• Title
  Item 1: Claire Edwardes interview by Vincent Plush
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  19 May 2022
• Type of material
  Oral Histories, Nonmusical Sound Recordings
• Reference code
  9673890
• Physical Description
  3 audio files (2 hr., 57 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Claire Edwardes recounts her early upbringing, her introduction to music with piano and later percussion as a student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She talks about her time in the Netherlands, studying on the Dutch Government Nuffic Huygens Scholarship, winning numerous instrumental competitions, forming a percussion duo and working closely with leading contemporary composers.
  
  Edwardes discusses in depth her return to Australia in 2006, including her co-Artistic Director role at Ensemble Offspring; composing and performing new works with the ensemble; receiving the AMC/APRA Art Music Award, 2019 and the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to music, 2022; performing with major orchestras in Australia and New Zealand; and her involvement in the Ngarra-Burria project, promoting composition and performances of music by Indigenous Australians.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, on 19 May 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Edwardes, Claire, 1975-
  
• Subject
  Edwardes, Claire, 1975---Interviews.
  Ensemble playing--New South Wales.
  Music festivals--New South Wales.
  Composition (Music)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20607524

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