AMEB Sound Insights: Piano

AMEB repertoire examined and performed live for piano learners. 

This unique series of events at Melbourne Recital Centre will provide learners with the chance to hear syllabus favourites played by AMEB examiners. Witness the discussion of pieces, descriptions from current composers, and essential insights to assist and inspire developing musicians.

Sound Insights: Piano will feature Glenn Riddle, performing popular syllabus pieces and then diving deep into conversation with composer Ian Munro about technique, interpretation, and stylistic choices. A must-see for anyone preparing for an AMEB exam.

This event is supported by the Learning and Access Consortium. 

Artists

Glen Riddle piano
Ian Munro composer

About the Artists

Glenn Riddle studied piano at the University of Melbourne with Ronald Farren-Price before undertaking post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music, London with Peter Wallfisch and at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda. During this time he was the recipient of two Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Scholarships, an Ian Potter Foundation Scholarship, the Clark Scholarship, and a prestigious Horlock Scholarship. He was also winner of the National Kawai and Yamaha competitions. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Keyboard at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Australia), a Research Associate at the University of Waikato, (New Zealand) and Visiting Professor at the Nanjing University of Arts (China).

Glenn Riddle is an Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) Federal Examiner, a member of the AMEB International Examining Panel, Senior Music Critic for leading online cultural magazine Classic Melbourne, a member of the National Committee of the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, and a Board Director of the Victorian Music Teachers Association. He is also Vice-President and Artistic Advisor to the Camberwell Music Society.

Ian Munro is one of Australia’s most distinguished and awarded musicians with a career that has taken him to thirty countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia. As a composer, Ian is the only Australian to have been awarded the Premier Grand Prix at the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Composers (2003), and was in 2011 the Featured Composer for Musica Viva Australia. After completing his early training in Melbourne with Roy Shepherd, Ian furthered his studies in Vienna, London and Italy with Noretta Conci, Guido Agosti and Michele Campanella, launching his international career in the UK. widely experienced chamber musician, Ian joined the acclaimed Australia Ensemble @UNSW in Sydney in 2000, for which he has also composed and arranged several works.