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ELDER CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC CONCERT 2019 SERIES music.adelaide.edu.au/concerts WELCOME While always maintaining the rich heritage and aspirations of the traditional European-style Conservatorium of its origins, the Elder Conservatorium of Music has grown in size and scope to become a truly Australian, 21st - century music training institution. The Conservatorium teaches music performers, creators, educators and researchers across a wide variety of styles and genres: Classical, Jazz, Opera, Pop, Rock, Choral, Electronica, World and Film Music to name but a few. Our performance staff and students have curated for your enjoyment a wonderful concert series that represents a vibrant sample of the broad world of music we at the Conservatorium inhabit and cherish every day. The Elder Hall is the spiritual home of the Conservatorium and the concerts we present here are the most significant and public expression of our musical mission. We are delighted to share our music making with you and thank you for the support and encouragement your attendance at these concerts represents. THE ELDER Professor Graeme Koehne AO CONSERVATORIUM Director, Elder Conservatorium of Music HAS BEEN THE HEART OF MUSICAL CULTURE IN ADELAIDE FOR OVER 130 YEARS. 2 The Elder Conservatorium of Music Concert Series 2019 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES SEASON ONE Friday 22 March Friday 5 April SOUND THE ORGAN RAGS AND RHAPSODIES Kemp English organ Ensemble Liaison All concerts in Elder Hall Music by Mons Leidvin Takle Kats-Chernin Ballade, Zee Rag, Russian Rag Novacek Four Rags for Two Jons Doors open at 12:30pm Our 2019 season roars to life with the mighty Gershwin (arr. Ensemble Liaison) sound of Elder Hall’s pipe organ, expertly Rhapsody in Blue Concert from 1:10 – 2:00pm handled (and pedalled) by alumnus Kemp English. And did you know the King of Ensemble Liaison stride into town with Tickets $14 at the door Instruments can dance? From grand to groovy, a colourful collection of rags. Sometimes the virtuosic organ music of Norwegian mischievous, sometimes melancholy, their toe- Subscriptions available composer Mons Leidvin Takle is full of surprises. tapping syncopations may prove contagious – see booking form – and a special arrangement of Gershwin’s for details Friday 29 March beloved Rhapsody in Blue is unlikely to provide a cure! Soft-toed shoes recommended. TWO MEMORIALS Elizabeth Layton violin Friday 12 April Pei-Sian Ng cello THE SONG COLLECTORS Konstantin Shamray piano Friday 26 April Friday 3 May ° Rosalind Martin soprano Martinu Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3, H. 340 Jamie Cock piano AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET PIANO DUO Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 Settings of folksongs by Britten, Brahms, Paterson Quartettsätze Two Movements for Lucinda Collins piano Three of Adelaide’s favourite musicians unite Bartók and Grainger String Quartet (SA premiere) Konstantin Shamray piano Brahms String Quartet, Op. 51 No. 1 in in a concert of contrasting memorials. Both Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole C minor composers dedicated these pieces to the No matter how well you can compose, Lutosławski Variations on a Theme by Paganini memory of departed friends: Martinu’s Third there’s something about a good folksong that The Australian String Quartet, Elder Hall Cello Sonata is delightfully warm and sunny, can’t be topped. Britten, Brahms, Bartók and Two fabulous pianists combine their skills and Brahms – a combination to cherish! And but Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio has an Grainger all devoted time to collecting and to bring us Ravel’s colourful Spanish fantasy complementing Brahms’ elegant, refined icy clarity, cold enough to send chills down arranging some gems they could never have and Lutosławski’s flamboyant Variations on First Quartet is an exciting new work, your back. written themselves. Rediscover these ‘songs a Theme by Paganini. This will be a dazzling performed in South Australia for the first of the people’ with two of Adelaide’s most program that is sure to make the most of our time: Paterson’s Quartettsätze. expressive musicians. twin Steinways. 4 The Elder Conservatorium of Music Concert Series 2019 5 Friday 10 May Friday 31 May JAZZ AWARD WINNERS ELDER CONSERVATORIUM CHORALE LUNCHTIME What does it take to win a Helpmann Academy Carl Crossin OAM conductor Jazz Award? Come and find out! Each year Ryszard Pusz percussion we bring the Conservatorium’s top jazz Karl Geiger piano students together and give them a stage, 50 CONCERT SERIES minutes and an enthusiastic audience. The Music for Choir and Percussion, including rest is up to them… Whales Weep Not! for marimba and choir by SEASON TWO Becky Llewellyn Friday 17 May Under the baton of distinguished choral ELDER CONSERVATORIUM CHAMBER director Carl Crossin OAM, the Elder ORCHESTRA Conservatorium Chorale and Ryszard Pusz Elizabeth Layton violin/director perform South Australian composer Becky Friday 16 August Friday 30 August Andrew Crothers viola* Llewellyn’s Whales Weep Not!, based on poetry AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET IMPRESSIONS by D.H. Lawrence, and more. Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 Ives String Quartet No. 1 From the Michael Ierace piano Telemann Viola Concerto in G major* Salvation Army Elgar Serenade for Strings Friday 7 June Haydn String Quartet Op. 33 No. 3 in C Grieg Selections from Lyric Pieces Holst Brook Green Suite LIFE, LOVE AND DEATH major, No. 32, Hob III:39 The Bird Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Elizabeth Layton leads the Elder Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra Where have I heard that before? Charles Adelaide pianist Michael Ierace conjures up a Conservatorium’s finest string players in Nicholas Braithwaite guest conductor Ives’ whimsical First Quartet is imaginatively wealth of vivid images from the black box we two English jewels by Elgar and Holst. Samuel Blanchard-Jackson violin* based on popular hymn tunes from American call a piano. In Gaspard de la nuit, Ravel’s music Respighi’s Third Suite of Ancient Airs and Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26* church services and revival meetings. The evokes everything from water to wind in telling Dances is popular for its quiet nostalgia, and Richard Strauss Death and Transfiguration Australian String Quartet then tweet their its ghostly fairytales. Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are Telemann’s rich, lyrical Viola Concerto is way through one of Haydn’s sweetest quartets. like postcards from a dearly loved friend. enough to make anyone fall in love with its Music of transcendent beauty. Bruch’s Music brimming with grace and humour. solo instrument. romantic First Violin Concerto never fails to Friday 6 September tug at the heartstrings, and Richard Strauss’ Friday 23 August Friday 24 May ambitious tone poem is about nothing less WHAT’S COOKIN’? SUMMER HOLIDAY CELLO AND PIANO that life and death. Renowned conductor University of Adelaide Big Band Nicholas Braithwaite will inspire the Elder Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra Dustan Cox director Simon Cobcroft cello Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in this Luke Dollman conductor Kristian Chong piano concert of epic proportions. Samson Peng horn* Caspar Hawksley New work Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello in and other new music by SA composers G minor, Op. 5 No. 2 Friday 14 June Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447* All good jazz is a celebration of the Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in BIRDS OF THE BRAZILIAN FOREST E minor, Op. 38 Brahms Symphony No. 2 unpredictable, and here we take it one step John Aué double bass further with a program of original music Simon Cobcroft, principal cellist of the Adelaide with leading Jazz students of the Elder Shake off the winter blues with this delightful by South Australian composers. Featuring Symphony Orchestra, joins regular Adelaide Conservatorium package from a Northern Hemisphere the presentation of the inaugural Elder visitor Kristian Chong in two fascinating summer. Brahms wrote his pastoral Second Conservatorium Jazz Composition awards, musical dialogues. Beethoven takes us from ‘I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs Symphony during a summer holiday in and a new work by third-year composition dark to light, the two instruments relaxing from the birds of the Brazilian forest.’ A.C. Jobim Austria, where pretty tunes were thick on student Caspar Hawksley. the ground. Mozart’s Third Horn Concerto into an easy-going conversation. Brahms goes Join jazz bass lecturer John Aué and top jazz is light on the surface, but has a surprising the other way, ramping up the intensity and students from the Elder Conservatorium emotional subtlety. finishing with a thrilling fugue. as they present some of the most popular works of A.C. ‘Tom’ Jobim, along with other highlights of Brazilian jazz. 6 The Elder Conservatorium of Music Concert Series 2019 7 Friday 13 September Friday 20 September Friday 27 September his marriage. Australian composer Arthur FIRST LOVE BACK AND FORTH GUITAR DUO Benjamin penned a sonata 1918, the same year he became a prisoner of war after his Elder Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra Lee Song-Ou guitar plane was shot down. The Heads of the Elder Elizabeth Layton violin/director+ Bryan Griffiths guest conductor Oliver Fartach-Naini guitar Conservatorium’s Strings and Keyboard Yundi Yuan piano* Natalie Williams Pendulum departments join forces for this concert. Owen Morris trumpet* Sor L’Encouragement Op. 34 Andrew Groch conductor* Persichetti Divertimento Granados Valses Poéticos Grainger arr. Jager Blithe Bells (after J.S. Bach’s Geonyong Lee Suite for Guitar Duo Friday 18 October Mozart Divertimento for strings in D major+ BWV 208) THE MUSIC OF HAROLD ARLEN Long-time duo partners Lee Song-Ou and Finzi Romance in E flat Op 11 for strings+ Ticheli Postcard Honours Jazz Ensemble Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 35* Oliver Fartach-Naini weave an entrancing Schuman New England Triptych James Muller guitar/director dance with their guitars on the Elder Hall Young composers, young musicians, finding Natalie Williams’ Pendulum sets up the back- stage.