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Graham Hair
Composer
Since 2000, Graham Hair has divided his time between Scotland, Australia and the United States. During this time he has been Professor of Music at Glasgow University and Visiting Professor at Monash, ANU and Radford, and conducted several composition and performance projects in Boston.

He becomes Professor Emeritus toward the end of 2008, after which he will continue conducting research projects in all three countries, including an ARC-funded project on aspects of microtonal music based in Wollongong and an empirical musicology project (using scientific methods to investigate aspects of musical performance), based in Glasgow University's Engineering School (funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh). Aspects of his research are documented on the website of the Network for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology and Music (www.n-ism.org/People/graham.php).

Most of his music over the last 20 years has been for womenÕs voices (accompanied by harp, piano, percussion, duo, string quartet, ensemble or orchestra), including the ensembles "Scottish Voices" (which he directs), "Halcyon" (Sydney), ÒPandoraÕs Vox" (Boston) and "Mockingbirds" (San Francisco). Several of these pieces will be recorded in the US in 2009. More information about them is available on the "Scottish Voices" website (www.scottishvoices.org.uk). His orchestral piece "Into the Shores of Light" (inspired by poems of Australian poet Mark O'Connor) was released by ERM in Virginia in 2007. Since 1990, he has been based in Glasgow. Before that, he was Head of Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium (1980-1990), and taught at LaTrobe University (1975-1980). He was born in Geelong in 1943.

 

Michael Kieran Harvey plays new music for keyboard
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Michael Kieran Harvey, piano
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Music by Australian, Korean and Romanian composers
A new CD that demonstrate the musical and cultural bridges built by the academic staff and postgraduate students at the School of Music-Conservatorium at Monash University, and their colleagues in other parts of Australia, Korea and Romania.
 

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