Mandolinists, mandolists, mandocellists, guitarists, bassists - in fact
anyone wanting to improve their skills in a plucked stringed ensemble!

*Keith Harris* will be visiting Canberra on the weekend of 17-19 July
2009 and will hold a workshop on Saturday 18th 10am-12 noon at Marist
College Canberra. Keith will also be available for private mandolin
lessons over the weekend.

*Costs:*
Workshop: $25 per head, $15 per head for FAME (Federation of
Australasian Mandolin Ensembles) members
Private lesson: $30 per half hour, $60 per hour

Booings and/or information: Col Bernau 0411 253 256

Keith Harris, the conductor of the EGMYO in 2003, was born in Australia.
He studied musicology and languages at Sydney University and worked in
night clubs and television in Australia and England. His main interest
however was always plucked string music (as well as playing in various
plucked string ensembles in Sydney, he directed the Sydney Domra
Ensemble for over a decade) and he came to Germany in 1979 to be
involved more exclusively in the field. He quickly established an
international reputation as performer, conductor and teacher, in wide
demand throughout Europe, Australia, Japan and America.

He was director of music for the Federation of German Plucked String
Musicians in the state of Hesse for 12 years (in this capacity also
conductor of both the State Plucked String Orchestra and Youth
Orchestra, with numerous CD recordings and international tours) and held
a teaching commission for mandolin at the Conservatorium of Heidelberg
until it was closed at the end of the 20th century.
He has worked with the Plucked String Orchestra of the Municipality of
Patras since 1990, and actually lived in Patras for two years.
He conducts the Austrian Cecilia Ensemble, and when not travelling
somewhere in the world looks after mandolin clubs in Falkenstein
(Taunus), Giessen and Treis.
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