Masters
of Music features interviews with leading practitioners
of music and sound.
Each
episode presents a series of interviews with contemporary
artists intercut with images and recent footage of their
work. The interviews provide insight to why, how and for
whom these artists create their work, and where their
passion and artistic inquiries originate from.
All
episodes are minimum 25min duration unless stated otherwise.
MASTERS OF MUSIC SERIES 1 [18x26min
episodes]
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Ep1
The Sound of $10million dollar Violins
Simon
Morris [Beares London], Richard Tognetti [ACO,
Sydney]
An
anonymous benefactor has offered the Principal
Violinist and Artistic Director of the ACO [Australian
Chamber Orchestra], a $10Million Violin, but needs
Richard Tognetti to travel to Beares in London
to listen to and select from the candidates -
Stradivari or Guarneri.
Charles
Beare has the reputation of being able to authenticate
and pass on the best Cremonese Italian Violins
to internationally renowned artists such as Nigel
Kennedy, Mrostrapovich, Tognetti, Joshua Bell...the
list goes on and on.
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Ep2
Teddy Tahu-Rhodes, Sally-Anne Russell
Teddy
Tahu-Rhodes
New
Zealand baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes has rapidly
established a name as an important rising star
of the operatic world, with appearances in San
Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Washington, Munich,
Hamburg, the Chatelet, Paris, Welsh National Opera
and Scottish Opera to his credit . His opera engagements
include Count Almaviva in Cincinnati and Washington,
Don Giovanni for Opera Australia, Henze’s
L’Upupa for Hamburg Opera, Lescaut in Leipzig,
Billy Budd in both Santa Fe and Sydney and his
debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Peter Grimes
and Antony (Barber's Antony and Cleopatra) for
New York City Opera. Future engagements include
Count Almaviva in Washington; Stanley in Melbourne;
Escamillo in Munich and at the Metropolitan Opera;
and his first Scarpia in New Zealand.
Sally-Anne
Russell
The
Australian mezzo-soprano, Sally-Anne Russell,
has performed in concerts, recitals and on the
operatic stage in America, The Nederlands, Austria,
the UK, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Japan and
Canada. Most recently Sally-Anne made her Washington
DC debut as Ursula in Beatrice et Benedict for
Washington Concert Opera at the Kennedy Centre
and a 2nd season for the Carmel Bach Festival
in California. Operatic roles include Rosina in
Il Barbiere de Seviglia (New Zealand), Mistress
Quickly in Falstaff (UK), Lucienne in Die Tote
Stadt (Spoleto, Italy), Amastris in Xerses (Oper
der Stadt Köln, Germany), Suzuki in Madame Butterfly
(State Opera of South Australia), Dido in Dido
& Aeneas, and fifteen roles as a resident
principal for the Victoria State Opera. Sally-Anne
Russell also received much acclaim for her performance
in the roles of Juno/Ino in Semele for Pinchgut
Opera. Sally-Anne Russell appears with all the
Symphony Australia Orchestras, Australian Chamber
Orchestra, Australian Bach Ensemble and at all
of the major Australian Festivals.
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Ep3
Antoinette Halloran, John Pringle
Antoinette
Halloran
Antoinette
Halloran is a graduate of the Victorian College
of the Arts and has an Honours Degree in Music
from the University of Melbourne. Since graduating,
Antoinette has appeared in many productions ranging
from opera to musical theatre and cabaret. Music
theatre highlights include roles in The Phantom
of the Opera, A Little Night Music, Masterclass,
Forbidden Broadway, The Merry Widow and The Opera
Burlesque. For Oz Opera she has performed Mimi
in La Bohème and the title role in The Ghost Wife
at the Barbican in London. For Chamber Made Opera,
she has performed roles in Motherland of the Foreign
Son and Matricide—the Musical. In 2005 Antoinette
was the winner of the Acclaim Awards (Australian
Puccini Foundation) which enabled her to study
and perform the roles of Kate Pinkerton in Madama
Butterfly and Prima Ancella in Turandot at the
prestigious Torre Del Lago, Italy. Roles for Opera
Australia include Mimi in La Bohème, Despina in
Cosi fan Tutte, Gianetta in The Gondoliers, Ellen
in Lakmé and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore. She
has sung Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly and Donna
Elvira in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute
and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte for Melbourne
Opera. In 2006, Antoinette sang Fiordiligi for
the inaugural season of Victorian Opera. She also
featured as a guest judge and panelist on the
ABC television series Operatunity Oz, and appears
regularly on the hit ABC Television show Spicks
and Specks. In 2007, Antoinette sang the title
role of Rusalka, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire,
Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Johanna in Sweeney
Todd for Opera Australia.
John
Pringle
John
Pringle AM Background: Born, Australia. Awarded
AM, 1988. Studied Melbourne, Rome. Helpmann Award
2004; several Green Room Awards
OA
repertoire: Large repertoire includes: Mozart’s
Figaro, Count, Don Giovanni, Leporello, Guglielmo,
Don Alfonso, Papageno; Rossini’s Barber;
Donizetti’s Malatesta and Dulcamara; Verdi’s
Falstaff and Ford; Puccini’s Lescaut, Marcello,
Sharpless, Gianni Schicchi, Ping; Beckmesser:
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; title role: Eugene
Onegin; Nick Shadow: The Rake’s Progress;
Golaud: Pelléas et Mélisande, Dr Schön: Lulu,
Politician: The Eighth Wonder, seven baritone
roles: Death in Venice; and many baritone roles:
operas of Janácek, R Strauss, Britten, Bizet,
Prokofiev, Donizetti, Cilea, Shostakovich, Offenbach,
Sullivan, Massenet, Gounod
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Ep4
John Bolton-Wood, Sally Matthews [UK]
JOHN
BOLTON-WOOD
John
Bolton Wood Born, Australia. Music Education:
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, London Opera Centre.
Winner Green Room Awards, Papageno (The Magic
Flute), Colonel Frank (Die Fledermaus), Major-General
Stanley (Pirates of Penzance), Lord Mountararat
(Iolanthe) OA repertoire: Alcindoro/Benoit (La
boh?e), Fra Melitone (La forza del destino), Dr
Bartolo (The Barber of Seville), Somarone (Beatrice
and Benedict), Sacristan (Tosca), Talbot (Maria
Stuarda), High Priest in Samson and Delilah, Rigoletto,
Riccardo (I puritani), Malatesta (Don Pasquale),
SALLY
MATTHEWS
Sally
Matthews was the winner of the 1999 Kathleen Ferrier
Award. She studied with Cynthia Jolly and Johanna
Peters and completed the Opera Course at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in 2000. She was a member
of The Royal Opera Vilar Young Artist programme
from 2001 to 2003 and currently studies with Paul
Farringdon. In January 2001 she made her Royal
Opera House debut as Nannetta Falstaff under Bernard
Haitink going on to sing Susanna in Act II of
Le Nozze di Figaro in Bernard Haitink’s
Farewell Gala concerts, Pamina Die Zauberflöte
with Philippe Jordan and Iris Semele with Sir
Charles Mackerras. She has since returned to the
Royal Opera house to sing Sifare Mitridate and
Anne Truelove Rake’s Progress. She made
her debuts at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
as Pamina Die Zauberflöte and in Munich, singing
the title role in Cavalli’s La Calisto in
a new David Alden production at the Bayerische
Staatsoper; with Netherlands Opera singing Fiordiligi
in a new production of Così fan tutte and in Australia
singing the title role in Rusalka for Opera Australia.
She recently returned to Munich to sing the title
role in Alice in Wonderland, a new commission
written by Unsuk Chin for the Bayerische Staatsoper
and made her debut in Vienna with Blanche Dialogues
des Carmelites at the Theater an der Wien.
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Ep5
Dennis O'Neill [UK], Emma Matthews
DENNIS
O'NEILL
Born
in Wales of Irish and Welsh parents, Dennis O'Neill
is one of the world? leading Operatic tenors and
has appeared for all the leading companies of
the world. He has specialised in the works of
Verdi and has so far sung twenty-one of his roles.
He was awarded the 2005 Verdi Medal by the Amici
di Verdi. He studied privately with the renowned
Frederick Cox in Manchester and London and later
in his career, following a Royal Society of Arts
award, in Mantua with Campogalliani and in Rome
with Ricci. He has enjoyed a long association
with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
EMMA
MATTHEWS
Remy
Martin Opera Award, 1999. Green Room Awards 1999,
2000, 2001, Best Female Singer - Title Role, Lulu,
2003, Sofia: Il Signor Bruschino 2005. Mo Award
and Helpmann Award: Lulu OA repertoire: title
roles: Lakm?, Lulu, Pamina: The Magic Flute, Juliette:
Rom? et Juliette, Almirena: Rinaldo, Illia: Idomeneo,
Olympia: Les contes d'Hoffmann, Sophie: Der Rosenkavalier,
Vixen: Cunning Little Vixen, Blonde: Abduction
from the Seraglio, Morgana: Alcina, Marie: La
fille du r?iment, Sofia: Il Signor Bruschino,
Cherubino: Marriage of Figaro, Nannetta: Falstaff,
Adele: Fledermaus, Sophie: Werther, Hero: Beatrice
and Benedict, Servilia: La clemenza di Tito, Stasi:
Gypsy Princess, Zwanntie: Batavia, Oscar: Un ballo
in maschera, Yum-Yum: Mikado, Mabel: The Pirates
of Penzance, Cleopatra: Giulio Cesare Other Companies:
Ismene: Mitridate (2001 Sydney Festival); Belinda/1st
Witch: Dido and Aeneas (The Mark Morris Dance
Co.); Pro Musica Nipponia, MSO, TSO, QSO, WASO,
ACO, NZCO, Sydney Philharmoni. Recitals - Sydney,
Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide International .
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Ep6
Chick Corea, Charles Dutoit
CHICK
COREA
Armando
Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941)[1]
is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz
pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer. He
is known for his work during the 1970s in the
genre of jazz fusion. He participated in the birth
of the electric fusion movement as a member of
Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, and in the 1970s
formed Return to Forever.[1] He continued to pursue
other collaborations and explore various musical
styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He is also
known for promoting Scientology
CHARLES
DUTOIT
Charles
Dutoit has been Music Director of the Orchestre
Symphonique de Montreal since 1977. Their musical
partnership is recognised today as one of the
most successful in the world. In September 1990,
Charles Dutoit also became Music Director of the
Orchestre National de France, replacing Lorin
Maazel. In September 1996 he was also appointed
Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra
in Tokyo. In addition to his summer activities
with the OSM, Charles Dutoit is Artistic Director
and Principal Conductor of two of North America's
most prestigious summer festivals: the Philadelphia
Orchestra? concert series at the Mann Music Centre
in Philadelphia and at the Saratoga Performing
Arts Centre in Saratoga Springs, New York. Charles
Dutoit has received numerous awards and distinctions.
He holds honorary doctorates from both the Universit?
de Montr?l and the Universit? Laval. In 1982,
Charles Dutoit was named 'Musician of the Year'
by the Canadian Music Council; in 1988, the same
organisation awarded Maestro Dutoit the Canadian
Music Council Medal in recognition of his exceptional
contribution to music in Canada. Also in 1988,
the government of France made Charles Dutoit an
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In
1991, Charles Dutoit was made an Honorary Citizen
of the city of Philadelphia. In June 1994, the
Canadian Conference of the Arts awarded Maestro
Dutoit their Diploma of Honour for distinguished
service to the arts in Canada.
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Ep7
Gary Burton, Konstantin Lifschitz
GARY
BURTON
At
six years old, Burton taught himself to play marimba
and vibraphone and formally studied piano when
in high school. Burton has cited jazz pianist
Bill Evans as a main inspiration for his approach
toward the vibraphone. Burton attended the Berklee
College of Music in Boston in the early 1960s.
After being named Downbeat Magazine's Jazzman
of the Year in 1968 (the youngest ever to receive
the title) and winning his first Grammy award
in 1972, Burton began a now 36 year-long collaboration
with pianist Chick Corea, recognized for popularizing
the concept of jazz duet performance. Their half
dozen recordings won the pair Grammy awards in
years 1979, 1981, 1997, and 1999.
KONSTANTIN
LIFSCHITZ
When
Lifschitz played a long and demanding Schubert
program at the International Piano Festival at
Williams College-both sets of Impromptus, the
Moments Musicaux, and the Drei Klavierstuecke,
the program reminded us, among other things, of
how young Schubert was when he wrote some of his
greatest music. He too was very old while still
very young. The program lasted 2 1/2 hours before
the encores started, but it passed as in a single
moment. I have heard only two other all-Schubert
programs of this quality-a recital in Paris, 40
years ago, when Sviatoslav Richter played the
last three sonatas, and the performance of "Winterreise"
by mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Shirai and pianist Hartmut
Hoell in Harvard? Houghton Library a couple of
years ago.Lifschitz is an altogether exceptional
pianist; whatever he sees or imagines in the music
he can realize without obstacle at the piano.
He never looks at the instrument or the keyboard,
but instead turns his head to the side. He is
not courting the audience, far from it; he is
as likely to turn his head in the other direction
and face the back wall. The reason for this, I
think, is that he wants to bring his ear into
more direct connection with the sound-and his
ear is extraordinary, particularly in its sensitivity
to details of dynamics, articulation, and, most
of all, texture.
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Ep8
Carl Vine, Lucky Oceans,
CARL
VINE
Carl
Vine has a firmly established reputation as a
prodigiously gifted composer. His catalogue includes
some twenty works for dance, music for film and
theatre, electronic music and numerous solo instrumental
and chamber works. In more recent years, he has
emerged as a composer of major orchestral works.
His works are among the most widely performed
in Australia. He was appointed Artistic Director
for Musica Viva in 2000.
LUCKY
OCEANS
Lucky
Oceans was born in Philadelphia in 1951 to a music-loving
family who exposed him to jazz, classical, folk
and experimental music. In 1970, he co-founded
the Western Swing band he named Asleep at the
Wheel and began playing the pedal steel guitar.
With Asleep at the Wheel, he recorded 7 albums
for major record labels and toured the U.S.A.
and Europe for an average of 250 dates a year,
winning the Grammy Award for ?est country instrumental?
in 1978. In 1979, Lucky married Christine Haddow,
an Australian who had been living in the US, and
moved to her hometown of Perth, W. Australia where
they raised a daughter and two sons. He toured
and recorded with Paul Kelly, with Joe Camilleri
and the Black Sorrows, starting to use the pedal
steel guitar in new ways. He also began composing
and writing music for film and television. In
1993, he won a second Grammy Award for a recording
he made with Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins
and others. In 1995, he began presenting the iconic
Radio National world music program The Planet.
Currently Lucky leads his own group, the Zydecats,
and has received the accolade of 'possibly the
most influential and imitated steel guitarist
of his generation.
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Ep9
Gordon Kerry, Jon Rose
GORDON
KERRY
Gordon
Kerry's orchestral music has been commissioned
by the ABC, BBC, Symphony Australia, Ars Musica
Australis and the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Most recently he has completed a major work for
Gondwana Voices and the WASO to be performed in
October 2005. His extensive body of chamber music
has been commissioned for or premiered by Musica
Viva Australia, Wigmore Hall, London as well as
independent ensembles in Australia, Germany, the
USA, Sweden and Russia. and he has held fellowships
from the Australia Council, Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Trust and the Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts, USA.
JON
ROSE
Jon
Rose was born in 1951 in Rochester, UK, Jon Rose
started playing the violin at seven years old,
after winning a music scholarship to King's School
Rochester. He studied violin with Anthony Saltmarsh
(exponent of the Knud Vestergaard 'Bach' bow).
He gave up formal music education at the age of
15 and from then on was primarily self-taught.Throughout
the 1970's, first in England and then in Australia,
he played, composed and studied in a large variety
of music genres - from sitar playing to country
& western; from 'new music' composition to
commercial studio session work; from bebop to
Italian club bands; from big band serial composition
to sound installations. In 1977-78 he studied
jazz arranging and counterpoint with Bill Motzing
at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. He became
the central figure in the development of Free
Improvisation in Australia, performing in almost
every art gallery, jazz and rock club in the country
- either solo, with fellow improvisers like Louis
Burdett, Serge Ermoll, Edy Bronson, Jim Denley
or with an international pool of improvising musicians
called The Relative Band.
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Ep10
Paul Lewis [UK], David Chesworth,
PAUL
LEWIS
Paul
Lewis is considered to be The finest British
pianist in decades (The Observer) employs
his formidable technique with great ease and thoughtfulness.
The subtlety and lightness of touch he brought
to his Musica Viva performances with the Leopold
Trio in 2003 were something to behold, and anyone
who was lucky enough to hear him then will be
keen to do so again. His international reputation
has further consolidated since that tour, a recent
Wigmore Hall recital in London selling out months
in advance. He first gained international recognition
by winning 2nd prize in the 1994 World Piano Competition
in London with his performance of Rakhmaninov's
Third Piano Concerto. Still in his early thirties,
he is Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy
of Music, and in 2003 won major awards from the
Royal Philharmonic Society and The South Bank
Show'.
DAVID
CHESWORTH
David
Chesworth is an Australian based composer, keyboard
player and sound designer. Known for his experimental,
and at times minimalist music, he has worked in
rock groups, classical ensembles, theatre, opera
and sound installations. Chesworth's parents moved
the family from Britain to Melbourne, Australia
in the late 1960s. Chesworth studied at Latrobe
University, including time with tutor and composer
Jeff Pressing. In the late 1970s and early 1980s
he coordinated the venue "Clifton Hill Community
Music Centre"
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Ep11
Schaupp Lacey, Paul Capsis
SCHAUPP
& LACEY
Karin
Schaupp is one of the most outstanding young guitarists
on the international scene. She performs widely
on the international stage as a recitalist, concerto
soloist and festival guest, and has given countless
recitals. She
has appeared live on television in many parts
of the world; in 1997 she performed live as a
Special Guest Artist to twenty million viewers
and listeners in China, on the occasion of China
Radio International's 50th Anniversary celebrations.
PAUL
CAPSIS
Paul
Capsis is one of Australia? most acclaimed and
successful cabaret and concert artists. In 1993/94
he performed his unique one-man show Pack of Divas
at the Adelaide Comedy Festival and in San Francisco
and Los Angeles. In 1995/96 his show Burning Sequins
toured to Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Auckland and Australia.
In 1997 Whole Lotta Capsis was seen at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, Wellington Arts Festival and
Glendi Greek Festival. In 1998, Paul performed
In the Barrie Kosky directed Burlesque Tour for
the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and the
Melbourne Festival. The following year he performed
Paul Capsis Alive at the Metro Theatre in Sydney,
Perth International Festival of the Arts, and
the Hong Kong Fringe Festival. In 2002 Paul performed
with Aron Ottignon in Capsis Vs Capsis in The
Studio at Sydney Opera House. Capsis Vs Capsis
went onto win a 2002 Helpmann Award for Best Live
Music Presentation. A return season in Vienna
of the hit Boulevard Delirium directed by Barrie
Kosky saw Paul build his international reputation
and followed on from a season of Volpone with
Sydney Theatre Company in 2002. His powerful stage
roles have also included Caucasian Chalk Circle
and Cockroach Opera for Company B Belvoir St Theatre,
Playgrounds for the Sydney Theatre Company and
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for the Melbourne
Theatre Company.
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Ep12
Francois Rabbath, Kate Neal,
FRANCOIS
RABBATH
Born in Aleppo, Syria into a musical family of
six boys and three girls, François discovered
the double bass at the age of thirteen when one
of his brothers brought an instrument home and
allowed him to experiment with it. When the family
moved to Beirut, Lebanon he found an old copy
of Edouard Nanny's Contrabass Method in a tailor
shop and with some difficulty, since he read neither
music nor French, began to teach himself. After
nine years of work in Beirut, François saved enough
money to move to Paris for a year. He was eager
to go to the Paris Conservatory, meet with Monsieur
Nanny and show him what he was able to do with
the bass. When he applied at the Conservatory
he was disappointed to learn that Nanny had died
in 1947. He was also told that auditions were
to be held in three days and that he would never
have enough time to learn the required pieces.
He asked for the music anyway and returned three
days later to finish first among the applicants.
However, his stay at the Conservatory was a brief
one, since it didn't take very long to see that
he was not only far ahead of the other students
but of the professors as well! While in Paris
he began to earn his living as an accompanist
for Jacque Brel, Charles Aznavour, Gilbert Becaud,
Michel Legrand and others. In 1963 he made his
first of many solo record albums. Although never
advertised or promoted, the Phillips album Bass
Ball became one of the most sought after recordings
of its time. From 1964 he became active composing
much music for movies and the theater. At the
same time he started to play solo recitals, first
in France, then throughout Europe. His American
debut was in Carnegie Hall in 1975.
KATE
NEAL
Kate studied Early Music (Recorder) and Composition
at the Victorian College of the Arts with Mary
Finsterer, Mark Pollard and Brenton Broadstock,
graduating in 1996. Kate received a NUFFIC scholarship
from the Dutch Government in 1998 and moved to
The Netherlands to study composition with Martijn
Padding, Louis Andrieson and Gilius van Bergeijk
at the Koninklijk Conservatory, and Carnatic (Sth
Indian) music studies with Rafael Rainer at the
Sweelink Conservatory, Amsterdam.
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Ep13
The Current
THE
CURRENT
Converting
a 100 year old town hall with the largest symphonic
organ in the southern hemisphere into a site-specific
sound installation with interacting pre-composed
and improvised live music performances.
Peter
Knight curator/composer/performer Peter Knight
is a Melbourne based trumpeter, composer, he features
on more than 20 albums in a variety of genres
and on numerous film soundtracks and has been
active on the Melbourne jazz scene over the last
decade with a variety of groups. He holds a Masters
Degree in Music Performance from the Victorian
College of the Arts and lectures in jazz studies
part-time at Victoria University of Technology
Sunbury and Northern Metropolitan Institute of
TAFE.
Cameron
Robbins curator, installation artist Camerons
work has been largely based on interaction with
natural forces and the elements. He has devised
many ways of producing a kind of collaboration
between artist and nature including using mechanical
systems. Cameron? Drawing Machines transpose natural
energies like wind, water, fire, and solar energy
into strangely readable forms of ink drawings
on paper, which take on the forms of the energy
of their origins
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Ep14
Mike Nock, Adam Cook,
MIKE
NOCK
New
Zealand born pianist/composer Mike Nock is one
of the acknowledged masters of jazz with over
twenty-five years working in the USA with many
of the world's top jazz musicians such as: Coleman
Hawkins,Yusef Lateef, Dionne Warwick, Michael
Brecker, etc... His compositions have been commissioned
and performed by such as the Cleveland Chamber
Symphony (USA), Australian Chamber Orchestra,
Synergy, Melbourne Windpower, Ensemble 24, The
New Zealand String Quartet, Dunedin Civic Orchestra
(NZ) and Umo Jazz Orchestra (Finland) .
ADAM
COOK
Adam
Cook's SONGS FROM THE YELLOW BEDROOM [with Lord
of the Rings actor David Wenham], Mahler's The
Song of the Earth Van Gogh's Letters to Theo Part
operatic song cycle, part dramatic performance,
Songs from the Yellow Bedroom realises the original
vision of the late Australian director Richard
Wherrett to produce a concert staging of Gustav
Mahler's song-symphony, The Song of the Earth,
interspersed with the letters of Vincent Van Gogh.
Mahler and Van Gogh were almost exact contemporaries,
only eight years apart in age. Mahler wrote The
Song of the Earth, a masterpiece of orchestral
colouring, in 1908. Van Gogh similarly found solace
in nature and rural life. Letters from Van Gogh,
written in his greatest period before he shot
himself in 1890, intersperse Mahler's score. Vincent
van Gogh - David Wenham, Conductor Diego Masson,
Director Adam Cook
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Ep15
Frank Gambale, Stuart Favilla,
STUART
FAVILLA
The
Bent Leather Band - One of Australia’s most
innovative and creative musicians, Stuart Favilla
specialises in synthesiser/ computer music performance.
He has been recognised internationally both for
his talent and for the innovations he has contributed
to this field. Stuart has toured with Joanne Cannon
to Denmark and Hong Kong and has had recordings
selected for release by the International Computer
Music Association.
FRANK
GAMBALE
Frank
began playing guitar at age 7 in Canberra, Australia,
where he was born and raised. He was influenced
by the blues playing of Jimi Hendrix. John Mayall,
and Eric Clapton. In his mid-teens he discovered
Steely Dan, The Brecker Brothers and Chick Corea,
which pointed him in a jazzy direction. In 1982
at 23 he decided to leave his home to study at
the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood.
He graduated with the highest honor, Student of
the Year, and was offered a teaching position
which he kept for four years. During this time
he was playing the local jazz club circuit with
his own band, and already had published his first
book, "Speed Picking." In 1986 he signed a three-album
contract with a small label called Legato and
began his recording career. The same year he was
recruited by Jean-Luc Ponty to tour. Shortly after
that tour, he auditioned for Chick Corea and began
a six-year, five-record and Grammy award-winning
period with him. Chick helped expose Frank to
the world, for which he is grateful. "Playing
with Chick was like dream come true," says Frank.
That same year, Ibanez guitars approached him
to endorse their guitar, which culminated in a
long relationship and spawned the Frank Gambale
model guitar, which was first on sale worldwide
in 1987.
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Ep16
Wayne Stuart Pianos
WAYNE
STUART
Designer
and builder Wayne Stuart believes that if the
piano is to remain a vital musical force it must
continue to evolve. This concept is the driving
force that inspired him to choose as his life’s
work the redefinition of the limits of the piano.
The dream was to create an instrument that would
offer a broader palette of musical expression
through greater clarity and tonal richness.
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Ep17
Melbourne Recital Centre
MELBOURNE
RECITAL CENTRE
Dame
Elizabeth Murdoch, Lady Primrose Potter, Andrew
Nicol [ARUP] & Marco Van Pagee
Andrew
joined Arup in 1995. He is currently Principal
of the Acoustics team in Australia and specialises
in buildings for the performing arts. He is a
musician and acoustic designer and has 15 years
of experience working in Australia, Europe, America
and Asia.
Marco
van Pagee was born in Middelburg, The Netherlands,
where he studied violin with Davina van Wely and
viola with Jurgen Kussmaul at the Royal Conservatorium
in Den Haag. Marco was principal violist with
the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the Elizabethan
Theatre Trust Orchestra. Marco is a founding member
of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra (the former
Rantos Collegium), Artistic Director of the Melbourne
International Chamber Music Competition, coordinator
of chamber music at the Australian National Academy
of Music and founder and musical director of the
Geminiani Chamber Orchestra.
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Ep18
Asia-Pacific Music Competition
AT
THE MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
We
following the finalists. Here is a snippet from
the competition.
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