The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony: Her

A celebration of women in music featuring works by Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon and Mikaela Thomsen.

Join the start of a new season of music making with The University of Melbourne’s Wind Symphony.

This concert is all about Her. Who is she? She is the Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman by Joan Tower. She is Miss E.C. Wilson, Georgia Isabella Keon, and Tempest Margaret Paul, three Australian composers from the nineteenth century rediscovered in Dances of Old Sydney for Wind Band by our Ph.D. student Tracy Videon. She is Mikaela Thomsen, a student guest soloist, performing Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto; and she is the inspiration for James Barnes’ Third Symphony.

The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony
Jackie Hartenberger conductor
Tracy Videon guest conductor
Mikaela Thomsen soloist

Joan Tower  Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No.1     

Miss E.C. Wilson, Georgia Isabella Keon, and Tempest Margaret Paul, arr. Tracey Videon  Dances of Old Sydney Suite 

Jennifer Higdon     Percussion Concerto

Interval

James Barnes  Third Symphony