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23.01.2022 Meet our guest conductor for Hobart: Phillip Taylor. Phillip joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 1976 as a violist and continued to perform with that orchestra until 1996. He was contract Principal Violist for several years during which he was involved in many recording and solo projects. He was also a guest violist with the Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. In 1984 he accepted the position of violist in the Victorian String Quartet, which was an Artist-in-...Residency project established by the Victorian Government to foster a love of chamber music in the regional centres of Victoria. Phillip returned to the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 1985 where he began to develop his conducting skills. He studied with many visiting international conductors who were on tour for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. These conductors were very generous in their willingness and enthusiasm to share their knowledge and experience with Phillip and since then, Phillip has conducted many orchestras around Australia. Indeed, it was through those conductors' encouragement and generosity that the desire to conduct came to the forefront. Phillip became senior conductor of the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra and in 1987 founded the Hobart Chamber Orchestra. Phillip has conducted orchestras ranging from youth orchestras to professional chamber orchestras. The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra is an ensemble which allows Phillip to perform music on a regular basis, and which also provides young talented and local musicians with the opportunity to feature as soloist with the orchestra. This continues the tradition he established with the Hobart Chamber Orchestra. On return to Queensland in 1997, Phillip has been involved in many musical projects including Festival Coordinator for the 4MBS Festival 2000, and founding Musical Director/Conductor of Orchestra Pro Musica. He has been seen on the concert platform as both conductor and chamber musician. Phillip has also continued his tertiary studies mastering in Conducting. In addition, he has maintained his work as a conductor/music director for many youth music projects nurturing and developing our next generation of musicians. Phillip last conducted ADO in Brisbane, 2015, and we are delighted to welcome him back to conduct us in Hobart!

21.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//trained-musicians-are-bet/10947748

21.01.2022 Otto Respighi (1879-1936) Fontane di Roma Fountains of Rome was Otto Respighi’s breakout hit! The first of his three orchestral tone poems inspired by his adopted city of Rome, it premiered in 1917, and has since been cited as one of the foremost examples of a Symphonic Poem. Each of the four movements depicts one of Rome’s fountains at a different time of day. Imagine yourself at the break of dawn by La Fontana di Valle Giulia as cattle are herded past you to market, bef...ore moving later in the morning to La Fontana del Tritone where nymphs dance and frolic in the morning light. As noon arrives great news from the Gods is celebrated at La Fontana di Trevi before finally you watch the sun set over La Fontana di Villa Medici. Come and be transported to Rome by ADO, it’s much cheaper than a flight to Italy! Tickets available at www.trybooking.com/BCYRR See more

21.01.2022 Whilst some of this weekend's amazing medical orchestra members are playing in today's pre-concert Chamber Day, others are enjoying the glorious sights and weather around the Sunny Coast before the start of orchestra rehearsals tomorrow..... Love you to come to our concert this Sunday afternoon if you're in the neighbourhood!!! https://www.facebook.com/events/556433551524766/?ti=as

20.01.2022 Only *2* weeks to go before we get the orchestra back together for rehearsals! If you are in the Sunny Coast area, we would love you come to see the fruits of our weekend labours on 12 May!!! What a great Mother's Day gift https://www.facebook.com/events/556433551524766/?ti=cl

20.01.2022 Great to be having Wishlist on board as our charity for the upcoming May concert!

20.01.2022 5 weeks to go! If you could recommend one thing to do in Hobart (other than come to our concert, of course!) what would it be?

17.01.2022 Only 2 weeks to go! Have you got your tickets yet? Visit: www.trybooking.com/BCYRR

17.01.2022 Our thoughts with a long-standing ADO viola player, GP and friend who organised our last concert in Canberra in 2005, was with our first Darwin concert in 2016 and also played recently in the World Doctors Orchestra. Rest in peace

13.01.2022 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" Lai Tzu Concerts don't just happen, and on top of all the behind the scenes organisation to get ready for our upcoming Hobart concert next month, it still comes down to practice before the players converge for rehearsals. Time to get started.... https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/lao_tzu_137141

13.01.2022 Scheherazade - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) The tale of Scheherazade encompasses some of history’s most famous stories, The One Thousand and One Nights, framed within an overarching love story. Once upon a time a king grieved his wife’s infidelity. In his bitterness he vowed to marry anew each day, and execute his wife from the day before! Scheherazade was wife number 1002, and she was no ordinary woman, but intelligent, and courageous.... On their wedding night she began to tell a story to her sister, whilst the king eavesdropped. To his frustration she stopped in the middle as dawn was breaking, so desperate to hear the rest of her tale he spared her life for one more day in order to hear the remainder of the tale the next night. But Scheherazade was cunning, upon finishing the previous tale she began a new one, even more exciting than the first, and so the pattern repeated itself night upon night. By the end of 1001 nights and 1000 stories the king had fallen in love with her, and spared her life, making her his queen. Rimsky-Korsakov immortalised this love story in his most popular work, which features two recurring leitmotifs woven throughout the four movements: the grim bass opening which represents the domineering king, and the tender violin melody depicting the storyteller herself. Come and experience the Arabian Nights with us on Sunday!

11.01.2022 ADO player notice: Reminder to register by July 8! Player registrations for concert 2019.2 in beautiful Hobart Sept 6-8 are closing soon! Those who are interested in playing please head to the members zone on www.ado.net.au and sign up! With highlights including MONA, Kunayi/Mt Wellington, Salamanca Markets on our doorstep, you won’t want to miss out on this one!... We’ll be welcoming back conductor Philip Taylor for a programme of Respighi, Sibelius and Rimsky-Korsakov and the fantastic violinist Kathryn Taylor. Our selected charity is Lifeline Tasmania

09.01.2022 So a great response to our upcoming #Orange concert https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au//get-your-tickets-/

09.01.2022 Meet our Soloist for Hobart 2019, violinist Kathryn Taylor. Born in Tasmania, Kathryn studied for many years with former ABC Concerto Competition winner Alison Lazaroff and gave her first solo performance with orchestra at the age of eleven. After moving to Brisbane, her violin studies continued with Spiros Rantos and Michelle Walsh, with whom she completed her Bachelor of Music in Performance. ... In 1999, Kathryn was a recitalist in the National Youth Concerto Competition and after winning the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Young Instrumentalist Competition’, performed the violin concerto with the QSO and Muhai Tang. Over the years, Kathryn has performed numerous solos and concertos with orchestras throughout Australia. Kathryn has toured extensively overseas with the Australian Youth Orchestra, ‘Camerata Australia’ and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and has been Concertmaster of several youth orchestras including the Queensland Youth Symphony. In 2003, Kathryn attended the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne followed by further studies in Dublin with Eyal Kless. Kathryn has had lessons and performed in master classes with Maxim Vengerov, Salvatore Accardo, Takacs Quartet and many other notable international teachers. Kathryn has worked regularly with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Southern Cross Soloists and Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and in 2005, she was appointed to a permanent position in the First Violin section of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Kathryn will perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Australian Doctors’ Orchestra in September’s concert in Hobart.

06.01.2022 Many thanks to Dr Wesley Bierman for this great pic of the orchestra on Sunday's Hobart concert: $10000 raised for Lifeline Tasmania https://www.lifeline.org.au/tasmania/tasmania-home Thanks to everyone involved, including our audience, our players, our local organisating committee and our ADO Committee for making the weekend such a success! Looking forward to our upcoming concerts in 2020 in Orange (March) and Melbourne (August) - please share our Page with your friends and stay tuned for more next year!!!

06.01.2022 Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Known as one of the most technically difficult violin concertos, this beautiful work in D Minor was Sibelius’s only concerto. Here’s a teaser from our first run through of the opening of the first movement with soloist Kathryn Taylor yesterday afternoon!... Tickets still available at: www.trybooking.com/BCYRR

05.01.2022 Final hours are counting down and we’re almost performance-ready! There are still tickets on the door! Concert starts at 2pm, don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to support a very worthy cause in Lifeline Tasmania

02.01.2022 Got plans for Mother’s Day yet? Live near the Sunny Coast or crazy enough to travel here for a one off gig by musicians who also happen to be doctors? (Bloody high achievers...) - our Sunshine Coast concert in partnership with Wishlist is this Sunday! It’s going to be amazing!

01.01.2022 Due to #coronavirus, we have sadly had to put plans on hold for the concert we had for Melbourne this year. We will let you know as soon as we can get the orchestra back together, but in the meantime we can offer a shout out to our WA colleagues who have their own gig coming up soon! https://facebook.com/events/s/wa-doctors-orchestra-charity-c/623827358525115/?ti=cl

01.01.2022 Happy Mother's Day! Just putting the finishing touches at rehearsal before this afternoon's concert, it's going to be an awesome day: tickets available at the door https://www.wishlist.org.au//AustralianDoctorsOrchestra-6/