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Saturday 2 November 2019 Federation Concert Hall Hobart Marko Letonja conductor Die Walküre soprano Act II scene i (excerpt), Wotan and bass- Brünnhilde Bengt Gomér lighting designer Duration 5 mins June Tyzack chorusmaster Die Walküre Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music Act III scene i (excerpt), The Tenors and Basses of the TSO Chorus Act III scene iii (complete), Wotan and Brünnhilde Duration 45 mins

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Duration 20 mins Photo by Jess Bonde Der fliegender Holländer When you make a bequest to the Overture Duration 11 mins

Tasmanian Symphony Der fliegender Holländer Act I scene ii (excerpt), The Dutchman’s you do something remarkable – Monologue, ‘Die Frist ist um’ SUPPORTED BY Duration 11 mins you make a gift that will echo through the ages. Götterdämmerung Act III scene ii (excerpt), ’s Funeral Music Act III scene iii (excerpt), Brünnhilde’s Make a difference. WITH LEAD SUPPORT FROM Immolation Remember the TSO in your will. Peter Braithwaite Duration 28 mins Gary Linnane This concert will end at approximately 9.45pm. Sung in German with English surtitles. Surtitles by June Tyzack.

This concert will be broadcast and streamed live throughout and around the world by ABC Classic. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. FOUNDATION 2 1 Marko Letonja Nina Stemme John Lundgren Bengt Gomér

Marko Letonja is the Tasmanian Symphony Swedish soprano Nina Stemme began her John Lundgren’s recent roles have included The Swedish set designer Bengt Gomér Orchestra’s inaugural Conductor Laureate, career as a lyric soprano in roles such as Barak in ’s Die Frau ohne works in , dance, theatre and other having been Chief Conductor and Artistic Mozart’s Cherubino and Pamina, before being Schatten in Verbier, as the Dutchman in The art projects. He studied history of art and Director, 2012-2018. Since 2012 he has offered the part of Isolde to be performed Flying Dutchman at Stuttgart State Opera, as philosophy at Lund University and, since also been Music Director of the Orchestra at Glyndebourne in 2003 and moving on to Scarpia in at the Dresden, 1990, has designed set and lighting at philharmonique de Strasbourg. He was more lyric-dramatic roles. She has sung at as Telramund in Kasper Holten’s production theatres throughout Europe. He also works Music Director of the Slovenian Philharmonic opera houses such as the , of , and, with Nina Stemme, as as an opera director, making his debut with Orchestra, 1991-2003 and is the new Music , Bayreuth and . Wotan and The Wanderer in Keith Warner’s Puccini’s at Dalhalla in Sweden Director of the Bremen Philharmonic. Born Recent appearances have included the Vienna production of The Ring (Covent Garden in 2015. He was recently involved as in Slovenia, Marko Letonja studied at the State Opera’s 150th-Anniversary Concert, her debut) and, also at Covent Garden, as Count dramaturge in the creation of a new opera Academy of Music at Ljubljana and the Vienna Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the title role Tomsky in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. together with the NYC based João Academy of Music. He has conducted many of Richard Strauss’s , an all- He has sung in the Ring with Nina Stemme MacDowell on a project based on Ingmar in Europe, including the Munich concert with and the North at the (with conductor Bergman’s film script for The Seventh Seal. Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and the German Radio Elb Philharmonic in Hamburg, Marko Letonja) and sung Wotan at Bayreuth. Upcoming projects include a semi-staged Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Milan. He the Royal Swedish Opera’s Companies with which he has worked include version of Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung was Music Director and Chief Conductor of 100th-Anniversary Concert, and as Brünnhilde the Royal Danish Opera, Danish Opera, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. both the Symphony Orchestra and Opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle at Norwegian National Opera, Deutsche Oper He is designing the set for the operetta in Basel (2003-2006), and has conducted at House, Covent Garden. She has also sung Berlin, and Hamburg Ludwig II at Theater Regensburg as well as the Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Brünnhilde opposite John Lundgren’s Wotan State Opera. In addition to Wagner, his roles a semi-staged version of with the La Scala, Milan, and the Semper Oper, at the Royal Swedish Opera with conductor range from Iago in , Jaroslav Prus in Swedish Chamber Orchestra in Örebro. Dresden. Recent appearances have included Marko Letonja. Her recordings include a live Janáček’s The Makropulos Case, Simone in Both productions are in collaboration with Tchaikovsky’s and Ginastera’s recording of her Berlin Isolde under Mark Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy to Handel. director Sam Brown. As a set and light Beatrix Cenci at Opéra national du Rhin, Janowski, Die Walküre under In contemporary opera he has played designer he has worked with such directors and Janáček’s The Makropolous Affair at the (from the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg) Prospero in Thomas Adès , as Olivier Tambosi, Staffan Aspegren, Åsa Deutsche Oper, Berlin. He conducted Wagner’s as well as a DVD of her Walküre performance four roles in Cecilia and the Monkey King Melldahl, Nils Spangenberg, Håkan Lindhé, at the Royal Swedish under Barenboim from La Scala. Her repertoire by Reine Jönsson, Drottninghold (Sweden) Sofia Jupiter, Mellika Melouani Melani, Opera in 2017. Other work in his repertoire also covers Zemlinsky to Verdi to Janáček to and, with Nina Stemme, in the Göteberg Charlotte Engelkes and Sam Brown on includes Boris Godunov, Rigoletto and Don Puccini. Her awards include the International Opera premiere of Hans Gefors’ Notorious, projects including , Giovanni, as well as Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Opera Award for the Best Female Singer based on Hitchcock’s film. He studied social Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, La traviata, . Along with Emma Matthews (2013), as well as the city of Stockholm’s Saint sciences and worked as a social worker Così fan tutte, The Fallen Angels, Amadeus, and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Eric medal (2017), International Swede of the before pursuing a career in opera. The Full Monty, A Doll’s House, A Clockwork Marko Letonja was nominated for the 2014 Year 2018, and an honorary doctorate from Orange and Betrayal. ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for the University of Lund. Mozart Arias.

2 3 June Tyzack ANAM TSO Chorus

June Tyzack became Chorusmaster of the The Australian National Academy of Music The TSO Chorus was founded in 1992 to TSO Chorus in 2001 following a career in (ANAM) is dedicated to training the most present concert performances of opera, and Sydney with and the Opera exceptional young classical musicians from has since broadened genres to embrace Studio of the Sydney Conservatorium Australia and New Zealand. It is a place masses, requiems and symphonies, as well of Music. Under her direction, the TSO in which musicians fulfil their potential as sacred and secular a cappella works. With Chorus has given performances in Hobart as music leaders, distinguished by their Marko Letonja, the TSO Chorus returned to and regional Tasmania, and through her skill, imagination and courage, and by its opera roots in performances of Gounod’s initiative, collaboration with interstate choirs their determined contribution to a vibrant Roméo et Juliette (2018), Bizet’s has resulted in performances with Sydney music culture. ANAM musicians learn and (2017), and the Helpmann Award-winning Philharmonia Choirs, Victorian Opera, transform through public performance. performance of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Adelaide Festival Chorus, West Australian During the year, ANAM invites an impressive (2016). In addition to concerts with the Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and in Hong list of national and international guest artists TSO, highlights include performances with Kong with the WASO Chorus and Hong to mentor and perform alongside their the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Kong Philharmonic. She has devised and musicians to present over 180 events at their Australian Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide directed cutting-edge a cappella TSO Chorus home in South and in venues Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra programs for a number of festivals, including across Australia. ANAM is renowned for its and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. in the Spiegeltent for Ten Days on the Island, innovation and energy, and is committed Under the direction of Chorusmaster June Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, Synaesthesia to pushing the boundaries of how music is Tyzack, the TSO Chorus has established a and Synaesthesia+, and for the TSO, she presented and performed. From orchestral notable presence at Mona, with Festival of directed Bach’s St Matthew Passion. In 2017 and chamber music concerts, solo recitals, Voices and in regional Tasmania. In May, the she facilitated a group of TSO choristers masterclasses and talks – experiencing music Chorus presented a concert of Australian a to participate in the Mitsingonzert in the at ANAM is unlike anywhere else. With an cappella works in Barcelona and participated Berlin Philharmonie and, this year, in the outstanding track record of success, ANAM in a Verdi Requiem Sing Along with Simon Palau de la Musica, Barcelona. While on alumni work in orchestras and chamber Halsey conducting. The Chorus will finish the tour, she conducted the TSO Chorus in a ensembles around the world, performing as year in collaboration with WASO Chorus and concert of Australian repertoire featuring a soloists, contributing to educating the next Principal Conductor, Asher Fisch, performing commissioned work by Lisa Cheney. She is generation of musicians, and winning major Verdi’s Requiem in Perth. Concert highlights responsible for the TSO surtitles which this national and international awards. ANAM in 2019 with the TSO include Bach’s St John year include Bach’s St John Passion and aims to inspire these future music leaders and Passion and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata Symphony invites audiences to share their journey. For 2, Lobgesang. The TSO Chorus welcomes No 2, Lobgesang. more information on ANAM, visit anam.com. new members. Interested choristers should au or call 03 9645 7911. contact the Chorus Coordinator on 03 6232 4421 or visit tsochorus.com.au for more information.

4 5 Wagner, Dutchman and the Ring Wagner had

Richard Wagner’s life had taken a turn for the providing Wagner with his principal literary Things were to end very badly for Wagner the story of Wotan a lifelong better by the time his Romantic Opera, Der source. The legend concerns an accursed in Dresden. He participated, however – the unprincipled fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Dutch ship captain who is condemned to sail tangentially, in the Dresden Uprising of 1849 ruler of the gods predilection received its première at the Royal Saxon the seas until Judgement Day unless – and and a warrant went out for his arrest. On who is ultimately Court Theatre, in Dresden, in January 1843. this is a crucial detail added by Heine – he is the run again, he fled Saxony and sought undone by his for tales of Up until then, Wagner and his wife Minna released from his suffering by the love of a asylum in Switzerland where he remained, on misdeeds – moved redeeming had experienced some lean times. In 1839 faithful woman. Wagner, who had a lifelong and off, for the next few decades (he finally to the centre. The they had to flee the Latvian city of Riga under predilection for tales of redeeming women, received a pardon from Saxony in 1862). In story of Brünnhilde, women. the cover of dark, having accrued substantial set to work on the opera in 1840, composing his penultimate year in Dresden, Wagner a Valkyrie, cuts debts during Wagner’s two-year tenure as the lion’s share over a seven-month period began to formulate ideas for a project that across both narratives: she is Wotan’s musical director of the Riga theatre. Not in 1841. was to occupy him for 26 years; namely, daughter (and the favourite among his composition of the cycle of known as children) and she becomes Siegfried’s wife. only did they have to smuggle themselves Borrowing from Heine, Wagner’s Dutchman is Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the across the border (dodging armed Cossack permitted to come ashore every seven years We first encounter Brünnhilde at the start of Nibelung): (The Rhinegold), sentries), they had to find room for their in the hope of finding his woman-redeemer. Act II of Die Walküre when she leaps on stage Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried and beloved Newfoundland dog, Robber. A As it happens, the stretch of Norwegian joyously uttering the Valkyrie cry ‘Hojotoho!’. Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). rough and perilous sea voyage followed coast where the seafarer and his ghostly crew A battle is about to be played out between Composing four complete dramas was not with the Wagners (and Robber) eventually have dropped anchor is home to Senta, a Hunding and Siegmund, the latter being Wagner’s original intention. In Dresden in making their way to Paris, where they spent young woman fixated by the legend of the one of Wotan’s progeny. Wotan has fathered 1848 he drafted the story of the Ring from a miserable few years. As in Riga, liabilities Flying Dutchman and longing for him to Siegmund for the purpose of acting as his start to finish but only intended to set to started to accumulate, and the spectre of the sail into her life. The Overture (which was agent to wrest the ring from the clutches music the later stages of the epic. Thus, when debtors’ prison loomed. On the move again, composed last) presents principal themes of the dragon Fafner (formerly a giant). But he began to write the libretti, he started with Wagner and Minna made tracks for Dresden from the opera, commencing with a pithy, Siegmund has enjoyed sexual congress what was to become Götterdämmerung and (Robber had by this time parted company ascending call associated with the with his sister Sieglinde (Hunding’s wife), to later moved backwards through the narrative with his masters), the Royal Saxon Court Dutchman. Tempestuous rising and falling the horror of Wotan’s wife, Fricka, who is to write Siegfried. It was at this point that Theatre having accepted Wagner’s five-act ‘sea music’ follows before it gives way to the goddess of marriage. Under pressure he decided that these two works needed to Grand Tragic Opera, . Premièred in a gentle melody (enunciated by the cor from Fricka, Wotan decides that Siegmund have their backstories filled in so he went on October 1842, Rienzi was a tremendous anglais) signifying the Dutchman’s deliverer, must perish in the upcoming battle with to write the libretti for Das Rheingold and Die success, inaugurating an altogether rosier Senta. All of these themes are developed Hunding. Brünnhilde, however, is touched by Walküre (in that order). chapter in Wagner’s life. Four months after in the course of the Overture, along with the love between Siegmund and Sieglinde the première of Rienzi and in the wake of the another theme heard in the opera, the jaunty Borrowing from various Nordic, Icelandic and (who is with child, the prenatal Siegfried), initial run of Der fliegende Holländer, Wagner Norwegian Sailors’ Chorus. The Dutchman Old German sources, Wagner fashioned a and attempts to protect Siegmund in battle. was appointed Kapellmeister to the King of arrives on stage in Act I to the tentative complex web of tales populated by gods, Wotan intervenes, splintering Siegmund’s Saxony. introductory strains of ‘Die Frist ist um’ (The giants, a dragon, mermaid-like creatures sword. Defenceless, Siegmund is slain and Der fliegende Holländer was composed, time has come), one of Wagner’s great set (), war maidens (Valkyries) Wotan is enraged that his beloved daughter, words and music, while Wagner was in Paris. pieces for bass-baritone. The hesitant notes and peoples of various races and/or Brünnhilde, has disobeyed him. At the In fact, the original prose draft for the opera suggest the Dutchman’s first shaky steps on tribes (Nibelungs, Wälsungs, Gibichungs). start of Act III the war maidens gather (‘The was written in French, not German. A PR terra firma after seven years at sea. Weary Wagner’s focus at first was on the life and Ride of the Valkyries’) and are surprised to man avant la lettre, Wagner claimed that of endless seafaring, he explains how he has death of the brave and fearless Siegfried discover that Brünnhilde brings on her horse the nautical tale of the Dutchman came to tried many times to engineer his demise, (these events are played out in Siegfried not a fallen hero but the pregnant Sieglinde. him during the tempestuous sea journey including dashing the ship onto rocks and and Götterdämmerung) but Wagner’s In the long and touching final scene of Die from the Baltic to the North Sea – a case taunting pirates. Longing for death and enthusiasm for Siegfried waned somewhat Walküre (arguably the Ring’s great love of life inspiring art – but this is most likely doubtful of ever encountering the faithful when, possibly under the influence of the scene), Brünnhilde explains her actions to an example of Wagner embellishing his one who will end his torment, the Dutchman philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, he saw her father who, nevertheless, metes out a autobiography, as was his wont. The story of pleads for Judgement Day to arrive, thereby the potential to trace a larger (and more crushing punishment: Brünnhilde’s godhead the Flying Dutchman had been circulating relieving him of his suffering. ‘Eternal interesting) theme: the conflict between love will be taken away from her. Induced into for some time prior to Heinrich Heine annihilation, receive me!’ are the closing and power. In this way, Siegfried’s narrative a slumber, she will awake a mere mortal committing it to print in the 1830s, thereby words of his great monologue. was pushed to the margins somewhat and woman. Brünnhilde asks for a single proviso

6 7 Eivind Aadland Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Designate June Tyzack – that Wotan surrounds the rock on which of the ring and in her great closing Marko Letonja Conductor Laureate Chorusmaster she sleeps with fire so that only the bravest monologue (‘Brünnhilde’s Immolation’) Johannes Fritzsch Principal Guest Conductor Jennifer Marten-Smith Elena Schwarz Associate Conductor Répétiteur & Language of men will have the courage to awaken her. addresses the absent Wotan, who has Coach Wotan summons Loge, the god of fire, and retreated to his mountain fortress, Valhalla. the opera closes with the ‘Magic Fire Music’. He, who put in train the tragic events which are soon to reach their cataclysmic end, By the time we next pick up the story, a VIOLIN Martin Penicka TENOR knows that his annihilation is near. ‘Rest lot has happened: Siegfried, the son of Emma McGrath Sophie Radke Yoram Levy* Helen Chick now, you god!’ utters Brünnhilde, in one of Siegmund and Sieglinde, has been born Concertmaster DOUBLE BASS Peter Miller Phillip Clutterbuck the Ring’s most marvellous moments. Just and seized the ring from the dragon Fafner, Sercan Danis Associate Sophie Spencer^ Bill Field as Wotan consigned Brünnhilde to a fiery Concertmaster Stuart Thomson* Jason Geeves killing him in the process; he has breached Aurora Henrich sleep at the conclusion of Die Walküre, Lucy Carrig-Jones Michael Kregor the circle of fire, taken Brünnhilde as his Matthew McGrath # Brünnhilde’s actions will now result in Wotan Principal Second Amanda Tillett Tony Marshall bride and gifted the ring to her; he has Jennifer Owen James Menzies David Pitt and his entire world going up in flames. travelled down the Rhine and – courtesy of Principal First Caroline Renn^ James Powell-Davies In the closing words of her peroration, Giovanni Vinci^ # a spiked drink – been tricked into forgetting Miranda Carson David Robins Peter Tattam Brünnhilde addresses her deceased beloved, Yue-Hong Cha Jackson Bankovic^ Brünnhilde and marrying Gutrune. Furious, FLUTE Siegfried, and mounting her horse, joyfully Frances Davies Iain Faragher Brünnhilde has joined a cabal to bring about Douglas Mackie* BASS leaps onto the blazing pyre. Flames engulf Edwina George Siegfried’s death. The Rhinemaidens have Xinyu Guo Lloyd Hudson BASS TROMBONE Geoffrey Attwater the entire scene. The Rhine breaches its explained to Siegfried that the ring on his Josef Hanna^ Piccolo Mitchell Nissen* John Ballard banks and the Rhinemaidens, borne along by Rebecca Johnson finger (formerly on Brünnhilde’s finger) is Matthew Hassall Tim Begbie the floodwaters, retrieve the ring forged from Rachel Lau^ cursed and asked Michael Johnston Peter Cretan gold stolen from them at the start of Das Sunkyoung Kim^ Tim Jones* Greg Foot for its return, OBOE Ring Rheingold. The precious gold is finally back Hana King^ Sam Hindell [The ] was but to no avail. David Nuttall* TIMPANI in the hands of its rightful custodians. In the Christine Lawson Duncan How The evil Hagen, Alison Lazaroff- Stephanie Dixon Matthew Goddard* Reg Marron to occupy him background, Valhalla goes up in flames. who covets the Somssich Ennes Mehmedbasic^ Tracey Patten Alastair Norris Elinor Lea Dinah Woods David Ovens for 26 years. ring, has given Götterdämmerung closes on a resplendent Cor Anglais PERCUSSION Siegfried a potion D-flat major chord. Wagner orchestrated that Susanna Low Tony Parker Phoebe Masel^ CLARINET Gary Wain* Philip Sabine to restore his memory and at the point chord on 21 November 1874, bringing to a Ambra Nesa Andrew Castles Dick Shoobridge when Siegfried recounts awakening the close a project which occupied him (on and Christopher Nicholas Andrew Seymour* Steve Marskell Tony Sprent sleeping Brünnhilde, Hagen plunges a spear off) for more than a quarter of a century. By Liam Oborne^ Robin Henry Ellis Swinbourne into his back. Siegfried dies with the word now, he was living in a sumptuous villa in the Elliott Plumpton^ Cameron Smith^ HARP Grant Taylor Hayato Simpson Amy Whyte Emily Granger# ‘Brünnhilde’ on his lips. provincial city of Bayreuth, halfway between Bass Clarinet Munich and Berlin. The former political Aziel Verner^ Meriel Owen ‘Siegfried’s Funeral Music’ accompanies Claire Weatherhead^ fugitive was once more enjoying royal BASSOON the passage of Siegfried’s body as it is favour, having been taken under the wing VIOLA Tahnee van Herk* carried from the valley where he was slain of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria. Wagner’s lean Stefanie Farrands* John Panckridge to the Hall of the Gibichungs, on the banks times were definitely over. Heads of state, Dasha Auer^ Contrabassoon of the Rhine, where the final scene of Glenn Prohasky people of letters, and assorted Suying Aw Götterdämmerung takes place. The music Douglas Coghill Wagner acolytes made their way to Bayreuth HORN synthesises a good many leitmotifs, some Nara Dennis in the summer of 1876 for the inaugural Greg Stephens# of them stretching back to Act I of Die Henry Justo^ performances of the Ring. That event, which Heath Parkinson* Walküre – notably, music associated with Anna Larsen Roach is now known as the , Rodney McDonald Jules Evans Siegfried’s parents, Siegmund and Sieglinde Eve McEwen^ continues to this day. Will Newbery – culminating in mighty statements of Ruby Shirres^ Maraika Smit # Siegfried’s horn call, which are rung out by Robert Gibson © 2019 Geoff Lierse * Principal player the entire . CELLO Wagner Tuba # Guest principal Sue-Ellen Paulsen* Roger Jackson ^ ANAM musician Brünnhilde, who now knows the truth Jonathan Békés Wagner Tuba of Hagen’s treachery against Siegfried, Ivan James Wendy Page commands a funeral pyre be built for Nick McManus^ Wagner Tuba William Tanner^ Surtitles operated by Siegfried’s body. She has taken possession David Moran^ Caleb Murray^ Wagner Tuba Marie Keane.

8 9 Anthony McGee Kenneth Singh Sculthorpe Society Dr Arthur McHugh Neil Spark The TSO thanks our patrons who generously support and underpin the orchestra's day-to-day Danielle McPhail Lynne Stacpoole Thank you to the following visionaries who are operations, from educating Tasmanian students to performing concerts across Tasmania and abroad. Sam Mollard Grant Stebbings securing the future of the TSO through leaving a Jane Monaghan Dr Michael and gift in their will. Clare Morrisby Mrs Neeltje Treplin Margaret Murray Cheryl Turner Dawn Albert Patricia Leary TSO MAESTRO Dr Hans Bosman John Roberts Mrs E Pitney Ron and Gwen Murray Katharine Waterworth Honey Bacon Susan Lewin PATRONS and Ms Sue Madden Stuart and Patricia Emeritus Professor Barry and Sally Graham and John and Marilyn Martin and Linda $20,000–$49,999 Margaret Burgess Roberts Michael Roe Nicholson Louise Wells Canterford Luther Ross Darvell Jennifer Marshall Rob and Tricia Greenwell Anne Carmichael Kay Rodda Janet Stone Clive and Jennie Pointon Kathlyn and John George and Jan Helen Ross and Brian Sykes Martin and Sally Poole Wheatley David Davey and Annick Diane Matthews Patricia Leary Ansselin Erik Parris Dr Peter Stanton Casimaty Margaret Whiteside Jacqui Walkden Valerie Poxon Sallyann Wilson Anne Challen and Dr Mary Self Stephen and Sheila Reynolds Sharon Winters George and Jennifer Dr Ian Payne TSO Friends Ettershank Mike and Carole Dr Hilary Wallace Don Challen AM Judith Spencer and Elizabeth Webber Anne Riley Anne Whinney Ian Chambers and Johannes Schonborn Mark Worrall Warwick Risby Christine Wilson Joe Giedl and Anne Lynch Ralston TSO PATRONS Kathryn Arneman Dr Tony Sprent AM Dr Rosemary Yeoland Bill and Pamela Roach Ronald Wilson Lisa Harris Barbara Ruschanow $5,000–$19,999 Prof Mike Coffin Tony Stacey AM and Mrs Anonymous (12) Steve and Christine Margaret Woodberry Dr Donald and Jasmine Chris and John Beth Coombe Jeanette Stacey Roden Rowan Wylie Hempton Sandow John and Marilyn TSO DONORS Nicholas Heyward and Michael and Jo Scott Canterford Dr Stephanie Cooper Philip and Frances Tyrell David and Caroline Professor Anna Nicholas and Janet John Upcher $100–$249 Rowell Yeatman Allanah Dopson Joy Selby Smith John Cauchi AM Meredith Inglis Dick and Sue and Catherine Walker Cretan John C Usher OAM Michael Alchin Katrina Schlunke Margaret Yoong Peter and Catherine Dr Michael Wilkinson Antony Ault and Susan Brock Isabella Young Jonathan Kelly Shoobridge David Davey and Annick Betty Kuhl Dr Peter Stanton Ansselin Cretan Geoff and Vicki Willis Rosalind Baker Julie and Ludovic Gillian Zacks Garry Forward and Deirdre and Trevor Wise Catherine Barta Schmidt Anonymous (10) Robert Kuns Margot Wells Fullers Bookshop Kerry Larkins Anonymous (2) Dr Joanna de Burgh Penney Furmage J Zimmerman Minnie Biggs Michael Shegog Tamara Foster Anonymous (14) Helene Bogut-Browne Martin Dickson AM We also acknowledge with thanks those who Tony Hagar David Bonny and Susie Dickson TSO SUPPORTERS have left a bequest to the TSO. 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