Woodwind and Brass Workshop
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Lauren Crighton – Flute
Educational Qualifications
Diane Munns – Oboe
Educational Qualifications
Martin Crook – Clarinet
Martin Crook has been at the forefront of music making in Australia for nearly 40 years. His teachers include John Marc St. George, Gabor Reeves, Donald Westlake and Don Burrows.
In an orchestral career spanning more than 25 years, he held positions of Principal Clarinet in the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Associate Principal Clarinet of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and was a member of the Australia Ensemble in 1986. As a freelance musician during this time he also toured with the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, Shirley Bassie, Matt Munro, Phil Collins and Tom Jones.
For ten years from 1997 - 2007 as woodwind lecturer, was a member of the trio in residence at USQ; The Phoenix Ensemble with Wendy and Andrew Lorenz, touring south-east Asia and making many recordings for ABC Classic FM. His artistic partnership then coupled with keyboard lecturer, Marilyn Meier-Kapavale and cellist Matthew Kinmont from the QSO. Apart from collaborations with renowned organist and accompanist, Dr. Phillip Gearing, Martin now works as a woodwind specialist, at Fairholme College, Toowoomba, directing ensembles and teaching clarinet and saxophone.
He regularly travels to the United Kingdom every January as a guest artist and pedagogue at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff and is also a woodwind examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.
Martin Kay –Saxophone
Saxophonist, Clarinettist and composer
Richard Fomison – Trumpet
Richard studied the trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Ray Allen, Paul Archibald, Robert Farley and David Staff (natural trumpet). Engagements have included performances with the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Trafalgar Ensemble, Gabrielli Consort, Florilegium, Ex Cathedra, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kings Consort, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Armonico Consort, Drottningholm Baroque, Belmont Ensemble of London, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Bach Academy Australia, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Adelaide Baroque and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Richard is in demand as a freelance modern trumpet player, whilst is also a specialist on the Baroque trumpet. Richard currently teaches at West Moreton Anglican, St Peters Lutheran College and Griffith Conservatorium of Music.
Peter Luff – French Horn
Music Teaching & Administration Experience
Peter Luff is an Associate Professor at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University where he lectures in horn and brass performance.
Performance & Ensemble Playing Experience
Formerly Associate Principal Horn with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Peter has, and continues to perform with, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Australian World Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Southern Cross Soloists and is currently solo horn with the Brisbane based “Ensemble Q” where he performs, broadcasts and records extensively with ABC classic FM and 4MBS FM. He has toured as a solo recitalist in the USA, Japan, China, Korea, Canada and Europe.
As a conductor, he continues to enjoy a diverse and vibrant conducting career encompassing Symphonic repertoire, Opera and Chamber music. Among the orchestras and ensembles he has conducted are the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Queensland Chorus, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra brass ensemble, Bangalow Festival Orchestra, Brisbane Philharmonic, Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, and the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony/Opera Orchestras.
Music Teaching & Administration Experience
Peter is in great demand as a Horn teacher, with many of his Horn graduates securing permanent playing positions in national and international professional symphony orchestras. Peter has served as vice president of the International Horn Society (IHS), is a member of the IHS Advisory Council, and a recipient of the society’s prestigious “Punto Award” for his contributions to the Australian horn playing community.
Greg Aitken – Trombone
Educational Qualifications
Bill Barker – Euphonium and Tuba
Educational Qualifications
Solo success since 1986 include thirteen Queensland open euphonium wins, Queensland Champion of Champions in 1992, 1998 and 2002, three times national euphonium champion and national champion of champions in 2010.
Army Reserve (from 2010 to current), now attached to the Australian Army Band Brisbane. He has served full time in Band Corps since 2018 and has just completed a two year posting to the Kapooka recruit training centre. Currently performing on trombone, euphonium and tuba.
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor of Music (majoring in Flute Performance), University of Southern Queensland – graduated April 2001
- Postgraduate Diploma in Instrumental Teaching, University of Southern Queensland – graduated April 2006
- Visiting flute teacher at Fairholme College (2018 – current)
- Performing Arts teacher at Toowoomba Anglican School (2004 – current)
- Instrumental music tutor at Concordia Lutheran College (2003 – current)
- Self-employed studio music teacher (1999 – current)
- Orchestra manager (voluntary role) for Toowoomba Concert Orchestra (2012 – 2017)
- Principal/Co-Principal Flute, Toowoomba Concert Orchestra (approx. 2004 – current)
- Orchestral player for several musical theatre productions with the Empire Theatre, Toowoomba Choral Society and schools.
- Casual orchestral player accompanying artists including Josh Pyke, The Whitlams, Kate Miller-Heidke, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Katie Noonan, Australian Beatles Show
- University ensembles (1998 – 2000), including:
- Principal Flute, USQ Sinfonia (1999 – 2000)
- Guest player, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra (2000)
Diane Munns – Oboe
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor of Music Education Degree, University of Melbourne – graduated 1980
- Senior Experienced Instrumental Music Teacher Education Queensland (from 2012)
- Event Co-ordinator for the Peninsula Music Festival (2015)
- Senior Instrumental Music Teacher based in Roma Qld (1986 – 2011)
- Instrumental Music Teacher, rural Victoria (1981 – 1983)
- Northside Concert Orchestras / Concert Band (2018 to current)
- Pit orchestras for productions by the Redcliffe Musical Theatre Company and the Queensland Music Theatre Company (2012 to current)
- Member or the Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra (2012-2014)
- Various amateur and semi-professional ensembles and pit orchestras, including Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Vic State Opera and Youth Strings of Melbourne
Martin Crook – Clarinet
Martin Crook has been at the forefront of music making in Australia for nearly 40 years. His teachers include John Marc St. George, Gabor Reeves, Donald Westlake and Don Burrows.
In an orchestral career spanning more than 25 years, he held positions of Principal Clarinet in the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Associate Principal Clarinet of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and was a member of the Australia Ensemble in 1986. As a freelance musician during this time he also toured with the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, Shirley Bassie, Matt Munro, Phil Collins and Tom Jones.
For ten years from 1997 - 2007 as woodwind lecturer, was a member of the trio in residence at USQ; The Phoenix Ensemble with Wendy and Andrew Lorenz, touring south-east Asia and making many recordings for ABC Classic FM. His artistic partnership then coupled with keyboard lecturer, Marilyn Meier-Kapavale and cellist Matthew Kinmont from the QSO. Apart from collaborations with renowned organist and accompanist, Dr. Phillip Gearing, Martin now works as a woodwind specialist, at Fairholme College, Toowoomba, directing ensembles and teaching clarinet and saxophone.
He regularly travels to the United Kingdom every January as a guest artist and pedagogue at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff and is also a woodwind examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.
Martin Kay –Saxophone
Saxophonist, Clarinettist and composer
- currently lectures in classical saxophone at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
- Master of Music degree – Saxophone performance
- DMA (Sydney Conservatorium of Music) - composition
- Studied in New York on a Churchill Fellowship
- Plays, composes, and records for Ensemble Sooon, Song Fwaa, Forage, and Continuum Sax, often exploring the intersection of notation and improvisation.
- He has performed with the Sydney and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, the Malaysian Philharmonic orchestra and Opera Australia.
Richard Fomison – Trumpet
Richard studied the trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Ray Allen, Paul Archibald, Robert Farley and David Staff (natural trumpet). Engagements have included performances with the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Trafalgar Ensemble, Gabrielli Consort, Florilegium, Ex Cathedra, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kings Consort, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Armonico Consort, Drottningholm Baroque, Belmont Ensemble of London, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Bach Academy Australia, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Adelaide Baroque and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Richard is in demand as a freelance modern trumpet player, whilst is also a specialist on the Baroque trumpet. Richard currently teaches at West Moreton Anglican, St Peters Lutheran College and Griffith Conservatorium of Music.
Peter Luff – French Horn
Music Teaching & Administration Experience
Peter Luff is an Associate Professor at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University where he lectures in horn and brass performance.
Performance & Ensemble Playing Experience
Formerly Associate Principal Horn with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Peter has, and continues to perform with, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Australian World Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Southern Cross Soloists and is currently solo horn with the Brisbane based “Ensemble Q” where he performs, broadcasts and records extensively with ABC classic FM and 4MBS FM. He has toured as a solo recitalist in the USA, Japan, China, Korea, Canada and Europe.
As a conductor, he continues to enjoy a diverse and vibrant conducting career encompassing Symphonic repertoire, Opera and Chamber music. Among the orchestras and ensembles he has conducted are the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Queensland Chorus, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra brass ensemble, Bangalow Festival Orchestra, Brisbane Philharmonic, Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, and the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony/Opera Orchestras.
Music Teaching & Administration Experience
Peter is in great demand as a Horn teacher, with many of his Horn graduates securing permanent playing positions in national and international professional symphony orchestras. Peter has served as vice president of the International Horn Society (IHS), is a member of the IHS Advisory Council, and a recipient of the society’s prestigious “Punto Award” for his contributions to the Australian horn playing community.
Greg Aitken – Trombone
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor of Music
- Graduate Diploma Education
- Tertiary teacher of trombone and low brass, Brisbane (1990 to current)
- Member of various Brass chamber groups including Brass Razoo, Qld Brass Ensemble, Buzz Brass Quartet, BoB (Best of Brass) Quintet
- Various musical productions at QPAC including 42nd Street, West Side Story, Hello Dolly, Chicago, A Chorus Line (1991 to 2011)
- Queensland Symphony Orchestra (1989/90)
- Expo Marching Band (1988)
Bill Barker – Euphonium and Tuba
Educational Qualifications
- Diploma of Music, Qld Conservatorium of Music, majoring in tuba and trombone
- Grad Dip FET
- AmusA
- LMusA Graduate Diploma Education
- Secondary instrumental teacher of brass, Gladstone and Brisbane (1987 to 2017)
- Principal euphonium, Brisbane Brass
- Conductor of Gladstone Municipal Band (1989 to 2000)
- Conductor and founder of Gladstone Municipal Junior Band (1989 to 2000)
- Musical director of the Carols by Candlelight and the Gladstone Light Opera Society, conducting such shows as Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma and Kismet
- Conductor of school concert bands and brass ensembles (1989 to 2017)
Solo success since 1986 include thirteen Queensland open euphonium wins, Queensland Champion of Champions in 1992, 1998 and 2002, three times national euphonium champion and national champion of champions in 2010.
Army Reserve (from 2010 to current), now attached to the Australian Army Band Brisbane. He has served full time in Band Corps since 2018 and has just completed a two year posting to the Kapooka recruit training centre. Currently performing on trombone, euphonium and tuba.
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