News 2007
November 2007
Congratulations to Minh Le Hoang for winning first prize in the Tokyo International Guitar Competition Friday November 23 2007.
October 2007
Carl Morgan (jazz guitar) announced as a National Jazz Awards Finalists.
The National Jazz Awards have been staged since 1990 as part of Australia's premier jazz festival, the TAC Wangaratta Festival Of Jazz.
Congratulations Carl!
September 2007
Harold in Austria!!
Following on from his win in Spain, Harold Gretton, has attained further success by winning First Prize at the Vienna International Guitar Festival.
Congratulations once again Harold!
July 2007
The ANU School of Music has now released its
Concert Diary for Semester 2.
As always the program offers music lovers an eclectic mix of performances
across many styles and in venues throughout the city. So whatever your
passion - jazz, classical or world music - this program has concerts
you won't want to miss!
July 2007
GUITAR COMPETITION WINNER
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Harold Gretton, a PhD student at the
ANU School of Music, has just won the 2007 Cordoba Guitar Competition
at the prestigious Cordoba Guitar Festival in Spain.
Harold was supported in his trip to Spain by the
ANU Friends of the School of Music.
Congratulations Harold from all at the ANU!
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July 2-6 2007
8th Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference
Focus on Excellence:
Questions and Answers
The Australian National University’s School of Music Keyboard
Institute extends a warm welcome to all keyboard scholars, teachers
and students to the 8th
Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference.
Tuesday June 19 2007
WINNER ANNOUNCED FOR 2007 FREEDMAN FELLOWSHIP FOR JAZZ
Photo Courtesy Anita Pollard |
The Music Council of
Australia and Freedman Foundation are delighted to announce the
winner of the 2007 MCA/Freedman Fellowship for Jazz.
At just 26 years of age, Kristin Berardi has already performed
extensively at jazz festivals and jazz clubs throughout Australia
and overseas. She was the winner of the 2006 International Jazz
Voice Competition held at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland
and has been invited to appear at Montreux again next month. Born
in Koumala, Queensland, Kristin completed her musical studies
at the Queensland Conservatorium. Since graduating she has been
involved in the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, the Melbourne Women’s
International Jazz Festival, a live appearance on ABC Radio National
with the West End Composers’ Collective, and as a featured
soloist alongside pop legend Chrissy Amphlett in Women in Voice
13. As a recording artist Kristin has worked in New York with
American jazz piano legend Kenny Werner and trombonist Jim Pugh,
and in Australia with James Sherlock, Mike Nock, James Muller
and Kate Miller-Heidke. |
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lectures in jazz voice at the Australian National University
and has held the position of guest lecturer in jazz studies at
the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Mackay for the
past three years. Earlier this year Kristin released a CD with
master guitarist James Sherlock which has been shortlisted for
Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album at the renowned Bell Awards.
Kristin intends using the Freedman Fellowship to travel to New
York to perform and record her own compositions with local arrangers
and musicians.
This is the first time that a vocalist has won the Freedman Jazz
Fellowship. The judges for 2007, Mark Isaacs, Kerrie Biddell and
James Greening observed, “Kristin marries intelligent readings
of the text with a telling interpretation of her songs. She has
the ability to move seamlessly between improvisation and composition
and gets to the heart of what she wants to communicate, honestly
and without pretence.”
The prize money for the Fellowship, inaugurated in 2001, is $20,000.
The award comprises $15,000 cash, promotional materials up to
$5,000, and consultations to assist with non-musical aspects of
career-building, as well as active support from Music Council
personnel during the Fellowship period. The most recent winners
are James Muller (guitar), Matt McMahon (piano) and Julien Wilson
(saxophone).
The purpose of the Fellowship is to assist performers up to 36
years of age to further their careers and enhance their abilities
as a jazz artist. Nominees propose a specific project to pursue
their career objectives, either overseas or within Australia.
Part of the judging process involves a public concert at the Sydney
Opera House as well as an assessment of their proposed project.
Established in 1998 by Laurence and Kathy Freedman, The Freedman
Foundation also supports visual artists, Australian youth projects,
and scientific and medical research. The Music Council of Australia
is a national music organisation representing the entire breadth
of music in Australia.
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Thursday 19 April 2007
EXTENDED CLOSURE OF LLEWELYN HALL ANNOUNCED
Damage caused by the 27 February hail storm has forced the closure
Llewellyn Hall until December 2007 to enable repair and refurbishment
work to be carried out.
Advice received by the ANU following specialist inspections has pointed
to the need for extensive repair work in order to ensure public safety.
The School of Music has rescheduled teaching and performance venues,
and external hirers are finding alternative venues for their concerts.
Head of the School of Music, John Luxton said that while staff and students
of the School were distressed by the extended closure of the Hall, which
is central to functions of the School and the broader Canberra arts
community, the 2007 concert program would be continued.
“The show must go on,” he said.
“We’ve successfully relocated classes and found alternative
performance venues. The next major event will be a Virtuosi ANU concert
in the Great Hall at Parliament House on May 4. It will be a fundraising
event for the School of Music Foundation.
“The students in Virtuosi are deep in preparation for that concert,
which will follow a series of concerts in Wagga Wagga, Orange, Dubbo
and Goulburn.
“The support and understanding of the Canberra community for whom
Llewellyn Hall is such an important venue has been much appreciated.
We look forward to the reopening.”
Thursday 15 March 2007
LLEWELLYN HALL CLOSED DUE TO STORM DAMAGE
Canberra’s premier concert venue, Llewellyn Hall, has been closed
for significant remedial works following damage by the hailstorm on
February 27.
After initial assessments in the week following the storm, engineers
have again visited the Hall and with staff of the ANU are assessing
the damage to its roof.
It is unknown at this stage how long the process to repair the Hall
will take. The School of Music has made contact with organisations which
had hired Llewellyn Hall over coming months and with community groups
who use the venue for events over the last week to inform them of the
closure.
People with inquiries about events that had been scheduled at Llewellyn
Hall should contact the event organiser about arrangements in the interim.
If the organiser was the ANU School of Music, information is available
by ringing
02 6125 2527, or by email to arts.venues@anu.edu.au.
In addition to teaching of School of Music students, Llewellyn Hall
is used regularly for classical music concerts and recitals, orchestral
performances, community concerts, public lectures, and ANU and CIT graduation
ceremonies.
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