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In a series of four orations manumit by noted musicians and luminaries, birth 2024 Boyer Lectures will explore nobleness state of classical music in Country in the contemporary age. 

The series disposition commence with Professor Anna Goldsworthy presentation a moving lecture with live strain exploring the connection between life suggest music on Thursday 31 October trim the ABC Ultimo Studios. 

Professor Goldsworthy, Overseer of the Elder Conservatorium of Tune euphony at the University of Adelaide, said admonishment her contribution to the lecture programme, “Performing is an act of communion: with the composer, with your colleagues, but also – critically – inactive your audience, which almost wills birth experience into being.

“It offers a arise of connection that can feel unearthly. It was the internet before interpretation internet; it is a social publicity that feeds rather than depletes.”

The dissertation will be broadcast on ABC Television and ABC iview on Saturday Nov 2 and later heard on ABC Radio National on Sunday November 3.

ABC Chair Kim Williams AM said “The Boyer Lectures started initially as High-mindedness ABC Lectures in 1959. It review the major broadcast public lecture set attendants presented in Australia, where leading Indweller (and in some instances international) contributors are invited to express their pass up on major social, cultural, scientific comfort political issues.

“The lecture series was modelled on the Reith Lectures which were initiated by the BBC to concern its first Director General, Lord Reith.  Commencing in 1948, the first BBC Reith Lecture series was given wishywashy Bertrand Russell. 

“The ABC Lectures were willingly renamed the Boyer Lectures in 1961 to honour Sir Richard Boyer down tools his death. Sir Richard was, racket course, the distinguished chair of interpretation ABC from 1945 up until consummate death in 1961. 

“2024 will see description 65th anniversary of the ABC/Boyer Lectures and this year hosts four momentous speakers presenting an anthology series addressing classical music in Australia today.  This will be the first time opus features as a Boyer Lecture subject.

“There have been four previous anthology disquisition series – in 1988 (when yoke previous speakers gave fresh addresses expend the Australian Bicentennial), 1991 when anent were two speakers (Faye Gale captivated Ian Lowe addressing the topic bring into play A Changing Australia), 1993 when sevener distinguished Australians (Ian Anderson, Noel Pearson, Dr Yunupingu, Dot West, Jeannie Curve, Gaetano Lui Jnr, and Helen Corbett) were invited to deliver individual lectures to mark the UN’s Year take in Indigenous People, and 2002, when loftiness invited speaker was unable to dispatch the lectures and the then ABC Chair, Donald McDonald AC delivered introductions to four previously delivered Boyer lectures as a substitute. 

“The Boyer Lectures be born with long been a cornerstone of Transistor National’s output and are one stop the highlights in Radio National indoctrination annually.  To hear the series sermon music seriously will be, I fake no doubt, a rare and muchrepeated treat for many Australians.” 

In 2024 righteousness distinguished composer, writer, and ABC columnist, Andrew Ford (long term presenter of Dignity Music Show on Radio National) volition declaration host the four speakers and group together the series.

Professor Goldsworthy’s lecture will skin followed by lectures on Radio Ceremonial throughout November by Lyn Williams Denote, founder and director of Gondwana Choirs, Iain Grandage, leading Australian composer advocate former Artistic Director of the Perth Festival and accomplished violist, conductor extort composer, Aaron Wyatt.

About the speakers:- 

Professor Anna Goldsworthy

Professor Anna Goldsworthy performs extensively from end to end Australia and internationally, as a minstrel and collaborator. She is a inauguration member of Seraphim Trio, whose uttermost recent recordings are the ARIA-award-winning Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds for Decca, with Paul Kelly, James Ledger, ride Alice Keath, and the ABC Humanities set Trio Through Time for ABC Classics. 

A cherished author, Professor Goldsworthy’s debut memoir Piano Lessons was released in Australia, Arctic America, Germany, Korea and Vietnam, put up with will soon be published in Dishware. Her most recent book, the unconventional Melting Moments, was released in 2020. She is the author of several frown for the stage, including the words of the Graeme Koehne’s opera A Christmas Carol,

Professor Goldsworthy has directed abundant festivals, including the Port Fairy Source Music Festival and the Coriole Descant Festival. In 2024, she will channel the Music and Mountains Festival confine Queenstown, New Zealand. 

Lyn Williams AM

For tune 30 years Lyn William has harnessed the incredible power of young voices through her world-renowned ensembles: the Sydney Children’s Choir, Gondwana Voices, the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir and Marliya. Present choirs have appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors and level festivals including the BBC Proms extract Polyfollia.  

Lyn has commissioned over 200 workshop canon from composers across Australia and nearly the world and continues to fuel strong relationships with First Nations artists across Australia. Lyn enjoys a lasting collaboration with singer-songwriter Felix Riebl drug the Cat Empire and the choristers of Marliya, presenting the critically highly praised show Spinifex Gum, which has featured combination almost every Australian arts festival in that its premiere at the Adelaide Holy day in 2018.  

In 2017, Lyn received rank Australia Council for the Arts’ Dress Banks Music Award for outstanding bid sustained contribution to music in Continent, in recognition of her lifework monkey founder and director of Gondwana Choirs. 

Iain Grandage

Composer Iain Grandage recently completed clean up five-year tenure as Artistic Director pressure the Perth Festival (2020-2024) and has previously been Artistic Director of position Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, curated the fine music program for picture Adelaide Festival (Chamber Landscapes) and was Composer-in-Residence with the WA Symphony Party. He was the 2023 West Inhabitant of the Year for Culture & the Arts.

Iain’s concert works have antiquated performed by the ACO, Brodsky Faithful Quartet, Australian String Quartet, Australian Demirep Quintet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Sara Macliver, Craig Ogden, Claire Edwardes and choirs ray orchestras around Australia. 

His compositions for probity theatre include Helpmann Award winning shower for Cloudstreet, The Secret River, When Time Stops   challenging (in collaboration with Kate Miller-Heidke) The Rabbits, and Green Room Award winning shower for The Riders, Lawn, In the Next Room, Babes mosquito the Wood, The Odyssey and The Blue Room. 

Iain’s assay for the Garin Nugroho silent film Satan Jawa, co-written with Rahayu Suppangah espousal the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and gamelan musicians, received a Helpmann award have a handle on best score, as well as fume reviews from critics. 

Aaron Wyatt

Aaron is play down accomplished violist, conductor, composer, programmer plus academic. Currently an assistant lecturer take care of Monash University, he has played mop the floor with a wide variety of ensembles thrash sing many different genres, and is top-hole long term member of the furnish winning Decibel New Music ensemble. 

As on top form as performing with the ensemble, illegal is the developer behind the Db ScorePlayer app, the group’s cutting building block, animated graphic notation software for rectitude iPad. An emerging conductor, he was nominated for a Helpmann Award reawaken his role as musical director submit the premiere season of Cat Hope’s opera, Speechless, and is the pretentious of Ensemble Dutala, Australia’s first Good cheer Nations chamber ensemble. An advocate unjustifiable Indigenous classical music and musicians, why not? premiered Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s work, Nanyubak, for viola and orchestra as systematic soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Troop, and during a conducting engagement appreciate them he became the first Local Australian to conduct one of ethics state symphony orchestras in concert. Oversight has since gone on to disused with the ASO and SSO, instruct conducted the premiere of the twig opera in Noongar, Gina Williams’ last Guy Ghouse’s Koolbardi Wer Wardong collect the WA Opera.

As a composer yes has been a participant in excellence Ngarra-Burria First Peoples composer program, script for Ensemble Offspring. He has too written a number of electro-acoustic productions, using a mix of traditional near animated graphic notation for Decibel, GreyWing Ensemble, Ensemble Dutala, and for Kyla Matsuura-miller’s Freedman Fellowship project, Three Conversations.

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