Support Four Winds - Overview

Join Friends of Four Winds and help contribute to making fine music an integral part of our community. Friends of Four Winds involves our artists in community events, during the Festival itself and other events throughout the year. We believe that music and the artistic process contribute to a community's way of developing its identity, and facilitate ways in which people can imagine their future.

What has Friends achieved so far?

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Here is our list of successes for the Festival in 2006, through the generous donations of the fifty-plus Friends who have joined since the inception of the Friends program in early 2005. We also have a donation from our first Friend from overseas – in France!

• Hosting Sounds Amazing! – Forum with four composers, presented by Margaret Throsby. This was a free event in the Bermagui Community Hall on Easter Friday, 2006
• Commissioning of an arrangement of Strauss's 'The Four Last Songs' for chamber ensemble performed at the Festival by soprano Kirsti Harms and the Four Winds Philharmonia
• Sponsoring the attendance of composer Terry Riley from the USA.

What are the benefits of becoming a Friend?

Since launching Friends in 2005, we have hosted events in both Sydney and Melbourne – musical suppers in people's homes – at which both composers and musicians perform for, and converse with, Friends of Four Winds.

At these wonderfully intimate events, Friends gained a special understanding of how fine music is developed. At the Sydney event in February 2005, held in the beauty of Peter Sculthorpe's house, composer Elena Kats-Chernin gave us a wonderful insight into the development of her works, from both the richness of her personal history and in response to everyday events. Elena then played some of her pieces with our 2006 Artistic Director Chris Latham.

Our Melbourne event in August 2005 again featured Elena and Chris, and Peter Sculthorpe giving us a rare insight into the final stages of his 16th string quartet, commissioned by Julian Burnside and developed on the theme of refugees and their treatment in Australia.

The key focus for us now is the Festival in Easter 2006, and you'll see the Composers' Forum – Sounds Amazing! - a free event sponsored by our Friends donations.

If you are interested in attending an intimate musical event and becoming a supporter of Four Winds Festival in this way, please join Friends of Four Winds now.

How do I become a Friend?

Please open our printable form, fill out and post with your donation (credit card, cheque or money order) to:
Four Winds Festival
PO Box 73
Bermagui
NSW 2546

(if paying by credit card you can fax the form to the Four Winds office: 02 6493 3414)

If you want to donate under a business name, you'll need to do so as a sponsor. To discuss sponsorship please email the Four Winds administrator at admin@fourwinds.com.au or call (02) 6493 3414. See our current sponsors here.

All donations are tax deductible.

If you'd like more information about Friends of Four Winds, or if you would like to attend one of the fundraising events, please email us at admin@fourwinds.com.au or contact Four Winds on phone/fax: (02) 6493 3414. Or write to PO Box 73, Bermagui, NSW 2546.