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316: Secondary School Premium String Ensemble

Mon 16 Jun 2025, 4.00pm
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
Fees
Entry Fee: $216.00 (until 2 Jun, 4.00pm)
Venue
Concert Hall, The Concourse

Entry Information

Own choice of a program. Total performance time of up to 10 minutes, which includes time taken between items.

Adjudicator

Dr Peter Tregear OAM

Peter Tregear OAM is currently an adjunct Professor of the University of Adelaide and a Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium. Initially trained as a flautist and pianist, he later undertook doctoral study in music at the University of Cambridge where he was appointed a lecturer and director of music, and took up professional singing and conducting. He has subsequently worked extensively across Australia and Europe in opera, choral, and concert music. Major performances include conducting the modern revival of Anna Amalia’s Erwin und Elmire for the Ekhof-Festival in Gotha, Germany, collaborating with the Kronos Quartet in the Australian premiere performances of Terry Riley’s Sun Rings as part of the Melbourne Festival, appearing with The Rolling Stones in their last Australian tour, conducting the Australian premiere of Ernst Krenek’s opera Jonny spielt auf, and more recently a new production of Brecht and Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Operatic roles he has performed include Colline, Benoit, & Alcindoro (La Bohème), Belcore (L’Elisir d’amore), Elmiro (Rossini’s Otello), Haly (L’Italiana in Algeri), Pluto (L'Orfeo), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) and Hans Foltz (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). In 2009 he was appointed Director of the Academy of Performing Arts at Monash University and, from 2012–2015 he served as Professor and Head of the ANU School of Music in Canberra. He was also the founding Chair of the Board of Trustees, of the Australian Music Foundation (Australia), which supports the further development of Australia's finest young musicians. In 2020 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to music education. He also writes regularly on music and arts-related topics for The Conversation, Limelight, and Australian Book Review. He is the author of Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style (2013), Enlightenment or Entitlement: Rethinking Tertiary Music Education (2014), and Fritz Hart: An English Musical Romantic at the Ends of Empire (2024), the latter co-authored with Anne-Marie Forbes.

Important Notes

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

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: Shield
2nd: Shield
3rd: Shield