Marco van Pagee
Marco van Pagee is a Melbourne musician and educator who founded the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 1991 while a lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has performed on Move recordings of Australian orchestral and chamber music.
On Tony Gould’s Chronicle (MD 3146) he appears with the Geminiani Orchestra in the title work for violin, viola, piano and strings. He put together the string orchestra for Seasons of Love (MD 3365), Graeme Lyall’s songbook arrangements with jazz trio and soloists, and is among the performers on China Wind (MD 3351), Robert Schubert’s survey of Julian Yu’s clarinet chamber music.
Marco van Pagee appears on
Seasons of Love
A jazz trio, string orchestra and guest soloists join vocalists Gian Slater and Eddie Perfect. Graeme Lyall’s rich arrangements refresh Great American Songbook standards and other stage and screen favourites.
China Wind: the clarinet music of Julian Yu, Vol. 1
Five chamber and concertante works for clarinet with strings, piano and flute show Julian Yu drawing on the inner structures of Chinese tradition rather than its surface colour, with remarkable versatility and emotional range.
Chronicle: Orchestral Music of Tony Gould
The definition of the word “chronicle” — put briefly “a record of events” — aptly fits this recording. Chronicle forms an inspiring record of musical events in the life of Tony Gould, one of Australia’s most creative musicians and composers.