“You have to be very versatile in Australia as a musician. You can’t afford to put all your eggs in the soloist basket because you’ll starve if you do, or at the least get bored. That forces you into something that turns out to be really quite a virtue and that is having to play together with other people in ensembles. And that has tremendous benefits.”
Australian guitarist Timothy Kain celebrated his 70th birthday on 25th January this year and has so much to celebrate. He’s had a terrific career as a soloist, a duo guitarist with the likes of John Williams and many other great Australian instrumentalists, and he’s the founder of Guitar Trek, Australia’s unique and pioneering guitar quartet.
All my mentors are dying on me, the bastards: Ron Robertson-Swann
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All my mentors are dying on me, the bastards: Ron Robertson-Swann
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“Don’t worry about your bloody mortgage, there’s more to life than that.” It was a message 20-something sculptor Ron Robertson-Swann would never forget, inspiring a lifetime dedicated to making art.
Swann was taught by Anthony Caro and Phillip King at St Martin’s in London and Lyndon Dadswell in Sydney. “[Caro and Daswell] were returned soldiers and I think that you’re damaged but you grow up quickly and that gave them a certain respect for life and things worthwhile doing in life,” Robertson-Swann says.