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Concerts at The Newcastle Conservatorium

Thursday 16 October – 1:00pm

Free Lunchtime Concert

 Bachelor of Music guitar students playing works by J.S. Bach, Yuquijiro Yocoh, Phillip Houghton, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bradley Kunda.

 

Sunday 26 October – 2:00pm

Orchestra Newcastle Inaugural Concert

The first official performance by the Conservatoriums newest ensemble led by Christopher Bearman, featuring special guest performers Echology Choir (formerly known as University of Newcastle Chamber Choir).

Tickets sold at the door one hour prior to the event. Adults $12, concession $8, children $5, family of four $25.

 

Thursday 30 October – 1:00pm

Free Lunchtime Concert

Bachelor of Music ensembles perform for their end of year assessment.

Newcastle: community members and local Ausgrid workers concerned by impact of electricity network sale

Stop the Sell Off campaigners are in Newcastle today (Thursday) to discuss the impacts of Premier Mike Baird’s electricity privatisation plan, which will see the sale of Ausgrid and TransGrid, the publicly-owned poles and wires companies that delivers electricity in the Hunter.

Members of the campaign are meeting with local workers and concerned residents who fear job losses, service reductions and price rises if Premier Mike Baird presses ahead with privatisation.

Stop the Sell Off campaign director Adam Kerslake, said potential job losses would be devastating for the region, with Ausgrid employing more than 1,300 people in the Hunter while TransGrid has 160 staff in Newcastle.

Mr Kerslake said voters in Charlestown and Newcastle, who will next month vote in byelections following the resignations of local Liberal MPs during an Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation, had a unique opportunity to express their opposition to the sale.

“Premier Mike Baird is willing to leave future generations poorer by selling off the State’s largest income generating asset, all to build a war-chest to fund election promises,” he said.

“Every state that has sold their electricity poles and wires has seen higher prices for consumers, poorer service standards, and cuts to jobs – especially in regional areas.

“The experience in Victoria following privatisation was massive job losses due to the new private owners cutting back on major investment and maintenance.

“If the Baird Government are re-elected in March 2015 they will condemn the Hunter community to local job losses and a higher electricity prices.”

Mr Kerslake said that while the Premier publicly committed to taking electricity privatisation to the March 2015 election, he had already locked in lucrative contracts worth millions of dollars with investment banks, lawyers, and accountancy firms to start the sale process.

“Our electricity network – made up of Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy, Essential Energy and TransGrid – is the state’s most valuable income generating asset,” he said.

“The profits from these four companies currently deliver billions of dollars every year to help pay for schools, hospitals and transport – income that will be lost forever following privatisation.

“Under Premier Baird’s plan, the people of Charlestown, Newcastle, and the rest of the Hunter region will be left paying higher electricity bills as private owners cut back on spending and increase prices to maximise returns for shareholders.

“Price regulations and job protections may provide temporary measure to get the Liberal Party past the next election, but once they expire we will see a repeat of the experiences of South Australia – which has the highest power bills in the country – and Victoria – where poor maintenance by the private owner sparked several of the deadly Black Saturday bushfires.

“I challenge anyone to provide an example of anywhere privatisation has led to lower prices.

“The NSW Government needs to cut back on the political spin and be truthful with the people of NSW that the privatisation of the poles and wires will not be a good thing for power consumers.

“This is a short sighted policy that will deliver a one off budget sugar hit while leaving electricity consumers worse off in the long run.

“The only way to ensure the people of NSW will have reliable, affordable and well-maintained electricity services in the decades ahead is to ensure this essential service is owned by the public and operated by the government to benefit all NSW residents.”

“The general public need to understand that a vote for the Liberal Party is a vote for electricity privatisation.”

 

SHINE HOPE AT LIGHT THE NIGHT NEWCASTLE

Hundreds will hold a lantern this spring to share their unwavering hope to cure blood cancer at lightLight the Night, an uplifting event taking place at Newcastle Foreshore Park, Wednesday 17 September, from 5:30pm.

Lanterns of hope will shine during the twilight walk to help the Leukaemia Foundation raise $1.25 million to invest in blood cancer research. Each colour lantern has a meaning; gold for remembrance, white for someone fighting blood cancer and blue to show support.

Sign up now to guarantee your free lantern and help to fundraise by visiting www.lightthenight.org.au or call 1800 500 088.

Comming up At the Newcastle Conservatorium in September

Thursday 4th September – 7:30pm

Musica Viva presents Imogen Cooper

One of the greatest pianists of her generation, Imogen Cooper CBE makes a long overdue return to Australia for this special program highlighting her poetic, insightful interpretations of the composers closest to her heart.

Program

BRAHMS Theme and Variations in D minor (arr from String Sextet no 1, op 18)
SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze op 6
-Interval-
SCHUMANN Novellette, op 21 no 2 in D major
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata no 21 in B flat major, D960

Tickets:

www.musicaviva.com.au  or (02) 8394 6666

www.ticketek.com.au or 1300 665 915

 

A Reserve: $78.50 – $89.72

B Reserve: $55.05 – $63.21

 

Tuesday 9th September – 7:00pm

Community Strings Concert

Performances by Conservatorium Prelminary, Junior, Intermediate and Advanced String Orchestras.  Tickets sold on the night. Adults $12 / Concession $8 / Children $5 / Family of 2 adults and 2 children $25

 

Thursday 11th September – 1:00pm

Free Lunchtime Concert

 

Bradley Kunda is an internationally prize-winning classical guitarist who has been lauded as ‘among the best of his generation of world-class performers.’ Dedicated to the future of Australian music, Bradley’s concert programs feature new works by established and emerging Australian composers, as well as his own acclaimed compositions and arrangements.

Friday 12th September – 7:00pm

Spring Winds

 

Performances by Conservatorium Concert Band and Junior Concert Band, joined by The Junction Public School Concert Band.

 

Tickets sold on the night. Adults $12 / Concession $8 / Children $5 / Family of 2 adults and 2 children $25

Saturday 13th September – 7:00pm

Newcastle Youth Orchestra presents A Night at the Proms

 

Newcastle Youth Orchestra presents a program of patriotic works inspired by London’s own Last Night at the Proms. With a premiere of an original work by young Newcastle composer William Jeffery, Derek Bourgeios virtuosic trombone concerto performed by the orchestra’s very own queen of the lower brass Hannah Gibbons, and other well-known proms favourites for you to join in- don’t forget your finest British attire!

 

Tickets:

www.ticketek.com.au or 1300 665 915

 

Reserved seating: $25.49 – $28.44

 

Sunday 14th September – 1:00pm

ABC Classic FM Live Broadcast presents The Australian Voices

 

Tune in for a feast of (mostly Australian) works led by Novocastrian (& Newcastle Conservatorium Alumni) Gordon Hamilton together with the Australian Voices and guest artist Claire Edwardes. In the program you will hear works by Australian composers Rob Davidson, Dan Walker, Lisa Young, Graham Lack, Andrea Keller, Gordon Hamilton and James Morrison.

 

Free admission. Audience must be seated by 12:50pm.

 

Saturday 20th September – 10:00am to 1:00pm

Con Open Day

 

Come along an experience the joy of making music – we’ll happily show you how! Free admission to all activities and demonstrations, including:

 

Early Childhood Music

Piano

Strings

Woodwind

Vocal

Brass

 

There will be “casual drop-in” concert to cap of the end of the day.

 

Thursday 25th September – 7:30pm

Musica Viva presents Borodin Quartet

 

The legendary Borodin String Quartet is approaching its 70th concert season, so every concert glows with the unmistakable authenticity of experience and knowledge: the power behind the mighty ‘Borodin sound’, heard at its finest in music by Shostakovich and Beethoven.

 

Program

 

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
String Quartet in G major, op 18 no 2

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartet no 8 in C minor, op 110

Pyotr II’yich TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet no 2 in F major, op 22

 

Tickets

www.musicaviva.com.au  or (02) 8394 6666

www.ticketek.com.au or 1300 665 915

 

A Reserve: $78.50 – $89.72

B Reserve: $55.05 – $63.21

 

 

A copy of our current Concert Diary is attached.

 

 

Conservatorium  of Music

University of Newcastle

 

Cnr Auckland & Laman Streets

Newcastle NSW 2300

 

P: (02) 4921 8900

F: (02) 4921 8677

W: www.newcastle.edu.au/conservatorium

Radio 16 Live Broadcast of the Dubbo Jazz Festival

This year again we’ll be at the Dubbo Jazz festival on the 15th, 16th and 17th of August 1004829broadcasting live from the many venues that make up the festival this year.

Continuing in the footsteps of their proud history, while keeping a focus on Trad Jazz, the Dubbo Jazz Festival will be expanding the Jazz genres to include some blues, swing, funk and soul. The Festival will present ‘jazz around town’ highlighted locations will include Dundullimal Homestead and Red Earth Estate.

Please note change of location this year – West Dubbo Bowling Club at 82 Whylandra Street, Dubbo. Main stage – ‘Dubbo Basement Jazz Club’ all weekend including Gospel Service at St Andrews Chapel, Wingewarra Street, Dubbo – Sunday morning 10:30am.

Jazz Around Town events include Pastoral Hotel Friday 10pm & Sunday 1pm, Taronga Western Plains Zoo Sat & Sunday 10am, Outlook café/ Western Plains Cultural Centre Sunday 10am, + Soup Plus Jazz (swing dance workshop venue) at Dundullimal Homestead (23L Obley Road, Dubbo) Saturday 12 midday onwards.

Download the full program guide here.

Bruce Cockburn plays rare FREE show during Markham Jazz Festival Friday August 15th

On August 15th you can find Bruce Cockburn performing a rare FREE show at the Markham Jazz Festival at 9pm, with special guests American sax great Craig Handy, trumpeter Kevin Turcotte and guitarist Michael Occhipinti.
One of Canada’s finest singer-songwriters, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and world beat styles while travelling to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, and Nepal, and writing memorable songs about his ever-expanding world of wonders. “My job,” he explains, “is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.”
Michael Occhipinti –
A seven-time Juno Award nominee for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, guitarist/composer Michael Occhipinti’s modern and eclectic approach to jazz and creative music of all kinds has earned him a broad array of listeners and the respect of critics and musicians alike.  As a leader of the acclaimed jazz orchestra NOJO, his own quintet, and The Sicilian Project, Michael has established himself as an inventive composer and arranger, and his recording Creation Dream – The Songs of Bruce Cockburn remains a favourite instrumental jazz recording among critics and fans.

Coming up at the Newcastle Conservatorium

Friday 8th August – 7.00pm

Night of Percussion

 

The Conservatorium’s Percussion Ensemble in conjunction with St Phillip’s Drum Line and Future Music Ensemble will be holding a night of rhythm and beats. Free admission.

 

Friday 22nd August – 7.00pm

Topology presents Share House

 

A “live-action silent film”, Share House follows 5 dysfunctional bandmates sharing a dishevelled flat and interwoven life; full of warmth, fun and unrequited love.

The housemates make their squalor bearable through making music, but they can’t ignore it forever. Disaster strikes, forcing each of them to face hard realities.

Portraying fictional characters while playing intricate original music, Topology explores an unprecedented mode of performance fusing physical theatre and music – a wordless narrative conveyed through virtuosic instrumentation.

A first of its kind, Share House opens eyes, ears and minds to a broadened landscape of artistic possibility in music and theatre.

For more information visit www.topologymusic.com

 

Thursday 28th August – 7.00pm

The Song Company presents Vocal Fireworks

 

Marking the final stage of a four year cycle based on the elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire, The Song Company celebrates the heat and passion of Fire and the music which expresses it. In this first-time collaboration with The Song Company, Danish Guest Director and composer Bo Holten leads a fiery program of neck-breaking speeds, hair-raising leaps and awe-inspiring harmonies.

Bo Holten is one of Denmark’s most admired musicians. His Operation Orfeo is his country’s most performed opera. Holten’s impressive oeuvre includes concertos and vocal works, and music for Lars von Trier’s film The Element of Crime.

Program includes:

  • Carlo Gesualdo, three madrigals
  • Luca Marenzio, three madrigals
  • Luciano Berio, Sequenza for voice
  • Bo Holten, Rota Veneris
  • Raffaele Marcellino, Due Madrigali
  • Mateo Flecha, El Fuego

Tickets available at www.songcompany.com.au/buy/tickets/vocal-fireworks/

Adults $49 / Concession $39 / Under 30 years old $35 / Students $15

 

 

A copy of our current concert diary is attached.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Conservatorium  of Music

University of Newcastle

 

Cnr Auckland & Laman Streets

Newcastle NSW 2300

 

P: (02) 4921 8900

F: (02) 4921 8677

W: www.newcastle.edu.au/conservatorium

Australia’s Silent Film Festival is proud to present two sessions in Newcastle

In conjunction with the Newcastle Museum, Australia’s Silent Film Festival is proud to present two sessions of restored classics in September.

The first session is a tribute to the inimitable Charlie Chaplin to celebrate his 100 years in film this year! Charlie’s genius captivated and enchanted audiences around the world within a very short period of time. That relationship has never ended. The whole world claims Charlie as its own: the qualities in his roles as director, actor and composer are timeless and universal.

On Saturday September 13 at 2pm, local musician, Greg Smith, shall accompany digital restorations of 4 of Charlie’s classic silent short comedies.

The first two on the program are the very first two films released to the public in 1914.

Charlie Chaplin

100 Years in Film

Making a Living (1914)

Kid Auto Races (1914)

The Champion (1915)

The Vagabond (1916)

Tickets $20/$15 concession

On Sunday September 14 at 2pm, the film on offer is the Academy Award winning World War 1 drama, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 152 minutes.

Tickets $15/$10 concession

McIntyre Auditorium Newcastle Museum

6 Workshop Way Newcastle

Tickets through Festival website home page.

Cash sales only at the door. Festival Pass to both sessions $30/$20 concession.