Tamil Rogeon
Biography Tamil Rogeon
Tamil Rogeon
is a composer, violinist and producer who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Music Performance in 1997 and is a current Honorary Fellow of Melbourne University, school of contempoaray music.
He has collaborated with Orchestra Victoria, The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO), Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM). He has also worked with individual artists from across the musical spectrum ranging from Aloe Blacc and Krystle Warren to Doug de Vries. He is a co-founder of the orchestral electronic band The Raah Project.
Tamil has received numerous grants and awards for his work including a Green Room nomination in 2008 for dance composition on the Helen Herbertson-choreographed work Sunstruck. He has been the recipient of commissions and grants from the Australia Council and Arts Victoria (‘Victoria Rocks’), as well as Orchestra Victoria, the Arts Centre and the Melbourne Recital Centre.
In 2010, Tamil composed the score for the feature film Blame, directed by Michael Henry. Blame was screened and received accolades at the Toronto International Film Festival and the 47th Chicago International Film Festival.
In 2011, Tamil was nominated by the Melbourne Recital Centre for the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. Tamil’s expertise in orchestral and electronic cross-over music has also seen him compose for, and conduct, the AYO. In 2012 he composed original works incorporating a string orchestra from the AYO and four turntablists. These works were performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre and streamed worldwide as part of Red Bull’s cultural program.
Tamil has worked with an eclectic array of collaborators including Aloe Blacc, Krystle Warren, Orchestra Victoria, the AYO, Mercury prize-winning rapper Speech Debelle, French hip-hop artist Fefe and Australian DJ/producer Ennio Styles. He has worked as a string arranger and producer on many popular music recordings and scored short films, television programs and documentaries.
Tamil’s orchestral work, 24 Hours In Lapa, premiered on 19 October for the Melbourne International Arts Festival’s 2012 program. 24 Hours In Lapa is an oratorio based on the true story of a young man who was gunned down after an argument with police on his 30th birthday in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, in May 2007. The work incorporates a 30-piece orchestra with additional Brazilian percussion, guitar, singers and electro elements.
In 2013 Tamil was commissioned to write an original work as part of the Monash Academy Orchestra’s celebrations for the centennial of Stravnisky’s Rite of Spring. That piece, La danse de Jean-Francois, was performed by the Academy’s 100-piece orchestra on the same program as Stravinksy’s famous orchestral work.
