A Message Welcome to from our Patron our Silver Jubilee Season!

I am thrilled to invite you to join Southern Cross Soloists for our 25th Anniversary (Season). 2020 promises to be a year-long celebration, dedicated to the exquisite chamber music, fond memories and wonderful friends – both old and new – that we have made along the way. Southern Cross Soloists’ journey began 25 years ago as a group of friends coming together to play chamber music and promote the genre in a unique format. The It is an honour to be Patron of one of ensemble has grown and developed over the Australia’s oldest and most-loved chamber years, and now sits at the forefront of the music ensembles, the Southern Cross Soloists. Australian classical music industry. We plan Twenty-five years is a major milestone for an to celebrate this incredible milestone with ensemble, as it is for any organisation. I see Someone who needs no introduction – one you, our wonderful supporters, as we present this quarter-century milestone as not only a of our closest friends from the early days of memorable and magical performances chance to celebrate, but also an opportunity Southern Cross Soloists – is superb guitar throughout the year. to pause and reflect on the journey taken to soloist, Slava Grigoryan. I’m very excited reach it. Our 25th anniversary celebration will explore that he is able to join us for a sublime a theme that is close to the heart of Southern program of guitar masterworks in October, Over the many years I have been attending Cross Soloists: our friends. Over the last 25 including the iconic Rodrigo guitar concerto; Southern Cross Soloists events, I have always years we have collaborated with so many it is sure to melt hearts. felt a sense of awe at their ability to reimagine incredible and inspiring artists, who have classical music in a way that transports We also welcome an outstanding lineup since become our dearest friends, and we are the listener to another place and time. The of Associate Artists in 2020, who will be honoured to have many of them joining us for commitment of the core to their performing with us throughout the season. our 2020 concert season. craft shows in their ability to continually deliver So join us in 2020 as we celebrate this soul-stirring, invigorating concerts to their I am delighted that Miroslav Petkov will momentous achievement – 25 outstanding appreciative audiences. return to perform with us again, after his years of music-making! We look forward to electrifying Australian debut in 2018. As the As the Southern Cross Soloists enter their performing for you this year, and the next 25 Principal Trumpet of the Royal Concertgebouw Silver Jubilee year, having withstood the test of years to come! Orchestra, we can definitely expect some time, they have reached their full maturity as dazzling virtuosity from Miroslav in February. an internationally renowned chamber music ensemble. I look forward to sharing in this Our July concert will be a pinnacle of TANIA FRAZER next sophisticated chapter with them, and I celebrations, as we commemorate Southern Artistic Director welcome you to celebrate with me during their Cross Soloists’ quarter-century milestone 2020 Concert Season. alongside the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest musical THE HONOURABLE DAME QUENTIN BRYCE AD CVO geniuses of all time. Patron of Southern Cross Soloists

2 3 The Trumpet Unleashed with Miroslav Petkov

After a sell-out performance in 2018, Southern Cross Soloists are delighted to welcome back Miroslav Petkov, Principal Trumpet of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to kick off our 25th year. Unleashing a potent mix of virtuosity and supreme artistry, this concert features Maurice Andre’s iconic arrangement of Vivaldi’s Trumpet Concerto, Rachmaninov’s stunning Romances arranged for trumpet solo and Stravinsky’s ballet masterpiece Petrushka, featuring the heroic trumpet in one of the instrument’s most challenging works of all time. Finishing with the quintessential La Virgen de la by legendary Mexican trumpet virtuoso, Rafael Mendez, this concert is a rare chance to hear one of the most exciting trumpet soloists in the world today.

VIVALDI Trumpet Concerto in A flat Major, RV 20 JABRA LATHAM Solo for Clarinet DOBRINKA TABAKOVA Frozen River Flows RACHMANINOV Romances – selections STRAVINSKY Petrushka RAFAEL MÉNDEZ La Virgen de La Macarena

WHEN Sunday, 23 February 2020 at 3pm WHERE Concert Hall, Reverse Mode, QPAC DURATION 90 minutes (no interval)

4 5 MOZART Oboe Quartet in F KV370 BERLIOZ Harold in Italy: Harold in the Mountains Op. 16 In the Footsteps BRUCH Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 NICHIFOR Two Dances for solo clarinet of Giants DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

Join Southern Cross Soloists for a special performance to commemorate our silver jubilee anniversary. Southern Cross Soloists celebrates in style with a program of masterworks by composers renowned for WHEN Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 3pm their bold risks, brazen originality, and unusual sounds and textures. These musical mavericks pushed boundaries like never before, leaving their distinctive mark on all those who followed. From Berlioz’s WHERE Concert Hall, Reverse Mode, QPAC quirky viola showpiece (possibly composed during an opium haze), to Bruch’s evocative Kol Nidrei and DURATION 90 minutes (no interval) Debussy’s risqué Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, this program shares some of our favourite works and highlights the outstanding virtuosity of the Southern Cross Soloists. The concert concludes with a piece that has become a signature work for Southern Cross soloists, Gershwin’s daring and fearless hybrid piano concerto, Rhapsody in Blue. We continue the festivities after the performance with a special toast in QPAC’s Concert Hall foyer to celebrate 25 years of exquisite music-making.

7 Souvenirs de Aranjuez with Slava Grigoryan

ARIA Award-winning virtuoso guitarist and longtime friend of the Southern Cross Soloists, Slava Grigoryan headlines our final concert of 2020. Celebrating a quarter-century of chamber music with a program of Spanish and French masterworks, we traverse through European musical history, moving from the sizzling guitar works of the Spanish Baroque to the evocative masterpieces of Belle Époque greats, Debussy and Ravel. This exotic program briefly visits Australian shores with the world premiere of a new work by Sydney composer Natalie Nicholas before culminating with the sultry, intoxicating beauty of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.

VARIOUS The Spanish Baroque – works by De Ribayaz, De Murcia and Matteis

DEBUSSY Préludes (selections)

NATALIE NICHOLAS ‘Their Secrets’ World Premiere

RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major

RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez

WHEN Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 3pm WHERE Concert Hall, Reverse Mode, QPAC DURATION 90 minutes (no interval)

8 9 Coffee Conversations

Enjoy aromatic coffee and fascinating conversation at Brisbane’s favourite book nook, Avid Reader BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS West End, with the 2020 SXS Coffee Conversations Series. This intimate event featuring music, avidreader.com.au interviews, and behind-the-scenes insights into the world of our 25th anniversary guest virtuosos, composers, and Southern Cross Soloists is the perfect Friday pre-dinner event.

(07) 3846 3422 Friday, February 21: In Conversation with international trumpet soloist, Miroslav Petkov Friday, July 17: Meet The Soloists: SXS turns 25 [email protected] Friday, October 16: In Conversation with Slava Grigoryan, award-winning classical guitar soloist

From 5.30–6.15pm at Avid Reader, 193 Boundary St, West End, Qld, 4101

Seating is limited; pre-booking advised. BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS avidreader.com.au (07) 3846 3422 [email protected] SXS Next Gen Artists Program

The SXS Next Gen Artists program offers outstanding mentorship, professional development, and performance opportunities to exceptional young Queensland February 21 In Conversation with international trumpet soloist, Miroslav Petkov musicians on the cusp of their professional careers. The recipients of the program are provided with opportunities to perform professionally alongside July 17 Meet The Soloists: Southern Cross Solists turns 25 leading Australian and international performers, while receiving valuable October 16 In Conversation with Slava Grigoryan, award winning classical guitar soloist mentoring.

WHEN 21 February, 17 July and 16 October 2020 at 5:30pm

WHERE Avid Reader Books, 193 Boundary Street, West End, QLD 4101 DURATION 45 minutes Bangalow Music Festival 2020

WHEN 13–16 August 2020 WHERE A & I Hall, Station St, Bangalow, NSW This August, we continue our 2020 theme of ‘music with friends’ at the Bangalow Music Festival. In its 19th year, the 2020 festival program will once again feature a glittering line-up of acclaimed chamber music ensembles and leading Australian and international soloists in a cornucopia of music works and genres inspired by friendships.

11 Tania Frazer Ashley Smith Blair Harris Alex Raineri Artistic Director, Oboe Clarinet Cello Piano

Artistic Director of Southern Cross Soloists Described as ‘Incandescent…a masterly Blair is a highly regarded solo cellist and Twenty-four year old Australian pianist Alex since 2011, Tania Frazer completed her display of skill and insight…as an apologist for chamber , known particularly for Raineri, described by Limelight Magazine as degrees at the Guildhall School of Music contemporary music-making, you would search his strikingly individual interpretations and ‘a soloist of superb skill and musicality’, is a in London on full scholarship. Tania has hard to find this young clarinettist’s equal’ (The innovative collaborative projects. Passionate sought-after recitalist, concerto soloist and performed as Principal Oboe with the Age), Ashley is an internationally acclaimed about the creation and performance of chamber musician. International performances Schleswig-Holstein Orchestra under Maazel, clarinet soloist, recitalist, and chamber new music, Blair is a member of Ensemble include tours of California, South-East Asia, Rostropovich and Solti; the Israel Philharmonic musician. A graduate of Yale University and the Offspring, one of Australia’s leading United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany and under Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev; the Australian National Academy of Music, Ashley contemporary music groups, and prior to Austria. Alex regularly broadcasts on ABC Royal Scottish National Orchestra; the New is a laureate of numerous prestigious prizes this enjoyed many years performing with Classic FM and the MBS Networks and has Zealand Symphony; the Jerusalem Symphony; including the APRA Performance of the Year Syzygy Ensemble. His work with these award performed concertos with the Queensland, Stavanger Symphony in Norway; the Montreal (for Lachlan Skipworth’s Clarinet Concerto winning groups has seen the commissioning Tasmanian, Darwin and West Australian Chamber Orchestra and was Principal Cor with the WASO), the Freedman Fellowship, an and performance of more than 60 new Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, Anglais of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. ABC Symphony International Young Performer works by Australian composers. Blair is Four Winds Festival, Bangalow Music Festival From 2004-2008, Tania was Principal Oboe Award, and a Churchill Fellowship. Ashley in no way defined by this genre and takes and the Queensland Pops Orchestra. Major with the Australian Chamber Orchestra is also a Buffet-Crampon Artist. Ashley has pleasure interpreting the works of all epochs, competitions won include the Kerikeri and performed as a soloist on their 2006 performed throughout Australia, the USA, especially with his acclaimed duo partner, International Piano Competition, Australian European tour. As Southern Cross Soloists’ Europe and Asia with Bang on a Can, the pianist Caroline Almonte. Over his career he National Piano Award, ANAM Concerto Artistic Director, Tania has been the Musical Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center, has worked with numerous chamber music Competition, and Michael Kieran Harvey Director of many productions including The Chamber Music Northwest, the Kennedy ensembles including the Australian String Scholarships. Chamber partnerships include Red Shoes and The Host with Expressions Center, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, and Quartet, Streeton Trio, Inventi Ensemble and performances with Andreas Ottensamer, Dance Company and Invisible Me for QPAC’s IRCAM. Ashley is an Assistant Professor at the the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. Sara Macliver, Natalie Clein, Greta Bradman, 2012 Out of the Box Festival. In 2015, Tania University of WA where he is the Head of Winds Kathryn Stott, Slava Grigoryan, Brett As a soloist, Blair has performed with performed as a guest soloist with the Daejeon and Contemporary Performance. Dean, Opera Queensland and Expressions the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic in Korea. Dance Company. Alex is a fellow of the Orchestra Victoria on numerous occasions. Australian National Academy of Music and Blair is currently guest Principal Cello of the is presently undertaking doctorate studies Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and is on at QCGU. contract with the Australian String Quartet for numerous performances throughout 2019.

12 13 Alan Smith Lina Andonovska Alex Miller Jonathan Henderson Violin Flute French Horn Flute – Associate Artist

James Wannan Guest Violist

Alan Smith completed postgraduate Lina Andonovska leads a diverse career as Alex Miller completed his Bachelor of Music studies at the Robert Schumann Institute soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Dusseldorf. He has had extensive collaborator and educator. Quickly gaining in 2015, and was appointed Tutti Horn of experience as a Concertmaster, both recognition internationally as a fearless and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in 2016. within Australia and overseas, and has versatile artist, she has collaborated and In May of 2018, he was appointed to trial as been a soloist with the Adelaide Symphony performed with Crash Ensemble, Australian Associate Principal Horn of the Queensland Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chamber Orchestra, s t a r g a z e, Southern Symphony Orchestra. As a freelance artist, and Queensland Symphony Orchestra Cross Soloists and eighth blackbird. She is he has played principal and tutti horn with (QSO) as well as appearing in various critically acclaimed for her interpretation of a number of major Australian orchestras chamber music ensembles in Australia new music, Rolling Stone Magazine hailed including the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and Europe. Alan stepped down from the her performance of Bun-Ching Lam’s piccolo the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, position of concertmaster of the QSO at concertino at the Bang On A Can Summer the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the start of 2011 to create time for broader Festival at Mass MoCA as ‘superbly played…‘ the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. Alex musical opportunities. Since then, he has has also appeared as a soloist on several Recent performance credits include John Rotar recorded for ABC FM, and appeared as occasions, having performed concertos by the German premiere of Dean’s flute Composer-in-Residence a guest soloist with Hector McDonald at Strauss, Mozart, Haydn, and Schumann concerto Siduri Dances with the Deutsches the 2011 International Horn Symposium. with orchestras including the Queensland Kammerorchester, recitals at the Tokyo Alan continues to appear regularly as Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Youth Experimental Festival, and guest appearances concertmaster and soloist with the QSO. Orchestra, and the Burnside Symphony with s t a r g a z e across Germany. Alan teaches part-time at the Queensland Orchestra. During his studies at the Conservatorium Griffith University and is Conservatorium, he played principal horn also a regular tutor for the Conservatorium with the Australian Youth Orchestra and the orchestras as well as the Queensland Youth Queensland Youth Orchestras, and toured Symphony. He plays a violin made by Jose internationally with both ensembles. Contreras in 1770.

14 15 Guest Artists Slava Grigoryan

Bulgarian-born Miroslav Petkov’s first appearance as a trumpet soloist was at the tender age of 14 with the Varna Symphony Orchestra. Petkov held the role of Principal Trumpet of the Nationaltheater Mannheim for several years before joining the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as Principal Trumpet in August 2016. He has also given guest performances as principal trumpet player with the Ensemble Modern, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the NDR Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the classical repertoire, Miroslav enjoys playing folk music, which he flavours with jazz elements. Miroslav has won first prize in many international competitions including the Lieksa International Trumpet Competition in Finland, the International Competition Città di Porcia in Italy, the International Jeju Brass Competition in South Korea, and the Yamaha International Trumpet Contest in Germany.

Sony Classical signed Slava Grigoryan at just 17 years of age. Through Sony Classical, ABC Classics in Australia, and his own label, Which Way Music, he has released over 20 solo and collaborative spanning a vast range of musical genres. When Slava turned 18 years old, he began touring as a soloist and has since performed recitals in major venues all over the world as well as performing concertos with leading orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Halle, the Dresden Radio Orchestra, the Israel Symphony, and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Collaborations have played a huge part in Slava’s career, most notably with his brother Leonard, as well as commissioning new works from leading Australian composers. Outside the classical world, Slava often performs with jazz icons Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Joseph and James Tawadros in the Miroslav Petkov fusion ensemble, Band of Brothers. Slava has received 17 ARIA Award nominations, four of which he won.

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18 19 Southern Cross Soloists is a not-for-profit arts company operating in Brisbane, Queensland. In addition to presenting fine chamber music Australia-wide with world renowned artists, the Soloists run educational programs across Queensland and a regional festival in Bangalow, New South Wales. All donations, no matter the size, are greatly appreciated and invaluable in assisting us to continue our work of presenting creative programs of international quality and providing unique educational experiences for our communities. If you would like to talk to us about donating funds or providing support in-kind, please contact the General Manager: Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)7 3844 7260

20 21 To our partners… …and to all who support Southern Cross Soloists acknowledge and thank these organisations and people for their generous support: Southern Cross Soloists through Southern Cross Soloists is funded by the Queensland Company Government through in Residence Arts Queensland purchasing tickets, volunteering, in-kind donations, Mr & Mrs J. and R. Hoffmann Ms R. Shen Mr R. Gordon Ms L. Orthwein Mr C. Williams Ms C. Harrod Mr P. Bacon Mr J. Blocksidge Ms C. McMurchy and spreading Mr & Mrs G. and G. Scanlan Ms J. Graham Ms J. Noble Mr & Mrs B. and M. Coles Ms J. Hickey Ms S. Nelson & Ms N. Pulsford Ms S. Leuthner Dame Q. Bryce AD CVO Mr B. O’Connor the word, Mr P. Dubois CWA Bangalow Ms G. Pauli Mr & Mrs I. and C. George Mr G. White Ms M. Ralph Ms D. Khursandi Mr J. Clayton Ms H. Williamson Ms M. O’Donnell Mr J. Deuchrass Mr J. Catlett we thank you!

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