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Music Council of Australia

19th Annual Assembly 2012

Recital Hall West
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street at Bridge Street, Sydney

#MCAassembly

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Saturday evening September 22nd to Monday September 24th, 2012

This is a draft program only and changes may be made without notice

PROGRAM
SATURDAY
6.00-
8.00		 Welcome drinks
CHANGE OF VENUE
Mariners' Court Hotel
Upstairs lounge
44-50 McElhone Street
Woolloomooloo
Phone 02) 9358 3888
SUNDAY
8.45 Registration
9:30 Welcome
Dr Helen Lancaster, Chair, Music Council of Australia
Professor Karl Kramer, Dean, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
9:40 Musical performance
HarrySutherland250w.jpgHarry Sutherland Trio
Harry Sutherland, piano, Tim Botting, double bass, James Waples, drums.
One of Australia’s most promising young jazz pianists, Harry Sutherland won the James Morrison Scholarship in 2010 and has played on ABC Jazz digital radio and Jazztrack. He is completing a B Mus at the Sydney Conservatorium and has studied with leading pianists including Matt McMahon, Tony Gould and Andrea Keller, and US musicians Peter Martin and Dan Tepfer. Harry works with his trio, Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts, Mike Rivett, Matilda Abraham and A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Orchestra.
9:55 Presentations 1
MUSIC COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
What have we been doing? What did we achieve?
Dr Richard Letts, Executive Director
Tina Broad, Director, Music: Play for Life
Alex Masso, Manager, Music in Communities Network
What do you think of that?
MCA Board Member Prof. Julian Knowles summarises the information received from a survey of Councillors.
Where are we going next?
MCA Chair Dr Helen Lancaster chairs an open discussion.
The discussion will be completed at the end of the last day of the Assembly.
11:15 Coffee
11:45 Presentations 2
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: LIVE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC ABROAD
Sounds Australia: promoting Australian music to the international market
Esti: I'll be discussing the work SOUNDS AUSTRALIA undertakes as Australia’s national export initiative. Established to deliver a cohesive, unified platform at international showcase market events, supported through financial partnerships between Federal and State governments, along with peak music industry bodies, SOUNDS AUSTRALIA is committed to providing the best showcasing and networking environments for Australian Artists in their chosen export markets.
Esti Zilber, Export Music Associate Producer
The Australian Chamber Orchestra's international touring
Worldwide, dozens of orchestras pursue touring agendas requiring huge fundraising efforts, and complex logistics/travel arrangements. What drives them to do it? Who benefits? Is there any real value in musical diplomacy? The ACO is Australia’s most widely travelled ensemble, touring to hundreds of cities in dozens of countries. Tim delves into the philosophy behind this challenging undertaking, and asks "Is it worth it?"
Tim Calnin, GM, Australian Chamber Orchestra
New York, New York: The story of how Frank Madrid organised a summer concert of Australian artists in Central Park
Frank: I am planning to share with the audience the journey undertaken to make the Australian Day at SummerStage possible, including how the idea originated, what was the catalyst to take it from the wouldn’t it be nice stage to the reality of we have to make it work, the barriers encountered and the factors that contributed to its success.
Frank Madrid, Director, FAMA Services
1:00 Lunch
1:45 Special presentation
2:00 Breakout 1
  • Careers in music. Facilitated by Prof. Dawn Bennett and Alex Masso
    NOTE: A briefing paper is available
  • The campaign for primary school teacher education in music. This session will discuss the practicalities of mounting the campaign. Participants will be invited to advise and participate. Facilitated by Richard Letts
    NOTE: A briefing paper is available
  • The front edge of copyright issues in the digital age. Facilitated by Nathan Shepherd, Allens Arthur Robinson
    NOTE: A briefing paper is available
  • Classical music: bridging the gaps–between the large and S2M organisations; between the conservatoriums and the professional companies; between new works, the companies and audiences. Facilitated by Kate Lidbetter, CEO, Symphony Services Australia
    NOTE: A briefing paper is available
3:15 Coffee
3:30 Presentations 3
MUSIC EDUCATION: DIGITAL INNOVATIONS
The world of digital music learning. Three emerging issues in the world of digital music learning: (1) Increased resolution in communications technologies (e.g.broadband) shifts the balance of value between in-person teaching and distance learning. (2) The ubiquity of mobile computing devices (e.g. iPad) disrupts traditional scheduling and location of music learning experiences, and allows more integration between the digital and the physical. (3) Innovations in the economy of delivering music education challenge the viability of traditional teaching models.
Prof. Andrew Brown, Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
Musica Viva's digital resources for the classroom
In 2012 Musica Viva with the support of the Australian Government and Rio Tinto launched new digital resources to accompany live performances and teacher professional development, particularly in relation to interactive whiteboard activities. This has provided primary school teachers with an accessible resource to inspire them to introduce music into their classrooms. Michael Sollis will demonstrate how they function.
Michael Sollis, ACT Manager, Musica Viva Australia, Chair, Australian Youth Music Council
The Australian Youth Orchestra's Digital Connection Initiative
The initiative will utilise the NBN to give young musicians in rural, regional and metropolitan Australia greater access to the Australian Youth Orchestra. It will extend talent identification and national training programs, allow for greater capability and efficiency in online auditions, and live streaming to AYO Regional Residency programs.
Colin Cornish, CEO, Australian Youth Orchestra
MUSIC EDUCATION: NEW RESEARCH ON THE SITUATION OF MUSIC IN SCHOOLS
There is no classroom music at all in 63% of primary schools, 34% of secondary schools. There is a crisis vis-à-vis the delivery of classroom music education and student access. In Australia the provision of music in primary schools needs more attention than in secondary schools. This issue should be addressed at the tertiary level, particularly when preparing generalist teachers for teaching music in primary schools.
Irina Petrova, from her PhD dissertation, University of NSW
4:45 Break
5:00 Annual Address
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Lyndon Terracini
Artistic Director, Opera Australia

The relevance of subsidy, creativity, ideas...and making music
5:45 Close
7.30 Annual Dinner and Concert
REGRETTABLY, THE DINNER AND CONCERT HAVE BEEN CANCELLED FOR THIS YEAR
MONDAY
8.30 Registration
9:00 Musical performance
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Tony Lee
Tony will perform Saint Saens' Danse Macabre (trans. Horowitz).
Tony Lee was born in Sydney and is currently in his final year at the Sydney Conservatorium studying under Dr Paul Rickard-Ford. He is the winner of the 2010 National John Allison Award, Sydney Conservatorium Chopin Competition, Conservatorium Concerto Competition, 2011 National Youth Classical Music Competition, 2nd Louise Henriette International Piano Competition and 8th Adila Alieva International Piano Competition.
9:15 Presentations 4
COMMUNITY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT: MUSIC AND HEALTH
The States and Commonwealth have agreed to work up a framework for a national arts and health policy. There has been a high level forum in Canberra and lots of work behind the scenes, led by the Arts and Health Foundation. MCA is part of the group advising the Ministerial Working Party. What’s happened so far, why is this important to the MCA and what now?
Helen Zigmond, Board Member, Arts and Health Foundation
Music in the well population.
Tina Broad, Director, Music: Play for Life
9:45 COMMUNITY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT: MUSIC AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Audio (mp3, 15.2Mb)
What are the policy issues and how do we best engage with local government? Panel discussion with
Chloe Beevers, Projects Manager, Arts and Culture, Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW
Scott O'Hara, Manager, Sutherland Entertainment Centre, Sutherland NSW; Member, Arts and Cultural Advisory Council, Randwick City Council
John Wardle, policy activist. Update on local government regulation of live music venues
Chair: Alex Masso
10:40 International Music Council World Forum on Music, Brisbane
November 2013. Over 1,000 music professionals and other enthusiasts from all over the world descend upon Brisbane's South Bank to discuss, plan, be part of, and experience the future of music on this planet: musicians, producers, managers, administrators, festival directors, journalists, scholars, educators, facilitators, activists, policy makers and other lovers of the art in its myriad forms and contexts.
Prof. Huib Schippers, MCA Board member, Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and program committee Chair invites contributions by MCA members.
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Breakout 2
  • Community music development and local government. Facilitated by Alex Masso
  • Technological innovations in music teaching and learning.
    Facilitated by Prof. Andrew Brown
    NOTE: A briefing paper is available
  • Music and the media. Facilitated by Michael Smellie.
    NOTE: Two briefing papers are available: Paper 1 Paper 2
  • The World Forum on Music. Discussion of program. Facilitated by Huib Schippers
    NOTE: A briefing paper is available
12:30 Lunch
1:15 Annual General Meeting of the Music Council of Australia
Includes elections to the Board of Directors
1:45 FEATURED SPEAKER
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Embracing Cultural Solutions–rethinking the place of arts and culture in public life
Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA
Founding editor of Griffith REVIEW; Board Member, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Grattan Institute. Chair of the Minister's reference group on the National Cultural Policy.
"I will discuss the need for a new way of thinking about and bringing to life the increasingly important role of the cultural sector. The obstacles to changing public policy and the need for the cultural sector to learn from other movements, most notably environment, that have successfully navigated this transition to the mainstream. The problems of reducing culture to economics are well known, but point to the need to find new and more appropriate ways of measuring cultural value. This is important for practitioners, educators and business, and for social cohesion and international perceptions.
"Nearly 50 years ago Robert Kennedy said this well: 'The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.'"
2:30 Presentations 5
MUSIC AND THE MEDIA
A look back over the changes in the media over the last ten years and the evolving place where new Australian music sits in radio, television, print and new media. The session will cover the squeezing of traditional opportunities music has relied on to gain audiences as well as the new opportunities and threats on the horizon with multi-channelling and digital media. The session will put some context around questions like "why is it so hard to get on the radio", discuss what opportunities still exist for music and whether a new paradigm for marketing music is needed if music is to be commercially viable in the 21st century.
Stephen Green, CEO, SGC New Media Marketing
3:15 Coffee
3:30 Presentations 6
FROM THE BREAKOUT GROUPS
Reports and recommendations
Free for all
Where do we go from here?
4:30 Close


OUR SPEAKERS

For the Annual Address: Lyndon Terracini
LyndonTerracini_mug.png Lyndon Terracini is the Artistic Director of Opera Australia, and has also enjoyed a highly successful international opera career as well as a successful career as an actor, director and writer. Lyndon Terracini was appointed Artistic Director and CEO of the Queensland Music Festival in July 2000 and directed the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Festivals. He was appointed Artistic Director/CEO of Brisbane Festival in 2005 and Artistic Director/CEO of Major Brisbane Festivals in November 2007. In June 1999, Lyndon Terracini was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music Theatre by Central Queensland University. In February 2000, he was awarded a Fellowship by the Music Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2001, he was awarded an Honorary D. Univ. from Southern Cross University and in July 2005 he was awarded the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Cultural leadership Award by Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF). In 2005 Lyndon Terracini was also appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland and in 2007 he was awarded a D.Univ. from Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
In 2006, Lyndon wrote the widely acclaimed platform paper, A Regional State of Mind, which was published by Currency House. He was also a member of the International Jury for the Venice Biennale for Music and delivered the 2011 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address.

Key Address, Monday: Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA
JulianneSchultz_mug.pngJulianne Schultz is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW, the themed quarterly of essays, memoir, reportage and fiction published by Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing. She is on the boards of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Grattan Institute. She is the Chair of the Queensland Design Council and the reference group on the National Cultural Policy, deputy chair of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Securing Australia’s Future project and on advisory committees with a focus on education, media and Indigenous issues. Since co-chairing the Creative Australia stream at the 2020 Summit she has been actively involved in cultural policy debates. She has been a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, Myer Foundation Fellowships and Walkley Awards. She is the author of Reviving the Fourth Estate: Democracy, accountability and the media (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Steel City Blues (Penguin, 1985) and the librettos Black River and Going into Shadows.

Speakers for Presentations and Breakout Groups
Chloe Beevers
As Project Manager Arts & Culture with the Local Government & Shires Associations, Chloe advises 152 NSW councils. She represents their arts & cultural policy interests to peak bodies and government. She manages the Local Government Arts & Culture Awards which will be presented at the Summit on November 13-15. Chloe has worked for two regional councils, being responsible for arts and cultural development. Chloe has played the flute for 25 years, having performed with arrange of community bands and orchestras.
Professor Dawn Bennett
Dawn Bennett is a Research Professor and Director of the Creative Workforce Initiative at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Research interests include work in the creative sector, identity development in student engagement, and post-secondary music education. In 2010 she became an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellow. A viola player, Dawn serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Music Education, is a member of the MCA and a commissioner for the ISME Teaching and Learning Forum.
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Tina Broad has managed Music: Play for Life for 8 years. She has a BA in journalism, an MA in organisational communication and a 25 year background in advocacy around social issues. These include the successful national campaign to introduce accreditation standards in early childhood centres and the campaign to abolish age-based retirement. She has been a professional singer and band manager. She founded and runs an 80-voice community choir and is a member of a 10-piece women-only ukulele group.
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Andrew Brown is an educator, researcher, musician and author. He is Professor of Digital Arts at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia and his academic expertise is in technologies that support creativity and learning, computational music and art, and the philosophy of technology. Andrew’s creative activities focus on real-time audio-visual works using generative processes and live-coding performances. He is the author of the book Computers in Music Education: Amplifying Musicality, published by Routledge in New York.
Timothy Calnin
Timothy Calnin has been General Manager of the Australian Chamber Orchestra since April 2010. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra for five years, working with Edo de Waart to build the quality of the Orchestra to be the finest in Asia, developing audiences, broadening repertoire and expanding education and community engagement. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Tim has held senior arts administration posts with the Sydney Symphony, the ABC and Opera Australia.
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Over more than 15 years in music, Stephen Green has held down many roles in the music industry including syndicated music columnist, marketing manager, radio reporter, inflight entertainment producer, street press journalist, vocalist, music retailer, voice-over artist and event manager. Stephen oversaw the rollout of the Play MPE and DMDS radio delivery systems for music which are now industry standard as well radio monitoring system D-Star Spins. He started his current company SGC New Media Marketing in 2010; it marketing services for artists including Mia Dyson, John Butler Trio, Richard Clapton, San Cisco, Cub Scouts and many more.
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Dick Letts founded the MCA in 1994 and is now its Executive Director. Previously he was Director of the Music Board of the Australia Council and then the Australian Music Centre. Before that he took a PhD in the USA and was the director of performing arts schools in San Francisco and Minneapolis. He has been a professional jazz musician, a failed composer, an author and editor, and was President of the International Music Council from 2005-2009. He was awarded an AM in 1996.
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Kate Lidbetter is Chief Executive Officer of Symphony Australia, also known as Symphony Services International. Previous positions have included Director of Music at the Australia Council for the Arts, Artist Development Manager of Symphony Australia, Artistic Administrator of the Australian Youth Orchestra and General Manager of Sydney Children’s Choir. She is President of Ensemble Offspring and a Director of Gondwana Voices.
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Frank Madrid works with international and Australian organisations in areas of audience development, multicultural marketing and strategic planning, delivering artistic content to major festivals in Australia and overseas, selecting its programming and devising effective communications strategies and marketing campaigns to promote them. Passionate about developing new platforms, Frank has curated several music showcases including the Pura Vida Roadshow, bringing artists from all over the Americas to Australia; and the Australian Day at SummerStage, taking Australian musicians to the USA.
Alex Masso
Alex Masso manages the Music in Communities Network and the Music Career wiki for the Music Council. He has studied jazz drumming at Sydney Conservatorium and tabla with Bobby Singh, released nine albums with different groups including The Vampires, Trio Apoplectic and Slide Albatross, and plays in a range of creative projects. Alex was Event Coordinator at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music from 2009-2012, co-directed the NOWnow Festival from 2007-08, and is enthusiastic about teaching kids to play the drums.
Scott O’Hara
After a brief career as a performing musician, including with Senegalese Afro-funksters Bubaca-Diop, Scott has had a twenty year career as an Arts Manager, working in all three levels of Government, as well as for community and commercial organisations. He currently manages the Sutherland Entertainment Centre for Sutherland Shire Council and is a regular columnist on ArtsHub. He still occasionally performs as a singer-songwriter, most recently as a support act for Ireland's Brian Kennedy during his 2010 Australian Tour.
Dr Irina Petrova
Irina Petrova was trained in Russia as a classical pianist. She commenced her teaching career in the late 1980s. In 2001 she moved to Australia. Over the last ten years Irina completed her Masters Degree (2004), Masters Degree in Music Education (2007) and Ph.D (2012) at the University of New South Wales. Her major interest of research is School Music Education. Dr Petrova studied the delivery of music programs at all levels of school education and also teacher training.
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Michael Sollis is a Canberra composer, researcher, artistic director, educator, and arts administrator. He is artistic director and composer of The Griffyn Ensemble, Canberra’s premier chamber ensemble. Michael is commissioned regularly to write for professional, amateur, and youth musicians and ensembles around Australia, and has been performed by groups such as The Australian String Quartet, The Australian Voices, exhAust, The Griffyn Ensemble, dominantSEVEN and others. He is Chair of the Australian Youth Music Council and Chair of the International Music Council Youth Committee.
John Wardle
John Wardle is a professional musician, teacher, and policy activist on the over regulation of live music and entertainment across the tiers of Australian Government. John campaigned successfully against the Place of Public Entertainment legislation in NSW and is the strategist behind the Raise The Bar liquor law reform campaigns from NSW and South Australia. John has been also been a policy adviser to Cabinet Ministers in both houses of the NSW Parliament.
Helen Zigmond
Helen has an extensive background in education and the arts, working in training and policy development in schools, universities and other institutions. In 1997 Helen developed the innovative arts in health program Creative Well for the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW and the community based Clacia program for regional and rural communities. She has represented her work overseas and developed several working relationships in the UK. Helen has been a director of the Arts and Health Foundation since 2009.
Esti Zilber
Esti's background is a mixture of music and arts. She has been involved with producing several theatre production, worked in book publishing in New York and was the Executive Producer Arts and Culture at FBI. Before coming on board with SOUNDS AUSTRALIA she was acted as Executive Assistant and Office Manager for Michael Chugg and Matthew Lazarus Hall at Chugg Entertainment. Since commencing with SOUNDS AUSTRALIA in 2010, Esti has worked on events across the UK, USA and Europe.

 

The Music Council of Australia is grateful for the support of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and its Dean, Professor Karl Kramer, for hosting the Music Council Assembly. We also thank the Local Government and Shires Associations for their support.

The Music Council receives core support from the Commonwealth Government through the Music Board of the Australia Council, without which important aspects of its activities would not be possible. Our continuing thanks go to the Commonwealth and the Australia Council.
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