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Danger Music

Danger Music

How Teaching the Cello to Children in Afghanistan Led to a Self-Discovery Almost Too Hard to Bear

by Eddie Ayres
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/09/2017

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From the former ABC Classic FM broadcaster comes a remarkable story about the power of music and courage to be one's self
ISBN:
9781760290696
9781760290696
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-09-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x152.4x22.86mm
Weight:
0.42kg
Eddie Ayres

Eddie Ayres learnt the viola as a child in England, studying in Berlin and London before playing the viola for eight years with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. As Emma Ayres, she moved from Hong Kong to Australia to present a long-running and extremely popular radio program on ABC Classic FM, while teaching music privately and professionally.

When Emma hung up her headphones at the end of 2014, there was a public outpouring of emotion. This tattooed, intelligent, warm and witty woman had made her way into the hearts of many Australians. What the devoted audience didn't see, however, was Emma's daily struggle to live within her woman's body. For sixteen years, she knew that she was transgender but to take any action seemed impossible. Emma believed there was too much to lose - family, friends and her career.

In 2016, Emma accepted a position teaching cello, viola and double bass to Afghanistan's children at the world-renowned Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Amid the chaos and unpredictability of life in war-savaged Kabul, Emma realised she had to accept her future and returned to Australia to begin transitioning from female to male. In 2016, Emma became Eddie.

Danger Music, Eddie's second book will be published in September 2017. He is currently writing a children's book which will be published in 2018. Cadence: Travels with Music, published in 2014, was his first book.

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