Volume — 29 Australian October 2018 Free Music National Academy Makers of Music

Brett Dean: in conversation

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What the Fact?! Music Hacked

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A reflection: Debussy100 so far

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Event Calendar

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Golden Gate Brass reunites

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1000 reasons to say thank you

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Mahler’s last completed work

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A Fitting Finale to 2018

— Page 8 viola Alexander MacDonald (NZ) Alexander anam.com.au ANAM CutCommon / Debussy100

What the Fact?! Music Hacked

This year we partnered with WTF?! HOW SHOULD WTF?! DOES THE B-FLAT CutCommon, Australia’s independently I LOOK AFTER MY REEDS? OR E-FLAT CLARINET WIN? run classical and new music magazine, to produce an interview series titled What are the biggest mistakes What can the E-flat clarinet What the Fact?! Music Hacked that owners of reeds can make? do that the B-flat can’t? where our musicians, faculty and “Playing reeds for too long, “The E-flat has a particularly guest artists have given informed too soon. If you blow them in penetrating, piercing sound; and as answers to real questions about gradually and carefully, you’ll get a result is most frequently used by pursuing a career in music. about 10 times longer life compared composers for incisive, jagged solos – with playing continually on a brand something it can bring off more Ever wondered why you feel new reed. Think of the lifespan of convincingly than a B-flat performance anxiety? What the deal a reed as a curve, with a middle part (although, in its very high register, is with tuning to 440Hz – or not? where it is at it’s best: consistent the B-flat can sound pretty How to lead an orchestra? and vibrant. Blowing it in carefully penetrating, too). As its lower range CutCommon and ANAM have covered will elongate and optimise that is limited, compared to the B-flat, it all! To give you a taste of the series, middle part of the curve.” it is more difficult to make the we’ve included two interview snippets E-flat sound mellow and smooth – below from two clarinet stars but you David Thomas ANAM Head something one normally associates can view the full interviews and more at of Woodwind, Clarinet Faculty with clarinet sound. There are some cutcommonmag.com/category/ exceptional E-flat specialists out what-the-fact there, though, who manage it!”

Dimitri Ashkenazy ANAM Guest Artist, Clarinet

A reflection: Debussy100 so far

Words by Roy Howat is renowned as both What a thrill it has been for Timothy Young pianist and scholar whose concerts, ANAM musicians to also work with ANAM Head of Chamber Music, broadcasts and lectures regularly composer Lyle Chan on his Sonatas Resident Piano Faculty take him worldwide. We were lucky written especially for this project. enough to have him join us for two never completed his series concerts in our Debussy100 series, of six Sonatas for various instruments performing a selection of Préludes and Lyle brilliantly took up the It’s hard to believe we are nearing Book 1 in April and challenge of writing his own with the end of our series performing and in September. Debussy’s intended instrumentation. ’s complete piano and Don’t miss the last two concerts in our chamber music. So far this year visiting Kathryn Stott’s visit in May Debussy100 series with ANAM musicians artists Roy Howat, Kathryn Stott, was an intense few days to prepare, and Stephen McIntyre (16 November) Ian Munro and Steven Osborne have among other things, the Cello Sonata and yours-truly (26 October). worked with, and alongside, our ANAM and a collection of wonderful orchestral musicians. The response has been transcriptions for two pianos including wonderful and it has been inspiring the three , and to see how this genius of the musical Prelude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune. DOUZE ÉTUDES PRÉLUDES [BOOK 2] world touches the heart and intellect In June Ian Munro not only performed Friday 26 October 7.30pm Friday 16 November 11am of musicians and audiences alike. Book 1 but also presented some largely forgotten gems, DEBUSSY Petite Pièce DEBUSSY To get the year underway, a highlight being the Chansons de for clarinet & piano DEBUSSY Préludes Book 2 Roy Howat presented a series of Bilitis, incidental music for narrator, DEBUSSY Première rapsodie DEBUSSY Élégie for clarinet & piano lectures on the French master, two harps, two flutes and celesta. DEBUSSY Le petit nègre DEBUSSY Rêverie going into great depth on the DEBUSSY Children’s Corner workings of his musical structures, Steven Osborne worked with DEBUSSY Deux arabesques harmonic language and extraordinary ANAM musicians on the , DEBUSSY Hommage à Haydn Stephen McIntyre piano associations with French verse. It left numerous relatively unknown 4-hand DEBUSSY Danse bohémienne ANAM Musicians no doubt about his deep philosophical and two piano works and also DEBUSSY Piano Trio in G major Tickets All $35 approach on what music can and performed the and Images DEBUSSY Douze études should be, his genial craftsmanship Book 2. “I find it hard to put my finger Performance to be followed by and intellect bent on realising these on what it is about Debussy that I love,” Timothy Young piano complimentary light refreshments and an opportunity to meet the musicians ideals in composition. To quote says Steven, “but it’s an absolutely ANAM Musicians Debussy himself “Music is a secret amazing openness in some way. Venue South Melbourne Town Hall form of mathematics, the elements To not control the way the music goes, Tickets Full $60 Sen $47 Con $35 Bookings anam.com.au of which have a share in eternity…” but to just see what happens. And he Timothy Young's ANAM Faculty or 03 9645 7911 keeps finding these amazing things.” position is generously supported by Margaret Johnson Debussy100 project presented in partnership with ABC Classic FM

Music Makers Volume — 29 Page 2 ANAM at Melbourne Recital Centre

Brett Dean: in conversation

Interview by Miranda Cass ANAM Marketing Coordinator

As ANAM’s former Artistic Director, what do you most look forward to about returning to ANAM’s home at the South Melbourne Town Hall? Once you’ve been a part of the ANAM family, to return always feels like coming home. Now I know that might sound like an artist- interview cliché but it’s really true. You only need to look at the vast array of returning national and international artists that have maintained ongoing relationships with ANAM over many years, even decades, to see it’s not mere Between the viola, conducting The only work I haven’t conducted Finally, what would you say marketing! To be part of the very and composing, what are before is Georges Lentz’s to encourage someone to see particular ANAM vibe again is you dedicating most of extraordinary and mesmerising the ANAM Orchestra perform what builds these lasting bonds your time to now? (Or do all Jerusalem (after Blake), on 9 November? and is what I’m most looking three roles intertwine?) here receiving its second Look, I’m a tad biased of forward to, with the wonderful mix Proportionally, I spend most performance ever in Australia. course, being one of the four amongst its musicians of curiosity, of my time composing however composers, but I have to say wonder, skill and ambition. all three disciplines are constant After its world premiere in the UK this is a very special program companions and cross-pollinating in 2017 and its Australian premiere of new music. It’s evocative, Earlier this year, you were invited in character. I simply can’t at the Adelaide Festival earlier imaginative and sensuous, to be a keynote speaker to imagine only composing without this year, your Hamlet opera has yet also highly dramatic and welcome the new and returning performing, or vice-versa. As a taken the musical world by storm. darkly haunting. And how often musicians to Week One at ANAM. composer I find it incredibly helpful Can you tell us more about the do we get to immerse ourselves During this talk, you encouraged to have a hands-on knowledge of particular piece that the ANAM in an entire evening of Australian the musicians to open their minds the act of performing. Similarly, I Orchestra will perform with orchestral music? I do hope people to the diverse options that are think all performers should at least Lorina Gore and Topi Lehtipuu? embrace this rare opportunity, available for musicians and you ‘have a crack’ at composing, to From Melodious Lay is a which should also prove a great reflected on when you were a experience first-hand what musical 25-minute suite of music from vehicle to show the versatility violist in the challenges and conundrums arise, my Hamlet opera, focusing in and thrilling power of ANAM’s Orchestra but devoted your what decisions need to be made particular on the nature of the wonderful orchestra together spare time to improvising. It was and how composers make them. relationship between Hamlet with two stellar vocal soloists. an inspiring part of your talk It can only help to inform and and Ophelia. Ostensibly Lorina and it offered a great insight inspire the art of interpreting sings Ophelia and Topi is Hamlet, into how you shaped your life music. And it just might become though not exclusively, as the two and career. Can you briefly your main gig! vocal lines also explore views on repeat it here for our readers? this relationship as expressed CELEBRATING My early years in the Berlin You’re known as an advocate by other major characters in the BRETT DEAN Philharmonic were characterised for Australian music and we’re play: Hamlet’s mother Gertrude Friday 9 November 7.30pm by discovery. That meant, in the delighted to have you conduct and Ophelia’s father Polonius, for first instance, a crash-course in the four Australian works (including example. It’s highly dramatic stuff! MEALE Clouds Now and Then extensive repertoire of Germany’s one of your own) with the ANAM B DEAN From Melodious Lay leading ‘Kultur-orchester’ and lots Orchestra in November. Can you What’s next for your Hamlet? (A Hamlet Diffraction) of chamber music. But from about describe how the program for And what else is coming ILLEAN Land’s End 1988 onwards it also meant this concert was formed? up for you? LENTZ Jerusalem (after Blake) ‘after-dark’ improvising sessions These four orchestral scores I’m very excited to say that with the marvellously versatile are all particularly dear to me as Hamlet is scheduled for more Lorina Gore soprano Sydney musician, Simon Hunt. both performer and composer. performances in Europe and Topi Lehtipuu tenor Simon was just about to achieve The works of Richard Meale, the United States in the coming Brett Dean conductor fame/notoriety as Pauline Georges Lentz and Lisa Illean have few years. Following the Australian ANAM Orchestra Pantsdown, the irreverent, featured in my programs before, premiere in Adelaide last March dizzyingly articulate ‘caricature/ most recently in an all-Australian there are currently no future plans Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, nemesis’ of at-the-time-newly- studio concert I conducted with the for further performances here Melbourne Recital Centre elected One Nation leader, BBC Symphony Orchestra in their in Australia however I really do Tickets Full $50 Sen/Con $40 Pauline Hanson. So, after playing London home in Maida Vale. It was hope that Melbourne audiences Bookings anam.com.au a Bruckner Symphony at 8pm in on that occasion that I experienced might get to see the entire opera or 03 9645 7911 the Philharmonie for example, how well these composers’ works one day. In the meantime I’m Presented in partnership with I would often meet up with Simon spoke or sang to one another, working on other new (and slightly Melbourne Recital Centre and head to the bohemian even though they display a great smaller!) projects: a new string Kreuzberg district of West Berlin diversity of compositional voices quartet for the Doric Quartet to Brett Dean’s ANAM residency is generously supported by to challenge myself to post- and styles. Meale’s Clouds Now and be premiered by them on their first Kerry Landman philharmonic improv sessions Then is a modern Australian classic national tour next featuring viola, piano-frame, that displays his sophisticated, year, and I’ll also be presenting a The 2018 ANAM at Melbourne sampler and any number of other cosmopolitan ear for sonorities. new work of mine with the ACO in Recital Centre series is generously supported by Loris Orthwein noise-makers. Simon’s adventurous And I commissioned Lisa Illean’s 2019; a mini double-viola concerto spirit and encouragement beautifully subtle Land’s End as which is closely linked to Bach’s eventually led me to begin writing part of my recent residency with Brandenburg Concerto no. 6. my first notated compositions. the Sydney Symphony.

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ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL What’s on Tuesday 23 October 3pm Tuesday 30 October 11am

Program to be advised VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark October – December Ascending for violin & piano David Moran (SA) cello TAKEMITSU Distance de fée Aidan Boase piano for violin & piano R SCHUMANN Violin Sonata ANAM CHAMBER MUSIC ST SILAS SUNDAYS ANAM RECITAL in A minor op. 105 COMPETITION ROUND 2 Sunday 21 October 2.30pm Wednesday 24 October 11am Hana King (NSW) violin Tuesday 16 October 10am–1pm Louisa Breen piano KODÁLY Serenade for 2 violins Program to be advised POULENC Sextet for winds & viola op. 12 & piano op. 100 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet Michael Olsen (WA) trumpet ANAM RECITAL in B minor op. 115 KODÁLY Serenade for 2 violins Peter de Jager piano Tuesday 30 October 1pm & viola op. 12 ANAM Musicians SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet ANAM RECITAL Program to be advised op. 57 Venue St Silas Anglican Church Wednesday 24 October 1pm Liam Meany (NSW) cello MOZART String Quartet no. 15 Tickets Full $20 Con $15 in D minor K421 ANAMates $15 Leigh Harrold piano MOZART Violin Sonata in A major PROKOFIEV Quintet in G minor Bookings Tickets at the door K305 op. 39 ANAM RECITAL KAPUSTIN Trio for flute, GRIEG Violin Sonata no. 3 cello & piano op. 86 ANAM RECITAL in C minor op. 45 Tuesday 30 October 3pm Monday 22 October 11am MESSIAEN Thème et Variations Wednesday 17 October 12.30-4pm for violin & piano BRAHMS Violin Sonata no. 1 in G major op. 78 YOUNG Gone for solo violin Meg Cohen (NSW) violin PÄRT Fratres for violin, strings DEBUSSY String Quartet BARTÓK Rhapsody no. 1 Peter de Jager piano & percussion in G minor op. 10 for violin & piano Folk Dances CHAUSSON Poème for violin SCHNYDER Trombone Quartet DEBUSSY Sonata for violin & strings op. 25 LIGETI String Quartet no. 1 & piano ANAM RECITAL Métamorphoses nocturnes JS BACH Selections from Wednesday 24 October 3pm Mana Ohashi (VIC) violin PSATHAS Island Songs Sonata for solo violin Leigh Harrold piano BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C major BWV1005 STRAVINSKY Suite italienne ANAM Musicians in G minor op. 25 MOZART Violin Concerto no. 4 Laura Barton (NZ) violin MESSIAEN Quatuor pour in D major K218 Peter de Jager piano la fin du temps DEBUSSY Violin Sonata ANAM RECITAL Wednesday 31 October 1pm ANAM Musicians ANAM RECITAL William Huxtable (WA) violin Peter de Jager piano Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Monday 22 October 1pm Program to be advised Sine Winther (QLD) piano Tickets Free entry, Harry Ward (NSW) violin no bookings required VAIL Last Call Leigh Harrold piano VAIL Romance for trombone & piano ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL VAIL Mount Erebus Thursday 25 October 11am ANAM RECITAL Thursday 18 October 1pm VAIL Adagio to the Remembered VAIL Psyche Concerto BEETHOVEN Sonata for violin Wednesday 31 October 3pm Program to be advised for trombone & piano & piano in F major op. 24 Spring MOZART Sinfonia Concertante Program to include: Caleb Wong (NSW) cello Dale Vail (NZ) trombone in E-flat major FRANCK Violin Sonata Louisa Breen piano Aidan Boase piano in A major op. 13 ANAM Musicians Kyla Matsuura-Miller (QLD) violin Adam McMillan (piano 2017) Elliott Plumpton (QLD) violin ANAM RECITAL ANAM Musicians Aidan Boase piano Thursday 18 October 3pm ANAM RECITAL Monday 22 October 3pm ANAM RECITAL BEETHOVEN Sonata for cello & ANAM RECITAL piano in D major op. 102, no. 2 FORD Once upon a time there Thursday 25 October 1pm Wednesday 31 October 6pm BRITTEN Sonata for cello & piano were two brothers... in C major op. 65 TAKEMITSU Voice for solo flute SZYMANOWSKI The Fountain Program to be advised of Arethusa from 3 Myths op. 30 SOPER Only the Words Themselves Phoebe Masel (QLD) violin Eliza Sdraulig (VIC) cello Mean What They Say BRAHMS Violin Sonata no. 1 Leigh Harrold piano Louisa Breen piano BERIO Opus Number Zoo for in G major op. 78 speaker & wind quintet DEBUSSY Piano Trio in G major ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL Eliza Shephard (NSW) flute Sunkyoung Kim (QLD) violin Thursday 1 November 11am Thursday 18 October 6pm ANAM Musicians Aidan Boase piano ANAM Musicians Program to be advised Program to be advised ANAM RECITAL Freya Hombergen (WA) horn Mitchell Jones (QLD) clarinet Tuesday 23 October 11am DOUZE ÉTUDES Louisa Breen piano Peter de Jager piano Friday 26 October 7.30pm JS BACH Allemande from Cello SPECIAL EVENT WITH Suite no. 4 in E-flat BWV1010 DEBUSSY Petite Pièce ANAM RECITAL for clarinet & piano SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF CARTER Elegy for viola & piano Thursday 1 November 1pm BRAHMS Viola Sonata no. 2 DEBUSSY Première rapsodie Friday 19 October 2pm in E-flat major op. 120 for clarinet & piano Program to be advised WIANCKO American Haiku DEBUSSY Rêverie Witness this legendary pianist pass for viola & cello Owen Jackson (QLD) oboe on his musical knowledge to gifted DEBUSSY Deux arabesques Peter de Jager piano young musicians. DEBUSSY Hommage à Haydn Eunise Cheng (WA) viola DEBUSSY Danse bohémienne Duration 3 hrs & 30 mins Daniel Smith (cello 2017) DEBUSSY Piano Trio in G major ANAM RECITAL (including breaks) Aidan Boase piano DEBUSSY Douze études Thursday 1 November 3pm Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets Full $50 Stu $25 ANAM RECITAL Timothy Young piano Program to be advised ANAMates $25 Tuesday 23 October 1pm ANAM Musicians Bookings musicaviva.com.au Mariette Reefman (NSW) viola or 1800 688 482 Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Program to be advised Leigh Harrold piano Tickets Full $60 Sen $47 Con $35 Alexander MacDonald (NZ) viola Bookings anam.com.au Peter de Jager piano or 03 9645 7911

Music Makers Volume — 29 Page 4 Event Calendar

ANAM RECITAL PRÉLUDES [BOOK 2] Taryn Fiebig soprano ANAM CHAMBER MUSIC Friday 2 November 11am Friday 16 November 11am Sebastian Manz clarinet COMPETITION – FINAL Cristina Gomez Godoy oboe Sunday 2 December 2pm FINNISSY Alkan-Paganini from DEBUSSY Syrinx Jayson Gillham piano History of Photography in Sound DEBUSSY Préludes Book 2 Damien Eckersley double bass Program to be advised STOCKHAUSEN Klavierstück XII DEBUSSY Élégie ANAM Musicians ANAM Musicians BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata no. 21 DEBUSSY Le petit nègre in C Major op. 53 Waldstein Venue Huntington Estate Wines DEBUSSY Children’s Corner Venue South Melbourne Town Hall MUDGEE Alexander Waite (VIC) piano Tickets All $10 Stephen McIntyre piano Bookings huntingtonestate.com.au/ Bookings anam.com.au ANAM Musicians music-festival or 03 9645 7911 ANAM RECITAL Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Friday 2 November 1pm SOUNDBITE Tickets All $35 GOLDEN GATE BRASS Thursday 22 November 1pm SASCHE Bass Trombone Concertino Bookings anam.com.au AT MPAVILION or 03 9645 7911 SPILLMAN Bass Trombone Concerto CLARKE The Great Train Race Wednesday 19 December 12pm GILLINGHAM Bass Trombone Sonata for solo flute ANAM RECITAL MARAIS Les folies d'Espagne Program to be advised Simon Baldwin (VIC) bass trombone Monday 19 November 3pm KARG-ELERT Sonata Appassionata Leigh Harrold piano Venue MPavilion, Queen Victoria op. 140 for solo flute Gardens St Kilda Rd Program to be advised HINDSON Odysseus & the Sirens Tickets Free event, ANAM CONCERTO TAFFANEL Fantasia on Weber's no bookings required Berta Brozgul (VIC) piano COMPETITION – Der Freischütz FINAL (HOBART) BAZZINI La Ronde des Lutins op. 25 ANAM RECITAL GOLDEN GATE BRASS Saturday 3 November 7.30pm Eliza Shephard (NSW) flute AT ST LUKE’S Tuesday 20 November 11am Alexander Waite (VIC) piano Thursday 20 December 7.30pm PROKOFIEV Sinfonia Concertante op. 125 Program to be advised Program to be advised BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto GURRUMUL'S Jeremy Garside (WA) cello no. 3 in C minor op. 37 DJARIMIRRI LIVE Venue 210 Dorcas St, Aidan Boase piano CHOPIN Piano Concerto no. 1 (QUEENSCLIFF) South Melbourne in E minor Sunday 25 November Tickets Full $20 Sen/Con $10 ANAM RECITAL Bookings trybooking.com/YDTI Caleb Wong (NSW) cello Tuesday 20 November 1pm GURRUMUL Djarimirri Sine Winther (QLD) piano Fletcher Cox (WA) trumpet Berta Brozgul (VIC) piano Program to be advised Erkki Veltheim conductor Michael Olsen (WA) trumpet Nicholas Cleobury conductor ANAM Musicians Aidan Gabriels (horn 2017) Christopher Lawrence host Caleb Murray (NSW) cello Jackson Bankovic (NSW) trombone Venue Queenscliff Music Festival Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Peter de Jager piano Jason Catchpowle (tuba 2017) Festival tickets from $45 Venue Federation Concert Hall HOBART Bookings qmf.net.au Tickets Free entry, bookings required ANAM RECITAL Tuesday 20 November 3pm Bookings Email [email protected] SOUNDBITE to secure your tickets ANAM RECITALS Program to be advised Wednesday 28 November 1pm AND SOUNDBITES

Georgia Ostenfeld (NSW) cello BEETHOVEN Piano Trio CELEBRATING All ANAM Recitals and Soundbites Louisa Breen piano in D major op. 70, no. 1 Ghost BRETT DEAN are held at the South Melbourne Friday 9 November 7.30pm SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio Town Hall. no. 2 in E minor op. 67 IMAGINARY BALLET Tickets $5 at the door MEALE Clouds Now and Then BELEURA ESTATE Laura Barton (NZ) violin (ANAMates free) B DEAN From Melodious Lay RECITAL Daniel Smith (cello 2017) (A Hamlet Diffraction) Wednesday 21 November 1.30pm Liam Wooding (NZ) piano ILLEAN Land’s End LENTZ Jerusalem (after Blake) GRAINGER The Warriors for 2 pianos, 6 hands MAHLER 9: FOR MUSIC DISCUSSION Lorina Gore soprano CHAMBER ORCHESTRA GROUP Topi Lehtipuu tenor Timothy Young piano Thursday 29 November 7.30pm Brett Dean conductor ANAM Pianists Following each 1pm ANAM Recital ANAM Orchestra MAHLER Symphony no. 9 and Soundbite you are welcome to Venue Beleura House & Garden for chamber orchestra join our Music Discussion Group at Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, MORNINGTON The Blue Room café located at 332 Melbourne Recital Centre Tickets Full $45 Con $40 Matthew Coorey conductor Clarendon Street, South Melbourne. Tickets Full $50 Sen/Con $40 Bookings beleura.org.au Virginia Taylor flute Buy a coffee and relax with like- Bookings anam.com.au or 03 5975 2027 Nick Deutsch oboe minded ANAM supporters and share or 03 9645 7911 your thoughts on the performance. Recital followed by afternoon tea Phil Arkinstall clarinet Lyndon Watts bassoon MOSTLY MOZART 5: Andrew Bain horn SYMPHONIC MOZART HUNTINGTON ESTATE Saul Lewis horn Tuesday 13 November 11am MUSIC FESTIVAL Shane Hooton trumpet All details are correct at time 21–24 November Timothy Young piano of printing and subject to change. MOZART Masonic Funeral Music K477 John Arcaro percussion Please visit anam.com.au for the Various programs including: B DEAN Between the spaces in the sky James Crabb accordion most up to date information. ELGAR Serenade in E minor MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for string orchestra op. 20 Sophie Rowell violin in E-flat major K364 GRIEG Holberg Suite op. 40 Robin Wilson violin Kyla Matsuura-Miller (QLD) violin ROSSINI Sonata no. 3 in C major Caroline Henbest viola Brett Dean viola/director for string orchestra Howard Penny cello ANAM Musicians VINE Our sons Phoebe Russell double bass FINZI Eclogue for piano Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, & strings op. 10 Melbourne Recital Centre Tickets Full $60 Sen $47 Con $35 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto Tickets Full $49 Con $42 Bookings anam.com.au TANSMAN Concertino for oboe, or 03 9645 7911 Bookings melbournerecital.com.au clarinet & strings or 03 9699 3333

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Page 5 ANAM Golden Gate Brass / ANAM Endowment Fund Golden Gate Brass reunites

Interview with Thursday 20 December at 7.30pm Golden Gate Brass first formed at Michael Olsen (WA) trumpet at St Luke’s Anglican Church in ANAM in early 2017. Four members are South Melbourne. “It’s very exciting from Perth and had been performing to have a work written especially together for years in various groups. After being spread across the for the group. We get to workshop “We all ended up together at ANAM and premiere a new work and it’s where we decided we wanted to form country for most of the year, the five GOLDEN GATE BRASS members of Golden Gate Brass great to add a piece to the brass a quintet,” Michael said. Since then AT MPAVILION reunite in December for two unique quintet repertoire” Michael says. they’ve travelled to regional NSW with performances in Melbourne. “We’re Four Winds Festival, performed at a really excited to be in the same city The day before the premiere, range of venues from concert halls Wednesday 19 December 12pm performing together,” trumpeter on Wednesday 19 December at 12pm, to art galleries (and pubs!) and even Full program to be advised Michael Olsen says, “juggling everyone’s Golden Gate Brass will perform at the played a rendition of Queen’s Bohemian schedules makes finding free weeks for new MPavilion in the Queen Victoria Rhapsody with added percussion and Venue MPavilion, Queen Victoria programming concerts quite tricky.” Gardens in Melbourne’s Southbank Freddie Mercury inspired costumes. Gardens, St Kilda Rd Arts Precinct. MPavilion is a unique They’ve recently toured to Perth as Tickets Free event, Michael is currently training at annual architecture commission Ensemble in Residence at the University no bookings required ANAM alongside the group’s trombonist and design event for Melbourne of Western Australia, performing their Jackson Bankovic; Jason Catchpowle and this year’s design by Carme own concert, alongside workshops on tuba is studying at The University Pinós makes the perfect setting for and performances with the students. GOLDEN GATE BRASS of Melbourne; Aidan Gabriels on horn a free lunchtime brass concert. AT ST LUKE’S is part of this year’s Sydney Symphony The quintet initially had difficulty Orchestra Fellowship program and “The Quintet will also be deciding on a name, “it became a Thursday 20 December 7.30pm Fletcher Cox is on contract with the performing a powerful work by the matter of picking the least terrible West Australian Symphony Orchestra Canadian Brass trumpeter Caleb name,” Michael laughs. “We joked Full program to be advised as Associate Principal Trumpet. Hudson, about the White Rose Nazi- that it was because we were playing Resistance movement, and a work a piece by the Chief Conductor of the Venue 210 Dorcas St, Earlier this year, Golden Gate by Anders Hillborg, one of Sweden’s San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, South Melbourne Brass received the Lorne and Ann Cole leading composers,” Michael continues. Michael Tilson Thomas. The piece Tickets Full $20 Sen/Con $10 Award, administered by the Ursula Hoff “The rest of the program displays could have links to the Golden Gate Bookings trybooking.com/YDTI Institute (via ANAM), that enabled the wide range of styles and exciting Bridge and we had this particular them to specially commission a work sounds that a brass quintet is capable ‘meeting’ at our favourite and similarly Fletcher Cox (trumpet 2018) by Australian composer Alex Turley. of making, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!” named pub in South Melbourne. Michael Olsen (WA) trumpet This piece will be premiered on We never came up with anything Aidan Gabriels (horn 2017) better and it just stuck after that.” Jackson Bankovic (NSW) trombone Jason Catchpowle (tuba 2017)

goldengatebrass.com.au /goldengatebrassau @goldengatebrass 1000 reasons to say thank you

Words by I have now had the privilege of chairing returnees who prioritise time in their after performance have truly Ian McRae ao ANAM’s board for almost 10 years. diaries to share their skills and perform become part of the ANAM family. ANAM Chairman Over those 10 years, with the steady as colleagues with our young musicians. hand of General Manager Nick Bailey Thanks to this growing support, at the helm, and with the inspirational At the time I joined the Board, we’re now in a position to plan for the artistic leadership of Brett Dean, ANAM had just nearly lost its future. An increasing number of people Paul Dean, and now Nick Deutsch, government funding, and in the have chosen to make a gift in their a large number of highly talented process had discovered how many Will to support our future musicians. young people have developed their Australians valued the existence of The ANAM Endowment Fund has been skills, nurtured and challenged by an organisation dedicated to training created to steward and preserve these outstanding faculty and a succession musicians at the highest possible level. legacies, and has just received its first of extraordinary guest artists. Many thousands of people made their contribution from a living donor. voices heard at this time, and since The program has been assessed, then, many of you have shown your A consistent piece of feedback tested, and honed each year. support in practical ways by attending from the international guests who work Collaborative relationships have ANAM performances, or by joining with us is “there really is nowhere else developed with a large and diverse our growing community of donors. like ANAM”. My thanks go to all the group of organisations, including musicians, faculty, guests, staff, board orchestras, festivals, opera and dance In fact over 1000 people have members, volunteers, audiences, donors companies, as well as other training supported ANAM with donations and supporters who have made this so. institutions. Highlights have included over this time, and we thank each a national tour with Paul Kelly, and every one of you. We can’t name a collaboration with cabaret artist every person who has attended a Meow Meow, and the construction performance, but we can extend our If you would like to know more of the ANAM Quartetthaus, a uniquely thanks to you. It is impossible to train about the ANAM Endowment Fund, intimate space in which to experience performers without the feedback and please contact Sue Sweetland: chamber music. Artistic friends such as response of an audience, and those [email protected] Simone Young, , and discerning and committed listeners or 03 9645 7911 Anthony Marwood have become regular who have returned for performance

Music Makers Volume — 29 Page 6 Season Concert Mahler’s last completed work

Words by ANAM Faculty and Phil Lambert ANAM Librarian

Mahler’s 9th Symphony, the composer’s last Conservatorium, Griffith University's orchestral completed work, has acquired an almost program. All-in-all, this will be three weeks religious significance. Common opinion has it of Mahler, which doesn't happen often.” MAHLER 9: FOR CHAMBER that this is a symphony about death – facing it, Virginia Taylor ANAM Flute Faculty ORCHESTRA fighting it and finally accepting it – and there Thursday 29 November 7.30pm is much to support this interpretation in the “Mahler 9 is my favourite Mahler Symphony. music itself and the circumstances of its I love how he reverses the traditional structure MAHLER Symphony no. 9 composition. Mahler commenced it in 1907 of his earlier symphonies and places the slower, for chamber orchestra after receiving two psychic blows, the first more emotionally expressive movements at the Matthew Coorey conductor being the death of his five-year-old daughter outer ends of the symphony. He also reverts Virginia Taylor flute Maria Anna, the second being the diagnosis to a more conservatively sized orchestra which of the heart condition, which would ultimately gives the music more intimacy. Of course, brass, Nick Deutsch oboe claim him. Case closed, it would seem. and horns especially, feature with regularity in Phil Arkinstall clarinet all of his symphonies and it is exciting to have Lyndon Watts bassoon And yet, just as life makes no sense without a composer push the limits of this group of Andrew Bain horn death, death makes no sense without life, instruments technically as he so often does. Saul Lewis horn and Mahler’s 9th Symphony is teeming with In Mahler 9, more than any of the others, Shane Hooton trumpet life, perhaps because he now knew that his he pushes the horns to express emotionally Timothy Young piano own would be prematurely cut short. It is a in these outer movements which makes it John Arcaro percussion symphony whose musical ideas proliferate extremely satisfying to explore as a musician. James Crabb accordion and expand like microbes. To hear them Mahler’s superstition of the curse of the Sophie Rowell violin evolve, mutate and breed yet more ideas is 9th symphony meaning the end of the creators' like observing the miracle of creation itself. life (as in Beethoven, Bruckner, Schubert) Robin Wilson violin It is a miracle that no music lover should caused him to interject Das Lied von der Erde Caroline Henbest viola deny themselves the pleasure of hearing, after the completion of his 8th Symphony. Howard Penny cello and then returning to periodically. Mahler’s This may have given him false hope that he Phoebe Russell double bass 9th tends to become a lifetime friend, as had cheated the curse and explain the serenity musicians know from personal experience. he seems to find in the last movement. Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Alas for us all he was wrong and he died Tickets Full $60 Sen $47 Con $35 “Perhaps this is really Mahler's 10th during the writing of his 10th symphony.” Bookings anam.com.au or 03 9645 7911 symphonic work, since he gave no number Saul Lewis ANAM Head of Brass, This performance is generously supported to his earlier symphonic song cycle Das Lied Horn Faculty by John and Rosemary Macleod von der Erde. Nonetheless, all of the Mahler symphonies are unique and much loved, “Mahler 9 is one of the most complex Timothy Young's ANAM Faculty position is and this one being his last completed and involved, yet most delicate pieces of music generously supported by Margaret Johnson orchestral symphony is significant. I know. I discover new hidden moments of Caroline Henbest's ANAM Faculty position is genius all the time – it is an endless treasure generously supported by Robert Peck am and “I have only ever performed this particular chest of melodic gems. That all subsides Yvonne von Hartel am, peckvonhartel architects symphony once before, and like this time, though into one of the most exquisite The position of ANAM Artistic Director it was the chamber music version. With a movements of all time, the recognition by (Nick Deutsch) is generously supported line-up of those on stage with me at ANAM, Mahler of the fragility of the mortal world. by Janet Holmes à Court ac I am so looking forward to this performance. Simply breathtaking... can you tell that For me, this event will come straight after a Mahler 9 is one of my Desert Island Discs?!” concert the week before of playing Mahler’s Sophie Rowell ANAM Violin Faculty 3rd Symphony with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and then, when I return to Brisbane ANAM presents Mahler’s 9th in the after the performance at ANAM, I will be brilliant chamber version by German tutoring my students as they prepare to conductor Klaus Simon, who preserves the perform Mahler’s 8th Symphony with conductor work’s grandeur but also maximises its Johannes Fritzsch as part of Queensland intimacy. This will be an absorbing evening.

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