LUCID DREAMING 2 Thursday 20 September 6pm, Salon

PRESENTED BY Recital Centre

SPEAKERS Genevieve Lacey host Aura Go pianist Chloe Hooper writer Brook Andrew artist

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Aura Go enjoys an active and multifaceted musical life, performing as a soloist, chamber musician, lied pianist and conductor. Recognised for her imaginative and compelling performances, Aura has been a soloist in concertos ranging from Bach to Schnittke, and has appeared at international music festivals including the Melbourne Festival, Metropolis New Music Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and Edinburgh Festival. Recent highlights include performing as soloist with the Tapiola Sinfonietta in Aarre Merikanto’s Third Piano Concerto for the 2017 PianoEspoo Festival in , and solo and chamber performances at the Kuhmo and Kauniainen Music Festivals. In 2018-19 Aura is a FutureMakers artist.

A natural storyteller, Chloe Hooper has a knack for observing people and their responses to performance. Chloe's first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime (2002), was a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her nonfiction work The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) won the Victorian, New South Wales, Western Australian and Queensland Premiers' Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing and a Ned Kelly for Crime Writing. Her non-fiction work, spanning boxing to paleontology, has been awarded two Walkley Awards. Her last novel, The Engagement, was published internationally in 2012, and a non-fiction work, The Arsonist, will be released in late 2018. Chloe was Melbourne Recital Centre’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence in 2017.

Brook Andrew is the Artistic Director of the 2020 Biennale of Sydney. He is an interdisciplinary artist who examines dominant narratives, often relating to colonialism and modernist histories. Through museum and archival interventions he aims to offer alternate versions of forgotten histories, illustrating different means for interpreting history in the world today. Most recently Brook presented What’s Left Behind, a new commission for SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement at the 21st Biennale of Sydney. >> In 2017 he created an intervention into the collection of the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland; presented Ahy-kon-uh-klas-tik, an interrogation of the Van Abbemuseum archives in The Netherlands; and The Right to Offend Is Sacred opened at the National Gallery of , a 25-year reflection on his practice. Brook Andrew is represented by Tolarno Galleries Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels. His 2011 work, Donut I, is on display in our grand staircase.

Genevieve Lacey is a recorder virtuoso, serial collaborator and artistic director with a significant recording catalogue and a career as an international soloist. She’s commissioned and premiered works by a diverse selection of composers. Genevieve also creates large-scale collaborative projects, recent examples including Pleasure Garden, one-infinity, Life in Music and Namatjira. Her wide-ranging musical interests have seen her playing for the Queen in Westminster Abbey, representing Australian culture with a performance at the Lindau International Convention of Nobel Laureates, playing as a concerto soloist in the BBC Proms, making music in a prison in remote Western , and at the opening night of the London Jazz Festival. Her repertoire spans 10 centuries and collaborators include filmmakers, orchestras, playwrights, singer-song-writers and other esteemed artists. Genevieve has won two ARIAs, a Helpmann Award, Australia Council, Freedman and Churchill Fellowships and Outstanding Musician, Melbourne Prize for Music. She holds degrees (including a doctorate) in music and English literature from universities in Melbourne, Switzerland and . In 2018, Genevieve is Artist-in-Residence at Melbourne Recital Centre, she takes on a new role as Artistic Advisor to UKARIA, continues as Chair of the Australian Music Centre board, and is inaugural Artistic Director of FutureMakers, Musica Viva Australia’s artist leadership program.

Melbourne Recital Centre's Artist-in-Residence program is supported by The Vizard Foundation.

COMING UP LUCID DREAMING 3 Tuesday 20 November 6pm, Salon Genevieve Lacey with guests Jessie Lloyd, Matt Lutton and Zoë Morrison.

SOLILOQUY Thursday 22 November 7.30pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall The world premiere of Genevieve Lacey's new work directed by Gideon Obarzanek.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nation on whose land this concert is being presented.

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