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Kettering Concerts
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Kettering Concert 2024-08-18
Clarinet and Piano Duo
Andrew Seymour (Clarinet), Michael Power (piano)
Ice and Fire
Programme:
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Antarctic Tryptich – Jabra Latham (1978 -)
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Romantarctica – Henning Kraggerud (1973 -)
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Fire Music – Jabra Latham (1978 -)
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Sunday 18 August 2024, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets available
on-line or at the door (if not sold out , cash only)
$15 (trybooking) or $20 cash at the door
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.
Andrew Seymour
Principal Clarinet with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) since 2012,
Andrew Seymour studied with Robert Schubert at the Victorian College of the
Arts. Between 2009 and 2011 he toured nationally as a member of the orchestra
for OzOpera. Andrew was singled out by The West Australian review of OzOpera’s
production of Verdi’s La Traviata, saying “his every note was meaningful.” In
2014 Andrew was featured in recital on ABC Classic FM’s Sunday Live program,
his performance praised by Limelight Magazine as being “soaring and colourful”
and by the Hobart Mercury as “an astonishing display of instrumental
virtuosity.” Andrew has performed as guest principal Clarinet with the
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, West Australian,
Melbourne, and Canberra Symphony Orchestras. In 2016 Andrew made his solo debut
with the TSO performing the Copland Clarinet Concerto under the baton of Chief
Conductor Marko Letonja. His performance was described by The Hobart Mercury as
“sensitive and beautifully shaded” and “gloriously vibrant.” As well as
performing the concertos of Mozart and Weber with the TSO, Andrew has featured
regularly as soloist in the TSO ‘Live Sessions’ series where he has performed a
diverse range of pieces from Klezmer and Jazz inspired works alongside new
pieces by Tasmanian composers Jabra Latham and Stephen Cronin. As a chamber
musician, Andrew has been featured in the Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival,
performed with the Southern Cross Soloists and regularly performs with Virtuosi
Tasmania. Since 2017 Andrew has been a staff member at the University of
Tasmania, Conservatorium of Music, where he is Lecturer in Clarinet and
Coordinator of Woodwind. Andrew is a Backun artist and performs on Backun
Clarinets crafted in Cocobolo wood.
Michael Power
Michael Power is a collaborative pianist and teacher in nipaluna/Hobart, lutrawita/Tasmania. He is a pianist with the Festival of Voices and a repetiteur and an orchestral pianist for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and Chorus. Michael is a collaborative recitalist in Hobart and was the founding pianist of JESSA Chorus with Jane Edwards.
Before relocating to nipaluna/Hobart in 2020 with his family, Michael held the position of School Accompanist and Teacher of Piano at Newcastle Grammar School, and at the Conservatorium of Music in mulubinba/Newcastle. He studied a Bachelor of Music with Dr Gian-Franco Ricci and Helen English at the Conservatorium of Music, during which time he was awarded the Nan Price Memorial Scholarship. He specialised in chamber music and collaborative piano studies with Gabriella Pusner in the Honours program, and attended the Accademia Europea di Firenze Intensive Winter School.
Michael has performed with artists such Sally Walker and Andy Firth, and performed newly commissioned works by Australian composers including Elena Kats-Chernin, Sally Greenaway, Paul Jarman, Don Kay, and Jim Coyle. He has performed in the USA and China as pianist with Newcastle Grammar School as a soloist and collaborative pianist. Michael performs regularly with Australian singer Natalie Carboni at Sydney's Claire's Kitchen and premiered the newly composed baroque comic opera Annus Horribilis by Tom Rimes. In 2024, Michael was awarded the Yamaha Piano Breakout Award, working with Tim Minchin in a series of workshops.
Bob Brown – Artist
'If there was a parallel universe, I would be a photographer - with fancy
cameras, filters and tripods, plus one of those metallic umbrellas to bounce
light on the underside of the world. But I have a very ordinary Olympus OMD.
My camera has always been a relaxer and always hand-held. Taking photographs is
fun and diverts us from the cares of the world to its beauties. I just take
what I see. And mostly of nature in its myriad of stunning moments, none ever
to be repeated, all part of the unbelievable panoply of existence.
Seeing my pictures will not match the real moments of joy any viewer has
experienced in their own lives. Yet sharing them heightens my own joy of
life.'
