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Musicfest 2010

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Con­grat­u­la­tions to all Plat­inum Award Win­ners from Prestige Music’s MusicFest 2010. This res­ult is evid­ence of your hard work in the prac­tice and rehearsal rooms and the skill, tal­ent and ded­ic­a­tion of your conductors.

Sec­ond­ary School Con­cert Band A Grade

Bris­bane State High School – Brad Ruben
Sec­ond­ary School Con­cert Band B Grade
Nam­bour Chris­tian Col­lege – Phil Smith
Mac­Gregor State High School – Jodie Lutherbor­row
Cav­endish Rd State High School – Tony Lash­mar
Bris­bane State High School – Brad Ruben
Bray Park State High School – Allan Lanham

Sec­ond­ary School Con­cert Band C Grade

Park Ridge State High School – Michael Purtle
Ken­more State High School – Dean Fanning

Middle School Con­cert Band

Kelvin Grove State Col­lege – Laurinda Davidson

Sec­ond­ary School Jazz Ensemble A Grade

Music Pass Com­munity Band – Benowa SHS

Sec­ond­ary School Jiants of Jazz

Bris­bane State High School – David Adelt

Sec­ond­ary School Jazz Ensemble B Grade

Iona Col­lege – Karen Cork­eron
Narangba Val­ley State High School – Bruce Hamlin

Sec­ond­ary Full Orchestra

St Paul’s School – Bron­wyn Gibbs

Sec­ond­ary School String Orches­tra A Grade

Somerville House – Loreta Fin
St Luke’s Anglican School – Peter Rickett

Sec­ond­ary School String Orches­tra B Grade

Somerville House – Loreta Fin
North Lakes State Col­lege – Michelle Jones

Sec­ond­ary School String Orches­tra C Grade

Clay­field Col­lege – Judy Luke
Kelvin Grove State Col­lege – Dave Maddick

Sec­ond­ary School Choir

Wellers Hill State School – Pet­rina Lewis
All Hal­lows School – Kylie Moore

Primary School Inter­me­di­ate Con­cert Band

Pet­rie State School – Maria Jarvela
Fran­cis­can Col­leges – Tre­vor Beyer
Sunnybank Hills State School – Helen Lowe
Sam­ford State School – Rhonda Har­ingcaspel
Iron­side State School – John Grainger
Benowa State School – Bill Buchanan
Ferny Grove State School – Rhonda Har­ingcaspel
Ash­grove State School – Fons Hartog

Primary School Begin­ner Con­cert Band

War­rigal Road State School – Cath­er­ine Venn
Citi­point Chris­tian Col­lege – Stu­art Bent
Mac­Gregor State School – Lee Nor­rell
Wellers Hill State School – Andrew Bell

Primary School String Ensemble A Grade

War­rigal Road State School – Daniel Holloway

Primary School String Ensemble B Grade

Sunnybank Hills State School – Penny Wil­li­ams
The Gap State School – Keith Sharp
Ash­grove State School – Keith Sharp
St Paul’s School – Bron­wyn Gibbs
Wil­ston State School – Dave Mad­dick
Mac­Gregor State School – Cath­er­ine Mil­ligan
Mans­field State School – Lisa Steven­son
War­rigal Road State School – Daniel Holloway

Primary School String Ensemble D Grade

Somerville House – Loreta Fin
All Hal­lows School – Melissa Dineen

Primary School Junior Choir

Wellers Hill State School – Pet­rina Lewis
War­rigal Road State School – Anne Pook

Primary School Small Choir

Wellers Hill State School – Pet­rina Lewis

Primary School Large Choir

Wellers Hill State School – Pet­rina Lewis
Sher­wood State School – Rebecca Starr
War­rigal Road State School – Anne Pook

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Jazzworx! Faculty Ensemble for free

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Excit­ing news for any­one try­ing to estab­lish or inspire their jazz pro­grams without blow­ing their yearly budget. Jazzworx! is offer­ing to provide a free per­form­ance or work­shop with their fac­ulty ensemble, Unit 7.

UNIT 7 The Jazzworx! Fac­ulty Ensemble

Unit 7 is made up of some of Brisbane’s lead­ing jazz musi­cians and edu­cat­ors with a proven record of excel­lent com­mu­nic­a­tion skills in jazz education.

Dan Quigley–Trumpet
Graeme Norris–Woodwinds
Melissa Forbes–Vocals
Paula Girva–Piano
Bruce Woodward–Guitar
Helen Russel–Bass
Dave Sanders–Drums

Here’s what Craig Scott, Chair of Jazz Stud­ies at the Sydney Con­ser­vat­orium of Music, wrote in his report on Jazzworx! Music Institute’s Bach­elor of Music in Jazz Performance.

“Firstly, I would like to say that I was very impressed with what I saw.

The over­arch­ing prin­cipal that drives good jazz edu­ca­tional prac­tice in my view is an under­stand­ing of the key place that the his­tory of jazz per­form­ance takes in inform­ing cur­rent practice.

Too often stu­dents are dis­in­clined to listen to older styles of music because they are not “cut­ting edge” or “mod­ern”. I was thrilled to hear the stu­dents play­ing using the jazz lan­guage that forms the basis of the whole tra­di­tion of jazz extem­por­isa­tion, and demon­strat­ing that they under­stood not only the mech­an­ics of how to apply it, but also the neces­sity of its applic­a­tion in order to sound like jazz players.

In my opin­ion this is in no small part due to the expert­ise of the staff that pop­u­late your faculty.

I was impressed with the excel­lence of their musi­cian­ship, and their pro­fes­sional demean­our in deal­ing with the stu­dents in class. I felt that there was a hol­istic approach to the con­cert prac­tice I atten­ded which was refresh­ing; it facil­it­ated cand­our in apply­ing con­struct­ive feed­back, but always on a pos­it­ive note. It is appar­ent that there is still a memory of what it is like to be start­ing out on the road to learn­ing that informs the teach­ing prac­tices at Jazzworx, and this col­lect­ive insight is essen­tial to good teach­ing, in my view.”

For fur­ther inform­a­tion, con­tact Dan Quigley on 3216 1110 or via email dan@jazz.qld.edu.au

Dr Harry Begian

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It is with great regret that we have heard of the news of Dr Harry Begian passing away from pneu­mo­nia on 26 July 2010. He was 89. Dr Begian will be remembered for his work with the Michigan State uni­ver­sit­ies, the Uni­ver­sity of Illinois and as a former pres­id­ent of the Amer­ican Band­mas­ters Asso­ci­ation. I had the pleas­ure of play­ing in a band while Dr Begian dir­ec­ted Alfred Reed’s Praise Jer­u­s­alem! — a memory I will not eas­ily for­get. You can read more inform­a­tion here.

National Band Championships 2011

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In 2011, the South Aus­tralian Band Asso­ci­ation (SABA) will be host­ing the Aus­tralian National Band Cham­pi­on­ships. It will be held at the Uni­ver­sity of Adelaide over the Easter long week­end (21–24 April) and will fea­ture brass and con­cert bands from Aus­tralia, New Zea­l­and and from other coun­tries around the world. The chair­per­son of the organis­isng com­mit­tee is Patri­cia Keep, SABA treas­urer and South Australia’s rep­res­ent­at­ive on the National Band Coun­cil of Australia.

The tent­at­ive sched­ule so far is:

Thursday 21 April: Solos and Ensembles
Fri­day 22 April: Open Brass Hymn and Test, Junior Brass pro­gramme
Sat­urday 23 April: Parade of Bands, Open Brass Own Choice and March
Sunday 24 April: Open Con­cert Bands, Junior Con­cert Bands

Ven­ues
On stage events will be held in Elder Hall (with warm up facil­it­ies avail­able in Bishop Hall) and Scott Theatre (also with warm up facil­it­ies avail­able) and both ven­ues provide seat­ing for up to 600. Solo events are planned for the Harry Med­lin Theatre, the Eclipse Theatre, the Hartley Con­cert Room and the Mad­ley Stu­dio. Warm ups will be in the Mar­garet Mur­ray Room. The Street Parade will be held in Rundle Street.

Adju­dic­at­ors
The chief adju­dic­at­ors will be Bar­rie Gott for the brass bands and Gra­ham Lloyd for the con­cert bands.

ABODA QLD will obvi­ously report more on the Nation­als as it draws closer.

More inform­a­tion is avail­able at http://www.sabandassociation.org/nationals/

Conductor Development Program

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Sym­phony Aus­tralia has released inform­a­tion on their 2011 Con­ductor Devel­op­ment pro­gram, dir­ec­ted by Chris­topher Sea­man (pictured). Participation in this pro­gram gives you the oppor­tun­ity to work with lead­ing con­duct­ors includ­ing Chris­topher Sea­man, Johannes Fritz­sch, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Eck­e­hard Stier and Armo Volmer, and ensembles includ­ing the Tas­manian, Adelaide and Queens­land Sym­phony Orches­tras and the Auck­land Phil­har­mo­nia Orchestra.

You can down­load the bro­chure here.

Fur­ther inform­a­tion is avail­able at www.symphony.net.au and applic­a­tions close on Fri­day 30 July 2010, so be quick.

Annual General Meeting

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The ABODA QLD Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee has resolved to meet on the 2nd Wed­nes­day of every month, with the excep­tion of when this day falls in a school break. All mem­bers of ABODA QLD are wel­come to attend the meet­ings — to con­trib­ute ideas and to offer opin­ions; how­ever, the ABODA QLD con­sti­tu­tion only gives vot­ing priv­ileges to Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee mem­bers. Con­tact Emma Carey (sec­ret­ary) if you’ll be attend a meet­ing so that we can get an agenda to you.

ABODA QLD Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee meet­ing dates for 2010

Check back reg­u­larly for updated details.

Annual Gen­eral Meet­ing
Wed­nes­day 10 Feb­ru­ary, 7.00 pm
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Army Band Open Day

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Aus­tralian Army Band Brisbane

Open Day, 20 March 2010

After the huge sucess of this years Open Day con­duc­ted by the Aus­tralian Army Band Bris­bane at Gal­lipoli Barracks, Enoggera, Sat­urday 20 March 2010 has been ‘locked in’ for another Open Day next year. It is hoped that next year’s event can be even big­ger and bet­ter than before! Con­tinue read­ing →

QBOC2010

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QBOC2010Queens­land Band and Orches­tra Clinic 2010

Fri 9 — Sun 11 July 2010

ABODA QLD is host­ing the Queens­land Band and Orches­tra Clinic in 2010 (QBOC2010). Final stages of plan­ning are well under­way for this major regional con­fer­ence which is being held from Fri­day 9 to Sunday 11 July 2010 at Hill­brook Anglican School, Bris­bane. The pro­gram is designed for school and com­munity band and orches­tra dir­ect­ors of all levels and will include con­duct­ing mas­ter classes, for­ums to explore rep­er­toire, rehearsal tech­niques, instru­ment ped­agogy and addi­tional oppor­tun­it­ies to dis­cover the latest in music tech­no­logy. Con­tinue read­ing →

Regional hubs

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Our mem­ber­ship is grow­ing every­day and we’re start­ing to see interest in devel­op­ing regional hubs. We are mak­ing def­in­ite first moves towards devel­op­ing hubs in Cairns, Towns­ville, Bund­aburg and Too­woomba. If you’re read­ing this blog and you’re from regional Queens­land or you know pos­sible mem­bers in regional areas please con­tact either myself (l.peddell@canterbury.qld.edu.au) or David Coit (d.coit@sheldoncollege.com) so we can reach out and make ABODAQ connections.