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288: Secondary School Premium String Ensemble

Fri 7 Jun 2024, 1.00pm
Group Event
Event Age
12 to 19 years (only entrants who are between 12 and 19 years old as of 31 December 2025 can take part in this event)
Total Performance Time
10 minutes
Venue
Concert Hall, The Concourse
Supported by
The Federated Music Clubs of Australia

Entry Information

Own choice of a program.

Total performance time of up to 10 minutes, which includes time taken between items.

Adjudicator

Dr Joanna Drimatis

Area of Specialty:
Instrumental Music- Strings

Dr Joanna Drimatis is a highly-respected champion of Australian music and contemporary classical music – contributing comprehensively through her output as a conductor, performer, musical director, researcher and educator. Joanna is currently Music Education Specialist for the Australian Music Centre, the Music Director/Chief Conductor of the Beecroft Orchestra and Resident Conductor of the NSW Doctors’ Orchestra. Joanna has also guest conducted the Australian Doctors’ Orchestra, Sydney Youth Orchestra, Mosman Symphony, Woollahra Philharmonic, Hourglass Ensemble, Orange Symphony Orchestra and for the Orange Chamber Music Festival. In 2022-23, Joanna has enjoyed conducting five productions for young Sydney-based opera company The Cooperative and in 2024 conducted Dialogues of the Carmeliites by Poulenc for Gente Gente Productions. Previous positions include Music Director of the Christchurch Youth Orchestra/NZ and Conductor for the Adelaide Youth Orchestra association. In these positions, Joanna initiated numerous collaborations, commissions and premieres, with select performances broadcast on NZ Concert FM and ABC Classic/Australia. Joanna has also been guest conductor in New Zealand for the Christchurch Symphony, Nelson Symphony, University of Canterbury Chamber Orchestra and St Matthews Chamber Orchestra and in Australia for the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Burnside Symphony Orchestra and the Bishop Orchestra at the SA State Music Camp. As a violinist/violist Joanna has played professionally as an orchestral and chamber musician both in Australia and overseas and performed at festivals which include the Strawberry Creek Festival (USA), International Institute of Music (Germany). She studied violin with Eugene Gratovich at UT Austin and has performed in masterclasses for Dorothy Delay, Oleh Krysa and Charles Castleman. Joanna holds degrees in Music Education, Violin Performance and Conducting from Australia and the USA as well as a PhD in Musicology from the University of Adelaide. In 2020, Joanna received an APRA/AMCOS Art Music Luminary Award for her commitment to the performance, promotion and advocacy of Australian music. https://joannadrimatis.com/

Important Notes

A copy of complete scores, in order of performance, with bars numbered, must be provided. Specific genre items (e.g. Romantic, Classical) and Grades must also be identified on scores.

Copies of music must be uploaded to the Sydney Eisteddfod Entrant Portal no later than two weeks prior to the event (see item 3, in the Instrumental Rules & Conditions of Entry).



Conditions

8 or more instrumentalists (Please note Sydney Eisteddfod can provide a maximum of 60 orchestral chairs and only 50 music stands).

For guitar or bow-stringed groups (acoustic).

With or without piano. No drum kit, electric bass or keyboard.

Please refer to the Instrumental Category Rules & Conditions of Entry. Your entry is accepted under these conditions.

Prizes

Winner: $500 & Shield
2nd: $200 & Shield
3rd: $100 & Shield