AUSTA Q Professional Weekend
16sep(sep 16)9:00 am17(sep 17)4:15 pm
Event Details
AUSTA Q Professional Weekend
Incorporating Historically Informed Performance Practices into Modern String Teaching
with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra
Saturday 16th & Sunday 17 September 2023 (9.00am – 4.15pm)
Brisbane Boys’ College
Register now for an incredible weekend with faculty of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. Gain deeper insight into Historically Informed Performance concepts and stylistic approaches to Classical and Romantic era repertoire. The weekend will include String Masterclasses (Classical and Romantic – Solo and Chamber Music) with the ARCO faculty, and delegates will have the opportunity to play in a in a side-by-side string orchestra directed by Rachael Beesley. This invaluable weekend with ARCO is not to be missed!
Read more about ARCO here: https://www.arco.org.au
Photo by Robert Catto, @robertcattophotographer
Cost:
AUSTA Q Members
$80 single day
$150 both days
Non-Members
$150 single day
$290 both days
Students
$35 single day
$60 both days
Please bring your instruments both days.
AUSTA Q will again be offering individually catered lunch packs for a fee of $20 per person per day. The boxes include: Finger sandwiches, cheese and crackers, fresh fruit and mini sweet. Dietary options can include: Gluten Free, Vegan, and Vegetarian. Delegates are also welcome to bring their own packed lunch and snacks. AUSTA Q will encourage everyone to gather in an outdoor area during break times in order to facilitate our usual and important collegial chit chat. Please also be aware the venue has requested that food/drink not be consumed within the facilities.
If you have any questions or queries please email AUSTA Q Secretary Alex Chin at austaeventsqld@gmail.com
Professional Weekend Schedule:
Saturday 16 September
| 9.00-10.30 | Presentation: Prof. Neal Peres da Costa on the latest research into HIP Learning Outcomes: An introduction to early recorded evidence of 19th-century musicians to understand the sound world and expressive practices integral to the orchestral performance and music-making in general in the Romantic and Classical eras. |
| 10.30-11.00 | Break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Q&A HIP Study/Career Options Learning outcomes: Access resources to study options and career pathways in HIP and share ARCO educational resources. |
| 12.30-1.15 | Lunch |
| 1.15-2.30 | String Masterclasses (Classical & Romantic – Solo and Chamber Music) with ARCO Faculty |
| 2.30-2.45 | Break |
| 2.45-4.15 | Side-by-Side String Orchestra directed by Rachael Beesley Learning outcomes: Apply HIP concepts and stylistic approaches to Classical & Romantic repertoire. |
Sunday 17 September
| 9.00-10.30 | Welcome & Presentation: Practising with Intent / The Musician as a Storyteller with Rachael Beesley Learning outcomes: Build your confidence, curiosity and freedom to explore practising in an improvisatory manner with intent. Explore new and exciting approaches to repertoire and technique, increase your sense of well-being and find keys to experiencing the FLOW state. In exploring these concepts, we also get closer to the cognitive psychology of today. By trying out postures and movements ourselves, we learn to feel what a gesture can cause in our own body. In the process we also learn to decipher the acting styles and paintings of the past. All of these disciplines follow the same rhetorical logic: art must convince viewers and audiences by causing a physical reaction and thus touching their hearts. That is, after all, the intention of music. |
| 10.30-11.00 | Break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Demonstrations: Historical String Instruments (+Clarinet) Learning outcomes: Deepen your awareness of new and interesting HIP approaches to repertoire, string instruments and expressive techniques. |
| 12.30-1.15 | Lunch |
| 1.15-2.30 | String Masterclasses (Classical & Romantic – Solo and Chamber Music) with ARCO Faculty |
| 2.30-2.45 | Break |
| 2.45-4.15 | Side-by-Side String Orchestra directed by Rachael Beesley Learning outcomes: Apply HIP concepts and stylistic approaches to Classical & Romantic repertoire. |
The Side-by-Side String Orchestra repertoire will be:
| Johann STAMITZ (1717-57) | Sinfonia for 2 Violins, Viola & Cembalo in A major |
| Franz Xaver RICHTER (1709-1789) | Sinfonia for 2 Violins, Viola & Cembalo in B flat major |
| Edward ELGAR (1857-1934) | Serenade for Strings (1892) |
| Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924) | Crisantemi (1890) |
ARCO Faculty:
- Rachael Beesley Director Orchestra/Violins
- Marlane Bennie Violin
- Stephen King Viola
- Anita Gluyas Cello
- Chloe Ann Williamson Double Bass
- Neal Peres Da Costa Presenter
- Nicole van Bruggen Presenter
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