Students in spotlight

CONSERVATORIUM composition students will present their latest works in Hobart on Saturday night. Second-year student Saxon Hornett’s Work In Progress — which was inspired by the anxiety of composition deadlines — will be performed by pianists Arabella Teniswood-Harvey and Jack Barnes. Barnes will also perform first-year student Claire Farrell’s Radioisotope, which has animated outer sections and a more lyrical contemplative middle section. Funny Talking, by Texas exchange student Chance Moore, explores distortions of people talking, using a scene from When Harry Met Sally as a starting point. The program will also include Miniatures for Saxophone, by Samara Forster-Grose; Mint Error, by Dominic Flynn; Within the Narrow Frame, by Nathan Stinton; and works by Rhys Gray and Jonathan Dieckfoss. The Composers Showcase concert will be held in the Conservatorium Recital Hall on Sandy Bay Rd from 7.30pm on Saturday. Tickets are $10, available from www.utas.edu.au/music or at the door.

Worlds to explore

THE Tasmania Youth Orchestra’s New Worlds concert in North Hobart on Sunday will feature works by Russian composer Victor Ewald, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak and Tasmania’s own Don Kay. The program will begin with the TYO Brass Quintet performing Ewald’s Brass Quintet No.1 in B Minor Opus 5. The TYO Orchestra and baritone Tom Backmaster will perform Kay’s new work Three Penguin Summers, which features John Honey’s libretto about his childhood holidays at Penguin on Tasmania’s North-West Coast. The concert will conclude with the orchestra playing Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 in E Minor Opus 95, From the New World. The New Worlds concert will be held at the Friends’ School’s Farrall Centre in North Hobart from 2pm on Sunday. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 concession and $65 for families, available at the door.