Soloist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, cellist Umberto Clerici, an Australian-Italian who teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium discusses on ABC Canberra his reasons for basing himself in Sydney as a professional classical musician. Australia, he explained is a place where you are free to innovate and experiment in a new world setting but with enough old world ties to respect, know and practise tradition. This sounds to WfaAR like a good theme for the coming Republic: ” a new world with links to the old.” For more information about Umberto Clerici, click on link below.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
