Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

30/10/2024

TSO & ANAM: NOBUYUKI TSUJII
Sat 02 Nov 2024, 7.30 PM

Bruckner’s musical language is unique – grand-gestured but contemplative, deeply human while gazing at the heavens. If Mahler is a supreme sceptic about our place in the universe, Bruckner’s music celebrates the bond between human life and the profound joy of spiritual belief.

ANAM musicians will explore the musical wonders of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony as part of this special concert with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra under their Chief Conductor Eivind Aadland.

The concert begins with a miracle of beauty and excitement - the young Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, in which the soloist will be someone equally miraculous – Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, blind from birth and a gold medal winner in the Van Cliburn Competition.

Bruckner’s musical language is unique – grand-gestured but contemplative, deeply human while gazing at the heavens. If Mahler is a supreme sceptic about our place in the universe, Bruckner’s music celebrates the bond between human life and the profound joy of spiritual belief. From the shimmer...

30/10/2024

Attention pianists!
Applications for the 2025 ANAM Performance Program are still open, with the final deadline approaching at 11.59pm AEDT on Sunday, 10 November. Submit your recordings by Sunday, 24 November to complete your application.

To be considered, please ensure you meet the eligibility criteria and complete the three-step online application. Further details can be found below.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: ROUND 1 Download the audition requirements for Piano below.  Audition Requirements  Applications close: 11.59pm AEDT Sunday 10th November 2024 (with recordings due by Sunday 24th November 2024).    Find out more about the eligibility requirements and steps ...

25/10/2024

ANAM Artistic Director Paavali Jumppanen introduces Season 2025: 'Tuning In', where music becomes a profound journey beyond mere entertainment. From the Australian avant-garde to the miracles of Mozart’s intuition, Beethoven’s ethos, and the fresh ideas of young Estonian composers, Paavali invites us to attune to the deeper resonance within the music: https://anam.com.au/anam-blog/season-2025-tuning-in

25/10/2024

Are you the right person to lead Australia’s pre-eminent classical music training academy? The Australian National Academy of Music provides artistic and professional development for the most exceptional young classical musicians from Australia and New Zealand. The Board of ANAM is seeking to appoint an exceptional individual to be its next Artistic Director from mid-2026.

For more details and how to apply head to:https://anam.com.au/cms_uploads/docs/2024-october-anam-ad-job-ad.pdf

Applications close at 5pm AEDT Friday 29 November 2024.

For a Candidate Information Package and further enquiries, please contact Mary Jo Capps AM & Associates [email protected]

23/10/2024

The wait is over — the ANAM 2025 Season is here, unfolding with a remarkable line-up of events.
“In 2025, we’ll tune into the whispers from the world about what music, the art form we are custodians of, should be addressing today.”
— Paavali Jumppanen, ANAM Artistic Director

🔍Explore below

SEASON 2025 Plan your year ahead with exceptional performances, innovative collaborations, and inspiring musical journeys alongside ANAM musicians, faculty, guests and our partners. Indulge in your favourite works from the classical music canon through to the most cutting-edge new sounds.BOOK NOW  

22/10/2024

ALUMNI NEWS

Described as 'an ambitious and multifaceted voice in Australian chamber music' (Classic Melbourne), catch the ANAM alumni ensemble Penny Quartet in this compelling program featuring works by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga, Shostakovich, and the world premiere of 'Portal' by Australian composer Kym Alexandra Dillon.

Fri 1 Nov, 7pm
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
Tickets $37/ $30

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work, live, perform and learn. We pay our respects to people of the Kulin nation, their Elders past and present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

22/10/2024

ALUMNI NEWS

Brisbane Music Festival
From fairytales to the sounds of South America, to poetry and haunting soundscapes, hear artists up-close such as BMF's Artistic Director and ANAM alum Alex Raineri, baritone Camilo Lopez, Italian pianist Andrea Molteni, the Karlsruhe Concert Duo and more, in Part II of the Festival.

We recently spoke with Alex on the importance of providing a festival platform for audiences to hear rarely performed and new works, read more on our blog below.

Fri 25 Oct - Sun 27 Oct
Fourth Wall Arts, 540 Queen Street, Brisbane

Now in its impressive seventh year, the Brisbane Music Festival has secured its place on Australia’s cultural scene. The brainchild of ANAM alum Alex Raineri (piano 2015), the Festival has grown and evolved symbiotically with Alex’s own career aspirations. What started out as a forum for Alex to...

21/10/2024

BRAVE NEW WORLDS: ACTIVISM
Thu 24 Oct 2024, 3 PM

It has been said that people scarcely feel unity in a more powerful way than when they unite to sing an anthem. Musical works have been a symbol of unity among activists throughout history and act as aural records of turning points in the human story. This concert series offers a number of the most celebrated works of the canon, some reflecting major developments in thought and philosophy, and others showing the before-and-after of cataclysm.

Part of the program is curated by the ANAM musicians and consists of music motivated by action needed today. Across four performances, the faculty and musicians of ANAM explore the breadth of political upheaval in music, from the enlightenment utopias of Mozart to music born out of world war, to music birthed from rebellion and protest, join us for this revolutionary journey to Brave New Worlds.

🎫 Tickets: https://anam.com.au/whats-on/events/bravenewworlds4

18/10/2024

ANAM at NGV
Sat 19 Oct 2024, 11 AM & 12.15 PM

Each year, musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) are given the opportunity to curate performances at National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Australia responding to their exhibitions and collections. In October, NGV and ANAM unite to present classical music performances inspired by The Joseph Brown Collection, which tells the story of Australian immigrant Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE who became an artist, soldier and mentor.

Aditya Bhat (percussion/electronics), Sola Hughes (violin) and Kina Lin-Wilmoth (bassoon) will perform 'sympoietics of colour and form' – an improvised composition which translates the works of The Joseph Brown Collection into a collaborative musical score.

Free entry, booking is not required.

Each year, musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) are given the opportunity to curate performances at NGV Australia responding to NGV exhibitions and collections. The only professional performance training institute of its kind, ANAM is dedicated to training exceptional young...

16/10/2024

Be sure to join us this Sunday at the Abbotsford Convent for the ANAM Concerto Competition Melbourne final!
This will be the last chance to hear our amazing finalists play their works before they head down to perform in the ANAM Concerto Competition | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Angus Pace (VIC) bass trombone, playing Daniel Schnyder's 'SubZERO' Bass Trombone Concerto with Leigh Harrold (ANAM Associate Faculty) piano.

Emica Taylor (NZ) flute, plays Jacques Ibert's Flute Concerto with
Louisa Breen (ANAM Associate Faculty) piano

And Max Wung (WA) cello plays Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme with Louisa Breen (ANAM Associate Faculty) piano

For this event, tickets booked in advance are offered on a "pay what you wish" basis.

Not sure where to start? Our suggested price is $15, but feel free to nominate more or less (minimum of $2) as you wish. All ticket revenue contributes to ANAM’s ability to provide exceptional training for our young musicians and to present public performances throughout the year.

The ANAM Concerto Competition is a vital part of performance training, giving musicians the experience and insight needed to perform solo with an orchestra. It began in Semester One, when 34 musicians submitted a 20-minute recording of a concerto or solo work of their choice. From there a Faculty pa...

13/10/2024

Be sure to secure your tickets today for our special afternoon of music-making at Elgee Park 26 October at 2pm.
Featured in this concert is Claude Debussy's stunning and much-loved String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10.

Painting by Marcel Baschet of Claude Debussy, oil on mahogany wood, 25 x 21,5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
https://anam.com.au/whats-on/events/elgeeparkspring

11/10/2024

Are you a CA/CPA qualified finance manager, seeking a leadership role with broader responsibilities?
Are you interested in broadening your capabilities in operations management, company secretary and technology? Are you interested in the arts sector and working for a world-leading music training organisation?

The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) seeks a Chief Operating Officer to join the leadership team, with oversight across finance, governance and major project management.

Applications close 11.59pm Sunday 3 November 2024

For more details and how to apply head to: https://anam.com.au/about/positions-vacant

10/10/2024

ANAM AT ELGEE PARK: SPRING 2024
Sat 26 Oct 2024, 2 PM & 4.30 PM

Be sure to join us at Elgee Park for a stunning afternoon of music, featuring Holly Harrison's piece 'Airbender', for bassoon and string quartet.

As the title suggests, Airbender is loosely inspired by the fictional art of ‘airbending’, as explored in the animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. An extension of martial arts, airbenders possess an extraordinary ability to manipulate air and control the surrounding environment. In this way, the work imagines the bassoon as a type of sonic airbender, conjuring up an array of sounds driven by air! The piece explores the agility of the bassoon and extremes of register, and seeks to highlight the solo capabilities of the instrument. Airbender is further inspired by slap bass solos, prog-rock guitar ‘shredding’, and bluegrass sonorities, which trickle down into the string quartet.

Holly Harrison is an Australian composer from Western Sydney. Holly’s music is driven by the nonsense literature of Lewis Carroll, embracing stylistic juxtapositions, the visceral energy of rock, and whimsical humour. She was the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s composer in residence across 2020-2022, and in 2024 is composer in residence for the Canberra International Music Festival. Her music has been described as “exploding off the page”, full of “riotous energy, eclectic rhythmic complexity” and “inventive, witty and invested with thrilling dynamism and momentum”.

https://anam.com.au/whats-on/events/elgeeparkspring

08/10/2024

SEASON 2025: SAVE THE DATE

Mark your calendars! The wait is almost over. On Wednesday October 23, ANAM will unveil our 2025 season of concerts and events. Get ready to plan your year ahead with exceptional performances, innovative collaborations, and inspiring musical journeys alongside ANAM musicians, faculty, guests and our partners.

08/10/2024

ANAM MASTERCLASS: KATY WOOLLEY
Thu 10 Oct 2024, 10.30 AM

Katy Woolley, one of the most exciting horn players of her generation, is the principal horn of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouworkest Orchestra and an international visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Ahead of her ANAM residency this October, we asked her about the horn and her career.

On working with other musicians: “Working with anyone at the height of their potential is just the most life-enhancing and inspiring thing.”

On collaborating with ANAM musicians: “The program we’re playing is absolutely heavenly. I’m so excited to work with each individual musician, the ANAM musicians are world famous for their level and dedication. Then coming together and creating something greater than the individual parts – that’s where the magic happens.”

On challenges of playing the horn: “…it holds up the strongest mirror to the player if that makes sense… however you are feeling, however your body is responding, your horn will hold up a mirror to that.”

🎫 Tickets: https://anam.com.au/whats-on/events/masterclasskatywoolley

https://anam.com.au/anam-blog/music-makers-qanda-with-katy-woolley

Katy Woolley is considered one of the most exciting horn players of her generation. She is currently the Principal Horn of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and holds the position of International Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Before she arrives at ANAM for a...

04/10/2024

"It’s a program of both more and less accessible music, and I think audiences don’t need to feel pressured to enjoy it, but I hope everyone will go along with the musical journey and find themselves immersed in the worlds of Brahms and Schoenberg." -
Po Goh on Brahms The Progressive repertoire next Friday 11 October, 7 pm.

Read more about the connection between Po’s passion for indoor bouldering and piano performance in the new CutCommon article:
https://www.cutcommonmag.com/the-body-works-as-a-whole-when-you-practice-your-instrument/

Link to the tickets: https://anam.com.au/whats-on/events/brahmstheprogressive

In conversation with ANAM pianist Po Goh.

01/10/2024

Last year, ANAM collaborated with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Richard Tognetti, to release Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 'Eroica'.

We’re proud to share that the album has been nominated for Best Classical Album at the 2024 ARIA Awards. This project brought together ANAM musicians and the ACO to explore Beethoven’s masterpieces in fresh, exciting ways. Catch the ceremony live on Stan or YouTube on November 20:
https://www.aria.com.au/awards/nominees

30/09/2024

IAN POTTER EMERGING ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2025-2026
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SUN 6 OCT

Applications are now open to apply for ANAM's Ian Potter Emerging Artist Fellowships for 2025-2026. The Fellowship is a two-year program, and two selected ANAM alumni will each be awarded $50,000 per year ($100,000 total) to support the establishment of their independent performance practice.

Applicants must have completed at least two years' training at ANAM, and have completed all their formal music training at any institution at least two years prior to the commencement of the Fellowship. There is no age limit to apply.

For further information, eligibility criteria and application form, please visit the link below.

**APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 11.59PM SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER 2024** The Ian Potter Emerging Performers Fellowship is a two-year Fellowship valued at AU$50,000 each year for two years (total value AU$100,000) awarded by the Directors of ANAM, to an alum who displays a demonstrated commitment to esta...

24/09/2024

In the latest episode of Duet on ABC listen, ANAM’s Artistic Director Paavali Jumppanen chats with Tamara Anna Cislowska about his life in music, the close bond with his family, and some of his most unforgettable musical experiences. From performing alongside world-class conductors to sharing the stage with composers like Boulez and Penderecki, Paavali’s story is as inspiring as it is personal. Plus, don’t miss a beautiful live performance of Chopin straight from the Eugene Goossens Hall.

Tamara-Anna Cislowska welcomes the Artistic Director of ANAM, Paavali Jumppanen to Duet.

19/09/2024

OPEN CELLO CLASS

Our donors generously support ANAM musicians, allowing them to fully immerse themselves in the ANAM program. What many may not realise is that for musicians who have moved interstate and are away from family and friends, these donors also become a crucial ‘cheer squad,’ providing encouragement and building personal, often lifelong, connections.

Recently, we had the pleasure of inviting our donor community to a behind-the-scenes event – an open cello class led by Head of Strings and Cello, Howard Penny. Supporters enjoyed a performance-ready rendition of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations by Max Wung (WA) and a preview of the second movement of Haydn's Cello Concerto with Joshua Jones (QLD).

If you'd like to learn more about supporting a musician or donating to ANAM, please contact Sylvia Hosking at [email protected]

18/09/2024

In late August, ANAM’s Head of Percussion, Peter Neville, alongside ANAM alum Alexander Meagher, joined forces with ANAM percussionists to perform Gérard Grisey's The Black of the Star (Le Noir de l'Étoile), a pioneering work of spectral music that blends pulsar sounds with the acoustic richness of percussive timbres. Both performances were sold out, creating an unforgettable experience for all who attended.

We extend our thanks to the musicians for creating such an immersive and stimulating sonic environment, to Nathan Ellul for his brilliant light design, and to the entire team for managing the logistical demands of this unique event. Here are some highlights from the open rehearsal!

Photo credits: Pia Johnson

17/09/2024

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF ARTS IN PORT PHILLIP: A FORUM WITH COUNCIL CANDIDATES

New Venue Alert: To accommodate accessibility needs, the event will now take place at Theatre Works, 14 Acland St, St Kilda, VIC 3182.

This forum is your chance to hear directly from the candidates running in the upcoming City Of Port Phillip City Council elections as they outline their vision for the arts. This is a unique opportunity to engage with potential decision-makers who will shape the future of local arts organisations and influence the distribution of arts funding.

Your voice matters. Be there to ask questions and advocate for a sustainable arts community in Port Phillip.

Register here:

When: Monday 23rd September 6:00pm Where: Theatre Works, 14 Acland St, St Kilda --- City of Port Phillip Arts Collective (COPPAC) invites you for an important forum where the candidates for the upcoming City of Port Phillip Council elections will share their vision and commitment to the arts. This e...

16/09/2024

"The sheer scale of the production was like no other WASO has done before. Before the music even started it was bewildering to look up and around, anywhere, and see a musician in their seat – on stage, at the organ, in the stalls and even in the dress circle."

Read more about the ANAM musicians' performance with West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Magazine 6000 review:

There is perhaps no more literal interpretation of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.8 than as the “Symphony of a Thousand”. The sheer scale of the production was like no other WASO has done before. Before the music even started it was bewildering to look up and around, anywhere, and see a musician ...

03/11/2023

An amazing weekend at Elgee Park last weekend with ANAM musicians playing music surrounded by the artworks of Wayne Eager.

02/11/2023

As part of Season 2024, we're delighted to welcome a number of incredible guest artists to ANAM.
Some of these artists include:

- Pianist Claudia Chan, a dazzlingly gifted and eloquent advocate for contemporary composers who has curated a program of works by Ligeti, Lachenmann, Chin and more, 5 April 7pm.

- Brett Dean former ANAM artistic director returns for two special concerts, one with the ANAM Orchestra 24 August 7pm at St Kilda Town Hall and one of new chamber works 21 August 3pm at Convent.

- Conductor Erkki Lasonpalo in a program of gorgeous music by Beach, Sibelius and Wennäkoski at St Kilda Town Hall, 1 June 7pm.

- Clarinet superstar Christoffer Sundqvist, who presents a number of masterclasses and performances with ANAM musicians as part of a residency in May.

For further information about these performances head to anam.com.au/2024