Douglas Simper tribute and benefit

Church of the Trinity, 318 Goodwood Road, Clarence Park
3pm, December 1st, 2024

Note: This concert will not be held at Bridgewater Arts Centre but at Church of the Trinity – 318 Goodwood Rd, Clarence Park.

Doug Simper and Lorna Zhulan
Doug Simper and Lorna Zhulan
Doug Simper at the piano in the UK in 2012

Australian composer, music educator and concert pianist, PhD(Composition), MEd(Creative Arts), BMus(Hons), BA, DipT.

Featuring:

  • Rod Boucher with Buffalo Drive
  • Sevenfold
  • Richard Palmer and Co. 
  • Fossils with Peter Combe OAM, multi-ARIA Award winner
  • Leigh Newton 
  • Andrew Dutney
  • Melinda Steel performing some of Doug’s piano pieces
  • Simperly Singing with Jenny Ward on piano performing some of Doug’s songs
  • Holy Horns led by Andrew Newhouse – the wizard of brass arrangements
  • Minim – a women’s choir from Brougham Place Uniting

This concert is a way to honour Doug’s contribution to music in music in Australian and the UK. He is well known for his contemporary church songs but his music has taken him into classical composition, performance, teaching piano and writing a series of piano tutors. He is wanting to return to Adelaide for his 80th birthday in early December. Doug has a debilitating condition these days which slows him down but we’ll still get to hear some of his music from those performing on the day.  The ten concert acts are donating their time to honour Doug’s significant contribution to music in Australia and the UK, beginning in the 1960s and 70s. They were heady days back then, not least through the contribution of young English immigrants coming to Adelaide but also through those who grew up in the suburbs of Adelaide.

Wine will be available before the show and during the intermission. Doors open at 2:30pm. Entry is General Admission.

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