PEOPLE'S ORCHESTRA

 

BE A PART OF THE PEOPLE'S ORCHESTRA!

Calling all musicians, of all genres and skill levels. to be a part of a unique experience, original musical composition and performance.

Open rehearsal and final combined rehearsal dates and individual musicians and singers rehearsal dates are (i.e. those not already part of a school or regularly rehearsing ensemble - although the members of the established ensembles are welcome to come along too if they’re really keen!)

Rehearsal 1
@The Vonda Youngman Community Centre, Tamborine Mountain
Friday 2 February 2018, 5pm to 9pm
@The Centre Beaudesert
Saturday 3 February 2018, 9am to 1pm
@The Boonah Cultural Centre
Sunday 4 February 2018, 9am to 1pm

Rehearsal 2
@The Vonda Youngman Community Centre, Tamborine Mountain
Friday 16 February 2018, 5pm to 9p
@The Centre Beaudesert
Friday 23 February 2018, 7.30pm
Open Mic Night - FOTOM In Cabaret Stages
@The Boonah Cultural Centre
Saturday 24 February 2018, 9am to 1pm

Rehearsal 3
@ The Centre Beaudesert
Friday 16 March 2018, 5pm to 9pm
@The Vonda Youngman Community Centre, Tamborine Mountain
Saturday 17 March 2018, 9am to 1pm
@The Boonah Cultural Centre
Sunday 18 March 2018, 9am to 1pm

Rehearsal 4 - Final rehearsal
Full cast from each community who will be performing, including school and regularly rehearsing ensembles.
@The Boonah Cultural Centre
Friday 30 March 2018, 5pm to 9pm
@The Centre Beaudesert
Saturday 31 March 2018, 9am to 1pm
@The Vonda Youngman Community Centre, Tamborine Mountain
Saturday 31 March 2018, 2pm to 6pm

Dress rehearsal
Friday 13th April @ event site Kooralby

 

Work with talented composer and musician Andrew Veivers, to create the Scenic Rim People's Orchestra for Fires on top of Mountains events in April 2018. Andrew will attend your practice time wherever you are located in the Scenic Rim. 

Over the past twenty years Andrew Veivers has established himself as a musician, teacher, director and composer of the highest calibre - touring, recording, composing, and arranging extensively for solo projects, his groups Flamenco Fire and The Saruzu Quartet as well as for great Australian artistic institutions such as The Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Queensland and the Woodford Folk Festival.

"..Andrew Veivers composition and arrangement is outstanding.." (Lloyd Bradford Syke, Curtain Call, Aug. 2011)

"..In fact, the whole affair is deeply musical. Andrew Veivers’s early cante jondo composition is exquisite, desolate stuff.." (Darryn King, TIME OUT Sydney, Aug. 2011)

"..Andrew Veivers’ music creates that beautiful syncopated Spanish rhythm and pace.." (Whitney Fitzsimmons, Stage Whispers, Aug. 2011)

"..Each moment in this performance was a spectacle, each song a triumph and all of the dances were superb and electrifying. It made me sad to know that this was such a short lived run in Brisbane, but what a run, what a show. It is not in my habit to completely praise every aspect and element of something that I view and it surprises me with the degree to which this show was outside my comfort zone to be giving it a well deserved and highly enthusiastic five stars and faultless review.." (Brent Downes, Theatre People, Feb. 2012)