We were delighted to receive quite a number of applications for our first conducting masterclass of the season. After reviewing all the videos received and applicant CVs and biographies, we have selected the following as active participants for the 2 x 2.5 hours rehearsals on May 27. They are (in alphabetical order): Joshua Geddes Andrew […]
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We’ve decided after weighing up many, many options out there to abandon doing traditional newsletters (sorry about that AWeber, MailChimp etc). One of the simple reasons is that by either occasionally visiting the ADO website or following us on Facebook will keep you up-to-date with everything going on with the Australian Discovery Orchestra. But the
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Today, I begin writing to successful auditionees who have obtained a chair in the 2016-17 ADO season. It has been a privilege to take part in watching well over 100 video auditions submitted from all around Australia and quite a few from Australian musicians currently living overseas. Doing auditions via video submission comprising the entire
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I’m in the midst of learning quite a lot of music for concerts and upcoming recordings. However, I decided to take some time out for the rare, and very great, privilege of sitting in on rehearsals with one of the great British conductors of this generation and one of the great American orchestras of any
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With the first performance of the ADO coming up on May 29, I thought I would write a short introductory piece to the suite that Aaron Copland extracted from his ‘Americana’ opera, The Tender Land which we are performing along with Brenton Broadstock’s Made in Heaven: Concerto For Orchestra (rev.). I find it fascinating that
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