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Canberra School Of Music
The ANU School of Music is a school in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, which forms part of the College of Arts and Social Sciences of the Australian National University. It consists of four buildings, including the main School of Music building – which contains Llewellyn Hall – and the Peter Karmel Building. The School of Music's teaching encompasses performance tuition, alongside musicianship, musicology, sound recording, and ethnomusicology. History The School of Music was established under the name Canberra School of Music in 1965 with Ernest Llewellyn as the founding Director. The original plans for the School were prepared in the 1960s when the Department of the Interior recognized the need to establish centres for art and music study in the national capital, with the vision of providing high-level performance and practice. Sir Richard Kingsland, Secretary of the Department from 1963 to 1970, provided valuable support for Ernest Llewellyn's vision. The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acton, Australian Capital Territory
Acton is a suburb of Canberra, ACT, Australia. Acton covers an area west of the CBD, bordered by Black Mountain to the west and Lake Burley Griffin in the south. The Australian National University campus covers most of the suburb, though also located in Acton is the National Film and Sound Archive, a branch of the CSIRO and the National Museum of Australia. At the Acton had a population of 2,848 people, mostly students living at the Australian National University. History Acton was inhabited by Aboriginal Australian groups for thousands of years before European occupation. Part of this history is documented by the ANU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Trail. Sullivans Creek, which flows through Acton, provided a culturally significant source of food and resources for Aboriginal people. According to historian Bill Gammage, part of the area now used as the South Oval was purposely deforested by Aboriginal people, to form a grassland area that may have been used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Podger
Andrew Stuart Podger, (born 6 November 1948) is a retired Australian senior public servant. He is currently Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Early life Podger was born 6 November 1948. Public service career Podger began his Commonwealth Public Service career in 1968 as a Cadet at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. After his time as a statistician he moved to the Social Welfare Commission in 1974 and then to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in 1975. He was promoted to the Senior Executive Service in the Department of Social Security in 1978, where he stayed until 1982. In 1982 he joined the Department of Finance. In 1990 Podger went on to hold the position of Deputy Secretary in charge of Acquisition and Logistics in the Department of Defence, where he stayed until 1993. He was appointed Secretary of the Department of the Arts and Administrative Services in 1993, shortly thereafter renamed the Department of Administrative Service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Lancaster
Geoffrey Lancaster (born 20 August 1954) is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky. He also studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy, and also completed a master's degree at the University of Tasmania. In 1984, he moved to Amsterdam to study fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1996 he was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London, following which he worked at the School of Music at the University of Western Australia. He was a professor of the ANU School of Music from 2000 until 2012. Now based in Perth, he is Professor of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. Life and career Lancaster is an expert in historical performance practice of the works of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Giles
Alice Rosemary Giles (born c. 1961) is an Australian classical harpist. Early life and education She was born in Adelaide,Australian World Orchestra . Retrieved 25 February 2016 and trained with June LoneyJo Litson, "Heavenly gliss", '' ABC Radio 24 Hours'', June 2001, p. 12 at the . In 1982, aged 21, she won the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Cotter (composer)
Clive James Cotter (born 1948 in Geelong, Australia) is an Australian composer currently based in Canberra, Australia. His career has largely been in music for theater, film, and radio. Cotter began his career as Music Director and resident composer for the Canberra Repertory Theatre and has collaborated extensively with Australian playwright Dorothy Hewett, most notably writing the music for the musical theater piece '' The Man From Mukinupin'' and for the children's play Golden Valley. Cotter also wrote the music for Merlinda Bobis' radio play "Rita's Lullaby", which won the Prix Italia in 1998. Cotter began his musical career playing trumpet in trad-jazz bands in Melbourne as a teenager. He moved to Canberra in the late 1960s with his family and continued performing in this tradition but gradually drifted towards more modern forms of jazz and rock and roll. He performed with the Canberra bands, The Bitter Lemons, The Firing Squad, Family Portrait as well as in more exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Banks
Donald Oscar Banks (25 October 19235 September 1980) was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music. Early life and education Jazz was Banks' earliest and strongest musical influence. He learned the saxophone as a boy in Australia and was proficient enough to be invited to play in the Graeme Bell band, then one of the finest outside America. He served with the Australian Army Medical Corps between 1941 and 1946 and began to study piano, harmony and counterpoint privately. He attended the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for two years before moving to Europe in 1950. In the UK he studied composition privately with Mátyás Seiber, who was himself much interested in jazz, from 1950 to 1952. He became a friend and associate of Gunther Schuller and was much involved with Tubby Hayes, writing several compositions for him. There were also periods of study in Salzburg with modernist Milton Babbitt and in Florence with the serialist composer Luigi Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolette Fraillon
Nicolette Ella Fraillon (born 29 July 1960) is an Australian conductor, who was chief conductor of The Australian Ballet from 2003 until 2022. Career Fraillon grew up in Melbourne, a child of immigrant parents of Huguenot-Sicilian and Austrian Jewish origins. Her family is musical: both grandfathers were cellists, and her brother Guillaume was principal bass player with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She started violin and piano studies as a child; her teachers included Brian Buggy (violin) and Ada Corder (piano)."The Good Life: Lunch with Nicolette Fraillon", ''The Age'', 2 March 2013, Life&Style, p. 3 She played with the Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Youth Orchestra for some time. As an adult she studied viola under Chris Martin at the University of Melbourne. She studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, from 1984, and later in Hanover, Germany.'' Limelight'', January 2014, Guest column: Female conductors, p. 20 Her profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav Bukovsky
Miroslav Bukovsky (born Czechoslovakia) is one of Australia's leading jazz trumpeters and composer/arrangers. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Bukovsky won the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with the album ''Wanderlust'' with the band Wanderlust. Miroslav has been on staff at the ANU School of Music since 1999. He is a former student American trumpeter Bill Adam. Biography Born in Czechoslovakia, Bukovsky grew up listening to jazz on illegal 'Voice of America' late-night broadcasts. Originally classically trained, he joined various big bands while still living in Czechoslovakia. When the Soviet army invaded his homeland in 1968, Bukovsky, who was then on tour, decided not to return. He migrated to Australia and soon found a place for himself in the Sydney jazz scene. Despite then having only a basic grasp of English, Bukovsky met a number of musicians and quickly made a name for himself jamming with them. It wasn't long before he was playing in such groups as the Daly-Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Barker
Cheryl Ruth Barker (born 22 April 1960, Sydney) is an Australian operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the late 1980s. She has sung on several complete opera recordings with Chandos Records, including the title roles in Dvořák's '' Rusalka (opera), Rusalka'', Janáček's '' Káťa Kabanová'' and Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'', and Emilia Marty in Janáček's ''The Makropulos Case''. She has also made two solo recordings of opera arias, one with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor David Parry and the other with Orchestra Victoria and conductor Richard Bonynge. On the stage she has had partnerships with the English National Opera (ENO) and Opera Australia. Career Barker studied with Dame Joan Hammond at the Victorian College of the Arts and began her career as a member of the opera chorus at the Victoria State Opera at the age of 19. She made her first solo appearance at that house as Blondchen in Mozart's ''Die Entführung aus dem Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Davie (pianist)
Scott Davie (born 1966) is an Australian concert pianist based in Sydney. Davie is currently a piano lecturer at the ANU School of Music and is the director of the university's Keyboard Institute. Biography Davie was born in 1966, in Orange, New South Wales, but moved to Sydney at a young age. He was a student at the Conservatorium High School, where he won numerous awards and prizes. He later studied as an undergraduate student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before relocating to London, studying at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He completed his undergraduate degree at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he later completed both masters and a PhD, focusing on melodic language of Sergei Rachmaninoff. His teachers include Gerard Willems, Leslie Howard and Geoffrey Parsons. Rachmaninoff manuscript discovery In 2003, while researching Rachmaninoff material at the Library of Congress, Davie discovered a two-page sketch of a Rachmaninoff piano pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Sainsbury
Christopher Sainsbury is a composer, performer and teacher of music. he is an associate professor at the ANU School of Music, Canberra, where he lectures in composition, songwriting, and contemporary Australian Indigenous music. He is descended from the Dharug Aboriginal people, and is the founder and artistic director of the Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers program. Early life and education Sainsbury was born on the Central Coast, New South Wales in 1963. In his early years, Sainsbury was involved in various regional and community musical groups during the 1960s and 1970s which have become important influences in his work. In 1984, Sainsbury studied composition under Australian conductor and composer Richard Mills. Sainsbury attended the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education (now the Southern Cross University) where he was awarded the College Medal in 1986. He began teaching music at the Eora College in 1990 where he was the Head of Arts and Media until 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pereira
250px David Pereira (born 21 September 1953) is an Australian classical cellist, considered one of the finest working today. He was Senior Lecturer in Cello at the Canberra School of Music from 1990 to 2008. Later he worked there as a Distinguished Artist in Residence. Since April 2017 he again teaches cello there as a Senior Lecturer. Pereira was born in Macksville, New South Wales in 1953, moved to Young at the age of five and then to Leura. His mother, Margaret Beveridge, and his father, Keith Pereira, are Australian born. Pereira is a Portuguese name meaning - Pear-tree. He studied with John Painter at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music 1972–75 and graduated as "Student of the Year". He also studied with Fritz Magg at Indiana University and completed a master's degree in Cello Performance (1976–79).He joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra while completing coursework for a D.Mus.(cello) at I.U. (1977–79)Violoncello.biz His early work included Musica Viva Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
