Tag: Grainger Wind Symphony

Concert 5 2023: The Worth Of My Music

Performance: 7.00pm Saturday 28th October 2023 Venue: Blackburn High School Auditorium, 60 Springfield Road, Blackburn. Enter via the main entrance and walk down the breezeway alongside the Main Reception to the lowers set of buildings. Bring your own cushion to sit on! Soloist: Leo Nguyen pianoforte from the Australian National Academy of Music. To book…

Concert 4: 2023 Made In Australia

7.00pm Saturday 26th August 2023 St Peter’s Anglican Church, 1036 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, next to the Box Hill Town Hall. This project is focussed on emerging composers. Whilst there is no monetary reward to composers, the GWS is offering its resources to help composers delve deeper into writing music for the wind symphony genre.…

Research about The Grainger Wind Symphony

GWS has been the subject of research and recently published in a book “Musical Ecologies: Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World” by Melbourne researchers Jane Southcott and Leon de Bruin. The chapter is titled “Training and retaining traditions: the Grainger Wind Symphony”. This is a link for further information and how to purchase it. https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/training-and-retaining-traditions-the-grainger-wind-symphony…

Concert 2 2023: By Invitation

Saturday 25th March at 7.30pm. The Grainger Wind Symphony has invited the Blackburn High School Symphonic Band to share the concert stage with us. Each group will perform by themselves, and then combine sitting side-by-side to perform two works. To purchase tickets click here. Please note that cash only at the door, no credit cards…

Conducting Workshop Program 2023 – completed

The workshops for 2023 have been completed, but if you are interested in future workshops, please contact the Music Director Roland Yeung musicdirector@graingerwindsymphony.asn.au Conductors and those wanting to develop their skills in conducting are invited to participate in one of two (or both) conducting workshops lead by Roland Yeung an experienced music educator, conductor and…

Concert 1 2023: Mahler and Hisaishi

ABOUT This concert features the 1st movement of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 “Resurrection”. Mahler is a significant influence of contemporary composers for wind bands. Alongside is the Symphonic Suite “A Cinema Trilogy” Studio Ghibli Collection by Joe Hisaichi – two movements which presented famous tunes from many of Hisaichi’s Studio Ghibli Anime films. Other works are…