Tassie young guns on target

TEN top-ranking students will display their musical skills at a free lunchtime concert at the Conservatorium in Hobart next week.

The students, aged from 12 years to 19 years, have achieved top results in the Australian Music Examinations Board examinations Sixth Grade standard and above, and will showcase their high-scoring techniques by performing their examination pieces.

AMEB state manager Marita Crothers said the students would include 12-year-old Sheng-Yuan Lynch, who gained his AMusA Diploma with distinction last year at the age of 11.

“Sheng-Yuan is one of the youngest candidates in Australia to do so,” she said. “At the

concert he will play Chopin’s Etude Opus 10, No.8 in F Major.”

The piano will also be featured with Olivia Eade, Alexis FoxHughes, Amelia Millington, Madeleine Taylor and David Vonk performing pieces by Ravel, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy and Nazareth respectively.

Ulverstone Municipal Band tenor horn Erin Dickers will play

Demelza, inspired by a character from the BBC Television series Poldark.

Erin’s tuba-playing sister Naomi will perform British composer and conductor Roy Newsome’s The Bass in the

Ballroom, which Crothers said demanded great dexterity and breath control.

Fourteen-year-old Helena Robin will sing the joyful Ill

Bacaiolo by Donizetti.

The concert will conclude with violinist Kate Bain playing a lively Allegro Assai caprice by Fiorello.

The event will be held in the Conservatorium Recital Hall on Sandy Bay Rd from 1pm on August 18. Admission is free.