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Illumine Grammar Women—Cathy Milliken

39 minutes Posted Oct 12, 2022 at 11:00 pm.

Can you tell us about your time at the School, and what you remember most vividly about being a student here?

Did your time at BGGS influence your decision to pursue a career in music in your post-schooling days, or was it always your intention?

Once you had decided to study music, what was the reaction from your family when you decided on this path?

Did you face many obstacles and challenges along your way as a single, young woman traveling alone and living abroad during this time?

What led you to choose Berlin as your home base—was it opportunity that you found there or a love of the city itself, or perhaps, a combination of the two?

Can you tell us about some of your career highlights?

Can you tell us about your ground-breaking new work, Night Shift?

Can you tell us how a musician evolves from being a performer in an orchestra or ensemble, to composing their own works?

You’ve openly discussed the additional challenges that women composers face to have their voices heard and talents seen. Do you think over your career you have seen this improve at all?

How did you ensure that your voice was heard, and your talents seen?

Can you tell us what motivated your interest in the educational side of music and creative arts?

How important do you think learning about music is to secondary, and even primary, education for students?

For those who have a strong passion for music and a desire to pursue this in their post-schooling life, what words of encouragement or advice do you have for them?

What do you wish Year 12 Cathy had known before she joined the wider world?

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How many Australians have worked with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time? In fact, how many people can say that they were passionate and brave enough to pursue a successful, forty-plus-year career in classical music—performing and composing music all over the world in operas, chamber music, theatre and film projects? In this episode of Illumine—Grammar Women, Principal of Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Ms Jacinda Euler, hosts renowned oboist, composer, and music educator, Ms...

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