This past Saturday saw our Composing Conversations workshop come to a glorious end as we performed our two new works alongside a number of highly acclaimed community orchestras at the inaugural VCO Project Gala event. Mark Viggiani’s piece “Of Tulips and Dragons” won first place in the arrangement section of the competition. Nicholas Goulding’s piece “Overflow” was premiered with style and conviction.  It was a true honour to be the orchestra who played… Read More

Community music is a space that exists for people like us. It is a welcoming place where everyone can turn up and join in, learn something new and enjoy the results. Music teachers and conductors are like magicians waving wands around and allowing grown-ups to play instruments in the same room at the same time. It’s amazing, and who would have known that it was allowed, much less encouraged! This Saturday 24th… Read More

Nicholas Goulding has composed for Squawkestra “Overflow”, an original work which we are proud to be premiering at the VCO Project Gala Concert. Nicholas is a composer from Melbourne, Australia. Genres such as jazz, modern classical and dance music are included in his repertoire, whilst a passion for film scoring inspires a continued experimentation and discovery of new sounds. After studying Composition, Film-Scoring and Songwriting at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, he… Read More

Mark Viggiani has composed for Squawkestra “Of Tulips and Dragons”, an arrangement of five pieces taken from Béla Bartók’s piano music, which we are proud to be premiering at the VCO Project Gala Concert. He has been active as a composer since the early 1990s. Amongst numerous awards and prizes most recently Viggiani won the 2014 Melbourne Conservatory of Music / Melbourne Recital Centre award, for which the work Cleopatra was commissioned for Ensemble… Read More