Max Olding And Pamela Page
Max Olding and Pamela Page are a distinguished Australian husband and wife team of duo-pianists. They have performed separately in recitals and as concerto soloists, chamber music performers and accompanists both nationally and internationally, but are best known as a piano duo.
They met when they tied for first place in the inaugural Royal Concert Trust Fund Competition in London in 1954. They married in Vienna.
They performed as a duo for the opening of ABC Television in 1956. They have given many recitals in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Austria, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. In Australia they have appeared with all major and many regional orchestras.
Their repertoire is extensive and includes original two-piano works and concertos as well as arrangements and transcriptions. Larry Sitsky composed his Concerto for Two Pianos for this duo while he was lecturing at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Many other works have been dedicated to them by composers including Felix Werder, Peter Sculthorpe, Philip Bračanin, John Carmichael and Margaret Sutherland.
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