WENDY HISCOCKS EVENTS PAGE
			Upcoming & Recent events: PLEASE NOTE: THIS WEBSITE IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED.  VISIT WENDY'S NEW SITE AT www.wendyhiscocks.com The Griffyn Ensemble performed her mvt 'Beat, beat drums' from Pages of Poetry at a concert in the National Library of Australia on June 29th.  Pianist Scott McCarey will premiere 'Trees and Lightning' and 'Prawning Lanterns on Lake Illawarra' at McKay Auditorium, Brigham Young University, Hawaii on Nov 15th.  The Howat-Hiscocks Duo will perform a programme of two-piano and solo French music at the same venue on Nov 16th.  Wendy recently participated in the making of an ABC TV documentary titled 'I.O.U.' based on the life and influence of painter Lloyd Rees.  Her Grace for SATB will be performed by Trinity College Choir, Melbourne as part of the programme which will be broadcast in Feb 2008.
		In co-operation with the Philharmonie Essen in Germany, Wendy has participated with the group Banda Stagione and violinist Alban Beikircher in a series of transcriptions including Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (2003) and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade (2004). Other recent premières of Wendy's compositions include Love Falls for SATB & solo violin (Adelaide Philharmonic Choir conducted by Tim Sexton with violinist Carolyn Lam), Anzac Cove for SATB a cappella (Flight of Ideas, Adelaide, directed by Tom Farnon), The Unheeded Pageant for string orchestra Kallmunz Festival, Germany, conducted by Graham Buckland), and Tarantella for piano (in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Australia and the USA, played by pianists Cordelia Williams, Roy Howat, Sally Mays and Scott McCarrey). Tarantella and the Mother & Child song cycle have also been recorded in Australia for ABC Classic FM.  In 2004 the Sydney Chamber Choir premiered and toured Christmas Letter (SATB a capella) throughout NSW, Australia. Since 2002 the Mother and Child songs (to texts by Tagore) have been performed in London (in both chamber and orchestral versions), Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, with sopranos Rachel Nicholls, Narelle Gillie, Vivien Hamilton and Rosalind Martin.  Anna Rabinova (vln) and Vladimir Stoupel pf) performed The Flame at the 2003 Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Germany. As pianist, Wendy gave two performances in Japan of Poulenc's Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra (Howat–Hiscocks Duo), for the 2002 Kusatsu International Summer Academy and Festival, before continuing to Australia for a series of duo and chamber music concerts at venues including the Port Fairy Festival. Wendy's piano duet transcription of Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre (inspired by Saint-Saëns's own 2-piano version) was premiered by the Howat–Hiscocks Duo at the 2003 Windsor Festival and has recently been published by Peter Editions in 2007.         Home page (for links to catalogue of works, etc.)