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Bridges
Music by Australian, Korean and Romanian composers
This CD represents new music from three distant areas - East Europe, North Asia and Australasia. For many decades Romanian, Korean and Australian musical voices have been mapping out their cultural identities in relative isolation. Romanian composers were cocooned from the wider musical community due to their country's repressive communist regime. Korean composers only reconnected with their musical roots in the 1960s after the years of Japanese occupation in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Australian composers, while not enduring political constraints, were geographically isolated from the main activities in Europe and America.
While the music contained in this recording might not branch too far from a European musical epicentre, they do demonstrate the bridges that have been 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. At the present time, music from Australia, Korea and Romania forms a significant part of the musicological and performance-based research activity within the School. This CD therefore constitutes a tangible research outcome for the School and highlights the strengthened individual intersections that have been developed between musicians, composers and musicologists rather than the reinforcement of any globalised cultural world view. Audio previews:
Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy download
Tentazione download
Trio for clarinet, violin and piano download Track Listing:
Stick Dance III (Andrew Schultz)
Frenzy and Folly, Fire and Joy (Graham Hair) Solo (Stefan Niculescu) Austral (Sorin Lerescu) Tentazione (Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea) Ship Jang Saeng I (Bong-Ho Kim) Levantiques (Dan Dediu) Earthed (Robert Lloyd) Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (Chang Hye Ryun) Catalogue Number: MD3281
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 Featured Artists:
Peter Handsworth is currently Head of the School of Music-Conservatorium at Monash University. He studied clarinet at the University of Adelaide with David Shephard and at the State University of Music, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Violinist Fintan Murphy is currently a Senior Lecturer and Co-ordinator of Strings at the Monash University School of Music-Conservatorium. He has worked with several youth orchestras including those of the National Music Camps, The Australian Youth Orchestra and is currently the Director of the Melbourne Strings Ensemble.
Pianist Tamara Smolyar has recorded for Russian Radio and Television, 3MBS FM, ABC Classic FM, and has appeared on SBS and China's National Television. She is currently coordinator of keyboard at the School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University.
Timothy Phillips' teachers have included percussionists John Seal, Daryl Pratt and Isao Nakamura. He has performed with numerous orchestras and ensembles both in Europe and Australia including Ensemble Modern, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Art Orchestra and Libra.
David Bollard has been a staff member at a number of Australian university music schools lecturing in piano and related studies. He was a member of the Australia Ensemble from its inception in 1980 until 1998.
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