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Music on Sunday
- Date:
- Sunday 19 September 2010
- Time:
- 12:30pm
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
Our wonderful international organist Rhys Boak plays exquisitely for your listening pleasure during the service and also brings to us a visiting artist.
Sally Cooper (violin) and Leigh Harrold (piano)
Sally Cooper
Sally is a past winner of ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards. She has played as a soloist with all the major Australian Orchestras and regularly features in the Myer Music Bowl concert series. With the Melbourne Symphony in 1996, she was given a standing ovation by a crowd of over 25,000. Similarly, Sally received rave reviews for her performance with the ASO at 'Symphony under the Stars' in Elder Park to a crowd of 23,000.
Sally leads the String Section of ‘Dancing with the Stars'. She has recently toured and recorded with Guy Sebastian and was invited to be guest concert master for Il Divo's Australian tour.
Sally was recently signed to Universal Music Australia with whom she is recording a solo album due for release soon.
Leigh Harrold
Leigh enjoys a reputation as a "musician of rare talent and intelligence". He has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America and Australia as soloist and chamber musician, including concerts at Australia House in London, the Royal Academy of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and concerto engagements with the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and the ANAM Chamber Orchestra. He has recently returned from an extensive tour of the United States and Canada where he gave lectures on and performed the solo piano music of Robert Muczynski. In June 2002, Leigh traveled to the Orkney Islands to perform a concert of Peter Maxwell Davies' works in the presence of the composer.
While studying for a Ph.D. in piano performance and working at the Australian National Academy of Music, Leigh finds time to go on long walks, read voraciously, and write musical articles and programme notes. He holds two University medals - one for Music and one for Applied Science.