People

Angela Little

(Musical Director / Composer / Performer)

Angela is a composer, arranger and singer who is best known for her work on Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 epic film, ‘Australia’. She composed Additional Music for the film and co-wrote and sang its love song “By The Boab Tree”, which featured on the film’s end credits and subsequently led to numerous award nominations in 2009, including an AFI nomination for Best Original Music Score, two APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award nominations for Best Original Song and Contribution to Best Soundtrack Album, and a Golden Satellite Award nomination for Best Original Song. ‘By The Boab Tree’ was also amongst 49 songs short-listed for a 2009 Academy Award for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.

As an orchestrator and arranger she has worked in a diverse range of styles and formats, including a string arrangement for Elton John (The Drover’s Ballad, 2008) as well as numerous arrangements for film and television, including an epic orchestral arrangement of traditional song “Waltzing Matilda” for the film “Australia”. Ultimately, the sweeping Celtic majesty of this arrangement was the original spark of an idea to create what would soon become Celtic Fire.

Angela’s flair for deeply dramatic cinematic arrangements, combined with her keen songwriting ability and powerfully ethereal voice, described by reviewers as “a siren’s call”* with “hints of Enya & Loreena McKennitt”**, create a completely unique and contemporary interpretation of the traditional and modern Celtic music and original songs which feature in Celtic Fire.

* Rory McCartney, BMA

** Michael Smith, Drum Media

To visit Angela’s website, go to www.angelalittle.com.au

To read Angela’s blog, go to www.angelalittle.wordpress.com

Peter Nawn

(Artistic Director – Visual Projections)

Peter has worked as part of the editing team on feature films, documentaries and music videos, as well as having an extensive history in creating projections for live performance.

In 2008, he filmed and edited the art project and gallery opening “Sideways” in collaboration with MTV, as well as working alongside award-winning music video director Josh Groom of Groom Inc Productions on various projects throughout 2007 & 2008, including the award-winning music video “About A Boy” for Angus & Julia Stone (Winner, IF Award for Best Music Video 2008 / Nominated for ARIA Award for Best Music Video 2008 / Nominated for J Award for Best Music Video 2008).

In 2008, he was also the editor and visual director of “Around Ireland in 32 Beats”, a documentary and instructional bodhran DVD created in association with Tourism Ireland and the World Drumming Network. He also created the visual concept and supervised the live visual performance for musician Ophelia of the Spirits.

In 2009 Peter has been editing an upcoming Australian feature film and accompanying behind-the-scenes documentary as well as developing and creating the visual concept for Celtic Fire.

Claudia Fitzpatrick

(Artistic Director – Design)

Claudia is an award-winning artist whose designs have featured on major movie and print campaigns for top Hollywood studios since 1989.

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the USA after completing her Bachelor of Art & Design at Dun Laoghaire College in 1983.

A pioneer in the field of computer-generated art, she was the first person to create digital logos for major studios Paramount Pictures & 20^th Century Fox, and her poster designs include the iconic imagery for Academy Award-winning films including “Silence of the Lambs”, “Braveheart”, “Forrest Gump” & “Star Trek” amongst many other movie greats.

During her time in Hollywood, she was the winner of several Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards as well as a prestigious Art Director of Los Angeles Award, having been nominated previously several times.

After moving to Australia, she began pursuing her long-time fascination with the mythology of her native Ireland. Armed with a wealth of knowledge and experience in creating a sense of the magical and epic, Claudia had the idea of creating a full-sensory theatrical experience based on the legend of the Tuatha de Dannan which would incorporate three-dimensional sound, music, art, aerial performance and dance.

It was through a synchronistic meeting with Angela & Peter that Claudia realised that their nascent idea for Celtic Fire was the perfect complement to her own ideas and skills, and since then they have been working together to create a visual style which fuses Claudia & Peter’s artistic visions with Angela’s music and voice.