September Graduations

It was wonderful to celebrate the achievement of graduates across all of our disciplines at today's graduation ceremony, where Lynn Arnold AO delivered an eloquent speech about the importance of service to the community alongside the self-realisation of the individual. Congratulations to Hannah Beth Yates, admitted to the Degree of Master of Philosophy for a thesis entitled: Group Song Writing and Music Making Opening Social, Education and Career Pathways for Low Socio-Economic Status in Adelaide's North; and to the newly minuted Drs of Philosophy Dr Michael Bevan, and Dr Simón Pazos Quintana, for their theses titled, respectively, Pas De Deux with Seven Strings: Reimagining the Seven-String Guitar in Contemporary Duo Formats and The Sound Beyond the Noise: A Performance-Based Exploration and Contextualisation of the Expressive Content of Aleksandr Mosolov's Piano Works.