Chris performs at memorial gardens

Bouddi resident Mr Chris Sainsbury performed at the Concertante Ensemble on Sunday December 9, at memorial gardens in Green Point.

He played his piece The Wellbeing Concertino for Clarinet and Strings at the Greenway Chapel and Memorial Gardens.

Mr Sainsbury said: "This is a deliberate creation of a community-minded work that is 'cut from the cloth' of regional tonal music-making in Australia, yet without necessarily being what some call 'light music'."

"The work is in three contrasting movements with titles that reflect aspects that I consider essential to wellbeing.

"These are 1) A call (like a vocation or a purpose), 2) An enchantment (as in love, or life's magic and mystery), and 3) Jubilation," he said.

Chris Sainsbury was born in Gosford.

He said he fostered a sense of regionalism within his music through the referencing of local iconic images in his works.

He has composed for the Central Coast Concertante Ensemble and the Central Coast Symphony Orchestra.

On a national scale, he has composed for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, and one of the world's leading guitar events, the Darwin International Guitar Festival where guitar virtuoso Jose Maria Gallardo del Rey performed his Concerto for Guitar (The Luthier).

On an international level, Sainsbury has composed for the Australian tour of the Wilhelm String Quartet (London), for the New England Philharmonic Orchestra (Boston, Ma.), and leading European avant-garde groups Levande Musik (Sweden) and Duo Bosgraaf-Elias (Holland).

Media Release, 26 Nov 2012

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