Calliope's current members, Daniel Cocks, Wade Tattersall and Malcolm Tattersall, play baroque chamber music together regularly in The Telemann Ensemble but value the opportunity Calliope gives them to explore a wider variety of styles including jazz, world music and modern classical music.
Calliope in 2008: Malcolm, Wade and Daniel
Calliope emerged in 2000 from a larger group, Townsville Youth Recorder Ensemble, taught by Malcolm Tattersall through the North Queensland Recorder Society. As a trio of secondary-school-aged recorder students (Daniel, Wade and Joanne Coleman), Calliope was very successful in the School Ensembles competitions conducted annually by the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and by the North Queensland Concerto and Vocal Competition; it also presented concerts through the Townsville Community Music Centre and featured on the CD 'Music for Reflection' produced in 2002. Listen to them playing an extract from Moreton Bay (mp3, 230 KB) here.
In 2004, after Joanne had left to further her interests in dance and drama, Calliope performed as a recorder trio or quartet, with founding members Daniel and Wade joined by Kirsty Wharton, Malcolm Tattersall, or both.
As a trio, Calliope presented a twilight concert for Music Centre North Queensland in March 2008 and followed it immediately with incidental music for Guards! Guards!, a play by Terry Pratchett put on by Townsville Little Theatre.
A sample programme:
Around the World in Forty Minutes
Roumanian Dances
|
Bela Bartok |
Two Australian Airs
|
Malcolm Tattersall (arr.) |
Lima Gending
|
Gareth Farr |
Korean Folksongs Song of the Birds |
Lance Eccles (arr.) |
| Triple Fipple | Allan Bullard |
| Whistling Rufus | Kerry Mills |
| Le Piccadilly | Satie arr. Tattersall |
| Tango fur Elise | Beethoven/Leenhouts |
| Hava Nagila | Israeli arr. Davis |
Enquiries: Malcolm Tattersall.
Last updated 23 Dec. 2008