The Annual

 Glebe Music Festival

In conjunction with The Glebe Society Inc

Concert 3:
Saturday 16^th November 2013 at 3pm
Gleebooks (49 Glebe Point Rd):

TANGO

Peter Handsworth – Clarinet

Oliver Fartach-Naini – Guitar

Amelia Granturco – Accordion

Peter Handsworth began his formal studies in clarinet with David Shepherd at the Elder Conservatorium. As a recipient of a QEII Silver Jubilee Trust Award and ABC Young Performers Award he undertook postgraduate studies with Professor Wolfgang Meyer at the renowned Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany. This was the beginning of a successful international performing career that has taken him to all parts of the world.

Peter Handsworth has been invited to perform and teach at numerous international music festivals including Lochenhaus, Schleswig Holstein, Weimar and the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific. He has recorded widely, including an EMI Classics recording “Blues for Sabine’ with Sabine Meyer and Eddie Daniels and two new music CDs with the MOVE label. He has been recorded by the South German and Bavarian Radio and is a regular contributor to the ABC recording archives. Peter Handsworth is a strong advocate of new music and is a core member of the Soundstream Collective, a progressive contemporary music ensemble based at The University of Adelaide.

Following the appointment as Professor in Clarinet at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany, Peter Handsworth became Senior Lecturer in Woodwind and subsequently Head of the School of Music at Monash University in Melbourne. Peter Handsworth currently teaches clarinet and chamber music at the Elder Conservatorium. Peter Handsworth has held the position of Principal Clarinet in orchestras in Germany and Spain, including the Würthemburgische Kammerorchester and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, and as guest principal in a number of Australian orchestras. As the newly appointed inaugural conductor of the Adelaide Wind Orchestra and conductor of The Adelaide Youth Orchestras’ Adelaide Youth Sinfonia, Peter Handsworth has also conducted the SL Wind Orchestra in Stockholm, the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra and directed the Monash Chamber Orchestra and Monash Wind Symphony. As a keenly motivated educator he has conducted at the South Australian State Music Camp and has appeared previously as a guest conductor with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra.

Oliver Fartach-Naini looks back on a long series of exciting projects with which he has delighted audiences the world over. The CD Persian Art Music CD „Didar – Live in Berlin“ with Majid Derakhshani (Composition, Tar, Voice), Thea Nielsen (Flute) and Amir Abbas Zare (Daf) is one of his ventures discovering new horizons. His DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON recording of Schubert's "Winterreise" in Ludger Vollmer's arrangement for viola (Richard Yongjae O'Neill) and two guitars topped the South Korean Classical Charts for three months after its release in early October 2007. Oliver Fartach-Naini has performed extensively as a soloist, with orchestral accompaniment, in duo with Korean guitarist Lee Song-Ou, German flautist Thea Nielsen and as a member of the quintet "Tango Concertante". Tours, Master Classes, Festivals, Radio and TV appearances in Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA have brought him international acclaim. To date Oliver Fartach-Naini has released 7 CDs for the German Labels  DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, Kreuzberg Records and Acoustic Music Records. Oliver Fartach-Naini endorses “La Bella” strings. The German publisher “Edition Margaux” honours Oliver with the “Collection Oliver Fartach-Naini” which is a selection of the numerous pieces composers from all over the world have dedicated to Oliver and his ensembles.

Oliver Fartach-Naini currently lectures at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. His interest in teaching is also documented in his thesis on early childhood guitar pedagogy submitted for his first University degree in Berlin. As the repertoire consultant for the 2012 AMEB classical guitar syllabus Oliver Fartach-Naini published 7 graded repertoire books with instructional commentary and compiled a 1000 work repertoire list. Oliver Fartach-Naini was a student of Laurie Randolph at the "University of the Arts Berlin" and the Academy of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig and has participated in many international master classes including Eduardo Fernandez, Alvaro Pierri, Abel Carlevaro, Thomas Müller-Pering, Pepe Romero, Hopkinson Smith and Nigel North.

Amelia Granturco has been playing the piano accordion since the age of 3. Amelia studied under Vince Fuda in the 1990s and later under Dr Elizabeth Jones from 2002 to 2010, and commenced her Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance under the direction of Dr Jones in 2008 at the Australian Institute of Music. She went on to study a Graduate Diploma in Education (Music-Secondary) at the Australian Catholic University and is currently a High School Music Teacher at Emmaus Catholic College in Kemps Creek. Amelia is an active member of the Accodrion Society of Australia and is the Co-Musical Director of the Society’s NSW Orchestra alongside Ross Maio. The group has recently recorded their latest album and is looking to release it in Broken Hill in early 2014. Amelia has toured extensively in Italy, Germany, Austria, China, New Zealand and Australia. Her passion for the accordion is deeply rooted in Tango Nuevo and particularly in the works of Astor Piazzolla and Richard Galliano.