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YVETTE MICHELLE AUDAIN (M.Mus, GradDipTchg)
EDUCATION
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC: 2000 – 2002
September 2002: awarded Master of Music in composition – with Merit
May 2001: awarded Bachelor of Music (Honours) in composition and ethnomusicology – first class
AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC: 1996 – 1999
May 2000: awarded Bachelor of Music in performance clarinet and composition
AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: 2005
December 2005: awarded Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary)
Registered with the New Zealand Teachers’ Council
DIOCESAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: 1989 – 1995
MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
Performance:
2010 – Auckland Folk Festival (clarinet): shared the main stage with guest American guitarist Stefan Grossman
2008/2009 – The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band, including a 2-week tour of New Zealand’s South Island (tenor saxophone/clarinet/recorder)
2009 – Auckland Chamber Orchestra (saxophone)
2008 – Bach Musica (clarinet)
2007 - 2009 – ‘APOPS’ jazz combo the ‘Raincatchers’ (clarinet and tenor saxophone)
2007 - present – Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra associate instrumentalist (alto and tenor saxophones)
2007 – present – The Committee (saxophones, clarinet, spoken voice)
2003 – 2005; 2008 – present - Brett’s New Internationals, a 1920s dance band (saxophone; clarinet; vocals)
2007 – National Dixie (clarinet)
2005 - present – Waitakere City Orchestra (clarinet)
2005 - 2007 – Darktown Strutters Dixie Trio (clarinet)
2004 - 2006 – occasional deputy player for Prohibition Big Band (saxophone)
2004 - present – Vitamin S free-improvisation sessions (clarinet, saxophones, recorders, whistles, vocals)
2006 – progressive folk band George and Queen (saxophone)
2006 – show: Babes in Arms (Auckland Music Theatre) – clarinet/saxophone
2006 - present – original instrumental folk band Doris (clarinet, whistle, recorder)
2006 – 2008 – part of the backing band for performance poet Murray Haddow (clarinet, saxophone, recorder, whistle)
2005 – played clarinet on the soundtrack of the Toa Fraser film No. 2, music by Don McGlashan
2005 – 10 Acre Bloc free-improvisation orchestra (saxophone)
2005 – shows: Guys and Dolls (Selwyn Community Arts Theatre) and The Boyfriend (Pukekohe Light Operatic Club) – saxophones/clarinet
2004/2005 – New Zealand Opera: offstage banda for Rigoletto and La Traviata (clarinet)
2004/2005 – The Frank E. Evans Band (clarinet/vocals)
2004 – soloist with Auckland Wind Orchestra, in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Concerto for Clarinet and Military Band
2003/2004 – Clarinetist, saxophonist, vocalist, arranger with the Royal New Zealand Navy Band (full time)
2001/2002 – Band of the Wellington and Hawkes Bay Regiment (clarinet, saxophone, arranging)
2000 – 2002 – Victoria University Big Band (alto saxophone)
1994 – 1997; 1999; 2003 – Auckland Wind Orchestra (B flat clarinet; contralto clarinet)
Composition and arranging:
6 March 2011 – planned concert Grooves Unspoken – music by Yvette Audain as part of the 2011 Auckland Fringe. Programme: Grooves Unspoken for saxophone and piano, Hazine (Treasure) for solo saxophone, Meditations Upon Nasreddin Hoca for saxophone and piano, Hold Fast for solo clarinet, An Irksome Vengeance for clarinet and cello, bulletproof petals for saxophone quartet, A Charleston Kick With Steel Caps for saxophone quartet
2010/2011 – part of the APO Graduate Composers’ Workshop with Eulogy (text: Olivia Macassey) for narrator and orchestra
2010 – demonstrated Sibelius composition software for three APO Open Days (North Shore, Auckland Central, Manukau)
2009 – composed and premiered An Irksome Vengeance for clarinet and cello as part of composition collective The Committee’s 2009 Kenneth Myers Centre concert, University of Auckland
2008 – completed wind quintet score to accompany a cartoon excerpt Felix the Cat: The Magic Bag, for the Auckland Philharmonia Wind Quintet
2008 – present - arranger for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s ‘APO 4 Kids’ and ‘Kiwi Kapers’ education concerts, including a Mozart-Beethoven ‘Remix’ for the 2010 ‘Jump Jam’ CD
2008 – commission Three Auckland Nocturnes performed by the Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra at the Federation of Australasian Mandolin Ensembles (FAME) festival in Sydney, Australia
2008 – composed and premiered Hazine for solo saxophone as part of The Committee’s 2008 Clocktower concert, University of Auckland
2006 – saxophone quartet bulletproof petals shortlisted for the 2007 Asia Pacific Composers’ Festival in Wellington; later premiered by The Committee at the Clocktower
2006 – completed when day is gone, a commission from Peter Thomas, read through by Auckland Wind Orchestra at the NZCBA National Festival
2006 – Lion Foundation Auckland Philharmonia Graduate Composers’ Workshop – had orchestral work Wake Road in the Rain workshopped and recorded
2005 – Lion Foundation Auckland Philharmonia Graduate Composers’ Workshop – had orchestral work Mangatangi workshopped and recorded
For further composition information, see scholarships
and awards
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010 – saxophone tutor at Auckland Girls’ Grammar; clarinet tutor at Westlake Boys’ High School
2007 – present: clarinet and saxophone tutor and clarinet ensemble director at St. Peter’s College
2006 – present: clarinet and saxophone tutor at Glenfield College
2007 – 2010: composition tutor at Carmel College (also saxophone and clarinet tutor and jazz band director from 2008)
2008/2009 – saxophone and clarinet tutor at Liston College
2008/2009 – mentor for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s ‘APOPS’ education programme, tutoring small groups of woodwind and brass students at Papatoetoe Intermediate and taking a composition project at Parnell District School
2008 – present – saxophonist and tutor for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s ‘Remix the Orchestra’ school holiday course
2006 – mid-2008: saxophone tutor at King’s College (also junior band director in 2008)
2007 – clarinet tutor at Mount Roskill Grammar; saxophone tutor at Rangitoto College; saxophone and clarinet tutor at Diocesan School
2006/2007 – clarinet and saxophone tutor at Baradene College Music Academy and Birkdale North Music Centre
2005 – Practicum placements: Rangitoto College (May/June); Selwyn College (August/September). Music and ESOL classroom teaching; involvement in co-curricular bands and choirs
2003 – 2006 - Recorder tutor at Glenfield Music Centre
2004 - composition tutor at Kelston Girls’ High School
2004 – clarinet tutor at St. Dominic’s College
2002 - clarinet and saxophone tutor at Queen Margaret College, Chilton St James School, St. Mary’s College, St. Bernard’s College, St. Catherine’s College, Raroa Music Centre and Karori Normal School
2001 - Tutor in Stage 1 composition at Victoria University of Wellington
2001 – Took composition workshops at Wanganui High School as an Artist in Residence
1998 – present: Private tutor of clarinet, saxophone, recorder and music theory
SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS
2010 – inaugural Teachers’ Award from the St Peter’s College Music Department
2004 – John Rimmer Composition Trophy for the work Swimming with the Dinosaurs, Glenfield Music Centre
2001 – awarded Graduate Scholarship from the New Zealand Federation of University Women (Wellington Branch)
1999 – awarded Llewellyn Jones Prize in music for piano
1998 – awarded second place in the Sky City Community Trust Auckland Wind Orchestra Composers’ Competition, for Urban New Zealand Lullaby
1997 – awarded Bishop Senior Composition Scholarship
1996 – awarded Bishop Junior Composition Scholarship
1996 – 1999 – awarded prizes in Auckland University Composition Prize Concert (composition and performance)
Courses and Workshops attended
2009 – Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra ‘Remix the Orchestra’ course, graduate composer version
2008 – Federation of Australasian Mandolin Ensembles (FAME) festival, Sydney, Australia, for the first international performance of Three Auckland Nocturnes
2007 – ACL Asia Pacific Music Festival, Wellington: volunteer for front-of-house, stagehanding and promotion
2006 – participated in workshop with visiting Dutch free-jazz trio the Eric Boeren Trio
1997 – 2000; 2002 – attended CANZ Composers’ Workshops in Nelson and Martinborough; had works performed
1996/2002 – attended Recorder Week conferences in Wellington and Christchurch
Written reference:
Tomasz Kus (Head of Music, Glenfield College)
Verbal referees:
Antun Poljanich (Director of Music, St. Peter’s College; Musical Director, Auckland Youth Orchestra)
Chris Adams (former Head of Music, Liston College; 2009 Composer in Residence, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra; 2010/2011 Mozart Fellow, University of Otago)
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