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Shostakovich Symphony No.4 JAMES EHNES PLAYS KHACHATURIAN

Shostakovich Symphony No.4 JAMES EHNES PLAYS KHACHATURIAN

Shostakovich No.4 PLAYS KHACHATURIAN

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Shostakovich Symphony No.4 James Ehnes plays Khachaturian

Mark Wigglesworth conductor James Ehnes violin

ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903–1978) Saturday’s concert will be broadcast in live on ABC Classic, and repeated on 14 December at 8pm. Allegro con fermezza Andante sostenuto Pre-concert talk by Scott Davie in the Allegro vivace Northern Foyer at 7.15pm.

INTERVAL Estimated durations 35 minutes; 20 minute interval; 60 minutes. (1906–1975) The concert will conclude at Symphony No.4 in approximately 10pm. Allegro poco moderato – Presto – [Tempo I] n n n n n n n n Moderato con moto Cover image: James Ehnes Largo – Allegro (Photo by Benjamin Ealovega) THE ARTISTS © SIM CANETTY-CLARKE

Mark Wigglesworth conductor

Mark Wigglesworth is Principal Guest Conductor of Destiny, Magic Flute, and Jenůfa. In 2017 he received the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Other titled the Oliver Award for Outstanding Achievement in positions have included Associate Conductor of the Opera for performances of Don Giovanni and Lulu BBC Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the with ENO at the London Coliseum. Mark Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Principal Wigglesworth’s most recent engagements have Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, included concerts with the National Youth Orchestra and Music Director of English National Opera (ENO). of Great Britain, the Malaysian Philharmonic, BBC Mark Wigglesworth has conducted many of the National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic world’s leading , such as the Berlin Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, New World Symphony Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Miami, and the Norwegian Opera in Billy Budd. Amsterdam, London Symphony Orchestra, London Mark Wigglesworth’s recordings include the Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, New York Khatchaturian Violin Concerto with James Ehnes, Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago and Shostakovich with the BBC Symphony, , Cleveland National Orchestra of Wales and the Orchestra, and Tokyo Symphony. He most recently Radio Philharmonic, Mahler’s Sixth and Tenth conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2017. symphonies with the Melbourne Symphony, a disc of He has conducted at major opera houses such as English music with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Bavarian State Britten’s Peter Grimes with Glyndebourne, and Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Netherlands Opera, Brahms piano with Stephen Hough and La Monnaie (Brussels), Welsh National Opera, the Salzburg Mozarteum. He has also written for The Glyndebourne, and . At ENO he has Guardian and The Independent and made a six-part conducted Lady of Mtsensk, Così fan tutte, TV series, entitled Everything to Play For. Falstaff, Kátya Kabanová, Parsifal, The Force of

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James Ehnes violin

James Ehnes has appeared with leading orchestras On disc James Ehnes’ repertoire ranges from such as the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Adams to Bach. His recording of Aaron Jay Kernis Orchestra, , London Violin Concerto won Best Classical Instrumental Symphony, , Deutsches Solo in the 2019 Grammy Awards. Having premiered Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the NHK the work in Toronto, he is the concerto’s exclusive Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo. Conductors with soloist until 2021. His recording of Beethoven’s whom he has appeared include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool , Sir Andrew Davis, Paavo Järvi, Philharmonic and Andrew Manze was recently listed , David Robertson and Donald by Gramophone magazine among the greatest 50 Runnicles. Recent performances have included Beethoven recordings. Britten’s Violin Concerto with Edward Gardner and a James Ehnes began violin studies at the age of combined orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music four, and at nine became a protégé of Francis and the Juilliard School at the BBC Proms, Sibelius Chaplin. At the Juilliard School (1993-97), he won Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Orchestra and Edward Gardner at the Lincoln Achievement and Leadership. He made his Center, New York, and Walton’s Violin Concerto and orchestral solo debut with the Orchestre by Bach and Ysayë in a concert with the symphonique de Montréal at 13. He plays the BBC Philharmonic and John Wilson. He is Artist in ‘Marsick’ Stradivarius of 1715. Residence at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in the 2019-20 season. James Ehnes is also Artistic Director of the Seattle Society. As a recitalist, he has performed at , Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and at the Ravinia, Montreux, and St. Petersburg’s White Nights Festival, among others. In 2009 he made a sensational debut at the Salzburg Festival playing Paganini’s Caprices. In 2016, he undertook a cross- recital tour, performing in each of his homeland’s provinces and territories, to celebrate his 40th birthday. Recent appearances have included a cycle of Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Andrew Armstrong at the Chamber Festival.

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www.abercrombiekent.com.au Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) Violin Concerto in D minor Allegro con fermezza Andante sostenuto Allegro vivace Briefly independent after World War I, the Caucasian nations of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia were ‘sovietised’ in the early 1920s. Bolshevik governments were formed, with the suppressing any resistance, and the three countries were for a time ruled from the Georgian capital, . Promising young people were given higher Aram Khachaturian education in Moscow, but Lenin’s policy of ‘putting down roots’ also saw the encouragement of local party membership, and the support for local languages for education and official use. This was implemented by a young Georgian ex-seminarian, Ioseb Jughashvili who, as , completely reversed the policy when he took power soon afterwards. Born in Tbilisi to Armenian parents in 1903, Aram Khachaturian was IN BRIEF in his late teens when this ‘sovietisation’ happened, and went to As one of the first generation Moscow to study in 1922 – his first subject was biology, but he soon of non-Russian composers switched to music, studying cello at the Gnesin Institute and educated in the Soviet system, composition at , and writing music for an Khachaturian brought together Armenian-language theatre directed by his brother. By 1932 the officially-approved classicism Khachaturian was a member of the Composers’ Union, in which he of Socialist Realism and the rose to become an office-holder. Like almost every Soviet composer musical heritage of his native he was obliged to produce noisy patriotic works and film scores, and Georgia and Armenia. was subject to the inevitable official denunciation, alongside A conventional three-movement Shostakovich and Prokofiev, in 1948. work, the Concerto is full of The 1930s and early 1940s saw much of his most significant Caucasian melody and - music, with pieces such as the Trio for clarinet, violin and piano of rhythm. Composed for David 1932 attracting international notice for its blend of ‘Caucasian’ folk Oistrakh, it dates from 1940, music and Western form. The Violin Concerto, which received its and soon became a popular and premiere at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall in 1940 in front of a who’s who comforting work – especially of Soviet music, was composed for, and with much advice from, the its simple but haunting slow legendary , who later described the piece as ‘sincere, movement – during World War II. original, witty, full of melodic beauty and national colouring’. As such, it, like the Trio, reflects a kind of artistic ‘sovietisation’: as Socialist Realist music it adheres to classical design and its musical language is grounded in diatonic harmony in order to appeal to that vast new audience for ‘classical’ music in Soviet Russia, but is proudly suffused with the idioms of Khachaturian’s Armenian and Georgian musical heritage. (Even his Poem to Stalin, an ‘official’ work, uses a text from Azerbaijan.) The composer once said, ‘I recall Tbilisi as a town of songs. Everybody sang: the artisan as he worked in his little yard or in the street in front of his house, the street vendors selling Georgian sour milk, fruit and fish. Each vendor had an individual melody of his own, an expressive motif that I shall never forget’.

9 Not surprisingly, Khachaturian’s music is dominated by melody ‘I recall Tbilisi as a that features strongly-defined rhythms as is evident from the town of songs. opening of the concerto, where the violin quickly takes, and Everybody sang: maintains, the lead. The writing is supremely idiomatic (thanks, no the artisan as he doubt, to Oistrakh’s advice) reflecting both the figurations of Baroque string writing and those of energetic folk-fiddling; the , worked in his little often forceful and highly coloured, is reserved for structural yard or in the street emphasis and never obscures the soloist. And despite the headlong in front of his house’. motion of the music, it is notable how soon it slips, however briefly, into the Romantic introspection that we find in works such as the of the same period. Brilliance wins out, however, helped along by the largely written by Oistrakh himself. Introspection is, of course, the focus of the slow movement, which begins with a simple triple-metre rhythm and songlike theme, and as it develops explores moments of deep sorrow. Daniel Jaffé has noted that one of the movement’s themes is derived from a funeral scene in a score Khachaturian wrote for the 1938 film Zangezur, which describes the civil war in the southern Armenian province during the sovietisation of the 1920s. The grief, however, is banished by the explosive energy of the finale, whose brash orchestra tutti sets up the tension between two rhythmic motifs (briefly interrupted by a folky

clarinet) that powers the music. The piece was popular from the start, WWW.KHACHATURIAN.AM and became more so as the entered World War II. As Oistrakh put it, it helped people to ‘endure distress with its vivid character, vital energy […] strengthening belief in the future and the Khachaturian with violinist final victory.’ David Oistrakh

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Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto calls for solo violin and an orchestra of 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and , pairs of clarinets and bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 , , timpani, 3 percussion, harp and strings. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra first performed Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto in May 1958 under Edouard van Remoortel with , soloist. Its most recent performance was in 7 July 1982 under with Erich Gruenberg, soloist.

10 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Symphony No.4 in C minor, Op.43 Allegro poco moderato – Presto – [Tempo I] Moderato con moto Largo – Allegro Shostakovich’s First Symphony was an astonishing enough achievement; the synthesis of modernist techniques and Mahlerian scope embodied in the Fourth Symphony could well have given Shostakovich pride of place among pioneers of the 20th-century symphony. Of course, it was not to be. Towards the end of his work on Dmitri Shostakovich the symphony in 1936, Shostakovich was the target of a now infamous editorial denunciation in . The symphony was withdrawn from rehearsal (perhaps by Shostakovich himself, perhaps by the Leningrad Philharmonic’s director), and would not receive its first performance until 1961, a quarter of a century later. By this time, things had moved on; a new wave of post-Second World War modernists was in the ascendancy, and the possibility of making an avant-garde statement with a symphony (slim enough in 1936) was effectively non-existent. Shostakovich’s own work had also moved on. The Fifth Symphony, written in a far more accessible style, had seen him rehabilitated with IN BRIEF the Soviet hierarchy – it was acclaimed as ‘a Soviet artist’s creative Stalin’s purges of the mid-1930s reply to just criticism’, and quickly found a place in the repertoire which eliminated thousands of the best it has not relinquished since. Would Shostakovich have found such a minds in Soviet politics, science place in the symphonic repertoire had he not been effectively ordered and the arts, and the close to tone down his style? Certainly the Fourth Symphony has achieved personal interest he took in music, no great popularity in the four decades since its premiere – but what in particular, meant the end of would have happened had Shostakovich had the chance to decide his anything vaguely experimental. creative path for himself? Such entirely reasonable speculation leads Shostakovich’s brash and violent to a more uncomfortable question. Did Stalin, thought to have written opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk the Pravda editorial, have after all a better idea than the composer of ran for two years – until Stalin saw what an audience (Soviet or Western; between the wars, or Cold War, or it and an ‘anonymous’ review in even post-Soviet) might want? Given the popularity of the Fifth Pravda effectively threatened the Symphony as opposed to the Fourth, our only possible answer, however composer. The Fourth Symphony, uncomfortable, is yes. composed in 1936, was The Fourth is Shostakovich’s second purely orchestral symphony. judiciously shelved, its sometimes (The Second and Third both have choral finales.) In the distinguished grotesque parodies of the grand history of symphonic beginnings, there is nothing quite as arresting as style, and sudden bleakness sure the opening of this work: an ambitious transposition of Mahlerian to have brought down ‘grandiosomania’ (as Shostakovich would later disparage it) from denunciation, or worse, on the bourgeois fin-de-siècle Vienna to revolutionary Leningrad. The music composer. frequently seems to cross-cut from music for the revolution’s hopes to music for its ultimate betrayal. Frequent changes of mood and orchestration – from the fff of the large orchestra to a solo instrument within a few bars – mask the fact that the symphony is at a thematic level quite closely argued. Often when a theme returns it is in a completely different orchestral guise – a quiet bassoon solo returns in

11 the lowest register of the to stabbing interjections from the rest There is nothing quite of the orchestra; the opening march theme returns on a barrel-organ as arresting as the combination of clarinets and flutes. opening of this work: The second movement achieves more overt coherence: the opening an ambitious three-note upbeat (derived from a short throwaway figure in the first movement) holds things together through some audacious transposition of experiments in polytonal and atonal . The movement ends Mahlerian with one of Shostakovich’s most bizarre inspirations – a disembodied ‘grandiosomania’ from ticking in the percussion, which was to recur, at the other end of his bourgeois fin-de-siècle career, in his own Second Cello Concerto and Fifteenth Symphony. Vienna to revolutionary The third movement again begins in typically Mahlerian fashion – Leningrad. a bassoon solo supported by timpani, in a reminiscence of the mock from Mahler’s First Symphony. Again there is a bare minimum of recurring thematic material, as if to compensate for the symphony’s chaotic procession of musical types and textures – in particular, an early oboe solo (particularly its first three notes) will resonate through to the symphony’s end. About halfway through the movement, there is a most disconcerting change of tone, from exaggerated solemnity to utter bathos – a collection of outright clichés (including some singularly pointless fanfares) is set off by a jaunty bassoon solo. These clichés are dismissed by one last Mahlerian climax; the work ends in numbed near-silence.

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Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony calls for a large orchestra of 6 flutes (2 doubling piccolo), 4 oboes (1 doubling cor anglais), 6 clarinets (1 doubling , 1 doubling E-flat clarinet), 4 bassoons (1 doubling ), 8 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tunas, 2 timpani, 7 percussion, and strings. The first Australian performance of this work was given by the Sydney Symphony on 12 February 1972, conducted by . The Orchestra performed it most recently in April 2002 under Alexander Lazarev.

Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Khachaturian, 1945

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Board of Directors Administration Terrey Arcus AM Chairman EXECUTIVE Marta Marcos Head of Copywriting Geoff Ainsworth AM Emma Dunch Chief Executive Officer Rosie Marks-Smith Orchestra Personnel Andrew Baxter Sarah Falzarano Director of Finance Manager Kees Boersma Richard Hemsworth Director of Operations Alastair McKean Library Manager Ewen Crouch AM Aernout Kerbert Director of Orchestra Rachel McLarin Orchestra Personnel Manager Emma Dunch CEO Management Lynn McLaughlin Head of CRM Catherine Hewgill Luke Nestorowicz Director of Marketing The Hon. Justice AJ Meagher Raff Wilson Director of Artistic Planning Mary-Ann Mead Librarian Karen Moses Lars Mehlan Head of Corporate Relations John Vallance Ross Chapman Production Manager Tom Niall Marketing Associate Geoff Wilson Mihka Chee External Affairs Manager Alex Norden Operations Manager Callum Close Philanthropy Manager Aeva O’Dea Office Administrator Council Ian Colley Customer Analyst Lauren Patten Philanthropy Officer Meg Collis Philanthropy Coordinator Rachel Pike Customer Service Representative Brian Abel Kerry-Anne Cook Associate Director Minerva Prescott Accountant Doug Battersby of Operations & Touring Andrea Reitano Digital Marketing Coordinator Christine Bishop Pim den Dekker Head of Customer Service Dr Rebecca Chin and Ticketing Genevieve Scott Stage Manager John C Conde AO Michael Dowling Customer Service Elissa Seed Production Coordinator The Hon. John Della Bosca Representative Indah Shillingford Design Lead Alan Fang Jennifer Drysdale Head of Philanthropy Andrea Shrewsbury Marketing Project Manager Hannah Fink and Andrew Shapiro Douglas Emery Marketing Manager Peter Silver Acting Director, Sydney Erin Flaherty Emma Ferrer Accounts Assistant Symphony Presents Dr Stephen Freiberg Meera Gooley Head of Digital Marketing Laura Soutter Payroll Officer Robert Joannides Victoria Grant Librarian Simon Johnson Amie Stoebner Outbound Campaign Manager Tess Herrett Marketing Associate Gary Linnane Brendon Taylor Production Coordinator Michel Maree Hryce In-House Counsel, Helen Lynch AM People & Culture Ruth Tolentino Finance Manager David Maloney AM Philip Jameson Chief of Staff Sam Torrens Artistic Planning Manager The Hon. Jane Mathews AO Patricia Laksmono External Affairs Officer Simonette Turner Orchestra Personnel Manager Danny May Stephen Wilson Senior Customer Service Manager Jane Morschel Ilmar Leetberg Artist Liaison Manager Dr Eileen Ong Alyssa Lim Publicity Manager Amy Zhou Graphic Designer Andy Plummer Deirdre Plummer Seamus Robert Quick Paul Salteri AM Sandra Salteri Juliana Schaeffer Fred Stein OAM Mary Whelan Brian White AO Rosemary White HONORARY COUNCIL MEMBERS Ita Buttrose AC OBE Donald Hazelwood AO OBE AM Wendy McCarthy AO AM Leo Schofield AM Peter Weiss AO

Concertmasters Emeritus

Donald Hazelwood AO OBE Dene Olding AM

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the music lovers who support us. Your generous philanthropy is instrumental to our continued artistic excellence and helps to sustain our important education and regional touring programs. In addition to those listed below, we also acknowledge those supporters who wish to remain anonymous.

VISIONARIES Geoffrey Robertson ao Mora Maxwell Kevin Troy Graeme Roberston Robert McDougall Judge Robyn Tupman Brian Abel Tim Robertson Judith A McKernan Ken Unsworth Geoff Ainsworth am & James Stening Jackie O’Brien Dr Alla Waldman Johanna Featherstone Judy & Sam Weiss Sandra Plowman The Hon. Justice A G Whealy Anne Arcus & Terrey Arcus am Caroline Wilkinson oam Mark & Lindsay Robinson Lindsay & Margaret Woolveridge The Berg Family Foundation June & Alan Woods Family Dr Agnes E Sinclair Josette Wunder Dr Rachael Kohn ao & Bequest Dougall Squair Mr Tom Breen $1,000+ Howard Tanner am & Mary Tanner Robert & Janet Constable $10,000+ Colin & Richard Adams David FC Thomas & Crown Resorts Foundation Ainsworth Foundation Lenore Adamson Katerina Thomas Sir Frank Lowy ac & Rob Baulderstone & Mary Whelan John Aitken Women’s Health & Research Lady Shirley Lowy oam Audrey Blunden Rae & David Allen Institute of Australia Ruth & Bob Magid oam Daniel & Drina Brezniak Henri W Aram oam Robert Veel Roslyn Packer ac Richard Cobden sc In memory of Toby Avent Robert & Rosemary Walsh (President, Maestro’s Circle) Janet Cooke John Augustus & Kim Ryrie Yim Family Foundation Packer Family Foundation Ewen Crouch am & Lyn Baker Dr John Yu ac Thyne Reid Foundation Catherine Crouch Malcolm & Joanna Barlow Peter Weiss ao (President Ian Dickson & Reg Holloway $2,500+ Dr Richard & Mrs Margaret Bell Emeritus, Maestro’s Circle) & The Greatorex Fund David Barnes G & L Besson Doris Weiss Carolyn Githens In memory of Lance Bennett Mark Bethwaite am Nora Goodridge oam In memory of Rosemary Boyle, Minnie Biggs MAESTRO’S CIRCLE James Graham am & Music Teacher Allan & Julie Bligh Robert Albert ao & Helen Graham In memory of R W Burley Judith Bloxham Elizabeth Albert Ross Grant Cheung Family Andre Boerema Christine Bishop The Hilmer Family Endowment Jill E Choulkes Irene & Robert Bonella John C Conde ao Jim & Kim Jobson Dr Paul Collett Dr Barbara Booth & Dr Gary Holmes & Roland Lee Andrew & Barbara Dowe Dr Margaret Booth Dr Anne Reeckmann Dr Janet Merewether Sarah & Tony Falzarano Jan Bowen am Ingrid Kaiser Dr Dominic Pak & Cecilia Tsai Ian Fenwicke & the late Prof Ros Bracher am I Kallinikos Mr & Mrs Nigel Price Neville Wills Peter Braithwaite & Gary Linnane Anthony & Sylvia Rosenblum Michael & Rochelle Goot Mrs H Breekveldt Sharon Lee Foundation The Ross Trust Anthony Gregg Ita Buttrose ac obe Warren & Marianne Lesnie Rod Sims & Alison Pert Sherry & Tom Gregory Hugh & Hilary Cairns Michel-Henri Carriol The Hon Jane Mathews ao Tony Strachan Jill Hickson am M D Chapman am & Catriona Morgan-Hunn Russell Tagg & Pat Woolley Roger Hudson & J M Chapman Rachel & Geoffrey O’Conor Kim Williams am & Claudia Rossi-Hudson Norman & Suellen Chapman Vicki Olsson Catherine Dovey David Jeremy Dr Diana Choquette Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Andrew Kaldor am & David Churches & Helen Rose David Robertson & Orli Shaham SUPPORTERS PROGRAM Renata Kaldor ao Donald Clark Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri W G Keighley $5,000+ In memory of L & R Collins Penelope Seidler am Stephen J Bell Dr Heng Khung & Mrs Cilla Tey In memory of Mrs W Stening Joan Connery oam Dr Victor Bien & Professor Andrew Korda am & Debby Cramer & Bill Caukill Kathy White Ms Silvana d’Iapico Susan Pearson Dr Peter Craswell In memory of Dr Bill Webb & Beverley & Phil Birnbaum A/Prof Winston Liauw & Mary Anne Cronin Mrs Helen Webb Boyarsky Family Trust Ellen Liauw Trevor Cook & Julie Flynn Ray Wilson oam, in memory of Gabriel Lopata Ian & Jennifer Burton Charles P Curran ac & James Agapitos oam Hon J C Campbell qc & Peter Lowry oam & Mrs Eva Curran PATRONS PROGRAM Mrs Campbell Dr Carolyn Lowry oam John Curotta Margot Chinneck David Maloney am & Erin Flaherty Diana Daly $15,000+ Roxane Clayton Renee Markovic The Hon. Justice David Davies & Antoinette Albert B & M Coles Dr V Jean McPherson Mr Paul Presa Doug & Alison Battersby Howard & Maureen Connors Phil & Helen Meddings Greta Davis Dugald Black Donus Australia Foundation James & Elsie Moore Lisa & Miro Davis Sandra & Neil Burns Limited Janet Newman The Deveson Family Robert & L Alison Carr Paul R Espie ao Timothy & Eva Pascoe Kate Dixon Dr Rebecca Chin Richard Flanagan Andrew Patterson & Susan Doenau Bob & Julie Clampett Dr Stephen Freiberg & Steven Bardy Stuart & Alex Donaldson Emma Dunch Donald Campbell Graham Quinton Peter Doyle Edward & Diane Federman Dr Colin Goldschmidt Suzanne Rea & Graham Stewart JP & Jen Drysdale Simon Johnson Warren Green Patricia H Reid Endowment Pty Ltd Professor Jenny Edwards Dr Barry Landa Dr Jan Grose oam Dr Evelyn Royal Dr Rupert C Edwards Helen Lynch am & Helen Bauer James & Yvonne Hochroth Shah Rusiti The Hon. Justice Sylvia Emmett Susan Maple-Brown am Kimberley & Angus Holden Tony Schlosser Suellen & Ron Enestrom Russell & Mary McMurray Peter M Howard Sophie Schultz John B Fairfax ao & Libby Fairfax The Hon. Justice AJ Meagher & Ervin Katz Helen & Sam Sheffer Hannah Fink & Andrew Shapiro Mrs Fran Meagher Justice Francois Kunc & Yvonne Sontag Mr & Mrs Alexander Fischl John & Jane Morschel Ms Felicity Rourke Titia Sprague Vernon Flay & Linda Gilbert Karen Moses John Lam-Po-Tang Jo Strutt & the late John Strutt Frielich Family Foundation Kenneth R Reed am Dr Lee MacCormick Edwards Jane Thornton oam & Lynne Frolich Garry & Shiva Rich Charitable Foundation Peter Thornton Jennifer Fulton

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Dr Greg Gard & In memory of Katherine Robertson R D & L M Broadfoot Olive Lawson Dr Joanne Grimsdale Alexander & Rosemary Roche Dr Tracy Bryan Antoinette le Marchant Irene & John Garran Lesley & Andrew Rosenberg Alexandra & Axel Buchner Dr Leo Leader & Ray & Lindy Gerke Christine Rowell-Miller Darren Buczma Mrs Shirley Leader Stephen Gillies & Jo Metzke Jorie Ryan for Meredith Ryan Anne Cahill oam Cheok F Lee Clive & Jenny Goodwin Kenneth Ryan Lorraine Cairnes & Peter Moffitt Catherine Leslie Marilyn & Max Gosling Manfred & Linda Salamon Eric & Rosemary Campbell Erna Levy Andrea Govaert and Hon Justice Ronald Sackville ao & Mary Carter Liftronic Pty Ltd Wik Farwerck Mrs Pam Sackville Freda Cassen Joseph Lipski In Memory of Angelica Green In memory of H St P Scarlett C Cathels Anne Loveridge Robert Green Solange Schulz P C Chan Panee Low Geoffrey Greenwell George & Mary Shad Callum Close & James Tolhurst Lyon Family Akiko Gregory Kathleen Shaw Alison Clugston-Cornes Elaine MacDonald Harry & Althea Halliday Peter & Virginia Shaw Brian Cohen Frank Machart Kim Harding & Irene Miller Alison Shillington & Meg Isabelle Collis Melvyn Madigan V Hartstein the late David Shillington In memory of Beth Harpley Silvana Mantellato Donald Hazelwood ao obe & Dr Evan Siegel Dom Cottam & Kanako Imamura Molly McConville Helen Hazelwood Margaret Sikora lan Creighton Alastair McKean Jennifer Hershon Marlene & Spencer Simmons Robin & Wendy Cumming Margaret McKenna Sue Hewitt Maureen Smith John & Jill Curtin Ross McNair & Robin Richardson Dr Lybus Hillman Barbara & Bruce Solomon Katarina Cvitkovic I Merrick Michelle Hilton, in memory of my Judith Southam Anthoula Danilatos father, Emil Hilton Donna St Clair Geoff & Christine Davidson John Mitchell Kenneth Newton Mitchell Dorothy Hoddinott ao Fred Stein oam Christie & Don Davison Georgina Horton Catherine Stephen Mark Dempsey & Jodi Steele Alan Hauserman & Janet Nash Dr Brian Hsu & Mrs Felicity Hsu Dr Vera Stoermer Anne Dineen John R Nethercote Dr Michael & Mrs Penny Hunter Rosemary Swift Dr David Dixon Graham North In memory of Geoffrey D P Taranto & A J Cassidy Grant & Kate Dixon Kate Parsons Beth Jackson & John Griffiths M Teh Marion Dixon Dr Kevin Pedemont Margaret Johnston Mildred Teitler Lili Du Tobias Pfau Dr Owen Jones & Jonathan Teperson Camron Dyer & Richard Mason Erika & Denis Pidcock Vivienne Goldschmidt Dr Jenepher Thomas Ron Dyer oam & Dorothy Dyer Dr Michael Pidcock Fran & Dave Kallaway H M Tregarthen John A Easton & Glenda C Easton Jane Purkiss Leslie Kennedy Gillian Turner & Rob Bishop Margaret Epps The Hon. Dr Rodney Purvis am qc Anna-Lisa Klettenberg Helen Twibill John Favaloro & Mrs Marian Purvis Justin Lam Suzanne & Ross Tzannes am Dr Roger Feltham Dongming & Jiyi Ren Beatrice Lang Dr John Vallance Carole Ferguson Kim & Graham Richmond Peter Lazar am Mary Vallentine ao E Fidler Megan Rofe Robert Lee John & Akky van Ogtrop Lesley Finn Catherine H Rogers The Levins Family Foundation Mr & Mrs Waddington Barbara Fogarty Peter & Heather Roland Benjamin Li Ronald Walledge Arlene Goldman Agnes Ross Juliet Lockhart In memory of Denis Wallis Sharon Goldschmidt Kaye Russell A Lohan In memory of Don Ward Dr Leo Gothelf Peter & Edith Ryba Dr Linda Lorenza Jerry Whitcomb Carole A P Grace Justin Schaffer Michael & Hilary Lunzer Dr Peter White Richard Griffin am & Jay Griffin William Sewell Barbara Maidment Peter Williamson Peter & Yvonne Halas Daniela Shannon John & Sophia Mar A L Willmers & R Pal Christopher Harris Diane Shteinman am Anna & Danny Marcus Dr Edward J Wills Michael Harvey Ian & Jan Sloan Alexandra Martin Margaret Wilson Sandra Haslam Charles Soloman Danny May Dr Richard Wing Robert Havard Jennifer Spitzer Kevin McCann am & Evan Wong & Maura Cordial Rosemary Heal Robert Spry Deidre McCann Dr Peter W Wong James Henderson Dr Vladan Starcevic Ian & Pam McGaw In memory of Lorna Wright Roger Henning & Anton Enus Cheri Stevenson Matthew McInnes R Yabsley Lynette Hilton Ian Taylor Evelyn Meaney $500+ Prof Ken Ho & Mrs Tess Ho Pam & Ross Tegel Keith Miller Sally Hochfeld John & Livia Aboud Ludovic Theau Dr Robert Mitchell Geoff Hogbin Phillip Alexander & Daryl & Claire Thorn Henry & Ursula Mooser Andrew & Carmella Hollo Elizabeth Steel Alma Toohey Howard Morris Suzzanne & Alexander Houghton Heather & Peter Andrews Kathryn J Turner P Muller Heather & Malcom Hughes Nick & Juliet Andrews Kristina Vesk oam Judith Mulveney Philip Jameson Luke Arnull Lynette Walker Janet & Michael Neustein Dr Mary Johnsson Garry & Tricia Ash Yvonne Newhouse & Michael Jones June Walpole Lauren Atmore Henry Brender Scott and Ellie Kable Edward West John Bagnall Darrol Norman & Sandra Horton Karanikas Family Holdings Pty Ltd Robert Wheen Paul Balkus J E Norman & G V Norman In memory of Pauline Keating Dr Peter White The Hon. Chief Justice Bathurst & Professor Mike O’Connor am Kim & Megan Kemmis In memory of JB Whittle Mrs Bathurst Judith Olsen M Keogh P & B Williamson Jan Bell Mr & Mrs Ortis Dr Henry Kilham In memory of Trevor Williamson Chris Bennett In memory of Sandra Paul Jennifer King Don & Heather Wilson Susan Berger Christina Pender Susan Kitchin & John Woolford Marianna Wong Baiba Berzins Stephen Perkins Margaret Kyburz Sue Woodhead The Hon. Michael Black ac qc & Almut Piatti Sonia Lal Roberta Woolcott Mrs Margaret Black Dr John I Pitt Tania Lamble Dawn & Graham Worner Peter & Louise Black Greeba Pritchard Eugen Lamotte & Duncan George Juliana Wusun Jane Blackmore Dr Raffi Qasabian & Patrick Lane Paul Wyckaert Kees Boersma & Kirsty McCahon Dr John Wynter The Laing Family L D & H Y Stephen Booth Patrick Quinn-Graham Elaine M Langshaw Joyce Yong Libby Braybrooks Ernest & Judith Rapee Dr Allan Laughlin Helga & Michele Zwi

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Chair Patrons David Robertson Kristy Conrau Claire Herrick Timothy Nankervis The Lowy Chair of Cello Violin Cello Chief Conductor and James Graham AM & Mary & Russell McMurray Chair Dr Rebecca Chin & Family Chair Artistic Director Helen Graham Chair Catherine Hewgill Elizabeth Neville Andrew Haveron Timothy Constable Principal Cello Cello Concertmaster Percussion The Hon. Justice AJ & Ruth & Bob Magid OAM Chair Vicki Olsson Chair The Hon. Jane Mathews AO Chair Mrs Fran Meagher Chair Alexandre Oguey Joshua Batty Lerida Delbridge Kirsty Hilton Principal Cor Anglais Principal Flute Assistant Concertmaster Principal Second Violin Mackenzie’s Friend Chair Karen Moses Chair Simon Johnson Chair Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Chair Mark Robinson Kees Boersma Diana Doherty Scott Kinmont Acting Principal Timpani Principal Principal Oboe Associate Principal Trombone Sylvia Rosenblum Chair Council Chair John C Conde AO Chair Audrey Blunden Chair in memory of Rodney Tobias Breider Paul Goodchild Leah Lynn Rosenblum Principal Viola Associate Principal Trumpet Assistant Principal Cello Emma Sholl Roslyn Packer ac & Friends of The Hon. Jane Sydney Symphony Orchestra Associate Principal Flute Gretel Packer Chair Mathews AO Chair Vanguard Chair (lead support Robert & Janet Constable Chair from Taine Moufarrige and Nick Byrne Carolyn Harris Seamus R Quick) Justin Williams Trombone Flute Assistant Principal Viola Robertson Family Chair Dr Barry Landa Chair Nicole Masters Robert & L Alison Carr Chair Second Violin Umberto Clerici Jane Hazelwood Nora Goodridge oam Chair Kirsten Williams Principal Cello Viola Associate Concertmaster Garry & Shiva Rich Chair Bob & Julie Clampett Chair Emeritus in memory of Carolyn Clampett Anne-Louise Comerford I Kallinikos Chair Associate Principal Viola White Family Chair PHOTO: KEITH SAUNDERS KEITH PHOTO:

The Hon. Jane Mathews ao pictured with percussionist Timothy Constable, who says “the Orchestra is very lucky to have a dear friend like Jane! For many years she has been our champion, commissioning new music and personally supporting my chair. What a legend!” FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHAIR PATRONS PROGRAM CALL (02) 8215 4674

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Sydney Symphony Fellowship The Fellowship program receives generous support from Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri and the Estate of the late Helen MacDonnell Morgan. Fellowship Artistic Director, Roger Benedict is supported

by Warren & Marianne Lesnie. ANTHONY GEERNAERT PHOTO: fellowship patrons Robert Albert AO & Elizabeth Albert Violin Fellow Black, Morgan-Hunn & Stening Oboe Fellow Christine Bishop Percussion Fellow Sandra & Neil Burns Clarinet Fellow Carolyn Githens Double Bass Fellow Dr Gary Holmes & Dr Anne Reeckmann Horn Fellow In memory of Violin Fellow Warren & Marianne Lesnie Trumpet Fellow The Ross Trust Double Bass Fellow In memory of Joyce Sproat Viola Fellow In memory of Mrs W Stening Cello Fellow June & Alan Woods Family Bequest Bassoon Fellow

Sydney Symphony Orchestra 2019 Fellows

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Commissions 2019

Each year – both alone and in collaboration with other orchestras worldwide – the Sydney Symphony Orchestra commissions new works for the mainstage concert season. These commissions represent Australian and international composers, established and new voices, and reflect our commitment to the nurturing of orchestral music.

STEVE REICH Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Premiered February 2019 Commissioned with the support of Dr Stephen Freiberg & Donald Campbell

CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Bassoon Concerto Help spark a lifetime Premiering 28, 29, 30 November 2019 love of music and support Commissioned with the support of Geoff Stearn the Orchestra’s future.

PLEASE DONATE TODAY

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Sydney Symphony Bequest Society Sydney Symphony Orchestra Vanguard We recognise the generosity and vision of donors who help to Sydney Symphony Vanguard is an adventurous way secure a bright future for the Sydney Symphony by making to demonstrate your commitment to supporting a a bequest. The Sydney Symphony Bequest Society honours secure future for orchestral music and live performance. the legacy of Stuart Challender, the Sydney Symphony A membership program for the musically curious, Vanguard is Orchestra’s renowned Chief Conductor from 1987 until his your ticket to join the Sydney Symphony community. untimely death in 1991. In addition to those listed below, VANGUARD COLLECTIVE Tim Steele we also acknowledge those who wish to remain anonymous. Justin Di Lollo Chair Ben Sweeten Warwick K Anderson Dr John Lam-Po-Tang Taine Moufarrige Ian Taylor Henri W Aram OAM & Robin Aram Dr Barry Landa Founding Patron Lena Teo Timothy Ball Peter Lazar AM Chris Robertson & Katherine Shaw Robyn Thomas Dr Rosemary Barnard Daniel Lemesle Founding Patrons Russell Van Howe & Simon Beets Stephen J Bell Ardelle Lohan Paul Colgan Dr Danika Wright Christine Bishop Dr Linda Lorenza Oscar McMahon Jane Wurth Judith Bloxham Mary McCarter David & Halina Brett Louise Miller Shefali Pryor R Burns James & Elsie Moore VANGUARD MEMBERS David Churches & Helen Rose Barbara Murphy Howard Connors Duncan & Wendy Abernethy Greta Davis Douglas Paisley Laird Abernethy Glenys Fitzpatrick Jane Purkiss Gabrielle Aimes Dr Stephen Freiberg Kate Roberts Attila Balogh Dr Richard Spurway Vic & Katie French Andrew Baxter Jennifer Fulton Rosemary Swift Dr Victoria Beyer Brian Galway Mary Vallentine AO Geoffrey Greenwell Ray Wilson OAM Daniel Booth Pauline M Griffin AM Dawn & Graham Worner Dr Andrew Botros Christie Brewster Nikki Brown Chloe Burnett Sandra Butler Alicia Cabrera Jacqueline Chalmers Dharma Chandran Dr Rebecca Chin Tanya Costello Alex Cowie Anthony Cowie Peter Creeden Paul Deschamps Paul & Rachelle Edwards Stuart Challender, Sydney Symphony Orchestra Roslyn Farrar Chief Conductor and Artistic Director 1987–1991 Matthew Garrett & Courtney Thomason We gratefully acknowledge those who have left a Rob Gaunt bequest to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sam Giddings The Estate of the late Ross Adamson Kathryn Higgs The Estate of the late Douglas Vincent Agnew Katie Hryce The Estate of the late Dr Alison Margaret Burrell Amelia Johnson The Estate of the late Carolyn Clampett Virginia Judge The Estate of the late Jonathan Earl William Clark Aernout Kerbert The Estate of the late Martha Danos Robert Larosa The Estate of the late Roma Valeria Joy Ellis Kate Lavender The Estate of the late Paul Louis de Leuil Carl McLaughlin The Estate of the late Colin T Enderby The Estate of the late Mrs E Herrman Sabrina Meier The Estate of the late Irwin Imhof Adrian Miller The Estate of the late Isabelle Joseph Jemma Morris The Estate of the late Dr Lynn Joseph Alex Nicholas The Estate of the late Matthew Krel Timothy Nicholl & James Camilleri The Estate of the late Helen MacDonnell Morgan Joel Pinkham The Estate of the late Greta C Ryan Seamus Robert Quick The Estate of the late Foster Smart Katie Robertson The Estate of the late Joyce Sproat Alvaro Rodas Fernandez June & Alan Woods Family Bequest We are proud to acknowledge Wouter Roesems those donors who have IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON MAKING A Rachel Scanlon given in support of our work BEQUEST TO THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, PLEASE Cassandra Scott over the last twelve months. CONTACT OUR PHILANTHROPY TEAM ON 8215 4674. Mischa Simmonds (1 August, 2019)

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