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314: Chamber Music (18 Years & Under)
Sun 25 May 2025, 11.30am
Event Age
5 to 18 years
(only entrants who are between 5 and 18 years old as of 31 December 2025 can take part in this event)
Total Performance Time
10 minutes
Fees
Entry Fee: $216.00
(until 11 May, 11.30am)
Venue
Knox Junior Academy and Performing Arts Centre - Wenkart Theatre, Knox Grammar School
Entry Information
Own choice of one or more works or a selection of movements from a complete chamber work. Total performance time of up to 10 minutes, which includes time taken between items. 3-8 instrumentalists.
Adjudicator
Mr Simon Cobcroft
Simon Cobcroft was recently appointed to the position of Associate Principal Cello with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and since 2023 has been the Artistic Director of the Coriole Chamber Music Festival. For ten years, he served as Principal Cello with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and has also held principal positions with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
He is a founding member of the Lyrebird Trio, winner of the Piano Trio and Audience prizes at the 2013 Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition, and was previously in residence at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and at the Centre for the Arts in Banff, Canada.
Simon is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium (2000) and won the Australian Circle Prize in 2016. In earlier years he performed as soloist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Queensland, Sydney’s Metropolitan Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria.
Recent chamber‑music highlights include performances with Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth, the Australian String Quartet, the Tinalley Quartet and the Seraphim Trio. In 2018 he appeared as guest principal cello at the Singapore International Piano Festival alongside Martha Argerich.
A passionate educator, Simon has taught at the Elder Conservatorium of Music (University of Adelaide) and at the Queensland Conservatorium, and has tutored for the Australian Youth Orchestra and the National Music Camp. He studied with Matthew Farrell, Janis Laurs, Alexander Baillie, David Strange and Michael Goldschlager.
He plays on a beautiful English cello made in 1840 by Thomas Kennedy.
Important Notes
Individuals are allowed to perform more than once in the same event, provided that a group contains no more than 20% of the same performers from another group in the same event. Groups can be from public and private academic schools, private music academies, and tertiary institutions (if age applicable).
A hard copy of complete scores, in order of performance, with bars numbered, must be provided upon arrival at the venue. Specific genre items and Grades must also be identified on scores.
Conditions
3-8 instrumentalists. 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