About Me
Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1975, Andrew Chubb is a Newcastle based pianist, composer, violinist, violist, conductor, teacher and lecturer. Since 1999, he has been a lecturer and teacher at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, University of Newcastle. In the past serval years he also been conductor of the Hunter Stings ensembles at the Newcastle Conservatorium.
As a pianist, Andrew Chubb is interested in a variety of repertoire although he has taken a keen interest in performing minimalist piano works, especially those of the American composer Philip Glass. By 2006, he was the first and only Australian pianist who had publicly performed the main cycle of published solo piano works by Glass. These highly successful concerts were given at the superlative Newcastle Conservatorium Concert Hall in 2002, 2003, 2006 and the Newcastle City Hall and the Brisbane Conservatorium of Music in 2007.
Also in 2007 he gave the Australian premiere of the beautiful large-scale 75min solo piano work, ’The Book of Sounds’, by the late German composer, Hans Otte and in the same concert on the Australian made Stuart and Sons piano the World Premiere of his own recent solo piano work, ’Meditation at Bar Beach’. In recent years, Andrew Chubb has devoted time to composition and since 2004, has had works published by Publications by Wirripang (www.australiancomposers.com.au).
In 2007, Andrew Chubb collaborated with Australian photographer Allan Chawner in a project of images and music entitled ‘Bar Beach…Beyond the Sea’ which was exhibited at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. This highly praised collaboration featured Andrew Chubb’s recent 22min solo piano work, ‘Meditation at Bar Beach’. In October this year, he will be touring Canada as pianist and composer including an exhibition of his collaborative work ‘Bar Beach…Beyond the Sea’ at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada.
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