Emma Ayres

Emma Ayres (* 1967 in Dover , England ) is a British-Australian violist , music teacher and radio presenter . She is known for her work for the Australian broadcaster ABC Classic FM and for charity projects.

Life

Emma Ayres grew up in Shrewsbury in central England with three siblings. At the request of her single mother, she first learned to play the violin, although she was drawn to the cello. When she was twelve years old, a music teacher took her to the viola, which she learned to love. She studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and, after graduating there, deepened her studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She played the viola for twelve years, eight of them with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra .

In 2000, Ayres rode a bicycle from Shropshire in England to Hong Kong in nine months , covering around 16,000 kilometers on the journey - which route led through Pakistan . She undertook the solo tour by bike as a fundraising so that a music therapy program for disabled children that had been given up for financial reasons could be continued. She named her bike "Vita" after Vita Sackville-West , Virginia Woolf's friend . On the way, Ayres decided to start two things: learn the cello and look for work on the radio. For example, in 2001 she hosted a breakfast program on classical music on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) in Hong Kong .

In 2003 she moved to Australia , where she received Australian citizenship in 2010. In her new home, from February 2008 to October 2014, she hosted a breakfast program at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for its classic station ABC Classic FM. The program entitled Classic Breakfast ( English , 'Classic / Classic Breakfast') ran from 5:35 a.m. to 9 a.m. She was aware that for many listeners, her voice was the first they heard in the morning. She commented on her work: “Every morning I get to work with all these incredible composers, like Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Sculthorpe. Just amazing producers of art. “ (Eng., 'Every morning I get to work with all these incredible composers, like Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Sculthorpe . Simply amazing art producers.') As part of her show, she interviewed many classical musicians, including the Tokyo String Quartet on their farewell tour.

Ayres has also been teaching Girls Grammar at Melbourne School since 2008 and also gives private cello lessons. She also played with the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Kabul, took part in the Bombay Chamber Orchestra and went on a European tour with the Australian Youth Orchestra. She is a regular moderator at the Huntington New Music Festival. After the 2010/2011 floods in Queensland , she helped raise over AU $ 11,000 for the victims through street performances in Sydney and Melbourne  .

In 2014 Ayres published her memoirs under the title Cadence: Travels with music - A Memoir (Eng., ' Cadence : Reisen mit Musik'). She dedicated the book to her mother.

In 2016 she took the name Eddie Ayres.

publication

• Cadence: Travels with music - A Memoir. ABC Books / HarperCollins, Sydney 2014, ISBN 978-0-7333-3189-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Emma Ayres in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Emma busks for the Queensland Floods - Hyde Park, Sydney on YouTube (January 2011)
• Emma Ayres' major cycle Limelight April 20, 2014
• Saved by the Music theweeklyreview.com 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Larry Schwartz: Tuning in to a classical act ( English ) TheAge. February 28, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Travels with Vita ( English ) ABC Classic FM. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Victoria Finlay: Musician's two-wheel mission ( English ) South China Morning Post. July 24, 1999. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b} A viola, a bike and the intrepid Emma Ayres ( English ) 774 ABC Melbourne. January 1, 2015. Accessed March 20, 2015.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Harriet Lonnborn: Emma Ayres, Adam Elliot and Brendan Cowell - Australia's finest on display ( English ) 774 ABC Melbourne. November 22, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
6. ↑ Music Details for Monday 4 February 2008 ( English ) ABC Classic FM. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 3, 2011. 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Farewell Emma Ayres ( English ) 774 ABC Melbourne. October 8, 2014. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 20, 2015. 
8. ↑ An Air of inspiration (English) , Canberra Times. April 12, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2015. 
9. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald: Why Emma Ayres became Eddie Ayres