After a two-year COVID imposed break we are resuming where we left off with the New Generations Service Exchange program. You might remember Lotta Rink, the talented young Bassoonist who had to go home early thanks to the pandemic.
Nevertheless, in July this year two young Australian opera singers, Louise Keast and Michael Dimovski, will be heading off to Bavaria where they will be hosted by German Rotary families for around 6 weeks. They will be participating in the Bayreuth Young Artist’s Festival, attending master classes, and in Michael’s case, performing at the D1950 District Conf.
We are also expecting two inbound exchanges from Germany. Maria (Charly) Brielmaier a medical student from Munich will be joining us from late October for 5 to 6 weeks. Charly is president of her Rotoract club in central Munich and is keen to participate in Garden DesignFest.
More recently we have been asked to host a talented young violinist, David Rosenberg, from Bamberg in Bavaria. We plan to arrange a meaningful music program for David with help from Dr. David Kram from RC Melbourne and through Melbourne Opera (thanks to Michael Lapiña) and this will be based in the CBD or nearby.
Home hosting is a key to making NGSE possible. We have home hosts arranged for Charly but not yet for David who will also be here around October. If you would like to help any say offering to have David for a couple of weeks, please let me or Warwick Cavell know.
Thanks
Alan Seale