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June 16, 2010
Les Murray’s Octave at the Aurora Festival – May 2010
“Our concert at Blacktown Performing Arts Centre as part of the Aurora Festival was approaching and the music I had been learning for the past 4 months was about to stand the test, or more correctly, my brain was about to be stretched! Performing this programme for one night only….couldn’t we do it again tomorrow as well??
June 16, 2010
Encounters: Musical Meetings between Australia and China – Queensland Conservatorium
Beautiful weather greeted us on our landing in Brisbane on May 7 which continued to keep our spirits sunny for the entire weekend. A little fatigue lingered with us on arrival as the singers and Roland, having just performed the challenging Les Murray ISCM program the night before in Blacktown, promptly moved on to the next project!
June 15, 2010
Sounding the High Court
Sounding The High Court was one of a series of acoustic events celebrating the marriage of music and architecture that took place during the Canberra International Music Festival. Listen to Roland Peelman interviewed on ABC Canberra about programming for this event.
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June 10, 2010
Starry, Starry Night Gala Event
The Song Company and Australian Master Chef Tony Bilson have teamed up once more to present a beautiful program of celestial music to accompany a heavenly degustation dinner with selected wines.
The six solo voices of the Song Company with Artistic Director Roland Peelman will perform an intimate concert to welcome Alex Knight, Elli Green and Jehan Kanga – the bright new stars of our Young Artists Program.
Early bird tickets are $200 each if booked before June 30th and $220 thereafter (ticket includes a tax-deductible component). There will be a live auction with major items including indigenous artworks and a dinner for 10 people with a private …
June 3, 2010
Italian week
Warm up for our big August production with a little Italian folk flavour tomorrow night, Saturday and Sunday in Wollongong, Canberra and Sydney with our friends I VIAGGIATORI - 2010 Suitcase Serenata Tour…
May 18, 2010
Concert reviews
2010 Subscription season – Gethsemane
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May 11, 2010
Encounters: Musical Meetings Between Australia and China
COINCIDING with the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the Queensland Conservatorium mounted an ambitious, robust program to celebrate and probe the complex musical relationships between Australia and China.
Much more significant than a traditional music conference, the themes were explored through discussion and performance.
Contributors included composers Gao Ping and John Huie, sheng player Wang Zheng-Ting and percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson.
Workshops scrutinised Sichuan music, the spiritual music of Buddhism and Taoism and kunqu, or traditional Chinese opera. Concerts featured the local Sunshine Philharmonic Choir and a dazzling pipa virtuoso from Beijing.
There were film screenings of Lulu’s Opera House, a photography exhibition and discussions about the impact of Chinese theatre and opera during the gold rush years.
Impressively, …
April 22, 2010
Win a movie pass to The Concert
We have 10 x double passes to give away to see THE CONCERT – A film by Radu Mihaileanu. Starring Alexei Guskov, Melanie Laurent, Dmitry Nazarov and Miou Miou
Opening at #1 at the French cinema box-office, The Concert is pure entertainment – a warm-hearted, joyous story filled with great wit and humanity. The stirring finale set against Tchaikovsky’s Concerto is simply magnificent.
April 22, 2010
Being 7-months pregnant in the Song Company – Ruth McCall
You know how a single man walking a dog in a park instantly attracts women? Women see the two of them together and assume he must be the caring, supportive type (depending perhaps on the breed of dog). Being 7-months pregnant in the Song Company is a ‘middle-aged-female-audience-member’ magnet. They come up to me and positively beam. Then come the three questions; “When are you due?”, “Do you know if it is a boy or a girl?”, “Is it your first?”. There are no wrong answers to these questions. I can say anything and my reward is a bigger smile.
