2024 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
The annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address will be delivered by Nat Bartsch, on Monday 2 December 2024 at the Hanson Dyer Hall, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre in Melbourne (Naarm).
Nat Bartsch is a double ARIA nominated pianist, composer, producer, mentor and neurodiversity advocate. Her emotive, lyrical music creates a space for the listener to be in the moment, created with a unique blend of neoclassical composition, jazz harmony and improvisation, and ethereal ambient effects. Often addressing universal themes from her own, intimate perspective, Nat’s music is enjoyed by a broad audience – often in profoundly personal moments. Her discography includes her acclaimed albums Forever, and No Time at All and Hope, and she has recently established her own record label, Amica Records.
Delivering this year’s Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address, Nat will draw from her own personal experience, discussing the topic of neurodiversity in music, and how her late diagnosis of autism and ADHD has shaped her music and career.
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address will be followed by world premiere performances of two Australian works supported by the MOMENTUM Commissions: Christine Pan‘s Umwelt for solo bass clarinet and Aaron Wyatt‘s Where to from Here? for piano, clarinet, and viola. The performances will feature instrumental students and recent alumni from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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