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ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON 2019 MASTER SERIES 10 Magical Tchaikovsky November Fri 29, 8pm Sat 30, 6.30pm Adelaide Town Hall Beehive Corner ● Adelaide Arcade ● Central Market Arcade Visitor Centre, Parkside ● Burnside Village ● Glenelg ● Golden Grove Or shop online at haighschocolates.com MASTER SERIES 10 Magical Tchaikovsky November Mark Wigglesworth Conductor Fri 29, 8pm Sat 30, 6.30pm Adelaide Town Hall Wagner Die Feen: Overture Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K297b Allegro Adagio Andantino con variazioni Celia Craig Oboe Dean Newcomb Clarinet Adrian Uren French Horn Mark Gaydon Bassoon Interval Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Act II Duration Broadcast This concert runs for approximately 2 hours This concert will recorded for delayed broadcast including a 20 minute interval. on ABC Classic. You can hear it again at 12pm on 8 December. Classical Conversation These free events take place one hour prior to the concerts in the Meeting Hall located just behind the Adelaide Town Hall. Join Principal Guest Conductor Mark Wigglesworth, and ASO’s Director of Artistic Planning Simon Lord, as they examine fantasy and fairy tales in works by Wagner, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Book Sales Mark Wigglesworth’s book, The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters, will be for sale in Beehive Corner ● Adelaide Arcade ● Central Market Arcade the Adelaide Town Hall. Mark will be available for signing during interval. Visitor Centre, Parkside ● Burnside Village ● Glenelg ● Golden Grove The ASO acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and Or shop online at haighschocolates.com work. We pay our respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and all Aboriginal 3 and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and future. Vincent Ciccarello Managing Director Good evening and welcome to our final We shift into Christmas mode the Master Series program for 2019. Yet following week when Guy Noble presents another year’s flown by and I hope Classics Unwrapped 4, ‘Tis the Season you’ve enjoyed the music we’ve (6.30pm, Wednesday 11 December). presented for you. And we cap off the year with not For me, there are far too many highlights one but two sing-a-longs: Christmas to list, but I confess to having been Favourites with your ASO, conducted extremely moved by our performance of by Graham Abbott, which features the Bach’s St. John Passion. It will stay with delightful Desiree Frahn, who’ll lead the me for a long time. carols! (Elder Hall, 7.30pm, Thursday 12 December; and 11am, Friday 13 We have much more great music on December). offer next year. I’m pleased to report that subscriptions to our 2020 season are very For full details and to book, please visit strong – indeed, we are on track to sell our website. more tickets to more subscribers for 2020 I’d like to thank you for your support than for any of the previous five years. during 2019. Your love of music, your love Single tickets go on sale on Monday 2 of our music is palpable at every concert; December and so, if you haven’t already but your love of the ASO is spread far done so, this weekend remains your last and wide, through your enthusiasm and chance to secure the best available seats advocacy. by subscribing to three or more concerts. I wish you and your loved ones a safe, But this year is not quite over, and we happy and peaceful Christmas, and look still have a wonderful variety of concerts forward to seeing you for more great over the next two weeks; they are a lovely music-making in 2020. way to usher in the festive season, and possible gift ideas, too! Our fourth and final Mozart at Elder concert (11.30am, Wednesday 4 December) features Natsuko Yoshimoto directing the orchestra and as soloist in Mozart’s Adagio for violin and orchestra. And for something entirely different, in that same week (at 6pm on Saturday 7 December) we present Disney’s The Little Mermaid in Concert Live to Film in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre – perfect for the young and the young at heart! 4 Mark Wigglesworth Principal Guest Conductor Internationally renowned and Olivier Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Award-winning conductor Mark Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Wigglesworth is one of the outstanding Cleveland Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, musicians of his generation, as much and the Sydney Symphony. His recordings at home in the opera house as the include a critically acclaimed complete concert hall. Recognised for his cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies masterly interpretations, his highly with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales detailed performances combine a finely and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, considered architectural structure with Mahler’s Sixth and Tenth symphonies, great sophistication and rare beauty. with the Melbourne Symphony, a disc of Through a broad repertoire ranging from English music with the Sydney Symphony, Mozart to Boulez, he has forged enduring Britten’s Peter Grimes with Glyndebourne, relationships with many orchestras and and the Brahms Piano Concertos with opera houses throughout the world. Stephen Hough. Mark has enjoyed a long relationship with He has written articles for The Guardian English National Opera (Lady Macbeth and The Independent, made a six-part TV of Mtsensk, Cosi fan Tutti, Falstaff, Katya series for the BBC entitled Everything to Kabanova, Parsifal, The Force of Destiny, Play For, and held positions as Associate The Magic Flute, Jenufa, Don Giovanni Conductor of the BBC Symphony, Principal and Lulu), and operatic engagements Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio elsewhere include The Royal Opera Symphony, Music Director of the BBC House, Covent Garden (Die Meistersinger National Orchestra of Wales, and most von Nürnberg, The Rise and Fall of the recently Music Director of English National City of Mahagonny), The Metropolitan Opera. He is currently Principal Guest Opera, New York (The Marriage of Figaro) Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony as well as at The Bavarian State Opera, Orchestra. His book, The Silent Musician, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, The was published by Faber & Faber at the Netherlands Opera, La Monnaie, Welsh end of 2018. National Opera, Glyndebourne, and Opera Australia. In 2017 he received the Oliver Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. On the concert platform, highlights include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, 5 Celia Craig Dean Newcomb Oboe Clarinet Dedicatee of Master of The Queens Dean Newcomb is currently the Music, Judith Weir CBE’s first Oboe Principal Clarinettist with the Adelaide Concerto, Celia Craig has performed Symphony Orchestra, a position he for the Royal Family, recorded has held since 2008. and toured extensively, working Dean has performed as guest Principal with Bernstein, Boulez, Haitink, Clarinet with various orchestras in Ashkenazy, Rattle, Gergiev and Australia and overseas, including the the London Symphony Orchestra, Australia World Orchestra, Australian among others. Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Principal Oboe of the Adelaide Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Symphony Orchestra until 2018 and Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia an appointed Associate of the Royal and was offered the Principal Clarinet Academy of Music, Celia runs her position with The Macau Orchestra own multimedia recording company before deciding to settle in Adelaide. ARTARIA, whose Direct Stream Digital His solo concerto performances have debut recording has been awarded been met with critical acclaim, with a five-star rating by The Weekend reviewers praising his “musical gifts, Australian, several Album of The technical finesse and outstanding Week Awards, national television ability” (The Advertiser). airplay and screenings in Palace Dean regularly performs as a recital Nova Cinema. and chamber musician with Australia’s Celia was recently appointed Music leading ensembles including the Curator for the National Trust of Australian String Quartet, the Australia South Australia; for the Trust, she Ensemble, Southern Cross Soloists, curates concerts in unique heritage the Hamer String Quartet for the properties and runs her own opening of the Melbourne Recital ‘Signature’ Concert Series in The Centre and the world premiere State Dining Room, Ayers House. of Arthur Benjamin’s century-old Clarinet Quintet with the Goldner Celia is a Faculty Resident Artist at String Quartet. His active involvement the annual TALIS Festival in Sarajevo, in music education includes giving and also coaches oboes in Sao masterclasses, lecturing and tutoring Paolo for the largest youth music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, event in South America: Campos de tutoring for the Australian Youth Jordao Winter Festival. Orchestra’s orchestral and chamber music seasons and adjudicating at the Lisbon International Clarinet Competition in Portugal. Dean Newcomb is a D’Addario Woodwinds artist. 6 Adrian Uren Mark Gaydon French Horn Bassoon Adrian was born in 1984 in Worcester, Mark has been Principal Bassoonist UK and lived all his childhood in with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Malvern. He read Biological Sciences since 2003. He has appeared as soloist at Oxford University, where he also performing works by Mozart, Weber, gained valuable orchestral experience Zwilich, Strauss and others. He has as Principal Horn of the OU Orchestra. also appeared as guest principal Afterwards he won a scholarship for bassoon with the Sydney, Queensland, postgraduate French Horn study at the Tasmanian and New