MODART provides emerging compsoers with the opportunity to develop a new work for vocal ensemble and receive a public performance by the Song Company
MODART
MODART is a professional development project that provides opportunities for emerging composers to develop works for vocal ensemble, and which then receive public performance by The Song Company.
Biography: Rhiannon Cook
After completing a double degree in music (composition) and science (biology) at Wollongong University, Rhiannon took up the position of composer-in-residence at The Illawarra Grammar School. She has taught piano at a number of schools including SCEGGS Darlinghurst, and has worked as Publications Coordinator at the Australian Music Centre. This year she is working as a volunteer in Chiang Rai, Thailand, as part of Ausaid's Youth Ambassador program.
Program Notes: A Scrapbook, An Album
Helen Garner writes "I went to visit my four sisters, carrying a tape recorder and my imagined map of the family. It was unsettling to learn that each sister has her own quite individual map of that territory…".
A Scrapbook, An Album is based on Helen Garner's essay of the same name published in the book Sisters. The piece explores three sisters' constructed personas, with each of the four sections illuminating a point at which their narratives overlap.
