Using preserved letters and manuscripts in the archives of the National Library Special Collections, I will tell the remarkable story of Miriam Hyde who sailed halfway across the globe from Australia’s oldest music institution in South Australia, on a major Scholarship to Royal College of Music. My aim is to restore Miriam Hyde in public sight from the elderly lady who wrote much loved ‘easy’ exam piano music in Sydney, to the synesthetic virtuoso visionary student from Adelaide who took London by storm… Join me in person or online at National Library in Canberra on July 24 (free)
Artaria debut recording: Australian Cultural Fund 2017
Fellowship: Exploring new Artistic Directions: Arts South Australia 2020
Metamorphosis (emerging photographer Finn Mellor): Arts South Australia 2021
Carmen Perpetuum (composers Judith Weir, Anne Cawrse): Arts South Australia 2023
Tarrawatta: Evolution (composer Caspar Hawksley): Australian Cultural Fund 2023
Songs without Words (Regional Residency by Tarrawatta Trio): Arts South Australia 2023
Complete Accord (Creative Arts Fellowship): National Library of Australia 2024
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