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Geneva announce first Australian performance artist

Jamie Lawson becomes the first high profile Australian cornet star to join the Geneva Instruments stable.

Jamie Lawson
 

Newly crowned Victorian champion cornet player, Jamie Lawson, has been invited to become Geneva Instruments first Australian brass performance artist.

Leading

A 2013 recipient of the Adrienne, Lady Stewart Performance Bursary, Jamie is currently principal cornet of the leading Footscray Yarraville Band and a member of National Australia Brass since its inception in 2008.

In addition the talented musician is also a cornet tutor of the National Australia Brass Youth Band and a highly respected brass tutor contributing to the Academy Mentor Programme linked with the educational work of the National Australia Brass Academy.

Proud

Jamie told 4BR: "To receive an email from the Director of Geneva Instruments, Tim Oldroyd, inviting me to join the Geneva Instruments Performance Artist team is a great honour of which I am extremely proud.

The craftsmanship and design of the brass range of Geneva’s instruments is exceptional and I have never been more fulfilled in my playing than I am with the new Geneva Symphony cornet."

Excited

He added: "I am also excited to be promoting and supporting the work of Geneva Brass Australasia both as an artist and endorsee of Geneva Instruments."

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