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The Leila Waddell Concert Series 2025:

Ziggy & Miles - Sidekick: Brothers in Music

Sunday 9 November at 4pm

All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Bathurst

Program

Nigel Westlake Songs from the Forest  

Claude Debussy arr. Ziggy and Miles Suite bergamasque  

Christopher Sainsbury Rain falls and after 

Ken Murray Trin Warren Tam-boore

Radamés Gnattali Suite Retratos 
 

A musical telling of Ziggy and Miles’ history and brotherly dynamic both on stage and off.

Written for the brothers, Katie Jenkins’ Sidekick intentionally inflates and satires their relationship with musical bickering and sparring virtuosity. To open and close the performance, the brothers perform two works instrumental in developing their teenage love for the guitar duo, Nigel Westlake’s Songs from the Forest, and Radamés Gnattali’s Suite Retratos. The pieces in between include Ziggy and Miles’ own arrangement of Debussy’s timeless Suite bergamasque, and Melbourne guitarist/composer Ken Murray’s Trin Warren Tam-boore, which was commissioned by Ziggy and Miles and titled after the wetlands in North Melbourne of the same name; a name which was given by the Wurundjeri people meaning Bellbird Waterhole.

About the Artists

Ziggy Johnston classical guitar

Miles Johnston classical guitar

 

“Australian guitarist brothers making history” (The Age), Ziggy and Miles are two of their home country’s finest young musicians forging an international career. Their performances are known for their “deeply considered musicianship, immaculate care and superlative technique” (5MBS). Winners of the 2023 YCA (Young Concert Artists) Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, the brothers have become the first guitar duo and second guitarists to receive this prestigious award in the organisation’s 62-year history. 

 

Based in NYC, the brothers maintain an active concert schedule across Australia, New Zealand, and the US. Their repertoire covers the full spectrum of the classical canon with a focus on commissioning and premiering underplayed works by current composers. Ziggy and Miles are recent graduates of The Juilliard School where they completed their Artist Diploma and Masters under the tutelage of Multiple Grammy Winner, Sharon Isbin.

 

Ziggy and Miles play guitars by Australian luthier Jim Redgate with Savarez strings.

 

They are managed internationally by Young Concert Artists.

Tickets

Adults $49 

Concession $45

Music Students $10 (kindly subsidised by our generous donors)

All tickets sold online or at the door

A transaction fee applies

Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia

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Creative Galah is based on the land of the Wiradjuri people. the traditional owners, the original storytellers, musicians, dancers, artists and culture makers of the region. We acknowledge Elders past, present and emerging.

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