Artistic Directors blog

WELCOME From the Artistic Director It is with great pleasure and pride that I welcome you to the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute for 2010. Entering the fifth year of this outstanding program, AISOI has gone from strength to strength. It has firmly positioned itself in Australia’s musical calendar, offering an important developmental stepping stone [...]

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Commissioned Composer

Award-winning composer Conrad Pope is making waves in Hollywood. “Fresh and top flight,” raves Variety about his music. Pope’s scores range over the entire cinematic spectrum. “Emotionally evocative”, his music expertly creates for each film what The Hollywood Reporter called “sub-textural punch”. That Pope is emerging as one of the most exciting, original voices in [...]

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Scoring for Film, Television and E-Media

Australian born and former Los Angeles based composer Mark Buys began his undergraduate study in music at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) on classical guitar and in his second year won the José Ramirez Australian Guitar Competition. Four years on, he turned his attention from music performance to film score composition, balancing further [...]

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Concerts at a glance

Friday 03 December / AISOI Advanced Conductor Concert 1 / 6:00pm Hobart Town Hall /Program: MAHLER Symphony No.4 (chamber ensemble version arr. Irwin Stein)

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