Jan 1992, Awarded top prize in Overseas students’ music contest of Japan — Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation, Tokyo
Jan 1992, Australia Day celebrations, Guest speaker & performer at the Osaka Japan – Australia Association
Feb 1992, “Tokyo Feeling.” A joint concert of my music for Japanese instruments performed by students of Tokyo Geidai, with fellow composer Sakamoto Takeshi, Nezu, Tokyo.
Mar 1992, Joy and Sorrow – an evening of my compositions for Japanese instruments with Japanese dancer Machiko Kaneko, calligraphy artist Hisako Tsuchiya, and musicians including Tajima Tadashi, Kobe, Japan.
Aug: Zero Sum a two week season of theatre focusing on the East Timor situation, directed by Rosemary Myers, Union Theatre, University of Melbourne. Anne was a part of the music crew, writing and performing theatre music and playing a small acting role. Review by Vannessa Hearman
Aug: Touch – Melbourne Independent Dance Artists Series, improvised shakuhachi and dance piece with Anastasi Sciotas.
Oct: Safety Zone. Composed electro-acoustic music for dance work choreographed by Ryuichi Fujimura, Union Theatre Melb Univ.
Oct: Transcending Time and Place. Recital with Satsuki Odamura and guest artists, traditional and contemporary Japanese music, & improvisations at The Boite World Music Cafe.
Dec: Caulfield Arts Festival. Performed my own electro-acoustic compositions to accompanying poetry by Dylan Thomas read by Nat King. Voice, keyboard, samples, shakuhachi.
Dec: “Fantasy on Coventry Carol.” Composition for flute & choir performed with the Southdean Singers at their Christmas concert, Mornington.
Prior to 1992: Anne started recorder at the age of three. From the age of eight she studied piano, and started flute at eleven. Following flute performance studies at the University of Melbourne, Anne taught music for a couple of years before travelling through SE Asia with her husband Heiko Rudolph, spending six months with local musicians, listening, learning and taking notes. She then went to Japan in 1986 and took up the shakuhachi in Kobe under Nakamura Shindo, with a brief stint playing piccolo (which she doesn’t like) with the Kobe Philharmonic Orchestra. Forming the ensemble Kansai Wagakki Players with members from eight different nationalities who played traditional Japanese instruments, she wrote arrangements of classical and folk Japanese music under the tutelage of Mr Nakamura, with several concerts and television appearances.
Following a Masters in Ethnomusicology at Monash, Anne returned to Japan in 1990 on a two year grant from the Japanese Government to further her studies of shakuhachi at the Tokyo University of Fine Art and Music under Yamaguchi Goro, also studying a third lineage under Tajima Tadashi in Osaka.