JOHN FIELD: INVENTING ‘NIGHT MUSIC’

Friday 17 March 6pm, Salon

PRESENTED BY Melbourne Recital Centre

ARTISTS Tamara-Anna Cislowska piano Richard O’Brien narrator

PROGRAM John Field (1782–1837) Nocturne No.8 in E-flat

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor Larghetto

John Field Nocturne No.5 in B-flat Nocturne No.6 in F, 'Cradle Song'

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) The Lark

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Nocturne No.1 in F, Op.10

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian Rhapsody No.6, S.244

John Field Nocturne No.9 in E minor

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Morceaux de fantaisie, Op.3 Elegie ABOUT THE ARTISTS Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and recognised pianists. Soloist, recitalist and chamber music specialist, she performs in Australia and worldwide in repertoire spanning three centuries, to critical and public acclaim, and is also renowned for her eloquent writing and popular new role as presenter on ABC Classic FM radio. Tamara has won international prizes in London, Italy and Greece, including the Rovere d’Oro, and in Australia has earned awards such as ABC Young Performer of the Year, a Freedman Fellowship from the Music Council of Australia, the 2012 Art Music Award for ‘Performance of the Year’ (ACT) and most recently the 2015 ARIA for 'Best Classical Album'. Giving her first public performance at age two playing Bartók, and commencing studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music four years later, Tamara gave her first orchestral performance at age eight and has performed as soloist with the major symphony orchestras in Australia, New Zealand and abroad. She is the most awarded prize-winner at the Sydney Performing Arts Challenge, winner of the prestigious David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for pianists, and has toured Japan and the United States as cultural ambassador for Australia. Tamara has recorded for Chandos, Naxos, ABC Classics, Tall Poppies, Artworks and MDG with three solo albums reaching No.1 on the ARIA classical charts. Her acclaimed new release, Unsent Love Letters is currently No.1 on the ARIA charts. Visit tamara-annacislowska.com.au

Richard O'Brien, a graduate of University College Dublin, joined Ireland's Foreign Service in 1972. Having served in the Political and Economic Divisions of the Department and at the Irish Embassies in London and Washington he was appointed Spokesperson at the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1985. In 1990 Richard was appointed Ireland's first resident Ambassador to Poland and in 1991 as non-resident Ambassador to Lithuania and Latvia. In 1995 he arrived in Canberra as Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. In 2002 he was appointed Ambassador to Egypt and concurrently to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Sudan. In 2006 he was appointed Ambassador to Singapore and concurrently to Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor as well as Alternate Irish Director to the Board of the Asian Development Bank. Richard was awarded the Order of the Republic of Poland by President Lech Walesa in 1995 and was conferred with a Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) at Victoria University in 2001. In 2015 he was appointed a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Charles Darwin University. He is a member of the Board of the Australia Ireland Fund, of the Irish Studies Committee at the University of New South Wales and of the Children of Eureka Committee in Canberra.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this concert is being presented.

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