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MACA CLASSICS SERIES Saturday 8 May, 7.30pm Perth Concert Hall C3_A5_Program Cover.indd 1 26/3/21 7:50 am MACA HAS BEEN PARTNERING WITH WEST AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SINCE 2014 We are excited to continue our support towards their mission to touch souls and enrich lives through music. Over the last 10 years MACA has raised more than $12 million for various charity and community groups in support of the performing arts, cancer research, medical care, mental health and Aboriginal youth in remote communities across Western Australia. We pride ourselves on being a leader in the community supporting a wide range of initiatives. MACA is an integrated services contractor specialising in: • Mining • Crushing • Civil Construction • Infrastructure • Mineral Processing Equipment www.maca.net.au West Australian Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of the Indigenous Nations across Western Australia and on whose Lands we work. MACA CLASSICS SERIES Fantasy, Tragedy and Passion Carl VINE V (5 mins) Felix MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor (27 mins) Allegro molto appassionato – Andante – Allegro non troppo – Allegro molto vivace Interval (25 mins) Georges BIZET Carmen: Suite No.1 (12 mins) Prélude Aragonaise Intermezzo Les dragons d’Alcala Les Toréadors Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture (21 mins) Thaddeus Huang conductor Harry Bennetts violin Wesfarmers Arts Pre-concert Talk Find out more about the music in the concert with this week’s speaker, Jen Winley (see page 22 for her biography). The Pre-concert Talk will take place at 6.45pm in the Terrace Level Foyer. Wesfarmers Arts Meet the Artists Join tonight’s conductor, Thaddeus Huang and soloist, Harry Bennetts for a post-concert interview. This will take place immediately following the Saturday evening performance in the Terrace Level Foyer. Listen to WASO This performance is recorded for broadcast on ABC Classic. 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The Orchestra WestAustSymOrchestra plays a central role in the vibrancy of our creative state, and they are also Stay up to date and sign-up to our supported by hundreds of visiting SymphonE-news at waso.com.au artists, alongside the volunteers of the 5 COVIDsafe A5 Ad.indd 1 11/2/21 2:58 pm WASO On Stage VIOLIN VIOLA FLUTE TRUMPET Laurence Jackson Daniel Schmitt Andrew Nicholson Brent Grapes Concertmaster Alex Brogan • Anonymous • Anonymous Riley Skevington Kierstan Arkleysmith Mary-Anne Blades Peter Miller Assoc Concertmaster • Anonymous Nik Babic TROMBONE Semra Lee-Smith PICCOLO Assistant Concertmaster Benjamin Caddy Joshua Davis Alison Hall Michael Waye • Dr Ken Evans and Zak Rowntree* • Pamela & Josh Pitt Dr Glenda Campbell-Evans Principal 2nd Violin Rachael Kirk Liam O’Malley Akiko Miyazawa Kathryn McKay^ OBOE A/Assoc Principal Allan McLean Liz Chee BASS TROMBONE 2nd Violin Elliot O’Brien A/Principal Oboe Philip Holdsworth Sarah Blackman Helen Tuckey Annabelle Farid° Fleur Challen Hannah Wooley^ TUBA Stephanie Dean CELLO Cameron Brook Amy Furfaro^ Rod McGrath CLARINET • Peter & Jean Stokes • Tokyo Gas Allan Meyer Rebecca Glorie TIMPANI Beth Hebert Eve Silver* Lorna Cook Alex Timcke Alexandra Isted Melinda Forsythe^ BASS CLARINET Jane Johnston^ Shigeru Komatsu PERCUSSION Alexander Millier Sunmi Jung Oliver McAslan Brian Maloney Christina Katsimbardis Nicholas Metcalfe BASSOON Francois Combemorel Fotis Skordas Ellie Lawrence Adam Mikulicz Assoc Principal Sera Lee^ Tim South Percussion & Timpani Robyn Gray^ Jasmine Middleton^ Emma Vanderwal^ CONTRABASSOON Paul Tanner^ Lucas O’Brien Chloe Turner DOUBLE BASS • Stelios Jewellers Melanie Pearn Andrew Sinclair* HARP Louise Sandercock John Keene HORN William Nichols^ ★ Section partnered by Jolanta Schenk Louise Elaerts Margaret & Rod Marston Jane Serrangeli Christine Reitzenstein David Evans Bao Di Tang Andrew Tait Robert Gladstones Cerys Tooby Mark Tooby Principal 3rd Horn Teresa Vinci^ Phil Waldron^ Julia Brooke Susannah Williams^ Francesco Lo Surdo David Yeh ★ Section partnered by • Chair partnered by * Instruments used by these musicians are on loan from Janet Holmes à Court AC. Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Contract Musician˚ Guest Musician^ 6 About The Artists Thaddeus Huang Harry Bennetts Conductor Violin Thaddeus Huang is one of Australia’s Sydney born violinist Harry Bennetts most versatile and exciting young began lessons in the Suzuki method conductors. In 2020-2021 he serves as the at the age of four and in his final years West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s of study learnt under Dr. Robin Wilson Assistant Conductor and Emerging at the Australian National Academy of Conductors program mentor. In 2019, Music, then with the Berlin Philharmonic Thaddeus made his Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's first concertmaster Noah Orchestra debut in their Mozart at Elder Bendix-Balgley at the Karajan Academy and Out of the CBD series. Over two in Berlin. seasons he assisted Nicholas Carter, Dane Lam, and Mark Wigglesworth, and He has appeared as soloist with the was rehearsal conductor for the ASO’s Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian and celebrated Beethoven Piano Concerto Canberra Symphony Orchestras and has Cycle concerts. Abroad he has conducted performed in recital in the Ukaria Cultural the Moravian Philharmonic, Brasov Centre, Melbourne Recital Centre, Sydney Philharmonic, Shenyang Symphony, Opera House Utzon Room as well as a Venice Chamber Orchestra, musicians number of regional centres. of the Orchestre de Paris, and the Royal His love of chamber music has taken him Academy of Music. Opera projects he across the world performing in the Berlin has worked on include the Australian Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, Cologne premiere of Brett Dean’s acclaimed Hamlet Philharmonie, London Southbank Centre, with Nicholas Carter, Harbin Symphony Prussia Cove, the Australian Festival of Orchestra’s Tosca premiere with Muhai Chamber Music in Townsville as well Tang, and WASO’s Fidelio with Asher as regular performances in Sydney, Fisch. Strongly committed to youth music, Melbourne and Brisbane. Thaddeus has toured major venues and festivals in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Harry is currently living back in his home Tianjin with the Australian New Goldberg town serving as Associate Concertmaster Orchestra, guest conducted young of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. composer workshops with the Victorian College of the Arts, and was Assistant Conductor at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s 2019 National Music Camp. 2021 WASO Assistant Conductor, Thaddeus Huang, is supported by the Simon Lee Foundation. 7 About The Music Carl Vine (born 1954) V Carl Vine first came to prominence in Australia as a composer of music for dance, with over 20 dance scores to his credit. His catalogue now includes six symphonies, five concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Although primarily a composer of modern ‘classical’ music he has undertaken tasks as diverse Saunders Keith Photo: as arranging the Australian National Anthem and writing music for the Closing Australian Symphony Orchestra. The Ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Takács String Quartet premiered Vine’s (the ‘Sydney 2000’ presentation). Fourth String Quartet throughout Australia in late 2004. Born in Perth, he studied piano with Stephen Dornan and composition with Since November 2000 Carl Vine has John Exton at the University of Western been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia. Moving to Sydney in 1975, Australia – the largest entrepreneur of he worked as a freelance pianist and chamber music in the world. composer with an enormous range of ensembles, theatre and dance companies The composer writes: over the following decade. "I have always wanted to title a work using a single letter. The V of this