FLINDERS QUARTET
Elizabeth Sellars • violin
Sulki Yu • guest violin
Helen Ireland • viola
Zoe Knighton • cello

AGATHA YIM, POLYPHONIC PICTURES filming and editing
THOMAS GRUBB, MANO MUSICA sound engineering, editing and mastering

Filmed November 2025 at Tempo Rubato, Brunswick

This project was made possible through support from The Ian Potter Foundation, Creative Victoria, Besen Family Foundation, and FQ’s Fifth String donors

JESSIE LEOV b. 1994
"outside in" composed 2025

Program note:

“outside in is inspired by the therapeutic power of the natural world and is based around the concept of bringing the “outside, in” for those who are unable to experience it in person. With this work I aim to evoke a feeling of immersion in nature, inviting the listener to imagine a place that brings them joy and comfort. My own experience of this piece is a journey across water, forest, and sky: the freedom of a bird soaring through open skies, the serenity of a gently trickling stream, the unrestrained energy of waves crashing on a rocky beach, wind rustling through a secluded forest at night.

I hope this work allows the listener to experience a sense of release and renewal, even if only for a moment.”

Jessie Leov was one of four early-career composers selected to attend the 2024 Edward T. Cone Composition Institute held at Princeton University, where her orchestral work, Speculations on a Rainbow, was performed by the New Jersey Symphony. She is the recipient of an 2022 APRA Professional Development Award and in 2023 held the position of Composer-in-Residence for the NZSO National Youth Orchestra.

In 2025 she was a composer fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts and undertook a four-week artist fellowship at the Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence program in Washington, USA. 2026 will see her write new works for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Omega Ensemble as a participant in the Australian Composers School and the CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program.

Jessie holds a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Auckland, where she was awarded the Douglas Mews Composition Prize.