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Acclaimed
both for its high standards of artistry and professionalism, the
Melbourne-based Team of Pianists has captivated audiences in Australia
and overseas for nearly twenty years. Coupled with unquestioned
commitment to the highest artistic performance standards in its
many solo and chamber recitals, concerto performances , CDs, and
broadcasts, the Team is equally committed to promoting young musicians
through its many masterclass programmes in metropolitan and regional
areas alike. The Team has produced nine CDs covering wide range
of music including a number of exciting, yet rarely recorded works,
as well as two innovative videos and various publications on the
art of piano playing and musicianship. The members of the Team are
Artists-In-Residence for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
at Glenfern, the National Trust's Centre for the Arts and Culture.
Here the Team has recently established the Glenfern Piano Institute
which has developed innovative programmes including the Spring Piano
School for Primary and Secondary school age students, Weekend Retreats
for Adult Piano Students, as well as masterclasses by Australian
and overseas artists.
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For
many years, Max Cooke has been a leading figure in music performance
and education, and he has taught some very talented students some
of whom are Professors of Music in Germany, Scotland and in Australia.
His own performances have brought him together with famous musicians
and conductors.
Max Cooke studied at
the University of Melbourne, specialising in Music at the University
Conservatorium and languages in the Arts Faculty. He then proceeded
to Europe where he studied piano at the Ecole Normale de Musique
in Paris, under the great concert pianist Alfred Cortot, and he
studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In 1951 he was invited
by Professor Heinze to return to the Conservatorium as a member
of staff. Max Cooke has remained on the staff of the University
of Melbourne ever since. He started as Chief Study Teacher, was
then Senior Lecturer and later Associate Professor (Reader), and
he was for six years until 1981 Dean of the Faculty and Chairman
of the Department of Music. He is a Professor at Monash University,
and he teaches also at the Victorian College of the Arts.
His career is involved
with performance and teaching, and he has produced a number of publications
on music and on piano teaching, including one on Japanese Music
Teaching Methods in Australia, and two on his work with musically
gifted children. His publications titled TONE, TOUCH AND TECHNIQUE,
together with CDs and videos that accompany them, have been used
extensively by piano teachers and students. They combine wide pianistic
knowledge and experience with very considerable investigation and
research into the physics and physiology of piano performance. He
has lectured on these publications in Europe and England as well
as in Australia.
Max Cooke has been president
of the Victorian Music Teachers Association, National President
of the Australian Society for Music Education, and Chairman of the
Commission on the Education of the Professional Musician within
the International Society for Music Education (ISME).
In the field of performance,
Max Cooke has played many times as soloist with orchestras, giving
over sixty concerto presentations, and he has been regularly involved
with chamber music and accompanying, playing both piano and harpsichord.
He has worked with many local and overseas musicians, and has spent
a considerable time in Europe, particularly in Germany. He has been
an adjudicator on the panel of the Busoni International Piano
Competition in Bolzano (Italy).
With the TEAM OF PIANISTS
which he directs, he has given and organised many recitals, has
produced seven CDs and two videos, and he conducts broadcasts on
radio 3 MBS FM. One of the Team¹s successful annual events
is a series of recitals titled TWILIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC AT RIPPON
LEA, involving the TEAM OF PIANISTS with leading musicians from
Australia and overseas.
In 1988 Max Cooke was
invited to become a Fellow of the Australian College of Education.
In the Queen¹s birthday honours lists of 1998, he was awarded
the Order of Australia Medal for services to music and to education,
particularly to piano pedagogy and the training of students. In
2001, Max Cooke received the 'Bundesverdienstkreuz' from the President
of the Federal Republic of Germany, Johannes Rau. This makes him
an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic.
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Robert Chamberlain is
a versatile and accomplished pianist, with interests ranging from
period performance to contemporary music and with specialisations
including chamber and ensemble music of all kinds. He studied for
Bachelors and Masters degrees in Australia under Max Cooke, in Vienna
as a winner of the Apex/Robert Stolz Scholarship, and also at the
Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, where he worked with many distinguished
international artists, such as John Perry, Peter Donohoe, Janos
Starker and Lorand Fenyves.
A partner in the Melbourne
based Team of Pianists, Artists in Residence for the National Trust
of Australia (Vic), he has developed and directs the Team’s annual
Spring Piano School for talented school age pianists, as well as
the Weekend Retreat for Adult Piano Students.
His concert engagements
in recent years have included performances in Turkey, Malaysia and
Thailand, at the 2005 Barossa Music Festival in period instrument
collaborations on the music of Brahms with clarinettist Craig Hill,
numerous contemporary music projects including recordings, performances
and an Australia Council funded mentorship with the contemporary
music ensemble re-sound, as well as many chamber and solo recitals,
recordings and radio broadcasts. In July 2008 he gave recitals,
workshops and masterclasses in Bangkok for the Thailand Music Educators
Association and in Kuala Lumpur for The Talent Makers music school.
For four years he perfomed
in the piano trio, Trio Erytheia, presenting the Australian premieres
of works by Peteris Vasks, Sidika Özdil, Andrián Pertout,
Andrew Blyth, Astor Piazolla as well as mainstream and contemporary
piano trio repertoire in innovative broadcasts and concerts. He
has collaborated with other chamber groups including the Hamer String
Quartet and members of the Flinders Quartet, in piano quartet and
piano quintet repertoire, with instrumentalists such as flautist
Megan Sterling (Hong Kong Philharmonic), saxophonist Jason Xanthoudakis,
clarinettists David Griffiths and Phillip Miechel, and with vocalists
such as sopranos Emily Xiao Wang and Michelle Marie Cook and Lousie
Page.
Robert has recorded
on some 15 CD’s for a number of labels including Tall Poppies, Naxos
(his recording with Len Vorster of Holst’s Music for two Pianos
was one of a number of discs selected for Gramophone Editors Choice
Award in 1999), Move Records and VoxAustralis.
As a scholar Robert
has edited, with violinist Marina Marsden (Sydney Symphony Orchestra),
a critical edition of Australian composer Margaret Sutherland’s
Sonata for Violin and Piano (Currency Press, 2000), which they also
recorded on the Tall Poppies label.
Robert is a distinguished
teacher, for many years on the sessional staff at the University
of Melbourne Faculty of Music, but now at the School of Music -
Conservatorium, at Monash University. He also teaches children of
all ages, as well as adults and has adjudicated around Australia,
for the Australian National Piano Award in Shepparton, for Eisteddfods
and competitions in Albury, Ballarat, Wollongong and Melbourne.
He gives masterclasses and workshops in Universities and music schools
on a wider range of topics, focusing in particular on teaching and
learning processes, and on style and technique in piano performance.
"Full house audience
for top Aussie musicians"
"The duos masterful interpretation of the dramatic sonata....The
audience was captivated by the dreamlike ambience....It was pure
heaven, a night to remember for all who came"
New Sabah Times (Malaysia), May 2000
"Accompanied here
by the first-class pianist Robert Chamberlain..."
Bremer Magazine (Germany) February 1996
"A beautifully
played and recorded recital of music old and new for violin and
piano from Australia's Tall Poppies imprint."
"Marsden and Chamberlain's performance here is pretty much
ideal". (Grieg Violin Sonata in F major, Nielsen violin Sonata
no. 1 )
Neil Horner, a UK website review, October 2003
(http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2003/Oct03/marsden.htm)
"Trio Erytheia
Isin Cakmakcioglu (violin), Rachel Atkinson (cello) and Robert
Chamberlain (piano) - handled the tight sight lines to give a committed
performance of very diverse music. This ensemble is making a name
for itself in the new-music field. At last, Melbourne has a group
that maintains a focus in that specialised area rather than instrumentalists
coming together for a concert and then dispersing"
The Age, October 28, 2003.
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One of few Australian-based
pianists who have sustained a long-term performing career independent
of a major teaching position, Darryl Coote is highly esteemed for
the depth of his musicianship and fine technique. He is a partner
of the TEAM OF PIANISTS, Artists-in-Residence at the National Trust
of Australia (Victoria) http://www.teamofpianists.com.au. He pursues
an active career as a solo pianist, chamber musician, concerto soloist,
teacher and adjudicator. He studied piano privately for many years
with Rennie Sullivan, then with Max Cooke at the University of Melbourne,
where he completed the degree of Bachelor of Music with Honours
and subsequently, Master of Music. He studied also with Kurt Bauer
at the Musikhochschule, Hanover (Germany). He has been the recipient
of a number of prizes and awards, including the Allans Award, the
national Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Scholarship, a Queen Elizabeth
Award and he was Victorian State winner of the ABC Instrumental
and Vocal Competition (now Young Performers' Awards).
Darryl has appeared
in concert in many parts of Australia, including: Melbourne, Perth,
Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart, Newcastle, Canberra, Brisbane, Toowoomba,
NSW South Coast and the Gold Coast, as well as many of Victoria's
metropolitan and regional venues. His concerto appearances include
performances with the Melbourne Symphony's Town Hall series, the
Arcata Orchestra of Stuttgart, the Victorian College of the Arts
Symphony Orchestra and the New Monash Orchestra. During the past
fifteen years, he has given many performances in the highly-acclaimed
series TWILIGHT CHAMBER MUSIC AT RIPPON LEA. An all-round ensemble
performer, he often performs piano duets with Max Cooke, as well
as major two-piano works with Robert Chamberlain. He is a sought-after
chamber musician and accompanist, having worked with artists such
as Anne Gilby (oboe), Phillip Miechel (clarinet), Ian Morgan (clarinet),
David Thomas (clarinet), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo soprano), Merlyn
Quaife (soprano), Kathleen Southall-Casey (soprano), Dana Zeimer
(soprano), Kristy Conrau (cello), Josephine Vains (cello), Rohan
de Korte (cello), Judith Hickel (violin), Charles Castleman (violin),
Miwako Abe (violin), Robert Macindoe (violin), Brian Hansford (baritone)
and Michael Leighton Jones (baritone). In 2007 he and cellist Josephine
Vains gave a series of recitals in Geelong, Melbourne and Canberra.
He has undertaken a number of overseas tours, having performed in
several German cities, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Shenzhen, Foshan,
Nanjing, Hong Kong, as well as in Rochester, USA. In 2003 he toured
the eastern states of Australia, as associate artist to famed American
violinist Charles Castleman (Eastman School of Music, Rochester),
and he partnered Charles Castleman again in 2005, performing sonatas
by Debussy and Prokofiev, amongst other works. Together with noted
mezzo-soprano, Sally-Anne Russell, an artist with whom he has collaborated
for several years, he has recorded Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes
Op. 52 on CD (with other singers also), performed many times in
concerts presented by the Team of Pianists, for the ACT Lieder Society,
in ABC studio broadcasts, at Monash University, at the University
of Adelaide, as well as in recitals on the Mornington Peninsula.
Darryl has recorded
and broadcast extensively on Australian radio networks, including
ABC Classic FM and 3MBS FM. He features on all nine CDs produced
by the TEAM OF PIANISTS, having recorded Bruch's Concerto for Two
Pianos and Orchestra with Robert Chamberlain and the New Monash
Orchestra, conducted by André de Quadros. He is an experienced
teacher, examiner and adjudicator, and is a member of the piano
faculty at Monash University, as well as a council member and currently
President of the Victorian Music Teachers' Association. In 2005
he adjudicated the senior piano sections at the Adelaide Eisteddfod,
as well as all the piano sections at the Australian National Eisteddfod
in Canberra. He has given masterclasses in Malaysia, in several
cities in Germany, in various universities around Australia, at
the Kunitachi Academy in Tokyo, as well as in the USA at Boston
University and at the Eastman School of Music. In June of 2008 he
visited China for the first time, giving masterclasses in Shenzhen,
Nanjing and Hong Kong. Together with Max Cooke, he is one of the
co-founders and an adjudicator of the Australian National Piano
Award www.pianoaward.com.au and he was secretary of the Organising
Committee for the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Melbourne,
July 2003). He is a member of the Australian German Association,
having performed for that association early in 2005 together with
clarinettist Phillip Miechel and with soprano Merlyn Quaife.
What the critics have
said:
"Darryl Coote's authoritative account of Rachmaninoff's Piano
Concerto No. 1....showed a surprisingly wide range of touch."
Tom Naisby, Newcastle Herald
"Coote comes in
clear and his future is bright" Jeremy Vincent, the Melbourne
Herald
"Coote's performance
was distinguished by clarity of line, tonal ease and perfectly graded
dynamics." Barbara Hebden, Brisbane Courier Mail
"No fear, Mr. Coote,
your playing was remarkable" Otto Lewe, Neue Westfälische,
Germany
"....his splendid
technical and conceptual command does the greatest service"
Sir Peter Platt, Sounds Australian
"FOCUS ON PERFECTION:
An enthusiastic crowd packed into the grand ballroom to enjoy readings
of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin that were as masterly as they were
fresh and spontaneous. Pianist Darryl Coote provided a sensitive
counterweight to Siona Loughnane's violin in Mozart's Sonata in
B flat major (K378) and Kristy Conrau's cello in Chopin's Sonata
in G minor (Op. 65)...The major work on the program was Beethoven's
sublime Trio in B flat (Op. 97),...The trio tackled this most demanding
work with all the focussed determination and unfailing stamina that
it requires." Johanna Selleck, Herald Sun
"Darryl Coote gave
a quick account of the Bach G major French Suite, notable for some
nicely detailed polyphonic work in the gigue...Coote worked to even
more impressive effect accompanying [Sally Anne] Russell in three
Strauss lieder, giving the mezzo's clear and measured attack a highly
sympathetic underpinning, their reading of Morgen, Befreit and a
glowingly ardent Zueignung making for one of the series' memorable
highlights." Clive O'Connell, The Age
"Coote, as in last
year's recital with Sally Anne Russell, escorted Hansford through
this bleak cycle with a clear eye for the harmonic backdrop to the
vocal line that the composer varies so cunningly, as well as coping
with some difficult transpositions; one of this artist's most well-considered,
sensitive performances." Clive O'Connell, The Age
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Rohan
completed the Master of Music Performance degree at the Victorian
College of the Arts with First Class Honours. He is a member of
the Golden Key Honour Society, and was a grand finalist and prize-winner
at the 2000 Australian Piano Award. Rohan has performed as soloist
with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Victorian Youth Symphony
Orchestra, the Melbourne University Choral Society, Monash Sinfonia
and the New Monash Orchestra and has been the recipient of a number
of awards and prizes. At the end of his Masters studies in 2002,
he received an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship to undertake
a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, and subsequently became
the VCA's first PhD candidate. He has performed in the Rigg Estate
Recital Series, the National Trust's Twilight Concert Series at
Rippon Lea, Labassa and Como as well as being frequent performer
in the Melbourne International Festival over recent years. Rohan
has also performed in Europe and Asia. He is a partner in the Team
of Pianists and his performances have been the subject of broadcasts
on ABC Classic FM as well as on the Team of Pianists' most recent
CD release, 'Schimmel Artists' Series'.
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