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“Koordaboodjar Heartland for Flute and Harp” NSW Art Gallery, 18 April 2021
In March 2021 Dr. Sally Walker, a flute lecturer at the Australian National University, commissioned me to rearrange the third movement of my Kooranginy Suite (2017) for flute and harp. My rearrangement was performed by harpist Emily Granger and flautist… Continue reading
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CovidSafe Music Performance : Sally Walker’s Flute Concerts for One
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… Continue reading
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Closing the Gap : Academic Music and Community Music
It seems that the ongoing Coranavirus pandemic has woken Australians up to the important role that local community and country based music can play, in maintaining human mental health and community peace. Dreaming, performing, and paying attention to community music… Continue reading
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Live Music vs. Covid-19 Music-at-a-Distance
As Australia comes to terms with COVID-19 protocols, musicians and composers are working out how to “do” music online. This photo of the first Ngarra Burria concert at Eora Aboriginal College in 2017, shows how Australian Indigenous and immigrant origin… Continue reading
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Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers at Eora College, the Australian Music Centre, ANU and Mooghalin Arts
In 1788 the British arrived in Australia, bringing European music with them. Attempts were made – in bungling, unsuccessful ways – to connect with the Dharug speaking tribes they encountered. As Aboriginal hunting grounds were stolen, and disease decimated the… Continue reading
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Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education & Training Centre
Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education Centre in Glebe, NSW, formerly known as Tranby Aboriginal College, was started by local Aboriginal Elders in collaboration with Catholic, then Anglican, nuns and clergy. Tranby is now entirely governed by Aboriginal Elders, and provides… Continue reading
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Overcoming creative challenges at ANU . . .
Negotiating last year’s Australian election, surviving the New Year bushfire and hail crisis, and being suddenly plunged into unprecedented nationwide pandemic health precautions, posed challenges for creative work of any kind, including my craft of composition. But Australian composers are… Continue reading