Brett Dean is a giant figure in Australia’s musical landscape, as composer, conductor, instrumentalist and artistic director. His opera Hamlet has conquered the stages of Glyndebourne, the Adelaide Festival, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Bavarian State Opera; and his orchestral music is in the repertoire of some of the greatest orchestras on the planet, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. ANAM’s Artistic Director between 2006-2010, this concert marks his first return to ANAM since 2018. Crafted specifically to showcase Brett’s many musical gifts, this program begins with Music of Memory, an in memoriam for four extraordinary people: Yodit Tele, an Eritrean who migrated to the UK as a refugee from her homeland’s harsh internal politics; the self-styled ‘girl photographer’ Betty Freeman, in her photo session with the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, and the British conductor Richard Hickox. This will be the work’s Australian premiere, in which Brett will…