About Big Music Gillian Wills Hawkeye Publishing:
Beat is given a chance to shine when she is appointed dean of Turalong Music School, but her role is not what it seems. Fine tuning this institution is like playing a cracked violin with broken strings. She’s determined to revive the school’s reputation despite gender bias, staff conflict, fraud, betrayal, a famous composer’s ghost and a predatory university. Beat loves the wild mashes of sound: trumpets, electric guitars, flutes and saxophones which blaze all day and night – indeed the book has its own soundtrack – but she’s barely able to keep the school together, let alone her home life on her beloved hobby farm. Keen to unify her squabbling colleagues from opposite musical traditions, she puts a fresh spin on programming to show audiences something new: a combined Beethoven and rock festival. Music or politics? What will be her magnum opus?
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Author Bio:
Gillian Wills was the dean of music at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria. Currently, she is an author and arts journalist who has published with ArtsHub, The Australian, Courier Mail, Limelight, Inreview, Australian Book Review and Griffith Review. Her memoir Elvis and Me: how a weary musician and a broken racehorse rescue each other, Finch Publishing was released in Australia, Canada, America, New Zealand and United Kingdom in 2016. Her debut novel Big Music, Hawkeye Publishing was released on the 1 October, 2024.
She lives on a small farm on the outskirts of Brisbane with three rescue horses, two rescue greyhounds, three ducks and her artist husband Mostyn Bramley-Moore. She two children Seanna van Helten, a prize winning playwrite and Guido van Helten an acclaimed public muralist. artist.
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