Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | |
---|---|
Short name | TSO |
Founded | 1948 |
Location | Hobart, Australia |
Concert hall | Federation Concert Hall |
Principal conductor | Eivind Aadland |
Website | www |
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a
History
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra was established in 1948, and gave its first concert on 25 May in the Hobart Town Hall, conducted by Joseph Post. The soloist was the Tasmanian-born pianist Eileen Joyce, who performed the Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg.[1]
From 1973 to 1998 its home was the
The TSO was the first Australian orchestra to have its own radio program, Journey into Melody, which was broadcast weekly from 1956 to 1969.
By the late 1960s, there were far more subscribers per head of the state population (1 in 144) than in any of the other capital-city based ABC orchestras. In 1995, when funding cuts threatened to downsize the orchestra from 47 players, a petition was launched by the Friends of the TSO that gathered 35,000 signatures, the largest petition in Tasmanian history.
In 1998, A Taste of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra was published. This was a cookbook that included recipes contributed by members of the orchestra, guest conductors and visiting artists. It sold far more than anticipated, including healthy sales on the Australian mainland.
It receives government funding from both the
Amongst the orchestra's recordings are the complete works of Ignaz Moscheles for piano and orchestra, for which the soloist and conductor was Howard Shelley.
The TSO has toured to Israel, Greece, South Korea, Indonesia, Argentina, United States, Canada, China and Japan as well as widely throughout Australia. It won the 1996 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, and a documentary on Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose, which featured the TSO, won the Best Biography Profile at the New York Festival International Television Programming Awards.
With
Chief conductors
- Kenneth Murison Bourn (1962)
- Thomas Matthews (1962–1968)
- Thomas Mayer (1970–1974)
- Vanco Cavdarski (1974–1980)
- Barry Tuckwell (1980–1983)[4]
- Geoffrey Lancaster
- Nicholas Braithwaite
- Dobbs Franks (1989–1991)
- David Porcelijn
- Ola Rudner (2001–2003)
- Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2004–2011)
- Marko Letonja (2012–2020)
- Eivind Aadland (2020–present)
Concertmasters
- Lionel Hickey (1948–1962)
- Leon La Gruta
- Wilfred Jones
- William Hennessy
- Barbara Jane Gilby
- Jun Yi Ma
- Emma McGrath
Charting albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
---|---|---|
AUS [5] | ||
Mozart Arias and Orchestral Music (with Teddy Tahu Rhodes) |
|
77 |
Awards and nominations
AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Nightlight | Best Independent Classical Album or EP | Nominated | [6][7] |
APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards
The
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
---|---|---|---|
2005 |
Concerto for Guitar and Strings (Ross Edwards) – Karin Schaupp, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) | Orchestral Work of the Year[9] | Won |
Australian Music Program 2004 – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation[9] | Won | |
2006 |
Blue Rags (Ian Munro) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Orchestral Work of the Year[10] | Nominated |
Cello Dreaming Orchestral Version (Peter Sculthorpe) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Orchestral Work of the Year[11] | Won | |
Quamby (Peter Sculthorpe) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Orchestral Work of the Year[10] | Nominated | |
2007 |
Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor) | Orchestral Work of the Year[12] | Nominated |
Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education[12] | Nominated | |
2008 |
Cantilena Pacifica (Richard Meale) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Erica Kennedy (violin), Richard Mills (conductor) | Orchestral Work of the Year[13] | Nominated |
2009 |
Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) | Orchestral Work of the Year[14] | Won |
Palm Court Suite (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) | Orchestral Work of the Year[15] | Nominated | |
TSO Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education[15] | Nominated |
ARIA Music Awards
The
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1990 | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons | Best Classical Album | Won | [16] |
1997 | Peter Sculthorpe: The Fifth Continent (with David Porcelijn) | Nominated | ||
2002 | Symphony of Lullabies (with Sean O'Boyle) | Best Children's Album | Nominated | |
2003 | Mozart Arias (with Niki Vasilakis & Teddy Tahu Rhodes) | Best Classical Album | Nominated | [16] |
2006 | Mendelssohn, Bruch, Ravel (with Niki Vasilakis & Sebastian Lang-Lessing) | Nominated | ||
2008 | Baroque Guitar Concertos (with Slava Grigoryan & Benjamin Northey) | Nominated | ||
2014 | Mozart Arias (with Emma Matthews & Marko Letonja) | Nominated | ||
2018 | Into Silence: Pärt, Vasks, Górecki, Pelecis (with Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Johannes Fritzsch) | Nominated |
National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) commenced in 2016 to recognise contributions to the live music industry in Australia.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Best Classical Act | Won | [17][18] |
See also
- Symphony Australia
- IHOS Music Theatre and Opera
Notes
- ^ "Eileen Joyce (1908–1991) Timeline" Archived 18 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "I Dreamed a Dream: Hit Songs from Broadway". 2013 Universal Music Australia. Archived from the original on 8 October 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ "The TSO Goes to Broadway". Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ Live Performance Australia
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 233.
- ^ "Nominees Announced for the Australian Independent Music Awards 2023". Music Feeds. 31 May 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ "King Stingray and Genesis Owusu Win Big at 2023 AIR Awards". Music Feeds. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- Australasian Performing Right Association(APRA). Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- ^ a b "2005 Winners – Classical Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 17 May 2010.
- ^ a b "2006 Finalists – Classical Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- ^ "2006 Winners – Classical Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- ^ a b "2007 Finalists – Classical Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ "2008 Finalists – Classical Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- Australasian Performing Right Association(APRA). Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ a b "2009 Finalists – Classical Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ^ a b ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards – Winners by Award". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Nominees Announced For The 2023 National Live Music Awards". The Music. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Genesis Owusu And Amyl & The Sniffers Win Big At The 2023 National Live Music Awards". The Music. 11 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
Further reading
- Catherine Hocking, Feature on the TSO, ABC Radio 24 Hoursmagazine, April 1998