Introducing the 2010 Mazda Foundation National Young Performer Awards Adjudicators
Max Olding (Pianoforte)
Max Olding (Queensland)                                                                                      MAX OLDING - AM   Max Olding is  one of Australia’s most distinguished musicians. He has performed in Australia, UK, USA, NZ, Austria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Korea and Vanuatu  as pianist,  duo-pianist and/or conductor, and has given many masterclasses and seminars nationally and internationally.   In addition, Max Olding has worked in collaboration with many visiting international artists  as well as  his wife Pamela Page, son Dene Olding and daughter-in-law Irina Morozova in recitals, chamber music ensembles and concertos. As concerto soloist he has played many works and has given several first performances in Australia. He has also recorded with his wife (more recently, Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen and Debussy’s En Blanc et Noir for two pianos)  and with his son - Sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.    He began his tertiary teaching career at the Melbourne University Conservatorium and   has held senior teaching and administrative positions in The Queensland Conservatorium of Music-Griffith University (Deputy Director and Principal Lecturer in Piano); Queensland University of Technology (Acting Head and Senior Lecturer); City University of New York (Visiting Professor) and at the University of Queensland where he is currently teaching.    He has many student successes to his credit at both national and international levels.   He has had a long association with the Australian Music Examinations Board and is a Federal Examiner as well as Deputy Chair  and Principal Examiner  in Queensland.  He has also worked extensively in SE Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong)  and New Zealand for the Board in examining and promotional activities.  He was recently accorded the honour of having the Auditorium at the new AMEB (Qld) Building named after him.   Max has served on juries and adjudicated at most of Australia’s major music competitions, has chaired many of them and has acted as external examiner for higher degrees at the Universities of Melbourne,Western Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, Southern Queensland and Queensland University of Technology.   He has been associated with Sydney’s Music Awards for many years, the first of which was as adjudicator at the 1952 City of Sydney Eisteddfod - the same year that he won the ABC’s Concerto and Vocal Competition. Two years later in an overseas competition, he met his wife-to-be , Pamela Page, when they shared first prize in the London-based Royal Concert Trust Fund Competition. They then became well-known as a duo-piano team.`      Max has held positions as President of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Society and Deputy Chair of the Brisbane Institute of Art. He is a Churchill Fellow; Patron of the Queensland Music Teachers Association; Patron of the Queensland Piano Tuners and Technicians Guild and is a Life Member of the Queensland Accompanists Guild.   He holds an MMus(Qld) and a DipMus(Melb). On a number of occasions, he has been invited as Visiting Artist at the Australian National Academy of Music ,  is an Honorary Fellow of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, a recipient of the Australia Centenary Medal, the Beethoven bi-Centenary Medal and is a Member of the Order of Australia - AM,  in recognition of his service to music and to music education.
Anthea Moller (Vocal) Anthlea Moller (Perth) Anthea Moller has had a long and distinguished career, both as performer and teacher. She was born in New Zealand and studied the piano for a number of years. Voice only became important to her in her mid twenties. She began her vocal training and joined a busy choral society, there she was given some wonderful opportunities to gain experience as a soloist, and this became the future Patterson. Concerts followed with The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, A.B.C. orchestras in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Tasmania, Queensland and many recordings for both Radio New Zealand and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In mid –career Anthea spent five years in London, specifically to perform, teach and have some much-needed coaching with world-class vocal coaches, the most important being Paul Hamburger, Peter Gellhorn and Stephen Wilder. While resident in London she was able to sing the role of “Le Moglie” in the opera “Un Re In Ascolto” by Luciano Berio at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Anthea Moller has had over forty years teaching experience. There have been many highlights and some wonderful pupils who have gone on to great things. Most of Anthea’s teaching has been within the University system both in New Zealand and Australia, a highlight being the years spent as “Head of Voice” at the Canberra School of Music, where she was able to begin a very active Operatic Programme, which involved the Canberra community in many different ways. Anthea Moller was invited by Gregory Yurisich to teach at The Australian Opera Studio in Perth; it proved to be a wonderful opportunity to work with some very fine students in a course carefully designed to ease their transition in to a full professional career.
Carrie Green (Tap Dance) Carrie Green resides in Melbourne. Carrie draws on a vast experience of dance performance, choreography and teaching in theatre, cabaret and television in her role as Tap Dance Adjudicator for the Performing  Arts Competitions Association of New Zealand. Carrie has taught at many schools of Dance including the Barbara Lynch School of Dancing, Ministry of Dance and the Robert Sturrock, Full Time Dancing Course. As a juvenile dancer Carrie performed in works by the Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera  and Young Talent Time. She has danced in many corporate events through the years also performing extensively for national television including the Mike Walsh Show and The Logie Awards to name a few. Cabaret work has included shows such as Rumours, Black Money, Tivoli Theatre Restaurant, Industry and for Rembrandts Theatre Restaurant. Carrie’s theatre work includes choreographer for Love’s Triumphs, and she has performed in ensemble and title roles in Singing in the Rain, Fame – The Musical (lead role of Carmen Diaz),  The Boy from Oz, Starlight Express, A Chorus Line, Goldilocks and the Three Beers, Little Bo Peep Dynamite, working for such companies as Kevin Jacobson Productions, Terry Gill Productions and Stella Productions.
Andrea Briody, Ballet Adjudicator  Sydney Ballet adjudicator, Andrea Briody was born in Ballarat, Australia.   Andrea began dancing at the Carole Oliver School of Ballet and later completed her dance training at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. Her first professional engagement was as a member of The Dancer's Company. She then went on to dance with The Victorian State Opera and Opera Australia before travelling to Europe.   After working with London Ballet Theatre she joined the Trier City Ballet in Germany and then the State Theatre of Saarbrücken. In 1999 Andrea returned to Australia to audition for Graeme Murphy.   Andrea  joined Sydney Dance Company in 2000 performing in works from Graeme Murphy, Stephen Petronio, Wakako Asano and Narelle Benjamin. During this time, Andrea travelled extensively throughout the world performing in many international dance and arts festivals.   In August 2006 Andrea joined the State Theatre of Tyrol in Innsbruck, Austria under the direction of Birgit Scherzer. She returned to Australia in August 2009 to begin teaching in Victoria and was invited to adjudicate the Auckland New Caledonian Dance Festival in New Zealand.   In January 2010 Andrea returned to Sydney to commence teaching dance at the Sydney Dance Company studios and at Brent Street Performing Arts School.
Vocal Competition Accompanists are: John van Buskirk from Dunedin   Rosemary Barnes from Auckland