ANZAC Day Intermezzo
The New Zealander Heather Charlton (piano) and the Australian Wendy Quinlan (flute) have been invited to perform an ANZAC Day intermezzo at the official opening of the Brave Little Belgium exhibition at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele on the evening of April 25. The performance will take place between the speeches for an invited audience of 400 people.
Heather Charlton (piano, New Zealand) graduated in Auckland with an honours degree in piano studies and musicology, and won a scholarship to study the harpsichord and baroque chamber music at the Royal Music Conservatorium of The Hague. A scholarship from the Belgian Ministry of Arts and Culture followed, enabling further studies in baroque music at the Royal Music Conservatorium in Brussels (harpsichord) and the Royal Music Conservatorium of Antwerp (organ). Heather teaches the harpsichord and keyboard accompaniment at the Flemish Music Academy of Schaarbeek, Brussels.
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Wendy Quinlan (flute, Australia) studied in Canberra and Switzerland. She has been principal flute for the Australian and World Youth Orchestras, Basel Sinfonietta, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra do Porto and the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders. As a soloist she has appeared with a number of ensembles, and has made several recordings. She is based in Brussels and in 2007 played at the ANZAC Commemorative Service at Tyne Cot. Her website is
http://www.wendyquinlan.com/
Wendy Quinlan on YouTube