Australia Ensemble UNSW is an Australian chamber group active since 1980. The group was founded in 1980 as the University of New South Wales Ensemble after a proposal put to the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...

by musicologist Roger Covell and clarinettist

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, then colleagues at the University. Its current Artistic Chair is Paul Stanhope who took over from Covell in 2014. In October 1983 the University of New South Wales Ensemble was renamed the Australia Ensemble, Resident at the University of New South Wales. Since that time it has occupied a prominent position in Australian music, frequently touring in addition to a Sydney-based concert series. International performances have taken the ensemble to the USA, the UK, the then Soviet Union, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, China, India, South America, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. The Ensemble collaborates with major Australian and international performers, and frequently performs new works by Australian composers.

Membership

Current members

*1980– Irina Morozova, viola *1982– Dene Olding, violin *1983– Geoffrey Collins, flute *1991– Julian Smiles, cello *1992– Dimity Hall, violin *2000– Ian Munro, piano *2018– David Griffiths, clarinet

Past members

*1980–1985

, clarinet *1980–1981 John Harding, violin *1980–1990

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, cello *1980–1998

David Bollard David Bollard (born 25 September 1942) is a New Zealand-born Australian classical pianist and teacher. Career David Bollard studied with Béla Síki in 1962, then moved to London in 1964, studying with Ilona Kabos, Louis Kentner and Julius Kat ...

, piano *1980–1982 David Stanhope, horn and piano *1986 Donald Westlake, guest clarinet *1987–1991 Nigel Westlake clarinet *1992–1994 Alan Vivian, clarinet *1995–2014 Catherine McCorkill, clarinet *2015–2017 David Griffiths, associate artist

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 1992 , ''Cafe Concertino'' , rowspan="2" ,

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, , rowspan="2" , ARIA Award previous winners. , - , 1996 , ''Shostakovich'' , , -

References

External links

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