By 29th September 2023 players are invited to view and make comment of the update to our Child Safety Policy The Grainger Wind Symphony is updating its Child Safety Policy in line with new Child-Safe Standards according to the State Government policy. We invite members to review our draft policy and provide feedback to the…
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…
After 3 months of trialling over 10 apps, the GWS Committee has agreed to adopt Symphona as the GWS’s Player Management Web-app. An on-boarding process is being gradually enacted and dovetailed with other applications already used by Section Managers. NEW PLAYERS New players wanting to play with GWS are most welcome. They will have to…
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.…
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…
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…
Michael Beech is the recipient of the 2023 Grainger Wind Symphony Young Player’s Scholarship. Congratulations Michael. We all enjoyed your performance of the Arty Shaw Clarinet Concerto iin our December concert last year. For more details about Michael, the scholarship and past recipients click here.
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…
We welcome Shane Walterfang as the 2024 Associate Conductor continuing on from his work in 2023. For more details about his work, please click here.
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…