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Exit interview: Leanne Glover, WASO

Technological changes have placed greater pressure on orchestral musicians in recent years, according to Leanne Glover, the outgoing Principal Cor Anglais at WASO.

27 Apr 2022 9:33

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Leanne Glover performs Iain Grandage’s Concerto for Cor Anglais, WASO’s Beethoven’s Eroica, 2019. Image supplied.

After 32 years at the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO), Leanne Glover has stepped down from her position as Principal Cor Anglais.

‘It’s at their fingertips so you can’t be far below what they can hear anywhere. You need to strive to be that, to play really well, all of the time. And that’s not to say that we didn’t do that when I first joined the orchestra. But it feels like there is more and more pressure to play at the very elite level, all of the time,’ she told ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts