Emma Winestone’s Final Honours Year Recital - Commission
Commissioned 19/06/2020 by violinist and aspiring arts administrator Emma Winestone for her Final Honours Year Recital (NOV 2020)
I am incredibly honoured and humbled to be commissioned by my close friend and colleague Emma to write a new, short 2-3minute work for her final recital coming later this November 2020. Tasked with bringing a ‘snippet of my own Australia’ to her recital, I have utilised local influences in my home suburb of Beaumaris to structure the work. Being a heritage themed concert, it’s really exciting to be the sole Australian representation at the start of the recital before leading into the Polish composers Wieniawski, Paderewski and Szymanowski. The piece has since been completed, “Starlit Sands”, by the 26/07 and awaits the intriguing workshopping process before its premiere later this year!
EMMA WINESTONE’S EXCERPTED BIO CURRENT TO AUGUST 2020
Emma Winestone is an enthusiastic performer with a great passion towards music for the stage. Born and raised in Melbourne, Emma began the violin at age 8 and grew up attending the Australian Ballet with her family, quickly falling in love with the beauty of ballet and its music. She has performed concerts with Melbourne Opera, Australian Conservatoire of Ballet Orchestra, Art of Sound Orchestra, Yarra Philharmonic, Heidelberg Choral Society and toured internationally with Melbourne Youth Orchestra playing alongside Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
Emma has participated in masterclasses from Fintan Murphy and Elizabeth Sellars, as well as Noah Bendix-Balgley, the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. She has attended the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp where she played amongst Australia’s finest young musicians in concerts broadcasted nationally on ABC Classic FM and has also performed the Allemande from Bach’s Partita II on ABC FM.
Emma is currently playing with the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and took part in the 2018 international tour to Singapore and Shanghai. Now completing her final semester of Honours Degree in performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Emma is undertaking an internship in Artistic Planning with the Melbourne Recital Centre in hopes of forging a career in arts administration.
