Do you enjoy your fine music in a venue with a drink in hand or do you prefer a recital hall with wonderful acoustics? What will classical and art music...

Classical Futures – New Frontiers for Music

Location:

Erskineville Town Hall
2043 NSW
Australia

Classical Futures – New Frontiers for Music

Featuring

Nicole Canham

Nicole Canham

Independent performer, writer, former Artistic Director Canberra Music Festival, Music Australia Councillor

Nicole Canham is a musician (clarinet and tarogato) who is committed to creating transformative arts experiences, and to building new audiences for live music. 

Her work as an independent artist, festival director and creative producer has taken her around Australia and throughout Mexico, the UK, Belgium and France for concerts and collaborative projects which engage diverse audiences. 

Nicole’s commitment to the commissioning and performance of new Australian music was recognised in 2013 with an Australian Art Music Award. 

Nicole is a Music Australia Councillor, focused on advocacy for the independent and small to medium music sector. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Queensland on career pathways of independent, classically trained artists. 

Previous research conducted through a Churchill Fellowship (2008/9) and in her role as Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival (2005 – 2008) has focussed on the positive impact of the arts in diverse communities and development initiatives for classical music audiences. 

 

Andrew Batt-Rawden

Andrew Batt-Rawden

Publisher Limelight Magazine, Curator, Music Australia Councillor & Curator

Andrew is the owner/publisher of Australia's classical music and arts publication Limelight magazine and is composer and director of Chronology Arts Ltd.

He was previously the artistic director of the Bellingen Music Festival and the Aurora Festival.

His prior roles include special projects and marketing manager at the Song Company, panel assessor at ArtsNSW, lecturer at University of Technology, Sydney for sound art and music design, committee member of the Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group and board member of Aurora New Music Inc and Chronology Arts Ltd. 

 

Claire Edwardes

Claire Edwardes

Artistic Director, Ensemble Offspring and Percussionist

Internationally acclaimed percussion soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Sydney based Ensemble Offspring, Claire Edwardes has been described by the press as a ‘sorceress of percussion’.

She was recently granted a prestigious Australia Council Music Fellowship, is a two time recipient of the AMC/APRA Art Music Award (2007/2012) and winner of the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award. From 1999-2006 Claire was resident in Europe where she had success in numerous international competitions and performed solo in Het Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London).

In Australia she has performed with all of the leading orchestras. Claire is Vice President of the New Music Network.

 

Event Details

Do you enjoy your fine music in a venue with a drink in hand or do you prefer a recital hall with wonderful acoustics? What will classical and art music look like in the future – 10 or 20 years from now? Is the future as much outside as inside the concert hall? As intimate and socially engaged as impressively large-scale?  Embraced by many people of all ages, or the preserve of a few?

Presented by Music Australia, this panel session is aimed at young and mid-career music practitioners & future leaders. Our panel of leading practitioners and producers will explore these questions, and provide a lively survey of current practice and likely futures for the artform, and its audiences.

Our expert panel of performers, composers, producers and presenters includes four of Music Australia’s expert Councillors:

  • Andrew Batt-Rawden - Publisher Limelight Magazine, composer and curator, Music Australia Councillor
  • Lieven Bertels - Director of Sydney Festival
  • Daniel Blinkhorn - Award-winning composer and sound artist, Music Australia Councillor
  • Nicole Canham - independent performer, writer, former Artistic Director Canberra Music Festival, Music Australia Councillor
  • Claire Edwardes - Co-Artistic Director Ensemble Offspring, award winning percussionist
  • Kate Lidbetter - CEO Symphony International, Chair Gondwana Choirs, Music Australia Councillor (Panel Chair)
  • Kate Tribe - Owner, Online Manager ClassikON, classical music concert promoter

We explore where this artform is heading, some key trends, and what future audiences can expect. From inventive approaches to repertoire, performance and engagement, to examples of great practice, we investigate opportunities, realities, and energising possibilities for classical and art music in Sydney and beyond. We will also grapple with some practical strategies to inform sector development, practice and policy.

This session will include Q&A and refreshments and time to meet and mix with our expert panellists.

The seminar is presented in Association with the Australian Music Centre.

 

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