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 Conducting
Highlights
- In 1975 was appointed Musical Director
for the 1975 New Zealand Waitangi Day Celebration attended by her Majesty
the Queen of England and other members of the British Royal Family.
- In 1988, conducted at all the major concert
halls in Mainland China.
- In 1990, conducted extensively throughout
America including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
- In 1992 he conducted concerts in Hawaii,
Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Northern Italy.
- In 1993, conducted a premiere performance
of his, A Pocket Overture, at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
- In 1993, conducted a radio broadcast
recording for Stuttgart Radio, Germany.
- In 1994 he conducted a concert tour of
20 concerts on the north east coast of America, playing in Toronto,
New York, Boston, Washington, Albany and a few smaller centres like
Lake Placid, Hudson and Lake George.
- In 1994, two concerts in Turkey with
the State Symphony Orchestra of Adana where two of his original works
were performed, Rhapsody for Accordion and Orchestra and Concert
Overture "Youth of Auckland".
- In 1995, conducted the London's Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) at Orchestrelle '95 in Christchurch Park,
Ipswich, England.
- In 1996, conducted the Christchurch Symphony
Orchestra in Christchurch's outdoor spectacular, 'Classical Sparks'
concert, to an audience of over 120,000 people.
- In 1997, Musical Director for the Military
Tattoo in New Plymouth with a cast of over 1500, involving the Army,
Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Bands, 160 pipers, including the Band
of the Black Watch, local brass bands, orchestra and a 300 voice choir.
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was the real show stopper played by 240
brass and wind players and the Army heavy artillery.
- In 1997, conducted a subcription series
of concerts with the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, symphony concerts
in Jakarta, Indonesia and four concerts in Kuala Lumpur, with the National
Symphony Orchestra of Malaysia, in a programme of film and show music.
- In 1998 conducted the Royal Belgian Guides
Harmony Orchestra, in Brussels, to a capacity audience.
- In August 1999 Gary was the first New Zealander
to be invited to China to conduct the prestigious Shanghai Symphony
Orchestra.
In 1997 as resident conductor with the Auckland
Symphony Orchestra, Gary conducted five Family Concerts, The Symphony Goes
to Broadway, an Evening of British Music with a 100 Voice Choir and soloists.
Also a series of performances of a Night with Gilbert and Sullivan featuring
choir, soloists and orchestra. Over a thousand people were turned away from
his Family Christmas Concert, in December with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra.
In March 2000, Gary will be special guest conductor with the TAA Y2K
Festival Accordion Orchestra, in Dallas, Texas.
He is well known in television, radio and the recording industry, as a
composer, arranger and musical director. As a record producer, he has
produced over 40 record albums and has one "platinum" and two
"gold" record albums to his credit including the latest CD by
New Zealand Maori entertainer / singer, Sir Howard Morrison. He is highly
regarded in the advertising and film industry for his writing and production
of over 600 advertising jingles and film sound tracks.
Gary was the arranger/producer for New Zealand country singer, Kylie
Harris, winner of the 1998 "Country Album of the Year" Award.
As well as his overseas travels, Gary also conducts youth orchestras,
music schools, community orchestras and stage shows in many parts of New
Zealand.
Gary Daverne was born
in Auckland, New Zealand, January 1939, educated at Auckland University,
Auckland Teachers Training College and Trinity College of Music, London.
He started his music in a brass band playing the euphonium. Two years
later changing to the clarinet and percussion achieving LRSM and LTCL
(clarinet performers). During the early sixties while playing saxophone
in top New Zealand Rock Groups, he studied piano and became a top line
jazz pianist. He continued playing in symphony orchestras as a clarinettist
and professional percussionist.
He moved to London to study composition and conducting at the Royal
Academy of Music and the Trinity College of Music gaining FTCL in composition.
As a qualified Secondary School teacher in Economics, Accounting and
Music, he taught in Auckland and London between 1962 and 1977. In 1978
he was selected as "Composer in Schools" for the New Zealand
Education Department, a position he held for two years. During that time
he composed many songs and musicals for children. These have remained
very popular and are regularly performed, as are the extensive library
of compositions for the accordion, symphony orchestra and the piano.
Gary Daverne is signed to Ernest Deffner Publications (New York) as an
in-house arranger/composer and they publish and distribute his accordion
compositions world-wide and through their agent in Germany, Preissler
Music.
International publishing contracts are held with two Dutch companies for
the publishing of all his piano music, children's musicals and his orchestral
music including symphonic wind band transcriptions.
A compact disc featuring some of his many orchestral compositions, and
played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, is available on the BMG
label which includes Rhapsody for Accordion and Orchestra. Also available
on the BMG label is a CD of his original concert music for the accordion.
His arrangements for accordion orchestra are used extensively by the
Air New Zealand Accordion Orchestra and received dozens of standing ovations
around the world for their excellence. Gary has been a guest conductor
on 5 International Goodwill Tours with the Air New Zealand Accordion Orchestra
who have featured his compositions for accordion on these tours.
He was invited to be guest conductor of "Rhapsody for Accordion
and Orchestra" at the International Piano Accordion Competition and
Festival in New York (August 1988) and at the Prize giving of the Coupe
Mondiale International Accordion Solo Competition held in Germany in 1990.
Gary Daverne has performed this work over 120 times world-wide, usually
with soloist Harley Jones.
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