WASO In Conversation | Deborah Cheetham AO

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Location

Date and time

  • Monday 26 September 2022, 5pm

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  • Education Partners

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  • Anyone who likes music
  • Community

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  • Free

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WASO In Conversation | Deborah Cheetham AO 

Bringing together the highest quality music education with some of the State’s most talented and experienced professional musicians, we are proud to continue our Tertiary Education Partnership with WASO in 2022.

IN CONVERSATION  | DEBORAH CHEETHAM AO 
In this series, members and guest artists of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra share an evening with the community discussing aspects of their performance / composition practice, preparation, and career highlights.

Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and Artistic Director of Short Black Opera, has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). 
 
Join Deborah as she sits down with Head of the Conservatorium, Alan Lourens, to talk about the upcoming performance of her monumental work Eumeralla - a war requiem for peace - giving audience members a unique insight into this special work ahead of its performance by WASO on 29 September.

Prof. Deborah Cheetham AO DUniv, BMus Ed, Amus A 
Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and Artistic Director of Short Black Opera, has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). 

Deborah Cheetham’s list of commissions for major Australian ensembles including works for the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and West Australian Symphony orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, Rubiks Collective, The Sydney Philharmonia, Plexus Collective, the Flinders Quartet and the Goldner Quartet. 
 
Awards and acknowledgements include; Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for service to music in Australia, the Merlyn Myer Prize for Composition, induction onto the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll and Women’s Honour Roll of Victoria, Melbourne Recital Centre Life Time Membership, 2019 Melbourne Prize for Music, Limelight Magazine’s Critics Choice Artist of the Year and The Helpmann JC Williamson award for life time service to the arts. 

In 2020 Deborah Cheetham was the 2020 Composer-in-residence for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and commenced her appointment at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University as Professor of Music practice. 
In 2021 Deborah Cheetham began a five year appointment as First Nations Chair of Melbourne Symphony orchestra.
 

Time: 5pm start, but join us for refreshments from 4.30pm 

Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium

Tickets: Free but registrations essential via [email protected]

RSVP: By Monday 19 September