distinguished musicians. He has
performed in Australia, UK, USA, New
Zealand , Austria, Vietnam, Malaysia,
Thailand, Hong Kong, Korea and Vanuatu
as pianist, duo-pianist and/or conductor,
and has given many master classes and
seminars nationally and internationally
Max has collaborated with his wife
Pamela Page, son Dene Olding, and
daughter-in-law Irina Morozova as well as
other visiting artists. As concerto soloist,
he has given several first performances.
Max and held a number of teaching
and administration positions at various
educational institutions including the
Conservatorium of Music Melbourne
University, Queensland Conservatorium
of Music Griffith University, Queensland
University of Technology, City University
of New York and University of
Queensland. As well as teaching and
administration positions, Max has had
a long association with the Australian
Music Examinations Board of which
he is an Honorary Fellow. He currently
holds the positions of Federal Examiner,
Deputy Chair and Principal Examiner for
Queensland.
as one of Australia's finest concert
artists. As a child prodigy, she became
well known through concerts and
ABC broadcasts. At fifteen, she won
a scholarship to study with Kinloch
Anderson at Trinity College, London
where she was subsequently awarded
the Maude Seton Price for the most
outstanding student. Later she was
invited by Walter Gieseking to study
with him in Saarbrucken. Pamela was
co-winner (with Max Olding) of the
inaugural Royal Concert Trust Fund
Competition in London, and has given
numerous solo and concerto appearances
throughout Australia and in the UK,
Europe, USA, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong
Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, Vanuatu and
New Zealand. In recent years, Pamela's
passion for art has led to an exploration
of the phenomenon of synaesthesia and
the special relationship of colour and
sound. She is a graduate in Fine Arts
from the Brisbane Institute of Art and
painting through bi-media presentations in
which her large-scale abstract realizations
of major works of music are synthesized
with live performance of the works. Such
works thus far include Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition, Liszt's Piano
Sonata, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit and
Handel's Alexander's Feast.
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world's leading concert halls and appears
as a concerto soloist and recitalist in
Britain and throughout Europe, the Far
East and Australia. Greatly in demand as a
chamber musician, she has longstanding
partnerships with, among others, Yo-Yo
Ma, Truls Mørk, Christian Poltéra, Janine
Jansen and Noriko Ogawa. A champion
of contemporary music, she has given
first performances of many major works
including concertos by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies, Michael Nyman, and Graham
Fitkin. She is an enthusiastic exponent
of tango and other Latin dance music, a
passion reflected in her collaboration with
Yo-Yo Ma and leading South American
musicians on the Grammy-winning Sony
CD Soul of the Tango and its successor,
Obrigado Brazil.
saxophonists of his generation. He has
represented Italy on several occasions
in the World Saxophone Congress, with
performances in Germany, Japan, USA,
and Spain; has performed as soloist
with all the major Italian orchestras,
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and enjoys
a particularly close relationship with
the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. He
also conducts and has recorded for the
Chandos and Delos labels. The 2009-
2010 season includes solo engagements
in Italy, Finland, Germany, Israel, Russia,
the U.S.A. and New Zealand and a
highlight appearance as soloist and
conductor in the main season of the Saint
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.