*Jacqui travelled to Ireland for artistic composing retreat in March 2023. Fruits of this journey included a short orchestral work called For Peace which is due to be performed by our local Dandenong Ranges Orchestra late 2024.
2024
I am pleased to tell you Sacred Stage gave over $500 to Dandenong Ranges Emergency Relief Service from our last charity concert ” Nature and the Sacred” in April 2024. We received a Shire of Yarra Ranges Small Grant of $1000 which covered costs of hall, fliers, and something for musicians. About 20 people performed.
A Sacred Stage CHARITY CONCERT FOR PEACE Our next charity concert was born from my visit to a local park. I was so inspired by the Cherry Tree Grove I returned several times to compose music. The charity concert is to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Dandenong Ranges Cherry Tree Grove. We have singers, a pianist and a harpist, and a flautist, and I have composed a new work. Spring 2025 at the Dandenong Ranges Music Council and St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.
Also, we won an Annual Australian Enterprise Awards for Most Dedicated Music Initiative 2024, not a monetary prize.
I have been composing many new works – songs, string quartets, orchestra works, all hand-written with calligraphy and drawings, in volumes.