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ANU School of Music Open Day

  • Orange Regional Conservatorium 73A Hill Street Orange, NSW, 2800 Australia (map)

The Orange Regional Conservatorium will be welcoming a selection of the ANU School of Music faculty to Orange, Saturday 2nd September.

While here the ANU Staff will engage with local students, present workshops and masterclasses, talk about future study options and much more.

Saturday 2 September 2023

11am - 12pm | Piano Masterclass with Scott Davie

12pm - 1pm | Jazz Workshop with Greg Stott and John Mackey

1:30pm - 2:15pm | Orange Youth Orchestra with Sally Walker (flute) and Tor Frømyhr (Viola, Violin)

2:15pm - 3pm | Orange Youth Orchestra Wind/Brass and String Sectionals with Sally Walker (flute) and Tor Frømyhr (Viola, Violin)

1pm - 2pm | Film Scoring with Kenneth Lampl

1pm - 3pm |  Greg Stott and John Mackey available to meet with students

2pm - 3pm | Kenneth Lampl Composition Session - Feedback and Advice

3pm - 4pm | Careers in music/everything you need to know about ANU with Kenneth  Lampl

Some sessions require registration and spaces are limited in some sessions.

Note: OYO members will not need to register

Scott Davie – Piano

Dr Scott Davie is known to audiences as a soloist and chamber musician. He has given concerts throughout Australia, Europe, across the United States of America, Mexico, and China. His performances and recordings have been broadcast on both radio and television.

Scott is known for various cross-disciplinary collaborations, such as with Graeme Murphy and Sydney Dance Company in Grand, and in a 2018 revival of the work with The Australian Ballet. In 2012, he gave the Australian premiere of the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, to capacity audiences at the Sydney Opera House, under conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Among his published recordings, two solo CDs, Lilacs and Pictures from an Exhibition, are available through ABC Classic. A CD of the music from Grand has been released on the Melba label. A recording with violinist Asmira Woodward-Page of early 20th Century Australian music was re-released by ABC Classic in 2019.

 Recent collaborations include a recording of music by Roger Smalley with soprano Taryn Fiebig for Toccata Classics, and of contemporary Australian music with clarinettist Jason Noble. In 2020, ABC Classic released a lieder album with soprano Taryn Fiebig, while a series of recordings of new music on a piano built c.1770 has been broadcast widely and released on streaming services by the ABC. In addition to performing, Scott is a published author and public speaker

Sally Walker – Flute

With a repertoire ranging from early music to works composed especially for her, most notably Elena Kats-Chernin’s “Night and Now” Concerto, performer, academic and music educator Dr Sally Walker has toured internationally with the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras, was Principal Flute of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss and has performed as Guest Principal Flute with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Manchester Camerata, Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (on period instruments) and has a long-standing association as Guest Principal Flautist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Sally has collaborated with pianists Simon Tedeschi, Kathryn Stott, cellist Steven Isserlis and harpist Emily Granger (with whom she has recently recorded the album “Something like This”) and was Principal Flautist with the Omega Ensemble. She was a prize-winner in the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute competition and nominated for an APRA-AMCOS Award for Arts Excellence and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual.

Sally is Senior Lecturer in Performance at the Australian National University, guest teacher at the Australian National Academy of Music and contributes to socially driven projects including 1:1 CONCERTS, the Equal Music program (Illumina Festival), and is the Ambassador for the Symphony for Life Foundation.

Tor Fromyhr - Violin

Violinist and conductor Tor Fromyhr, currently Lecturer in Violin and Viola at the ANU School of Music has toured extensively nationally and internationally with many chamber ensembles including Rialannah String Quartet, Australian Contemporary Music Ensemble, Queensland Piano Trio, Ensemble I, Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Alpha Centauri. He has performed as soloist, conductor and concertmaster with a number of Australian orchestras and conducted and performed in festivals in Scandinavia, USA, Germany, France, UK and Italy. Many performances have included world or Australian premieres. He continues an extensive performance and conducting career with regular appearances with the Canberra Symphony and in chamber music and solo recitals throughout Australia. As lecturer in charge of the Contemporary Music Ensemble course at the ANU School of Music, he continues an active participation in the creation of new works and maintains close links with many of Australia's foremost composers

John Mackey – Saxophone

John Mackey, a renowned Australian saxophonist, recording artist, and educator, began playing professionally at age 14.  Mackey has performed with international artists including Nat Adderley, BB King, Ray Charles, Johnny Griffin, Phil Wilson, Dame Kiri Tekanawa, Woody Herman, Toshiko Akyoshi, Lee Tabackin, Richie Cole, Red Rodney, Eddie Henderson, Roy Hargrove, Kenny Werner, Bob Mintzer, Mark Levine, Julian Arguelles, Emil Viklicky, Kendrick Scott and Kurt Elling. National artists include Dale Barlow, Virgil Donati, James Morrison, Bob Sedergreen, Andrea Keller, Mark Isaacs, Don Burrows, Mike Nock, James Muller, Sam Keevers, Matt McMahon, Carl Mackey, Stephen Magnusson, David Jones, Sandy Evans, Jamie Oehlers, Vince Jones, Bernie McGann, John Pochee, Miroslav Bukovsky and many more.  John has been an invited soloist on many albums over a period 35 years.

In 2021, European label Galen, released the 2018 ABC Live at Wangaratta recording of the Emil Viklicky Trio, featuring Czech pianist Emil Viklicky, Miroslav Bukovsky on trumpet/flugelhorn and John Mackey on tenor saxophone.

Greg Stott – Guitar

Greg Stott has a Masters degree in Music (Performance, Arranging & Composition) and has been a featured performer at numerous events including the 2010 New Zealand International Jazz & Blues Festival, the Sydney Olympics Festival, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the National Folk festival and a number of international sporting events. He has also played for Australian Prime Ministers and foreign dignitaries and performed original compositions for ABC FM, broadcast nationally. He is currently Musical Director and composer for an independent Australian film, The Competition, which is expected to be completed in 2012-13.

In addition to performing with The Greg Stott Band  and the Utopia Collective, Greg has performed or recorded with a range of jazz, classical and pop artists including:

James Morrison, Dale Barlow, Andrew Gander, Tim Kain (Guitar Trek), Tim Strong (USA), Brady Blade (USA), Don Johnson, Miroslav Bukovsky, Brendan Clarke, Wayne Kelly, Craig Scott, Gery Scott, Craig Schneider, Ra Khahn, The Idea of North, John Mackey, Mike Price, Eric Ajaye, Col Hoorweg, James Greening, Dave Panichi, Ben Hauptman, Peta Gammie, Grace Knight, Jackie Love, Rhonda Birchmore, Hayley Jensen (Australian Idol), Steve and Rae Amosa, Kirrah Amosa Gabby Birmingham, Elana Stone, Meg Corsen,  Adam Sofo (The Voice, Silverchair, Guy Sebastian), Robbie Zootster, Steve Allen, The RMC Duntroon Big Band, and the Canberra Symphony Pops Orchestra. Greg has also supported acts as diverse as Shirley Maclaine, Dionne Warwick, The Whitlams, Killing Heidi, Mental as Anything, and Daryl Braithwaite. 

Kenneth Lampl – Film Composition 

Kenneth Lampl received his D.M.A. in music composition from the Juilliard School of Music and was a student of John Williams. His first international recognition came with the winning of the Prix Ravel in composition at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. Many awards soon followed including the Joseph H. Bearns Prize from Columbia University, nine ASCAP Concert Music Awards, and three New Jersey State Council for the Arts Fellowships. 

As a composer of film music Kenneth Lampl has scored over 100 films including: Pokemon: The First Movie: Mew vs Mew Two, Pokemon Mewtwo Returns,  Frontera (starring Ed Harris and Eva Longoria), 35 & Ticking (starring Kevin Hart and Nicole Ari-Parker), Ninja’s Creed (starring Pat Morita and Eric Roberts), Kandisha (starring David Carradine and Hiam Abbas) and Winter of Frozen Dreams (starring Thora Birch and Keith Carradine).  His recent Australian scores include: the Furies, 2067 and Sissy. The 2067 soundtrack was released by Sony/Milan Records and was also listed as “One of the Best Scores of 2021” by the Film Music Institute in LA.

 

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