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ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 CITY RECITAL HALL LIMITED 1 CONTENTS 3 STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK Concert: Man of Constant Sorrow: A tribute to the music 4 ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS of ‘O Brother Where art Thou?’ Photo: Tim da-RIn 5 CHAIR’S MESSAGE 6 CEO’S MESSAGE 7 PRESENTING PARTNERS AND HIRERS 8 APPEARING ON OUR STAGE 10 VISITOR EXPERIENCE 11 SUPPORT FOR THE SECTOR 12 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 14 CITY RECITAL HALL PRESENTS 17 KEY PRESENTERS 18 VENUE HIRERS 19 PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS 20 GIVING 21 MEMBERSHIP 22 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 23 BOARD 26 STAFF 2 STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK Concert: Man of Constant Sorrow: A tribute to the music of ‘O Brother Where art Thou?’ Photo: Tim da-RIn VISION OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES STRATEGIC GOALS To be one of the ‘must visit’ cultural AND VALUES BRAND destinations in Australia. • Progressive thinking and creative City Recital Hall is a place that offers excellence underpin everything we do. “music and more” to a wide audience MISSION We think outside the square to deliver unique and creative experiences for PLACE To unlock the cultural, social and our artists, partners and audiences. The beating cultural heart of the economic value of City Recital Hall. Sydney CBD • Democratic and diverse - Everyone We will do this by: plays an important part, every voice is QUALITY heard, everyone is respected. If it’s on at City Recital Hall, it must be • producing, promoting, presenting, We champion diversity by engaging good encouraging and facilitating excellent with all genres, all peoples, all ideas. cultural events; We are proud to be open, transparent SERVICE and inclusive. • ensuring diversity of users, audiences City Recital Hall is an excellently run arts and programs; • Playful - We love exploring ideas and company with a talented, passionate • engaging new audiences; and opportunities in a fun and creative and flexible team that goes above and cultural environment. beyond • operating and managing the venue responsibly and sustainably, and in • We must be connected locally, TRUST cooperation with stakeholders. nationally and internationally with our City Recital Hall is financially sustainable, artists, partners and audiences. and strongly supported by the City of • We act with integrity and Sydney and a loyal group of members, professionalism at all times. sponsors and donors 3 ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS TOTAL AUDIENCE FACEBOOK TOTAL REACH ATTENDANCE 3,075,405 FACEBOOK TOTAL IMPRESSIONS 175,811 5,575,541 TOTAL PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS: FACEBOOK TOTAL VIDEO VIEWS WEBSITE 360,299 TOTAL USERS 286 304,599 TOTAL RECORDINGS AND TWEET IMPRESSIONS BROADCASTS: 257,055 TOTAL IMPRESSIONS (page views) 44 INSTAGRAM REACH 1,400,460 PERFORMANCES FEATURING INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS/ 85,623 ENSEMBLES: INSTAGRAM VIDEO VIEWS 87 2,342 CRH PRESENTS CONCERTS CITY RECITAL HALL TV AND EVENTS: COMMERCIAL SCREENED 115 1,550,899 TOTAL AUDIENCE FOR CRH TIMES ON SBS ON-DEMAND CONCERTS AND EVENTS: 40,510 CITY RECITAL HALL ACTIVE MEMBERS 477 WORDS PERCENTAGE OF ARTS AND IDEAS AND CULTURAL EVENTS: SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES 92% 8% 4% OTHER 7% KIDS 5% CLASSICAL GENRE OF ARTS 48% AND CULTURAL EVENTS GRAPH CONTEMPORARY 28% 4 CHAIR’S MESSAGE City Recital Hall is gaining success in commitment and look forward to building seeking partnerships with a broad range upon these strong relationships into of co-presenters. For the first time we the future. collaborated with Kinderling Radio to present Kinderling House Party, Sydney Thanks also to our Board of Directors Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for Requiem whose leadership and experience has Mass: A Queer Divine Rite, Bluesfest helped to drive our ongoing success Touring for I’m With Her and Arlo Guthrie, over the past twelve months: Tim Cox and Vexations840 for our 12 hour new AO, David Albert, Helen Bauer, Elizabeth music festival Extended Play. Additionally, Fullerton, Kerri Glasscock, Marcus we strengthened our continuing McArdle, Carol Mills, Jennie Sager, relationships with The Other Art Fair for Maria Sykes and Louise Walsh. The Exhibition Project to bring the works I express my appreciation to Elaine of emerging visual artists to our venue. Chia and the team who continually We are recognised for our dedication to demonstrate their integrity and their increasing participation in the arts through commitment to our vision to be a innovative community programming. “must visit” cultural destination. In our fourth year managing City Recital Sydney Flash Mob Choir continues to Finally, thank you to our ever-growing Hall, and the twentieth anniversary of the be highly successful, with over 10,000 community of audiences, members, venue, our company has made significant registered participants, and over 8,345 performers, presenters, and donors progress in our contribution towards attendees at 13 sessions. Twice, Flash whose advocacy and openness has Sydney’s cultural life. Through innovative Mobbers moved beyond the walls of the encouraged us to be brave in our artistic programming, popular community events, auditorium to perform publicly, firstly in aspirations. As we celebrate our twentieth and encouraging inclusivity, we have Martin Place in November to mark the anniversary year, we look forward to delivered a strong financial result. launch of our 2019 artistic program, and celebrating our vibrant future with you. again on 21 June 2019 at Wynyard Train Bringing exceptional performances to the Station to celebrate International Make broadest possible audiences continues Music Day. Free and low cost events to be the primary focus of this curated comprise 57% of our own artistic program. venue. This year we exceeded all programming and audience expectations The ongoing support from our Principal to provide and host 286 inspiring Sponsor, the City of Sydney is vital to our concerts and events from diverse genres operational viability, and we sincerely Renata Kaldor AO of music and performance. We provided thank Lord Mayor Clover Moore and 4,585 performance opportunities the Councillors, Monica Barone, Bill encouraging artistic excellence Carter, Ann Hoban and the Creative City through engagement of locally and and Property teams. Their continued internationally renowned musicians commitment to City Recital Hall helps and groups, including 863 artistic us galvanise our position as one of development opportunities for young and Sydney’s most significant cultural assets, emerging artists. enriching the lives of so many within our community. Strong relationships with Key Presenters and regular hirers are key to our We thank our media partners SBS, Time commitment to supporting local artists Out and The Saturday Paper who have and the overall ecology of the cultural enabled us to expand our reach and sector. Commercial relationships have spread awareness about our programs to strengthened significantly, demonstrating an even broader audience. This year we the versatility and flexibility of the venue continued our relationship with Young and our team. 60% of our activities Henrys and partnered with Chalk Hill comprise Key Presenter, not-for-profit, Wines and Claymore Wines, facilitated by commercial and corporate hires, while Fisher Fine Wines, to bring an improved 40% represent our own presentations or and standardised beverage offering co-presentations. to our bars. We thank them for their 5 CEO’S MESSAGE I can’t thank you all enough for your We are deeply humbled to see our family trust in us to produce and present an of donors and sponsors grow each event of this scale. Let’s not forget the year. Know that your support resonates many composers whose works were across the board. Firstly, your generosity showcased; please keep creating new allows us to continue our trajectory of sounds for us. adventurous programming, as well as offer a myriad of opportunities through This last year, however, was also marked free and low-cost events so that more with some sadness. On 28 October 2018, people can discover City Recital Hall as a Australia lost a musical giant in Richard place where they can actively participate Gill AO. Richard touched hundreds of and be enriched by the arts. But just as thousands, if not millions of us, and in importantly, your commitment to us is a those first few days following his passing, strong endorsement of our vision and we knew that the best way to share our purpose. Thank you. sorrow but also to celebrate Richard’s gift was to call a Sydney Flash Mob Choir Working alongside a dedicated team to sing for Richard. Our heartfelt thanks means that we continue to punch well to Sam Allchurch, Michelle Leonard and above our weight, and I remain in awe Brett Waymark for leading hundreds of of their collective creativity, passion and Our first week of this year saw a voices in singing Thank You for the Music. commitment to our company’s values lunchtime concert of Bach and Brahms A week later, we put aside our grief to and the City Recital Hall vision. Thanks to performed by Kathryn Selby AM with join with the Australian Romantic and each and every staff member, permanent, Timo-Veikko Valve, followed by an open Classical Orchestra, Sydney Chamber seasonal and casual for your contribution. singing lesson conducted by The Idea Choir and many other musicians in of North at our Open House series. Celebrating Richard Gill, a performance My thanks to the Board for their The day concluded with an evening of which Richard himself had been involved continued governance and leadership music from Mataya Young spanning Joni in shaping. As Richard would have said, across the many areas of our activities. In Mitchell and Chaka Khan to her own the show must go on, and indeed it did, particular, I would like to acknowledge songs. A few days later, the venue was to a full house and thousands more who and thank Renata Kaldor AO. Thank you filled with hundreds of toddlers and pre- watched the live stream from as far away for always being available as a sounding schoolers, parents and grandparents as France and Germany.