A selection of past recording and performance projects – select an image for performance details and/or audio links.
Contact me directly for a current CV or biog.
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Deep Purple Soubdboard CD

Deep Purple toured Australia in 2001 with a horn section – hear Perfect Strangers

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RECORDINGS
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Cool World cover

Mark Isham score for big band and orchestra – recorded in Munich in 1992. Hear a selection of the tracks

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A Jazz Reformation NDR

The Martin Luther Suite / NDR Big Band – hear the whole program

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Joe Pass in Hamburg

On A Clear Day – Joe Pass with the NDR Big Band (recorded in 1992)

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Inga Rumpg & Joja Wendt album cover

Voodoo Voodoo from Inga Rumpf's 1994 album Fifty-Fifty

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Burnt Friedman Can't Cool

Burnt Friedman – Fly Your Kite (2003)

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Meow Meow and Barry Humphries

The Australian Chamber Orchestra perform the music of the Weimar Republic – presented by and featuring Barry Humphries and Meow Meow. Australian tour in 2013 – watch the trailer

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Eroberung von Mexico

World premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Die Eroberung von Mexico – Hamburg Staatsoper conducted by Ingo Metzmacher. CD live recording 1992.

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Prince of Darkness

Miles Davis – Prince of Darkness. A tribute performance by the Australian Art Orchestra, Adelaide Festival 2012

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Donald McIntyre as Hans Sachs

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. This production – directed by Michael Hampe – was Germany's gift to Australia in 1988. Opera Australia / Mackerras

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ON STAGE
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BIFEM 2017

Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music 2017: Argonaut Ensemble performing Beyrouth15072006 by Adam Maor. “Particular commendation must be given to trombonist Charles MacInnes [who] performed his part with virtuosity and stamina.”
Simone Maurer in Partial Durations.
Hear the performance

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Black Rider

The Black Rider by Tom Waits. Victorian Opera at the Malthouse Theatre in 2017.
“And the musicians can't be praised enough. Under Phoebe Briggs, the hobo orchestra has mastered every eclectic influence on Waits' score: it plays gloriously, often using multiple instruments in kinky combinations.”
Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald (read the whole review)

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