AUSTA News 2024
Ed Le Brocq
Ed Le Brocq Ed Le Brocq is a musical adventurer, teacher, writer, broadcaster and transgender man. He was born on the White Cliffs of Dover and began playing music when he was six years old. He studied viola in Manchester, Berlin and London, and played professionally in the UK and Hong Kong. After a decade of performances throughout Asia, including for the Hong Kong Handover in 1997, Ed decided on a new path, literally, and travelled by bicycle from England to Hong Kong, with only a violin for company. The journey took him a year and went through Europe, Iran,…
Yvonne Frye
Yvonne Frye The German violinist and violin pedagogue Yvonne Frye studied violin at the Hochschule für Musik, Detmold, with John Lambos and Helge Slaatto, graduating with a Diploma of Violin Pedagogy. She continued her artistic studies at the Kärtner Landeskonservatorium in Klagenfurt, Austria in the violin class of Prof. Helfried Fister. In addition to her teaching at music schools (Germany), Yvonne Frye has performed as a chamber musician in various ensemble combinations. As a freelance musician, she has also worked with many orchestras including the Detmolder Kammerorchester, and was concertmaster of the Kourion-Orchester Münster. 2007 Géza Szilvay invited Yvonne to…
Deborah Cheetham
Prof. Deborah Cheetham AO DUniv, BMus Ed, AmusA Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and Artistic Director, has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). Deborah Cheetham’s list of commissions for major Australian ensembles including works for the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and West Australian Symphony orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, Rubiks Collective, The Sydney Philharmonia, Plexus Collective, the Flinders Quartet and the Goldner Quartet. Awards and acknowledgements include; Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial…
Barbara Hornung
Barbara Hornung New Music from the Pandemic Session: A performance of captivating music composed in 2021. Featured are three excellent Australian composers, Dr Roger Alsop, Melvyn Cann and Dr Johanna Selleck. Performers: Barbara Hornung – Viola, Dr Johanna Selleck- Flute, Dr Roger Alsop – Electronic Spatialisation Program: EPISODIC REVERIE, MELANCHOLIC for Flute and Viola – Dr Johanna Selleck (Commissioned by Barbara Hornung) Johanna explains, ‘This piece may be thought of as a conversation between flute and viola. At times, it follows a ‘question and answer’ line of conversation; at other times, the voices come together in agreement of surprise and…