2011 Annual Report
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Musica Viva Annual Report 2011 A I MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2011 B I MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2011 MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2011 I 1 Contents Company Overview 03 Chairman’s Report 04 Chief Executive Officer’s Report 05 Artistic Director’s Report 06 Program Overview 07 Programs: Concerts 08 International Concert Season 08 Coffee Concerts 11 Kenneth W Tribe AC Tribute Concert 11 Australian Composers 11 Huntington Estate Music Festival 11 Collaborations & Outreach 12 Artist Development 12 Café Carnivale 13 CountryWide 14 Export 15 Programs: Education 16 Musica Viva In Schools 16 Viva Voices 18 Programs: Statistics 20 Partnerships & Philanthropy 22 Supporters 24 Artists & Ensembles 28 Artistic Review Panel 32 Financial Statements 33 Staff & Committees 51 Volunteers 52 Company Overview 03 Company Overview Chairman’s Report 04 Chief Executive Officer’s Report 05 MUSICA ViVA: LifE-LONG ENGAGEMENT wiTH Artistic Director’s Report 06 MUSIC THROUGH CONCERTS AND EDUCATION Program Overview 07 Programs: Concerts 08 International Concert Season 08 Coffee Concerts 11 Kenneth W Tribe AC Tribute Concert 11 Australian Composers 11 Huntington Estate Music Festival 11 Collaborations & Outreach 12 Musica Viva presents the finest Musica Viva specialises in concerts Artist Development 12 Mission performers in classical, jazz, world, folk and educational / developmental Café Carnivale 13 Musica Viva seeks to inspire through and a capella music in order to bring activities, delivered live and via various CountryWide 14 ensemble music of quality, diversity, the experience of live music to media platforms, for the general public, Export 15 challenge and joy. audiences of all ages. for school-based audiences and for Programs: Education 16 Vision musicians and composers. We believe that the performance, We see a future for Australia in a world Musica Viva In Schools 16 study, and enjoyment of ensemble shaped by creativity and imagination, Viva Voices 18 music: in which music plays an essential Programs: Statistics 20 inspirational role. Musica Viva seeks to – Enriches people’s lives in a unique Partnerships & Philanthropy 22 be the leading organisation in the world and powerful way Supporters 24 for connecting audiences and – Contributes to a vibrant cultural life in ensemble music, inspiring personal Artists & Ensembles 28 Australia fulfilment and cultural vibrancy. Artistic Review Panel 32 – Creates positive perceptions of Financial Statements 33 Australian culture both domestically and internationally, and Staff & Committees 51 – Contributes to understanding and Volunteers 52 co-operation across various cultures, communities and generations. MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2011 I 03 Chairman’s Report MiChaEL K ATZ I am pleased to report that your company Our audiences continued to grow with has had another successful year on all excellent support from both subscriptions fronts. It was wonderful to welcome and single ticket sales. In total over Tony Berg AM as Patron of Musica Viva, 95,000 people attended a public concert continuing the role of our previous patron, performance presented by Musica Viva. the late Ken Tribe AC, in providing prudent Our sponsors have once again made counsel and enthusiastic advocacy. things possible through their generosity. In In education, the organisation continued to addition to the critical role of governments provide first class educational support to both across Australia and internationally, nearly 300,000 children around Australia. the continued growth of private The program was significantly enhanced philanthropy is wonderful to observe. during the year by the successful We thank all our supporters and look development of truly fabulous interactive forward to being able to further deepen digital resources. This was a significant the relationships between them and the investment for the company and will organisation. substantially support our efforts to inspire The team at Musica Viva, both in the both the children and their teachers national office and around the states, through the magic of music. has done a tremendous job in the face Artistically, the concerts program in all its of continued change and complexity to forms met our expectations in so many deliver the vast array of programs we ways. We strive to provide a range of offer. On behalf of the Board and all the vibrant, high quality performances around members who we represent, I would like to the country. Who can forget the sublime thank them most sincerely for their efforts performance of Sabine Meyer and the during another big year for Musica Viva. many other performers who graced our stages during 2011? The music was of the highest standard and demonstrated that glorious mixture of quality, challenge, diversity and joy which our renowned artistic director, Carl Vine brings to the Michael Katz season. Chairman 04 I MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2011 Chief Executive Officer’s Report MaRY JO CaPPS It is with great pride that we can report new projects could be planned and that in 2011, 1,071 musicians were able to implemented; five major works were share the joy of music with 390,218 commissioned from Australian composers people, young and old, through various with the support of private philanthropists; Musica Viva programs. The quality of and our Virtuosi and major donors, Carl Vine’s artistic direction was including the new Equal Music program, resoundingly endorsed by audiences assisted children from disadvantaged around the country and the education circumstances to have access to our team created ground-breaking resources renowned education program. There are that leverage new technologies, enabling many such examples of various scale more children and teachers to become detailed in this report, indicating the actively engaged with music. visionary support given to the company in so many ways, for which we are The diversity of the 2011 musicians extremely grateful. goes to the heart of Musica Viva’s unique status, embracing multiple genres, Musica Viva enjoyed the second year in nationalities and styles – from the a row of significant financial success. Australian-African drumming ensemble, We are very pleased to report a surplus Teranga, to the exquisite singularity of from operating activities in 2011 of Andreas Scholl, as well as myriad $175,741 due largely to strong ticket sales outstanding artists performing jazz, in the International Concert Season and indigenous, world, folk, a capella and generous bequests. The Centenary the masterworks of Western classical Appeal Fund was improved by some chamber music. $200,000 ensuring artistic vibrancy remains at the core of our planning. It has been a year of challenges as well, which have been met thanks to generous Above all, this report reflects the multiple assistance from many quarters. The inputs that contribute to Musica Viva’s federal Department of Education, programs. The success of 2011 belongs Employment and Workplace Relations to all our audiences, supporters, staff and Musica Viva Education sponsors and musicians. Rio Tinto enabled the new digital resources’ development; the Amadeus Society assured that artistically vibrant Mary jo Capps Chief Executive Officer MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2010 I 05 Artistic Director’s Report CaRL ViNE In 2011 Musica Viva celebrated the 30th Goldner String Quartet, thus ensuring that birthday of its ground-breaking education the ‘living’ part of Musica Viva’s brief program with bold leaps into new extends beyond practising musicians to technology focusing on interactive those who also create the repertoire. classroom whiteboards, and with the 2011 witnessed the second Musica Viva potential for networked delivery to Festival, presented in collaboration with personal touch-screen devices. From the The Australian Youth Orchestra and the myriad of possible options the Education Sydney Conservatorium of Music. This team chose to keep full control of the has now become firmly established as a distribution mechanism, to help maximise regular biennial fixture in Australia’s music contact with education clients, to ensure calendar, thanks in no small part to the finest customer experience, and to increased cornerstone funding from the capitalise on the substantial intellectual Berg Family Foundation. property rights the company has assembled throughout its proud history. The Huntington Estate Music Festival enjoyed its sixth year under Musica Viva Meanwhile, our assorted concert auspices, marked in 2011 by sold-out programs continued to exceed the most houses, and the largest audience in that optimistic projections, with documented festival’s history. critical and public approval clearly supporting the more mundane, if vital, On concert platforms and radio waves impressive gross sales figures. across Australia, our wonderful musicians shared their gifts. They inspire us not just The International Concert Season with their talent, but also as warm, remained the company’s cardinal concert breathing emblems of how vitally activity, once again attracting strong important it is to weave fine music through subscription and single ticket audiences. the fabric of any vibrant community. Our Featured Composer for the year, Ian Munro, provided transcendent musical In the end, everything Musica Viva does, moments in 34 concert performances and aspires to achieve, is miraculously across the nation, also appearing as the embodied in its corporate motto: “Music quintessential pianist-composer with the to Inspire”. Carl Vine Artistic Director 06 I MUSICA VIVA ANNUAL REPORT 2011 Program