Christopher Latham Music presents:
Sacred Sound Wellness
Healing music for all
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Meet Christopher Latham
Christopher Latham, OAM trained as a violinist in the U.S. for a decade before touring with the Australia Chamber Orchestra for seven seasons, including six concerts in Wigmore and Carnegie Halls. He then became editor f Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Elena Kats-Chernin and many other leading Australian composers, while overseeing the Australian publishing operations of Boosey and Hawkes (1998-2013).
He directed the Four Winds Festival (2004-08), the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (2006-2007) and the Canberra International Music Festival (2009-2014). He was Canberra’s ‘Artist of the Year’ during its 2013 centenary. He was the music director of the DVA’s Gallipoli Symphony (2005-2015) and currently directs the Flowers of Peace, which measures the cultural cost of war in music and painting. Cultural recovery activities also produced the first recordings of the Australian composer Frederick Septimus Kelly, including the lost ‘Gallipoli Sonata’, the manuscript of which he recovered in Florence.
2015: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Canberra for Flowers of Peace.
2016: Knight in the order of Arts and Letters by the French Government.
2017: Appointed Artist in Residence at the Australian War Memorial, their first musician in that role, until 2028.
2018: Directed the Diggers’ Requiem - premiered in France and Australia in 2018, telling through music, the story of the Australian soldiers on the Western Front.
2021: Directed Vietnam Requiem.
2022: Received Order of Australia medal. Directed POW Requiem.
2024: Kaddish: The Holocaust Memorial. All these concerts will comprise a free set of national commemorative music.
Christopher’s Violin
Christopher’s violin, made from a family Italian masters violin makers in the 18th century, was recently blessed by the spiritual master, Sri Sakthi Amma to heal people throughout the world with its music.
