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A DAY AT THE THEATRE

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A day at the theatre is a classical piano concert featuring solo along with some duet pieces based on popular music from genres that are commonly heard in the setting of a theatre. These include opera where the words are sung throughout to tell the narrative accompanied by the orchestral music and costumes, ballet where the story is unspoken but displayed through dance and music, musicals the

descendant of opera which is similar to opera but the words are both spoken and sung and is played live in front of an audience and the most common form displayed in theatre currently is film where the narrative and music is recorded and is then displayed for the audience to watch in cinematic theatres.

The works will be performed solo by Melbourne-based pianist Ann-Thu Nguyen. Ann graduated Master of Music Performance with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne. During her studies, she was awarded five prestigious scholarships for excellence: the Francis Quinn Arts

Encouragement Award (2014), the DW Gardiner Fund Award (2016), Florence Menk Meyer Prize

(2016), Madeleine Orr Scholarship (2017) and the Grace Funston Scholarship (2018).

She will also performing some duet pieces with guest artist Aaron Khaled. A versatile actor, singer, pianist, violinist and dancer, Aaron Khaled is an all-rounded performing artiste. He began his training at the age of 6 and later furthered his education abroad in Russia, Melbourne and Sydney. He graduated from the Australian International Conservatorium of Music with a BA in Music (Performance) majoring in voice.