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Applications Now Open for Youth Music Awards 2025 Composition and Performance Competition! 
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Key Dates - Youth Music Awards read more
Friday 16 May 2025 - Entries Close
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Auditions
Monday 30 June 2025 - Rehearsal
Friday 4 July 2025 - Finals Concert

What's coming up:

CAMPBELL DIAMOND  23/02/2025

Biography  

Campbell Diamond is an internationally award-winning classical guitarist from Canberra, Australia, and is currently based in Austria, where he has recently been appointed as Guitar Professor at the Anton Bruckner University of Music.  

Campbell completed his Bachelor degree (First Class Hons) with Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany, and continued his postgraduate studies with Judicaël Perroy at the Haute Ecole de Musique Genève and Lorenzo Micheli at Conservatorio d'alla Svizzera Italiana Lugano. Prior, he was a student of Timothy Kain and Minh Le Hoang at the ANU School of Music in Canberra, Australia.  

He began studying the classical guitar at the late age of 17, and now he is regarded as one of the leading guitarists of his generation. Campbell has had the privilege of participating in numerous masterclasses with musicians and scholars such as David Russell, Roberto Aussel, Zoran Dukic, Pianist Roy Howat, Oscar Ghiglia, Anthony Spiri, Ricardo Gallén, Pavel Steidl, Roland Dyens, Carlo Marchione and many others.  

He has given concerts all around Australia, Europe, Asia, North and South America as a soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared on several major radio stations including Classic FM UK, ABC Classic FM, WDR 3 (German Classic FM), and many more. He has performed and given masterclasses at many Conservatories, Guitar Festivals and concert series across the world including Koblenz International Guitar Festival, Iserlohn International Guitar Festival, Cultura Artistica – Sao Paulo, GuitarArt Festival, Forum Gitarre Wien and many more.  

Additional to his activities as a soloist, he has a very keen interest in chamber music. He performs regularly with a variety of different ensembles, including having recently joined the well-established quartet “Guitar4mation”. In 2021 he founded a Voice/Guitar Duo with the wonderful Soprano Clémence Tilquin, Professor of Voice at the Geneva Haute École de Musique Geneva and most recently a Duo with pianist Saskia Giorgini, fellow Professor at the Anton Bruckner University. Campbell is a sponsored D’addario and Guitarlift Artist and plays on a 2015 Antonius Müller Guitar.  

He has won over 30 prizes in International competitions, including:  

1st prize, Sakurai prize and Jeunesse prize, 24th Vienna International Guitar Competition (Forum Gitarre Wien), Austria 2019  

1st prize, Bach prize and Brouwer prize, 25th Koblenz International Guitar Competition, Germany 2017  

1st prize Arpoador International Guitar Competition, France 2019  

1st prize Gorizia International Guitar Competition “Enrico Mercatali”, Italy 2017  

1st prize Amarante International Guitar Competition, Portugal 2016  

1st prize Oberhausen International Guitar Competition, Germany 2016  

1st prize 5th Arion Guitar Academy International Competition, Greece 2016  

1st prize International Aachener Gitarrenpreis, Germany 2015  

1st prize Calcutta International Guitar Competition “Roland Dyens” 2014

 

Five amazing concerts are included when you buy a Membership of Sutherland Music Club.

 

Each year the Club engages top professional and up-and-coming artists to present a variety of wonderful music. The unbelievable price is $120 Full Membership and $105 Concession (including Seniors). You can’t afford not to join!

 

The exciting lineup for 2025 is:

9th February: “The Honeymakers Big Band'

     

13th April: “Kevin Hunt Trio”​​

10th August: “Café of the Gate of Salvation” - Gospel Choir

12th October: “A Classical Trio”

23rd November: “Dana Alison (Flute) and Friends”

Each  concert will be at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon in the lovely ambience of Sutherland Arts Theatre, 25 East Parade Sutherland.

 

Sutherland Music Club is a not-for-profit organisation under the umbrella of the Federated Music Clubs of Australia. Its mission is to bring great music to the local community at an affordable cost. 2025 will be the Club’s 68th Year!

 

Single Concert tickets will go on-sale via Ticketek from mid-January.

 

For enquiries please email:  sutherlandmusicclub@outlook.com

 

2025 Membership & Bookings

 

  • Bookings for membership & single concerts for the 2025 season will be made through Ticktek.

https://thepavilionarts.au/event/sutherland-music-club-2024-subscription

 

  • Single concert tickets 

 

National Trust Heritage Festival Concert

Sutherland Uniting Church 9 Merton Street Sutherland

Bookings/Enquiries:

Joy 0407 524 734 or email joysutherlandmusicclub@gmail.com

(c) Sutherland Music Club 2023

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