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Crean hosts top arts bodies

ARTS Minister Simon Crean is today playing host in Canberra to eight of Australia’s top performing arts training institutions to celebrate their contribution to our country. 

Kelly with an Australian National Academy of Music player
One of the highlights will be a premiere of a new collaboration between singer/songwriter Paul Kelly, recorder player Genevieve Lacey, composer James Ledger and 10 students from Melbourne’s Australian National Academy of Music (“CityNews” notes that’s not the ANU School of Music) at Parliament House.

The “Australian Roundtable for Arts Training Excellence,” funded by the Commonwealth Government, aims to ensure that Australian artists take centre stage on concert hall stages, in theatres and circus spaces and on cinema screens around the world.

It’s no surprise to learn that the organisations are The Australian Ballet School, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Australian National Academy of Music, Australian Youth Orchestra, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, NAISDA Dance College, National Institute of Circus Arts and the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Nick Bailey, co-chair of the organisation praised each institution as “the highest level training institute in their field.”

Mr Crean, taking an economic slant, said, “these institutions represent a strong future for performing arts in Australia, and play an invaluable role fostering excellence in the arts, and contributing to Australia’s thriving creative economy.”

He added that in 2012-13 the Government would invest more that $40 million in “these centres of excellence.”

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