Prof. David Ward-Steinman with the assistance of Alumna Melody Eötvös (DM ’14) will be presenting a mini-Australian Music Festival at the Jacobs School
of Music on the 25th & 26th March 2015. Guest Artists include pianist
Bernadette Harvey from Sydney, and Composer-Clarinetist-Visual Artist Dr. Brigid
Burke from Melbourne, Australia.
The main event, a chamber
music concert, will take place on the 25th March at 8pm in Auer Hall
highlighting Burke and Harvey, with additional performances by David
Ward-Steinman. An IU student percussion quartet will also be presenting Nigel
Westlake’s Omphalo Centric Lecture. The concert location will also feature
indigenous and modern Australian Art from the collection of David and Patrice
Ward-Steinman.
On Thursday afternoon, 26th March, at 4pm in Ford
Hall Brigid Burke will also present a lecture on performance processes through
the composition/improvisation of interactive works and exploring cross art forms
in live performance through a strategy of layering to represent complexity of
images we see and sounds we hear.
For more information and updates on these events visit https://australiannewmusicabroad.wordpress.com/upcoming-concert-new-music-and-art-from-australia/