Self portrait, 1924
oil on canvas, 61.2 x 51cm
Gift of the artist at the request of the Trustees 1924
Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales
photograph:  Ray Woodbury for AGNSW   Inverell Cultural & Arts Council in conjunction with Best Employment and Inverell Shire Council present...


  Presented by Inverell Music Appreciation Group

Tom Roberts was very interested in all forms of art, including music. His friend Duncan Anderson of Newstead was an accomplished cornet player, performing throughout Europe as well as appearing in concerts in Inverell.

The music for this concert will reflect their musical tastes, with actor Rick Hutton reading entertaining excerpts from Roberts’ and Anderson’s letters.

The concert will feature:

  • the cornet/trumpet playing of Andrew Evans, Head of Brass at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music

  • David Miller AM, Director of Ensemble Studies

  • celebrated soprano Peta Blyth

Two local choirs will perform from the work '‘Living Images of Long Ago” by Paul Paviour, commissioned for the 1996 Tom Roberts Festival and based on his local paintings.
 

DATE: SATURDAY 22nd APRIL 2006


Location: Inverell Town Hall, Otho Street, Inverell
Time: 7:00pm
Cost: $25.00 Adult, $22 Concession $10 children

Limited Numbers - Bookings Essential

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ANDREW EVANS - CORNET/TRUMPET

Andrew Evans studied trumpet at the University of Tasmania with Arthur Edwards and Bruce Lamont. In 1983 he was a State finalist in the ABC Young Performer Competition and soloist with the TSO.

Andrew joined the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in 1984. In 1988 he was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to study German trumpet at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Konradin Groth. During this time he was engaged to play with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors Herbert von Karajan and Ricardo Muti.

Since returning to Australia, Andrew pursued a freelance career as a member of Elision Ensemble, Ensemble Modern (Germany), Australis Ensemble (Austria), Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, MSO, SSO, and TSO. He has appeared as soloist in Franco Donatoni's "Short" for solo trumpet and Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto.
In 2002 he toured Australia with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He is in demand as 'lead trumpet' on many soundtracks for the Disney and Fox studios.

Andrew is currently Chair of the Brass Studies Unit and Lecturer in Trumpet at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
 


PETA BLYTH - SOPRANO
After graduating from the University of Queensland with a First Class Music Honours Degree, Peta won the Sir Henry Abel Smith Scholarship for postgraduate studies with Ruth Packer at the Royal College of Music, London and the RCM Opera School.

On returning to Australia, Peta worked with the Australian Opera Company, making her principal debut in Brian Howard’s Metamorphosis. Subsequent roles with the company included Papagena in The Magic Flute; Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro; the Plaintiff in Trial by Jury; First Niece in Peter Grimes and Sophie in Werther. Her numerous understudies with the company, included the role of Marie in Daughter of the Regiment played by Dame Joan Sutherland. She also performed the role of Musetta in La Boheme in New Zealand; Barbarina with the Lyric Opera of Queensland and the title role in Sculthorpe’s Eliza Fraser. Peta has performed as soloist with a number of State orchestras; recorded for the ABC and given numerous recitals throughout the country.

She continues an active performing career and as the soprano of Melba Trio gives many recitals which specialize in the repertoire for voice, flute and piano. She is in demand as an adjudicator, as a teacher of voice and regularly conducts vocal workshops throughout the country. She has taught voice at the University of Queensland, Griffith and James Cook Universities.

Together with her husband, Peta organizes the annual Opera in the Paddock, in which she also performs. Held on their family property near Inverell the event has become a highly significant arts event in the region.


DAVID MILLER - ACCOMPANIST
 

David miller is widely recognized as one of Australia’s leading chamber vocal musicians and vocal accompanists. The Sydney morning Herald has described him as “the role model of Australian accompanists” and in the Queen’s Birthday 1995 Honours list he was appointed as a member of the order of Australia for his service to music.

His distinguished career has included partnerships with many internationally renowned singers and instrumentalists. He has also been involved with a number of chamber ensembles including The Huntington Trio, the contemporary music ensemble Flederman, The Song Company, The Australia Ensemble, Ensemble 24 and The Canberra Wind Soloists and is a founding member of the innovative, highly acclaimed Grevillea Ensemble.

His performing schedule has taken him to the United Kingdom, New Zealand,  Indonesia, Japan, China, Saudia Arabia, New Caledonia, Korea, Vanuatu and Vietnam, as well as through most parts of Australia. He works regularly for the ABC and Musica Viva and records for Walsingham Classics, Tall Poppies, Vox Australis, 2 MBS - FM and ABC Classics.

He is head of Ensemble Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

David has performed many times in Inverell in concerts with Elizabeth Campbell, Thomas Edmonds and Peta Blyth and as accompanist for Opera in the Paddock.


RICK HUTTON - ACTOR
Rick Hutton from Bingara is an active member of that town’s business and cultural sectors. He is Manager / Director of H.Fay and Sons Department store, President of the North West Theatre Company and Publicity Officer of Bingara and District VISION 20/20.

Rick has had a long standing interest in music and theatre. He has, produced, directed, performed and publicized shows through a 13 year career as a High School teacher on through his 18 years spent living and working in Bingara.

He, and wife Susan have three children. Daughter Lexi is studying voice at The Sydney Conservatorium, elder son Nick is completing a Degree in Stage and Screen Performance, and younger son Ben is in Year 11 and has a passion for the hospitality industry.

 

About the Inverell Music Appreciation Group


For additional information contact:
Inverell Cultural and Arts Council (Inc)
Phone: (02) 6728 8167

Tourism Inverell
Campbell St, Inverell
Phone: (02) 6728 8161 
Fax: (02) 6728 8166 

Email: trfestival@northnet.com.au

 

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