The first in a five-part, monthly series featuring emerging Australian composers examines the thoughts, compositions and inspirations of Melbourne composer Greg Wernert, and includes new recordings of Wernert's compositions.

"My research focuses on exploring the musical expression of emotion with specific reference to the setting of poetic texts. The various writings on music and emotion provide the conceptual basis for my compositional work. My original music draws on a wide range of sources, including birdsong, poems by the twentieth-century Spanish poet F.G. Lorca, and a one-act play of the modernist Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. One of the most exciting outcomes of undertaking research in music composition was the public performance of two of my pieces based on the Lorca poems."
~ Greg Wernert

Know Your Music: Emerging Composers - Part 1 - Greg Wernert, Sunday September 19th at 8:30pm

Thanks to the generous support of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund 3MBS will be running the Springboard Project in September. For the last 3 years 3MBS have delivered the 20:20@3MBS initiative which has seen 20 secondary school music students being given the opportunity to record a piece of music in the 3MBS Southey Performance Studio with a professional engineer. 

In 2010 the project has been expanded and the name has been changed from 20:20@3MBS to the Springboard Project. Secondary school music students have been asked to answer the simple question ‘why does music matter to you?’ and to provide a little background about their studies in music. The responses have been creative, heartfelt and inspiring. Those students will now have the opportunity to record with Terry McDermott and the resultant pieces will be broadcast throughout September during The Score.

These young musicians represent the future of fine music and the future of 3MBS FM.  If you’ve ever wondered if secondary school kids care as much about music as we do then consider this paragraph from Lucy Stirling:

“I grew up on my mother’s lap while she sang and played guitar at church. Everyday of my childhood would be music. Music has always had a significant part in my life, the way it effects me physically and mentally. The way it’s able to move me and make me laugh or cry. When playing it’s as if I’m being taken away into another world, where I can relax and be myself.”

The future of fine music looks very bright indeed.

3MBS would like to thank The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund for supporting the Springboard Project.

Cosmo Cosmolino, a Melbourne based quintet of luscious strings and romantic piano accordion, creates exquisite music which crosses between tango and gypsy music, song and dynamic chamber pieces via original arrangements of well-known tunes and original compositions which express dynamism, love, tragedy and capricious play. Featuring Judy Gunson on accordion and vocals, Sue Simpson and Andrea Keeble on violin, Helen Mountfort on 'cello and Dan Witton on contrabass.

Cosmo Cosmolino will perform live-to-air on The Dress Circle on Friday August 27th at 1:30pm. Tune in and enjoy!

The Dress Circle, Friday August 27th, 1:30pm

Link: Cosmo Cosmolino's website

Recently, Julian Burnside QC favoured 3MBS listeners with a tour of his musical selections in conversation with 3MBS's Owen McKern on our weekly profile Tropic Island Discs, Sundays at 6:00pm.

The program was broadcast on Sunday August 1st and has garnered such a reponse that we were inspired to offer a highlight segment as Audio on Demand.

Tropic Island Discs: Sundays 6:00pm

3MBS is a community in which volunteers are welcome, appreciated and very, very necessary. 3MBS strives to be the premier supporter and broadcaster of classical music experiences in Victoria. We are always interested in hearing from potential volunteers who can help us achieve this goal. Would you like to know more?

You might be interested in becoming a presenter or music programmer, in which case you will be required to pass a short music quiz and submit an audition recording. You might be interested in helping out in our music library, on reception or any of a hundred other things.

Have a look at Volunteering at 3MBS, where you can download a Volunteer Application Form. Please read the Conditions of Volunteering at 3MBS before you send it in. You can always contact us with any questions you might have about volunteering, by phone on 9416 1035 or email support@3mbs.org.au

3MBS accepts all applications on their merits.