Internationally award-winning guitar playing brothers Ziggy and Miles Johnston will soon make their way to the Border.
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The Johnston brothers are taking their duo on the road to entertain regional audiences as part of Albury Chamber Music Festival’s mid-year concert series at the Adamshurst Ballroom on Sunday, September 9, at 2pm.
The afternoon of music will feature works by leading Australian composers Nigel Westlake, Phillip Houghton and Richard Charlton, alongside Argentinian composers Maximo Diego Pujol and Astor Piazzolla.
Based in Melbourne, Ziggy and Miles Johnston both started playing guitar as youngsters and are considered two of the finest up-and-coming guitar duos in Australia, both studied at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and Monash University.
As a duo, they have achieved outstanding results in various national and international guitar competitions, with Miles winning the 2018 Adelaide International Guitar Festival Competition.
In 2014, they released their first CD, Recollections, recorded at Sing Sing studios in Melbourne, and produced by Slava Grigoryan.
It was nominated for the "Creative Young Stars" award which assisted with the CDs recording and manufacture.
Their performances are regularly broadcast on ABC Classic FM and 3MBS radio.
They perform a diverse range of repertoire comprising of the standard classical guitar canon and works from Australia, Spain and Latin America. Ziggy and Miles will perform Australian and Argentinian influenced jazz works in the Albury performance.
“We are very excited to be presenting this concert for the Albury Chamber Music Festival,” the brothers said on their Facebook page.
The Albury Chamber Music Festival is planned for November 16-18 and features six concerts and one masterclass over the three days.
It opens with the Flinders Quartet performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Pieces for String Quartet, Op.81, No. 2 and 3, followed by the popular Border-based Orpheus Piano Trio.
The trio will play Melbourne composer Benjamin Martin’s arrangement of Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, with accompanying dialogue by Peter Goldsworthy, Playing Fast and Loose with Mother Goose.
NSW Governor, general David Hurley, will be the guest of honour for the opening day concerts, featuring an exciting line-up of performers and repertoire.
