Queensland Conservatorium World Music Ensemble


YEAR 2007

At The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art





A Joyful Interlude of Wood on Water
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Queensland Art Gallery
April 14 2007 - Brisbane - Australia

Gerardo Dirié, Burmese flute
Kieren Alexander, Indian flute
Miranda Deutsch, Nepalese reed flute
Sonia Filkorn, Nepalese wooden flute
Yuri Jo, Balinese suling		 mei shao water
galley line up    Footsteps on Sand and Water
   (approaching Wei Wei's "Pillar Through Round Table")
   The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
   Queensland Art Gallery
   April 14 2007 - Brisbane - Australia


   Mei shao sho yue project

   Kieren Alexander, zheng
   Gerardo Dirié, cavaquinho
   Miranda Deutsch, ruan
   Sonia Filkorn, traverse flute
   Silke Rottmann, clarinet
   Ricarda Giegler, violin
   Yuri Jo, electric guitar



gallery tango

Tango Q with baritone Gregory Peatey performing tangos - canciones  from the 1940's.
Queensland Art Gallery
April 14 2007 - Brisbane - Australia



Chinese Instrumental Ensemble Workshop with musicians
from the Shandong College of Arts
erhu and violin    Master Zhang Lingjie illustrates bowing
   and articulation borrowing from erhu to violin.
   Queensland Conservatorium,
   Project Week I 2007


sheng and accordion    Professor Mou Nan illustrates timbre and articulations
   on the Sheng. Students in the ensemble experiment  ways to    
   adapt them into other reed instruments.
   Queensland Conservatorium,
   Project Week I 2007


   Professor Mou Nan in his awe-inspiring performance
   of "The Poem of Far Away Grassland" by composer    
   Chen Mingzhi
   Queensland Conservatorium,
   Project Week I 2007		 sheng


zheng and dizi    Professors Yao Ningxin (zheng) and Hao Yijun (dizi)
   demonstrate variations and ornamentations on a traditional tune.
   Queensland Conservatorium,
   Project Week I 2007


shared performance    The joint ensemble celebrates
    after an improvised blended performance    
    of a piece from the Shandong musicians'      
    repertoire.
    Queensland Conservatorium,
    Project Week I 2007


group demonstration    
   Professors Yao Ningxin (zheng), and Mou
   Nan (sheng), and Shandong College of Arts
   students Sun Chian (pipa) and Lan Xin (liuqin)
   in an exhilarating demonstration of ensemble
   practice. Soprano Ms. Whang Shihui, director
   of the Shandong College of Arts, observes
   from farther back.    
   Queensland Conservatorium,
   Project Week I 2007




Klezmer Music Workshop with clarinetist Gregory Barrett
(Northern Illinois University, USA)

klezmer a klezmer b
Professor Gregory Barrett demonstrating and performing a selection of Khusidl, Freylekhs, and Bulgars. 


klezmer student workshop
    Students participating in the 
    Klezmer / World Music Ensemble Workshop.
    Queensland Conservatorium - May 22 2007