Here is a document I have created that lists the notes on each string. It is intended to help young composers writing for violin to work out which chords etc. are possible. It is a violin fingering guide.
Click on the image to download the PDF.
There is a good article on harmonics with a [...]
The programme for the 2008 Aurora Festival has been launched, and can be viewed at:
http://www.aurorafestival.com.au
We have assembled a most diverse collection of concerts, forums and workshops for this festival, the majority of which will take place in venues across Western Sydney (with an ‘outreach’ concert in the centre of Sydney itself). The performers and [...]
It was wonderful for my Percussion Concerto, written for Evelyn Glennie and The Queensland Orchestra, to be a finalist in the 2007 Classical Music Awards.
Photo J.Wilson(c)/EG Images
It was a finalist in the Orchestral Work of the Year category. Thanks to Evelyn and The Queensland Orchestra for a wonderful experience and the opportunity for [...]
The music festival of which I am the artistic director, the Aurora Festival, last night won the award for Most Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation in the 2007 Classical Music Awards. These annual awards are presented by APRA and the Australian Music Centre at a ceremony at the Wharf Theatre in Sydney.
It was very [...]
Here is an excellent new music blog from Alex Ross, the music reviewer from The New Yorker. Understandably it has a US-centric slant, but there are also multitudes of links and resources on there as well.
http://www.therestisnoise.com/
As an example of the type of writing contained on the blog, here is an article responding to the [...]
Recently I attended some performances at the Camden Haven Music Festival, a festival of various types of music held in the Camden Haven region of Australia (about 30 minutes south of Port Macquarie, or about 3 1/2 hours north of Sydney).
What made this event particularly special (for me at least!) was the fact that this [...]