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Kettering Hall
Tickets $7.50 available at door
Afternoon tea available
Enquiries: phone 6267 4852
Rachel Bremner
Since completing her violin studies with Professor Jan Sedivka at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music in 1984, Rachel Bremner has not only been been a prominent member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, but also notably active as a recitalist and chamber musician.
Through such activity as the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Music School in Paris and then the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players with whom she toured for Musica Viva nationally in 1986, Rachel extended her activity from Acting Concertmastership of the TSO on it’s 1995 national tour to intensive chamber music performing and broadcasting. In addition to her Esperance Trio partnership with David Bollard and Christian Wojtowicz resident at the Tasmanian Conservatorium since 1998, highlights have been acclaimed FM broadcasts of Mozart trios with Geoffrey Lancaster and Christian Wojtowicz and Kodaly, Ravel and Haydn String Duos, and the Bartok Sonata. Rachel Bremner has also performed and broadcast Australian music for violin by Gillian Whitehead, Keith Humble and Don Kay. She was associated on a number of occasions with the new music ensemble Pipeline, directed by Professor Simone de Haan.
This variety of activity has led to associations with some of Australia’s most prominent artists, including pianists Ben Martin, Geoffrey Tozer and Lucinda Collins, violists Hartmut Lindemann, Keith Crellin and Katharine Brockman and violinists William Hennessy and Peter Tanfield.
Rachel Bremner has also passed on her experience to younger musicians at a number of music camps and chamber music classes, including at the Tasmanian Conservatorium and the Mt. Buller Chamber Music School in association with the Australian String Quartet.
In 2001 Rachel was awarded a Master of Music degree at the Tasmanian Conservatorium, and her performance of Ernest Bloch’s Solo Sonata can be heard on the Conservatorium’s ‘Wind, Wood and Metal’ CD.
Keith Crellin
Keith Crellin is head of the String Department and conductor in residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide.As the first violist to win the ABC Young Performers Award in 1972, Keith Crellin soon established himself as one of Australia's leading soloists and chamber music players. Having studied violin initially with Gretchen Schieblich and then Ladislav Jasek at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, he completed his tertiary studies at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music under noted pedagog Professor Jan Sedivka. He was a founding member of the Rialannah String quartet, performed with the Petra String Quartet, and was a regular member of the Australian Contemporary Music Ensemble. Subsequently he was appointed Lecturer in viola and chamber music at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, Director and principal Conductor of the Conservatorium orchestra and Artistic director and chief conductor of the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra.
In 1985, he became a founding member of the Australian String Quartet based in Adelaide, a position he held for sixteen years and with which he performed in many countries, travelled widely throughout Australia and made numerous recordings.
As well he has conducted concerts and recordings with the Tasmanian and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras and has been conductor of A.Y.O. young symphonists and tutor in the A.Y.O Young Australian Concert Artists program on a number of occasions. He has attended many National Music camps as tutor and conductor and now divides his time between teaching, performing and conducting.
In 2003, he took up the position of artistic director and conductor of the Adelaide Youth Orchestra. In 2004 he was awarded the University of Adelaide’s Stephen Cole prize for excellence in teaching.
Christian Wojtowicz
Christian Wojtowicz studied cello with Sela Trau and chamber music with Jan Sedivka before being awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study with Pierre Fournier in Zurich and Andre Navarra at the Paris Conservatoire.
After a period of extensive freelancing in symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras and chamber music in France and the United Kingdom (including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), Christian Wojtowicz was invited to return to Australia to take up the principal cello position in the Melbourne Elizabethan Trust Orchestra (now the State Orchestra of Victoria). Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Canberra School of Music and has since held similar fulltime positions at the University of Queensland and Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. He has given master-classes and lecture demonstrations in many prominent institutions at home and abroad.
His extensive orchestral experience in Australia includes principal cello of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and guest principal in most Australian orchestras, most recently the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist he has made concerto appearances and recordings with all the Symphony Australia orchestras, in addition to his intensive recital activity in centres all over the country.
Performance ensembles Christian Wojtowicz has been associated with include the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players which he founded with violinist William Hennessy, the Australian Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ensemble I, and Flederman with whom he has performed and broadcast widely in the UK, Europe, South-East Asia and New Zealand. He has performed as a guest of the Australian String Quartet, the Australia Ensemble, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He was for six years a member of the Esperance Trio with violinist Rachel Bremner and pianist David Bollard. His contribution to new music at home and abroad has been acclaimed through membership of the Australian Contemporary Music Ensemble, Flederman and Pipeline, as well as in concert partnership with leading composer/pianist the late Professor Keith Humble. Many pieces have been written for him by such composers as Keith Humble, Larry Sitsky, Don Kay, Raffaele Marcellino and Douglas Knehans. In all these capacities he has appeared at major festivals in the UK, Finland, regional festivals and the Festivals of Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart and Sydney.
In addition to his activities as recitalist broadcasting for ABC Classic FM, Christian Wojtowicz appears as a major artist on CD on the ABC Classics, NMA Publications, and Vox Australis labels.
As an eminent teacher of cello and chamber music, Christian Wojtowicz has held positions at the Canberra School of Music ANU, Queensland Conservatorium and Queensland University, and the Victorian College of the Arts. He continues his association with the Melbourne University Conservatorium where students of his were members of both the major prize-winning groups in the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, and the Banff (Canada) International Chamber Music Competition 2007. He has taught at the Tasmanian Conservatorium since 1981, until 2007 was Head of Strings and Classical Music, and in 1998/99 was Acting Director there.
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