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 […]
The Geelong Concert Band Senior Band will be having a jazz themed concert in September. The first half will feature concert band works influenced by Jazz including Ticheli’s iconic Blue Shades, a taste of French Gypsy Jazz with Perkins’ Societe Blue and a melting pot of American blues and rock styles with Karrick’s See Rock […]
This year the Australian National Band and Orchestra Conductor’s Conference was held at Carey Baptist Grammar in Kew. The theme was ‘Play Your Part’ with keynote presenters Dr Paula Crider and Dr Travis Cross. Many of the presentations looked at ways of expressing ‘beyond the notes’ on the page, engaging your ensemble with questioning and […]
Running a marathon just got easier thanks to some awesome saxophone music! Combining my love of running with playing the saxophone, I’ll be pumping out some motivating tunes for the 10th Anniversary of the Surf Coast Trail Marathon. You can catch me on Saturday 15th June at Urquhart’s from 11:45am.