• The Llewellyn Choir will be performing choral works by contemporary Australian composers. The concert will feature the world premiere of The Stolen Child by Dominic Harvey.  Wendy Hiscocks' works Love Falls, Sweet and Low and the Grace collection, as well as works by Peter Sculthorpe and Stephen Leek. The conductor will be Rowan Harvey-Martin.

The concert will be at JA Young Hall, Radford College, College Street, Bruce ACT, on Sunday 19 October 2008, commencing at 2.30pm. 

• 'I.O.U. Lloyd Rees' is an ABC TV documentary scheduled for screening on Tuesday 10pm, 19th February 2008.  Wendy is one of four Australian artists participating in this documentary which looks at the life of painter Lloyd Rees and his influence on living Australian artists.  As part of this programme, Wendy's choral work 'Grace' is performed by Trinity College Choir, Melbourne.

• Wendy will be performing at the Abingdon Arts Festival - "Celebrating Ralph Vaughan Williams". For more information and for details of the performance go to: http://www.abingdonartsfestival.org.uk/film.html

 

Artistic Highlights

2008

• Broadcast on ABC radio of Mother and Child by Rosalind Martin-soprano, Sarah Wake-Dyster-clarinet, Roy Howat-piano on February 9.
• ABC TV documentary screening of I.O.U. Lloyd Rees was broadcast on February 19.  In this program Wendy talks about Lloyd Rees’ relationship with her own work and Grace S.A.T.B. is performed live by Trinity College Choir, Melbourne conducted by Michael Leighton-Jones.
• Performs Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and a selection from House of Life with Australian baritone Derek Welton as part of the Abingdon Arts Festival on March 1.

Derek Walton & Wendy Hiscocks

• Doctorate in final stages and negotiations with Boydell & Brewer to write the first biography on Arthur Benjamin begin.

2007

• Premiere of ‘Trees and Lightning’ and ‘Prawning Lanterns on Lake Illawarra’ (from Scenes from an Australian Childhood) by American pianist, Scott McCarrey on November 15 in McKay Auditorium, Brigham Young University, Hawaii.
• The Howat-Hiscocks Duo (two pianos) performed Debussy’s En blanc et noir, Poulenc’s Elegy and Chabrier’s Trois Valses Romantiques on November 16 in McKay Auditorium, Brigham Young University, Hawaii.

Roy Howatt & Wendy Hiscocks performing Poulenc Double Concerto

• Carolyn Lam (vln) and Wendy Hiscocks premiere Nocturne together with works by Benjamin, Elgar and Grieg as part of their tour (Berlin, Cambridge and Abingdon) in April-May.

Carolyn Lam

• Publication of piano duet arrangement of Saint-Saën’s Danse macabre by Edition Peters.
• Hiscocks accompanies Australian soprano Allegra Giagu in songs by Barber and Britten as part of a tribute to Auden for the Hampstead and Highgate Festival, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute, May 15.

Wendy & Allegra Giagu

• The Griffyn Ensemble perform ‘Beat! Beat! Drums!’ from Pages of Poetry, National Library of Australia, June 29.

2006

• Official premiere of ‘Garden Orb Web’ and ‘Wombeyan Caves’ (from Scenes from an Australian Childhood) by Russian pianist, Vladimir Stoupel, in Berlin Konzerthaus, Kleiner Salle on May 5.  Vladimir also performs these works at Internationales Theater Frankfurt on April 29.
• The Howat Piano Trio perform Coral Fantasy at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, February 19.
• Work continues on Doctorate at the ANU.

2005

• Roy Howat performs Tarantella and Piper at the Gates of Dawn (including the premiere of the revised Finale) at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, Elder Hall, Adelaide, July 15. 
• The Howat–Hiscocks Duo perform two piano works by Arthur Benjamin, Saint-Saëns and Chabrier, Elder Hall, Adelaide, July 14 as part of the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference. 
• Hiscocks presents a paper on 'Arthur Benjamin as Pianist and Teacher' at Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference.
• Work continues on Doctorate at the ANU.
• Presents paper on 'Music and War: Arthur Benjamin's Symphony' at the MSA Conference in Sydney.
• Roy Howat gives Portuguese premiere of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (with new Finale) at Aviero Piano Festival, Auditório do Departmento de Comunicacão e Arte, October 12.
• Royal College of Music Contemporary Consort perform Coral Fantasy in programme for the King’s Lynn Festival, Town Hall, July 25.