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1 Tue Lambert p4 1 Fri Nineteen to the Dozen p20 1 Sun Patriots Concert 3 p37 2 Wed American Songs p4 2 Sat Mirusia & the Original Seekers p20 2 Mon Free Music p37 Angie McMahon p4 Sound the Trumpet p21 The Apotheosis of Corelli p37 Fem Belling p20 Peter Bence p38 3 Thu Remy van Kesteren p5 3 Sun Shostakovich 1 p22 3 Tue Coming Together p38 4 Fri Paco Peña Esencias p5 Quartets on Track p22 4 Wed Nico Muhly and the New p39 7 Mon Free Music p5 4 Mon Free Music p22 First Impressions p6 6 Wed Seraphim Trio & Martin p23 5 Thu Sculptress p40 Alexander 8 Tue ANAM Prize Winners Concert 2 p6 6 Fri Stoneflower p40 7 Thu Karin Schaupp in Recital p23 9 Wed A Multitude of Voices p6 7 Sat The Snowman p43 From the Caravan to the Club 8 Fri p23 Noël! Noël! p44 10 Thu Joan As Police Woman p7 9 Sat Selby & Friends p24 10 Tue Wet Ink p41 11 Fri Brendan Gallagher - p6 The Four Seasons p24 Jimmy Little's Messenger Georgia Fields p24 11 Wed Thin Places p41 12 Sat Nevermind p8 10 Sun The Four Seasons p24 12 Thu The Barber of Seville p42 11 Mon Behzod Abduraimov p25 13 Sun A Thousand Thoughts p8 13 Fri Celebrating Richard Mills p42 12 Tue 2018 MICMC Winners - Trio Marvin p26 14 Mon Baroque Birds & Beasts p11 Velvet Revolution p26 14 Sat The Barber of Seville p42 A Thousand Thoughts p8 Iaki Vallejo p41 13 Wed The Belgian Violin p27 15 Tue Even the Blood Must Sleep p11 PLEXUS: Paracosm p26 15 Sun Christmas Greetings p44 Nevermind p8 14 Thu The Lost Clog p27 16 Wed Translations p11 Melody of Japan: Animation, p27 Red Bull Music Festival - p48 Film & Classics with Mai Fujisawa SYNTHESIS 15 Fri Beethoven, Haydn & Schubert p27 17 Thu Stalin's Piano p9 16 Sat Dance Until the Sunrise p28 Skride Piano Quartet p28 18 Fri Lina Andonovska p9 17 Sun TANEC: 70 Year Jubilee p28 Spring: Lu Siqing in Recital p13 18 Mon Magical Brahms p28 19 Sat Ghost Gamelan p10 Robert Henke: Lumière IIIx p29 20 Sun Wind Symphony & Concert Band p13 19 Tue From Russia With … p30 21 Mon Ben Winkelman Trio p13 Skride Piano Quartet p28 20 Wed Mozart & Haydn p30 23 Wed Antarctica p13 Death & the Maiden p30 Herald Sun Aria with p14 Music Victoria Awards p31 Melbourne Opera 21 Thu Anja & Zlatna p31 24 Thu From My Life p14 The Light Within p31 25 Fri Nemanja Radulović with p15 22 Fri British Connections p31 Ensemble Liaison 23 Sat Anouska Taylor: p32 p14 Tasmanian Stories Eva Cassidy Unplugged 26 Sat Brahms' Requiem p16 Steve Davislim & Daniel de Borah p32 Johannes Luebbers Dectet p16 24 Sun Mozart the King p32 27 Sun Hoang's Concerto Concert with p16 25 Mon Mad Dog: The Elizabethan Lute p33 Geelong Symphony Orchestra 26 Tue Modern Masters p33 28 Mon Sabin, Holst, Rimsky-Korsakov p16 27 Wed Apoorva Krishna & the p33 Intimate Bach p17 Australian Sruthi-Laya Quintet 28 Thu William Barton, Kalkadoon Man p33 29 Tue A Storytelling p17 Inventi Plays Mozart Church Sonatas p34 Bach's Art of Fugue p17 Mozart the King p32 30 Wed YPA 2018 Winner Recital p17 29 Fri Andrea Keller & p34 p19 Quatuor Ebène Stephen Magnusson The information in this brochure is correct at Mojo Juju p35 the time of printing. Artist lineup and program 30 Sat Happy Axe & Kcin p34 subject to change without notice. Kimberley Echoes p36
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Melbourne Recital Centre is situated right in Admired for her unearthly voice and the heart of our city’s vibrant Arts Precinct. Our incandescent stage presence, don’t miss neighbour, the brand new Ian Potter Southbank singer Susheela Raman’s live Melbourne Centre has started to come alive with students Festival show featuring young gamelan and faculty, and we’re delighted to welcome virtuosos alongside her extraordinary band. them to the precinct. Look out for a new series of concerts presented in the Conservatorium’s 380-seat Hanson Dyer Hall, starting with a performance by Melbourne Baroque ensemble NEMANJA Ludovico’s Band (2 November). This is the RADULOVIĆ perfect opportunity to visit the Conservatorium’s state-of-the-art Centre and discover Melbourne’s p15 newest venue. We’re excited to present Australian R'n'B, hip-hop and soul artist (29 November), who has In June we announced the appointment of Mojo Juju just won Album and Song of the Year at the Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulović Professor Andrea Hull AO as the new Chair of National Indigenous Music Awards. Not to be has taken the classical music world by storm our Board of Directors. No stranger to the missed is (30 November) a with his thrilling virtuosity, depth of Melbourne Arts Precinct, Andrea has had an Kimberley Echoes cross-cultural collaboration exploring the people expression and adventurous programming. extraordinary career in the arts, government and landscape of the Kimberley, featuring An electrifying concert of Khachaturian, and education sectors, including serving as the Aboriginal artists Mark Atkins and Stephen Pigram. Bartók and Brahms with local artists Director of the Victorian College of the Arts for Ensemble Liaison. many years. See page 12 to learn more about her. Thrilling Melbourne International Arts performances include the return of This year has been a landmark year for the Festival (13 & 14 October), Centre, with artists, audiences and friends Kronos Quartet Stalin’s Piano (17 October), the powerful story of Joseph Stalin BEHZOD coming together night after night to celebrate and Maria Yudina told by pianist Sonya Lifschitz ABDURAIMOV our 10th Anniversary. It started with our 10th with video projections, and , an Birthday Gala Concert in February, and the Ghost Gamelan enchanting contemporary exploration of Javanese performances we have planned for you over the p25 gamelan music (19 October). next few months will give you new reasons to keep joining in our musical party. If you or a music-lover you know has never visited Behzod Abduraimov burst onto the the Centre before, go to melbournerecital.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre is the best place to international scene in 2009 winning the and explore our $10 ticket offer. It’s our birthday hear great artists from Australia and around the London International Piano Competition. gift to you and an opportunity to secure tickets for world, such as phenomenal Great Performer, Don’t miss his much-anticipated return to the just $10 to selected 2019 Melbourne Recital Centre pianist Behzod Abduraimov (11 November). Centre performing piano masterpieces by Presents concerts.* Chopin, Debussy and Mussorgsky. Acclaimed French ensemble Quatuor Ebène (30 October) treats you to an all-Beethoven Thank you for celebrating our 10th Anniversary evening of exquisite string quartets. German with us this year. I look forward to welcoming you sound artist Robert Henke (18 November) to more performances that will move, inspire and MOJO recreates his audio-visual spectacular Lumière entertain you for many years to come. JUJU IIIx in a special extended version for Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Music Week. p35 EUAN MURDOCH CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre Australian music trailblazer Mojo Juju pulls Melbourne Recital Centre proudly stands back the curtain on the raw, honest and on the land of the Kulin Nation and we pay our intrinsically political stories behind the songs respects to Melbourne’s First People, to their on her third album, Native Tongue, in a live, Elders past and present, and to our shared future. *Terms and conditions apply. emotionally charged performance.
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About the artists
OCTOBER Angie McMahon (pictured below) performed in a nine-piece soul band called The Fabric before beginning her solo career.
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Melbourne Art Song Collective Angie McMahon
LOCAL HEROES Lambert American Songs Angie McMahon German neo-classical composer Lambert is Melbourne Art Song Collective showcases Australian songwriter Angie McMahon is the the masked man at the piano. A character the variety and richness of the art song twenty-something heroine you can relate to and without history. A phantom haunting the space tradition, as well as selected masterpieces from root for – the star of her charming, honest songs between romanticism and pop culture. His solo piano and chamber music repertoire. This about life, love, and comfort food. Drawing music guides the listener through an intimate, concert celebrates a plurality of voices from inspiration from Bruce Springsteen, Lianne La emotional journey, traversing rhythm-oriented across America. It embraces the Romanticism Havas and Big Thief, her music ranges from pop and classically rooted styles. The grandiose of pioneering composer Amy Beach, the charm punchy rock to whispering ballads, but hums with simplicity of his compositions is enchanting. and sophistication of Ned Rorem's work, and the humanity and realness of a true original. a joyous tribute to George Gershwin. INFORMATION INFORMATION INFORMATION Tue 1 October 7.30pm Wed 2 October 7pm Primrose Potter Salon (75-mins no interval) Wed 2 October 6pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Four hours incl. interval) Lambert piano (Germany) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Angie McMahon vocals Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Ned Rorem Women's Voices With support act to be announced Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in Beach Three Browning Songs, Op.44 Tickets $40 arrangement with Four Tone Artists G. Gershwin selected songs Presented by Hear Hear Group and WME Jacqueline Porter vocals Esita Morgan vocals Eidit Golder piano Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Art Song Collective
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Remy van Kesteren
Remy van Kesteren Paco Peña Esencias Free Music Dutch harpist Remy van Kesteren rose to fame One of the world’s leading traditional flamenco Come along to a wonderful hour of free music as a classical artist. Recently his sound has players, Paco Peña is part of the phenomenon with Melbourne’s finest chamber musicians. evolved into something far more contemporary. that has transformed perceptions of flamenco Happening once a month in the exquisite New release Shadows, his second with Deutsche around the world. Featuring voice, guitar, surrounds of Primrose Potter Salon, it’s an open Grammophon, draws inspiration from all percussion and dance, this performance is for door policy for you to see the artists try out new corners of the musical world, from hip-hop and both flamenco lovers and first timers. Inspiring, works, new programs and new ideas. pop to modern classical and jazz. An emotional entertaining and dazzling, Paco Peña’s and beguiling journey on harp not to be missed. virtuosity is nothing short of remarkable. INFORMATION Mon 7 October 12 noon INFORMATION INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon (One hour) Thu 3 October 7.30pm Fri 4 October 8pm FREE Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Remy van Kesteren harp (Netherlands) Paco Peña guitar (Spain) Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Tickets $99/$89 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in Presented by Abstract Entertainment arrangement with Four Tone Artists
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SOUTHBANK SERIES LOCAL HEROES First Impressions ANAM A Multitude Brendan Strelitzia Ensemble performs Prizewinners of Voices Gallagher — fine music by female composers Experience one of Australia’s most from the Romantic to the Concert 2 Jimmy Little's exciting young ensembles Arcadia contemporary. A dramatic piano Spend an hour reveling in the Winds performing a program of Messenger trio by Gayaneh Tchebodarian talents of two of the Australian multiple voices coming together Forty-three years after his debut reflects the exuberance of National Academy of Music’s in many different ways. This record, Jimmy Little released traditional Armenian folk dances, dazzling young prizewinners: theme is explored through the Messenger, an album saluting great Jennifer Higdon's Trio is suffused flautistEliza Shephard and idea of counterpoint in a Trio Australian songwriters that with colour and contrasting Partridge Quartet. The artists' Sonata by J.S. Bach, in the winning reinvigorated Jimmy’s legacy as a moods, and Lighthouse by creativity takes to the fore in a piece from the 2019 Arcadia seminal contemporary Indigenous Sydney's Alicia Grant invokes technically demanding program Winds Composition Prize, and artist. In this new multi-media stunning images of stormy seas. featuring Greg Pattillo's with a brand new work for wind concert, Brendan Gallagher groundbreaking piece for quintet and tape by Andrew Ford. together with friends and artists who INFORMATION beatboxing flute and the are close to Jimmy celebrate the Mon 7 October 6pm masterfully lyrical string INFORMATION music and impact of the album, Primrose Potter Salon quartet by Ravel. Wed 9 October 6pm shining a light on one of the true (One hour no interval) Primrose Potter Salon greats of Australian music. Tchebodarian Piano Trio INFORMATION (One hour no interval) Jennifer Higdon Piano Trio Tue 8 October 6pm Steve Reich Vermont Counterpoint INFORMATION Alicia Grant Lighthouse Primrose Potter Salon J.S. Bach Trio Sonata for Mendelssohn Piano Trio in Fri 11 October 8pm (One hour no interval) Organ, No.6 in G, BWV 530 D minor, Op.11 Greg Pattillo Three beats Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Arcadia Winds (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Strelitzia Ensemble for Beatbox flute Composition Prize Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Lowell Liebermann Andrew Ford Scenes from Brendan Gallagher vocals/guitar Presented by Melbourne Recital Sonata for flute & piano, Op.23 Streeton* (world premiere) Tickets $89.90/$69.90 Foote Scherzo Presented by David Roy Williams Centre & Strelitzia Ensemble Arcadia Winds Ravel String Quartet in F Entertainment Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Eliza Shephard flute Presented by Melbourne Recital Alex Waite piano Centre & Arcadia Winds Partridge Quartet Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne *Commissioned in celebration of Melbourne Recital Centre Recital Centre’s 10th Anniversary
6 OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2019 OCTOBER Joan As Police Woman
‘This woman is a phenomenon.’
THE ARTS DESK
New York’s Joan Wasser is the one police officer whose tickets you want to get your hands on. This intimate solo concert strips away the trimmings to reveal the essence of Joan As Police Woman’s incredible songwriting. Within the acoustically sublime Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Joan performs on piano and guitar, affording her many fans the event they’ve longed to hear.
INFORMATION Thu 10 October 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Joan As Police Woman (U.S.A.) Tickets $59 ($49 conc) Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival PHOTO: ALLISON MICHAEL ORENSTEIN
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Nevermind A Thousand French ensemble Nevermind is rewriting the rules of Baroque music. Performing with virtuoso expertise and unpretentious charm, its thoroughly engaging period-instrument concerts have delighted Thoughts audiences internationally. Now making its Australian debut, discover why this disarmingly relaxed ensemble is a breath of fresh air in the Kronos Quartet might be one of the world’s most recognisable musical classical music scene. groups, but you’ve never experienced them like this before. See these modern icons enter a new dimension as Sam Green and Joe Bini’s INFORMATION documentary feature devoted to the group is scored live by its own subjects. Don’t miss this tribute to a veritable musical icon that will woo Sat 12 & Tue 15 October 7pm newcomers and reward old fans alike. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (100-mins incl. interval) INFORMATION Program One: 15 October Works by J.S. Bach & Telemann Sun 13 & Mon 14 October 7pm Program Two: 12 October Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (85-mins no interval) Kronos Quartet (U.S.A.) Works by Marais, F Couperin, Telemann, Quentin and Guillemain. Tickets from $79 ($69 conc) Nevermind (France) Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival Tickets from $58 ($50 conc) Presented by Musica Viva in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
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‘Clever and sensitive interplays of harmony, tone, timing shifts and to-the-millisecond accuracy.’ THE ADELAIDE REVIEW Sonya Lifschitz
The formidable pianist Maria Yudina was one of bracing and brilliant compositions here are INFORMATION the most outspoken critics of Joseph Stalin’s performed with virtuosic talent, but spiralling Thu 17 October 7.30pm tyranny, and for her efforts was banned, out from them is an audio-visual epic that Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) suspended and exiled. But when the dictator charts a maelstrom of history, politics, art and Robert Davidson Stalin’s Piano was found dead in his bedroom, it was Yudina rebellion. This powerful and affecting work is who was spinning on his record player. Pianist an accelerating ride through some of the Sonya Lifschitz piano (AUS/Ukraine) Sonya Lifschitz takes to the piano at the heart biggest themes in contemporary history, and a Tickets $50 ($40 conc) of this electrifying new work, conceived by chance to reimagine the world in which we find Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in association Australian composer Robert Davidson with and ourselves today. with Melbourne International Arts Festival for the Ukranian-born Lifschitz. Davidson’s
Lina Andonovska
Curiosity, fearlessness and versatility carry INFORMATION Australian flautist 's artistry Lina Andonovska Fri 18 October 7pm around the globe, and she returns home with Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) a performance that invokes a staggering range Brett Dean Demons of musical contrasts and demands on the John Fonville Music for Sarah performer. A name that you'll discover on both Jennifer Higdon rapid fire the pages of Rolling Stone and the Australian ♦ Donnacha Dennehy Bridget Chamber Orchestra roster, audiences will be quick to see why Andonovska is a rare breed Lina Andonovska flute in the flute world. Here we reveal a solo voice Tickets $39 $29 (conc) surveying the peaks of contemporary Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in composition, culminating with the world association with Melbourne International premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's Bridget: a Arts Festival work commissioned by Andonovska based on repetition, accumulation and manipulation of layering inherent in the works of British visual artist Bridget Riley. Lina Andonovska
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Ghost Gamelan
What do Erik Satie, Sonic Youth, Philip Glass and Miles Davis share? A fascination inspired by gamelan, traditional ensemble music from Indonesia. ‘Wildly original.’ The music’s shimmering, looping resonance has made its way into everything from modal jazz to electronic dance music. British-Australian singer Susheela Raman's creative journey has embraced THE GUARDIAN (U.K.) the diverse: from Byzantine chant, post-punk art-pop and ecstatic Pakistani Qawwali to the South Indian music her parents gifted her. For their album Ghost Gamelan, Raman and long-time co-writer and guitarist Sam Mills travelled to Java to transform their songs with contemporary Javanese ‘Mesmerising.’ gamelan composer Gondrong Gunarto. It's a haunting combination. With its compulsive guitar rhythms and otherworldly vocal harmonies, Ghost Gamelan is full of ancient echoes but achieves FINANCIAL TIMES something unique, thrilling and contemporary.
INFORMATION Sat 19 October 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (75-mins no interval) Susheela Raman vocals (AUS/U.K.) Sam Mills guitar (U.K.) Tickets $69 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne International Arts Festival Ghost Gamelan tour produced by Far & Away Productions
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LOCAL HEROES LOCAL HEROES LOCAL HEROES Baroque Birds & Beasts Even the Blood Translations With an ability to seamlessly cross the genres Must Sleep Flinders Quartet celebrates chamber music as a and performance styles of folk and art-music, global language. Stuart Greenbaum’s new work Ossicle Duo explores great music for trombone Evergreen Ensemble possesses a unique joins East and West by matching the Chinese and percussion, ranging from post minimalism musical language. Bringing together the best of er-hu with the European tradition of string to the avant-garde. Joined for this performance Australia's early music talent and folk icons, the quartet and recorder. And dazzling Chinese by their friends on saxophone and piano, the Ensemble weaves stories back through time, composer Zhao Zhang’s Totem offers an array of Duo transforms into a vibrant collective. rediscovering the sounds of folk melodies striking similarities with Debussy’s celebrated Harmony vies with discord, brutality with performed on period instruments. string quartet, the musical colours illustrating the beauty, and normality with a chorus way music unites cultures. INFORMATION of ACME siren whistles in a dazzling and boundary-pushing show. INFORMATION Mon 14 October 6pm Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION Wed 16 October 7pm Arrangements of works by Biber, Nisbet, Primrose Potter Salon (100-mins incl. interval) Tue 15 October 6pm Oswald, Bremner and Saint-Saëns and Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op.10 Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) traditional tunes. Huang Hai Huai (arr. Julian Yu) 'Horse Race’ Michael Smetanin Bellevue II Zhang Zhao Totem Evergreen Ensemble Mike Svoboda Music for Trombone, Stuart Greenbaum Translations* Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Piano & Percussion Presented by Melbourne Recital Dror Feiler Even the blood must sleep Genevieve Lacey recorders Centre & Evergreen Ensemble Hao Zheng er-hu Ali Fyffe saxophone Flinders Quartet Alex Waite piano Tickets $50 ($40 conc) Ossicle Duo Presented by Melbourne Recital Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Centre & Flinders Quartet Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Ossicle Duo *Commissioned by Carrillo Gantner for his wife, Ziyin Wang Gantner.
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Since retiring from the VCA I aim to attend at What do you hope the Centre achieves in coming Meet our new least one new music festival per year. Last year years, and what does this mean for you? it was Berlin for Daniel Barenboim’s Easter My abiding passion has been to contribute to an music festival which also featured Martha
OCTOBER Chair, Prof authentic, distinctive and inclusive Australian Argerich and Barenboim playing together. cultural life. It has been a privilege to work in the Andrea Hull AO Travels have included Italy for Angela Hewitt’s cultural sector for over four decades in pursuit of Trasimeno Festival and the Linari Classico this. The opportunity to Chair the Centre really is (for which I was a patron); Maribor in Slovenia the icing on the cake. for Richard Tognetti’s Festivals, and next year Glyndebourne, Garsington and Grange Park The Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10th Anniversary is Opera. I love the combination of excellent a chance to reflect on the ingredients that underpin music, fine fayre and good company, which the success of the Centre. The Board, led for the the best music festivals both in Australia and last nine years by Kathryn Fagg AO is excellent, overseas offer. the staff led by CEO Euan Murdoch is outstanding, the programs are rich and attract an increasingly Do you have a favourite composer? diverse audience, and the generous support rof Andrea Hull commenced her term of from our donors and from government make so Chair of Melbourne Recital Centre in June My current favourite composers are Elgar and P much possible. And of course, the beauty and the this year. Andrea brings with her a wealth of Cohen, probably because a number of funerals acoustics of the Hall and the Salon make the visiting experience in Australia’s cultural and have recently featured them, and they resonate. experience a sensory delight. The next period we not-for-profit sectors. We recently sat down Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor (especially as hope builds on our successes and also includes with Andrea for a chat to learn about her played by Jacqueline du Pre) and his Enigma the completion of the building’s fourth floor, passion for music and her vision for the future Variations (especially the Nimrod) and Leonard strengthening relationships within the cultural of the Centre. Cohen’s The Anthem (there is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in). precinct and enhancing our outreach activities. What is a cherished memory of music for you? My first memory of music is via the ABC Radio. It was always on in our home. When I was young my parents moved to Cairns in Far North Queensland and Dad’s Aunt had given him her old John Broadwood & Sons piano, an early, small upright which accompanied us north. She was a pianist of the old style with family gatherings around her piano and large fat books of melodies. I loved to ‘play’ when we visited her.
What was your musical education like? I desperately wanted to learn to really play, and the only place to learn was at St Monica’s Convent in town, three miles away. So, having just turned five, I took the bus into town twice a week to be taught by Sister Ruth. Her method was to place a penny on the top of my hand and if it fell as I played, I’d be lightly smacked with a ruler. Amazing I didn’t develop RSI!
And so, I learned the piano for many years, and the recorder and the treble recorder as part of an enlightened headmaster’s belief in the importance of music education. It was a small bush school and every child participated in the school orchestra. If I was the Prime Minister, I’d ensure every child had a quality music education, at least until they were 12. Substantial research supports the benefits to cognition, fine motor skills and well-being.
My love of music continued to be fostered by the ABC, by Arts Council tours and when we returned to Sydney by concerts in the Sydney Town Hall.
How important is music in your life and why? Throughout my life I’ve regularly attended concerts and been a subscriber to the opera and ballet. I have ABC Classic FM in the car, in
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Herald Sun Aria with From My Life Tasmanian Stories Melbourne Opera Those who know the rules are best placed to A trio of acclaimed Australian musicians, bassist break them. Haydn, having co-authored the rule Nick Haywood, pianist Colin Hopkins and OCTOBER A night of opera – watch the drama and book for string quartets, throws convention drummer Niko Schauble, take the listener on an anticipation unfurl as five finalists compete aside in his daring G minor Quartet. This is aural journey through Tasmania's natural beauty against each other accompanied by the paired with Smetana's evocative quartet From and its dark past. Cape Barren Island traditional under the Melbourne Opera Orchestra My Life. Performed by the virtuosic Melbourne songs and original material are launchpads for baton of . Finalists perform Greg Hocking Chamber Orchestra Quartet, this intimate the Trio’s mesmerising improvisations. two arias each, giving the audience an concert includes gourmet canapés, premium insight into various world operas in a night wine, a pre-concert briefing and an opportunity INFORMATION of sophisticated exhilaration. to meet the artists post-performance. Fri 25 October 8pm INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION Nick Haywood Kunanyi Wed 23 October 7.30pm Thu 24 October 6pm Nick Haywood Bay of Fires Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Three hours incl. interval) Primrose Potter Salon (Two hours no interval) Traditional Old Cape Barren Herald Sun Aria finalists Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Colin Hopkins Bob Greg Hocking conductor Op.20, No.3, Hob III:33 Niko Schauble Clear Waters Melbourne Opera Orchestra String Quartet No.1, From My Life Smetana Nick Haywood Trio Tickets $47 ($42 conc) Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Quartet Tickets $30 ($25 conc) Presented by Herald Sun in partnership Tickets $163 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & with Melbourne Opera Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Nick Haywood Trio
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Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović has INFORMATION Fri 25 October 7pm taken the classical music world by storm. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (100-mins incl. interval) Bringing people together with his unique J.S. Bach Clarinet Sonata in D minor, BWV 1034 Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin & cello energy and candour, he joins Ensemble Khachaturian Trio in G minor for clarinet, violin & piano Liaison for a concert of thrilling great works. Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Brahms (arr. Griffiths) Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.25, No.1 Bach and Handel reflect the elegance of the Baroque, Bartók’s Nemanja Radulović violin (Serbia) Romanian Folk Dances gets everything moving, and to top it off, hear Ensemble Liaison virtuosic chamber music at its best in a folk-inspired quartet by Brahms. Tickets $50 ($40 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Ensemble Liaison
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1 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus 2 Johannes Luebbers Dectet 3 Hoang Pham 4 Justin Beere, Melbourne 3 Chamber Players 4
LOCAL HEROES Brahms’ Requiem Johannes Hoang’s Concerto Sabin, Holst, Recognised as one of the greatest Luebbers Dectet Concert with Rimsky-Korsakov choral works ever written, Blending orchestral colours such Melbourne Chamber Players Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem is Geelong as flute and oboe with the jazz explores contemporary and a message of hope, consolation sounds of saxophone, bass and Symphony 20th-century composers whose and compassion. The Melbourne drums, the Johannes Luebbers daring music is praised for capturing Symphony Orchestra Chorus – Orchestra Dectet is an ensemble unique a national identity. A premiere of appearing without orchestra for Two orchestral tone poems by within the Australian jazz Nigel Sabin dazzles with distinctive the first time since 2015 and Gershwin and Sibelius bookend landscape. Featuring six world Australianness, Imogen Holst accompanied by piano – will bring this fabulous piano concerto premieres, this concert continues captures the English pastoral this most beautiful piece to life. concert featuring pianist the ensembles previous aesthetic, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s and the explorations of collaborative Hoang Pham Geelong Quintet reveals all the brilliance and INFORMATION . Gershwin compositional practices. Symphony Orchestra playfulness of his colourful style. Sat 26 October 7.30pm composed his Rhapsody in Blue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall INFORMATION on a train trip to Boston and later INFORMATION (90-mins no interval) described it as a ‘kaleidoscope of Sat 26 October 8pm Mon 28 October 6pm Schütz Selig sind die Toten America’. In the same way, Grieg’s Primrose Potter Salon Primrose Potter Salon Schütz Herr, nun lässest du Piano Concerto makes a (One hour no interval) (One hour no interval) deinen Diener multicoloured tribute to Johannes Luebbers Dectet Nigel Sabin Quintet for Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Norwegian folk music. Tickets $30 ($25 conc) clarinet & string quartet Lee Abrahmsen soprano Presented by Melbourne INFORMATION Holst Phantasy for string quartet Simon Meadows baritone Recital Centre & Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in B-flat Tom Griffiths piano Sun 27 October 5pm Johannes Luebbers Dectet Melbourne Chamber Players piano Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Donald Nicolson Tickets $39 ($29 conc) (Two hours incl. interval) Warren Trevelyan-Jones Presented by Melbourne conductor G. Gershwin An American in Paris Recital Centre & MSO Chorus Melbourne Chamber Players Tickets from $49 G. Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Presented by Melbourne Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Symphony Orchestra Op.16 Jean Sibelius Finlandia, Op.26 Hoang Pham piano Fabian Russell conductor Geelong Symphony Orchestra Tickets from $78 ($70 conc) Presented by Hoang Pham Productions
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LOCAL HEROES SOUTHBANK SERIES Intimate Bach A Storytelling Bach’s Art YPA 2018 Winner Explore the genius of J.S. Bach Celebrate new Australian music of Fugue Recital – Emily Sun with the Australian Chamber with Horsley & Williams Duo. In his ultimate, enigmatic Join violinist Emily Sun, Orchestra. Richard Tognetti is Compositions for voice, ukulele, masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, 2018 ABC Young Performer of the joined by Erin Helyard on uilleann pipes, recorders and J.S. Bach traverses the full Year, and acclaimed Australian harpsichord and Brett Dean on electric bass have been created spectrum of contrapuntal pianist Clemens Leske for a recital viola for a captivating concert especially for this performance. possibilities with endlessly exploring two of the violin featuring Bach’s inventive and Diverse approaches to Australian astonishing inventiveness. This repertoire’s most loved sonatas. striking Brandenburg Concertos. song and storytelling reflect compelling new take on the Beethoven’s virtuosic and classical, jazz, pop and folk masterpiece sees KIAZMA Piano adventurous final Sonata of the Op.12 INFORMATION sensibilites. A remarkable Duo (Tomoe Kawabata & Aura Go) set is combined with the romantic collaboration of the country’s Mon 28 October 7.30pm move seamlessly between solo, lyricism of a young Strauss in his leading artists. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall four-hand and two-piano playing. Violin Sonata written in his early (Two hours incl. interval) INFORMATION The Duo brings to life Bach’s scope twenties. J.S. Bach Andante from Sonata for deep introspection and for Solo Violin No.2 in A minor Tue 29 October 6pm sublime joy. INFORMATION J.S. Bach Sonata for Violin & Primrose Potter Salon Wed 30 October 6pm Harpsichord No.2 in A (One hour no interval) INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon György Kurtág Hommage à J.S.B. Works by Lucy Wise, Julie Wise, Tue 29 October 6.30pm (One hour no interval) from Signs, Games and Messages Claire Cross and Kate Moore. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Violin Sonata No.3 J.S. Bach selections from Beethoven Lucy Wise vocals/ukulele/guitar (80-mins no interval) Three-Part Inventions in E-flat, Op.12 Claire Cross electric bass J.S. Bach The Art of Fugue, Violin Sonata Marais Sonnerie de Sainte- R. Strauss Horsley & Williams Duo BWV 1080 in E-flat, Op.18 Geneviève du Mont de Paris Tickets $39 ($29 conc) KIAZMA Piano Duo Emily Sun violin Brett Dean Approach (Prelude to Presented by Melbourne Recital Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Clemens Leske piano a Canon) — Australian premiere Centre & Horsley & Williams Duo J.S. Bach Brandenburg Presented by Melbourne Recital Tickets $39 ($29 Concession) Concerto No.6 in B-flat Centre & KIAZMA Piano Duo Presented by Melbourne Recital Richard Tognetti director/violin Centre Brett Dean viola Erin Helyard harpsichord Australian Chamber Orchestra Tickets from $49 1 Brett Dean 2 Horsley & Williams Duo Presented by Australian Chamber 3 KIAZMA Piano Duo Orchestra 4 Emily Sun
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OCTOBER Scenes from Streeton n October one of Australia’s most exciting As a musical celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Melbourne Iyoung ensembles Arcadia Winds, known for its energetic, joyful and spontaneous Recital Centre, 10 composers have each created a new work to performances, premieres English-born be performed at the Centre throughout 2019. Australian composer Andrew Ford’s Scenes from Streeton. The composition is one of the 10 new works commemorating the Centre’s anniversary and we spoke with Andrew ahead of the world premiere to learn more. Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster and has won awards in all these capacities, including the 2004 Paul Lowin Prize for his song cycle Learning to Howl, a 2010 Victorian Green Room Award for his opera Rembrandt’s Wife and the 2012 Albert H Maggs Prize for his large ensemble piece, Rauha. He has been composer-in-residence for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. In 2014 he was Poynter Fellow and Visiting Composer at Yale University, in 2015 he became the Visiting Lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and in 2018 he was recognised as an H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at ANU. Ford has written widely on all manner of music and Andrew Ford published nine books, most recently The Memory of Music (Black Inc., 2017). Since 1995, he has presented The Music Show each following morning I learnt about the fires that weekend on ABC Radio National. had killed so many people. I felt Scenes from Streeton had to commemorate them in some What is the new work about? way, too. Talking about the landscape and the I looked at Arthur Streeton’s Victorian climate was a way to do that. landscapes and wondered how the places had changed in the century since he painted them, What musical styles influenced you when so I asked some people who cultivate the land creating this piece? today: Eda Ritchie, Vivienne Ritchie and Style is the outward trappings of music, and as Gwenda and Ian Langford. I also spoke to writer a young composer I was obsessed by it. Now Bruce Pascoe about how the landscape had that I’m no longer young, I hardly think about at already changed in the hundred years before all. It must be there, but I’m oblivious to it. Streeton. All these voices are in the piece, However, there are two musical references in forming a counterpoint with each other and this piece. One is to birdsong and other sounds with the instruments of the wind quintet. of nature, the other is to Ireland. The third of the five movements is a response to Streeton’s Where did you get your inspiration from? painting ‘The Selector’s Hut (Whelan on the Composing is my job, and usually all the Log)’ and I wanted to put in something Irish for inspiration I need is a commission. In this case, Whelan. I tried a few things, but in the end, my inspiration was Marshall McGuire, asking adapted a tune of my own, written just before me to write something for the Centre’s 10th Scenes from Streeton. It’s the setting of Yeats’s birthday. In discussing the nature of the piece, poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ that ends my it became clear I’d never written for wind song cycle, Nature. quintet and always wanted to, so the commission became linked to Arcadia Winds. Arcadia Winds premieres Andrew's work But there was also my memory of the Recital Scenes from Streeton on Wednesday 9 Centre’s opening on 7 February 2009. We October in the Primrose Potter Salon. The broadcast ‘The Music Show’ live from the foyer Arthur Streeton work was commissioned in celebration of The selector's hut (Whelan on the log) 1890 that Saturday morning and I remember Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10th oil on canvas emerging at midday into the terrible heat. I flew Anniversary. See page 6 for further details. 76.7 x 51.2 cm back to New South Wales and it was only the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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STAFF PICK QUATUOR EBÈNE
Quatuor Ebène has been called ‘a string quartet that can easily INFORMATION Wed 30 October 7.30pm morph into a jazz band’. While you won’t hear any jazz in the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Quartet’s all-Beethoven evening, the same sense of improvisation Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op.18, No.2 and spontaneity animates this band of four’s music-making. Beethoven String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.95, ‘Serioso’ Quatuor Ebène’s direct and authentic approach is ideal for the string quartets of Beethoven, where Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat, Op.74, ‘Harp’ passion and drama, humour and tragedy jostle together. In 2014 New York’s Carnegie Hall secured them six years in advance to perform the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle in 2020, in Quatuor Ebène (France) celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. This invitation engendered the idea of Tickets from $62 ($55 conc) playing Beethoven around the world across five continents and eighteen countries, at venues such Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and London’s Wigmore Hall. Miraculously, Supported by Uniting AgeWell. the tour has also brought them to Australia for the very first time, where they perform at just two venues: Melbourne Recital Centre, and the UKARIA Cultural Centre.
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1 2 About the artist Mirusia (pictured above) has been touring with the Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu since 2007 as his star soprano.
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Nineteen to the Dozen Mirusia & the Fem Belling – The Wives Composers from across the country fill a Original Seekers Fem Belling brings five of Australia’s finest segment of time with sounds that draw on the musicians together to salute the women rich heritage of The Song Company’s first 35 A celebration of The Seekers’ story featuring songwriters who helped shape the sound of jazz. years. These 19 commissions form a dialogue Mirusia and the original members of the In an all-female line-up, hear immortalised tunes about the nature of vocal music and musical legendary Australian supergroup. Don’t miss from trailblazers Billy Holiday, Dorothy Fields, expression. An up-to-the-moment a cappella this special performance by two of Australia’s Mary Lou Williams and more. conversation without words. greatest musical exports, performing all the classics including 'I’ll Never Find Another You', INFORMATION INFORMATION 'The Carnival Is Over', 'Georgy Girl' and more. Sat 2 November 8pm Fri 1 November 7pm INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Primrose Potter Salon (75-mins no interval) Songs by Higginbottom, Ronell, Fields, Music by Alice Chance, Bernie Van Tiel, Sat 2 November 1.30pm & 7.30pm Armstrong, Carter and Fem Belling. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Lyle Chan, Matthew Hindson, Owen Elsley, Fem Belling vocals/violin Sally Whitwell and many more. Mirusia vocals Tickets $30 ($25 conc) The Song Company Athol Guy bass/vocals Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Tickets $65 ($60 conc) Keith Potger guitar/vocals Fem Belling Presented by The Song Company Bruce Woodley guitar/vocals Michael Cristiano guitar/vocals Tickets from $89.90 ($79.90 conc) Presented by John Cristian Productions
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SOUTHBANK SERIES Sound the Trumpet NOVEMBER Hanson Dyer Hall
After the last official castrato As part of a new relationship with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Melbourne Recital retired in 1913, audiences Centre has been given the opportunity to present three concerts this November in the newly thought they had heard the completed Hanson Dyer Hall, a state of the art 380- last of the high male voice. seat recital hall located next door.
Then in the 1960s singers began to develop Ludovico’s Band is delighted to be the first the falsetto range of their voice, and the ensemble to perform as part of this suite of ‘countertenor’ was born. Melbourne’s own concerts, giving an opportunity for artists, countertenor Max Riebl soars to the heights of ensembles and audiences to experience this 17th-century song, as he joins Ludovico’s Band brand new auditorium. in a program of favourite works by Purcell, INFORMATION 1 Handel and Dowland. Sat 2 November 7pm 1 Ludovico's Band 2 Max Riebl Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium 3 Hanson Dyer Hall of Music (One hour no interval) Works by Purcell, Handel and Dowland. Max Riebl countertenor Hanson Dyer Hall is located on Level 3 of the Ludovico’s Band Ian Potter Southbank Centre, which is located Tickets $39 ($29 conc) – general admission alongside Melbourne Recital Centre on Sturt Street. Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre
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Shostakovich 1 Quartets on Track Free Music Experience Melbourne Youth Orchestra’s John Noble’s Quartet Program offers Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its fourth and final concert in its 2019 series. Led by inspiring mentoring and performance intimate Salon on one day each month for free
NOVEMBER guest conductor Fabian Russell, the talented opportunities to emerging string players across open rehearsals featuring the very best of young musicians of the Orchestra bring to life Victoria and this concert celebrates their Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected Shostakovich’s Symphony No.1, written at just amazing talents. A lively feast of chamber music, day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse 19 as his graduation piece. Also featured are a it features violinists Jo Beaumont and John new works, new programs and try out new ideas symphonic poem by Respighi and, from the Noble, Flinders Quartet and students and for you, in this informal, open and free event. contemporary edge of the spectrum, Tenebrae community members from all over the state in a by celebrated Australian composer Richard Mills. joyous afternoon of music-making. INFORMATION
INFORMATION INFORMATION Mon 4 November 12 noon Primrose Potter Salon (One hour) Sun 3 November 2.30pm Sun 3 November 4pm FREE Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) Primrose Potter Salon (90-mins no interval) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Richard Mills Tenebrae Vivaldi Concerto for violin & Respighi Fountains of Rome two cellos in C, RV 561 Shostakovich Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op.10 Vivaldi Concerto for strings in D minor, RV 127 Fabian Russell guest conductor Haydn String Quartet in C, Hob.III:76, ‘Emperor’ Melbourne Youth Orchestra Mozart String Quartet in C, K.465, ‘Dissonance’ Tickets $35 ($30 conc) Albinoni Violin Concerto in C, T.Co 2 Presented by Melbourne Youth Orchestras J. Strauss II Der Musikalische Salon from Die Fledermaus Grainger Molly on the Shore Jo Beaumont violin John Noble violin Flinders Quartet Students of John Noble’s Quartet Program Tickets $30 ($20 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Itet – John Noble’s Quartet Program
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Seraphim Trio & Martin Alexander NOVEMBER
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SOUTHBANK SERIES LOCAL HEROES Seraphim Trio & Karin Schaupp From the Caravan Martin Alexander in Recital to the Club Delighting audiences for decades with its Karin Schaupp is an outstanding guitarist Vardos delves into eclectic modern folk music 'absolute sonic cohesion and uniform musical on the international scene. In a stunning solo from Romania, tracing the beloved musical maturity' (The Australian), Seraphim Trio concert, she performs compelling narrative tradition to its Eastern sources. In contemporary returns to its roots in a celebration of its works and beloved musical treasures both old Romania, synthesisers and electric violins formative years at the Australian National and new. The highlight is Richard Charlton’s have crept in, but here Vardos plays traditional Academy of Music (ANAM). Joined by recent newly composed Suspended in a Sunbeam, instruments in the classic ‘Taraf’ formation of violin, ANAM alumnus, violist Martin Alexander, composed especially for Karin. accordion and double bass. These rousing works the outstanding ensemble performs unearth a trove of mysterious and striking wonders. Mozart and Dvořák masterworks of the INFORMATION piano quartet repertoire. Thu 7 November 6pm INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Fri 8 November 6pm INFORMATION Works by Regondi, Giuliani, Schubert, Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Wed 6 November 6pm Mertz, Houghton, Paul Stanhope and A selection of Romanian folk music. Richard Charlton. Primrose Potter Salon (70-mins no interval) Vardos Mozart Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, K.478 Karin Schaupp guitar Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Dvořák Piano Quartet No.2 in E-flat, Op.87 Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Vardos Martin Alexander viola Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Seraphim Trio The Passionata Trust Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre
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Hanson Dyer Hall Selby & Friends: The Four Seasons Georgia Fields Brace against a biting Italian winter and Magnetic art-pop composer Georgia Fields Mozart & Brahms feel the eruption of a summer storm in this previews new material in an intimate Salon
NOVEMBER The series Selby & Friends unites pianist inventive reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four showcase. Joined by a full band, Fields’s new Kathryn Selby AM with many of the finest Seasons by the Australian Brandenburg works ignite universal themes of love, loss and musicians from Australia and around the world. Orchestra. Moving from the seasons to the sea, longing. Praised as a ‘voice that you simply Joining Kathryn for a program of first and final Georg Philipp Telemann’s Water Music is an cannot unhear’ (Frankie magazine), she defly piano trios by great composers are violinist imaginative orchestral suite, evoking wrathful moves between instruments with her musical Natsuko Yoshimoto and cellist Danny Yeadon. sea gods, mischievous water nymphs and the alchemy on full display. Mozart’s final piano trio is flawlessly crafted rulers of the winds. with beautiful interplay between the strings and INFORMATION INFORMATION piano. Brahms’s iconic first piano trio is one of Sat 9 November 8pm the most important and celebrated in the genre. Sat 9 November 7pm & Sun 10 November 5pm Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Georgia Fields vocals/guitar/toy pianos/piano Telemann Concerto for 4 violins in G, TWV 40:201 Tickets $30 ($25 conc) Sat 9 November 7pm Telemann Water Music, TWV 55:C3 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op.8 Georgia Fields of Music (One hour no interval) Mozart Piano Trio No.6 in G, K.564 Paul Dyer artistic director Brahms Piano Trio No.1 in B, Op.8 Shaun Lee-Chen Baroque violin Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Natsuko Yoshimoto violin Tickets from $30 Daniel Yeadon cello Presented by Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Kathryn Selby piano 1 Kathryn Selby Tickets $39 ($29 conc) – general admission 2 Shaun Lee-Chen, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre 3 Georgia Fields
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GREAT PERFORMERS Behzod Abduraimov
‘Following his phenomenal performance in Great Performers 2017, we immediately invited Behzod back to Melbourne Recital Centre for our 10th Anniversary year. This is a rare chance to experience the next chapter in Behzod’s story, one that we’ll be talking about for years to come.’
MARSHALL MCGUIRE,
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING FATU CRISTIAN PHOTO:
INFORMATION The artistry of Behzod Abduraimov continues to dazzle Mon 11 November 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall audiences around the world with performances combining (One hour & 50-mins incl. interval) Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm ‘brilliance of execution’ with ‘remarkably well-realised Chopin 24 Preludes, Op.28 emotional insight’. Debussy Children’s Corner Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
His music-making is powerfully moving and Corner is a place as mysterious as it is Behzod Abduraimov piano (Uzbekistan) effortlessly virtuosic. Chopin’s 24 Preludes, exuberant. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Tickets from $62 ($55 conc) Op.28, are the ideal vehicle for Abduraimov’s Exhibition is a show-stopping tour de force Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre talents, contrasting delicate filigree with bravura for Abduraimov, a pianist with a palette of Series Partner: Legal Friends of fireworks. Debussy sees the world through vivid colour at his fingertips. Melbourne Recital Centre the eyes his daughter ‘Chou-Chou’: Children’s Program Partner: The Langham Melbourne
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SOUTHBANK SERIES 2018 MICMC Winners – Velvet Revolution PLEXUS: Paracosm Trio Marvin Piano maverick Sonya Lifschitz, French Combining English texts from the Book of horn virtuoso Darryl Poulsen and violist Revelation with the Latin Mass for the Dead, Stefan The Melbourne International Chamber Music extraordinaire James Wannan explore the Cassomenos’s 21st-century requiem blasts the line Competition is one of the world’s finest. As wondrous possibilities of this beautiful between the sacred and profane. Performed by part of their prizes, the winners are offered a combination of instruments. Lifschitz-Poulsen- the composer with PLEXUS, soloists and choral series of engagements in Australia, including Wannan Trio delves into the revolutions of ensemble Vox Plexus, the Requiem is just one this concert. was crowned Grand Trio Marvin eastern Europe in Elena Kats-Chernin, the highlight of a thrilling all-Australian program Prize Winner following its thrilling performance deconstruction of tonality by Roger Smalley, and featuring world premieres by Deborah Cheetham of Weinberg’s Piano Trio, Op.24. Now hear journeys into the new with Jack Symonds. and Samantha Wolf. the ensemble perform two immortal trios by Brahms and Shostakovich. INFORMATION INFORMATION
INFORMATION Tue 12 November 6pm Wed 13 November 7pm Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Tue 12 November 11am Smalley Trio for horn, violin & piano Stefan Cassomenos Requiem for the End of Time Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) Elena Kats-Chernin Velvet Revolution Deborah Cheetham AO new work Brahms Piano Trio No.3 in C minor, Op.101 Jack Symonds Trial and Error (world premiere) Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2 Stuart Greenbaum Dance Music for Concert Halls Lifschitz-Poulsen-Wannan Trio in E minor, Op.67 Samantha Wolf new work (world premiere) Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Trio Marvin (Germany) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Deborah Cheetham soprano Tickets $54 Lifschitz-Poulsen-Wannan Trio Liane Keegan contralto Presented by Musica Viva Michelle Wood cello Damien Eckersley double bass Michael Dahlenburg conductor Vox Plexus PLEXUS Tickets $50 ($40 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & PLEXUS
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The Belgian Violin The Lost Clog Melody of Japan: Beethoven, The Belgian school of violin The Lost Clog brings together Animation, Film Haydn & Schubert 10 of Melbourne’s most-loved playing produced some of the directs Lithuanian singers for a tongue- & Classics with Gábor Takács-Nagy ANAM worlds greatest violinists, who in a feast of music in-cheek celebration of folk songs musicians in turn created great music of Mai Fujisawa from Vienna’s golden age. Mozart their own as well as inspiring passed down over generations. Japanese singer and lyricist Mai composed his miraculous Symphony their compatriots to do so. The singers put their spin on Fujisawa performs beloved songs No.25 when he was just 17, whereas Ukranian-Australian mother- archaic songs spanning all manner from Studio Ghibli’s renowned Haydn’s jubilant Symphony No.90 son duo Markiyan & Oksana of silly and serious topics from films. With piano accompaniment can only be the product of rich Melnychenko perform works love and war to talking horses and and backing vocals, Mai captures maturity. Woven in-between are from three of Belgium's finest drunken goddesses. the beauty of all your favourite captivating overtures by Beethoven musicians, Eugène Ysaÿe, Henri INFORMATION songs such as ‘Reprise’ from the and Schubert. Vieuxtemps and César Franck. Oscar-winning Spirited Away. Her Thu 14 November 6pm heart-wrenching vocals are loved INFORMATION INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon not only throughout Japan, but Fri 15 November 7.30pm (One hour no interval) Wed 13 November 6pm also around the world. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall The Lost Clog Primrose Potter Salon (Two hours incl. interval) Tickets $30 ($25 conc) INFORMATION (One hour no interval) Schubert Die Zauberharfe: Overture Presented by Melbourne Ysaÿe Sonata for solo violin No.4 Thu 14 November 7.30pm Mozart Symphony No.25 in E minor, Op.27 Recital Centre & The Boite Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in G minor, K.183 Vieuxtemps Two Romances (Two hours incl. interval) Beethoven König Stephan: Overture sans paroles from Op.7 Songs and music from Castle in Haydn Symphony No.90 Franck Sonata for violin & The Sky, Nausicaä of the Valley of piano in A, M.8 Gábor Takács-Nagy conductor the Wind, Princess Mononoke, (Hungary) Markiyan Melnychenko violin Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, My ANAM Musicians Oksana Melnychenko piano Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. Tickets $75 ($48 conc) Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Mai Fujisawa vocals (Japan) Presented by Melbourne Recital Presented by Melbourne Recital 1 Markiyan & Oksana Melnychenko 2 The Lost Clog Tickets from $69 Centre and Australian National Centre and Markiyan & 3 Mai Fujisawa Presented by Academy of Music (ANAM) Oksana Melnychenko 4 Gábor Takács-Nagy Castiglione Arts & Culture
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LOCAL HEROES LOCAL HEROES Dance Until Skride Piano TANEC: 70 Magical the Sunrise Quartet Year Jubilee Brahms NOVEMBER Anja & Zlatna continue a Balkan A new classical supergroup of Lauded as the soul of Macedonia, Experience two of Brahms’s journey where the music and four leading European soloists, TANEC is revered in folk sophisticated and profound stories make you feel just like you Skride Piano Quartet plays with dancing circles and competitions earlier works: his majestic Piano are there. What happens when you a palpable sense of joy, mutual worldwide. It makes its way from Quartet Op.26 and the rarely heard fall in love? Could you relate to a respect and endless invention. Skopje to Melbourne for one night Variations on an Original Theme girl who loves to take off her shoes Piano quartets are less often only to showcase Macedonian for piano, a series of 11 intimate and dance until sunrise? Have you heard than piano trios, but the culture through dance and music. and rich variations on a beautiful been to Florence, the birthplace simple addition of a rich-toned Celebrating 70 years, TANEC is theme. These magical works are of the Renaissance? Wonderful viola seems to inspire composers joined by a 10-piece orchestra performed by celebrated pianist Balkan music played by Anja & to create music of outstanding of traditional folk instruments, Kristian Chong and his friends Zlatna brings these stories to life. lyricism. The form is a superb a choir, vocalists and over 20 from the Melbourne Symphony match for these stunning virtuosi. precision dancers that must be INFORMATION Orchestra, co-concertmaster Sophie seen to be believed. principal viola INFORMATION Rowell, Christopher Sat 16 November 6pm and associate principal cello INFORMATION Moore, Primrose Potter Salon Sat 16 & Tue 19 November 7pm Rachael Tobin. (One hour no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Sun 17 November 7.30pm Traditional works from the Balkans. (Two hours incl. interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall INFORMATION (Two hours incl. interval) Anja & Zlatna Program One: 19 November Mon 18 November 6pm A selection of Macedonian Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Piano Quartet No.1 Primrose Potter Salon Mozart folk music. Presented by Melbourne Recital in G minor, K478 (One hour no interval) Centre and Anja & Zlatna Graeme Koehne new work TANEC Brahms Variations on an Original (world premiere) Tickets $120/$66 Theme for piano, Op.21, No.1 R. Strauss Piano Quartet Presented by TOŠE – Australian Brahms Piano Quartet No.2 in A, in C minor, Op.13 Macedonian Dance Ensemble Op.26, Program Two: 16 November Sophie Rowell violin Beethoven Piano Quartet No.1 Christopher Moore viola in E-flat, WoO 36 Rachael Tobin cello Graeme Koehne new work Kristian Chong piano Brahms Piano Quartet No.1 Tickets $39 ($29 conc) in G minor, Op.25 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Kristian Chong & Friends Tickets from $61 ($53 conc) 1 Anja & Zlatna 2 Skride Piano Quartet Skride Piano Quartet 3 TANEC Presented by Musica Viva 4 Kristian Chong
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Robert Henke NOVEMBER Lumière IIIx
‘His contribution to the art and culture of techno and electronic music is immeasurable.’ TIMELINE MUSIC
After enchanting audiences in 2015, German sound artist Robert Henke (Monolake/ Ableton Live) returns to the exquisite surrounds of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall to present his laser spectacular in its latest incarnation for Melbourne Music Week.
An extended version of the morphing shapes and connected projected on a giant marble wall INFORMATION original Lumière IIIx has been points in space, precisely synched in a quarry. Each performance is Mon 18 November 7.30pm specifically created for Henke's with carefully crafted sonic events site-specific and unique, and the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall return to Melbourne Music to create a situation of total audio- project is constantly evolving. (70-mins no interval) Week in celebration of both visual synaesthesia. Melbourne Music Week and The experience is ecstatic for Robert Henke (Germany) Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10 Lumière has been presented more both performer and audience. Tickets $55 year anniversaries. than 70 times in Europe, Asia, Africa, No photograph or video can Presented by Melbourne Recital Australia, North- and South America. approximate the sensation of Centre & Melbourne Music Week In his Lumière project, Henke The project has been staged in being caught in this audio- teaches lasers to dance. Powerful theatres, concert halls, vast industrial visual maelstrom. lasers draw rapid successions of spaces, the yard of a castle and
Bookings at melbournerecital.com.au or 03 9699 3333 | Transaction & delivery fees may apply | Prices subject to change 29 LOCAL HEROES MOSTLY MOZART SOUTHBANK SERIES From Russia With … Mozart & Haydn Death & the Maiden champions two masters of emotion, ANAM Artistic Director with the brings dazzling intensity and NOVEMBER Quartz Nick Deutsch, Orava Quartet composers Haydn and Tchaikovsky, in works of ANAM Orchestra led by Gábor Takács-Nagy, passion to a thrilling, pensive and soul nourishing lush excitement. Listen closely to hear ripples perform Mozarts's timeless Oboe Concerto. With concert. Experience sacred works from the of laughter in Haydn’s Russian Quartet No.2, its light orchestration, the oboe shines in both Renaissance by William Byrd and Tomás Luis aptly nicknamed ‘The Joke’. Then experience slow, elegiac and quick bouncy movements, such de Victoria arranged for string quartet. And a Tchaikovsky’s melodic Quartet No.1, featuring as its Haydnesque finale. In Haydn’s Symphony masterpiece of considerable emotive power, one of classical music’s most treasured works, No.90, themes build into energetic and joyous Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ string quartet, his Andante Cantabile, which is said to have surprises throughout. And the finale contains one based on the song that vividly tells the story of a moved Leo Tolstoy to tears. of his famous jokes: just when you think it’s over … young maiden who begs Death to pass her by.
INFORMATION INFORMATION INFORMATION Tue 19 November 6pm Wed 20 November 11am Wed 20 November 6pm Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Haydn String Quartet Op.33, No.2 in E-flat, Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K.314 Victoria O Magnum Mysterium ‘The Joke’ Haydn Symphony No.90 in C, Hob.I:90 Schubert String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810, Tchaikovsky String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.11 Nick Deutsch oboe ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartz Gábor Takács-Nagy director Byrd Ave verum corpus Tickets $39 ($29 conc) ANAM Orchestra Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Quartz Tickets $49 ($42 conc) Orava Quartet Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & the Presented by Melbourne Recital Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Centre & Orava Quartet Supported by Lendlease Over 55s Living
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Relaxed Performance LOCAL HEROES LOCAL HEROES Music Victoria Anja & Zlatna The Light British
Awards Adopting a casual attitude to sound Within Connections NOVEMBER and movement, the Centre’s series The acclaimed In 2019 the Music Victoria Awards is of Relaxed Performances provides Drawing on music and storytelling, Duo Chamber brings its virtuosic excited to be returning to Melbourne the same exceptional artists in SARAY Iluminado transports you Melange playing to a concert of unique Recital Centre. Now in its 14th year, the best place to hear, with an to the ancient Balkans during the variety. Hear a world premiere the Awards are one of the most environment particularly suitable time when nights, mermaids, story by prolific Romanian composer anticipated music industry events on for audience members with autism, tellers, dervishes and even demons Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea. Revel the Melbourne Music Week calendar. learning disabilities or sensory played the world as if it was a song. in the delights of an undisputed Celebrating the state’s outstanding sensitivities. This last performance Such is the mystic world of sevdah masterwork by Handel and enjoy achievements and best new releases, in the series for 2019 features and Sephardic Jewish music Elgar’s Sonata for violin and piano, performers, venues and festivals, the melodic lines and complex conjured by SARAY Iluminado. a major British gem highlighting a highlight of the evening is the rhythms of Anja & Zlatna. announcing of the Hall of Fame INFORMATION the composer’s daring genius. Inductees. This year a number of INFORMATION Thu 21 November 6pm tickets will be available to the public INFORMATION Thu 21 November 12 noon Primrose Potter Salon and industry to attend the ceremony Fri 22 November 6.30pm Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) and live performances, allowing Primrose Potter Salon (45-mins no interval) Traditional sevdah and Sephardic music fans to mingle with their Jewish music. (One hour no interval) favourite local artists and celebrate Anja & Zlatna Handel Sonata No.13 in D for Victoria’s vibrant music community. Tickets $10 SARAY Iluminado violin & piano, Op.1 Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea INFORMATION Centre Presented by Melbourne Recital Berenice for solo piano Centre & SARAY Iluminado Wed 20 November 7.30pm (world premiere) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Elgar Sonata in E minor for violin & Tickets available from 21 October – piano, Op.82 visit the website for more details Duo Chamber Melange Presented by Melbourne Recital 1 SARAY Iluminado Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Centre & Music Victoria 2 Duo Chamber Melange 3 Sampa The Great, Music Victoria Presented by Melbourne Recital Awards 2018 Centre & Duo Chamber Melange
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Hanson Dyer Hall Anouska Taylor: Steve Davislim & Mozart the King Eva Cassidy Unplugged Daniel de Borah Majestic, elegant and expansive, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.22 highlights Mozart’s ever-present Accomplished vocalist and performer There are few voices in Australia – or indeed the gift for melody. Performing it with the Melbourne Anouska Taylor celebrates the music of the world – that come anywhere close to matching Chamber Orchestra is much-loved pianist Stefan extraordinarily talented Eva Cassidy. Anouska Malaysian-born Australian tenor Steve Davislim. Cassomenos. Haydn’s 98th symphony is a coded and her band performs tributes to Eva’s A deeply expressive musician with a mesmeric tribute to Mozart, quoting God Save the King and iconic interpretations of soul, jazz, blues and stage presence, Steve has a voice that will break other works. With Beethoven’s intimate Romance folk classics such as ‘Over the Rainbow’ and your heart. With pianist Daniel de Borah they performed by outstanding violinist ‘A Natural Woman’. Anouska strips back the celebrate the four pillars of Austro-German art Natalia Harvey, this is simply a Classical feast. arrangements, showcasing the rawness and song: Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Hugo soaring beauty of her own soulful vocals. Wolf and Richard Strauss. INFORMATION
INFORMATION INFORMATION Sun 24 November 2.30pm & Thu 28 November 7.30pm Sat 23 November 6pm & 8pm Sat 23 November 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium Cimarosa The Secret Marriage: Overture Songs arranged by Eva Cassidy. of Music (90-mins incl. interval) Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 in E-flat, K.482 Songs by Schubert, Brahms, Wolf and Anouska Taylor vocals Beethoven Romance No.2 for violin & R. Strauss. Zachary Johnston violin orchestra, Op.50 Diego Villalta guitar Steve Davislim tenor Haydn Symphony No.98 in B-flat, Hob.I:98, Ainsley Finn piano Daniel de Borah piano The King Tickets $50 ($40 conc) – general admission Tickets $54 ($49 conc) William Hennessy AM violin/director Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Presented by Anouska Taylor Natalia Harvey violin Stefan Cassomenos piano Michael Dahlenburg conductor Melbourne Chamber Orchestra 1 Anouska Taylor 2 Steve Davislim Tickets from $65 ($54 conc) 3 Stefan Cassomenos Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
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LOCAL HEROES MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS Mad Dog: The Modern Masters Apoorva Krishna William Barton, Elizabethan Lute Melbourne Guitar Quartet & the Australian Kalkadoon Man champions era-defining modern Join Melbourne Recital Centre’s Hopkinson Smith is best known composers with original Sruthi-Laya 2019 Artist-in-Residence as a virtuoso lutenist, but it is arrangements for guitar. The William Quintet for a Musical Explorations tempting to call him a master Quartet captures the beauty Barton talk featuring film, music and time traveller too. Effortlessly and mysticism entwined within Apoorva Krishna is a star on conversation. Complete with a guiding listeners through the rich Arvo Pärt’s Fratres and Vasks’s the rise in the Carnatic traditions. screening of Brendan Fletcher’s harmonies and lyrical intensity Quartet No.4, the delightfully With Australian Sruthi-Laya documentary Kalkadoon Man, this of early music, his captivating soulful musings of Keith Jarrett Quintet, she performs Carnatic talk delves deep into William’s 10- musicianship resembles pure and the wistful essence of Philip masterpieces by the Trinity day quest to make a didgeridoo. A magic. Hopkinson’s charisma, Glass, with its own captivating and composers of the 18th century. rare insight into the life of one of emotional immediacy and memorable interpretations. Following the teachings of Lalgudi technical assurance is a divine Bani, the most enviable school Australia’s most respected musicians. match for the highly charged INFORMATION for violin in Carnatic music, music of John Dowland, Anthony the performance starts with a INFORMATION Tue 26 November 6pm Holborne, John Johnson and traditional approach and finishes Thu 28 November 12 noon William Byrd. Primrose Potter Salon with Apoorva’s own compositions. (One hour no interval) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION Arvo Pärt (arr. MGQ) Fratres INFORMATION Phillip Glass (arr. MGQ) William Barton speaker Mon 25 November 6pm Selections from String Quartet Wed 27 November 7pm Tickets $10 Primrose Potter Salon No.3, Mishima Primrose Potter Salon Presented by Melbourne Recital (One hour no interval) Keith Jarrett (arr. MGQ) (One hour & 50-mins incl. interval) Centre Music by , John Dowland Selections from The Köln Concert Apoorva Krishna violin Supported by the Vizard Foundation Anthony Holborne, John Pēteris Vasks (arr. MGQ) Australian Sruthi-Laya Quintet & Message Consultants Johnson and William Byrd. Selections from String Quartet No.4 Tickets $30 ($25 conc) Hopkinson Smith lute Melbourne Guitar Quartet Presented by Melbourne Recital Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Centre & Multicultural Arts Victoria 1 Hopkinson Smith Presented by Melbourne Recital 2 Melbourne Guitar Quartet Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre 3 Apoorva Krishna Centre & Melbourne Guitar Quartet 4 William Barton
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Did you know? 2 4 Mozart wrote his 17 Church Sonatas between 1772 and 1780, the period in which he was Konzertmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.
LOCAL HEROES Inventi Plays Mozart Andrea Keller & Happy Axe & Kcin Church Sonatas Stephen Magnusson Two compelling artists join forces – balancing nature with technology, harmony with texture A dynamic chamber ensemble, Inventi Spend an evening with two of Australia’s best – in an evening of immersive and intimate Ensemble reinvents old classics and premieres jazz musicians. Having played together for soundscapes. Happy Axe is multi-instrumentalist new ones. Mozart’s Church Sonatas are exquisite over a decade in many ensembles, beloved and musical polymath Emma Kelly, an artist gems that are rarely performed. Inventi brings jazz artists (guitar) and Stephen Magnusson who uses violin, voice and musical saw to build back treasured friend and keyboard virtuoso (piano) perform their original Andrea Keller spellbinding ambient pop music. Intimate and Peter de Jager to perform these works on compositions in an intimate concert as a duo. highly visceral, Kcin (drummer and producer Melbourne Recital Centre’s chamber organ Nicholas Meredith) music explores themes of as well as Wagenseil’s Organ Concerto and INFORMATION uncertainty and environmental change. a new work by New York-based composer Fri 29 November 8pm Luciano Chessa. Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION INFORMATION Stephen Magnusson guitar Sat 30 November 7pm Thu 28 November 6pm Andrea Keller piano Primrose Potter Salon Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Tickets $30 ($25 conc) (One hour & 45-mins incl. interval) Mozart Church Sonatas Presented by Melbourne Recital Happy Axe violin/voice/musical saw Wagenseil Concerto in G, WV 306 Centre & Andrea Keller Kcin drums/electronics Luciano Chessa Organ Sextet Tickets $30 ($25 conc) Peter de Jager organ Presented by Melbourne Recital Inventi Ensemble Centre & Spirit Level Tickets $39 ($29 conc) 1 Inventi Ensemble Presented by Melbourne Recital 2 Stephen Magnusson & Andrea Keller 3 Kcin Centre & Inventi Ensemble 4 Happy Axe
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mojo NOVEMBER juju NATIVE TONGUE
‘One of the most thematically vital Australian albums of the year.’ THE AUSTRALIAN
In 2018 Mojo Juju released her biggest album to date garnering rave reviews for the brutally honest INFORMATION title track ‘Native Tongue’ and its accompanying video. Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga, a.k.a. Mojo Juju, Fri 29 November 8pm continues to amass new fans collecting a slew of accolades and a healthy bundle of awards. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Mojo and her band perform the critically acclaimed Native Tongue. Raw, honest, emotional and Mojo Juju intrinsically political, the show contemplates her mother's Indigenous heritage, her father's Russall S. Beattie director experience as a Filipino immigrant and her own place in the cultural landscape of modern Australia. Tickets from $40 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in arrangement with Village Sounds
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NOVEMBER KIMBERLEY ECHOES
Kimberley Echoes is a powerful cross-cultural celebration created over five years of musical collaboration and experiences across the Kimberley, its landscapes and its people.
Curated by Tura New Music, The Narlis ensemble music reflecting the complexity and beauty of INFORMATION has evolved featuring Aboriginal artists Mark the Kimberley. Collaborations with local artists, Sat 30 November 7.30pm Atkins (didgeridoo/vocals) and Stephen Pigram experiences of traditional Joonba song and Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (80-mins no interval) (vocals/guitarist) with cellist Tristen Parr, violinist dance, and touring through the provocative Erkki Veltheim, guitarist Stephen Magnusson, Kimberley landscape have all weaved their The Narlis percussionist Joe Talia and flautist Tos Mahoney. influence into this work. Ever-evolving, full of Tickets from $45 Songs by members Pigram and Atkins, arranged spontaneity and life – Kimberley Echoes. Presented by Melbourne Recital by this unique ensemble, are juxtaposed with new Centre & Tura New Music
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Corpus Medicorum Arcangelo Corelli
LOCAL HEROES Patriots Concert 3 Free Music The Apotheosis Corpus Medicorum presents music of two Step into the Primrose Potter Salon for a of Corelli cultures, worlds apart. Hear Sibelius’s grand wonderful hour of free music. Featuring Finnish Symphony No.2, a reflection of the Melbourne’s finest chamber musicians, it’s a Latitude 37’s exploration of composer Arcangelo country’s fight for independence which he delightful opportunity for you to hear the artists Corelli’s genius culminates with a dazzling described as ‘a confession of the soul’, rehearse new works, new programs and new historically informed performance of his seminal together with the Australian premiere of ideas. Just turn up any time during the session – works and music by composers who were Stefan Cassomenos’s joyful Concerto for two the doors are always open, so you can come and profoundly influenced by him. Through the lens of pianos. Performed here with Stefan and Aura go as you please. Corelli’s exquisite trio sonatas, the beauty of music Go on pianos, the Concerto celebrates the by François Couperin, J.S. Bach and Francesco Greek diaspora in Australia. INFORMATION Veracini comes into ever clearer focus.
INFORMATION Mon 2 December 12 noon INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon (One hour) Sun 1 December 5pm FREE Mon 2 December 6pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Stefan Cassomenos Concerto for two pianos Corelli Trio Sonata in D, Op.3, No.2 (Australian premiere) J.S. Bach Fugue on a Theme by Corelli, BWV 579 Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43 Corelli Trio Sonata in G minor, Op.2, No.6 Stefan Cassomenos piano Corelli & Veracini Dissertazione sopra l’Opera Aura Go piano Quinta del Corelli: Violin Sonata in C, Op.5, No.3 Benjamin Northey conductor Corelli Trio Sonata in G, Op.4, No.10 Corpus Medicorum Couperin L’Apothéose de Corelli Tickets $50 ($40 conc) Lucinda Moon Baroque violin Presented by Corpus Medicorum Latitude 37 Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Latitude 37
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Peter Bence Australian Chinese Music Ensemble
Peter Bence Coming Together Internationally acclaimed artist and the world’s ‘Fastest Piano Player’ For more than two decades, the Australian Chinese Music Ensemble has Peter Bence returns to thrill Australian audiences with his incredible captivated audiences with its precise musicianship. Joined by acclaimed talent. Experience the agility and dexterity that Bence brings to the piano multi-instrumentalist Adam Simmons and his trio, Origami, the Ensemble when he performs the cover tracks that have brought him fame and performs George Dreyfus’s transporting New Golden Mountain, cross- notoriety on YouTube, as well as compositions from his debut album, culture favourites and a new work by Ros Bandt specially commissioned for The Awesome Piano. Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10th Anniversary.
INFORMATION INFORMATION Mon 2 December 7pm Tue 3 December 6pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Peter Bence piano (Hungary) George Dreyfus New Golden Mountain Tickets from $66 Wang Guowei Teahouse Presented by Nice Events & TEG Dainty Ros Bandt new work* (world premiere) Adam Simmons & Zheng-Ting Wang Soliloquy* (world premiere) Zheng-Ting Wang director Australian Chinese Music Ensemble Origami Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Presented by Melburne Recital Centre
*Commissioned in celebration of Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10th Anniversary with support from the Playking Foundation
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Nico Muhly
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Alistaire Bowler, Philanthropy Manager, is a regular concert-goer who loves piano recitals, having studied the piano with the late Geoffrey Tozer.
Stalin’s Piano Nico Muhly & the New
Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto returns to An astonishing program of powerful Melbourne to direct ACO Collective in an Breaking Ground – political speeches set to remarkable exciting program of contemporary music based music by Australian composer Robert around the world premiere of phenomenal Post-Concert Davidson. Sonya Lifschitz is one of this American composer Nico Muhly’s Concerto for Performance country’s most fearless pianists and is violin and strings. Nico straddles multiple genres the perfect musician to bring this of music including writing opera and chamber Please join us after the concert for an unique multi-media work to life. music, and this program is curated by him in exclusive performance by violinst Pekka collaboration with Pekka Kuusisto. Kuusisto and composer/pianist Nico Muhly Thu 17 October | More on page 9 in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. INFORMATION Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Wed 4 December 7.30pm Australian Chamber Orchestra Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Quatuor (Two hours incl. interval) Ebène ACO Collective Drone Meditation Steve Reich Duet Missy Mazzoli You Know Me From An exciting opportunity to hear one of Here (Australian premiere) the most talked-about young quartets Andrea Tarrodi Birds of Paradise on the international circuit today. (Australian premiere) Wed 30 October | More on page 19 Alex Mills One is Fun (world premiere) Nico Muhly Concerto for violin & strings* (world premiere) Steve Pekka Kuusisto director/violin Davislim & ACO Collective Daniel de Tickets from $49 Borah Presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra
One of the great tenors of our age, Steve Davislim is joined by the refined and sensitive pianism of Daniel de *Co-commissioned by Melbourne Recital Centre with the Borah next door in the brand new generous support of Maria Sola, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Hanson Dyer Hall. Chamber Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Sat 23 November | More on page 32 the kind support of the MCO Foundation and Scottish Chamber Orchestra in celebration of Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10th Anniversary
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LOCAL HEROES Sculptress Stoneflower With a refined interest in storytelling and cross-art collaboration,Rubiks Australian trio Stoneflower’s evocative musical journeys through vocal jazz, Collective delights audiences with its unique programming and dazzling Brazilian bossa nova and melodic pop have stolen hearts around the country. virtuosity. Sculptress is a celebration of female artists who are reshaping The ensemble combines the artistry of guitarist Stephen Magnusson and contemporary music by re-examining our past. New approaches to sound, Tamara Murphy (bass/backing vocals) with the silken voice of Jacqueline notation and genre play against tributes to early electronic music pioneers, Gawler (Coco’s Lunch). Launching their second album together, they produce field recordings and the 1950s golden age of American advertising. an energy and sound that is soulful, passionate and entirely magnetic.
INFORMATION INFORMATION Thu 5 December 6pm Fri 6 December 8pm Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Anna Thorvaldsdottir Fields Stoneflower Sara Glojnaric Indispensable Ms. Jones (Australian premiere) Tickets $30 ($25 conc) Gemma Peacocke Quiver (Australian premiere) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Jazz Co-operative Christine McCombe new work (world premiere) Nicole Lizée Sculptress (Australian premiere) Rubiks Collective Tickets $39 ($29 conc) 1 Rubiks Collective Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Rubiks Collective 2 Stoneflower
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About the artists Award-winning young chamber ensemble Penny Quartet DECEMBER received Melbourne Recital Centre's 2018 Contemporary Masters Award.
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LOCAL HEROES LOCAL HEROES Wet Ink Thin Places Iaki Vallejo Wet Ink provides a journey around the world A concept coined by the ancient Celts, thin Singer and composer Iaki Vallejo’s vivacious through some of the latest compositions places are the spaces between the holy and the music is an expression of her Colombian heritage written for Ensemble Three. In addition to a human, heaven and Earth, air and soil. In this and the stories she’s collected from her travels world premiere by Melbourne's own Tim program including works from Jörg Widmann around the world. Her upbeat numbers fuse Dargaville, the award-winning trio performs and Maurice Ravel, Penny Quartet explores this together an intoxicating diversity of styles: works from its recent residency at Princeton indefinable feeling, this element of humanity, Afro-Colombian rhythms, jazz, soul, salsa, University by Chinese composer Yihan Chen from the sublime to the uncomfortable. Thin afro-beat, funk and reggae. Interactive and and American Anna Meadors, and a thrilling places are not necessarily sacred or peaceful, immersive, Iaki draws inspiration from the many new piece by London-based Dai Fujikura. though they can be both – they are places of different collaborations and cultures she works dissonance, beauty and conflict. with and within. INFORMATION Tue 10 December 6pm INFORMATION INFORMATION Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Wed 11 December 6pm Sat 14 December 7pm Tim Dargaville new work (world premiere) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Three Dai Fujikura Erkki-Sven Tüür String Quartet No.1, ‘In Iaki Vallejo vocals Dai Fujikura Chance Monsoon memoriam Urmas Kibuspuu’ Tickets $30 ($25 conc) Yihan Chen new work Jorg Widmann String Quartet No.2, Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Anna Meadors new work ‘Chorale Quartet’ Multicultural Arts Victoria Ensemble Three Ravel String Quartet in F Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Penny Quartet Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Ensemble Three Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & 1 Ensemble Three Engaged through The University of Melbourne- Penny Quartet 2 Penny Quartet Melbourne Recital Centre Learning Partnership 3 Iaki Vallejo
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The Barber of Seville Celebrating Richard Mills
The Barber of Seville Celebrating Richard Mills Prepare for an evening of huge laughs with Rossini’s most popular opera, Celebrate the musical achievements of a lifetime as prolific Australian a delightful romp full of farcical frivolity. Featuring some of opera’s most composer and conductor Richard Mills turns 70. Join Victorian Opera recognisable music, this madcap masterpiece is a paean to impertinence and Orchestra Victoria for an evening of music-making dedicated to Mills’s that will make you beam with joy and grin with delight. Don’t miss Rossini 40-year contribution to the Australian music scene – many of his pieces are at his best with this hilarious night at the opera. Australian classics. Mills conducts his award-winning music, from intimate works to the full colours and powers of the orchestra. INFORMATION INFORMATION Thu 12 December 7.30pm & Sat 14 December 1pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 25-mins incl. interval) Fri 13 December 7.30pm Rossini The Barber of Seville Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Brenton Spiteri Count Almaviva Works by Richard Mills and Vaughan Williams. Warwick Fyfe Doctor Bartolo Star-studded lineup of local artists conducted by Richard Mills, including Chiara Amarù Rosina Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Emma Matthews, Greta Bradman, José Carbó, José Carbó Figaro PLEXUS, Flinders Quartet, Orchestra Victoria and more. Paolo Pecchioli Don Basilio Tickets from $39 Stephen Marsh Fiorello Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre, Victorian Opera & Kathryn Radcliffe Berta Orchestra Victoria Richard Mills conductor Elizabeth Hill-Cooper director Orchestra Victoria Tickets from $39 Presented by Victorian Opera
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ANTING CHRISTM AN ENCH AS STORY DECEMBER
FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES
SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 10AM & 11.30AM (50-MINS NO INTERVAL)
An enchanting Christmas story for kids based on the beloved book The Snowman. Enjoy this family-friendly Christmas concert performed with a live orchestra accompanying the animated film of the classic book projected on the big screen. The Snowman, with gorgeous music composed by Howard Blake, has become a Christmas tradition for families around the world and will delight kids of all ages. Conducted by Brett Kelly, narrated by Christopher Lawrence and performed by The Impossible Orchestra.
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TICKETS $26 | FAMILY TICKET $86 (2 ADULTS & 2 CHILDREN)
© Snowman Enterprises Limited. 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs is published by Puffin
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Noël! Noël! Christmas Greetings Noël! Noël! shimmers with all the spark and celebration of the starting Celebrate Christmas this year with the Australian Boys Choir in Elisabeth summer. Experience the pure spiritual joy of rare festive pieces and much- Murdoch Hall. Featuring outstanding young soloists from Australia’s 'first DECEMBER anticipated classics. The ethereal Brandenburg Choir joins the Australian and finest' choir for boys and one of the country’s premier all-male vocal Brandenburg Orchestra and a highly celebrated guest artist in a concert ensembles, The Vocal Consort, artistic director Nicholas Dinopoulos leads brimming with joyful twists and soulful serenity. Expect to be surprised, nearly 200 singers of the Australian Boys Choral Institute on stage in this moved and then float from the concert hall into the festive season. traditional festive gala event.
INFORMATION INFORMATION Sat 7 December 5pm & 7.30pm Sun 15 December 3pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Traditional Christmas music and songs including ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ A selection of choral favourites, rarities and gems for the Christmas season. and ‘Stille Nacht’. Nicholas Dinopoulos conductor Paul Dyer artistic director/conductor The Australian Boys Choir Australian Brandenburg Orchestra & Choir The Vocal Consort Tickets from $30 Training Groups of the Australian Boys Choral Institute Presented by Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Tickets from $50 ($40 conc) Presented by the Australian Boys Choral Institute
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra & Choir
Australian Boys Choral Institute
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