We  commenced rehearsals in February for an exciting program of performances throughout the year including:

• ANZAC Day Dawn Service
• Zonta Fair
• Rotary Community Christmas Carols
• Performance at the Gold Coast Bands Festival
• Performances in local parks throughout the year

 

Repertoire the band is rehearsing and performing in 2010 include:

• Aladdin
• Irish Tune from County Derry
• Excelsior *Newly purchased piece*
• Flourish for Wind Band
• Second Suite in F
• English Folk Song Suite
• Air for Band *Newly purchased piece*
• The Little Ripper March *Newly purchased piece*
• Hogan’s Heroes
• The Stripper
• Rhapsody in Blue
• March to the Scaffold
• Dambusters March

AND MUCH MORE! 
 

About the Band Leader 

Nadia has been the Band Leader of the BrizWest Concert Band since 2009. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Music (Musicology and Flute Performance) at The University of Queensland (UQ) and holds a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) also from UQ. Nadia has studied conducting with Maestro Michael Christie (as a student guest with The Queensland Orchestra in 2004), Mark Sullivan (Brisbane Girls Grammar School), Prof. Gwyn Roberts (UQ), Dr Peter Morris (Queensland Conservatorium) and Dr Barry Kopetz (USA).  

Nadia also performs as principal piccolo of the UQ Wind Symphony, UQ Symphony Orchestra and the Second Queensland Youth Orchestra. She is a member of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) and the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors’ Association (ABODA). 

In her free time (a mostly foreign concept!), Nadia likes to read, bake cakes and biscuits, dance (very badly), and sing (probably worse than the dancing).