I'm playing tenor saxophone with the Ballarat Wind Orchestra in their performance of Orff's Carmina Burana with the Victoria Chorale. Although Orff is most often associated with his music pedagogy method, he wrote a fascinating cantata to a selection of medieval poems and dramatic texts. The work opens and closes with O Fortuna which topped […]
A new soprano saxophone sonata written by Australian PhD candidate Lorenzo Alvaro will be premiered at Melba Hall on Tuesday 11th September. Dedicated to the people affected by the Queensland floods of 2011 it features two outer movements of lyrical beauty and a longer 2nd movement that gives both the piano and saxophone moments to […]
Before Australian Idol, X Factor and a host of other shows, there was Fame. Set in a New York high school for the performing arts it charts the progress of a group of new students from a range of backgrounds and with a variety of talents. A really fun reed book to play, I'm […]
I'll be performing at Gosling Creek Winery on Saturday July 21st from 3pm with David Stuart. The program will include: One For Mum – Lachlan Davidson The Lake and the Hinterland – Stuart Greenbaum KBM – Andy Scott (Australian Premiere) Three Pieces for a New Millenium – Stuart Greenbaum Merry Go Round – Sid Millward […]
After recently reading Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein I thought I would start increasing my memorisation skills. Currently I'm learning a line a day of Andy Scott's KBM for an upcoming performance in July and I will write an article on the whole process at the end. If you have had any experience with memorising music […]