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| - David Banney is an Australian conductor, composer and music educator. He is the Artistic Director of the Newcastle Music Festival, the Artistic Director of the Christ Church Camerata, and Co-Director of the Newcastle Cathedral College of Music. Conducting David won the ABC Young Conductor of the Year Award in 1995. He has conducted orchestras and ensembles including the Queensland Symphony, Queensland Philharmonic, Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Adelaide Symphony and the West Australian Symphony. He has worked extensively with youth orchestras, including QYOI and QYOII, the European and British Isles Medical Students Orchestras, the Sydney Youth Philharmonic and the Newcastle Strings. He has performed in the British Isles, Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Spain. English conductor, Vernon Handley, rated Banney as "...easily among the best half-dozen young conductors that I have encountered in the forty years of my career..." Composition As a composer David has written for orchestra, chamber ensembles and choirs. A past winner of the ABC Young Composers Composition, his music has been performed throughout Australia, by performers including the Queensland and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Omega Ensemble, the Christ Church Camerata (Newcastle), William Barton (didgeridoo), Andrew Blanch (guitar), Chris Moore (viola), Susan Collins (violin), Peter Guy (organ) and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral (Newcastle). Education David has taught music from primary school to post-graduate level, and is a past Vice-President of the Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia. As a public lecturer he is best known for 'Banney's Baton Banter', a weekly radio show about music and life with Paul Bevan on ABC1233, that ran to more than 300 episodes over eight years. Research In 2004 David met the great violin pedagogue Géza Szilvay, and since then has presented and published papers on the subject of the contextualisation of Colourstrings and Kodály music education in Australia. Symmetry In 2015 David completed a PhD entitled 'Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Music'. His research has built a musical paradigm based on the tension between symmetry and symmetry breaks in music, both in rhythm and harmony. He has collaborated with other scholars for symmetry research, publishing with Giuseppe Caglioti on the subject of thermodynamics in music, and with Roger Smith on the subject of symmetry breaking in the synchronisation of uterine muscle behaviour during human labour. In 2018 he was appointed Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Newcastle, where he devised and presented the course 'Bach, Einstein and the Taj Mahal: Symmetry for Everyone'. David is the CEO of the International Symmetry Association. List of significant compositions Orchestra In Memoriam PM (two violins and strings) Images (string orchestra) La Folia (string orchestra) Australian Folk Song Suite (string orchestra) English Folk Song Suite (string orchestra) Three Chorale Preludes (string orchestra) Violin Concertino No 1 (violin and strings) Gypsy Suite (violin and strings) Whale Song (didgeridoo and strings) Luminescence (symphonic orchestra) Japanese Pictures (symphonic orchestra) Czech Suite (symphonic orchestra) Choir Tigers and Teapots. Folksong arrangements for unison treble voices and strings. Mass for One (soprano/tenor and organ) Mass for Another One (soprano, violin and organ) Mass for Christ the King (sopranos/trebles and string quintet) Mass for Trebles (trebles/sopranos, cello and organ) Missa Pentatonica (unision voices and organ) Newcastle Mass (SAB and organ) Anniversary Mass (congregational setting) Christ Church Canticles Preces and Responses Benediction (SATB and cello) Little Lamb (unison voices and piano) Chamber Music Meditation (cello and piano) String Quartet Taking Flight (guitar and string quartet) Strong Woman Dreaming (didgeridoo and string quartet) Pictures (violin and piano) Three Psalms (flute and mezzo soprano) Ten Meditations for Lent and Easter (piano) 17 Violin Duos Oriental Suite (violin and piano) Violin Concertino No 2 (violin and piano) Nocturne (piano solo) Film music Understanding Stillbirth (documentary by Hunter Medical Research Institute) ''Early Music" Concerto à la Telemann (two violas and strings) Concerto à la Handel (two violas and strings) Sonata à la Franz (viola and piano) Scherzo à la Felix (violin, viola, cello) Trio à la Haydn (violin, viola, cello) Seven Fugues - A, b, C, D, e, F and G (violin, viola, cello) Six Contredanses (violin, viola, cello) Sinfonia à la Leopold (string orchestra) Six Voluntaries (organ/piano/harpsichord) Sonata Romanesca (violin/viola/cello and keyboard) Suite Antica (versions for string trio, solo and keyboard, guitar and harp) Arioso (keyboard) Missa Semplice à la Palestrina (SAB) (en)
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