- Tura wins Classical Music award!
- James Ledger wins state composer award
- Set
- Duo Vertigo
- Workers' Union : Duo Vertigo meets Defying Gravity
- RTRFM 92.1 Radiothon
On Monday night the Australian music industry celebrated the success of this year’s most outstanding Australian contemporary classical music achievements at the 2006 Classical Music Awards presented by APRA and the Australian Music Centre.
Western Australian Tura New Music was the proud winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area category for the “Voices Over WA” project. Voices over WA featured The Song Company presenting concerts and workshops throughout the Kimberley and Pilbara regions in May 2005.
This prestigious award acknowledges the considerable commitment Tura has to regional Western Australia including projects such as Violins in the Outback, Gavin Bryars in Broome and the soon to be launched Ruined Piano Sanctuary in York.
Further information on the Classical Music Awards can be found at http://www.amcoz.com.au/projects/awards2006.htm
WA Composer James Ledger was also honoured at the 2006 Classical Music Awards and won the Best Composition by a WA Composer category of the State based awards for his piece Line Drawing.
Set is bold, new live performance-based music program featuring the very best of Australia’s vibrant and diverse experimental music scene.
Set showcases a wide range of artists from those pushing the boundaries of jazz, pop and classical composition, to makers of unusual and beautiful new instruments.
Coming up:
11.05pm, 10th August - Stasis Duo & Amanda Stewart
11.35pm, 17th August - Rob Avenaim/ Dale Gorfinkel/ Lucas Abela
Previous episodes have featured The Necks, Francis Plagne, Anthony Pateras, Ernie Althoff, Rod Cooper, Oren Ambarchi, Splinter Orchestra and most recently the Hi-God People. Upcoming shows include appearances by The Stasis Duo, Amanda Stewart, Robbie Avenaim, Jim Denley, Peter Blamey, Dale Gorfinkel and Lucas Abela
World renowned percussionists Duo Vertigo, Claire Edwardes and Niels Meliefste, will present solo and duo percussion works commissioned by them from composers around the world. Up and coming young percussionist Claire Edwardes has been based in the Netherlands ever since she won the Sydney Australia Young Performer of the Year in 1999. She has since been awarded the Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music in 2005.
Jane Stanley - Celestial Dance
Benedict Weisser - Piano Drumming
Benedict Weisser - Study for Four Hands (Piano-Drumming)
Samual Vriezen - Toccata
Samual Vriezen - Toccata III
Ton de Leeuw - Midare
Louis Andriessen - Woodpecker
Drew Crawford - Quadrivium
Jane Stanley - Panel 1: Silver - Impulsion - Panel II: Rose
Ned McGowan - Urban Turban
8pm Sat 12th August
Art Gallery of WA
Tickets are $30 full/$25 concession/ $15 students and can be purchased from BOCS Ticketing 9484 1133 or http://www.bocsticketing.com.au
Doors open 7.30pm and door sales will be available on the night.
Hot Dutch/Australian percussion group Duo Vertigo collaborate with Perth's own Defying Gravity to present a programme of percussive marvel and mayhem, including Louis Andriessen's classic Workers' Union and Nigel Westlake's Omphalo Centric Lecture, along with works by Theo Loevendie and Michiel Heeneman.
5pm, Sunday 13th August
WAAPA Music Auditorium
Tickets $ 19.50 and $14.50.
Phone WAAPA Box Office on 9370 6895.
RTRFM's annual fundraising drive takes place from Friday 11 August to Sunday 19 August. Become a subscriber during the Radiothon and help keep Perth's most interesting radio station, and its weekly new music program, Difficult Listening, on the air for another year.
Subscribe during Difficult Listening, and you'll go into the draw for the program's major prize - a double VIP season pass to the 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival in 2007 - valued at over $300. This pass will give you not only free admission to every single festival performance, but also invites to the launch and other invitation-only events, and opportunities to meet the artists. Absolute heaven for the new music fan and, because it doesn't happen until next April, you've got plenty of time to arrange a week off work!
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