Reed Music presents Grainger Wind Symphony
with special guests
Barry Cockcroft (saxophones)
Ken Murray (guitar)
9 new Australian works for wind symphony including 5 premiere performances. Guitar and saxophone works with original compositions by Barry Cockcroft & Ken Murray.
7:30pm Saturday June 20th 2009
Melba Hall (opposite Story St)
The University of Melbourne
Royal Parade Parkville
tickets at door $15/$20
tickets online $11
Reed Music presents a special concert with Grainger Wind Symphony playing 9 new works published by Reed Music including 5 premiere performances. The concert will also see the performance of the guitar and saxophone compositions by Barry Cockcroft, Ken Murray & Stuart Greenbaum. Australian composers featuring their new works include: Orlovich, Carter, Stanhope, Greenbaum, Abbott, Batterham, Collins, Barrett, Cockcroft & Murray.
The Grainger Wind Symphony is a Melbourne-based group of musicians who share a passion for creating quality wind-band music. The establishment of the Granger Wind Symphony was chosen to not only represent and perform wind ensemble music of the highest calibre, but also celebrate the name of Percy Grainger, one of Australia's foremost performing musicians and composers, bringing Grainger's name and music to greater recognition by the Australian public, and to the listener, the enjoyment of wind ensemble music generally.
The group has premiered original compositions in Australia by noted composers for this genre such as Alfred Reed, Frank Ticheli, Robert Downing and Vincent Persichetti.
The Grainger Wind Symphony promotes wind music by running workshops for young players and sharing the concert platform with them, as well as performing in smaller groups, such as a brass quintet, a flute trio, a woodwind group and a dance band! The Grainger Wind Symphony performs around eight concerts a year in a variety of venues around Melbourne and Victoria, including the Robert Blackwood Hall, Melba Hall at the University of Melbourne, the Melbourne Town Hall and the Yarra Valley Performing Arts Centre.