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Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary School
Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS), is a government-funded co-educational selective and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in the performing and visual arts, located within the Melbourne Arts Precinct in Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1978, VCASS teaches students from Year 7 to Year 12; and has an enrolment of 370 students. Students are accepted after annual auditions and interviews. All students share academic subjects, but follow either a specialised dance, music, theatre arts or visual arts training program for half the day. The school also provides academic classes to secondary students from other institutions including the Australian Ballet School, and Gymnastics Victoria. History Instigated by the former tertiary institution Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), as a separate and complementary institution, VCASS was founded in 1978 by Lenton Parr and Jack Pitt (as the Victorian College of the Arts Technical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southbank, Victoria
Southbank is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 1 km south of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the Cities of City of Melbourne, Melbourne and City of Port Phillip, Port Phillip Local government areas of Victoria, local government areas. Southbank recorded a population of 22,631 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Its southernmost area is considered part of the central business district of the city. Southbank is bordered to the north by the Yarra River, and to the east by St Kilda Road. Southbank's southern and western borders are bounded by Dorcas Street, Kings Way, Market Street, Ferrars Street, and a triangle bordered by Gladstone Street, Montague Street, and the West Gate Freeway. Southbank was formerly a mostly industrial area, and simply part of the locality of South Melbourne, and the City of South Melbourne. It was transformed into a densely populated distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian College Of The Arts
The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the university. Courses and training offered at the VCA cover eight academic disciplines: dance, film and television, drama, Indigenous arts, music theatre, production, theatre, visual art, and writing, alongside the Centre for Ideas and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development. The library on the Southbank campus is known as the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library. History The Victorian College of the Arts was established in 1972 by a government order under the Victorian Institute of Colleges Act 1955, initiated by the Premier of Victoria and Minister for the Arts, Rupert Hamer. Subsequently, in 1973 the VCA was affiliated as a college of advanced education with the Victorian Institute of Colleges. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Savage (composer)
Patrick Savage is an Australian-born composer and violinist best known for his collaboration with Holeg Spies on the score for ''The Human Centipede (First Sequence)''. He was also formerly principal first violin with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, UK. A former student of the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and the Royal College of Music in London, he now lives in London and collaborates regularly on scores with French composer Holeg Spies. He was also formerly leader of the Tippett Quartet in London. Filmography * ''Hex'' * ''Selling Isobel'' * ''Purple Heather'' * ''The Raven Club'' * '' The Outsider'' (James Caan, Shannon Elizabeth, Craig Fairbrass, Jason Patric, dir Brian A Miller) * ''Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom'' (game for Sony PlayStation 3) * ''Tarot'' (in development) * ''Becoming ''(dir Omar Naim, in pre-production) * ''Abruptio'' (dir Evan Marlowe) * ''Stolen Light'' * ''Asylum 108'' * ''Se vende perro que habla, 10 euros'' * ''Dead End'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall McGuire
Marshall McGuire (born 1965) is an Australian harpist, teacher, conductor and musical administrator. He has been described as the world's greatest champion of new music for the harp. Biography McGuire was born in Melbourne in 1965. His interest in the harp was sparked when he saw Harpo Marx playing the instrument in the film '' A Night at the Opera''.Marshall McGuire, "Still harping on at 50", '' Limelight'', February 2015, p. 20 He was taught by Huw Jones, harpist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He studied at VCASS, the Victorian College of the Arts, in Paris with Marie-Claire Jamet and the Royal College of Music, London. Since July 2015, he has been director of programming at the Melbourne Recital Centre. From 1988 to 1992, he was principal harpist with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. He has been a member of the ELISION Ensemble since 1988 and was lecturer in Harp at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Nicdao
Charlotte Nicdao (born 14 August 1991) is an Australian actress and composer. She is known for her roles as Jackie Lee in the Nine Network series ''A gURLs wURLd'' (2010–2011) and Poppy Li in the Apple TV+ comedy ''Mythic Quest'' (2020–). Career Nicdao attended Victorian College of Arts and studied jazz and classical music. After an audition for a role in which she did not get the part, Nicdao discovered that her true love was acting. Nicdao's big break happened in 2008 when she was cast as Jackie in ''A gURLs wURLd''. Nicdao auditioned when she was 17. The show filmed in Sydney, Singapore, and Hamburg, so Nicdao completed the final year of high school by distance education with the goal to return to Melbourne and make a career out of jazz singing. In 2014, Nicdao joined the second season cast of Josh Thomas' Australian TV series ''Please Like Me,'' and played the role of Tom's girlfriend Jenny. In 2019, Nicdao starred as Lucy in ''Content'', a made-for-phone online vide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English National Ballet
English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain. English National Ballet is one of the foremost touring companies in Europe, performing in theatres throughout the UK as well as conducting international tours and performing at special events. The Company employs approximately 67 dancers and a symphony orchestra, (English National Ballet Philharmonic). In 1984 Peter Schaufuss became director and changed the name to English National Ballet and founded the school English National Ballet School, which is independent from the ballet company but joining the company premises in the new building. The Company regularly performs seasons at the London Coliseum and has been noted for specially staged performances at the Royal Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Ballet
The Australian Ballet is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson's, J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur and director Peggy van Praagh, Dame Peggy van Praagh as founding artistic director. Today, it is recognised as one of the world's major international ballet companies. History The roots of the Australian Ballet can be found in the Edouard Borovansky#Borovansky Ballet, Borovansky Ballet, a company founded in 1940 by the Czech people, Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky. Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company of the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and, after visiting Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, he decided to remain in Australia, establishing a ballet school in Melbourne in 1939, out of which he developed a performance group which became the Borovansky Ballet. The company was su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Horsman
Greg Horsman is an Australian ballet choreographer, teacher, and retired dancer. In 2022, ''Dance Magazine Australia'' described him as "formerly one of the Australian Ballet's most poetic and classical of principal artists." He and his then-wife Lisa Pavane were a popular partnership during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the ''Washington Post'' referring to their "conspicuously poised, elegant dancing" and the ''New York Times'' calling them "two perfectly trained and appealing first-class dancers" during a performance of ''Giselle''. Horsman has been the Chief Ballet Master and Director of Artistic Operations for the Queensland Ballet since 2013. Early life and education Horsman was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 1963. At age 12, he saw Rudolph Nureyev and the London Festival Ballet perform '' The Sleeping Beauty'' in Melbourne. He was already studying ballet under Peter Dickinson at that time but credits that moment as when he decided to commit his life to ballet. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Gauci
Natalie Rose Gauci (born 26 November 1981) is an Australian musician, producer and teacher. Gauci undertook music tuition at the Victorian College of the Arts, formed her own band that played gigs in Melbourne, while also working as a music teacher. After an appearance on national radio station Triple J's talent contest, '' Unearthed'', she successfully auditioned for the fifth series of '' Australian Idol'' in 2007 and went on to win the series. Gauci subsequently signed a record deal with Sony BMG Australia and in November that year released her debut single, " Here I Am", which reached number two on the ARIA Singles Chart and gained a gold accreditation. The next month her debut album, '' The Winner's Journey'', followed. It peaked at number eleven on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified platinum. In 2010 she formed Tune in Tokyo, an electro-pop band, with producer Paul Brandoli, they released two singles, " Dreamer" (November 2010) and "Ray of Love" (April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Chambers (pianist)
Rebecca Chambers (born 31 May 1975) is an Australian concert pianist from Melbourne. Early life and education In 1996 she was named Young Australian of the Year. She was educated at Victorian College of the Arts. She made her debut as piano soloist with an orchestra at age 7. When interviewed by the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' in 2003 for a story about how winners of the Young Australian of the Year Award thought their country had changed, Chambers stated: She won the piano section of the ABC Young Performers Award in 1993. She received the Roy Rubinstein Award while pursuing her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music. Career and personal life A solo performance with the Manhattan Symphony at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Black
Zoë Black is an Australian violin player. She plays with Australian Chamber Orchestra and is a recitalist and soloist. Black has worked extensively with pianist and composer Joe Chindamo. Together they were nominated for the 2014 and 2016 ARIA Awards for Best Classical Album for their albums ''Dido's Lament'' and ''The New Goldberg Variations''. In 2011 Chindamo, Black and friends (Daniel Farrugia, Philip Rex, Sarah Curro, Caroline Henbest and Josephine Vains) released ''Hush collection. Volume 11, Luminous : inspired by Mozart'' for the Hush project which supports children's hospitals around Australia. Discography Albums Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). ! , - , 2014 , ''Dido's Lament'' (with Joe Chindamo) , Best Classical Album , , rowspan="2" , ARIA Award previous winners. , - , 2016 , ''The New Goldberg Variations'' (with Joe Chindamo) , B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Certificate Of Education
The Victorian Certificate of Education (often abbreviated VCE) is one credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria. The VCE is the predominant choice for students wishing to pursue tertiary education. An alternative to VCE is the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), a vocational based senior secondary school qualification. About 67% of all 19-year-olds in Victoria had completed the VCE in 2020, compared to about 11% of students completing the VCAL (a very small group completed both). A small number of government secondary schools, and a somewhat larger number of private schools, offer the IB Diploma Programme as an alternative. Study for the VCE is usually completed over two years but can be spread over a longer period of time in some cases. It is possible to pass the VCE without completing the end of year exams. The VCE was established as a pilot project in 1987. The earlier High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
