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JULY, AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2018 Yinga-bul celebrates the storytelling of a thousand generations Be captivated by stirring a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo Rock legend Mick Harvey performs the songs of Serge Gainsbourg Lord Huron takes us on an epic odyssey with their new album Discover innovative concert music with Bang on a Can All-Stars Kaki King MON 13 AUGUST PP1000016130 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Symphonie Fantastique — p4 JULY 01 By the Light of the In a Japanese Garden — Mister Maker Returns! Mister Maker Returns! Mister Maker Returns! — p5 MICMC Grand Finals — p7 Moon — p4 p5 — p5 — p5 Mission Songs Project — p6 Free Music — p4 Beethoven Widmann Wawu : Spirit — p6 Gubberdee — p6 Gubberdee — p6 English Contemporaries Ngalak Warangka — p6 — p5 — p5 Marloo's 02 03 04 05 Blues — p6 06 07 08 Clair de Lune — p7 Dark Star — p8 Both Sides Now: The Kristin Berardi & Barney Corpus Medicorum Ladysmith Black Mick Harvey performs Music of Joni Mitchell McAll — p10 — Inner Space — p10 Mambazo — p8 Serge Gainsbourg — p9 — p9 The Winter Revival Tour — p10 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 Getting to Carnegie Hall Mehr Ensemble — p11 Traces of Passage — p11 Westbourne Grammar The 24K Recital Series: — p10 Sumi Jo — p11 Lord Huron — p12 School Annual Concert Sparkling Diamonds — 2018 — p36 p13 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Organica — p13 Tenth Anniversary Ensemble Peregrine — Osborne Tognetti Valve Innocence Lost — p15 Concert — p13 p14 in Recital — p14 Joyce Yang — p14 Joyce Yang — p14 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Modern Inventions — p15 Structures Falling in Love Again Sacré Cœur Secondary Mozart's Oboe — p16 Karakorum: A Musical Karakorum: A Musical Ears Wide Open 2: (Melbourne, '66) — p15 — p16 School Music Concert December Dance Suite Journey — p18 Journey — p18 Siegfried Idyll — p15 2018 — p36 — p16 Stuart Skelton — p17 AUGUST 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 Korowa Anglican Girls’ Latitude 37 — p18 ANAM Prize Winners in Bach & Brahms — p19 Innocence Found — p19 Vivaldi’s Violins — p20 School Annual Concert Remembering Debussy the Salon — p19 Dale Barltrop — p19 — p36 — p18 Sound of Science 06 — p18 07 08 09 10 11 12 Free Music — p20 Reminiscence: Liszt & St Michael's Grammar Natural Landscapes Mountain Black/ Australian Girls Choir Simone Young Conducts Species — p20 Love — p22 School: In the Living — p22 Turbine Sky — p23 in Concert — p23 Brahms — p23 Room — p36 Kaki King & Ray Chen with Julien Beijing Guitar Duo & Marc Ribot — p21 Quentin — p22 Grigoryan Brothers 13 14 15 — p22 16 17 18 19 Georgian Grace — p23 At Home in the World The Lure of the East — Hearing the Blood — p25 Ray Chen with Dido & Aeneas — p24 — p24 p24 Julien Quentin — p22 Poetical Melodies — p24 A Winter Concert — Blonde — p25 Wesley College 20 21 22 — p36 23 24 25 26 A Shostakovich Biber's Violin — p26 Czech Masters — p27 Pines of Rome — p27 Celebration — p25 Bang on a Can All-Stars Ensemble Liaison with — p26 Greta Bradman — p25 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 Methodist Ladies' Australian Brass Quintet Italian Flute Magic! Ruyton Girls' School Fire & Water — p28 In Memoriam – Mozart España! — p29 — p27 — p28 — p36 Requiem — p29 SEPTEMBER College — p36 James Morrison with His In the Green Forest — p28 Academy Jazz Orchestra The Wanderer — p29 03 — p28 04 05 06 07 08 09 Free Music — p29 Carey Baptist Grammar Lowther Hall Anglican Tim Stevens Trio — p30 Operatic Mozart — p30 The Burning Violin — The Burning Violin — Grammar School p30 p30 Transforming Strauss & School Whole School Tasmanian Symphony Trio Music: Reimagined Annual Music Concert Mozart — p29 Concert — p36 Orchestra — p30 — p30 — p36 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Masterpieces of the Archduke Trio — p31 Mythic — p31 Lucid Dreaming 2 — p32 The University of I Put A Spell On You — Great Romantics Early 20th Century Loreto Mandeville Hall Melbourne Symphony p32 Competition — p33 — p31 Showcase Concert — p36 Orchestra — p32 Borodin Quartet — p32 Hush 18 Featuring ACO Collective — p31 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 The Good Morning Borodin Quartet — p32 Beware the Mozart 39, 40 & 41 — p34 Galana Gangaki Melbourne Beethoven Kids Show — p33 Weathermakers — p34 Jeewithe 'Life that Quartet Cycle #4 — p34 Blossom — p33 Paul Lewis — p40 flows like a river' — p34 Bright Star — p33 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 2 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • The information in this brochure is correct at time of printing. WOMINJEKA, WELCOME Melbourne Recital Centre is your YINGA-BUL home for great music this winter. RETURNS The intimacy and warmth of the Our Yinga-bul (Singing to People) Centre’s two exquisite spaces are celebration is back with an illuminated by brilliant artists from unmissable program curated by acclaimed singer, songwriter and Australia and around the world. social historian Jessie Lloyd. ‘I’m very excited to be presenting an In July, our second Yinga-bul (Singing to People) festival celebrates the storytelling all-female line-up’ says Jessie. 'For me, and music of Australia’s First People. Curated by the award-winning singer, songwriter it’s not only celebrating women, but and social historian Jessie Lloyd, Yinga-bul features concerts and conversations with a the culture with modern aboriginality. diversity of Indigenous voices. The Centre hosts Melbourne’s other Grand Final when It’s about the here and now.' the finest young string quartets and piano trios from around the globe vie for prizes at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (MICMC). Happening Inspired by this year’s NAIDOC theme only every four years, MICMC is a competition of international significance, and your 'Because of her, we can!', the program chance to discover tomorrow’s star ensembles. As always, there’s a wealth of music to features gifted musicians and role surprise and delight, from the brilliant trumpet of James Morrison, the dynamism of models such as Deline Briscoe, New York’s celebrated Bang on a Can All-Stars and dozens of concerts by Marlene Cummins and Nova Peris. Melbourne’s best ensembles. For more chances to engage with the music-makers of Join us for sing-alongs, discussions the Centre, drop in to Free Music, a series of lunchtime open rehearsals where you and inspiring performances. can experience the creative process in action. See page 6 for program details. I hope that you find inspiration in these pages. We look forward to giving you a warm welcome to the Centre soon. Warm regards EUAN MURDOCH CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • The information in this brochure is correct at time of printing. Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nation on whose land the Centre stands. 3 Symphonie Fantastique Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) continue to grow their reputation for excellence while unleashing creativity, inspiring young people to reach their potential and instilling a life-long love of music. As part of the Symphonie fantastique program, Melbourne Youth Orchestras are proud to perform Crossway, originally composed for the Zelman Symphony by MYO Alumnus Harry Sdraulig. INFORMATION Sun 1 July 2.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) DEBUSSY Prelude l’après-midi d’un faune HARRY SDRAULIG Crossway BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique Fabian Russel guest conductor Melbourne Youth Orchestra Tickets $29 ($22 conc) Presented by Melbourne Youth Orchestras Free Music FUN FOR THE with Duo KIDS! Chamber Melange It’s an open-door policy for you to come in and discover something new or hear local artists rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas. While it’s not a concert, it’s a way for you to gain an insight into the secret workings BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON of our finest ensembles. This month Introduce your children to the magic of opera through Opera Australia’s delightful experience Duo Chamber Melange, the production of By the Light of the Moon. Embark on a fabulous journey with a cantankerous wonderful partnership between Ivana cat and an exuberant owl in this fanciful all-ages opera exploring the untold tales of Tomaskova (violin) and Tamara Edward Lear's beloved rhyme, The Owl and the Pussycat. Ridiculous whimsy meets sublime Smolyar (piano) whose versatile melody in a wonderful new production, featuring the fantastic characters from nonsense repertoire embraces classical and poetry and nursery rhymes, as well as tunes you'll recognise from the best-loved operas. contemporary music as well as world Opera Australia developed this travelling opera to enthral children, complete with premieres of renowned Australian, beautiful costumes and engaging scenery with professional opera singers performing European and American composers. the famous arias in English. INFORMATION INFORMATION Mon 2 July 12 noon Mon 2 July 11.30am Tickets $26 — suitable for kids 5—12 Salon (One hour no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (60-mins no interval) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Duo Chamber Melange By the Light of the Moon Opera Australia FREE Opera Australia artists Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre 4 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • JULY LOCAL HEROES SPOTLIGHT SERIES Ossicle Duo, Benjamin Anderson on bass trombone and Hamish Upton on percussion, presents a program of works inspired by the Japanese garden or ‘teien’. Featuring cultivated forms, liquid transitions and meditative calm, this program explores the aesthetics of Japanese outdoor spaces, in works by Dai Fujikura, Kaija Saariaho and John Cage. INFORMATION Tue 3 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) DAI FUJIKURA Deliquesce for solo trombone KAIJA SAARIAHO Six Japanese Gardens for English percussion & electronics CAGE Ryoanji Contemporaries Ossicle Duo Jonathan Harvey & In a Japanese Tickets $39 ($29 conc) His Contemporaries Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Garden Ossicle Duo Inventi Ensemble are masters of classical Supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation repertoire, re-inventors of past works and performers of the new. This dynamic new chamber ensemble run by artistic directors Ben Opie (oboe) and Melissa Doecke (flute), BEETHOVEN WIDMANN collaborates with Australia’s finest soloists The spirit of Beethoven fuels this dramatic INFORMATION and chamber musicians.