SHARE THE JOY OF MUSIC MAKING IN A RELAXED NATURAL SETTING

The photograph by Mick O'Donnell is from a 2020 Concert.

ACROSS THE LAWN CONCERTS started in 2020 in an effort to keep live music alive during Covid -19. The small intimate community concerts were extremely popular with both audiences and performers. Each concert is made unique not just through the music and performers but because each day is different and the behaviour of local insects and birds is ever varying.

THE PERFORMERS

PHILIP graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Western Australia and has toured Australia and overseas as principal flute with the Australian Youth Orchestra. Subsequently he pursued further private flute study in the UK and Germany, with assistance from Youth Music Australia and the Syd Donovan Award.

Philip also studied singing with Molly McGurk, and has enjoyed a diverse freelance career as both a flautist and singer. As a flautist he has performed with numerous ensembles including the WA Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and has appeared as a concerto soloist with the WA Youth Orchestra, Juniper Chamber Orchestra and St George’s Sinfonia. He performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, and has performed at the Blackwood River Chamber Festival, and at the Heart of Gold Festival in Kalgoorlie. He recently presented three solo recitals with pianist Faith Maydwell as part of the Magellan chamber music series.

BRADLEY is Music Director of the Young Artist Company, Pacific Opera, and in addition to his own performance work and is a highly sort after accompanist and mentor for young artists. Bradley, completed a Bachelor of Music at the WA Conservatorium of Music, and post-graduate studies in accompaniment and piano performance in Sydney and Madrid.

Bradley has numerous performances to his name including: the Khachaturian Concerto with the WA Symphony Orchestra, the Grieg Concerto with the Slovakia Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven’s First and Second Concertos with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra. Bradley has given solo and chamber music recitals across Australia and in South Korea, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. Bradley enjoys chamber music and has performed in a variety of ensembles; specialising in piano trio and flute and piano duo repertoire.

CEDAR is an accomplished performer studying violin with Lucie Robert at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College, where she is a scholarship student; she continues her piano studies with Gian-Franco Ricci in Sydney. Cedar commenced violin with Sarah Hindson in 2010, moving to study with Russian violinist, pedagogue and composer Albert Markov in the United States in 2016. While home in Australia she also takes lessons with Goetz Richter, Associate Professor at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and greatly appreciates the opportunity to work with Bradley. As a pianist, Cedar has a particular pleasure in exploring and performing sonata repertoire for violin and piano.