Staff News Music Tutors' Concert fills the Chapel THE Music Tutors' Concert on 13 June 2010, was once again an abundantly varied feast of music performed at the highest levels of accomplishment. THE superb acoustics of the College Chapel were evident during the performance of a Beethoven String Quartet movement by our String Tutors: Thea Kotze, Chiara Kingwell, Cheralyn Simpson and Markela Panegyres. Dan Hart, a new Tutor at All Saints', joined with Priam Bacich and Old Saint Dan Ablett, to present jazz at a professional level. The group 'Westwood' brought a fascinating element of folk music to the afternoon and listening to the folk pipes was a new experience for everyone. Erin Patrick, also a new Tutor in the String Department, amazed us with her accomplishment as a singer. Among the other solo performers, Irene Batini played a recorder piece by the contemporary Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin and Steven Harmer performed a rendition of a movement of Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto, surely the only such work for this instrument by a mainstream composer. Musically, the highlight of the concert was its opening. A chamber orchestra, comprised mostly of College Music Tutors, gave the premiere of The Road to Perdition, a threemovement work by Kevin Fenner which includes parts for voice, harpsichord, piano, organ
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and multi-percussion. The performance, under the baton of the composer, was received enthusiastically. It was gratifying to have the Chapel almost filled by an appreciative audience, including many College students, for whom this was a wonderful opportunity to see their Music Tutors as professional performers. The afternoon was magnificently rounded off by a sumptuous afternoon tea provided by the Friends of Music, for whose support the Music Department is continually grateful.
Mr John Beaverstock - Senior School Music Teacher
