tutti artistic director

An invitation

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in tutti world youth music⁺ beijing to be held in Beijing in July 2013. The presenters, China Stars Events, have a proud tradition of running world class events over many years and it is an honour to be asked to again work with them on this spectacular event.

I will also again assemble a soon to be announced extraordinary international faculty of performers and pedagogues so that every participant in tutti world youth music⁺ beijing will be engaged in an inspirational week of masterclasses, workshops and performances.

tutti world youth music⁺ beijing will leave you excited, enriched and above all with a realization of what the power of music really is, and as a musician what a vital role you have to play in culture and society. Come and join together in the timeless and inspirational spirit of music with the added bonus of an ancient country full of wonders!

Paul Dean

Artistic Director
tutti world youth music⁺ beijing

Paul Dean
Artistic Director

tutti world youth music⁺ beijing
tutti.paul@hotmail.com

As soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, Paul Dean has performed in Norway, England, Japan, New Zealand, China, the USA and Canada.

A recital in London’s Conway Hall, a concerto performance with Norway’s Trondheim Symfoniorkester at their New Music Festival, and two recitals and a concerto performance in the USA have been just a few of the highlights in his career so far. While still a student of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Paul won many prizes including the Conservatorium Medal for Excellence.

Paul’s recording of the clarinet music of English composer Benjamin Frankel for German label CPO has won unanimous high praise from critics around the world and his performance of the Frankel Clarinet Quintet at the 1997 International Clarinetfest in Lubbock, Texas won him a standing ovation.

Performances and recordings of his brother Brett Dean’s clarinet concerto Ariel’s Music have also gained international acclaim for both performer and composer. Ariel’s Music with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz was released on ABC classics. A recording of Paul performing this work won an ARIA in 1999, and the piece was the Selected Work at the 1999 Paris Rostrum of Composers. In 2004 Paul also recorded a CD of music by Andrew Schultz for the Tall Poppies label.

Paul is the Director of Southern Cross Soloists and the Artistic Director of the Bangalow Music Festival and the SunWater & Stanwell Winter Music School . He also regularly performs with brother Brett and pianist Stephen Emmerson, in a trio called Dean Emmerson Dean.

Between 1987 and 2000 he was Principal Clarinet with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and appeared as soloist with the Orchestra on over thirty occasions. In 2003 Paul was a soloist with the Adelaide Symphony and the Queensland Orchestra. He toured nationally with the Australian String Quartet playing the Brahms Quintet, and toured New Zealand and the US with the Southern Cross Soloists in the same year. In 2004 he was a guest artist at the Sydney Festival and the Australian String Quartet’s Bridgewater Mill Series, toured nationally with the Macquarie Trio and performed over 50 concerts throughout Australia with the Southern Cross Soloists.

Paul Dean came on board as the Artistic Director for the first tutti world youth music beijing in 2011 and will return as Artistic Director for 2013. Paul brings a wealth of experience to the role and is one of Australia's leading music educationalist. In 2007 Paul was the Artistic Director for the ground breaking and internationally acclaimed Bonyi International Youth Music Festival. In 2009 he was the Director of the Australian Youth Orchestra's National Music Camp. In 2010 Paul was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Australian National Academy of Music, the nation’s pre-eminent music education academy for the best classical musicians.

From Paul Dean, Artistic Director

Apart from the significant fact that he is the Artistic Director of the Australian National Academy of Music ( ANAM ) his other reference for doing this job was the wonderful program he put together for our previous music festival, the Bonyi International Youth Music Festival in Brisbane 2007. Here is what he had to say about that experience when he addressed the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp 2009:

"I was indeed fortunate to be appointed as the Artistic Director of this Festival. Schools from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa brought their orchestras,
concert bands, string orchestras and choirs for a week of intensive masterclasses, lessons and performances. Backed by an amazing faculty this was indeed an incredible week for the 500 participants but not more so than it was for me personally. On the Wednesday, all participants assembled for a photo and a chance for all the combined resources of the schools to sing the famous spiritual “Down by the river to pray”. Little did I know this was to be a major turning point in my thinking about music and music education! My dear friend and colleague Graeme Morton, one of Australia’s leading choral trainers, had trained them to sing the easy traditional song and walked to the top of the steps and began the ground swell of singing from there. The spirit spread like wildfire. It was a fantastic moment but one that I could hardly replicate in simple words. What was really amazing was what happened after the photos and the singing finished. In a sudden burst of inspiration, the two South African schools, one from the cape flats in Cape Town, the other a well to do private school in Peitermaritzburg, simultaneously began singing traditional African songs. No sooner had they finished to take a breath but two New Zealand schools ran forward and assembled themselves in front of the gathered throng of participants and excited on-lookers who had gathered from nowhere, and performed a heart stopping pair of “hakas” as if an opposing set of tribal warriors. This ignited the kids in a frenzy of singing and clapping and chanting of which I if I hadn’t been there I wouldn’t have believed possible. It was one of those life changing moments, when you realise what the power of music really is, and as a musician what a vital role you have to play in our culture and society…and indeed no more so than today.

But what had just played out in front of me was just a replica of what was happening on the Concert Hall stage every day that week. When the band from the Cape Flats township took the stage my jaw dropped. They weren’t a concert band in the traditional sense. They played township jazz. Arrangements of traditional songs and jazz tunes were made by the teachers to fit the rather amazing line up of musicians…a couple of brass, clarinets, saxophones, strings, percussion and piano. I had been giving these kids lessons all week. One had been playing 6 months. The band had one very good pianist (who also doubled as an extraordinary oboist) and a trombonist who was probably about third grade AMEB standard. The viola player had suffered polio as an infant. He played reverse and had to have one of his mates jam the bow into his disabled hand.

But guess what happened. Not a soul in the concert hall sat for the applause. I had never experienced such a soulful performance like this before. And may never again... they played with more spirit than was shown by all the other groups put together. It really meant something to them. Music wasn’t just a pleasant extra curricular activity. It wasn’t just a means to get a trip to Australia, or something that their parents thought would be good for them... Every note was played from within a soul that yearned to say something and to mean something both to them and to their audience. It was quite simply the greatest musical thing I have ever witnessed."

So that is why we want you there in Beijing in 2013 !!

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