AUSTA QLD
AUSTA Q Upcoming Events:
Brisbane Events
SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY – AUSTA Q Reading Day and AGM
SATURDAY 13 & SUNDAY 14 APRIL – AUSTA Q Mini-Conference
FRIDAY 12 JULY – AUSTA International Touring Artist 2024: Barry Green Concert – The Four Elements
SATURDAY 13 JULY – AUSTA International Touring Artist 2024: Barry Green – Workshops
SATURDAY 27 JULY – AUSTA Q Concerto Championship
SUNDAY 28 JULY – AUSTA Q String Festival
SATURDAY 14 & SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER – AUSTA Q Professional Weekend
SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER – AUSTA Q International Reading Day on Zoom
Regional Events
To be confirmed early 2024
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 July – AUSTA Q Strings Festival and Concerto Championship
For full details and to register click this link.
AUSTA Q’s annual Strings Festival and Concerto Championship is on again!
No matter whether your child is a beginner or more advanced (and some will have just learnt to play open strings!) AUSTA Q String Festival offers them the opportunity to perform a solo accompanied by a professional accompanist in front of a small, supportive audience of family, friends and peers. They will receive a constructive, encouraging adjudication report from one of AUSTA’s many teachers and also a fabulous, shiny trophy to take home!
Friday 12 & Saturday 13 July – AUSTA International Touring Artist Barry Green
Friday 12 July – Barry Green Concert: The Four Elements
Saturday 13 July – Barry Green Workshops
Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 April – AUSTA Q Mini-Conference
AUSTA Q is very excited to be presenting Ed Le Brocq as the keynote speaker at the AUSTA Q Mini-Conference 2024.
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, Pakistan, India and China. The trip was eventually chronicled in Cadence, Ed’s first book and a national bestseller.
After immigrating to Australia in 2003, and after a character-building year scrubbing dishes in St Kilda, Ed eventually began broadcasting with ABC Classic FM. He spent many years hosting the cult hit breakfast programme and doing things like cycling to the source of the Ganges in his spare time.
After more than a decade in the ABC studios, Ed decided he needed to get out and about again and applied for a job teaching cello to street children and orphans at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul. Eddie’s second book Danger Music is about this turbulent, life-changing year, where he survived the threat of bombs, kidnappings, beginner string players and hormone-charged teenagers. It was during this year that Ed finally accepted the man within and began his transition from female to male. Emma became Ed just before his fiftieth birthday. Better late than never.
Ed’s fifth book Sound Bites – Following the Bendy Path of Classical Music from Ancient Times to Today was released in August 2023.
AUSTA Q Reading Day & AGM
AUSTA Q Annual Reading Day & AGM
When: Sunday, 4th Feburary 9am-1pm AEST
Where: BBC College Hall
Registration: Trybooking click here
Registration is essential and must close Wednesday 31st January 2024.
AUSTA Q’s hugely popular Reading Day is on again in 2024 ready to take you into the new year. We look forward to welcoming as many pedagogues as possible to this event. While the reading day will have a local focus, a few of the best shortlisted pieces from the International reading day from 2023 will be included. The short AGM will follow the reading day at 12pm. Then we invite you all to catch up with colleagues and friends over lunch kindly supplied by Music Fest.
Sunday, 4 February 2024 – 8:30am for 9am Start. Feel free to join us for tea and coffee before we start playing. Bring your instruments!
Venue:
Brisbane Boys’ College
College Hall.
Kensington Terrace
Toowong, QLD 4066
Contact Details:
austaeventsqld@gmail.com
Registrations Essential and Close: Wednesday 31st January.
Cost
Members: Free
Non-Members: $40.00
Notices
AUSTA Q Reading Day 2025
AUSTA Q Reading Day 2025
Call for Scores from local composers for the 2025 Reading Day
When: Sunday 9 February 2025
The purpose of the Reading Day is to present works for school string orchestras. Composers should bear this in mind.
Due to the overwhelming response of composers wishing to present works at the Reading Day, all composers who wish to have works considered for inclusion in the 2025 Reading Day will need to follow the following procedures:
ALL COMPOSERS (established or new) should email Daniel Holloway
Please copy the table below by copying the table, pasting it into your email and filling in the details using the example formatting.
| Composer | Title | Suggested Level | Key(s) | Metre(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First name Last name | Example Title of Piece | 2.5 | G maj/e min | 3/4, 6/8 | 3:30 |
| – | – | – | – | – | – |
| – | – | – | – | – | – |
| – | – | – | – | – | – |
See also ON THE DAY below
NEW COMPOSERS (who have not had a piece selected for an AUSTA Q Reading Day in recent years) should also email a PDF of the score to: qld@austa.asn.au by Thursday 2nd January 2025. A panel will consider its suitability for inclusion in the Reading Day.
ON THE DAY If selected for inclusion in the Reading Day, it is expected that composers will arrive early on the day to help with setting up and stay to help with packing down. They will also need to provide the following copies of their music. (Please do not put these into folders as this will add bulk and weight when sending the folders to other states for their respective reading days).
2 x score
8 x violin 1
8 x violin 2
5 x viola
5 x cello
5 x bass
1 x piano
There will be a limit of 15 minutes per composer. Composers should be prepared to conduct their work or nominate another person to do so.
ENQUIRIES: qld@austa.asn.au
2024 AUSTA Q Events
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Brisbane Events
SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY – AUSTA Q Reading Day and AGM
SATURDAY 13 & SUNDAY 14 APRIL – AUSTA Q Mini-Conference
SATURDAY 27 JULY – AUSTA Q Concerto Championship
SUNDAY 28 JULY – AUSTA Q String Festival
SATURDAY 14 & SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER – AUSTA Q Professional Weekend
SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER – AUSTA Q International Reading Day on Zoom
Regional Events
To be confirmed early 2024
North Qld Celebration of Strings
Celebration of Strings 2018
5 Exciting Orchestras!
Workshops Friday 19
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