Festival. Upcoming commissions include a trumpet concerto for Chris Coletti and the Hunstville Symphony, works for the Calder Quartet, Volti Choral Arts Laboratory, and the Yale Glee Club and Yale Symphony Orchestra.
His band Your Bad Self debuted at The Stone in September 2008, performed at the 2009 Bang on a Can Marathon and recently completed a tour to the Carolinas. Ted holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music, where he studied composition with Julia Wolfe, Nils Viegland, Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick, and David Lang.
Ted was the composer-in-residence of the Chicago Children’s Choir from 2003-2008. He was a composition fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Institute2004, served as adjunct faculty at Manhattan School of Music from 2004-06, and adjunct faculty at Yale School of Music fom 2008-09.
Ted sings regularly with the choir of St. Mary the Virgin (New York) and recently premiered the role of Justin Timberlake in Jacob Cooper's Timberbrit. He has worked with ICE, TACTUS, Bang on a Can, Ridge Theatre, Newspeak, New Music Collective (Charleston), J.G. Thirlwell and Peter Schreier, among others.
Isobel Ferrier Associate Producer – Prayer BellsIsobel is a musician and arts administrator with a background as a violinist and choral conductor. She obtained an honours degree and postgrad diploma in violin performance from the Tasmanian Conservatorium, where she also lectured in Aural Studies.
While a student she performed regularly with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, directed several choirs and contributed to the development of the IHOS Laboratory as a facilitator.
In 2001 Isobel obtained a diploma from the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Hungary, and later lived in London where she obtained a Diploma of Law from Holborn College and worked in arts administration.
Isobel now resides in Sydney where she runs a freelance music management and production business, producing concert series at St James King St and managing other music projects in and around the Sydney area, including those for IHOS.
