Event Highlights - Concert 2007

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Concert 2007

Over 350 jazz loving fans came out on Saturday 8th December to hear

 the award-winning Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra perform popular jazz works at Pymble Ladies' College, including:

- Cole Porter Medley

- St Louis Blues March

- Sinatra Medley

- Artie Shaw Concerto for Clarinet with Soloist: Mark Walton

- Glenn Miller Symphony

- Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two) by Shostakovich

- Portrait of Duke Ellington

Clarinetist Mark Walton was just brilliant with a rendition of Artie Shaw concerto for clarinet.

Mark is highly respected in the Australian music scene, and is known as a leading clarinet and saxophone performer, teacher and music advocate.

Mark has been Chair of Woodwind and a lecturer in clarinet and saxophone at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music for several years. He has written, compiled or edited over one hundred music publications, many of which have become standard woodwind teaching repertoire.

In more recent years, Mark, in conjunction with Yamaha Music Australia, has spearheaded a music outreach program, Yamaha Music Connect. This unique program provides the opportunity for people in remote areas to connect through music, and to become more actively involved in music within their community.

St Ives Rotary Club President Margaret Dean handed a cheque for $1000 to Mark to assist with the Outreach Program.

The Summer Raffle prizes were drawn on the night.

 Winners were:

1st Prize S. Patel-$1000 Festive dinner package.

2nd Prize-P. Burrows- Four Seasons Romantic night for two package.

3rd prize- I. Ross $250 for St Ives Village Concierge services.