Community Music and Facilitative Leadership: Relationship, Relevance & Respect with Dr Graham Sattler

Wednesday 1st May
7:30pm-9:30pm
R2 Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music

Cost: $25pp

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ENQUIRIES: htait@rivconmusic.nsw.edu.au

A two-hour public forum for anyone and everyone interested in community-based music education, leadership and facilitation, exploring and discussing key aspects of:
- Musical inclusion
- Quality and excellence (definitions, dynamics and resonances)
- Community and leadership (responsibilities, opportunities, and small ‘p’ politics)
- Group musicking and resilience

The forum will involve discussion of current international models, investigated and experienced by Graham during a three-month Churchill Fellowship during which he investigated best-practice Community Music Leadership Training environments across England, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Norway, Portugal and Armenia.

Based on his experiences and relationships with leading Community Music practitioners and institutions, and backed by 20 years of community music leadership in regional NSW, Graham's findings and recommendations will provide a starting point for sharing, questioning, and refreshing approaches to effective, accessible and inclusive music education and participation for communities of all types.

The first part of the evening will take the form of an interactive presentation, following will be a sharing and discussion of perspectives and approaches to inclusive music making, and we’ll cap the session off with some live music making.

Graham began his career as an orchestral trombonist, became a singer specialising in opera and music theatre, a conductor and artistic director, then commenced research in the field of community music activity and musical inclusion. He holds a Diploma of Operatic Art and Music Theatre, a Master of Performance (Conducting), PhD in Music Education and a Graduate Certificate in the Psychology of Risk.

From 2001 to 2012 Graham was Director of the Orange Regional Conservatorium (NSW, Australia), during which time he led multiple community music programs across aged, disability, disadvantaged and at-risk youth cohorts, and engaged in the design and delivery of the Associate Degree in Music Education program at Charles Sturt University. From 2014 to 2021 Graham served as Executive Director, Mitchell Conservatorium, and casual academic with Central Queensland University.

Regularly presenting at international Music Education conferences, he has carried out community-focused fieldwork in Australia, North America and Bolivia, collaborated on community music development activity with groups in and from Armenia, and designed and delivered multiple professional learning music courses for non-specialist teachers in Australia. Graham is a Churchill Fellow, and has recently returned from investigating best-practice musical inclusion and community music leadership training programs in the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Portugal and Armenia. Graham was appointed CEO of Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in late 2021.

Works for Oboe, Viola, and Piano, this beautiful combination of instruments will feature Robert Kahn’s Serenade op 73, and Hugo Kauder’s Trio for Oboe, Viola and Piano. Both Kahn and Kauder lived well into the twentieth century, but these works reflect the late romantic style.

Aaron Reichelt - oboe

Lauren Davis - viola

Katherine Day – piano

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm R1 Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music

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The highly acclaimed Australian Army Band Kapooka Woodwind Trio will present an exciting variety of tunes and styles in the beautiful acoustics of the Wesley Uniting Church, Wagga Wagga. Featuring works by Britten, Schubert, Mozart and more, this program will also be supported by a vocalist from the AABK.

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm, Wesley Uniting Church

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The Kurrajong Ensemble, comprising flautists Fran and Keith Griffin and classical guitarist Harold Gretton, presents an eminently International program. They will perform Baroque masterpieces from France and Germany, a melodramatic piece of Italian Romanticism, a brand new original work by Australian ensemble-member Fran Griffin, some sultry Argentinian Nuevo Tango, and even a cheeky waltz by the great Russian composer Prokofiev. Come and travel the world, with the Kurrajong Ensemble.

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

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This programme explores the interwoven nature of the voice and its storytelling counterpart, the piano. It delves into the emotive characteristics of Romantic Era solo repertoire, as it uniquely brings poetry to life through music. The performance presents selections of German Lieder and French Melodies, as well as soprano solo items from across the Romantic Period. 

Larissa Burak — mezzo-soprano
Stephanie Johnston — soprano
Katherine Choi — soprano

Accompanists: Carmel Ryan and Hamish Tait 

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm R1 Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music

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Bold and exhilarating, experience a range of musical styles written or arranged for brass ensemble. Five musicians sounding as one, delighting audiences with a wonderfully varied repertoire, come and join for a fantastic afternoon of brass music.

Tamara Spencer - trumpet, Andrew Heap - trumpet, Emilie Wendt - French horn, Ivan Simic - trombone, Gabby Jones - tuba

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm St Johns Anglican Church

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This concert will feature several of the most outstanding alumni and current students of the Riverina Conservatorium of Music. Do not miss this opportunity to hear some of the brightest rising stars of the Riverina perform a variety of repertoire for your enjoyment.

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm R1 Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music

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Be whisked away to the woodlands Ireland’s Wicklow mountains. Tap your foot to jigs and reels, revel in melancholy Celtic ballads and sing along to your favourite Irish tunes!

Rhiannon Xeros — violin, Stephanie Johnston — vocal, Kimberley Scriven — Recorder, Reg Dury — Irish Banjo, Harold Gretton — Guitar

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm Uranquinty Community Hall

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For this solo recital Hamish Tait is scaling new heights of virtuosity: Beethoven’s ‘grand sonata’ Piano Sonata No 4 in E Flat Op 7, the enchanting Mozart Piano Sonata No. 13 in B Flat. K.33. In the same program, he dives into the integration of jazz rhythms with classical music with Gerwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Solo Piano, this piece celebrating its centenary, premiering 12th Feb 1924.

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm R1 Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music

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Beethoven said of the guitar that it is “a miniature orchestra in itself”. Chopin, in one of his less fanciful moments, claimed that “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two”. We’ve taken Chopin’s logic and extended it in this concert of guitar ensemble music, featuring staff and senior students of the RCM. With up to six guitarists on stage at once, this concert would surely have had Chopin writhing in paroxysms of pleasure, and Beethoven nodding in gruff approval. Come along and explore the colourful intimacy of the classical guitar.

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm St Johns Anglican Church

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The RCM’s piano faculty will present a duo piano concert, of 4 to 8 hands. The wide-ranging repertoire will include classic works for 2 pianos, from Bach to Poulenc. Do not miss the impeccable musicianship and unique onstage chemistry of this performance.

Hamish Tait, Joanne Burrows, Carmel Ryan, Rowena Grosfeld, Katherine Choi, Fiona Tait, Stephanie Johnston and Megan Roberts.

FREE CONCERT 1pm-2pm R1 Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music

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