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 […]
I'm playing West Side Story with St Michael's Grammar School which at the Athenaeum Theatre. The music is spectacular with very catchy rhythms and lots of jazz influence (very nice for saxophones). Come along and see the film that made every guy want to be tough in a gang that does pirouettes! West Side Story […]
I was in Washington DC and fortunate enough to listen to a performance by the Marine Chamber Ensembles in the Sousa Band Hall. The Marine Band was established in 1798 and had Sousa himself as their 17th Director who made them one of the first music ensembles to make sound recordings. They only take the […]
Stay tuned for a new saxophone work by Lorenzo Alvaro to be premiered in 2012. Lorenzo is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and he is working on a 3 movement sonata for soprano saxophone and piano. I’m looking at premiering it later in the year with Amir Farid – concert details will […]