In early January young musicians from Geelong and the surrounding area will come together for a great week of music camp. In its 43rd year, this day camp provides a valuable experience for musicians with outstanding conductors, instrumental specialist tutors, fun electives and an opportunity to make some great friends. This year I will be […]
The final concert for the 2024 season by the Geelong Concert Band will feature the Workshop Band, Community Band and Senior Concert Band performing a set before combining together for a grand finale. The workshop band will be performing works and the end of their first year of learning, including the wonderful relaxing composition by […]
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV (Jacob ter Veldhuis, 1951) is considered an ‘outlaw’ in new music, whose work ‘makes many a hip-hop artist look sedate’ (Wall Street Journal). Jacob has been a frontrunner in combining video, multimedia and music for 30 years. With his use of soundbites from documentaries, news items and popular tv-shows he […]
As part of the 15th Windfire Music Festival in Geelong I will be performing alongside a talented array of musicians, presenting music composed from the 12th Century to the present day. Alongside Tom Healey and Frank De Rosso I will be improvising on soprano saxophone to O Magne Pater by Hildegard von Bingen and then […]
Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery, treachery… and All That Jazz… The Geelong College Senior School Production this year has plenty of cracking musical numbers. I’ve been playing the Reed 2 book in the pit switching between Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet and Piccolo. Amazingly, there are soprano saxophones in all three reed parts which makes […]