Jumping Fences - Stories

Cuba 2001

Again we had a very rewarding trip, studying, performing, renewing friendships and learning more about daily life in Cuba. Here are a few of the highlights. Sketches from Cuba I. Soon after arriving ...

The Shore

Between January and March 2000 we wrote The Shore, a new choral work for unaccompanied mixed choir, commissioned by The Australian Voices. It premiered at the Australian Voices Festival in May 2000, ...

Three Songs For a City

In late 1997 we were commissioned by Mark Dunbar, the conductor of Canto Coro to write a piece for their 1998 season to accompany Canto Para Una Semilla, a work by the Chilean composer Luis Advis, se ...

The Music Shift: The Hat Factory

Mountcastles is a smaller workplace, located at the time of the project in the Brisbane suburb of Fairfield, engaged in making a wide variety of hats, including fashion, uniform and protective hats. ...

The Music Shift: The Abattoir

QMEAT was a government owned abattoir which has been operating for over ninety years. (Until 1947 it had been owned by a US company.) The workforce had a proud history of militant unionism, being mem ...

The Music Shift: The Lock Factory

Whitco was a large manufacturer of locks and fittings for doors and windows. The assembly workers are members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The workforce included a number of older w ...

Cuba 1996

Our second trip to Cuba was from August to October 1996 where we had a fantastic time, learning, playing, meeting musicians. We had music lessons were with twin brothers, Silvio and Vidal Tarín from ...

Cuba 1985-86

Our first visit to Cuba was over December 1985 and January 1986. It was the final leg of a tour throughout Latin America, seeing and studying as much music as we could in the major cities, Buenos Air ...