Arts Luminaries to visit the Faculty of Creative Arts
The Faculty of Creative Arts is delighted to welcome distinguished guest Philip Rolfe who will be sharing his wide-ranging experiences and national and international expertise with the FCA in early March. Philip Rolfe, Executive Producer at the Sydney Opera House will be speaking to students in the School of Music & Drama on Wednesday 5 March.
Rolfe’s proactive approach and extensive experience over more than 30 years has seen him having a profound and far-reaching influence on the development of the arts in Australia. As Executive Producer at the Sydney Opera House since 2000, Philip Rolfe has responsibility for the development and management of this major and iconic arts centre’s artistic programs. He has held a number of senior arts positions, including Executive Director, Audience & Market Development, Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, and Deputy Director, Arts and Entertainment, Australian Bicentennial Authority.
Throughout his career Rolfe has been instrumental in building the profile of Australian art and culture internationally. To this end he has managed a number of ground-breaking projects including: Down Under, the Australian program for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 2001 in New York; Heads Up, Australian Arts in London 2000, a significant contemporary arts festival in the lead up to Australia’s Centenary of Federation year; Howard Arkley’s Home Show, the official Australian exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 1999; and the Australian Bicentennial Authority’s national and international performing arts programs, including Peter Brook’s Mahabharata, the Australian tour of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Twyla Tharp Dance, amongst others. He also co-managed the Australian Indigenous arts program at the South Pacific Arts Festival in Western Samoa in 1996.
Crucially, Philip Rolfe also founded the Australia Council’s Australian Performing Arts Market, which, since 1994, has become the country’s most important, internationally focused performing arts marketing and promotion event. The eighth ‘arts market’ occurred in February 2008 as part of the biennial Adelaide Festival of the Arts.
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