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Liza Lim, Composer and Educator
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Liza Lim, Composer and Educator
“We can’t shut the sound out, you know. Our ears are just kind of permeable. Our bodies are permeable and porous to sound, and sound and vibration have such a huge impact on our psyches, our psychological states and our emotional state.”                                                   Liza Lim, Composer
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Matthew McDonald, Principal Bass Berlin Philharmonic
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Matthew McDonald, Principal Bass Berlin Philharmonic
“The lockdown... I think a few weeks in you start to doubt if you can play anymore. It was just so unsure. You crave it and we didn’t know when we would have to play again.”
Breandáin O'Shea · Matthew McDonald, Principal Bass Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanley Dodds - Violinist & Conductor
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Stanley Dodds – Violinist & Conductor
"For me the interesting musician goes beyond their own instruments and looks into the world of music  - piano, chamber music or orchestral - repertoire. If this is your universe, then there is no doubt in my mind you will be the more interesting musician, simply because your whole universe is bigger. "
Tall Poppies: Postcards – Soprano, Joan Sutherland
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Tall Poppies: Postcards – Soprano, Joan Sutherland
“I think some young singers want to do too much too soon and it's fatal. Some of the young people I don't think realise just how tough it is.” (Joan Sutherland, 1926 -2010)
Shannon Barnett, Jazz Trombonist
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Shannon Barnett, Jazz Trombonist
“New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. It really was a melting pot of different cultures… so you had all these amazing influences from different cultures and that made jazz and that hasn't changed.” Jazz Musician Shannon Barnett, in Tall Poppies, The Podcast
Siobhan Stagg, Singer
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Siobhan Stagg, Singer
“ I mean it sounds (like a) cliché, but that was a phone call that changed my life completely,” said singer, Siobhan Stagg, recollecting the day the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra called to ask her to perform “Brahms’s Requiem”.
Music Selections
Title:  Bernstein: “Glitter and Be Gay”, from Candide (Bernstein) Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Kaiserslautern Saarbrucken, Conductor Daniel Smith (Siobhan Stagg, Soprano)
Title: “Requiem”, (Brahms) Berlin Philharmonic, Conductor Christian Thielemann (Soprano Siobhan Stagg)
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Catherine Milliken, Musician
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Catherine Milliken, Musician
Cathy Milliken has been an artist many young Australian musicians have looked up to when they have travelled abroad to continue their studies in Europe. A renowned oboist, composer and music educator, Cathy has held key positions with two of the world’s leading music ensembles, Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Musical Excerpts
Title: The Yellow Shark, Frank Zappa Ensemble Modern
Composer: Three Step, for horn, violin, cello (Cathy Milliken),
Earth Plays I-IV Orchestral Work (Cathy Milliken)
Recording: Spiral, for a soloist with a shortwave receiver, (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Trim  (Cathy Milliken)
Shifrorl (Cathy Milliken)
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Paul Kildea, Author and Conductor
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Paul Kildea, Author and Conductor
“I have always tried to work out a way of coming up with a single image or analogy or a metaphor, that makes it really clear to a non-specialist, the phenomenon of hearing that piece of music”.
Music Selections
Chopin: 24 Preludes Cédric Tiberghien
Chopin: 13 Preludes(from the 24 Preludes)Sviatoslav Richter Tokyo 1979
Bach JS: Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in E flat, BWV 852 – Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, Performed by Wanda Landowska, Harpsichord, 1949
Bach JS: Goldberg Variations –Harpsichord, Performed by Wanda Landowska (First Rec 1933)
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Kat Frankie, Singer/Songwriter
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Kat Frankie, Singer/Songwriter

“There's no substitute for that very first moment when an idea is manifested. For me it's very important that everything's kind of born at the same moment because a song is words and music and I feel like they shouldn't be separated. That's my idea of a good creation!”

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Brett Dean, Composer, Violist, Conductor
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Brett Dean, Composer, Violist, Conductor
In two decades, the Brisbane-born musician Brett Dean has risen from being an orchestral violist who once wrote music on the side, to one of the world’s most celebrated composers.
Music Selections, all compositions by Brett Dean
Title:The Lost Art of Letter Writing – Violin Concerto
Performers:Violin Frank Peter Zimmermann 
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Markus Stenz
Title:Carlo (version for live chorus and strings)
Performers:BBC Singers/BBC Symphony Orchestra
Title:Three Memorials for Orchestra & Between Moments (Music for Orchestra 2003)
Performers:Queensland Youth Orchestra
Title:Pastoral Symphony
Performers:Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Title:Hamlet Diffraction
Performers:Allison Bell, soprano Allan Clayton, tenor BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Joshua Weilerstein
Title:Wendezeit for five violas
Performers:Brett Dean
*Many thanks to Boosey and Hawkes for their assistance in assembling this selection
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