Mike Nock and Adam Cook.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bloomsbury Press.

Series:

Contemporary Musicians in Conversation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concert--Musical performance.

Concert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Video. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022.

Other Title:

Bloomsbury Video Library.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne: Exero. 2010.

Biography/History:

Kostas Metaxas is an Australian Director, Producer, author and editor of a number of works on contemporary art, design, fashion and theatre. .

Summary:

<i>Mike Nock -Jazz pianist</i> New Zealand born pianist/composer Mike Nock is one of the acknowledged masters of jazz in Australasia. His reputation rests partly on his imposing international experience which includes ... twenty-five years working in the USA with many of the world's top jazz musicians such as: Coleman Hawkins, Yusef Lateef, Dionne Warwick, Michael Brecker, etc... a large catalogue of critically acclaimed, internationally released recordings his role as leader of the 1970's seminal jazz-rock group The Fourth Way a substantial body of original compositions in print and on recordings Recipient of three US National Endowment. Fellowships for composition ( 1972, 1975 & 1978 ) in 1999 he was awarded a two year Australian Arts Council Fellowship. <i>Adam Cook -Musical director</i> Background: NIDA Directors Course, 1988. Currently Artistic Director - State Theatre Company of South Australia. Received, from the Sydney Critics Circle, the John Tasker Award for Freelance Services to Sydney Theatre OA repertoire: Lakmé, Midnite (Windmill Performing Arts Co/Oz Opera); Oz Opera - La bohème, Carmen, The Ghost Wife (Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney) Other Companies: Directed over 80 productions, working for most major theatre companies and arts festivals throughout Australia including the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide Festivals, Melbourne Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Ensemble Theatre, Sydney Opera House Trust, Playbox, Griffin, Bell Shakespeare Company, Festival of the Dreaming, Marian Street, NIDA, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, La Boite, Q Theatre, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, City of London Festival and BITE Festival (Barbican, London) .

Credits:

Producer, Kostas Metaxas.

ISBN:

9781350905474

OCLC:

1356503991

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.