The Geelong Concert Band will be performing the annual end of year concert with local guest artist, Dave Gardner. There's a great line up of movie favourites from the Youth Band and the Senior Band will be performing some fantastic works including 'Godzilla Eats Las Vegas'. Saturday 24th November 7:30pm Geelong West Town Hall – […]
I've been busy the last few weeks preparing a masterclass on woodwind doubling for Ballarat High School. Did you know instrument doubling has a long and noble history dating back to Renaissance time with musicians alternating between recorder, shawn, curtails and crumhorns! There's so many benefits to learning a second instrument from the woodwind family […]
I'll be performing with the Geelong Concert Band who are teaming up with the Grainger Wind Symphony to present a rare evening of high quality concert band repertoire. The program will include Ghosts by Stephen McNeff, March Opus 99 by Prokofiev, Fifth Suite for Band by Alfred Reed and more! Don't miss this chance to […]
Come and be a part of Australian Saxophone History with Shannon Ebeling (saxophone) and Amir Farid (piano). A fusion of classical and jazz works including the premiere of a soprano saxophone sonata written for Shannon by PhD candidate Lorenzo Alvaro. The program also features Spanish classical/jazz saxophonist Pedro Iturralde's Suite Hellenique and John Williams' Escapades from […]
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 […]