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In the lead up and following Anthony Legge’s very successful concert at Pilgrim Church on July 2nd, here is a sampling from the Adelaide Advertiser’s ‘AdelaideNow’ website: “Legge’s playing was authoritative, supportive, sympathetic and as aware of the texts as though he, too, was singing them.” – Elizabeth Silsbury, AdelaideNow July 05, 2010.  Link to this review here. There is also a very interesting article by Tim Lloyd “An accomplished accompanist at play” – link to this article here. (The Advertiser July 02, 2010)

Correction Anthony Legge’s Concert of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch now starts at 7.30 pm not 7 pm as previously advertised. The details are now: 7.30 pm Friday July 2 Pilgrim Church – Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch with soprano, Rosalind Martin and tenor, Robert Macfarlane.

Please click here to view and download: AGSA Newsletter April 2010

The brochure and program for the 2010 Young Accompanists Showcase is now available. Please click below: 2010 Young Accompanists Showcase – Application 2010 Young Accompanists Showcase – Program

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A printable version of this report can be found here In January 2009, still buoyed by the glowing success of the 2008 Festival and bolstered by a $5000 ex gratia payment from Arts SA in recognition of our splendid Silver Anniversary efforts, we produced our first professionally designed brochure which has put us “into step” with the best of the publicity world. A NEW EDUCATIONAL PROJECT To quote Diana, “our efforts to highlight the accompanist do not end with our public events” With this in mind, an educational opportunity arose directly from our 2008 Festival. David Barnard, who was our guest in Young Accompanists on Show and who now has a substantial career as an accompanist & repetiteur in the UK, was engaged by State Opera of SA as chief repetiteur for the November production of The Flying Dutchman. AGSA agreed to support the appointment which included David mentoring a…

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Internationally renowned opera pianist/vocal coach and recitalist Anthony Legge (above) is AGSA’s Musician in Residence for the 2010 Accompanists’ Festival. He studied at the Guildhall, Oxford University and the London Opera Centre, and also studied accompanying privately with Geoffrey Parsons and Paul Hamburger.  His numerous recitals include those with, amongst others, Dame Janet Baker, Sir Thomas Allen, Gwynne Howell, Håkan Hagegård and Denyce Graves. He has worked regularly with the principal British opera companies, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Australia, many European opera companies and at Bayreuth, where he assisted on the Kupfer-Barenboim Ring cycle for five years and a new production of Die Meistersinger. He was Head of Music at English National Opera for 14 years where he conducted performances of Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus and Eurydice, Lulu, and Alcina.  He was a judge on the award-winning TV programme series Operatunity. He was Director of Opera at the Royal Academy…

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER Thursday February 18. 2010 We never know what the New Year will bring to us! 2010 has started us off with mixed feelings. We were all sorry to hear that Diana’s daughter is not well & understand that therefore the “captain has had to forsake the ship” for a while. For the moment the committee has taken over various duties in the preparation for this year’s Festival. With this, there is only good news. We begin on June 6 with the Young Accompanists’ Showcase. Several Secondary School pianists will rehearse & perform with Janet Anderson (violin), Claire Oremland (‘Cello), Louisa Perfect (Soprano) & Keith Hempton (Bass). Brian Chatterton has been asked to take the Masterclass at Marryatville High School on June 6. The first Concert will take place also at Marryatville on June 20, the second in Pilgrim Church (Adelaide) on June 30. The Festival week will run…

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A ‘Web View’ version of the Regster of Accompanists is now available. Please click here to start reading.

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