Mary Broughton - Brett Carvolth - Matt Chilmaid - Ian Cleworth - Robert Cossom - Alan Emslie
Stuart Greenbaum - Tanja Hafenstein - Gordon Hughes - Jeff Jarrott  
Kerryn Joyce - Andrew Knox - Kevin Man - Pete Neville  
Andrian Pertout - David Pye - David Quinn
Fiona Tristram - Lorrie Webb

Mary Broughton

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Dr Mary Broughton is active in the field of music as a performer, researcher, and teacher. As a performing musician, Mary is the Principal Timpanist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and performs as a percussionist on a freelance basis. Mary has performed as Principal Percussionist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and has also performed as percussionist with the then Queensland Symphony and Queensland Philharmonic orchestras. Aside from orchestral concerts, Mary has performed solo marimba and chamber music throughout Australia and internationally. Her love of marimba playing led to attaining first prize in the open marimba section of the Australian Percussion Eisteddfod (2002). Following this she undertook a PhD studying the role of solo marimba player's bodily movements and gesture in communicative musical performance. Mary regularly presents her research in perception and production of music performance at international conferences.

During her teaching career spanning 15 years, Mary has directed the Pre-tertiary Percussion Program at the School of Music, Australian National University conducting the Pre-tertiary Percussion Ensemble to an award-winning performance. She has also taught the very young through Early Childhood Music classes at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University through to adults in professional development courses for Education Queensland. Currently, Mary maintains a connection to the younger generation passing on her musical skills and love of percussion through teaching and ensemble direction at the School of Music, Australian National University.    .top.

Brett Carvolth

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Brett Carvolth graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium in 1990 with a Bachelor of Music Degree. He has performed and toured with many orchestras and ensembles throughout Australia, Japan, Philippines and the United Kingdom.

As a percussion educator he works regularly at various music camps throughout Queensland and the Northern Territory. Brett currently teaches Percussion and Timpani at two secondary colleges in Brisbane, Central Queensland University Conservatorium of Music (Mackay) and the University of Southern Queensland (Toowoomba). As a co-director of Queensland Percussion Products his pursuance of excellence in instrument making has seen him travel to the USA, Canada, UK and Europe studying techniques of some of the leading percussion instrument manufacturers.   .top.

Matt Chilmaid

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Matt is a professional musician much in demand as both a performer and educator. As an educator Matt has worked with numerous schools within the Sydney metropolitan area. He was the Leading Teacher of percussion at SCECGS Redlands for six years and a regional consultant in percussion for the NSW Department of Education. Matt received his Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney in 1995 and a Licentiate Diploma from the Trinity College of London in 1996. As a composer, Matt's work has been heard on several recordings and have been utilized within two publications distributed by Redback Press.

In 2001 Matt joined the Australian Army Band Sydney, working as a percussionist in all areas of the band and is currently studying to be a Band Director at the Defence Force School of Music. As well as his playing, writing and conducting duties he has been active as Production Assistant on several Army CD projects.   .top.

Ian Cleworth

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Ian was Principal Percussionist with the Sydney Symphony from 1986-2005 and during that time played under some of the world`s finest conductors, including Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Edo de Waart and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and in some of the world`s finest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Amsterdam`s Concertgebouw and London`s Royal Albert Hall. As a soloist Ian premiered and recorded Ross Edwards' Yarrageh: Nocturne for Percussion and Orchestra and with his Synergy colleagues, Toru Takemitsu`s From Me Flows What You Call Time.

As a member of Synergy Percussion (1987-2005), Ian was involved with the presentation of the latest works for percussion, including numerous premieres of Australian and international composers. With Synergy he toured Australia, the UK, Hungary, Sweden, Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Germany and Singapore and worked with some of the world`s finest musicians, including Fritz Hauser, Trilok Gurtu, Mike Nock, Hosam Ramzy, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Kazue Sawai, Palle Mikkelborg and Dave Samuels.

Ian is currently the full-time Artistic Director of TaikOz, Australia`s premiere Wadaiko ensemble. With TaikOz he regularly performs throughout Australia and internationally, including presentations of Australian taiko music at Japan`s National Theatre and at the Pompidou Centre in Paris as part of Andrea Molino`s Winners project.   .top.

Robert Cossom

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Originally from Tasmania, Robert Cossom studied percussion and drum kit with Tom O'Kelly and Eric Johnstone. He attended the Tasmanian Conservatorium, where he was awarded distinctions in composition and performance. Robert has performed with the Queensland, West Australian & Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and is currently a member of the Melbourne Symphony (MSO). He has appeared as soloist with the Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and has given solo recitals in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Canberra. He maintains a considerable commitment to education; he has tutored at several National Music Camps, presented schools' concerts for the MSO and is currently Co-ordinator of Percussion at Melbourne University.

In 2004 he established the MSO Snare Drum Award for tertiary students. During 2007 and 2008 he was composer-in-residence at Border Music Camp, Albury. Robert's compositions are regularly heard in Australia and overseas, including recent performances at the Banff Centre in Canada. His works appear in AMEB, VCE and national tertiary education syllabi. He is a member of the board of the Cybec Foundation. A proud alumnus of the Derwent Scottish Pipe Band, Robert has addressed the Japan Percussion Society on the art of cimbalom playing. His dog is named Riva.   .top.

Alan Emslie

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Alan Emslie has been described by his fellow musicians as a force of energy in the world of music today. His unique skills have enabled him to bridge the gap between diverse styles from progressive rock drumming, world and popular music to the orchestral platform.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 23rd September 1969, Alan experimented with the violin, piano and guitar before realizing that all the dents in the furniture were a sign! While studying music, he worked with all the major orchestras and ensembles on Scotland and began to work in London and Europe, while continuing his strong interest in non-orchestral music. He also began to compose seriously, including his own pieces for timpani, snare drum, drum kit, ethnic percussion and keyboards in his graduation recital.

In 1994/5 he pursued his interest in hand drumming by taking lessons from Paul Clarvis in London and later by travelling to Morocco, where he spent a month with musicians of Essaouria and Marrakech. This was followed up with a trip to Denmark in 1997 to study congas with Birger Sulsbruck and an invitation to work with the Nordic Brass Ensemble in Scandinavia. In between these years, Alan co-founded Sona Coated.

From 1994 to 1999 Alan was principal timpanist of Anima Eterna Symphony Orchestra in Belgium, while also working with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, The Academy of Ancient Music, London Baroque, The Hannover Band, The Sixteen, La Stagione Frankfurt and extensively at home on timpani, percussion, ethnic percussion and drum kit with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Alan was invited to become a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 1998.

In 2001, Alan's first project Soft Monster (with keyboard player Euan Drysdale) released a CD recording entitled Floating. In 2002, Alan embarked on his debut solo CD Alan Emslie - Emotive Bay going on to then become an endorsee of Zildjian cymbals and record two projects for John Irvine.

Alan Emslie's work ranges from Prog/Metal Music (Vocals/Drums/Gtr) through to World Music (Hand Drumming/Multi Wierd Percussion), Orchestral Sessions (Timpani) & Experimental Music (Every instrument you're brain cannot imagine!). Alan is a classically trained percussionist & self taught drummer/vocalist/guitarist who as well as performing with orchestras including Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque (Germany), Anima Eterna (Belgium) and Harmonieband (London) amongst others, performs, records & produces his own unique style of Prog/Metal music blended with all of the influences mentioned above & more! Alan is a published composer and endorses Ahead Drumsticks, Ahead Snare Drums and Sabian Cymbals.    .top.

Stuart Greenbaum

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The Stuart Greenbaum sound has overt connections to jazz, pop and minimalism but the experience of listening to the music goes beyond these tangible influences. Greenbaum (Melb. 1966-) studied composition with Brenton Broadstock and Barry Conyngham at the University of Melbourne, where he now holds a position as Senior Lecturer and Head of Composition. Nelson, a 3 act opera written with poet long-time collaborator, Ross Baglin, was premiered at the 2007 Castlemaine State Festival. Current commissions include works for the Australia Ensemble, a double concerto for Sydney Omega Ensemble and a piece for the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival. Greenbaum was a featured composer at the 2006 Aurora Festival in Western Sydney and has won a number of awards, including the Dorian Le Galliene Composition Award, the Heinz Harant Prize, and the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. His most recent CD, Mercurial, was released in 2005.    .top.

Tanja Hafenstein

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Tanja Hafenstein graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 1996. In 2002 she completed intensive courses in latin percussion in Cuba under master drummers Adel Gonzalez (Afro-Cuban All Stars) and Amadito Valdez (Buena Vista Social Club). Tanja has toured extensively nationally and internationally. She has been featured in leading percussion catalogues and magazines. Career highlights include playing with multi-Aria award winner Alex Lloyd, Vassy, Aria nominated world music group Tulipan, The Queensland Orchestra and as a tutor, performer, composer and arranger with the Queensland Ballet.

Tanja has enjoyed guest appearances with The John Butler Trio and TV show 'Hot Source' as well as numerous other performances on Rove, Channel V, The Aria Awards, Cold Live at the Chapel and many more.

A recent return from performing overseas in Spain and Brazil sees her busy in various groups and is sort after as a recording artist. She is endorsed by Meinl and UFIP cymbals.    .top.

Gordon Hughes

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Gordon is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, having completed his studies in 1996. Prior to successfully graduating from the Conservatorium in 1996, Gordon received numerous awards in addition to becoming the first person in Australia to receive a Licentiate degree in percussion performance from Trinity College, London. An award highlight then came in 1999 in the form of a nomination for Young Australian of the Year for career achievement.

Gordon now has more than a decade of freelance work behind him working with numerous groups including The Queensland Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic and Musica Viva. His touring schedule has seen him perform at most major Australian concert halls and complete international tours including two memorable seasons at the Barbican Centre, London.

Alongside an active performing and conducting schedule, Gordon is the managing director of Rhythmscape Publishing Australia, a business concept he devised in 1996. The business model for Rhythmscape was selected as one of the prize winners for Operation Livewire 1997, a national business concept development competition sponsored by Shell Australia and Rotary International.

After successfully trade launching at Journees de la Percussion 2002, Conservatoire Superieur de Paris, Rhythmscape Publishing has become the leading percussion publisher in Australia and through its extensive distribution network, a readily recognised brand in all major international markets. Rhythmscape sponsors a number of major events each year and in 2005 completed the REVOLUTIONS project, the single largest percussion recording venture ever produced in Australia. The REVOLUTIONS CD received a nomination for the Australian Music Prize 2005.

Presently, Gordon is a very active educator and is in demand as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator. His teaching schedule sees him directing leading percussion programs at secondary level and tertiary level as a member of the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University Sessional Staff. As a composer, his works have been performed throughout Australia, the UK and the USA to critical acclaim with his success being recognised with acceptance as an associate composer to the Australian Music Centre. Since 2004, Gordon has been on the organising board of the Big Percussion Day Out Festival and has recently accepted an advisory position with the Australian Business Arts Foundation's (ABAF) adviceBank initiative. In 2006 Gordon was appointed to the Australia Council's Register of Peers.    .top.

Jeff Jarrott

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Jeff graduated the Queensland University of Technology in 2001 with a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education. He has studied percussion and drum kit with Markus Lutz, Alan Cumberland, Paul Hudson, Ken Edie and Grant Collins. He is currently employed as a percussion specialist with Education Queensland. His teaching role is shared between Kedron State High School, where he coordinates the Instrumental Music Program, and The Gap State High School.

In 2005, Jeff attended the Midwest International Band Directors Clinic in Chicago. Jeff has been a member of staff member at Education Queensland's premier musical showcases: MOST (2005) and Fanfare (2006). In 2007, he was the percussion tutor and rhythm section member for Creative Generation.

Over the past few years, Jeff's ensembles have won awards at the Queensland Festival of Music, Fanfare, the Urban Upbeat Festival, Jazzin' up the Mall and Music Fest. In 2007, Jeff's Senior Percussion Ensemble at The Gap SHS was awarded 1st Place at the Australian Percussion Eisteddfod in Sydney. This ensemble has performed with groups/artists such as Isorythmos, Karak, James Morrison and Grant Collins.

In 2005/6, Jeff was the director of the Young Conservatorium Percussion Ensemble. He has presented percussion workshops and seminars at events such as the Maryborough Music Conference (2007) and has adjudicated a variety of percussion festivals.

When not teaching, Jeff enjoys doing session work and performing as a classical percussionist and drum kit player both locally and internationally.    .top.

Kerryn Joyce

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Kerryn Joyce holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the the University of Queensland and a postrgraduate Diploma of Music from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, and has studied in Holland. She performs and composes with Kevin Man in the duo Karak Percussion (est. 2001). Kerryn also performs with Australian ensemble Taikoz playing taiko, flutes and dance. Her interest in theatre and dance has led to work with movement/theatre group Frank Productions and the Queensland Ballet. Kerryn is currently education co-ordinator of the company Synergy Limited - for ensembles Taikoz and Synergy Percussion and teaches privately at Newtown Performing Arts High School.    .top.

Andrew Knox

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Andrew presently holds the position Associate Principal with The Queensland Orchestra and is also an active solo performer and educator in Queensland. After graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, Andrew has given many workshops and masterclassses throughout Southeast Queensland. As part of his musical studies, Andrew has arranged and transcribed a vast amount of classical orchestral works for percussion. Many of his works have been performed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the Philippines.   .top.

Kevin Man

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Kevin began his musical training on the piano at the age of nine. He has since completed tertiary studies in percussion graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) and is currently undertaking a Master of Music degree majoring in shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute).

Kevin was a member of The Queensland Orchestra from 1999-2003 and has held various teaching positions including Acting Head of Percussion at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (2005), the Queensland Conservatorium (2003), and the Queensland University of Technology (2002-03). Kevin is a member of the Australian Japanese drumming group Taikoz and is a founding member of the percussion duo karak percussion.    .top.

Pete Neville

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Pete Neville is a truly dynamic musician. As a Conservatorium trained Percussionist, his work is known throughout the Australian music industry in many genres. His recording and performance credits include Penny Flanagan, You Am I, Front End Loader, Jack Johnson and Trout Fishing in Quebec. Pete has performed and recorded with the Resin Dogs for six years, releasing numerous CDs and records, putting his infectious energy into festivals such as the Big Days Out and Livid.

His work has been commissioned by the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the 2002 Rugby Union Bledisloe Cup and repeatedly at the Sydney Festival. Pete Neville has composed music for theatre and film and recently co-composed the music to the short film Australian Summer which one Best Film at the 2005 Sony Tropfest Short Film Festival. His music has also been commissioned for the SBS documentary "Truth, Lies, and Intelligence" (dir. Carmel Travers), which went to air last June. Last year he has composed the score for two plays: This Little Piggy (STC) and The Woman In The Window (New Theatre). This year he has scored the music for the short film With Kings, written music for the play Breathing Corpses, released a self titled ep with his new band 'open' and is currently working on the music for a new Australian play Beach to be performed this June at N.I.D.A.    .top.

Andrian Pertout

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Andrian Pertout was born in Santiago, Chile, 17 October, 1963, and lived in Gorizia, Northern Italy for several years before finally settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. In 2007, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Melbourne on Tweddle Trust, Australian Postgraduate and Melbourne Research scholarships, studying composition under the guidance of Brenton Broadstock.

Composition awards include the Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Prize, Betty Amsden Award, Louisville Orchestra Prize (USA), Oare String Orchestra Judges’ and Audience Prize (UK), Michelle Morrow Memorial Award, and the Zavod Jazz/Classical Fusion Award. He has received numerous commissions, including recent works for the University of Hong Kong Gamelan Orchestra, Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, New York-based toy pianist Phyllis Chen, and American saxophonist Noah Getz. Film music commissions include works that have been written to accompany over 20 documentary and short films, television programs, as well as commercials, computer games and stage productions. Highlights of this part of Pertout's career include composing for documentary films such as East Meets West (1984), The Murray River Quest (1985), Hope Street (1987), and The Australian Ballet (1990).

Pertout's music has received performances at festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days 2005 and 2007 (Zagreb, Croatia and Hong Kong), 33e Festival d'Automne à Paris (Paris, France), XIII and XV Festival de Música Contemporánea Chilena (Santiago, Chile), and the 22nd and 26th ACL Conference & Festival (Seoul, Korea and Wellington, New Zealand). His music has also been performed in over twenty-five countries by orchestras and ensembles, includding the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, The Louisville Orchestra (USA), The Foundation Orchestra (USA), Orquestra Petrobrás Sinfônica (Brazil), La Chapelle Musicale de Tournai (Belgium), Oare String Orchestra (UK), Ónix Ensamble (Mexico), Ensamble Contemporáneo (Chile), Quinteto CEAMC (Argentina), Sonemus Ensemble (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Sori Ensemble (Korea), Omni Ensemble (USA), and the Ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland).

As a writer, Pertout has published over 400 articles in music publications, such as Mixdown, Spanish Herald, Australian Musician, and the Sunday Herald Sun. His articles range from reviews of new musical technology, compact disc and book releases to interviews with prominent national and international artists, including Herbie Hancock, Steve Reich, Joe Satriani, Rick Wakeman and José Feliciano.

Pertout is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and the Australian delegate of the ACL (Asian Composers’ League), as well as a member of the Australian Music Centre, Fellowship of Australian Composers, Melbourne Composers' League, Society of Composers Inc. (USA), Asociación Nacional de Compositores de Chile, and the Comunidad Electroacústica de Chile.    .top.

David Pye

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David Pye is one of Western Australia's most experienced musicians, working in Perth as a composer, percussionist and conductor since 1981. In 1983 he founded the Nova Ensemble and over twenty years has developed the group into Western Australia's leading contemporary music ensemble, commissioning, writing, performing and recording the music of our local composers.

In 1989 David turned to composition, and his music has been widely recognised for its accessibility and popularity with audiences of all ages. A keen interest in the music of South India and Western Java permeates his compositional style. Recent developments include the use of pre-recorded environmental sounds in instrumental works and the use of free improvisation as both textural and structural elements in his compositions.

His full-length music-theatre work, The Drummers of Gilgamesh, was awarded the Australian Music Centre/Australian Performing Rights Association Award for Instrumental Work of the Year for 2002.    .top.

David Quinn

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David Quinn has extensive experience as a freelance and session percussionist and drum-kit player. He has performed with the Queensland Orchestra and a number of other Brisbane based ensembles. David is also a co-director of the successful business, Queensland Percussion Products, that specialises in building and repairing percussion instruments. He currently works in the world of audio recording (at Ghostgum Audio) and venue management (at Cannon Hill Anglican College) as well as percussion education.

As part of his role of a percussion and drumkit educator, David has written a number of works for primary and secondary school performance. David also has much experience in arranging and transcribing a diverse range of classical works for percussion ensemble that covers contemporary works to exciting arrangements of Mozart symphonies.    .top.

Fiona Tristram

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After Graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium in 1997, Fiona worked as a freelance educator and arts marketer. Fiona has produced a number of works and arrangements that have all made their successful debut in concerts featuring contemporary percussion ensemble repertoire. Fiona's current work sees her in demand in London working as a corporate communications manager.    .top.

Lorrie Webb

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Lorrie Webb has extensive performance experience with groups in many genres from jazz and rock to classical and has performed extensive throughout Australia. As an educator and composer, Lorrie has more than twenty years experience and has seen students go on to tertiary music studies. His works for percussion has been performed extensively in many Australian schools both as concert and contest works.    .top.

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