SHEP QUEENSLAND & AHEP 2020
Concert 11 Sunday 4 October 2020, 7.30 pm Conservatorium Theatre
DIRECTOR'S WELCOME We are delighted to welcome our SHEP Queensland cohort of 900, and Australian Honours Ensemble Program (AHEP) cohort of 130, emerging musicians to Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s state of the art South Bank facilities. We trust you will enjoy your experience with us. Now a firmly established aspect of music education in Queensland, SHEP has grown from relatively modest beginnings in 2001 to hosting over 4,500 students throughout Queensland each year; with many more being nominated than we are able to accommodate. AHEP has also grown immensely since it first commenced 3 years ago, with over 500 secondary students auditioning for a position. Congratulations to all involved. In 2020 we are again pleased to offer a Big Band and Symphony Orchestra; along with 3 Wind Ensembles, 3 Vocal Ensembles, 2 String Ensembles and a Guitar Ensemble for SHEP Queensland; along with the AHEP Wind Orchestra, String Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble. Participants have travel to Brisbane from the Border to the Cape and from as far west as Mount Isa, representing 172 secondary schools in SHEP Queensland and 81 secondary schools in AHEP. Our 11 SHEP Queensland clinicians, and 3 AHEP clinicians. are all esteemed Queensland clinicians. This year we are particularly pleased that so many families and schools have been willing, and able, to participate in our programs and thank all involved for their continued support of music education throughout the State. Welcome to SHEP Queensland and AHEP 2020. We hope to see many of you return as students, performers and audience members in the future. Professor Gemma Carey Acting Director Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
TOMMY TYCHO BIG BAND Tommy Tycho (11 April 1928-4 April 2013) was born in Budapest in 1928. His father was a senior government official and his mother was an opera singer who had retired to raise a family. He played George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra at age 10. He commenced studying at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest; however he was interned in a German forced labour camp in 1943 at age 15. He resumed his studies after the war, but fled his country ahead of the Communist takeover. From 1948 to 1951 he lived in Iran, where he was the personal pianist for the Shah of Iran. There he met Eve, another Hungarian, who became his wife. They emigrated to Australia in 1951. He was Musical Director at the Seven Network for 15 years; involved in nine Royal Command Performances and conducted all the ABC symphony orchestras. His work was an important element of many official openings including the Sydney Opera House, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, 1982 Commonwealth Games and World Expo 88. In 2008 he performed at the piano for Crown Princess Mary of Denmark at the opening of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. The Australian artists with whom he worked include Peter Allen, Olivia Newton-John, Julie Anthony, John Farnham, Anthony Warlow, James Morrison, Rhonda Burchmore and many others. He also worked with overseas performers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong, Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra.
Conductor - Andrew McNaughton Andrew McNaughton is multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and teacher who has performed and recorded for more than 30 years in more than 20 countries. His performance experiences range from the World Expo in Hanover, Gorky Park in Moscow and the International Trumpet Guild in New York to the Goethe Institutes of Kazakhstan and Mongolia, and the Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo in Sydney, as well as venues from Norway to Italy including Porgy and Bess in Vienna, A-Trane in Berlin, Pod Filarmi in Poland and the Unterfahrt in Munich. As a composer, arranger, songwriter and sound designer, highlights include commissions and performances for the Australasian Clarinet and Saxophone Conference (Brisbane); Das Sinfonische Blasorchester des MON, Luz Amoi, and Unterbiberger Hofmusik (Germany), El Tanbura (Egypt), the International Trumpet Guild (New York), Musica Viva Australia, and the Royal Australian Air Force, among others. He has also written for theatre productions such as Gloria (Queensland Theatre Company), The Daylight Atheist and Hinterland (both for Melbourne Theatre Company) and Ruby Moon (Playbox Theatre Company). He was commissioned by QPAC last year as composer and lyricist to turn Matt Ryan’s play, Brisbane into the new Australian musical, Danny Fisher. He is currently a sessional staff member at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University where he teaches Jazz Composition and Jazz Trumpet.
REPERTOIRE Performance repertoire will be announced during the concert.
ENSEMBLE MEMBERS ALTO SAXOPHONE
Oliver Bradshaw - Ambrose Treacy College Jasmine Byrne - Citipointe Christian College
TENOR SAXOPHONE
Luka Duffy - Palm Beach Currumbin State High School Mason Harvey - St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe
BARITONE SAXOPHONE Ellie Woods - St Thomas More College
TRUMPET Hugh Brennan - Sunshine Beach State High School Aiden Ikefuji - Palm Beach Currumbin State High School Oliver Mann - Brisbane Boys' College Isaac Peake - Concordia Lutheran College Lachlan Penman - Urangan State High School
TROMBONE Daniel Berry-Porter - The Springfield Anglican College Nate Jacob - Toolooa State High School Khaled Khan - Ormiston College Callum Massing - Mackay Northern Beaches State High School
RHYTHM SECTION
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Guest Tertiary Students Sebastian Ward - Guitar Eden Armstrong - Piano Bede Prince - Bass Joshua Batka - Drums
AHEP VOCAL ENSEMBLE Conductor - Claire Preston Claire Preston has worked extensively in Australia and North America specialising in developing young singers. She has been Assistant Conductor of the Toronto Children’s Chorus and Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus, accompanist for Canada’s foremost professional choir, Elmer Iseler Singers and is Co-Founder of the award winning, Exaudi Youth Choir. Claire specialized in Australian music during her time as Head of Choral Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School; a specialist program for the training of young musicians where she regularly commissioned and recorded Australian music and collaborated with the VCA Orchestra. Claire maintains an active career as a choral conductor and is in demand as an adjudicator for choral festivals and eisteddfods including New Zealand Choral Federation Big Sing. She has been a regular guest conductor at Gondwana National Choral School, Festival of Voices, State Honours Ensemble Program and on the Artistic Staff of Voices of Birralee. Claire has worked with Dr. Doreen Rao, Sir David Wilcocks and Helmuth Rilling, been featured at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis, Joy of Singing International Choral Festival, and recorded the world premiere of Harry Somers’ children’s opera A Mid-Winter Night’s Dream for CBC Records (nominated for a Juno Award). Since moving to Brisbane, Claire has been Director of Choral Music at Somerville House since 2015 and began a new role as Head of Music at Redeemer Lutheran College in 2020. Claire is delighted to be involved with the Australian Honours Ensemble Program this year.
Accompanist - Brendan Murtagh Brendan Murtagh, one of Australia’s most proficient musicians, is recognised as a consistent and talented répétiteur across the musical theatre, opera and choral genres. His musical theatre experience is vast, having played keys for nationally touring musicals, including Aladdin, Mamma Mia, The Wizard of Oz, Kinky Boots, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Singin’ in the Rain, Anything Goes, Les Miserables, Wicked, The Lion King, The King and I, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Jersey Boys, Annie, Avenue Q, Cats, and Chicago. Based in Brisbane, Brendan has thrived with local companies, touring as a music director and accompanist with Underground Opera, while being a répétiteur with Opera Queensland, Queensland Conservatorium and the University of Queensland. A highlight of Brendan’s choral music involvement has been with leading youth organisation Voices of Birralee, with performances across the globe in Canada, Austria and at the 2015/16 WW1 Anzac centenary commemorations on the Western Front, France. Brendan is also an educator, teaching piano and working as an assistant choir conductor at All Hallows’ School. His experience is backed by a University of Queensland Bachelor of Music (Honours), Class IIA Major in Music Performance (Piano) and AmusA (Piano).
REPERTOIRE This is our Home Jandamarra Paul Stanhope Ubi Caritas Ola G Jelio Come, To My Garden Lucy Simon Ritmo Dan Davison Ave Maria Franz Biebl In Remembrance Eleanor Daley I carry your heart with me Ben van Tienen No Rocks A-Cryin' Rollo Dilworth Concerto del Sur Dan Walker Rise Up My Love Healey Willan Blue Skies Irving Berlin
ENSEMBLE MEMBERS SOPRANO
Minette Boyd - St Ursula's College (Yeppoon) Katie Collins - Matthew Flinders Anglican College Charlize Hinze - Somerset College Emily Malczewski - Mt St Michael's College Lilian Morse - St Andrew's Lutheran College Meleia Richardson - St Margaret's Anglican Girls School Hannah Siegmann - Trinity Anglican School Eline Van Bruggen - Good Shepherd Lutheran College Ismari Van Der Westhuizen - Gladstone State High School Jessica Vincent - Bray Park State High School
ALTO
Alexandra Middleborough - Matthew Flinders Anglican College Isabella Nott - St Hilda's School Charli O'Kane - St Monica's College, Cairns Lauren Page - St Andrew's Anglican College (Peregian Springs) Hayley Rope - MacGregor State High School Olivia Sealey - Siena Catholic College Charlotte Squire - A.B. Paterson College Etienne Steven - St Margaret's Anglican Girls School Zahra Voss - Matthew Flinders Anglican College Ellen Walsh - St Ursula's College (Yeppoon)
TENOR Josh Brown - Toowoomba Grammar School Rex Gabriel Fonacier - St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe Liam Keates-Ryley - St Joseph's College Gregory Terrace Oliver King - Toowoomba Anglican School Fynn Moran - The Rockhampton Grammar School Charles Morris - A.B. Paterson College Thor Morrison - Kuranda District State College Dylan Simpson - St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe Cassidy Stokes - West Moreton Anglican College Benedict Wright - The Rockhampton Grammar School
BARITONE Paul Bletchly - Ormiston College Baxter Dent - Coomera Anglican College Lachlan Hammond - Toowoomba Grammar School William Lawrence - Toowoomba Anglican School Joshua Linnett - Immanuel Lutheran College Jake Lyle - Gladstone State High School Alastair McNamara - A.B. Paterson College Sam Mead - Marist College Ashgrove Rohan Murray - Queensland Academy for Health Sciences Toby Sheppard - Queensland Academy for Creative Industries
AHEP WIND ORCHESTRA Conductor - David Law Mr David Law is a passionate supporter of school and community music-making. He studied Euphonium at the Queensland University of Technology and has been playing piano since the age of eight. In addition to conducting the Queensland Wind Orchestra, David conducts the Queensland Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble and Brisbane’s Westside Orchestra. In 2019, David conducted seasons with the Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra, Ignite Choir and various community and school-based ensembles. 2020 is David’s 16th year as President of the Queensland Wind Orchestra, and his 2nd year as conductor of the Australian Honours Ensemble Program’s Wind Ensemble. David has been an invited clinician, instructor, consultant and conductor for Queensland Music Festival’s Cape York Instrumental Program. He has directed the Wind Ensemble as part of Griffith University’s State Honours Ensemble Program in Central and North Queensland, and has been a sectional lecturer with the University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he has adjudicated at state and national competitions including the West Australian School’s Concert Band Festival, the Queensland Catholic Music Festival and Queensland’s MusicFest. He has worked as Music Director, Conductor and Pianist with various musical theatre organisations throughout Brisbane and has trained in Music Direction at the multiple-Tony Award©-winning Goodspeed Musical Theatre Institute in Connecticut, USA. Locally, he has worked on productions of Into the Woods, CATS, Les Misérables and West Side Story and, more recently, has been involved with Oscar Theatre Company as Musical Director for the Queensland premieres of [title of show] (Brisbane Powerhouse), Spring Awakening and Next to Normal (QPAC). As Head of Performance Music at Redeemer Lutheran College, David directs a number of award-winning wind bands, string orchestras and vocal ensembles.
REPERTOIRE Children’s March Percy Grainger English Dances (Set 1, Op. 27) Malcolm Arnold arr. Maurice Johnstone Twist Jodie Blackshaw Wayfaring Stranger Christopher M. Nelson Hung Aloft the Night Anthony O’Toole “Adventures on Earth” from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) John Williams arr. Paul Lavender Equus Eric Whitacre Ave Maria Franz Biebl arr. Robert Cameron
ENSEMBLE MEMBERS PICCOLO
TRUMPET
FLUTE
Nick Duregger - St Andrew's Anglican College (Peregian Springs) Jaxen Gleeson - Chancellor State College Callum Heard - St Paul's School Millicent Rayner - The Rockhampton Grammar School Samuel Schimming - St Joseph's Nudgee College Cooper Williams - St Laurence's College
Sarah Mayne - Redeemer Lutheran College
Robert Blakeley - Redeemer Lutheran College Tavia Jensen - Ipswich Girls' Grammar School Braden Simm - Nambour Christian College Natalie Tsui - All Saints Anglican School XinTing Wang - Brisbane Girls Grammar School Aaryn Wong - John Paul College
OBOE
Laura Hall - Brisbane Girls Grammar School Gabrielle Kleidon - The Glennie School
CLARINET Hamish Cassidy - Ipswich Grammar School Bianca Cassiano – Indooroopilly State High School Josephine Daniel - All Hallows' School Catherine Edwards - Mansfield State High School Charlotte Evans - Albany Creek State High School Livianna Melai - Cleveland District State High School Kristina Newton - Ormiston College Liberty Prentice - Chinchilla Christian College Emily Smith - Kenmore State High School Lisa Walsham - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
FRENCH HORN Lily Chippendale - Cannon Hill Anglican College Arabella Davie - All Hallows' School Elliena Escott - Trinity Lutheran College Dylan Jones - Matthew Flinders Anglican College Thomas Montague - Mountain Creek State High School Jess Piva - Chancellor State College
TROMBONE Tate Cassells - Matthew Flinders Anglican College Therese Daley – Mount Saint Patrick College Lismore Jay Ghodke - Chancellor State College Samuel Lawrence - Toowoomba Anglican School Rylan Malcolm - Redeemer Lutheran College Harshitha Peddireddy - The Rockhampton Grammar School
EUPHONIUM BASS CLARINET Charlotte Beavers - Cannon Hill Anglican College Laura Cleary - Lourdes Hill College
Oliver Dukino - Brisbane Boys' College Liam Reed - Sunshine Coast Grammar School
TUBA BASSOON Charlotte Nixon - St Rita's College Aimee Segal - Townsville Grammar School
ALTO SAXOPHONE Johanna Ide - Mansfield State High School Nina Lane - Miami State High School Isaac Reed - Cannon Hill Anglican College Jack Wilson - Ferny Grove State High School
Ryan Collier - Ferny Grove State High School Stan McDonald - Brisbane State High School Laura Musgrave - All Hallows' School
PERCUSSION Jorja Fensom - St Rita's College Caitlyn Hermann - Brisbane State High School Ella Hicks - St Rita's College Theodorus Hidajat - Mansfield State High School Jennifer Yu-Chieh Lin - Mansfield State High School Dara Williams - Nambour Christian College
TENOR SAXOPHONE Ben Fischer - Bray Park State High School Emily Lawrence - The Glennie School
BARITONE SAXOPHONE Casey Ryan - Chinchilla State High School
DOUBLE BASS Harry Young - Centenary heights State High School
CREDITS
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