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VOLUME 8 OCTOBER 2013 ANAM.COM.AU ANAM MUSIC MAKERS INSIDE THIS ISSUE EVENT CALENDAR: A NIGHT IN ANAM CONCERTO EIGHT IS ENOUGH OCTOBEr – dECEMBER BERLIN, A DAY IN COMPETITION FINAL THE COUNTRY RECITALS A N A GEORGINA ROBERTS OBOE What have you chosen to perform for your recital? ANTHONY CHATawaY I’ve selected three major works to perform: M The Mozart Concerto, Heinz Holliger’s Sonate VIOLA for solo oboe and the Poulenc Sonata for oboe and piano. What have you chosen to perform for your recital? What is significant about this repertoire Sonata for Piano and ‘arpeggione’ by Franz for you, and for your instrument? Schubert (tran. for Viola) and York Bowen’s The concerto is used as a standard audition Phantasy for viola and piano. piece, so a chance to perform the work without so much pressure will be a pleasant What is significant about this repertoire change! I have chosen the Heinz Holliger for you, and for your instrument? Sonate because my teacher, Jeff Crellin, was Schubert is always a challenge but it is a student of Holliger back in the 1970s, and I certainly a rewarding one. This piece have no doubt he will have some terrific challenges one’s technique and musicianship first-hand insight into this piece. on many levels and there’s not a lot you can fluke. Also the fact that it wasn’t written for the What are you most looking forward to in viola adds an extra layer of decision-making your recital? and difficulty to performing this work. The I am really looking forward to performing more Bowen is, I admit, significant to me and not Poulenc with Gladys Chua (piano) – we last many others, although I hope to change this. worked together on the Poulenc Trio for oboe, It is an acquired taste but I just can’t get bassoon and piano, which we had so much enough of it for some reason. York Bowen fun performing on several occasions last year. was labelled “The English Rachmaninoff.” As far as the viola repertoire goes you will not find What did you learn from last year’s recital anything more lush, romantic and virtuosic. that will be useful when programming, When you hear the ending to this piece you organising and/or performing this one? almost want to start laughing because it’s so I have learnt that it is necessary in terms of over the top, just when you think he’s been stamina and overall recital length to pay close ridiculous enough he takes it to another level. attention to the overall duration of the pieces The only way to bring it across successfully is you are programming. I seem to always pick to perform it in an equally over the top and very difficult programs... ridiculous manner. MON 28 OCT, 2:15PM What are you most looking forward to in Student Beneficiary Support provided by your recital? Philip Bacon AM Taking the audience for a ride with York Bowen. What did you learn from last year’s recital that will be useful when programming, organising and/or performing this one? Keep it simple, organise your accompanist in good time and perform your whole recital through at least a week before your recital. THU 3 OCT, 1PM Student Beneficiary Support provided by Leighton Holdings The Australian National Academy of Music The only institute of its kind in Australia and lessons, master classes and public WHAT WE DO (ANAM) is dedicated to the artistic and one of the few in the world, ANAM’s 2013 performances. Renowned for its professional development of the country’s cohort consists of 71 students from across innovation and energy and adventurous most exceptional young musicians. ANAM’s Australia. Based in the South Melbourne programming, ANAM is committed to vision is to develop the country’s future Town Hall, ANAM’s students take part in the the advancement of contemporary and music leaders, distinguished by their artistic professional performance program, an Australian composition. skill, imagination, courage, and by their intensive yearlong course of one-to-one contribution to a vibrant Australian music culture. GEMMA TOMLINSON CELLO What have you chosen to perform for your recital? For my first ANAM recital I will be performing Beethoven’s 3rd sonata for cello and piano in A major, and the Shostakovich sonata for cello and piano. KAYLIE MELVILLE What is significant about this repertoire PERCUSSION for you, and for your instrument? What have you chosen to perform for These two works brought me to choose a your recital? path in music and cello performance. I studied My recital program started with John Cage’s the first movement of the Shostakovich in KIM WORLEY beautiful work Child of Tree – a guided depth for a school music assignment, and CELLO became obsessed with his language improvisation for a percussionist using plant ROHAN DASIKA What have you chosen to perform for throughout that process. I was learning the materials. I was intrigued by the idea of playing your recital? BASS movement at the time as well, and fell in love an amplified cactus! I’ve chosen the other My upcoming recital will feature works linking with the experience of collaborating with a works in my program to link to nature or the I What have you chosen to perform for the cello to the human voice, including a pianist to create such meaningful chamber Ching (the Chinese ‘Book of Changes’), both your recital? couple of song transcriptions (one of which I music. The Beethoven was one of the first of which were huge influences on Cage. Concerto for Double Bass in D Major by Carl plan to do myself!) a vocalise or two, for cello works I heard live, and the piece has Ditters Von Dittersdorf. which I will be joined by soprano Karen What is significant about this repertoire always been a favourite since. for you, and for your instrument? Grenzübertritt (Crossing Beyond) for Viola, Fitzgibbon and two great cello sonatas by This repertoire is significant because Cage Cello and Double Bass by Viktor Suslin. What are you most looking forward to in Barber and Boccherini with pianist Leigh your recital? Harrold, both of which contain cantabile (or was very involved in early writing for Concerto for Double Bass by Eduard Tubin. percussion. His works really challenge ideas I am really looking forward to the “singing”) elements. What is significant about this repertoire collaboration with my associate artist, Louisa of what can and can’t be an instrument, and What is significant about this repertoire for you, and for your instrument? Breen. As both works are sonatas, I feel it is what we consider music to be. These are for you, and for your instrument? The Dittersdorf is one of the most standard of very much about sharing musical ideas with questions that I think musicians in the 21st As a singer myself, I am drawn to those standard pieces in the double bass repertoire, the pianist to create a unique yet accurate century are still thinking about, and it’s elements in music which either emulate or and something that every double bassist has interpretation of the works. I have really interesting to consider where those lines are attempt to capture the essence of the to grapple with at some point in their lives – enjoyed working with Louisa so far (or if they exist at all!) expressive flow that is found in vocal music, I’m looking forward to trying to put as much of throughout this process. and for this reason the music I have chosen to What are you most looking forward to in myself as possible into such a well-known What have you found most challenging perform sits close to my heart. It has also your recital? piece. Grenzübertritt is a piece I only came or most satisfying when programming been said that the timbre and range of the I find that the beauty of Cage’s music is that it across this year whilst aimlessly browsing your recital? cello is the most similar of all the instruments really encourages you to listen more closely to YouTube, and in my opinion makes one of the The Beethoven is such a significant work for to the voice and one finds evidence that unusual or unexpected sounds from everyday most convincing arguments for the double cello, and I feel it a challenge to present an composers have taken advantage of this objects. It’s an idea I’m looking forward to bass becoming a more mainstream chamber interesting and original take on it, particularly similarity in their writing for the instrument. sharing with everyone! music instrument. There is an incredible as I have been listening to recordings of this variety of colours produced by just three What are you most looking forward to in What have you found most challenging or work for years! most satisfying when programming your instruments, ranging from the most intimate your recital? recital? sounds to almost orchestral textures. The MON 4 NOV, 11AM The opportunity to share wonderful music, Tubin concerto is becoming more and more both with colleagues on stage and with One of the biggest challenges in programming Student Beneficiary Support provided appreciated by bassists these days, and is friends, family and other supporters who a percussion recital is often sourcing all of the by Anonymous instruments you need and then making sure dramatic and virtuosic in a manner barely come along to listen. And of course the you can play them. I’m currently learning to seen in our repertoire.
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