Events 2020
January 18 & 19
Chaos & Chasms
A program of French Baroque repertoire by historical performance
musicians around Australia.
Saturday 18, 7pm
Sunday 19, 2pm
The Oratory - Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC
Tickets: www.trybooking.com/BGAZX or cash at the door
January 21-25
Tamworth Country Music Festival
Various appearances throughout events at the TCMF
Wednesday 22nd January: 11am 'Story Time' Tamworth Library
Friday 24th January: 11am Entrepreneurs Hour discussion panel, UNE Tamworth
Tamworth, NSW
April 4th and 5th - Cancelled
St John Passion - J.S. Bach
Saturday 4th April: Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatorium, 3.00pm
Sunday 5th April: TAS Hoskins Centre, Armidale. 7.30pm
For Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/messiah
April 25th - Cancelled
Away from Home
Performance with local Ezidi musicians
May 7-10 - Cancelled
New England Bach Festival
Performances with some of Australia's finest early music ensembles
Thursday 7th May - Sydney Consort 'Farewell Concert, Bach and sons'
7.30pm Uniting Church
Saturday 9th May - Austral Harmony 'Bach and Florid Song'
7.30pm TAS Memorial Hall
See http://www.ne-bach-festival.com for details
May 24
Free Space — Live music from an empty gallery
FREE SPACE is a series of live performances at New England Regional Art Museum featuring local musicians using the unique physical qualities of the gallery's spaces to explore sonic possibilities.
Download the program notes here.
5.00pm-6.00pm
LInk TBA
November 22
Inverell Music Society
Early music for recorder and lute/guitar with local guitarist Steve Thorneycroft
2.30pm
Inverell Art Gallery, 5 Evans St, Inverell NSW
December 13
Fiori Musicali
Sunday 6.00pm
The Armidale School. Armidale NSW
Tickets $20: www.trybooking.com/BNGGT or at the door
Past Events:
January 19, 2019
Tilde New Music Festival
Reflections - New music reflecting old practices
World premiere - 'Permafrost' by Donna Hewitt
11.30am - 12.30pm
Clear Box Testing Grounds, Southbank, Melbourne VIC
More information and tickets: https://tilde.net.au/festival/
February 6
Australasian Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference
Performance of Jean-Baptiste Stuck's Philomèle
9.30am
University of New England, Armidale NSW
March 16
Austral Harmony
Smorgasbord, Music for a Mixed Taste
Works by Telemann, Quantz, Handel and Fasch
Uniting Church
Rusden St, Armidale
7.30pm
Tickets: $20/$15: www.trybooking.com/BAURT or at the door
May 5
Bach Band @ St. James' with Choir of St. James
Bach Cantata Evensong Service
Cantata BWV 104 "Du Hirte Israel hore"
St James, King St. Sydney, NSW
4.00pm
More information: http://sjks.org.au/bach-at-st-james/
May 18
Sospiri - Soft the Zephyr Blows
Early Renaissance works for voice, recorder and accompaniment
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW
6.00pm
Tickets: Adult $30, Concession $25, under 12 free. Online or at the door
May 25
Encounters with Mr Handel - Bach Band @ St. James'
Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
St James, King St. Sydney, NSW
5.00pm
More information and tickets:
May 26
Sospiri - Soft the Zephyr Blows
Early Renaissance works for voice, recorder and accompaniment
Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church
Johnson St and Collins St, Annandale NSW
3.00pm
More information and tickets: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/86521/soft_the_zephyr_blows__sydney.aspx
July 25
Performance of 'Permafrost' by Donna Hewitt
Recorders and fixed media
Australasian Computer Music Association/TENOR Conference
Drama Theatre
Monash University, Melbourne
September 1
Lift off... The Festival of Wind
Recorder Quartet performance
King Edward Park, Glen Innes NSW
11am
September 26
UNE Chamber Music Ensemble Concert
Featuring UNE Recorder Quartet
Lazenby Hall
University of New England, Armidale
6.00pm
September 29
Market Sunday Concert Series
A new duo of works for recorder and piano with Brieley Cutting
Uniting Church
Rusden St, Armidale NSW
12.30pm
October 16
Alliance Française Annual Concert
French music for recorder
New England Conservatorium of Music, Armidale NSW
7.30pm
October 17 & 18
Parramatta Lanes Festival Performances
UNE Sydney, 211 Church St, Parramatta
7.30pm
More information: http://www.parramattalanes.com.au/lanes/une_campus
November 1 & 2
ArtState NSW
Performances of electroacoustic works for solo recorder
Chapel Theatre
Tamworth, NSW
7.00pm
For more information: http://www.artstate.com.au/artstate-arts-program/arts-events/
January 7-12, 2018
Orpheus Recorder Boutique
Guest Tutor
PLC Armidale, NSW
Bookings and more information: www.orpheusmusic.com.au
February 28
Studio Recording
For the project Listen to me - Andrée Greenwell
March 25
Songs of Darkness and Light
Performance with Soprano Hester Wright and Lutenist Roxana Gundry (UK)
Early Italian and English music for soprano, recorder and lute.
2.00pm
New England Regional Art Museum
Kentucky St, Armidale NSW
Tickets: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/64458
April 12-14
Together in Music Conference
Conference Presentation
National Centre for Early Music
York, UK
April 16
Guest presenter & workshop 'Leadership and teamwork within self-managing ensembles'
Royal Academy of Music
London, UK
May 10-13
New England Bach Festival
Thursday 10th May
Lotti Trio, 'Fracas' by Benjamin Thorn (WP)
The Uniting Church, Rusden St, Armidale
Tickets: $30/20
Friday 11th May
Lecture Recital - Kylie Constantine
Cantata I: Pourquoy plaintive Philomèle by Jean-Baptiste Stuck (Battistin).
Presented in collaboration with UNE School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences.
The Uniting Church, Rusden St, Armidale
Tickets: $10/5
August 8
Sydney Society of Recorder Players
Guest Tutor
7:30pm
St Scholastica's College
Glebe, NSW
August 16
The Sound of Silence: A lecture recital demonstrating the use of silence in music
UNE Arts Lecture Series
Oral Lecture Theatre, UNE, Armidale
12pm-1pm
August 31
Performance
The sound of silence: using musical rhetoric to inform leadership and communication practices
3.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
University of Brighton, UK
September 4
Performance
Musical and non-musical communications which informs which?
3.30pm
3rd Festival Conference of Musical Performance and Artistic Research
Organ Auditorium
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Vilnius, Lithuania
September 27
Performance
Paul Smith's Chamber Opera: How to Build a Billy
And other works for recorder
5.30pm
Madgwick Hall
University of New England, Armidale
Tickets: Free
October 9
Parramatta Lanes Performance
UNE Sydney
211 Church St, Parramatta
October 10
Salut! Baroque
Quantz and Friends
Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
7.30pm
More information: http://www.baroque.com.au/Concert4.html
October 11
Parramatta Lanes Performance
UNE Sydney
211 Church St, Parramatta
October 12
Salut! Baroque
Quantz and Friends
Albert Hall, Commonwealth Ave, Canberra
7.30pm
More information: http://www.baroque.com.au/Concert4.html
November 25
Market Sunday Concert
Armidale Uniting Church
12.30pm
Rusden St, Armidale
Entry by donation
January 14-15, 2017
Orpheus Recorder Boutique - Small Ensemble Intensive
Guest Tutor
Armidale, NSW
More information:
http://www.orpheusmusic.com.au/content/14-music-courses
February 25, 2017
Parramatta Live & Local
Playing medieval, renaissance and folk music with percussionist Tony Lewis
UNE Future Campus, Parramatta, NSW
3.30pm - 7pm
More information:
https://www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/events/live-and-local-parramatta
May 6-7, 2017
Canberra Recorder & Early Music Society Recorder Weekend
Guest Tutor
Bundanoon, NSW
More information: http://www.canberrarecorders.com/home
July 9, 2017
Armidale Studio Concert Series
Alana Blackburn (recorders) & Steve Thorneycroft (guitars)
Early and contemporary repertoire for recorder and guitar
Contact: for bookings (essential) and venue details
2pm
July 16, 2017
Waterfall Way Recital Series
Alana Blackburn (recorders) & Steve Thorneycroft (guitars)
Early and contemporary repertoire for recorder and guitar
Waterfall Way Gallery
57 Hickory Street, Dorrigo
2pm
Tickets: $30, $20 bookings essential
For more information: https://waterfallwaygallery.online/musicians/
September 24, 2017
Market Sunday Concert Series
Alana Blackburn (recorder) & Robyn Bradley (piano)
Contemporary music for recorder and piano
Uniting Church
Rusden St, Armidale
12.30pm
October 10 & 12, 2017
Parramatta Lanes Festival
'Connections' - Works for recorder and pre-recorded material
UNE Future Campus, Parramatta, NSW
From 6pm
October 11, 2017
Sydney Society of Recorder Players
Guest tutor
St Scholastica's, Glebe, NSW
7.30pm
November 17, 2017
Between art and poetry: New perspectives on Tablelands Flora
Exhibition, reading and book launch with music by Alana Blackburn
Reader's Companion
151 Beardy St, Armidale NSW
April 13, 2016
Sydney Society of Recorder Players
Guest tutor
St Scholasticas
7.30pm
April 30 - May 1, 2016
CREMS Bundanoon Weekend
Guest Tutor
Bundanoon
More information: http://www.canberrarecorders.com
May 7, 2016
New England Bach Festival
Bach, Pergolesi, Poulenc
TAS Memorial Hall (Barney St cnr Douglas St)
7.30pm
Tickets:
Adult: $30, Concession: $20
More information: http://ne-bach-festival.com
May 29, 2016
Inverell Music Apprectiation Society
Eearly works for Recorder, Viola/violin and cello
Alana Blackburn: Recorder
Laura Curotta: Viola
Robert Jackson: cello
Details tcb
June 6th, 2016
Sydney Society of Recorder Players 60th Anniversary Concert
Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium
More information: http://www.sydneyrecorders.com.au
July 5-9, 2016
International Conference for Music Perception and Congnition
Conference presentation: "The role repertoire choice has in shaping the identity and functionality of a chamber music ensemble"
San Francisco, CA, USA
More information: http://icmpc.org/icmpc14/index.html
September 25, 2016
Concert on a Market Sunday
The Lotti Trio Performing Lotti, CPE Bach & Telemann
Alana Blackburn: Recorders
Laura Curotta: Viola
Robert Jackson: 'Cello
Armidale Uniting Church
12.30pm
Entry by donation
October 11-14, 2016
Parramatta Lanes Festival
Mixture of contemproary and early solo works for recorder
211 Church St, Parramatta
November 30 - December 3, 2016
Musicology Australia Annual Conference
Paper Presentation
Adelaide, SA
December 11, 2016
Concert on a Market Sunday
Music by Benjamin Thorn
Alana Blackburn, Benjamin Thorn, Erinn Thornton & Cecile Michels - Recorders
Armidale Uniting Church
12.30pm
Entry by donation
January 14-15, 2017
Orpheus Recorder Boutique - Small Ensemble Intensive
Guest Tutor
Armidale, NSW
More information: http://www.orpheusmusic.com.au/content/14-music-courses
May 6-7, 2017
Canberra Recorder & Early Music Society Recorder Weekend
Guest Tutor
Bundanoon, NSW
More information: http://www.canberrarecorders.com/home
