FOV: public forum with Richard Gill, March 23, Hobart Town Hall, 4pm

Festival of Voices would like to invite you to attend a public forum with Richard Gill, OAM, founding Music Director and Conductor Emeritus of Victorian Opera.

Please join us for light refreshments at 4pm and then from 4.30pm, Richard will be expanding on his recent Peggy Glanville-Hicks lecture to assert the importance new music has on our ears and our lives, and why singing is the best way to acquire a complete musical education.

“The imagination is stimulated, listening skills are developed, memory is enhanced, and children learn to discriminate musical sounds one from another, commenting on how they and others have created new musical ideas” – Richard Gill, Limelight Magazine 2015

Richard Gill has conducted all the major Australian opera companies, symphony and youth orchestras, New Zealand Symphony and Youth Orchestras, Sydney Chamber Choir and Sydney Philharmonia Choir. He is one of Australia’s most passionate, knowledgable and entertaining advocates in the music industry, making this an event not to be missed.

For Festival of Voices 2016, he will be conducting Bach’s St Matthew Passion on stage at Hobart’s Federation Concert Hall with one of Australia’s leading symphony orchestras, the TSO, as well as leading the FoV Chorale in 2016’s opening and closing events.

This lecture forms part of a larger program of professional and community engagement opportunities that the Festival of Voices is bringing to music educators and the general public through programs and partnerships with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, The Alcorso Foundation, Hobart City Mission and others.

This free event is not only for music educators and teachers, but all those interested in music and the link between creativity and experiential learning. For catering and coordination please register your interest below and feel free to forward this invitation to those you feel would be interested in attending:

Festival of Voices website HERE
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