Synopsis    
     
Historical focus    
     
Interviewees    
     
Crew    
Director    
Producers     
Composer      
Musicians Deborah Kayser
  Michael Kieran Harvey
  Caerwen Martin
  Aaron Barnden
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

AARON BARNDEN
VIOLIN


Photograph by Marcus Thomson

Aaron Barnden began learning the violin at age four. He has received a number of awards, which includes the Gold Medal for Most Outstanding String Player at the Dandenong Festival of Music and Art (1993-94), The Westpac Bank Scholarship for Most Promising Student at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music (1996), and Manningham Eisteddfod’s Special Prize for the most outstanding violinist of the competition (1997).

In 1998, he was a featured artist on ABC FM’s Young Australia, and began working with the Melbourne Symphony, continuing with them until 2000. In 1999 he completed the Advanced Performance Program at the Australian National Academy of Music, followed by a Master of Music degree in 2001 at the University of Melbourne.

During spent a year in 2002 working with the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (Germany), and in 2005, Aaron and Uzbekish violinist Attilla Sautov founded the Wesley International Chamber Orchestra. In 2007, he founded a new orchestra, the Dinicu Chamber Orchestra, which performed at the Hume Winter Festival in 2007 and 2008. Also in 2007, Aaron was concertmaster for the Australian Opera’s annual regional tour.

For the last few years, much of his work has been in New Music, as a member the Raga Dolls Salon Orchestra, the Dead Horse Band, Astra Ensemble, Silo String Quartet, and in numerous projects for emerging music, including a recent recording of string quartets by US composer, Johanna Beyer, with the Astra String Quartet (New World Records, New York).

In 2008, Aaron performed Below the Star-Stretched Sky an Australian and Korean New Music concert with Silo String Quartet and Barrie Webb on trombone at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City.