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A number of students from the School of Music have excelled with prize winning collaborative work and highly regarded participation in an international inter-cultural collaborative music performance.

Waveney Wansbrough Memorial Prize

This year the competition for the Waveney Wansbrough Memorial Prize for 2010 was for two pianos. Naomi Smout and Daisy Xu delivered the winning performance of Lutoslawski Paganini Variations.

Flora Bunning Memorial Prize for Chamber Music

Sophie Edelman (violin), Alexander Nicholls (cello) and Sharon Chung (piano) have won the 2010 Flora Bunning Memorial Prize for Chamber Music for performing Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major ('Ghost') Op. 70 No. 1, 1st Movement.

Margarete Bello Prize for Chamber Music Performance

Sherilyn Tan (cello), Nick Pitt (cello), Tom Higham (viola), Chiara Kingwell (violin) and Teresa Vinci (violin) have won the 2010 Margarete Bello Prize for Chamber Music Performance. The quintet triumphed with their performance of Boccherini's String Quintet No. 4 in C Major.

Inter-Cultural Music Performance

School of Music first year students John Barton and Fleuranne Brockway, second year students Alyssa Weinstein and Jarred Yapp and fourth year student Andrew Hislop took part in last weekend’s highly successful production of Satu Langit (‘One Sky’).

Satu Langit is an international inter-cultural collaboration organised to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Western Australia – East Java sister state relationship. The production was directed by the renowned WA choreographer Chrissie Parrott and featured distinguished Indonesian dancers Didik Nini Thowok and Agung Tri Yulianto, as well as a talented company of local dancers.

Performing in a Javanese gamelan ensemble, the School of Music students provided the musical accompaniment for the event, which forms part of the Indonesia Festival currently being celebrated in Perth.

Media references

Danielle Loiseau (Acting Administrative Project Officer, School of Music, University of Western Australia) (+61 8) 6488 3994

Lisa Rozentals (Administrative Assistant (Marketing) for the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences) (+61 8) 6488 3047