AMEB Sound Insights: Strings

AMEB repertoire explored and performed live for all 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: Strings will feature AMEB examiner and concert cellist Josephine Vains, performing popular syllabus pieces and then diving deep into conversation about technique, interpretation, and stylistic choices alongside composer Aaron Wyatt. A must-see for anyone preparing for an AMEB exam.

Supported by the Learning and Access Consortium.

Tickets

Standard $30 ($25 Concession)
Student / Child $10

This event is part of the AMEB Sound Insights Day. Purchase tickets to 2 or more events on this day and receive 15% off.

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About the Artists

Josephine Vains cello
Aaron Wyatt composer, violist

Josephine Vains is an Australian cellist, chamber musician and educator, with a performance career encompassing modern and historical cello. An adventurous spirit has taken her to some far-flung concert venues - from a 1000-year-old cave in the heart of China to mountain-top Bach in the French Alps. These days she performs throughout Australia and beyond with Firebird Trio, Accademia Arcadia, Elysium Ensemble, Ensemble Old & New, Gryphon Baryton Trio, Imaginista Quartet, Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and CellOZ. A regular collaborator with living composers, she has recorded on modern and period instruments for Resonus Classics, DRS2 (Switzerland), ABC Classics, Tall Poppies and HUSH. Josephine relishes working with the cello and chamber music students as staff at Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. A passion for string pedagogy has led to her presenting classes and lectures for AUSTA and VMTA, as well as ongoing work as a senior cello examiner with the AMEB and consultant for the new AMEB Cello Syllabus.

Aaron Wyatt is a violist, violinist, conductor, composer, programmer, and academic. Originally from Perth, he spent many years as a regular casual with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra before moving to Melbourne to take up an assistant lecturer position at Monash. A member of the award winning Decibel New Music ensemble, he also develops their animated graphic notation app for the iPad, the Decibel ScorePlayer. In 2021 he became the first Indigenous Australian to conduct a state symphony orchestra in concert, and has since gone on to have engagements with the Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Tasmanian and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. As a composer, he writes both traditionally notated works, and electroacoustic, graphic notation pieces. An alumnus of the Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers program, he has written for Ensemble Offspring, GreyWing Ensemble, Ensemble Dutala, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the Monash Art Ensemble, the Monash Academy Orchestra, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the ANAM Set, and the Melbourne String Ensemble. He was an inaugural participant in the AMEB’s First Nations Composers Program and was an Artist in Residence with Speak Percussion where he wrote his first long form work, Digital Echoes.