David Bollard
David Bollard is a New Zealand-born classical pianist who has made his career in Australia as a performer, teacher and adjudicator. He was a founding member of the Australia Ensemble from 1980 until 1998.
Born in New Zealand, pianist David Bollard lived in London, where he studied with Ilona Kabos and Louis Kentner, among others. Since moving to Australia in 1970, he has worked as a performer, teacher and adjudicator, and has lectured in piano and related studies as a staff member at a number of Australian university music schools.
He was a member of the Australia Ensemble from its inception in 1980 until 1998, and has taken part in many recording projects.
Press quotes
Much of the work is dominated by the brilliant pianism of David Bollard
In David Bollard he has a fine partner
the best thing about the Australia Ensemble's new Shostakovich disc is David Bollard's wholly idiomatic, steel-fingered piano playing
David Bollard is featured on the following titles
Porgy & Bess Fantasy: Music for Two Pianos
In the early 1980s two of Australia’s finest pianists joined forces in masterpieces of the piano-duet literature. The set draws on concert and studio sessions from a period when such collaborations were still readily captured.
Australian Cello
Sydney-based Danish cellist Georg Pedersen’s first solo disc centres on three major Australian works for solo cello by Banks, Kos and Whitehead. The Kos and Whitehead pieces were written especially for him.
Cello Rhapsody
Pereira's main strength is his passion, heard here in repertoire that ranges from the simplicity of songs to the dramatic nuance of the Hispanic rhapsodies.
Souvenir
An engaging collection of violin and piano works, several drawn from the Australian Music Examinations Board violin syllabus, spanning salon pieces, spirituals and early Mozart.
Evocations: The Poet
David Pereira (cello) and David Bollard (piano) offer an unusual selection from the romantic cello repertoire, with short lyrical works by Fauré, Delius, Kodály, Dvořák and others.
Songs of Sea and Sky
Nigel Westlake and David Bollard present Australian music for clarinet and piano by Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Mark Isaacs, Miriam Hyde, Margaret Sutherland and Don Banks.
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Performing as Australia Ensemble
The Australia Ensemble, resident at the University of New South Wales since its founding in 1980, is widely recognised as Australia’s leading chamber music ensemble. Seven principal instrumentalists form its core, joined by guests for standard repertoire and unusual combinations.
Shostakovich
Two of Shostakovich's most powerful and popular chamber works, given hair-raising performances by Australia's finest chamber ensemble.
Schubert
Schubert's best-loved chamber works: the great String Quintet in C and The Shepherd on the Rock, played by The Australia Ensemble with guest artists Jennifer Bates (soprano) and David Pereira (cello).
Café Concertino
The Australia Ensemble, Australia's foremost chamber group and in residence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, presents commissioned and core Australian chamber works.
David Bollard also appears on
Ecstatic Dances: Chamber Music, Vol. 1
One of Tall Poppies' most successful releases, this collection of Ross Edwards's chamber music sets his meditative sacred style beside the buoyant energy of his Maninya pieces.
David Bollard is a member of
Australia Ensemble
The Australia Ensemble, resident at the University of New South Wales since its founding in 1980, is widely recognised as Australia’s leading chamber music ensemble. Seven principal instrumentalists form its core, joined by guests for standard repertoire and unusual combinations.