THE cream of young talent from Canberra and the broader region was on show at the weekend with the ANU School of Music’s new cello mini-festival.
I made it to the Larry Sitsky Recital Room for the final tertiary students’ recital, a display of passionate cello.
Canberra’s James Monro took out first place with some rocoo variations Tchaikovsky and a new composition of his own, closely followed by Eloise Ng, who performed Hungarian Rhapsody by Popper and a sonata by Fauré.
We also saw in competition Gabriel Fromyhr in an unconventional performance on a gut-stringed cello, powerful works, including one of her own, by Enola Jeffries as well as non-competition showcase performances by Chloe Law and Eleanor Bladon.
It was a moving conclusion to an event two of its organisers, Lindy Reksten and David Pereira, confidently expect will become a regular item on the School of Music calendar.
The full list of placements is:
Primary Students’ Recital
Winner: Ivy Yan
Runners-Up: Sienna Joy Copaceanu and Ryan Xing
Secondary Students’ Recital
Winner: Gabrielle Zhong
Runner-Up: Alexander Davidson
Tertiary Students’ Recital
Winner: James Monro (ANU School of Music student)
Runner-Up: Eloise Ng (ANU School of Music student)
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The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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