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Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Melbourne Perth Sydney Australian String Quartet National Season 2017 2 – 15 August Homeward No 2 2 – 15 August Australian String Quartet National Season 2017 Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Melbourne Perth Sydney Welcome The notion of ‘home’ holds deep meaning for us. Homecoming and going, travel, journey and immigration are words that give us a sense of belonging or alienation, hope or distress, curiosity or Benjamin Britten had been living in longing. In this program, we follow North America for four years when two composers’ works written at he wrote his first String Quartet in times of transition from their usual D major. The composer had recently ‘home’ life, and a third composer’s written of his homesickness for imagined depiction of a very England despite his success abroad different type of homecoming. and this experimental work that followed is full of stark contrasts that conjure feelings of both longing and excitement. Elder Conservatorium of Music Australian Paul Stanhope’s award- winning String Quartet no 2 explores the plight of displaced Europeans as a result of World War II. He takes the Delivering over 130 years listener on a powerful journey from one world to another. of music excellence Exuding excitement from its buzzing opening right through to its extrovert and sunny last movement, Antonín The Elder Conservatorium of Music is Staff and students of the Conservatorium are Dvořák’s String Quartet in G major Australia’s oldest and most distinguished committed to the artistic, educational and is a work brimming with the sounds tertiary music school. For more than a century, community experience of music, and they share of the composer’s native Bohemia staff at the Conservatorium have educated their passion and expression with the public following his return home from and inspired generations of performers, through regular performances and concerts. several years abroad. 2427-11 composers, teachers and leaders in the arts. Visit our website to learn more about the Home to the Australian String Quartet - our program of events, and comprehensive range We look forward to performing these quartet in residence, the Conservatorium hosts of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees wonderful works across Australia a vibrant community of talented musicians available in a wide variety of specialisations. ahead of the exciting launch of our and provides a supportive environment that 2018 season. encourages creativity, independence and music.adelaide.edu.au Dale, Francesca, Stephen & Sharon excellence in music. proud sponsors of the australian string quartet Program Britten String Quartet no 1 in D major op 25 Paul Stanhope String Quartet no 2 Dates INTERVAL Perth Dvořák Wednesday 2 August 7pm String Quartet no 13 Government House Ballroom in G major op 106 Canberra Sunday 6 August 2pm Gandel Hall National Gallery of Australia Ballarat Monday 7 August 7.30pm Art Gallery of Ballarat Melbourne Tuesday 8 August 7pm Melbourne Recital Centre Brisbane Saturday 12 August 7pm Conservatorium Theatre Sydney Monday 14 August 7pm City Recital Hall Adelaide Tuesday 15 August 7pm Adelaide Town Hall voyagerestate.com.au Don’t miss our next National Season tour Beginnings 14 – 27 Nov 2017 The ASQ program for 2017 is one of the most exciting in its history, Australian and includes: the inaugural morning series at UKARIA Cultural Centre; a year-long association with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; the world premiere of a new cello quintet by Australian composer, Gordon Kerry; the launch of an String QuartetFor over 30 years, the Australian ASQ digital platform; and recording String Quartet (ASQ) has created collaborations with Slava Grigoryan unforgettable chamber music and the Tasmanian Symphony experiences for national and Orchestra. international audiences. Dedicated Among other highlights, to musical excellence with an 2017 welcomes performance Australian “accent”, the Quartet collaborations with renowned shares this excellence with audiences Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey in intimate performances that create and Australian pianist Caroline deep connections with its music. Almonte for our flagship regional From its home base at the University festivals in the Southern Grampians, of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Victoria and Western Australia’s Music, the ASQ reaches out across Margaret River; international Australia and the world to engage engagements in North America people with an outstanding program with the Vancouver Symphony of performances, workshops, Orchestra and the University of commissions and education Maryland; a tour of Italy and the projects. In recent years the ASQ United Kingdom; the continuation of has appeared at international music our new Close Quarters series which festivals and toured extensively will be delivered in tandem with throughout the United Kingdom, our National Season and extensive Europe, New Zealand and Asia. regional touring programs. The Quartet members are Dale Dale Barltrop plays a 1784 Barltrop (violin), Francesca Hiew Guadagnini Violin, Turin. (violin), Stephen King (viola) and Francesca Hiew plays a 1748–49 Sharon Grigoryan (cello). The Guadagnini Violin, Piacenza. distinct sound of the Quartet is enhanced and unified by its matched Stephen King plays a 1783 set of 18th century Guadagnini Guadagnini Viola, Turin. instruments, handcrafted by Sharon Grigoryan plays a c.1743 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini Guadagnini Violoncello, between c.1743 and 1784 in Turin L–R: Dale Barltrop, Stephen King, Sharon Grigoryan, Francesca Hiew Piacenza, ‘Ngeringa’. and Piacenza, Italy. They are on loan to the ASQ for their exclusive use through the generosity of Ulrike Klein and UKARIA. Guadagnini Quartet Benjamin Project Britten The quartet is in D major, a key The members of the associated with happiness in Britten’s Australian String Quartet are (1913-1976) work, and begins with one of his privileged to have access to String Quartet no 1 in D major op 25 (1941) most inspired gestures, a consonant a matched set of Guadagnini Andante sostenuto – allegro vivo ‘cluster’ chord of D-E-F sharp in the instruments. Hand crafted by Allegretto con slancio high register of the violins and viola. Giovanni Battista Guadagnini Andante calmo This launches a slow introduction, between c.1743-1784 in Molto vivace but, as Beethoven does in works Turin and Piacenza, Italy, like the Sonate pathètique, Britten these exquisite instruments returns to this material as points of were brought together repose in the unfolding argument through the vision of Ulrike The Board of UKARIA The second violin crafted of the main allegro music that Klein, founder of UKARIA, recognizes and thanks the in 1748/49 is the last In his teens and student years Britten dominates the music; this alternation formerly known as following patrons who have instrument UKARIA must had already composed six highly of andante and allegro material Ngeringa Arts. each made a significant acquire to complete the set. creditable works in the medium, but masks the movement’s traditional In order to secure the contribution to this project History making endeavours his ‘official’ first string quartet dates sonata design. The scherzo follows, from 1941, when he was living in the instruments for future Klein Family Foundation like this are born from marked Allegretto con slancio passion. To succeed, UKARIA United States. It was commissioned generations, UKARIA has Allan J Myers AC (‘rushing’), and has the something launched the Guadagnini needs the involvement of by philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague of the brittle irony of Shostakovich, Maria J Myers AC Quartet Project. Its aim is to visionaries who understand Coolidge (whom we also have to whose music - notably the fateful acquire all four instruments James and Diana Ramsay the significant cultural thank for major works by Stravinsky, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Britten for future generations of Foundation value in a collection of this Barber, Ravel and Bartók), who took had admired since college days. Australian musicians and Diana McLaurin calibre. Please join UKARIA Britten up as soon as he arrived in The Andante calmo, as is often music lovers. Once complete Joan Lyons in building this extraordinary southern California. Having only remarked, prefigures the yearning, musical legacy. To donate three months before the scheduled it will be the only matched set Mrs F.T. MacLachlan OAM but calm seascape of the ‘Moonlight’ of Guadagnini instruments go to www.ukaria.com premiere Britten described it as Mr H.G. MacLachlan interlude from Peter Grimes in the world and UKARIA will ‘short notice and a bit of a sweat, (it was at this time that Britten Hartley Higgins For more hold it in perpetuity. but I’ll do it as the cash will be useful’. happened upon an article about information contact David and Pam McKee The piece was composed in the George Crabbe’s The Borough, Already through the Alison Beare Ian and Pamela Wall garden shed of a hospitable couple which became the opera’s source). generosity of the Klein Family Chief Executive Officer, of expatriate British pianists (though The Molto vivace is a precocious and other donors, UKARIA Janet and Michael Hayes UKARIA things got tense when Ethel Bartlett composer’s take on the sonata- has acquired the viola and in Richard Harvey P (08) 8227 1277 fell in love with Britten, and her rondo of Viennese classicism. 2015 it acquired the violin Jill Russell E [email protected] husband, Rae Robertson, offered her As composer David Matthews has crafted in 1784 through Lyndsey and Peter Hawkins to him as a ‘gift’). It was performed in the generosity of put it, by 1941 Britten
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