Name: Underground
Start: 2025-10-29T18:30:00
Location: The University of Queensland-Saint Lucia Campus

The University of Queensland School of Music

Please join the Early Music Ensemble for an evening exploring the idea of chamber works, featuring Telemann's Trio Sonata in A minor and arias from Handel's Alcina, alongside Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame. We highlight the performance of pieces by small ensembles, underscoring the connections made between performers, and performers and audience, in small, intimate settings.

In Camera

Zelman Cowen Building (51)

The UQ School of Music throughout the year promotes excellence in performance and composition by inviting students to participate in a range of competitions. This concert will feature the students who won the 2026 Ethel Osborn, Richard Pollett and Burnett William Wendorff performance prizes.

Prize Winners Concert

Underground is a diverse program of works celebrating the versatility and virtuosity of the saxophone in a variety of musical contexts. Audiences will be treated to contemporary and grooving Australian repertoire such as Ball's Underground; energetic and magical music from the movies including arrangements of The Magnificent Seven and Miyazaki Medley; as well as lush and comforting transcriptions such as Vaughn Williams' Sea Songs and Grainger's Molly on the Shore. The concert concludes with the Southern Hemisphere premiere of Geiss' new work for saxophone ensemble Final Bow which is a musical tribute to pioneer of the saxophone and esteemed saxophone pedagogue Jean-Marie Londeix (1933-2025). Jean-Marie Londeix (1932–2025) was a French classical saxophonist, renowned for his pivotal role in establishing the saxophone in the classical repertoire. A student of Marcel Mule, he was a concert soloist, educator, and advocate for contemporary composers, which resulted in over 100 works being dedicated to him. He was a professor at the conservatories of Dijon and Bordeaux, founded the French Saxophonists Association (AsSaFra) and the International Saxophone Committee, and authored numerous pedagogical works.