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6:30pm Saturday November 13th Geoffrey Lancaster gave a recital
on piano forte in a special fund raiser for the music dept. of
Canowindra High School. The recital was accompanied by a 3 course
meal preceded by free wine tasting.
Geoffrey performed a program of Haydn with a wonderful
series of historical commentaries on the time and atmosphere in
which the music was originally performed. Geoffrey made much of the
fact the music was originally written to be performed to an
audience of the size we had that evening (40-50).
Between 1999 - 2007, Geoffrey Lancaster was Chief Conductor and
Artistic Director of La Cetra Barockorchestra Basel. He has
appeared as conductor or soloist with all of Symphony Australia
orchestras and The Australian Chamber Orchestra. Geoffrey has been
frequent guest Director and forte pianist with the Tasmanian
Symphony Chamber Players since 1987.
In 1996, Prof Lancaster was Associate Professor at the Royal
College of Music, London, and from 1999-2007 was visiting Professor
of forte piano at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland.
Since 2000 he has been based in Canberra, and from 2002 has been
Professor of Music at Australian National University.
Geoffrey's 32 CDs have won many awards including a Gramaphone
award for Best Recording, the Aria Best Classical recording. In
2006 Geoffrey Lancaster was named Australian of the Year for The
A.C.T., and was awarded the Order of Australia for service to music
and music education.
It was an absolutely wonderful evening - so much so that
Geoffrey has been inspired to return in 2011 to give another
performance and do some mentoring work for a couple days beforehand
with local young people.
Over $2300 was raised for the music dept. of Canowindra High
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