Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 21 July
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
In the race to teach children to be literate and numerate is there a chance that we have lost sight of the real goals of literacy and numeracy and the real reasons for education? What is the education revolution the Federal Government speaks of and where is the place of music in this revolution? How does music help us become literate?
Featuring
Richard Gill
Richard Gill is an internationally respected music educator and conductor. He has been artistic director of OzOpera, artistic director and chief conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the adviser for the Musica Viva in Schools program. He is currently music director of Victorian Opera.
Richard has frequently conducted for Opera Australia and OzOpera, and in recent seasons has conducted Meet the Music concerts with the Sydney Symphony, Discovery concerts with the Sydney Sinfonia, the Melbourne, Canberra, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony orchestras, and the Brisbane and Melbourne premiere seasons of Richard Mills’ The Love of the Nightingale.
Richard Gill has received numerous accolades, including an Order of Australia Medal, the Bernard Heinze Award, honorary doctorates from the Edith Cowan University of Western Australia and the Australian Catholic University, the Australian Music Centre’s award for Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Composition by an individual, and the Australia Council’s Don Banks Award.