VOYAGES AND VOYAGERS
Sunday 30 June, 2019
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Hanson Dyer Hall, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Ticket Price
Adult: $25
Concession: $15
Voyages and Voyagers presents three of the Voyages for saxophone by the Australian composer Brian Howard alongside works by composers who have begun new lives in new countries: the French/Iranian composer Paul Mefano; Chilean/Australian composer Andrian Pertout; and the Russian/English composer Elena Firsova. From Pertout’s robust investigation of four note chords in Arithmós=Analogia=Armonia, to the broad expanses of Firsova’s Monologue, these contemplative miniatures display the diverse colours of the contemporary classical saxophone.
JAMES NIGHTINGALE
James Nightingale is a classical saxophonist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the alto saxophonist with Continuum Sax and has performed regularly as a casual musician with Sydney’s orchestras since 1993 and toured internationally with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. James taught saxophone at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (1996-2009). He is a member of the peripatetic music staff at Sydney Grammar School and is Assistant Chief Examiner (Woodwind) for the Australian Music Examinations Board (NSW). In his spare time he volunteers as a programmer and presenter at Fine Music 102.5.
