GRAAFF, DEBORAH DE Deborah de Graaff
The 1983 national winner of the
Australian Broadcasting CorporationÂ’s Instrumental and Vocal Competition, Deborah
de Graaff performed the Clarinet Concerto by Jean Françaix with leading
orchestras around Australia, participated in International Congresses and competitions
in Munich and London, and in 1987 was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee
Scholarship. She has recorded many times for the ABC and performed as chamber
soloist with her mother, the contralto Lauris Elms, Rita Hunter, Geoffrey Parsons,
and John Winter, and performed concertos at the Sydney Opera House with Richard
Bonynge, Paul Dyer and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and The Sydney Mozart
players. Chamber music performances have taken her throughout Australia and
internationally to Vietnam and England. Her recordings with Len Vorster feature
A Clarinet Collection and an all Australian CD, Ulpirra, currently
available on the Walsingham Classics label, and Brahms, The Complete Works
for Clarinet for ABC Classics. Deborah de Graaff is a lecturer in Clarinet
at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University, and is engaged in
research in Music Psychology at the Music Education Department of Sydney Conservatorium.
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