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Students present FRISK at Melbourne Fringe Festival
24 - 27 September
FRISK is a festival of new performance works created by our theatre and production students, presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival this month. The works operate across genres - from physical theatre, choose-your-own adventure, and immersive theatre, to black comedy, interactive gaming and one that heralds the death of theatre itself. Transitioning out of study is a critical period in an artist’s life. The idea behind FRISK is to enable students to build upon skills and experience project initiation, pitching, fundraising, rehearsing, performing and touring.
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The Gathering
Tuesday 29 September, 7.30pm
The Gathering is our Jazz & Improvisation stream’s annual concert established in 2000. This year, the concert program will celebrate the work of two major Melbourne musicians, Brian Brown and Alan Brown. Students, staff and alumni will be joined by special guests Chris Stover (US), David Jones, Anita Hustas, Shobhar Sekhar, Jessie Lloyd, Nilusha Dessenaike, John Norten, Eugene Ball and Phil Noy.
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Melbourne Cello Festival
27 - 29 September
Cellists from around the world will come together this month for three days of public performances and masterclasses as part of the 2015 Melbourne Cello Festival at the Melba Hall. The final night will feature a new work by Professor Barry Conyngham performed by 24 cellos, and conclude with the much-anticipated “CelloXtravaganza” of 100 Cellos. View full program.
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Rehearsed reading of Stealing Picasso
Sunday 27 September, 1.00pm
As part of the New Australian Music Theatre project, join us for a rehearsed reading of Stealing Picasso performed by Music Theatre Company 15. An adaptation of the novel by Anson Cameron of the same name, with music and lyrics by Joel Paszkowski and book by Tom Reed, this reading will be for both the general public and industry with the aim of attracting commercial producers to assist in further development of the work.
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Alumna filmmaker wins CinéfestOZ film prize
Director/producer and alumna Nicole Ma (GDipFT,1996) has won the 2015 CinéfestOZ $100,000 Film Prize with her documentary Putuparri and the Rainmakers, co-produced by John Moore. Starring Tom Lawford and Sylvestor Rangie, the MIFF-supported film is set against the backdrop of Australia’s tangled colonial and Indigenous history, exploring one man’s struggle to fulfil his destiny.
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Masters student wins Allison/Henderson Scholarship
Master of Music student David Soo has won the 2015 Sydney Eisteddfod Allison/Henderson Scholarship – Australia’s most valuable annual piano competition, worth $12,500. David competed against over 40 pianists from around the country, playing Beethoven’s Sonata in A flat major, Opus 110 at the final at the Sydney Conservatorium on August 28.
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Majlis Travelling Scholarship inspires young artist
A $10,000 travelling scholarship provided by the Majlis Pty Ltd will enable Angela Powell, a third year visual art student, the chance to travel overseas at the end of her study. Angela, whose art practice has a strong focus on metals and malleable materials, is planning to use the funds to visit cities such as New York, Berlin and London to explore different contemporary galleries, artist studios and metal work companies.
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VCA & MCM Graduate Study Week
21 - 25 September
Discover opportunities for graduate study at the VCA & MCM during our annual Graduate Study Week in September. Whether you’re interested in developing your current arts practice or pursuing a passion to further your arts-based career, don't miss this opportunity to learn about our range of programs across the visual and performing arts, music, community arts engagement and research.
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The case for the music of Jean Sibelius
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), and it will surprise few that celebrations are scheduled to continue year-round in his homeland and elsewhere. But why should Australians be concerned? PhD candidate Frederic Kiernan explains how the struggle fora Finnish national identity remains central to the composer's work.
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Music fit for an Empress: Catherine the Great’s playlist
The National Gallery of Victoria commissioned PhD candidate Rachel Orzech to curate a playlist to accompany Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great. Her selection was based on music connected to the artworks displayed in the exhibition, and to musical life in Catherine’s court. Highlights are the two tracks from Vasily Pashkevich’s opera Fevey (1786), composed to a libretto by the Empress herself.
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Wolfpack and the ethics of documentary filmmaking
American documentary filmmaker Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack tells the story of the Angulo brothers, who grew up in a New York housing project apartment which they rarely left for fifteen years and then only under their father’s dictatorial supervision. Lecturer in Film and Television Steve Thomas addresses the subtle levels of documentary ethics surrounding The Wolfpack.
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Image credits: Highlight 1: FRISK: Three Birds One Cock. Highlight 2: Bennetts Lane, photography by Sav Schulman, 2015. Highlight 3: University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, photography by Sav Schulman, 2015. Highlight 4: Le Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso (1907), Wikimedia Commons. News 1: Putuparri and the Rainmakers. News 2: David Soo. Photo: WinkiPop Media. News 3: Angela Powell. Focus: Anna Ng, Masters Exhibition, 2013. Channel 1: Daniel Coomber, CC / Flickr. Channel 2: CHINESE, Table decoration in the form of a pair of birds (1740s –50s), silver, enamel, silver-gilt, 26.0 x 26.0 x 15.0 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (Inv. no. ЛС-26, ВВс-189). Channel 3: The Wolfpack. © 2015 Wolfpack Project, LLC. Madman Films.
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