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Feb
2024

With the first concert of the Australia Ensemble UNSW approaching in one month's time, the MPU team reached out to interview New Zealand composer, Gareth Farr and asked him about 'Te Kōanga’ which opens the season.

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Feb
2024

The Music Performance Unit is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Timothy Wayne-Wright.

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Jan
2024
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Jan
2024

We are counting down to D-Day!

Willgoss Choral Composition Prize closes soon!

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15
Dec
2023

The MPU team is wrapping up for another year!

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Dec
2023

Joining the UNSW Music Performance Team is our new Music Events Assistant, Maggie Pang.

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Oct
2023

UNSW Orchestra will be performing UNSW Emeritus Professor Joe Wolfe's special work, Circle of Fourths in their upcoming concert 'Romanze' on Friday 10...

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Oct
2023

Australia Ensemble UNSW is delighted to invite leading Logie nominated Australian actor, writer and director Virginia Gay to perform the role of narrator in its final 2023 subscription concert: Carnival of the Animals.

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Oct
2023

In early 2014, I was appointed the Artistic Chair of the Australia Ensemble, filling the enormous shoes of Professor Roger Covell. And now almost 10 years have passed – how quickly that has happened!

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Oct
2023

2024 brings with it a new chapter!

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Sep
2023

In September, the University celebrates and pays tribute to one of our own, Geoffrey Collins.

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Apr
2023

Music Performance UNSW is delighted to announce Nicholas D’Silva as the winner of UNSW’s 2023 Concerto Auditions, for his performance of Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2.

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Nov
2022

Rachel Aquino often works with the Music Performance Unit as a 'Production Assistant' and 'Stage Manager'. 

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Sep
2022

We will officially launch the Australia Ensemble UNSW 2023 season in late October 2022. Please put these in your calendar and hold the dates!

Concert 1 March 18, 2023

Concert 2 April 15, 2023 

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9
Aug
2022

Music Performance UNSW sat down with Australian composer, Harry Sdraulig who spoke about his upcoming premiere of his revised and extended work 'Speak', with Australia Ensemble UNSW on 27 August, 2022. 

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18
Jul
2022

Keep your eyes on this space, and start searching for inspiration (and manuscript!) as Music Performance UNSW will launch the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize tomorrow!

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11
Jul
2022

On Thursday 23 June, the Music Performance Unit were joined by MEAA (Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance) Musician’s Australia to discuss how to enter the music industry as a freelance artist and more importantly how to sustain that career...

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5
Jul
2022

Winner of UNSW’s Concerto Audition last year, and our soloist for UNSW Orchestra’s Term 2 concert, we sat down with Hikaru Fuminashi who shared his reflections about his creative process preparing for the concert, his passions, and future...

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Jun
2022

Introducing the Music Performance UNSW's newest team member, Annabel Lee!

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Jun
2022

In March, Music Performance UNSW undertook a major recording project with its community ensembles to bring to life several Willgoss Composition Prizes from the past few years.  

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Jun
2022

Through a partnership with the International Alliance of Women in Music, UNSW presented an online concert for its 2022 conference, hosted in Oregon USA.

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May
2022

UNSW Music Performance runs a number of large ensembles on campus open to students, staff and the general community, as well as supporting smaller, student-led groups and young artist events.

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May
2022

Stuart Greenbaum is a prolific composer in a wide range of genres with a large back catalogue of chamber music works including the Australia Ensemble UNSW’s 2008...

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18
May
2022

This month, the Music Performance Unit farewells Alex Siegers who has been the Music Engagement Assistant since 2019.

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27
Apr
2022

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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27
Apr
2022

The winner of the 2022-23 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship is Sydney-based composer Angus Davison. 

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Apr
2022

On Friday 22 April Collegium Musicum Choir were joined by three UNSW and MPU alumni as soloists in their performance of Mozart's Mass in C major K257 ‘Credo’ and Schubert'...

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Apr
2022

Multi award winning composer Elizabeth Younan is the 2021- 2022 Layton Emerging Composer Fellow.

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Apr
2022

It is with great sadness that we pay tribute to the life of Paul Goodchild, a great friend to UNSW throughout his entire life.

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Apr
2022

Week 6 is Flex week at UNSW – a time for students to catch up, take a step back, revise and breathe. The spirit of this week didn’t deter our community ensemble members from wholeheartedly participating in three exciting recording projects....

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Mar
2022

For many in our community the Choral program is more than a cerebral experience. It is a place of expression, creativity, a space of social engagement and belonging.

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Mar
2022

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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Mar
2022

The Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship is now in its fourth year, established in 2018 with support from the late Emeritus Professor Roger Layton AM and Merrilyn Layton.

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Mar
2022

On February 19, Sydney-based composer Nigel Butterley died two months before his 87th birthday after a long period of illness.

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Feb
2022

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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18
Feb
2022

We are currently seeking expressions of interest for the position of Page Turner with the Australia Ensemble UNSW.

To apply, please complete this form and upload a PDF copy of your resume by Tuesday 1 March 2022.

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Feb
2022

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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Jan
2022

In our 43rd Subscription Season the Australia Ensemble UNSW welcomes regular guest artists to the stage: Andrew Barnes, bassoon; Tobias Breider, viola; Lerida Delbridge, violin; Robert Johnson, horn; and Shefali Prior, oboe; and for the first...

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17
Jan
2022

Joining the UNSW Music Performance Team this year is our new Music Event Assistant, Vanessa Agius.

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Nov
2021

Learn the background and history of various types of Javanese folksong and learn to sing traditional Javanese music with renowned Javanese Gamelan and shadow puppet master Dr Joko Susilo as part of UNSW Diversity Fest.

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Nov
2021

Join our expert panel: Greta Bradman, Soprano, Psychologist and Radio Broadcaster; David Griffiths, Associate Professor of Music and Australia Ensemble UNSW Clarinettist; and Georgia Winkcup, Australian Olympian and UNSW Alumna, to learn about...

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Oct
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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26
Oct
2021

As part of Diversity Fest 2021, the Music Performance Unit presented a webinar titled Sing With Us: Indian Classical Music, presented by UNSW Alumna Aashna Mittal. 

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11
Oct
2021

Dene Olding was almost surprised to be reminded that 2021 was actually his fortieth season with the Australia Ensemble UNSW.

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9
Oct
2021

To list even a large selection of composers Australia Ensemble UNSW pianist Ian Munro most likes is a task that frustrates him, since he discovered quite early on that he likes most music, and almost every composer he has ever come across has...

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Oct
2021

As part of Mental Health Month 2021, the Music Performance Unit presented a webinar titled The Health Benefits of Singing, presented by Alex Siegers. 

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Oct
2021

!n Term 3 2021 the Music Performance Unit will again deliver an online Professional Development Program for students based in Sydney and abroad. This term we are hosting 2 groups, one with Alex Siegers and one with Alice Hu.

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Sep
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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31
Aug
2021

We have partnered with SEXtember 2021, a festival all about celebrating, questioning and exploring every aspect of sex, and brought you four killer playlists to get you through the month. Sex is fun. Sex is spicy. Sex is intimate.

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Aug
2021

We're disappointed to announce our final performance of 2021, on Saturday October 16 is unable to proceed.

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Aug
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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Aug
2021

We're disappointed to announce upcoming concert cancellations, with our August 21 and September 18 Subscription Concerts unable to proceed.

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Aug
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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Jul
2021

How can an Orchestra or Wind Symphony work in lockdown? Our ensembles are finding many ways to learn and engage online!

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Jul
2021

Percussionist Alison Pratt was scheduled to return to the Sir John Clancy Auditorium stage for the third Australia Ensemble UNSW concert in 2021.

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9
Jul
2021

Have you ever wondered what it takes to make it as a professional musician?

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9
Jul
2021

We are sorry to share with you the sad news that long time supporter of the Australia Ensemble UNSW, Emeritus Professor Roger Layton, died peacefully on Saturday 5 June, surrounded by his family.

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Jul
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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Jun
2021

In Term 2 2021 the Music Performance Unit will again deliver an online Professional Development Program for students based in Sydney and abroad. 

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Jun
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing a new section of our ensembles to you.

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May
2021

Andrew Meisel, double bass was born in Sydney and began his musical studies in double bass at 14.

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May
2021

The winner of the 2021-22 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship is Sydney-based composer Elizabeth Younan.

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May
2021
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May
2021

For the first time, UNSW worked with the UNSW Regiment to hold the inaugural ANZAC Day Dawn Service on campus beginning at 5am on 25 April 2021. 

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Apr
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing you to a new section of our ensembles.

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Apr
2021

Learn from the composer and performers, and watch the premiere performance.

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Apr
2021

The opening for the Australia Ensemble UNSW’s first public performance in 393 days is an arrangement by our very own David Griffiths.

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Apr
2021

Last Tuesday UNSW Orchestra were joined by very special guests for the sectionals.

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Apr
2021

Many of our patrons will have already encountered the delightful Alice Hu while booking tickets this year in her role as Music Events Assistant.

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Apr
2021

There are over 100 students, staff and community members in our Large Instrumental Music Ensembles at any given time. Each month we will be introducing you to a new section of our ensembles.

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Mar
2021

We were recently joined by the winner of the 2019 Blakeman National Composition Prize, Brooke Green to workshop her composition From The...

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Mar
2021

Congratulations to Hikaru Fuminashi and Kelly Liu who have been selected to perform concertos with UNSW Orchestra in 2021. ...

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Mar
2021

UNSW Music Performance is excited to announce the winner of the 2021 Willgoss Choral Composition Prize is Sydney-based composer, Oliver John Cameron.

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Feb
2021

The Australia Ensemble UNSW has had only one resident flute player in its 42 season history, since...

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Jan
2021

The Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize was a special one-off prize offered in 2020, aimed at encouraging and promoting the creation of an original work for ensembles, in support of a thriving ensembles program at UNSW.

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Dec
2020

Planning is underway for the 2021 season and while we have been slightly delayed, we are pleased to be able to share with you the planned dates for our next Australia Ensemble UNSW season.  

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Nov
2020

Holly Harrison's new work 'Slipstream' was due to be premeried in our October 2020 concert, A Song Before The Storm.

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Nov
2020

Are you a budding flutist looking to have a career in a symphony orchestra? Or have you just wondered what it takes to win a post with a professional orchestra?

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Nov
2020

This week, Ian Munro called his Australia Ensemble UNSW colleagues to see how they're all getting along, and to find out what we've been up to in this strangest of years. 

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Nov
2020

Tuesday 17 November 2020 is #InternationalStudentsDay! We were lucky enough to have three international students from UNSW Global complete their Professional Development Program with us in October. Meet Amy, Suzie and Hayes.

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Nov
2020

The pandemic’s impact on UNSW has been widely reported with significant job losses and a major restructure.

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Nov
2020

With the reopening of the South Australian border, Adelaide-based Geoffrey Collins was able to...

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Nov
2020

Our first tentative steps towards returning to choral singing on campus - five members of UNSW's chamber choir, the Burgundian Consort...

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Nov
2020
From March to September, Australia Ensemble UNSW Flautist Geoffrey Collins was unable to travel to Sydney from his...
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Oct
2020

It was no surprise to us to learn that one of our subscribers has an amazing life story, as we suspect is the case for many.

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Oct
2020

The saxophone has been described as the...

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12
Oct
2020

To Fan is in his second year of his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.

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Oct
2020

Alice Giles plays Ravel, Debussy and Salzedo

 

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Oct
2020

Our very own Head of Cultural Networks & Communities, Sonia Maddock and...

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Oct
2020

"But the thing about artists, and musicians, and dancers, and anyone within the arts is that we are – what are we? We’re creative. And what is creativity? It’s the capacity to invent.

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Sep
2020

Introducing UNSW Legal Counsel and...

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Sep
2020

Arthur Edward Smith was from London and trained initially in engineering design, working as a fitter and turner then progressing to be a senior design draughtsman.

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Sep
2020

Junias Tjanaria is making the most of her first year at UNSW, global pandemic or not! As well as commencing her combined Bachelor of Chemical Engineering/...

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Sep
2020

Starting a career as an international student in a new country can be challenging, which is why the Student and Careers Success (SACS) Team created the Professional Development Program...

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Sep
2020

“Is that something Yvette could do?” My immediate response to Paul Goodchild’s question back in 2010 was “absolutely”, when he curiously enquired about our part-time role of Operations Assistant in the Music Performance Unit.

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Sep
2020

Returning from a year’s secondment, I was greeted by our new effervescent and thoroughly engaging colleague who was taller than me!! Outrageous!

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2020
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2020
Did you know, Indian Classical Music is the most popular form of classical music after Western Classical Music? ...
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Aug
2020

The Music Performance Unit UNSW is proud to announce Elizabeth Younan and Michael Grebla as...

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Aug
2020

UNSW Arts student and Young Regional School of Music alumna Freya Steele has been driving across country NSW to find a marimba to...

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Aug
2020

"The university choir is such an awesome, academic thing." UNSW Engineering's Dr Stuart Prescott on why...

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Jul
2020

Do you know what a guzheng is?

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Jul
2020

Fourth year Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Science student Matthew Hollomon has been making the most of studying online, trying each week to join our online choir rehearsals from a more ridiculous location.

 

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Jul
2020

A significant amount of work goes on behind the scenes for every concert. Today, we learn a bit more about Yvette Goodchild, one of our key staff members who works to get concerts to the stage, and what makes her tick.

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Jul
2020

We recently happened upon this Uniken article from 1989 written by the then Vice-Chancellor Lindsay Michael Birt AO, CBE, BAgrSc BSc PhD DPhil Hon.LittD Hon.LLD Hon.DSc 1981–1992.

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Jul
2020

Have you considered doing Honours?

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Jul
2020

2019-20 Willgoss Choral Composition Prize winner Dr Philip Eames discusses the "pressure on marketing oneself as ‘...

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Jul
2020

The Music Performance Unit UNSW is proud to announce the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize for 2020.

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Jun
2020

We asked UNSW Arts student Ben Curry-Hyde what UNSW can do to support music performance as students begin to return to Kensington campus. 

 

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Jun
2020

We asked Oliver Jackson, UNSW Engineering student, and UNSW Orchestra and...

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Jun
2020

UNSW Orchestra cellist and Society of Orchestras and Pipers Secretary, Cassandra Ly has been actively involved in keeping the music going...

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Jun
2020

Choral Director Sonia Maddock has taken UNSW's Chamber Choir online. Tenor Sascha Graham gives us a glimpse into how it all works. 

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Jun
2020

Since graduating from the Australian Graduate School of Management at UNSW with an Executive MBA in 2018,...

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Jun
2020

Starting a career as an international student in a new country can be challenging, which is why the Student and Careers Success (SACS) Team created the Professional Development Program...

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May
2020

Creating music with other people has huge positive impacts on our mental health. We recently had a chat with Music Education student Alex Woof about how he has been managing without his on campus community.

 

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May
2020

Dear LIME Term 2 registered members

 

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May
2020

Many young Australians have been forced to move home while they wait for university campuses to reopen and employers to rehire.

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May
2020

You don't have to study music to sing in Collegium Musicum Choir! Kyra is completing a combined B Engineering/B Arts in Mechatronics, Ancient History and Psychology!

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May
2020

Following a highly competitive application process, the Australia Ensemble UNSW is thrilled to announce the winner of the Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship for 2020-21 is ...

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Apr
2020

 With borders closed and concerts cancelled, we’re checking in on our guest musicians from our home office to theirs. We called Bass-Baritone Andrew O'Connor at his home in Perth to see what he is up to.

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Apr
2020

Where in the world is Vennisa Santoro? We gave former SOAP President, UNSW Alumni and Australia Ensemble Stage Manager, Vennisa a call to have a chat about her uni days at UNSW, and where she is now!

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Apr
2020

Ross Edwards joined Artistic Chair Paul Stanhope recently from his house in Sydney to discuss his work, Incantations, for wind quintet.

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Apr
2020

How do you run a student society from your bedroom? We asked SOAP President, Rachel Aquino. 

 

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Apr
2020

Conductor Paul Vickers talks through James Barnes' Third Symphony to prepare students for their Term 1 Part Checking Exam.


Hi All, 

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Apr
2020

From all of us at the Australia Ensemble, we wish to express our sincere thanks and gratitude for your ongoing support.  

 

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Apr
2020

We drop-in on this musical household to hear how they have been spending their time.

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Apr
2020

Dear UNSWO members,

I hope that you are all keeping well in these crazy times. MPU asked me to put together some short videos which may assist those of you undertaking part-checking exams soon.

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Apr
2020

Alice Hu, former SOAP President, had her international exchange in Singapore come to an abrupt end, but she is finding the silver lining in her situation. We gave her a call to see how she is doing.

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Apr
2020

It is in times like these that the importance of music and what it can do for the human soul truly reveals itself.

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Apr
2020

With borders closed and concerts cancelled, we’re checking in on our guest musicians from our home office to theirs. We called oboist Huw Jones at his home in Brisbane to see how he is coping with the new normal.

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Mar
2020

MPU Alumni Harrison Collins is in quarantine, after returning home from Pensylvania, USA. We gave him a call to check in and see how he is doing in this brave new world of social isolation.

 

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Mar
2020

So, you’re just coming to terms with the reality that...

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Mar
2020

Jenni Murphy is the Rehearsal Assistant for the Collegium Musicum Choir for 2020


The job

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Mar
2020

Anastasia began violin studies when she was 7, inspired by Hubay's 'Carmen Fantasy' and Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto.

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Feb
2020

If you've never been to a 'classical' music concert, it can seem a bit daunting, but don't worry! The Music Performance Unit is all about making classical music accessible to everyone on campus here at UNSW.

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Feb
2020

The Willgoss Choral Composition Prize is aimed at encouraging and promoting the creation of an original work for unaccompanied choir, in support of a...

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24
Feb
2020

We asked Australia Ensemble cellist Julian Smiles how to get the most out of an Ensemble concert. Here are his four top tips.

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Feb
2020

The Australia Ensemble has a demonstrated commitment to the development of new Australian music and this International Women’s’ Day, Artistic Chair of the Australia Ensemble...

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Nov
2019

On Friday 22 November UNSW Wind Symphony will be performing their final concert for 2019. The concert, Songs, Poems & Dances, will feature the premiere of a new work by UNSW student and trombonist Bryony Pyke.

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Nov
2019

This Friday 15 November UNSW student and clarinettist with UNSW Orchestra, Thomas Azoury, will perform Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A. We sat down and asked him a few questions before the big day.

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2019

My name is Franny, I am completing my Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Finance. I came to Australia from China in 2016 starting my foundation studies at UNSW Global.

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Oct
2019

We are excited to announce the newest release from the Australia Ensemble: Le Tango Perpetuel.

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Sep
2019

The fifth concert in our 2019 Australia Ensemble Subscription Series, Heart * Beat, dual themes of Heart and Beat inspire this program of rhythmic vibrancy and emotional depth. We premiere our new commission by Sydney-based...

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Aug
2019

In July, the Music Performance Unit joined UNSW’s ASPIRE team to deliver music workshops in Gilgandra, country NSW.

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Aug
2019

On 17 July the Burgundian Consort performed with the Boston Children's Chorus and the Australian Human Rights Institute Choir for a special...

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Jul
2019

The University of New South Wales Orchestra will be celebrating its pearl jubilee with a special anniversary concert, 30 Years In The Making, which will take place at 7pm, Friday 9 August, 2019 at Sir John Clancy...

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Jun
2019

The Burgundian Consort has an opportunity for an alto to join the ensemble for the remainder of 2019. To apply, please complete the below form and you will be contacted to organise a time to audition

 

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Jun
2019

A very loyal audience braved the inclement Sydney weather on Tuesday 4 June to join the Australia Ensemble for a free lunchtime concert in the Tyree Room of UNSW's John Niland Scientia Building.

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Jun
2019

Today we mourn the loss of Roger Covell, leading musicologist, author, performer, patron, visionary, and critic, who died in Sydney this morning aged 88.

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May
2019

The new foyer of Sir John Clancy Auditorium is now open!

MPU staff were lucky enough to recieve a tour of the newly renovated venue before graduations commenced on Monday 5 May.

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May
2019

For the second time, UNSW's School of the Arts and Media is offering the Blakeman National Composition Prize.

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Apr
2019

The final adjudication for the 2019 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship took place on Friday, 12 April 2019.

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Apr
2019

In 2019, we offer the opportunity for soloists to audition for a performance opportunity in Term 2 & 3 with the UNSW Orchestra. All are welcome to apply, from within and outside the UNSW Orchestra.

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Mar
2019

We are thrilled to announce that young composer Ronan Apcar is the winner of the 2019 Willgoss Choral Composition Prize!

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Feb
2019

As the home of a lot of the Music Performance Unit's activities, we are looking forward the results of a major refurbishment to the foyers of the Clancy Auditorium this year. 

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Dec
2018

Monday December 3 was a day full of new music at UNSW, with members of the Australia Ensemble and guest artists working on two brand new pieces by emerging composers for our first ever Composer Workshop celebration.

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Dec
2018

The Music Performance Unit is looking for an Operations & Communications Assistant to work with and support all of our programs. This part-time role is ideal for an energetic person embarking on an arts management career, giving a taste of a...

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Nov
2018

We're very excited that the Australia Ensemble is part of a new release by ABC Classics to celebrate the 75th birthday of loved Australian composer Ross Edwards.

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Oct
2018

Here's your chance to listen again to our Forces of Nature concert!

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Aug
2018

Our congratulations to composer Nicole Murphy, who was awarded the Australia Ensemble Emerging Composer Fellowship for 2018!

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Apr
2018

We are excited to announce Nicole Murphy as the first recipient of the Australia Ensemble Emerging Composer Fellowship!

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Feb
2018

Our congratulations to composer Owen Elsley, who has been awarded the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2018!

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Feb
2018

Australia Ensemble subscribers to the 2018 will soon have their new season passes, which are in the mail and on their way!

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Jan
2018

This year we bid a fond farewell to our Operations and Artistic Coordinator, Yvette Goodchild. Yvette has recently accepted a transfer to the UNSW Law department, to act as their Transitional Support Officer throughout 2018. 

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Nov
2017

The UNSW Orchestra auditions all of its members at the beginning of the academic year. For 2018, auditions will be held on Thursday February 22 and Friday February 23.

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Nov
2017

After a busy year of activities, staff of the Music Performance Unit are taking a well deserved break over the summer!

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Nov
2017

From 1975 until her retirement at the end of 2002, Dr Patricia Brown directed the choirs of UNSW with great energy and expertise. She was an academic in the Music Department, and the driving force behind a flourishing choral program.

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Oct
2017

On Friday October 20, UNSW Wind Symphony presented it's final program for 2017, and said farewell to the conductor of the past five years, Dr Steven Capaldo.

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Oct
2017

This Thursday October 12 at 1.10pm, guest artists Mark Robinson (left) and Joshua Hill (right) will lead UNSW students Alice Hu and Thomas Waller in a...

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Oct
2017

October is a busy time for concerts on campus, with the UNSW Orchestra and UNSW Wind Symphony each presenting an enormous program in two full-length concerts!

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2017

The inaugural Willgoss Choral Composition Prize was awarded earlier this year to outstanding choral composer Matthew Orlovich, for his work Sonnet, to...

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May
2017

Choristers of the CMC have been hard at work since the beginning of the year, and are thrilled to perform in their upcoming concert...

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May
2017

Redwood and Carmen

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2017

The Australia Ensemble offers some of the tastes of America in a free lunchtime concert today, Tuesday May 9 at 1.10pm in Leighton Hall...

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Mar
2017

Entries for the inaugural Willgoss Choral Composition competition ...

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Mar
2017

Saturday evening marked the first concert of the Australia Ensemble's 2017 season Voyages, and did not disappoint.

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Mar
2017

The UNSW Wind Symphony and UNSW Orchestra combine forces for their opening concert of 2017, Cosmopolitan Variations, with a huge program in UNSW's Clancy Auditorium.

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Oct
2016

October is always a busy month for concerts in the Music Performance Unit.

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2016

If you look closely, you'll notice Australia Ensemble associate artist David Griffiths in the middle of the Clancy Auditorium, creating a bit of extra excitement in Saturday night's performance of Lyn Williams' A Flock of Stars with the Sydney...

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Oct
2016

We're only a week away from the UNSW Wind Symphony's final concert for 2016!

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Sep
2016

On Tuesday September 6, donors and supporters of the Australia Ensemble joined the AE musicians in NIDA's Nancy Fairfax foyer to celebrate as Artistic Chair Paul Stanhope announced the delights on offer in the 2017 Subscription Season, Voyages....

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Sep
2016

Matthew Hindson's 2010 commission for the Australia Ensemble, Light is both a particle and a wave, provides the topic of discussion for a pre-concert Composer Conversation with Artistic Chair, Paul Stanhope this Saturday evening.

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Aug
2016

Congratulations Mark Grandison the winner of the inaugural Blakeman National composition prize. Mark was awarded the prize for his work Riffraction for clarinet, strings and piano.

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Aug
2016

We are thrilled to announce that today marks the opening of the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize, a new prize in support of UNSW's thriving choral program.

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Jun
2016

The newness of music!

On Tuesday June 7, four members of the Australia Ensemble worked with PhD composition student Brad Taylor-Newling on one of the works in his portfolio, Into Outside Over There, for flute and string trio.

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Jun
2016

The Australia Ensemble is supporting Gondwana Voices and Synergy/Taikoz by performing in a fundraising concert RHYTHM AND VOICE on Monday June 13 at City Recital Hall.

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Jun
2016

In the wee hours of Saturday May 28, Ian Munro’s String Quartet no.1 ‘from an exhibition of Australian woodcuts’ was performed as one of three finalists in the New Works Competition of the Villiers Quartet at Oxford University, with a live...

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2016

Tonight is the night!

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2016

Next Friday, May 27, the two large instrumental ensembles of UNSW come together for their second concert of the year!

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May
2016

The spectacular sunset on Monday May 9 was made all the more spectacular for those walking down the main walkway at UNSW by the Burgundian Consort.

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May
2016

Back in my days as an undergraduate student at UNSW, I had the pleasure of being a member of the Collegium Musicum Choir (CMC).

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2016

THREE DREAMS IN PULSE  - a world premiere commission by Andrew Ball for the Australia Ensemble in May 2016, dedicated to Catherine McCorkill

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2016
This Friday night, UNSW Wind Symphony and Orchestra present their first concert program of 2016!
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Apr
2016

The Villiers String Quartet, quartet in residence at the University of Oxford, have embarked on their third New Works Competition, a program for composers from all over the world to submit new string quartet works in a competitive format.

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Mar
2016

ABC Classic FM will be broadcasting the Australia Ensemble's opening concert of the 2016 season, ...

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Mar
2016

Performers interested in participating in the Australia Ensemble's 2016 Masterclass series are invited to register online!

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Mar
2016

With the first 2016 subscription concert of the Australia Ensemble only days away, now is the time to take in the AE News, including the background to the 2016 season 'Transfigured...

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Feb
2016

Today is the last work day of our Operations Assistant, Luke Iredale, who has been working with the MPU for four and a half years.

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Feb
2016

Auditions for the UNSWO Orchestra are taking place this Friday, Feb 26 in the Robert Webster Building. But you already knew that, right?

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Feb
2016

Last September's lively 'Dance of Nature' concert will be broadcast on Fine Music FM 102.5 next Thursday, February 25 at 8pm.

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Feb
2016

If you've ever imagined what it might be like to experience the thrill of performing as a soloist with full orchestral accompaniment, now is your chance!

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Feb
2016

The Burgundian Consort has existed as an elite arm of the Collegium Musicum Choir for many years (since about 1985).

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Jan
2016

Auditions for UNSW Orchestra 2016 will be held on Friday, February 26 on the ground floor of the Robert Webster Building.

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Jan
2016

Welcome SOAPies past, present and future to Large Instrumental Music Ensembles 2016!

 

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Jan
2016

Diaries at the ready...

 

Concert 1: Sunday May 29 at 5pm

HANDEL - Messiah HWV 56

with the Collegium Musicum Orchestra

 

Concert 2: Sunday October 23 at 5pm

KODALY - Mixed choruses

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Sep
2015

The October edition of the AE News is available now for download.

This month's features:

'Maintaining the Rage' by Greg Keane

'Transfiguration in a new light': 2016 season preview by Paul Stanhope

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Aug
2015

The September edition of the Australia Ensemble newsletter is available now. 

This month's features:

Greg Keane and Sonia Maddock on Ross Edwards' brand new work 'Animisms';

Karin Schaupp on stage fright;

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Jul
2015

The latest edition of the Australia Ensemble News is available now.

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Dec
2014

The Music Performance Unit has re-opened for 2015. Keep watching the website for updates about this year's Australia Ensemble, Collegium Music Choir and Burgundian Consort Seasons.

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Dec
2014

A gallery of Festive images from the Collegium Musicum's annual Christmas concert

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Oct
2014

UNSW's Music Performance Unit produces concerts of the Australia Ensemble @UNSW, Collegium Musicum Choir, Burgundian Consort, UNSW Wind Symphony and UNSW Orchestra, as well as special events.

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Sep
2014

On October 18, Artistic Chair Paul Stanhope announced the launch of the 2015 season, Raising Sparks, with a glass of bubbly and chocolate truffles.

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Sep
2014

Rehearsals for UNSW's annual Christmas concert, Festival of Carols, begin on Wednesday October 29 in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium UNSW, 4.30-7.30pm.