Music Competition
2 June – 7 June 2025
Hamilton Performing Arts Centre
Music Categories:
- Piano
- Electone
- Vocal
- Strings
- Recorder
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Contemporary Guitar
- Instrumental Ensembles
- Original Composition
- Orchestra
- Band
- Choral
Competition Documents:
Running Sheet not yet available
2025 Music Adjudicator:
Alexandra Cameron
In 1991, Alexandra was appointed Director of Music at The Hamilton and Alexandra College. She moved to Melbourne in 2003, teaching music at Eltham High School. In 2005, she was appointed Head of Music at Wesley College’s Elsternwick Campus and remained in that position for 20 years, retiring at the start of 2025.
Alexandra’s expertise includes teaching classroom music to primary, middle-year, and senior students, managing and conducting a range of music ensembles, and providing piano accompaniment for soloists, choirs, ensembles, and assemblies. She has considerable experience in music education, designing and implementing music programs, running busy Music Departments, coordinating music tours and putting on concerts from recitals and soirees to large festivals and gala presentations. Alexandra has been the Musical Director and Producer for over 25 musicals, including staging productions at the historic National Theatre in St Kilda.
Alexandra has always been firmly committed to community activities. She was involved with the music team at the Hamilton Uniting Church, accompanied and conducted the Hamilton Singers, played a range of brass instruments and conducted the Hamilton Brass Band, and was a keen supporter of the Hamilton Eisteddfod Committee. Her community activities in Melbourne have included roles with the Footscray-Yarraville Brass Band, the Diamond Valley Brass Band, the Victorian State Singers, the Tudor Choristers, the Camerata Orchestra, the Concert Band at the Harrietville Music Camp and the Camberwell Chorale, where she is also the Deputy Conductor. Alexandra is looking forward to returning to Hamilton as Music Adjudicator at the Eisteddfod.
2025 Official Accompanist:
Geoff Urquhart
Geoff leads a busy life as a choir director, accompanist, organist, teacher, and recitalist. Since 1999 Geoff has been the Organist and Choir Master of Wesley Church, Melbourne, and he accompanies and teaches at various Melbourne schools, including Melbourne Grammar and Luther College. He has worked extensively in cabaret. Geoff was resident harpsichord player to the chamber group La Fraternita di Soloisti and he served for many years as organist to the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic in their annual Messiah and Carols concerts. In recent months, he has served as organist with the Heidelberg Choral Society, the Magellan Singers and The Tudor Choristers.
Geoff has been the accompanist and assistant musical director of Low Rez, a large men’s pop choir, since 2010. He specialises in German art song and with the award-winning baritone Daniel Carison performed all the major song cycles of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. Geoff has been heavily involved with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria and has musically directed many performances with them, including their current production of Die Fledermaus, for which he re-arranged the entire orchestral score for small ensemble.