Resonating in Manchester

If it is true that a semblance of cultural isolation exists within the world's musical community, it is one that Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music is trying to erode. And successfully, too, if the college's composer festival, now in its fourth year, is any indication.
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‘Humbled and very pleased,’ are Australian composer Gerard Brophy’s feelings on being selected as the focus of the 2003 Royal Northern College of Music’s (RNCM) composer festival. For while Brophy is an acclaimed talent in both his home country and abroad, he also suffers from what could be described as the ‘who’s that’ syndrome – plaguing many artists outside their own country.

‘Let’s say that one of the greatest things about Australia,’ jokes Brophy, in regard to his country’s geographic isolation, ‘is also one of the worst.’

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Cath Collins
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Cath Collins has worked as a theatre production manager and film projectionist in Melbourne, the city in which she first picked up a video camera to shoot sketch comedy for community television.