The Con was reopened in 2001 after extensive modernisation and expansion. Its award-winning new structures blend with the renovated original heritage buildings. The main concert hall holds 600, and the complex has recording studios and performance and practice spaces featuring the very latest in acoustic technology.
A summary of events held at the Sydney Conservatorium in the 2006 Aurora Festival:
- An Australian Music Day based on music by Matthew Hindson and featuring performers from the New Music Now Programme of the Australian Youth Orchestra;
- A concert featuring the New Music Now programme of the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Friday 3 May, 2006
8.00 pm
Verbrugghen Hall,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Admission $28/$20
COMIN' RIGHT ATCHA
featuring
the New Music Now ensemble of the Australian Youth Orchestra
cond. Kevin Field
soloists: Kim Walker (bassoon)
Programme:
Matthew Hindson:
Comin' Right Atcha
Kamran Ince arr. Cyrus Meurant:
Arches
Michael Daugherty:
What's That Spell?
Michael Daugherty:
Dead Elvis
Terry Riley:
In C
Queen arr. Bernard Hoey:
We Will Rock You
Featuring some of the hottest, most vibrant and engaging music written for large chamber ensemble in recent years, this concert showcases the incredible talents of Australia's best young performers.
This concert will rock off your socks with works including Michael Daugherty's Dead Elvis and the incredulous What's That Spell, an oratorio based on the life of Barbie dolls. Matthew Hindson's super-funky Comin' Right Atcha and the premiere of a new arrangement of Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince's atmospheric masterpiece, Arches add to the general up-tempo vibe in this invigorating display of contemporary classical music.
Presented by Aurora New Music and ABC Classic FM
in partnership with Campbelltown Arts Centre and Riverside Parramatta
with concerts broadcast on ABC Classic FM
Friday 3 May, 2006
12.30 - 3.00 pm
Verbrugghen Hall,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
$14 per student (afternoon presentation only)
$35 per student (afternoon presentation and evening concert)
Teachers accompanying students attend the afternoon session FREE of charge
Programme to include:
Matthew Hindson:
Comin' Right Atcha
Little Chrissietina's Magic Fantasy
Repetepetition
Nintendo Music
Fascinated with the music of popular youth culture, Matthew Hindson says he likes music to be exciting and interesting, to appeal directly to the emotions. Particular amongst his interests are the techno and death-metal genres, and echoes of their driving rhythms are typically found in his works, along with an energy and sense of fun so often lacking in contemporary music.
This Australian Music Day continues Matthew's dynamic relationship with Australian Youth Orchestra. Their leading 14-piece contemporary music ensemble, conducted by Kevin Field, Associate Conductor with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a range of Matthews music for small ensembles. Matthew will demonstrate and discuss his process of composing, with particular emphasis on his critically acclaimed chamber orchestra piece written for the Absolute Ensemble, Comin Right Atcha which uses the funk music techniques of James Brown as its starting point.
The course will also explore Musica Viva In Schools online resource, Hands on Hindson, at www.musicaviva.com.au/hindson - a website that encourages the study of his music and features a composition process diary of Comin Right Atcha and teaching activities for elective music classes.
Suitable for: Elective music students, Years 9 - 12
Syllabus Topics: Australian Music, Music of the last 25 years, Music for Small Ensembles, Art Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Australian Music Day Presentation
presented by Musica Viva in Schools and the Aurora Festival
Presented by:
Matthew Hindson
featuring
the New Music Now ensemble of the Australian Youth Orchestra
cond. Kevin Field
