Canberra International Music Festival Interview Blog

Interviews with the distinguished directors, conductors, composers and performers of the 2011 Canberra International Music Festival. A frenzy of activity with 34 concerts over the period of May 11th-22nd. Brought to you by Shin Kurihara and Tobias Chisnall. For more information on the Canberra International Music festival, visit the CIMFsite .

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Thursday 9 June 2011

The End

With the festival finished and the semester coming to an end it seemed time to wrap up the series of interviews we've been doing for the festival.

It has been an absolute pleasure to interview these three musicians.  We initially aimed to also interview the director of the festival, Chris Latham, and a student participating in the festival for even more diverse perceptions of what it means to be a musician but due to time constraints this was not possible.  However, with the three interviews we have done, they have all been rewarding and thought provoking in their own way.

Once again thank you to the three interviewees: David Pereira, Graham Koehne and John Harding for being so generous with their time and thoughts.  All three are musicians of such integrity and sincerity that as students it was fantastic just being in their company and being able to talk with them.

Thank you,

Tobias Chisnall and Shin Kurihara