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| 2010 MRIMF - Artist
Biographies |
Anthony Halliday has received
many awards and prizes including
all the Fellowship prizes at the Royal
College of Organists (London),
as well as the Silver Medal of The
Worshipful Company of Musicians
(London). He won first prize playing
Bartok’s second piano concerto in
the A.B.C. Commonwealth Concerto
Competition, and has given live
broadcasts for BBC Radio. He has
recorded music for organ, piano
and recently recorded all 32 sonatas
for pianoforte by Beethoven.
Arabella Teniswood Harvey
studied piano at the Victorian College
of the Arts, the Australian National
Academy of Music and the University
of Melbourne. Arabella maintains an
active career as soloist and chamber
musician and has performed with the
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the
State Orchestra of Victoria, Chamber
Made Opera, The Melbourne Chorale
and has appeared in the Melbourne
International Festival and the
University of Glasgow’s concert series.
Cosmo Cosmolino, a Melbourne
based quintet of luscious strings
and romantic piano accordion,
creates exquisite music which
crosses between tango and gypsy
music, song and dynamic chamber
pieces via original arrangements
of well-known tunes and original
compositions which express
dynamism, love, tragedy and
capricious play. Featuring Judy
Gunson on accordion and vocals,
Sue Simpson and Andrea Keeble on
violin, Helen Mountfort on ‘cello and
Dan Witton on contrabass.
Edwin Paling began his professional
life as a violinist, playing with the
Orchestra of the Royal Ballet, Covent
Garden (London) and Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra and others,
before joining the Royal Scottish
National Orchestra (RSNO) in 1973
where he became concertmaster in
1976. Edwin has worked regularly as
Guest-Concertmaster with many of
the major orchestras, including the
London Symphony Orchestra, Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC
Philharmonic. He resigned from the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
and Royal Scottish Academy of Music
and Drama in 2007 to become Head
of Strings at the Conservatorium of
Music of the University of Tasmania.
Helen Ireland attended the
Australian National Academy of
Music and is a member of the
Flinders Quartet and the Melbourne
Chamber Orchestra along with
teaching viola and chamber music
at Melbourne University. Helen
has worked with many leading
Australian Orchestras, including
the Melbourne and Tasmanian
Symphony Orchestras and Orchestra
Victoria, where she is a regular guest
associate principal. In the second
half of 2008 she was Assistant
Coordinator of Strings at Melbourne
University.
Josephine Vains relocated to Europe
for five years to study cello and after
winning the 1997 inaugural National
Chamber Music Competition with
Trio 3.0.3. She regularly performs
with the Melbourne Symphony,
Orchestra Victoria, ASTRA, Australia
Pro Arte, for the Piano Landmarks
Series and the Team of Pianists. As a
chamber musician she has performed
throughout Germany, Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, France, China and Japan
and competed in the Melbourne,
Osaka and Trieste International
Chamber Music Competitions. She
enjoys teaching at the Victorian
College of the Arts, University of
Melbourne, and Monash University.
Luisella Botteon, graduated in flute
from the Conservatory of Bologna
in Salzburg under the guidance
of Robert Fabbriciani. In 1985 she
graduated in humanities at the
University of Padua with a Thesis in
Music History. She has released on
various international record labels,
as well as publishing essays for
magazines including Contemporary
Music Review. She is currently
Professor of music history at the
Conservatory “L. Cherubini”
of Florence.
Massimo Scattolin started his
concert activity as a soloist, and later
took up chamber music, becoming
specialized in the most important
concerts for guitar and orchestra,
including some specially written for
him by great composers such
as Violet Archer and Astor Piazzolla.
He has collaborated with the major
European television networks and
with great theatre actors. He is a
member of prestigious international
contests and holds master classes
at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He
has been recording for the Sonar,
Symposium, and Rivoalto labels, both
as a soloist and together with some
of the most outstanding musicians
in Europe. In 2007 he played with the
Buena Vista Social Club launching
their Warner Bros CD of orchestral
works in Havana, Cuba.
Michael Kieran Harvey studied
piano at the Sydney Conservatorium
and the Liszt Academy, Budapest.
His career has been notable for
its diversity and wide repertoire.
Winner of numerous national and
international awards, he has worked
with world renowned conductors
and collaborated with the Arditti
String Quartet, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg Philharmonics, Jon
Lord (Deep Purple), Keith Emerson
(Emerson, Lake and Palmer) and
Paul Grabowsky. Renowned for his
performances of new music, Harvey
has especially promoted the works of
Australian composers, internationally
and within Australia and has released
a wide range of recordings, including
his own original music.
Roberto Fabbriciani was born in
Arezzo, Italy and is known for his
versatility and creativeness and for
his large repertoire. He has played for the most important festivals
throughout Europe. He is a passionate
interpreter of the New Music and
collaborates with composers such
as John Cage, Ennio Morricone, Karl
Stockhausen and Takemitsu who have
dedicated works to him. He has also
worked extensively with some of the
great conductors.
He holds Master Classes for the
University Mozarteum in Salzburg, for
Sibelius Accademy in Helsinki and at
New York University.
Sergio de Pieri has had an extensive
career in teaching, performance and
artistic direction including being
Principal Lecturer of Organ Music at
Melbourne University, organist at
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Professor of
Organ and Composition at Venice
Conservatorium of Music and Chief
Organist Basilica dei Frari, Venice.
He is founder of the Melbourne Organ
and Harpsichord Festival, The Organs
of the Goldfields Festival in Ballarat
and the Murray River International
Music Festival. He is an international
concert performer and composer and
was recently awarded the Order of
Australia Medal acknowledging his
long term contribution to music.
Shu-Cheen Yu was a principal artist
with the Shan-Xi province Beijing
Opera Company and The Chinese
National Oriental Song and Dance
Company before emigrating to
Australia in 1987 and has released five
successful albums. She has appeared
in major musicals such as Chess and
The King and I and in many choral
works and concerts in Australia, New
Zealand, England and Singapore. The
recipient of numerous awards, she
became a full-time member of Opera
Australia in December 1996 and with
this company has sung principal roles.
In 2001, she sang the role of Gianetta
in Opera Australia’s new production
of L’elisir d’Amore and her recently
released solo album Lotus Moon, a best
seller for ABC Classics, was nominated
for an ARIA award.
Stephanie Jackson, 17-year-old,
Melbourne-based flautist, completed
AMEB studies with Honours and High
Distinction and was also the recipient
of the “Musical Award” for Percy
Grainger Youth Orchestra. She has held
principal positions in the Melbourne
Youth Music’s Percy Grainger Youth
Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria’s
mOVe! programs. Notably, Stephanie
performed as a soloist in Cantor
Productions The Steinway Spectacular
at Hamer Hall in 2008.
Vardos, the Hungarian Gypsy band
have toured internationally to New
Zealand, New Caledonia, Switzerland,
Hungary and USA and had successful
shows at the Famous Spiegeltent in
the Edinburgh Fringe, where they
received a 4 star review and the Nokia
/Orange Spiegeltent in the Edinburgh
International Book Festival in 2003.
Vardos were nominated for the 2003
BBC Radio3 World Music Awards.
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