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Tony Gorman & Alister Spence: 'Clarion Fracture Zone': Journeys from the bottom of the sea, and other musical adventures. Tony and Alister first met and played together in the internationally acclaimed, ARIA Award winning “Clarion Fracture Zone”, a band that Tony and Sandy Evans started in 1988. Clarion‟s first major concert was called “Music For The Southern Seas” and was staged at The Bondi Pavilion. The concert‟s title came from a concern about the way the sea was being overfished and polluted. Song titles for this concert included „Dolabrifera‟ (a fairly unattractive sea slug), Feather Star (a crinoid), La Mar Esta Enferma (The Sea is Ill) and Spice Island. Alister Spence is regarded as one of the most experienced, creative and original contemporary improvising pianist/composers in Australia. With a performing and composing career spanning close to 30 years, his genre-defying talents have led him to compose and perform for some of the world‟s most respected artists, in the areas of jazz, film, theatre and rock music. His performance career has always been strongly linked to his work as a composer. The groups he is and has been part of, such as Clarion Fracture Zone, The Australian Art Orchestra and his own Alister Spence Trio are internationally recognized as much for their originality of composition as they are for their performance. Alister grew up in Turramurra. His family took summer holidays on the South Coast of N.S.W where his love of the sea developed. He became a keen board surfer in his teenage years and still continues surfing today at Maroubra where he is a member of the Maroubra Surfers Association. The sea offers to him a place of renewal (and exercise). Many of his compositions had their genesis during times spent by the sea. Tony Gorman’s 35 year professional career as a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and producer has made him one of the most respected musicians in Australia where he emigrated from Scotland in 1988. Tony is a gifted, skilled and experienced composer. He has written music for radio, film, theatre and dance productions. His career as a performer has encompassed contemporary jazz and improvised music, rhythm and blues, rock and classical music. In 1997 Tony‟s performance career changed dramatically when he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Since then he has been concentrating on composition and solo clarinet performances. More recently, Tony has been enjoying performing on Alto Clarinet with his improvisatory ensemble Tony Gorman‟s Monday Club. Tony Gorman grew up in the ship building town of Greenock on the River Clyde in Scotland. He established a successful career as musician and producer in Glasgow where he met Australian saxophone player/composer Sandy Evans. In the 1980s they moved out to Australia and live by the sea in Curl Curl on Sydney‟s Northern Beaches. PANEL: Artists and Collectors — in conversation with Iain McCalman University of Sydney Professor and sometimes maritime historian Iain McCalman will convene a conversation with three distinguished individuals whose passions and skills have connected them powerfully with the sea. He will explore with these three diverse and fascinating panellists the challenges and opportunities, dangers and delights, that engaging with the sea has brought them. Mike Bluett, filmmaker and digital producer, will discuss his work on a variety of sea-based film and digital projects, including having directed and produced several recent documentaries and digital productions on Great Barrier Reef histories. 13
Dr Nigel Erskine, sailor, maritime archaeologist, historian and curator, will discuss projects that have led him to explore key maritime archives, places and underwater sites of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. John Mullen, business leader, philanthropist and diver will talk about the pleasures and perils of diving in search of shipwrecks associated with Australia‟s early colonial period. Iain McCalman- Historian Iain McCalman was born in Nyasaland in 1947, schooled in Zimbabwe and did his higher education in Australia. His last book, Darwin‟s Armada (Penguin, 2009) won three prizes and was the basis of the TV series, Darwin‟s Brave New World. He is a Fellow of three Learned Academies and is a former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was Director of the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, from 1995-2002 and won the inaugural Vice-Chancellor‟s Prize at ANU for Teaching Excellence. He is a former Federation Fellow and currently a Research Professor in history at the University of Sydney and co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute. His new book, The Reef – A Passionate History, from Captain Cook to Climate Change, will be published by Penguin in Australia in November and by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in the USA in May 2014. He was made Officer of the Order of Australia in 2007 for services to history and the humanities. Mike Bluett – Film maker Mike Bluett has been producing television for 25 years in Europe, Australia and the US. He has worked in both factual and drama, long and short forms and a number of genres. He started his career as a factual producer making shows for ITV‟s arts strand, „The South Bank Show‟ and then followed with primetime factual shows for Channel 4, BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3, Channel 5, Discovery and History Channel amongst others. He has produced a number of coproductions with European and US broadcasters. Since arriving in Australia in 2005, Mike has produced shows for Discovery, the ABC and the SBS. Nigel Erskine – Curator Dr Nigel Erskine was recently appointed Research Manager at the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) where he has been employed since 2004. During this time he has served periodically as Senior Curator and Assistant Director, and has curated a number of exhibitions, published two books and been a Partner Investigator in two ARC projects. Prior to joining ANMM, he was Director of the Norfolk Island Museum (2000-2003). While working on his PhD at James Cook University, he was employed as an Associate Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology, and appointed Research Fellow with the Queensland Museum. In 1998-99 he led the Pitcairn Project, undertaking archaeological work in the eastern Pacific. Nigel is a strong advocate for collaborative projects which link tertiary institutions with museums. He is a council member of the Australian Register of Historic Vessels and a member of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, Australian Association of Maritime History and NSW Writers‟ Centre. John Mullen – Collector, Diver, Philanthropist John Mullen is an international businessman who has lived in some 11 countries and has held a number of senior positions including Chief Executive Officer of TNT Express Worldwide and Chief Executive Officer of DHL Express globally. John is currently Chief Executive Officer of Asciano Ltd, a $5 billion public company in Australia which operates critical infrastructure including ports, railways and container terminals. John was Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council in Washington, is a director of Telstra and has held a variety of other board positions including the Advisory Council of the Australian Graduate School of Management and the NSW State Library Foundation. For most of his life, John‟s great passion, however, has been the sea and maritime history. Through their Silentworld Foundation John and his wife Jacqui plan and finance annual expeditions to search for shipwrecks of historical significance to Australia. In conjunction with the National Maritime Museum and Sydney University, the Foundation has helped locate notable shipwrecks such as Phillip Parker King‟s “Mermaid” and Matthew Flinders‟ “Cato Porpoise”. The Foundation‟s private museum has also built one of Australia‟s leading collections of maritime history items from early European exploration in the Pacific through to colonial days in Australia. The Foundation is also an active supporter of humanitarian projects in remote communities in the Pacific Islands. 14
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