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Two years have passed since I last had the privilege & pleasure of conducting the Brisbane City Pops Orchestra. Covid has got in our way, but I’m now finally back for what should a great season of music making, which will include working with Soprano Leslie Martin-Nightingale, the Maleny Singers, & my old comrade in […]

My thanks to @deepblueorchestra for inviting me to come and assist them in their preparations last evening, for their performances next week of Corrina Bonshek’s, “Song to the Ocean”, at the Hervey Bay Whale Festival. All the best with the performances, and thank you for supporting Australian New Music (esp. women composers) @bon_music #conductor #conducting […]

Heading out to tonight’s rehearsal with Deep Blue Orchestra, in preparation of their performances of Corrina Bonshek’s Song to the Ocean, at the Hervey Bay Whale Festival next week. #conductor #conducting #orchestra #strings #songtotheocean @bon_music #deepblueorchestra #adrianhead

A quick shot (thanks to @bon_music for the pic) prior to directing Sunday’s @deepblueorchestra rehearsal for Corrina Bonshek’s “Song to the Ocean”, which is being performed next week, as part of the Hervey Bay Whale Festival. More rehearsing later this week. #deepblueorchestra #conductor #conducting #orchestra #songtotheocean #herveybaywhalefestival2021 #corrinabonshek #adrianhead

How to spend a Friday night: preparing scores for @deepblueorchestra and their rehearsal on Sunday, followed by meeting @bon_music to assist in preparing their score for a workshop later this year. Nothing, but nothing, will get between me and my freckle! #conductor #conducting #orchestra #newaustralianmusic #orchestra #deepblueorchestra #corrinabonshek #adrianhead

What follows is a series of Facebook posts, mostly self-explanatory, where I returned to listen to the complete cycle of Shostakovich’s string quartets. Revisited over the course of one week in July of 2020, when Covid restrictions had only just been slightly eased, this journey (originally done on and off over a nineteen year time […]

Sadly, due to the higher restrictions that came into effect today, after the Ady Ensemble’s first session of working on the Brahms 2nd Symphony, we’ve had to postpone the remainder of the project until a later date. However, four years ago on this day Ady had a rehearsal for one of its concerts at the […]

A quick coffee before finally heading home. It’s been a very long day, but rewarding to see the Ady Ensemble have its first rehearsal since December 2019. Here’s to the rest of the project coming up this week, & thank you, friends, for being a part of this project, recording Brahms’ 2nd Symphony. www.adrianhead.com #adyensemble […]

I’m starting to get a bit excited now, as we get closer to the #AdyEnsemble Brahms Recording Project 2021. Looking forward to catching up with its regular & new members. This is going to be fun #conductor #conducting #orchestra #brahms #symphony

Ten years ago today, the Ady Ensemble had its first performance (although it didn’t know it at the time), having started its very first rehearsals at the end of 2010. I can’t lie: it has been a very long journey, but also a very rewarding one that has involved a veritable roll call of who’s […]