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Saraband Music is located in Kilcoy, QLD, Australia. Saraband Music began in Sydney in 1994, selling sheet music and facsimiles, strings and CDs. Publishing began in 1996 under the Saraband imprint, and later a second range of 19th and early 20th century budget facsimiles under the Hammer & Tongs Reproductions label. |
Other products available include greeting cards by Saraband and others, and a private collection of old books (all subjects), including many first editions is also being sold. |
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Saraband Music is owned by Patrice Connelly, who has the degree of M.Mus (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She plays and teaches viola da gamba, and has edited music for viols published by Dovehouse Editions (Canada), PRB Productions (California) and the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain, and written articles and reviews for a number of journals. Her early musical studies were undertaken at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, before progressing to the Music Department at the University of Sydney. She began playing piano at the age of 8, and violin at age 12. During her B.Mus, she also played viola before giving up both violin and viola for the viola da gamba. Patrice's other interests include growing organic vegetables, travel, nutrition, genealogy, archaeology and pre-history, the environment, and reading - that is, when she isn't playing with her cat Scuzzi (who has a terrific webpage!) Detective novels are a favourite. |
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She has also studied a wide variety of natural therapies courses including a Diploma of Nutrition and a Diploma of Energetic Healing at Nature Care College in Sydney prior to moving to Queensland, and has completed a Bachelor of Natural Therapies at Southern Cross University. She's had several peer-reviewed papers published in the Journal of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society. In genealogical terms, she has Irish (Galway, Wexford, Dublin, Kildare), English (Lancashire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, London) and Scots (Perthshire) blood, with a touch of French (via Jersey) and German (Eissen and Peckelsheim) several generations back. Some of the main surnames she is researching are Lambert, McManaway, Dillon and Lattin (from Ireland), Gibbs, Carson, Keyte, Linney and Saxon (from England), Griffith, Le Gresley and Rose (Jersey), and Sievers, Hummernbrum, Antenbrink and Mundus (Germany). |
If she could have another go at this life, she'd probably choose archaeology or at least some research discipline! In 2005, Patrice, Tony and Scuzzi bought a property at Stoney Creek, near Woodford in Queensland, and plan to move there (with Saraband) in mid 2010. In the meantime, while they owner-build the rather large dream house, (delayed by financial constraints) they are living at Kilcoy, which is 15 minutes drive West of Stoney Creek. Some photos of the Stoney Creek property can be seen by clicking here. Top of page |
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