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Campus composers present their work in concert

October 12, 2004

Several 50th anniversary compositions will be premiered in UNE’s Campus Composers’ Concert No 59 on Friday 15 October.

Ann Ghandar, founder of music composition and performance at UNE, inaugurated the Campus Composers’ Concert Series in 1974. Two or three of these concerts have been held each year since then. Internal as well as external UNE Music students, and members of the University and the Armidale communities, have the opportunity to perform in them.

Friday’s concert, sponsored by the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ingrid Moses, will be at 1.10 pm in Room G43 at the C.B. Newling Building (the Old Teachers’ College).

“The students’ compositions are rehearsed to a high standard of presentation
and they take great pride in presenting their work in such a public forum,”
Mrs Ghandar said. “This gives them valuable training in many aspects of
concert presentation that have to be experienced in order to be understood.
Public performance of students’ compositions is an integral part of their studies, and these concerts allow them to demonstrate their explorations of sound, and their skills in music making.”

Campus Composers’ Concerts have also become a forum of interaction between
the University and the wider community, whether through members of the
community simply attending the concerts and enjoying premiere performances
of music, or participating in the concerts by performing and conducting
their own work.

In the lunch-time concert on Friday, Chris Ross-Smith, formerly Head of Drama at UNE, who is well known in the Armidale community for his acting skills and his many entrepreneurial activities in the arts, will be MC.

Students’ works to be performed will include "Paddling Through Still Water" (by Glen Wholohan), "Wash of Time" (by Becky Williamson), "Till Human Voices Wake Us" (by Sarah Christopher), and "The House on Common Land Point" (by Victoria Bellingham). Students and members of the Armidale community will perform their compositions on instruments that include flute, clarinet, piano, violin, guitar, and various percussion instruments. Performers and composers from the Armidale community include Stephen Thorneycroft, who has written a new composition for the concert, and Stephen Tafra. The concert will be followed by tea and coffee, to enable the audience to meet and talk to the composers and performers.

For more information, please phone Mrs Ghandar on (02) 6773 6456.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at October 12, 2004 04:57 PM