When:

Bradley Kunda started playing the guitar at the age of six. Born and raised in Adelaide, he studied flamenco guitar for four years before furthering his classical studies with Hungarian-born guitarist András Tüské. In 2005, Bradley won the coveted National Undergraduate Scholarship at the Australian National University, where he completed a bachelor degree in music with first class honours under the notable Australian guitarist Tim Kain, while also studying for a bachelor degree in law. Bradley is currently a PhD candidate in guitar performance at the Australian National University. He is also preparing to complete specialist studies in early-19^th century guitar performance practice at the Accademia l’Ottocento (Italy), studying under Carlo Barone.

Bradley has won first prize in the Fifth International Competition “Festival de Córdoba” (Spain), and the audience prize in the Nikšić International Guitar Competition (Montenegro), determined by voters on live satellite television. He was awarded the 2007 Erika Haas Award for the most outstanding instrumental performance student at the Australian National University. He is currently the recipient of an Australian Professional Award.

Bradley is actively engaged in bringing a diverse and accessible range of chamber music to new audiences. As a member of the BREW Guitar Duo and contemporary music septet dominantSEVEN, he has commissioned significant new works by Australian composers including Robert Davidson and Richard Charlton. As a soloist and chamber musician, his performances have included concerts at the Córdoba International Guitar Festival (Spain), the Project Canción Española (Spain), the Nikšić International Guitar Festival (Montenegro), the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival and the Darwin International Guitar Festival (Australia). In 2009, Bradley joined Australia’s leading guitar quartet, Guitar Trek, which has pioneered new repertoire for the guitar family for over two decades under the leadership of Tim Kain. Bradley also enjoys collaborative projects with clarinettist Nicole Canham and soprano Rebecca MacCallion.

As a composer, Bradley has been featured in ABC Classic FM’s Young Australian Composers series celebrating “Australian Music Month.” His guitar works are regularly played on ABC Classic FM, and have been finalist entries in the 3^rd International Australian Guitar Composition Competition, and the ASME Young Composers’ Awards. In 2011, Bradley won the Canberra Classical Guitar Society Composition Competition, which awards him a commission to compose a new work for guitar orchestra. In addition to writing guitar music, Bradley’s work for carillon will soon be published in an upcoming volume of Australian carillon music. Bradley’s choral works have also been performed by the choir of the Wesley Uniting Church in Forrest, Canberra.

Bradley is on staff in the Guitar Department at the Australian National University School of Music, where he has also tutored and lectured in various undergraduate musicology subjects.

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Programme for Cooma Concert:

Bradley Kunda

Five Preludes (Heitor Villa-Lobos)

Selections from Los Caprichos de Goya (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco)

• I – Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor
• VIII – Dios la perdone; y era su madre
• XIII – ¿Quién más rendido?

In the Woods (Toru Takemitsu)

• Wainscot Pond
• Rosedale
• Muir Woods

Variations on a theme of Scriabin (Alexandre Tansman)

Sonata for solo guitar (Atanas Ourkouzounov)

• Allegro assai
• Adagio quasi canzone
• Vivo

Do you enjoy Classical or Traditional music but can’t find a group that focuses on these genres?

Maybe you’d like to work on improving your technicalskills but prefer not to take private lessons?

The Monaro Flute Ensemble was designed specifically to fill in these gaps. We want everyone to enjoy the opportunity to play and learn about music in an encouraging group environment. We proudly specialize in reviving Classical music. Most of all, we want to give people the chance to develop a lasting love for music at the sametime as developing techniques to make expression through music easier.

This ensemble is a group of flute players of diverse ages and skill levels who all share an enthusiasm for making music and sharing what they learn with others.

For more details please call Matthew Ventura on 6452 5262 or email: sonataform@hotmail.com.

Show your loved ones that they mean something special to you.

CLANCY MUSIC PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD

Invite you to attend a

Valentine’s Day Music Train Trip

Historic Train ride return Cooma to Chakola, concert at Chakola Hall by string quartet

BYO Picnic

Tuesday 14^th February 2012

Train leaves Cooma Railway Station at 6pm

Cost: $35.00 per person

Reserve your ticket by contacting

0408 488 749

info@clancymusic.com.au

or for more information see

www.clancymusic.com.au

This is made possible by the Cooma Monaro Railway Inc.

www.cmrailway.org.au

Produced by Cooma Harmony Chorus

Auditions for Solo Singing & Acting parts taken from various scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. (all the best bits)

Audition Date: Tuesday 31st January 2012 at 7pm

@ the new hall at Cooma Public School.

Performance Dates: 26th & 27th May.

Prefered Audtion Pieces:

Soprano

I have a song to sing o (Yeoman of the guard)
Buttercup’s aria (HMS Pinafore)

Alto

On the day when i was married (Gondalaiers)
He Loves (Iolanthe)

Contralto

When our gallent norman foes

Baritone

I am the monarch of the sea (HMS Pinafore)

Bass

Mikado’s song (The Mikado)
When a fellons not engaged (Pirates)

Any other pieces from the selected works however please inform Robert Shearer (0426 196 914) of prefered piece.

Script excerpts for Audition

Ladies (option 1 & 2)

Iolanthe. She is; and thus she welcomes her daughter-in-law! (Kisses her.)
Phyllis. She kisses just like other people! But the Lord Chancellor?
Strephon. I forgot him! Mother, none can resist your fairy eloquence; you will go to him and plead for us?
Iolanthe. (much agitated). No, no; impossible!
Strephon. But our happiness – our very lives – depend upon our obtaining his consent!
Phyllis. Oh, madam, you cannot refuse to do this!
Iolanthe. You know not what you ask! The Lord Chancellor is – my husband!
Strephon and Phyllis. Your husband!
Iolanthe. My husband and your father!

Ladies (option 3) Mens (option1)
Ko-Ko. Indeed! Had he any reason to be dissatisfied with his position?
Katisha. None whatever. On the contrary, I was going to marry him — yet he fled
Pooh-Bah. I am surprised that he should have fled from one so lovely!
Katisha. That’s not true.
Pooh-Bah. No!
Katisha. You hold that I am not beautiful because my face is plain. But you know nothing; you are still unenlightened. Learn, then, that it is not in the face alone that beauty is to be sought. My face is unattractive!
Pooh-Bah. It is.
Katisha. But I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness. People come miles to see it. My right elbow has a fascination that few can resist.
Pooh-Bah. Allow me!
Katisha. It is on view Tuesdays and Fridays, on presentation of visiting card. As for my circulation, it is the largest in the world.
Ko-Ko. And yet he fled!

Mens (option 2)
Mikado. (looking at paper) Dear, dear, dear! this is very tiresome. (to Ko-Ko) My poor fellow, in your anxiety to carry out my wishes you have beheaded the heir to the throne of Japan!
Ko-Ko. I beg to offer an unqualified apology.
I desire to associate myself with that expression of regret.
We really hadn’t the least notion —
Mikado. Of course you hadn’t. How could you? Come, come, my good fellow, don’t distress yourself — it was no fault of yours. If a man of exalted rank chooses to disguise himself as a Second Trombone, he must take the consequences. It really distresses me to see you take on so. I’ve no doubt he thoroughly deserved all he got. (They rise.)

Gilbert and Sullivan Extravaganza – The Songs

The Cast:

Contact: Allan Spencer 6452 6067 / email: allan@coomamusic.com.au

or Robert Shearer 0426 196 914 / email: ac16_221a@hotmail.com

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And here’s Robert performing at Sing Your Own Handel’s Messiah on the 12th November 2011:

Robert Shearer sings at Divine Divas and a Bloke_Cooma 2011

Featuring:

• Vivaldi _ Flute Concerto ” The Goldfinch” with soloist, Caitlyn Ayres
• J S Bach_Concerto for Two Violins with soloists, Charlotte Winslade & Jessie Regan
• Dvorak_Serenade for Strings

Concert Details:

• Thursday 8 December. 7.30pm – CGS Tim Murray Theatre. Canberra
• Saturday 10 December, 7.30pm – Twoford Hall, Merimbula
• Sunday 10 December, 2.00pm – Community Hall, Bermagui

Tickets: $25, $20 Concession

Canberra (02) 6288 0805

Merrimbula & Bermagui 0413 506 311

For more information about the Canberra Concerto Orchestra, Click Here.

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Cooma Harmony Chorus

Jerrabomberra on Saturday 3 December.

The Chorus will perform with the Hall District Band and Soloists.

The soloist will include our own Robert Shearer and Bronwyn Douglas (the lovely alto who performed in this year’s Sing your own Messiah)

The organizer, Rodney Clancy is expecting an audience of over 6,000 people. It will be a lovely day, with barbecues, fairy floss, icecream stalls, fireworks and lots of rides for the kids. And of course a  visit from Santa.

It’s all happening at David Madew Oval, Jerrrabomberra. The fun starts at 3 pm. The carols concert will be from 8 to 9 pm.

Santa arriving care of the South Care Helicopter

Robert Shearer (Tenor)