Four days of events, seminars, concerts, films and exhibitions, all inspired by Patrick White's iconic novel VOSS (1956).
Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 May 2009
Artist Biographies
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NAISDA National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association Dance College. |
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Rod Home R. W. Home was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, 1975-2003, and is now Emeritus Professor. He has published widely on the history of physics, especially in the 18th century, and on the history of Australian science, and is Editor of the journal Historical Records of Australian Science. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the International Academy of the History of Science. |
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Dr Lyn McCredden Lyn McCredden is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University. She has published on Patrick White, and on Australian poets, including James McAuley, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Judith Wright, Les Murray and Nick Cave, focusing on their different understandings of the sacred in Australia. |
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Dr Brigid Rooney Brigid Rooney teaches Australian Studies and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. As well as essays on authors like Christina Stead and David Malouf, she has also discussed the relationship between Patrick White’s fiction and his activism in her recent book, Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life (University of Queensland Press, 2009). |
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RMC Band Often referred to as the RMC Band or the Duntroon Band, the Unit's roles for Army, the Australian Defence Force and Government in Canberra and surrounding regions are many and varied. |
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Rebecca Collins Rebecca Collins, National Aria winner and graduate of Opera Queensland’s Young Artist Development Program, has performed roles with Opera Queensland, Opera Australia and OzOpera. She made her US debut singing Pat Nixon in John Adams’ Nixon in China for the Colorado Music Festival. Other roles include Marzelline (Fidelio), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Peep-Bo (The Mikado), Gilda (Rigoletto) and contemporary roles such as Sophie (Nigredo Hotel) and the title role in Stopera’s Australian premier of Jane Eyre. More |
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Barry Jones Barry Jones studied arts and law at the University of Melbourne in the early 1950s. He worked as a secondary school teacher, but unexpectedly became famous as a TV quiz champion. His campaigning against the death penalty in Victoria led to his resignation from the state Education Department in 1967. He taught history at La Trobe University and was one of Australia's first talkback radio hosts. More |
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Louise Page Soprano Louise Page is one of Australia’s most highly regarded singers, delighting audiences in opera, operetta, oratorio, cabaret, recital and broadcasts. |
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Alan Hicks Alan Hicks is a graduate of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music (DSCM piano and flute) and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (Diploma in Professional Performance with distinction). He was appointed Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the RNCM in 1992 and subsequently joined the staff as accompanist and tutor in piano. More |
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Marilyn Richardson One of Australia’s best loved and most versatile sopranos, Marilyn Richardson was born in Sydney and studied singing and piano at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music. After gaining her Diploma, she won the Adelaide Advertiser aria competition in 1969 and in 1971 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to continue her studies in Europe, where she studied in Paris and Barcelona and participated in theatre classes in Austria. More |
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Geoffrey Chard Sydney-born Geoffrey Chard has enjoyed a long and distinguished opera and concert career in Australia and overseas, remarkable for its quality and variety and extending from the cradle of opera in Australia with the NSW National Opera and the first season of the Elizabethan Opera (Australia Opera) to its present day rude health. Coinciding with the birth of television here, he was also a pioneer performer in that medium. More |
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Moffatt Oxenbould AM Moffatt Oxenbould’s contribution to the development of Opera in Australia spans a period of more than 40 years. |
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Jim Sharman James Sharman was born in 1945 in Sydney. He was educated in Sydney, though his upbringing included time spent on Australian showgrounds where his father and grandfather ran a travelling sideshow of popular legend: Jimmy Sharman's Boxing Troupe. This brought him into contact with the world of circus and travelling vaudeville. Developing an interest in theatre, he graduated from the production course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1966. More |
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David Malouf David Malouf is the author of short story collections The Complete Stories (winner of the Australia Asia Literary Award), Dream Stuff and Every Move You Make and of acclaimed novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ and Miles Franklin Prizes) and Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). He also writes poetry, drama and libretti for operas. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney. |
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Richard Meale Born in Sydney in 1932, Richard Meale studied piano, clarinet, harp, history and theory at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, but in composition remained self-taught. In 1960 he was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant which he used to undertake studies in non-Western music at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he concentrated on Japanese court music and Javanese and Balinese gamelan. More |
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Barry Conyngham Barry Conyngham was born in Sydney Australia. He studied with Peter Sculthorpe in Australia and with Toru Takemitsu in Japan. |
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Moya Henderson, Moya Henderson graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in 1972. Her first professional appointment came the year after her graduation when she was appointed Resident Composer to the Australian Opera during its inaugural season at the Sydney Opera House. Towards the end of that year she was awarded a DAAD Scholarship and a Travel Grant from the Music Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, which enabled her to continue her musical education in Germany. More |
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Peter Sculthorpe Sculthorpe was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1929. As a child he was severely reprimanded by his first piano teacher for returning to her, not with well-practised pieces, but with a handful of original compositions. Consequently, the seven-year-old Sculthorpe took to writing music under the bedclothes with a torch. More |
