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2022 UPDATES ON THE WAY
Please stay tuned for 2022 updates this coming week. It has been a year of illness after covid, and life beginning again at one hundred miles an hour. With many projects taking place parallel, we're working hard to get you relevant info as quickly as possible. Thanks & till soon!
A TASTE OF SPAIN
A Taste of Spain with NEIC, April 2021. Crosswinds trio provided an evening of Renaissance to Flamenco via eastern European routes & more. A great evening with so many international people from around the New England region in attendance. Fabulous performances by my two esteemed colleagues Damian Wright & Alana Blackburn. With sincere thanks to Dr. Peter Wetshofen via the Australian Cultural Fund for his kind assistance to make independent regional events a reality.
WORD.PLAY AUSTRALIA
WORD.PLAY - focuses on literacy through music. After many lockdowns, we were finally able to realise several regional NSW school performances in April 2021, primarily in Uralla, Armidale & Rocky River. The students & teachers were enthusiastic, joyful & brimming with ideas. It was a pleasure to visit both tiny rural and larger regional schools. Children's literature is brought to life as an almost cinematic concert experience for kids of all ages as part of Word.Play. Live dramatised narration, music (composed & improvised), projected jigsaw illustrations & imagery all combine into an experience for the senses.
Thank you to St. Joseph's Primary School Uralla, Rocky River Public School, Armidale City Public School & Drummond Memorial Public School. Our sincere thanks also to Regional Arts NSW & their Quick Response Grants for their generous support of this project.
More info: www.wordplay.net.au
WORD.PLAY AUSTRALIA
WORD.PLAY - focuses on literacy through music. This brings children's literature as an almost cinematic concert experience to kids of all ages. Live dramatised narration, music (composed & improvised), projected jigsaw illustrations & imagery all combine into an experience for the senses. First performances @ Bellingen Shire Arts Week January 11th. 10:30 am @ Dorrigo Community Centre, 1pm & 3pm @ Bellingen Shire Library. A great collaboration with the New England Writers' Centre & their partner Creative NSW. More info: www.wordplay.net.au
CROSSWINDS - a fine cross-regional, cross-genre ensemble featuring music spanning 500 years across continents, from Marais to Paco Lara & beyond. Melding tradition with improvisation & contemporary approaches for today, we explore migration & travels afar, identity & the concept of place. The first performance takes place @ Bellingen Shire Arts Week, January 12th at 5 pm @ Bellingen Memorial Hall. Feat.:
Maryanne Piper (clarinets), Alana Blackburn (Recorders, Electroacoustic Sounds), Damian Wright (Flamenco Guitar), Bobby Singh (Tabla) & Daniel Pliner (Piano).
Check Bellingen Arts Week's site for more info: www.bellingenahireartsweek.com
CROSSWINDS
SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020/21
Pleased to share that LILITH NIGHT is performing LIVE as part of SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020, organised by SIMA. LILITH NIGHT has morphed into various line-ups in its international existence. It's great to be able to share a night of fantastic music by women composers from around the world, plus our own, with audiences in Sydney @ Foundry 616 Ultimo on November 7th. Come hear music by Sunna Gunnlaugs (Iceland), Christina Fuchs (Germany), Issie Barratt (UK), Tania Giannouli (Greece), Elisa Thorn (Canada), Tomeka Reid (US), Sian Lindsay (Sydney), Jenna Cave (Sydney), Keyna Wilkins (Sydney). Line-up featuring: Maryanne Piper (clarinets), Rachel Drubetsky (Trumpet), Keyna Wilkins (Piano) & Chloe Kim (Drums). Many Thanks to Regional Arts NSW for their Quick Response Grant in support of this project. Tickets & info: https://siwjf.wordpress.com/
More info about LILITH NIGHT @ www.lilithnight.net
SBS RADIO GERMAN PODCAST
#2 WORLDWIDE
Just received pleasant news. MY Podcast interview on SBS Radio aired a couple of weeks ago in the lead-up to LILITH NIGHT @ SIWJF has reached #2 worldwide on their download charts for the month. Amazing that so many took the time to listen. A full-hour interview with well-researched questions - many thanks to Trudi Latour for her excellent interview, I had fun chatting!
SBS Radio German reaches an audience of millions worldwide every week. The podcast is available for download here:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/women-in-jazz-maryanne-piper
Many Thanks to ABC Classic for their kind permission to use tracks recorded at ABC Centre Ultimo 2019 as part of the LILITH NIGHT broadcast.
"SOUNDS LIKE NEW ENGLAND NORTH WEST" // TRAVEl SOUNDS OF HOME
It's been fun exploring my home region once again. New ears/old ears. Funded through Arts North West's second micro-grants round in 2020, SOUNDS LIKE NEW ENGLAND NORTH WEST brings a range of natural recordings from around the region together, intertwined with improvised & written instrumental pieces for clarinets, soprano saxophone, percussion, voice & electroacoustic sounds in a series of "Postcards from Home." A solo pandemic project exploring my home region and its sound world, it's provided valuable insight into the concept of home & the changes witnessed, both personally & around the landscape, during my many years away.
Appreciation goes to ARTS NORTH WEST for their regional assistance during 2020 and the pandemic.
