Finnlay Hansen

Confident and proficient tubist and composer from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music with years of experience in various ensembles and settings, seeking a full-time position in the Royal Australian Navy Band that offers professional challenges utilizing A-Grade musical training and interpersonal skills, and rewards ambition and initiative.

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music:

• UoM WIND SYMPHONY (2021, 2023)

- 15th October 2023, Hamer Hall, Featuring world premiere of epic new work by Kate Tempany, Great Barrier Reef Concerto for wind ensemble, african percussion and solo alto saxophone performed by Joseph Lallo

- 3rd September 2023, Melbourne Recital Centre, guest conductor Dr Jaclyn Hartenberger

- 28th May 2023, MRC, guest conductor Dr Nicholas Williams, featuring world premiere of Cathy Likhuta's Timpani Concerto Stormchasers, soloist Brent Miller

- 23rd April 2023, MRC, featuring Philip Sparke's Year of the Dragon.

- 23rd May 2021, Melbourne Town Hall, featuring new work Home Away from Home by Cathy Likhuta

- 31st March 2021, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, featuring premiere of Jeanie Murrow's Heroes in the Shadows, comissioned for the Covid-19 first responders

• UoM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, (2022, 2023)

-  1st April 2023, MRC

- 22nd May 2022, Hamer Hall, featuring Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (in which I performed Tuba II)

• MCM BRASS ENSEMBLE (2021, 2023)

- 15th October 2023, Hamer Hall, performance alongside MCM Wind Symphony

- 8th October 2023, Geelong Cathedral, featuring new works by Louisa Trewartha, Katy Abbott and Maria Grenfell

• MCM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, 2022, various performances
• MCM TUBA/EUPHONIUM ENSEMBLE, (2021 – current). Various performances
• (Peer-run) BRASS QUINTET - 2022

Other Ensembles:

• MUBSO (Melbourne University Biomed Orchestra) – (current)
• AMSO (Australian Medical Students’ Orchestra) – 2023
• UMMSO (University of Melbourne Medical Students’ Orchestra) – 2023

• MYO (Melbourne Youth Orchestra) – 2021-2022

-  Various Performances at Sidney Myer Bowl, Melbourne Recital Centre, and Iwaki Auditorium

-  Premiere performance of Elena Kats-Chernin piece Inner Angels in 2022

• SOLO RECITALS (see attached academic transcript: Practical Music 2 and Minor Music Performance 2)

Repertoire in 2021: 

-  Concerto in One Movement by Alexej Lebedev

-  Partita for Solo Flute in A Minor by J.S. Bach (transcribed for tuba)

-  Sonata for Tuba, Movements I, II by Paul Hindemith

Repertoire in 2023:

-  Concerto for Bass Tuba, Movement II by Ralph Vaughan Williams

-  Tuba Sonata, Movement I, II by Bruce Broughton

Other Performances:

-  Performed alongside students of Maercellin College in Melbourne, for their annual spring concert, also involved tutoring – 2023

-  Performed Brass Sextet Rat King by Gloria Yu in third year composition concert – 2023

-  Performed Tuba solo Consolation by Gloria Yu (with piano accompaniment) at third year composition concert – 2023

-  Performed self-composed 5 Bagatelles for Tuba & Trombone duet in second year composition student concert (part of composition course assessment to host end of semester concert featuring original compositions) - 2022

-  Performed in brass quintet at Christmas party (recommended by friend) in December 2022, repertoire involved Christmas carols, etc.

Prior to University, High-School and Post-High-School:

• ‘Lost for Ideas’ 2013 – 2018. Performed lead guitar and vocals. Various performances around Townsville at pubs, festivals, etc. won local Battle of the Bands in 2016, also featured part of a song on Sportsgirl Advertisement.
• 'Redlok and the Moonchild', 2017 – performed on bass guitar in local rock band Townsville

• Various ensembles in high school, on various instruments – 2010 - 2014:

-  Concert Band, brass quintet (tuba)

-  Symphony Orchestra (tuba and bassoon)

-  Wind quintet (bassoon)

-  Jazz quintet, stage band (bass guitar, upright bass)

-  Choir, A cafella’s guys choir

-  Percussion ensemble

Please type in URL's to view a selection of original compositions and arrangements with scores.

Original Compositions:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUd7-2KfXydXteN4fOJUGD6yOmrljwvv_

Arrangements:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUd7-2KfXydWbjGS4lnfbOHcHdD-ePsis

• Collaborated with 3 peers to organise and host bi-annual composition cohort concert at the University of Melbourne in 2022. Project involved building relationships with concert production staff and performers, organising rehearsal times, promotion of concert, and the composition of original music. The concert was a success and a huge learning curve in my development as a musician beyond being a performer.
• Successfully gained entry into Composition major stream at the MCM beginning 2022, following a portfolio submission and a new work.
• Successfully passed entrance audition for the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in November 2020. This was a particularly special achievement, as I had spent the greater part of 2020 teaching myself to play the tuba again after leaving it behind when I graduated high school in 2014. After passing my audition, I was awarded the Bachelor of Music Entrance Grant Scholarship.
• Won the auditions for tubist in the Melbourne Youth Orchestra Flagship ensemble in 2021 and 2022.

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• Timothy Buzbee - Instrumental Teacher, Head of Tuba Performance at MCM, Principal Tubist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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