Today I attended an ANU Music School Postgraduate Zoom Seminar, to hear brilliant Australian flautist Sally Walker speaking about her wide ranging work as a performer, conference presenter, music teacher and author. Sally’s versatile performance repertoire includes early music, flute improvisation with many ethnic musicians, classical, contemporary and baroque works. Sally is also exploring a brilliant new musical strategy that accommodates Australian Covid-19 pandemic conditions, by responding to the needs and musical tastes of an attentive audience of one – Flute Concerts for One. Sally’s ESP-like sensitivity to her solo listeners, comfortably seated at the required Covid Safe distance, enables her to synchronise her live flute performances and improvisations seamlessly, to the listener’s responses to her music. Hopefully her stress relieving live mini-concerts will outlive the pandemic era.
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Australian composer Elizabeth Sheppard’s music is recorded and broadcast by the ABC, and released on ABC CDs, Universal Music Australia, Hyperion, 1equalmusic, Spotify and iTunes. She is an Arts, Philosophy and Theology graduate, an accredited Cathedral Cantor, a music graduate of Eora Aboriginal College, an Aboriginal Law / Aboriginal Studies graduate of Tranby IAE College, and a graduate of the Australian National University’s Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers Program, currently studying Postgraduate composition at the Australian National University. In October 2022 her mainstage a capella oratorio music on the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, commissioned by The Song Company for Songs from the Heart, was toured to Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Parramatta and Wollongong, streamed on the Australian Digital Concert Hall and released internationally on a Hyperion CD by 1equalmusic. The Australia Arts Council awarded a $25,000 grant for a second 2023 tour of Sheppard’s Songs from the Heart music. Sheppard’s forthcoming music includes Karollini Christmas (an album of ten new Australian Christmas carols), Minninup Pool (a string quartet), Mana Dharook (a chamber orchestra symphony), and Bina Benang (a song cycle).
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