Inaugural "Performance Concert"
for the
Shakuhachi Chamber Music Composition Competition 2008

Featuring winning compositions from USA Australia and Japan performed by Australia's leading Shakuhachi masters and instrumentalists
was held on
Saturday 13th December 2008 at 3:30pm
at
Melba Hall, University of Melbourne

Programme

First Prize Winner and winner of the
Shakuhachi Chamber Music International Prize 2008
"Sky Mirror" Derrik Jordan (USA)
1.Floating Clouds 2.Stirs the Surface 3. Everything is Alive
Andrew MacGregor:shakuhachi
Geoff Hughes: electric guitar (with effects)
Silo String Quartet

Second Prize Winner
"Essence" Doug Gibson (Australia)
Anne Norman: shakuhachi
Kanishka karunaratne: clasical guitar
Silo String Quartet

3rd Prize
"Ki-e" Devotion Satoru Ikeda (Japan)
Andrew MacGregor: shakuhachi,
Kanishka Karunaratne: clasical guitar
Aaron Barnden: violin
Ceridwen davies: viola
Caerwen Martin: cello

also

"Jukan" Nagasawa Katsutoshi (Japan) guitar arr. Peter Constant
Andrew MacGregor: shakuhachi
VCA Guitar Ensemble, Antony Field: leader Josh McGuffie: soloist

"Songs of the Earth and Sky" Johanna Selleck (Australia)
World Premiere
Commissioned by Shakuhachi Chamber Music International
Anne Norman: shakuhachi
Peter Neville: percussion
Eugene Ughetti: percussion

"These Terrestrial Commitments" Brenton Broadstock (Australia)
World Premiere
Commissioned by Shakuhachi Chamber Music International
Merlyn Quaife: soprano
Andrew MacGregor: shakuhachi
Stefan Cassomenos: piano
Eugene Ughetti: percussion

The Audience Prize was awarded to Doug Gibson for "Essence"