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Geoffrey Gartner, cello recital Geoffrey Gartner received his Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he studied cello with Georg Pedersen. He has perfomed widely as both soloist and chamber musician, with appearances throughout Australia, Europe, Canada and New Caledonia. Geoffrey is a longstanding member of Sydney new music group Ensemble Offspring and has also appeared with Melbourne's Libra Ensemble. He has performed at the Sydney Spring Festival of New Music, and The Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth and has premiered numerous works, including Australian premieres of Horatiu Radulescu's String Quartet no.5 and Thomas Ades' opera Powder Her Face. Geoffrey has enjoyed working relationships with many respected international composers including Michael Finnissey, Thomas Ades, Peter Sculthorpe, Thomas Meadowcroft, Damien Ricketson, Rosalind Page and Matthew Shlomowitz. Solo works written for him include Rosalind Page's Extrema, and Damien Ricketson's Imagining Le Verrier. An accomplished chamber musician, Geoffrey is the founding cellist of the Tohzah Piano Trio, with whom he has toured extensively both in Australia and overseas. The trio has worked with many distinguished musicians and tutors including Manahem Pressler, Lawrence Lesser, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Bernadene Blaha, Gyorgy Sebok and Marco van Pagee. Recent performances have included Beethoven's Triple Concerto, as well as appearances at the Arts Festival in Banff, Canada.
Tick for solo cello
Imagining Le Verrier for amplified cello
Drop for solo cello
Extrema: a Galilean Sarabande for cello and tape
Pression for solo cello
Pumena no.2 for solo cello
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