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| Georg Mertens by Jennifer DeMaere |
Mitchell Conservatorium has so many talented people working together producing great things. But we didn't know till very recently that we have a talented visual artist on our staff.
Jennifer DeMaere has been a valued member of the administration staff of the Con for many years. Her painting of Georg Mertens captures him perfectly.
Georg teaches cello and guitar at Mitchell Con and at home in Katoomba, but is also renowned for the beauty of his musical performances in Jenolan Caves. These have been sensitively recorded and uploaded to Youtube, where his performances have been viewed more than a million times.
I enjoy his performances of J S Bach cello suite movements, and appreciate the trouble he goes to in the interesting annotations he includes with these performances. But I've only discovered this morning that one of the performances of his own compositions has been cleverly juxtaposed with stunning pictures of the cave interiors. Georg's own Ciaconna is enhanced by the scenes included in this video:
You can hear Georg performing with his student, Tim Burrey at 3 PM on Sunday,5th August at Mitchell Conservatorium. Aaron Hopper and Fretworx will also be entertaining the audience with some great guitar sounds.
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