Published by admin on 26 Jul 2010
LANDSCAPE: Australian Guitar Duets by the Brew Guitar Duo is out now. Canberra guitarists Bradley Kunda and Matthew Withers perform all Australian works by composers Nigel Westlake, Phillip Houghton, Richard Charlton & Robert Davidson, as well as Canberra’s own guitarist/composers Bradley Kunda & Harold Gretton. Copies can be purchased from www.brewguitarduo.com/cd.html
Published by admin on 24 Jul 2010
Harold Gretton has won 1st prize in the 7th International Guitar Competition of J.K. Mertz. The contest was held in Bratislava, Slovakia at the end of June 2010. The prize is 6 concerts, 1000 euros and the complete works of Mertz as published by Chantarelle.Well done Harold!
Harold Gretton holds the first PhD in Performance from the ANU School of Music and is living and studying in Europe with his fiancée, Belgian guitarist Veronique Van Duurling. Another well done!
Earlier this year, Harold released his CD “the 20th century guitar,” which is a result of his PhD research at ANU into performance practice. Visit Harold’s website to learn more and to order a copy. www.haroldgretton.com. (I’m sure his next CD will include a bit of Mertz!)
Published by admin on 21 Jul 2010
| 31 August 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 11:00 am |
A NEW VOICE: Australian guitar music with Vietnamese cultural influences
Le-Tuyen Nguyen will present a lecture-recital of new Australian guitar compositions inspired from the Vietnamese music culture at ANU’s Llewellyn Hall on 31 August at 10am. Traditional folk songs, melodic and rhythmic idioms from various regions of Vietnam are brought to life in harmony with art music of the twenty-first century. Each composition displays the explorations of musical and technical possibilities for the guitar. Creating and finding its own paths to a new stylistic identity, this genre of music has emerged as a new voice in contemporary Australian music.
You can find Le-Tuyen’s program and biography at the School of Music website.
Free admission.
Published by admin on 01 Jul 2010
