About Teacher
Kurt Ison is one of Australia’s leading organists. He was educated to postgraduate level at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and then had some private lessons in Paris and Bologna. He has given solo organ recitals in some of the world’s most prestigious venues including: Notre Dame Cathedral Paris, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Westminster Abbey, Washington National Cathedral, St Thomas’s Fifth Avenue New York City and the Hong Kong Concert Hall. He has also presented concerts in the Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide Town Halls and cathedrals in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. He has been on several concert tours to Europe, including an invitation from the Australian Embassy and Croatian Consulate to perform a series of concerts in Croatia. Kurt has taught organ for many years and has had students go on to study at a tertiary level both in Australia and at the world-renowned Eastman School of Music at Rochester NY. He taught theory as a peripatetic tutor for many years at MLC School Burwood, where he also helped HSC students with performance practise and composition tasks. Kurt is a published composer. His Missa Brevis for Female voices and organ was premiered at Notre Dame Cathedral Paris, published by J Butz Musikverlag in Bonn, Germany and is now sung regularly by the Cathedral Girls’ Choir at Aachen Cathedral, Germany amongst other places. He was commissioned by the Aachen Cathedral Girls’ Choir to write a second mass setting for them and his motets were published by Crescendo Music Publications in Melbourne.General Information
Working with Children : Yes
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B.Mus. , Grad.Dip.Mus.Perf. , LTCL , A.Mus.A.
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