| Director
Associate Professor Melville Waters, MMusAdel BMus(Hons)ElderCon
BAAdel DipEdAdel SMIMT
The Director
of the Melba Conservatorium of Music, Associate Professor Melville
Waters, took up his position in January 1999. He has qualifications
in arts, music and education, including a Masters Degree in Organ
Performance. Born in Broken Hill, NSW, he is also a freelance organist,
harpsichordist and choral and orchestral conductor.
He was a lecturer at the Elder Conservatorium in the University
of Adelaide from 1983 to 1987 lecturing in counterpoint and organ,
and giving masterclasses. At the Flinders Street TAFE School of
Music, he lectured in harmony, counterpoint, aural development,
history of music, choral and orchestral conducting, organ and harpsichord,
between 1984 and 1992. He held the position of Director of Music
and Principal Organist at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral from 1984
to 1994. In 1991 he took the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Choir
to Europe as Artistic Director, Principal Conductor and Organist,
performing in London, Rome, Florence, St. Gallen, Innsbruck, Salzburg
and Munich.
In 1987
he gave highly acclaimed organ recitals in Liechtenstein, Holland
and Switzerland. He undertook organ study with Professor Michael
Radulescu of Vienna and Professor Harald Vogel of the North German
Organ Academy, harpsichord and continuo classes at the Innsbruck
Early Music Academy and choral conducting workshops directed by
Sir David Willcocks, Dr. George Guest and Stephen Cleobury in Cambridge.
Between 1988 and 1998, Melville Waters played grand symphonic organ,
and harpsichord and organ continuo in over 200 concerts with the
Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and the Australian and
Adelaide Chamber Orchestras, many of which were broadcast by ABC
FM. He was the harpsichord soloist in the Bach Brandenburg Concerto
No.3 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in the Adelaide Town Hall
in 1998, and also the organ soloist in Handel’s Organ Concerto
Op.7 No.1. In September 2000 he returned to perform the symphonic
organ parts of Richard Meale’s Very High Kings and Vaughan
Williams’ Antarctic Symphony with the ASO.
From 1992 to 1998, as Director of Music and Head of Arts at Pembroke
School in Adelaide, he led a very large music department that taught
across a wide spectrum of musical styles, operated on three campuses,
and presented an annual program of some 100 concerts. He was the
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the European Tour December
1997-January 1998 with the Pembroke Chamber Orchestra, Pembroke
Chamber Singers and Pembroke Girls Choir. This involved 22 performances
in 25 days in Paris, Basel, Zurich, Winterthur, Florence, Venice,
Salzburg, Munich, Regensburg, Bayreuth and Wurtzburg.
Professor
Waters has appeared regularly at the Adelaide Festival of Arts and
the Barossa Music Festival. Since moving to Melbourne, he has performed
several concerts as an associate artist at the Melba Conservatorium
and Australian Catholic University. In September 2001, he gave a
recital on the newly refurbished Melbourne Town Hall organ, and
recently gave the inaugral recital ona new organ in St Mary's Cathedral,
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Director, Mel Waters |
Head of Department
- Sunbury, Jennifer Turner, MEdRMIT BEd(Mus)Melb
GradDipArtsMusVCA CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Jennifer has gained considerable
experience as a professional musician working in cross -art forms
including theatre and short film. She has freelanced extensively
as a conductor, composer and trombonist having worked for many major
arts organisations including the Victorian Arts Centre Trust; State
Orchestra of Victoria; Riverina Theatre Company; Melbourne Theatre
Company; Opera Australia; Victoria State Opera; Victorian College
of the Arts; Eureka Ensemble, and the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
In addition, she has toured internationally, has composed for both
theatre and short film, and has recorded for the ABC.
As a member of the Eureka Ensemble, Jennifer was a recipient of
composition and performance project grants from the Australia Council
and the Victorian Ministry for the Arts (now Arts Victoria).
In addition to her demanding job at the University, Jennifer works
on projects in her digital home recording studio.
In 2002 Jennifer was awarded an International Travel Scholarship
which she took up in 2003. Jennifer visited the UK to study best
practice models of music education at select institutions in London
and Nottingham respectively.
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