VOLUME 16 ANAM.COM.AU Music Makers

Curating and programming: The rhythmic ANAM Musicians pulse driving shaping Kathryn Stott’s their own way performance page 4 page 3

Wild Percussion: William Winant and the music of John Zorn page 13

The Emerald Hill Festival returns to the Hill on Sunday 15 November page 16

One girl inspires one concerto page 4 Evolve with ANAM WELCOME ANAM QUARTETTHAUS

When I am asked to look back on my time at ANAM, I can clearly see how much we have accomplished. In fact, ANAM has developed What’s on when at so much in the last six years that I am proud to say that I would not be in the running anymore for the Artistic Director position! ANAM Quartetthaus All of us here work for, and believe in, the talented young musicians who come through our doors. It makes me very proud to consider ANAM Quartetthaus returns this year as part of the 2015 the achievements of the musicians throughout my time at ANAM. Festival landing once more in front of the South ANAM has made a name for itself through our exciting performances, atop Emerald Hill. An extraordinary our dedicated approach to playing Australian music and for our fusion of music, architecture and design, ANAM Quartetthaus innovative Health and Wellbeing Program. We now look forward to is a unique listening space for intimate, live performance – not only our musicians having successful and diverse careers, but also healthy and long ones. an experience unlike any other in Melbourne. My hope is that when the students leave the South Melbourne Town Hall, after however long they spend here, they have a SAT 10 — SUN 18 OCTOBER HAYDN String quartet in E flat major op. 71, no. 3 HobIII:71 sense of how much music matters to them, to their families and Tickets All $35 DVORAK String quartet no. 10 to their community. Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 in E flat major op. 51 Working at the South Melbourne Town Hall has been a privilege, its grandeur adding to the experience of ANAM performances. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE PERFORMANCE 7 This experience made all the richer by our amazing and unique TUE 13 OCTOBER 7PM ANAM audience. HAYDN String quartet in You, our audience, have always come with a sense of encouragement, E flat major op. 50, no. 3 HobIII:46 HAYDN String quartet in B flat major you listen better than all other audiences I know, you appreciate PROKOFIEV String quartet no. 2 op. 76, no. 4 HobIII:78 Sunrise better and you congratulate better. You are important in making in F major op. 92 MENDELSSOHN String quartet no. 1 in E flat major op. 12 ANAM what it is and pushing our young musicians at the start of PERFORMANCE 1 their careers, to become better performers. SAT 10 OCTOBER 2PM PERFORMANCE 8 WED 14 OCTOBER 1PM I will miss the excellence of these young musicians: they push me to PERFORMANCE 6 think artistically outside of the box. As said after her TUE 13 OCTOBER 1PM PERFORMANCE 15 last visit here: SAT 17 OCTOBER 5PM “ANAM is an extraordinary institution… It’s intense, it’s demanding, it’s challenging and it is immensely rewarding to be involved with. HAYDN String quartet in The future of classical music is in very good hands at ANAM”. C major op. 64, no. 1 HobIII:65 HAYDN String quartet DVORAK String quartet no. 10 in F major op. 50, no. 5 HobIII:48 Her constant support and return in September, plus the support of in E flat major op. 51 BEETHOVEN String quartet so many exceptional international and local musicians is testament in D major op. 18, no. 3 to ANAM’s reputation. PERFORMANCE 2 SAT 10 OCTOBER 5PM PERFORMANCE 9 Another visitor arriving this term is Kathryn Stott, who joins us WED 14 OCTOBER 7PM in October. I have had the honour of playing with her many times. PERFORMANCE 10 She produces one of the most exquisite sounds you will ever hear HAYDN String quartet in C major op. THU 15 OCTOBER 1PM from a piano. 76, no. 3 HobIII:77 Emperor We also welcome back for his fifth visit, the marvellous Anthony SHOSTAKOVICH String quartet no. 9 PERFORMANCE 14 Marwood. And I am thrilled to announce that Anthony will be in E flat major op. 117 SAT 17 OCTOBER 2PM premiering my new violin concerto in his concert on December 4th. PERFORMANCE 3 SAT 10 OCTOBER 7PM I would also like to invite you all to join us here for my final HAYDN String quartet performance with ANAM for 2015 on Sunday December 6th. PERFORMANCE 11 in D major op. 76, no. 5 HobIII:79 ANAM Musicians, Alumni, Faculty and special guests will join me. THU 15 OCTOBER 7PM WEBERN Langsamer Satz The repertoire consists of Schubert, Copland, Stanhope and BARTOK String quartet no. 3 Brahms – whose notes will be the last I play as Artistic Director PERFORMANCE 17 of this great institution. SUN 18 OCTOBER 2PM PERFORMANCE 13 FRI 16 OCTOBER 7PM While I am sad about leaving, I am proud of everything that we have achieved together. I am also excited about my future at the HAYDN String quartet in HAYDN String quartet in Con, where I will be writing an opera with Rodney Hall D major op. 76, no. 5 HobIII:79 C major op. 64, no. 1 HobIII:65 for the Conservatorium Opera School in 2018, and many more DVORAK String quartet no. 10 in SHOSTAKOVICH String quartet compositions and performances. E flat major op. 51 no. 8 in C minor op. 110 I feel confident in ANAM’s strong and bright future and look forward PERFORMANCE 4 PERFORMANCE 16* to a new relationship with it. MON 12 OCTOBER 1PM SAT 17 OCTOBER 7PM PAUL DEAN PERFORMANCE 19 PERFORMANCE 18 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SUN 18 OCTOBER 7PM SUN 18 OCTOBER 5PM

*Please note: Performance 16 on HAYDN String quartet in E flat major Saturday 17 October at 7pm will also op. 71, no. 3 HobIII:71 include: WEBERN Langsamer Satz MENDELSSOHN String quartet no. 2 in A minor op. 13 ANAM Quartetthaus 2015 is presented PERFORMANCE 5 in association with Bluebottle and MON 12 OCTOBER 7PM Melbourne Festival with the assistance of the City of Port Phillip, Naomi PERFORMANCE 12 Milgrom AO, Lady Potter AC and the FRI 16 OCTOBER 1PM Bowness Family Foundation

ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 16 2 ARTIST INSIGHT

The repertoire of the piano is vast, but few pianists reflect therapists are in knowing the best way LA VALSE that fact more than Kathryn Stott, who has proven herself at to relate to each person. I remember home in the French classics, tango and contemporary music one very young child in need who was TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 11AM perpetually screaming when home with DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après midi as well as Chopin and Liszt. Her recordings, solo and his adopted family and all attempts to d’un faune (arr. for 2 pianos) chamber, are now numerous and she is one of the favourite calm him down, were useless. The child POULENC Sonata for 2 pianos attended music therapy sessions and performing partners of cellist Yo Yo Ma with their playing ADAMS Hallelujah Junction instead of gentle lullabies or calming relationship now going back 30 years. RAVEL La valse (arr. for 2 pianos) sounds, the therapist met the child A child prodigy, she studied at the emphasis on always putting sound head on with very forceful, incredibly Kathryn Stott piano where her quality first, changed forever. With loud agitated music. I remember it was ANAM Pianists teachers included the legendary Vlado students, I encourage them to think very uncomfortable viewing as both Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Perlemuter and . She about pulse – it’s amazing how this so child and therapist ‘screamed’ together. Tickets All $27 is a familiar guest at major festivals often doesn’t factor in their thoughts. But gradually, the therapist changed his Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 and venues around the world, from the Then we look for a balance of tempo tone, rhythm – anything to just attract Kennedy Center to the BBC Proms. and freedom – that’s the hard part – to the attention of the child – and then, Performance to be followed by light Her own playing is distinguished by a find where the flow of the music seems engaged on the same wavelength, their refreshments and an opportunity to remarkable rhythmic drive, no doubt natural and at one with the performer. musical ‘conversation’ started to calm meet the artists nourished by her continuing love and We are all different and our internal down. The range of needs benefiting exploration of South American music. rhythms vary, so it’s each to their own from music therapy is absolutely vast She also loves to give back, and her in the end. We’ll be playing lots of but with Nordoff-Robbins and the PORGY & BESS 50th birthday celebrations raised two-piano repertoire together in the special program developed to train FANTASY £30,000 for AIDS research and upcoming ANAM concerts, so we’ll have therapists, I really don’t think there is FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 7PM Nordoff-Robbins music therapy. She to meet in the middle and both feel anyone they can’t communicate with. I lives in , where she is on the good without compromising the other. have deep respect for them all. RAVEL Jeux d’eau board of the legendary Hallé Orchestra, RAVEL Sonatine with daughter Lucy and working cocker Your repertoire covers a vast terrain, Lastly, does Archie ever RACHMANINOV Suite no. 2 spaniel Archie. ANAM Librarian, but there are certain areas you keep get to tour with you? (for 2 pianos) Phil Lambert recently caught up with returning to, one of those being French GERSHWIN Porgy & Bess Fantasy Ha ha! Lovely Archie! Sadly I have to Stott to find out more. music. As you will be playing quite a lot (for 2 pianos) leave him when I travel but if I could, I’d of Ravel for us, could you share some of RAVEL Piano concerto in G major happily take him with me. I seem to Your playing has, for me, an irresistible your thoughts on his music, and what work out of the UK more than in it, so Kathryn Stott piano rhythmic vitality. I get the feeling that draws you to it? not much of my travelling is done by car Jessica Cottis conductor if you hadn’t become a pianist, you I first encountered music by Ravel as a where he could come with me. Archie is ANAM Pianists might have been a competition ballroom very young student at the Yehudi a great companion and we spend a lot ANAM Orchestra dancer! Is rhythm something you Menuhin School and through lessons of time walking in the countryside when concentrate on when working with Venue South Melbourne Town Hall with who had studied I’m not at the keyboard. When he’s had students? How do you get them to Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 with the composer. From the beginning enough of me practising, he lets me loosen up? Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 I was drawn to the translucent qualities, know – that’s for sure. One minute I’m Well, I’m not sure I am any good at the sometimes sparse narrative, or the looking at the score, the next he’s This performance is presented dancing but it’s a nice thought! I think lushness of let’s say Daphnis and Chloe. jumped on my knee! That means stop in partnership with Sofitel rhythm has become more and more His music is at times also very brilliant and let’s go out – I have no choice but to Melbourne on Collins important in my playing as time has as you will hear in La Valse or moments obey. The development of the ANAM gone on. In the early part of my career, of the Concerto in G but Ravel’s ability Kathryn Stott joins ANAM in October for Orchestra is supported by the I know I played with much more rubato to create such simple beauty as in the two Season Concerts – La Valse and Ian Potter Foundation and often waited around in the music 2nd movement of the Concerto is Porgy and Bess Fantasy – covering the far too much. However, after working something extraordinary. Years ago, lush melodies of Gershwin and Debussy, with members of Piazzolla’s Quintet I sat down at the piano he composed the high voltage rhythms of John Adams and other musicians from Latin that piece on and played a few notes and Ravel’s jazz-infused piano concerto. America, I learnt to think about rhythm – it was a very emotional experience. in a different way. In tango music, it’s actually pretty strict and I remember I am interested in your connection with the double bass player often played my Nordoff-Robbins music therapy, which left hand part with me. He had to teach doesn’t yet have a high profile here in me how to be ruthlessly strict with the . Could you tell us a little of tempo. Eventually this had an effect on how it works, and how you came to be everything I played, of course adapted involved with it? to the music I played at the time, but From time to time, I’ve performed for perhaps the important point is that my fundraising events for Nordoff-Robbins. This is a really well established program that uses music to reach people with all kinds of needs. I spent some time six years ago attending sessions or watching videos of their work and what struck me, was how skilled their The rhythmic pulse driving Kathryn Stott’s performance ANAM 3 PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING COMPOSER INSIGHT

Curating and programming: ANAM Musicians shaping their own way The percentage of performances Another highlight showcasing the programmed by ANAM’s young collegial and student-driven music musicians is quite remarkable. Of making that fills the South Melbourne the 170 performances in ANAM’s Town Hall from morning to evening annual calendar, 90 of these include most days of the year, is the annual programs devised and led by ANAM ANAM Competition Musicians themselves. Forming the that takes place in November. Where core of ANAM’s season, the Solo traditionally competitions can be Recitals, Soundbites and Fellowship limited in focus and scope, the entries performances showcase ANAM each year at ANAM are representative Musicians and Fellows not only in their of all instrument areas, from woodwind, extensive performance skills but also brass, percussion, keyboard, harp and their curatorial and programming strings, as well as countless, inventive abilities. ANAM Artistic Director Paul combinations between. Dean describes the latter skills as “a Past winners of the annual competition very important part of the learning making names for themselves in process” – skills that are equally chamber music on the national stage important for young musicians as the include recently appointed Australian performance practice itself, enabling String Quartet second violinist them to forge enriching and sustainable Francesca Hiew (winner in 2012), and careers as professional musicians for the Arcadia Wind Quintet, winners in the decades to come. 2013 and recently announced as the The myriad opportunities for ANAM inaugural ensemble selected for Musica Musicians to curate and present Viva’s new artist development program, performances programmed themselves, FutureMakers. in addition to the many opportunities The three-stage ANAM Chamber there are to rehearse, prepare Music Competition opens the doors and perform established and new of the South Melbourne Town Hall works that are meaningful to each to audiences for both the semi- individual musician, attracts the most final on Wednesday 18 November at accomplished young musicians to 9.30am, and final round on Saturday ANAM from around Australia and 21 November. A highlight of ANAM’s New Zealand. performance calendar, this event is In the Dean brothers’ collective decade another exceptional example of how at ANAM – or the ‘Deanasty’ as Paul ANAM’s young musicians are taking cheekily refers to it – music of our time control of their music programming and music of our country have become and creating performances that are part of ANAM’s essential fabric. In relevant and meaningful to their 2015, to complement other prizes development and ultimately their such as that for most outstanding careers as professional musicians. programming in an ANAM solo recital and the newly named Ursula Hoff Prize for most outstanding performance ANAM CHAMBER in an ANAM solo recital, Brett and Paul together have instituted a new COMPETITION prize, to be awarded annually to ROUND 2 an ANAM Musician for outstanding WED 18 NOVEMBER 9.30AM – 4.30PM performance of an Australian work in FINAL a solo recital. This new prize is Brett SAT 21 NOVEMBER 7PM and Paul’s perpetuating gift to that aspect of the institution. Just as the Visit anam.com.au for program details successful Australian Voices series of ANAM Musicians performances presented in partnership with the Melbourne Recital Centre aims Venue South Melbourne Town Hall to excite and inspire ANAM Musicians Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) through the presentation of Australian Bookings for the Final recommended music, Brett and Paul’s prize aims to anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 further encourage bold and courageous programming.

ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 16 4 Clarinettist and composer Paul Dean doesn’t just talk the which was inspired by Elisabeth BEETHOVEN 7 talk, he walks the walk. His calls for Australian musicians to Glaser. She was one of the first people play more Australian music have been backed up by his own outside the gay community to die FRI 4 DECEMBER 7PM of AIDS, and she forced the Reagan BRITTEN Variations on a playing with Southern Cross Soloists and his five-year period administration to treat AIDS as a Theme of op. 10 as Artistic Director of ANAM. Recently, Paul Dean has been disease that threatened everyone. P DEAN Violin concerto One person against a government, building his reputation as a composer. BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 7 or against nature, like the passengers in A Major op. 92 During the last couple of years, Years later I was arranging pieces for in the SIEV-X. composing has become a larger part of the Southern Cross Soloists. I made at Anthony Marwood violin/director Malala Yousafzai is like that. I’ve my life. I used to sit in orchestras as a least 75 arrangements, learning really Paul Dean conductor titled the concerto after one of her teenager, and I’d keep a little notebook great pieces inside out. It was fantastic ANAM Orchestra famous quotes, “One child, one teacher, where I’d write all the tricks of the great training. In 2008 I wrote a chamber one book, one pen.” The courage, Venue South Melbourne Town Hall composers that really impressed me, concerto for Southern Cross and the determination and leadership Malala Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 mostly tricks of orchestration. The violinist Jack Liebeck, and it was really exhibits, is an extraordinary inspiration Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 main composers I took note of were successful. Then I started getting lots of to everyone on this planet. Stravinsky, Ravel, Mahler, Hindemith commissions from friends – unpaid, but and Puccini. The way Stravinsky uses never mind. I finally decided to get some Paul Dean’s directorship at ANAM will the bassoons in Rite of Spring, for formal training, so I did my Master’s THE END OF A finish in December. What makes him instance, really freaked me out. And degree with Stuart Greenbaum at the happiest when he thinks about the last DEANASTY Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe is just a . He taught me five years? SUN 6 DECEMBER 6PM handbook on orchestration. The way he a lot about form and structure. and Debussy use the harp is so subtle, One of the things that makes me puff SCHUBERT The Shepherd on the Rock Paul Dean’s current big project, almost you often don’t take it in, but you’d sure out my chest is to see the way the brass D 965 op. 129 completed, is a violin concerto for British miss it if it wasn’t there. Puccini too. and percussion departments have COPLAND Appalachian Spring suite soloist Anthony Marwood. His inspiration The way he uses the bass drum in bloomed, and how so many of those for 13 Instruments is Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, Turandot when there’s a sudden change players have been successful. Also, the STANHOPE Morning Star II who became a target of the Taliban of harmony is almost imperceptible, but Health and Wellbeing stream, which is BRAHMS Quintet for Clarinet and because of her campaign for girls’ it adds so much. Anyway, I kept this unique in the world. The Australian Strings in B minor op. 115 education. Malala survived bullet wounds little notebook and thought, eventually Voices series makes me proud. I love to her head, and went on the win the Paul Dean clarinet I’ll write my own music. getting it into the minds of young Nobel Peace Prize. Her campaign for Greta Bradman soprano players that it’s okay to play Australian girls’ education continues. ANAM Faculty, Musicians and Alumni music, not just because we need to Most of my music is inspired by create our own culture, but because it’s Venue South Melbourne Town Hall something I’m reading, or something bloody good music! They don’t just have Tickets All $35 I’ve got a head of steam up about. My to play Bach and Mozart. Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 piece for Jack Liebeck was inspired by Dozens of ANAM concerts will live in the sinking of the SIEV-X. Instead of my memory forever. But our opening doing what my dad would have done concert for this year, when Shane Chen – which was yell abuse at the TV, very played Wilfred Lehmann’s concerto was entertaining for us all, but still - my very special. Here was a great piece emotional response comes out in music. resurrected from obscurity, and given a When you think of a concerto, especially fantastic performance. That exemplifies the grand, romantic concertos, it’s often ANAM for me. the soloist against the orchestra, a sort of David and Goliath battle. My brother Brett’s first orchestral work was the concerto he wrote for me, Ariel’s Music,

ONE GIRL INSPIRES ONE CONCERTO ANAM 5 ANAM FELLOWSHIPS

The ANAM Fellowship program is designed to provide Being mentored by Genevieve Lacey CURIOSITY IN EXILE musicians of exceptional accomplishment with the has definitely been one of the highlights opportunity to realise specific goals in support of their of my Fellowship – I always leave our ANAM FELLOWSHIP PERFORMANCE meetings feeling excited about all of the FRI 6 NOVEMBER 6.30PM musical development. The ANAM Fellows for 2015 have been new ideas we’ve spoken about. working on a vast array of projects including forming chamber PROKOFIEV Overture on In the future I’d like to take the Hebrew Themes partnerships, curating themed and theatrical concerts incursions that I’ve workshopped with POPOV Chamber symphony op. 2 and developing inspiring and engaging school incursions. ANAM and bring them to schools Fostered by ANAM and mentored by recorder virtuoso and around , especially schools that Justin Beere (VIC) clarinet may not have much of a music program ANAM Musicians serial collaborator, Genevieve Lacey, each Fellow is given the at the moment.” freedom and support to progress their careers as musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $15 (ANAMates $5) Mee Na Lojewski (NSW) cello whilst gaining a broad and practical experience across Bookings Tickets at the door all aspects – including non-artistic elements – of their “ My ANAM Fellowship year so far individual projects. has been both eye-opening and rewarding. It feels like the most ETERNAL MYSTERY In her role as mentor, Genevieve Justine Anderson (VIC) soprano intensive hands-on musical training ANAM FELLOWSHIP PERFORMANCE articulates, “it’s inspiring to meet with I’ve had up to now. I have learned that “One of the highlights of my ANAM TUE 10 NOVEMBER 6PM the Fellows… to be a sounding board creating opportunities to perform Fellowship has been working with so for their thinking, not just for these means building a whole network of LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre many highly skilled musicians – ANAM projects, but also for their broader relationships. It’s never as rewarding CRUMB Lux Aeterna Musicians plus guest artists such as plans for a life in music.” playing to an empty hall as it is playing for five masked musicians director Penelope Bartlau, who helped to a full one, so I have also learned FOSS Time Cycle She expands: “it’s a privileged role, expand my performance ‘palette’ and the value of supportive and MESSIAEN Resurrection being a part of intense conversations enhanced my non-musical performance appreciative audiences. with idealistic, talented, intelligent skills. I’ve learned more about shaping Justine Anderson (VIC) soprano people, hearing their concerns and a themed event and about having to I see the opportunity of being an ANAM ANAM Musicians doubts, as well as their convictions Fellow as similar to being awarded a make it part of a narrative whole. Venue South Melbourne Town Hall and passions. Invariably, I come away creative grant. It is a great privilege I believe, as artists, it is vital to explore Tickets All $15 invigorated. Their questions challenge to receive ANAM’s assistance towards new connections, and to dream large Bookings Tickets at the door me, their energy enlivens me, their realising what motivates me artistically with the support of an organisation passion is contagious. I remember and to create and develop musical behind you is incredible. Being part of myself at similar points in life, and opportunities and experiences that the ANAM community with it’s culture AFFINITY COLLECTIVE reflect on how age and perspective would otherwise not be possible. of achievement and resourcefulness has ANAM FELLOWSHIP PERFORMANCE shifts your perceptions, and how Now that I’ve got this bug, I don’t been inspiring. MON 30 NOVEMBER 6.30PM it’s always easier to have wisdom in want to ever stop! Affinity Collective What has been challenging? Sure the hindsight! I love hearing their projects (the chamber music group I formed SCHOENBERG Trio for strings op. 45 music is difficult but somehow the come to life, and always come away as my Fellowship Project) will always SYMONDS Duo for violin & cello organisational part makes learning from those performances elated. be something I want to pour my RAVEL String quartet in F major the music seem like a piece of cake!” It’s beautiful to know a little of the creative energies into. Plans for 2016 Mee Na Lojewski (NSW) cello inside story, the struggle and the toil, are underway and they include more Morna Hu (VIC) piano/ Affinity Collective as well as the mastery and ease that’s concerts, more open rehearsals, community engagement presented on stage. In theory, I’m collaborations with Melbourne artists Venue South Melbourne Town Hall mentoring them, but I feel certain “I think that opportunities like the ANAM and musicians and a period of chamber Tickets Full $15 Conc/ANAMates $10 I’m learning every bit as much.” Fellowship are invaluable. The staff at music mentorship with leading Bookings trybooking.com/GXOH Three of the ANAM Fellows have ANAM have been absolutely incredible musicians in Europe.” also taken the time to reflect on in their support and working with their experience so far: them has really opened my eyes to the Each of ANAM’s 2015 Fellow’s have complexities of arts management and developed and implemented projects all the non-musical aspects of putting that are diverse and beneficial to their together a project. ANAM is also unique musical aspirations and it is exciting to in its philosophy, and I’ve really enjoyed think of where they will go from here. As being around learning from all the Genevieve sums up: “What strikes me talented people. is that if these musicians are carrying our future, it’s a bright one. Their talent, their hearts and minds are wide open. So it’s up to all of us to help them to create spaces where their music can FROM be heard and flourish.” CONCEPTION TO EXECUTION: ANAM FELLOWS REFLECT

ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 16 6 WHAT’S ON

SIMONE YOUNG TINALLEY STRING MAHLER WILD PERCUSSION & BRAHMS QUARTET WITH CHAMBER FRI 9 OCTOBER 7PM GALA CONCERT BEREN QUARTET ORCHESTRA ZORN Dark River for 4 bass drums FRI 18 SEPTEMBER 7.30PM TUE 29 SEPTEMBER 7PM MUSICIANS ZORN The Nymphs for solo bass marimba STANHOPE Fantasia HAYDN String quartet in FRI 2 OCTOBER 7PM ZORN Gri-Gri for 13 tuned on a theme of D major op.76, no. 5 FRANÇAIX 9 Pieces Caracteristiques drums (1 player) Vaughan Williams MOZART Quintet in A major PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet ZORN Cobra DUPARC Selected songs for clarinet & strings K 581 suite for brass BRAHMS Symphony no. 2 SCHUMANN Quintet in DVORÁK Serenade in E major William Winant percussion in D major, op. 73 E flat major op. 44 for string orchestra op. 22 ANAM Musicians Emma Matthews soprano Tinalley String Quartet BRAHMS Haydn variations Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Simone Young conductor Beren Quartet Kirsty Hilton violin Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 ANAM Orchestra Paul Dean clarinet Christopher Dicken trumpet Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 Timothy Young piano Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Paul Dean clarinet ANAM Musicians Melbourne Recital Centre Venue South Melbourne Town Hall ANAM Tickets Full $85 Sen/Conc $70 Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Bookings melbournerecital.com.au Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 QUARTETTHAUS 03 9699 3333 Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 SAT 10 — SUN 18 OCTOBER SCULTHORPE Visit anam.com.au for program details ANAM @ NGV WIND QUINTET MASTERCLASS ANAM String Quartets MON 28 SEPTEMBER 6.30 — 9PM WED 30 SEPTEMBER 7PM THU 8 OCTOBER 5.30PM Venue Outside the South Melbourne Town Hall Exclusive viewing of Masterpieces KLUGHARDT Quintet for winds op. 79 London Haydn Quartet Tickets All $35 from The Hermitage with a special LIGETI Six Bagatelles for wind quintet ANAM Musicians Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 performance by members of the DEAN Jasper & Charlie Venue South Melbourne Town Hall ANAM Faculty POULENC Sextet for winds & piano Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Venue NGV International, Sculthorpe Wind Quintet Bookings Tickets at the door WIND SERENADES 180 St Kilda Rd, MELBOURNE Timothy Young piano TUE 13 OCTOBER 11AM Tickets $150 (ticket price includes $100 tax deductible donation) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall IN CONVERSATION STRAUSS Sonatina no. 1 Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) WITH From an Invalid’s Workshop Bookings Tickets at the door WILLIAM WINANT ANAM Musicians FRI 9 OCTOBER 3PM Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) William Winant percussion Bookings Tickets at the door Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door

What’s on in October to December at ANAM ANAM 7 WHAT’S ON

MOSTLY MOZART IN CONVERSATION ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL WED 14 OCTOBER 11AM WITH KATHRYN STOTT WED 28 OCTOBER 11AM FRI 30 OCTOBER 11AM BACH Brandenburg concerto no. 3 FRI 23 OCTOBER 3PM JS BACH in JS BACH Partita no. 1 in B minor for in G major BWV 1048 Kathryn Stott piano E major BWV 1016 violin solo, BWV 1002. Allemande MOZART Horn concerto no. 4 HARVEY Fear for violin & piano MOZART Violin sonata in in E flat major K 495 Venue South Melbourne Town Hall GRIEG Violin sonata no. 3 A major K 526 BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 8 Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) in C minor op. 45 SZYMANOWSKI 3 Myths in F major op. 93 Bookings Tickets at the door for violin & piano Natalia Harvey (ACT) violin Kara Hahn (alumna) horn Rhodri Clarke piano Tiffany Cheng (NSW) violin Wilma Smith leader PORGY & BESS Michael Kieran Harvey piano Rhodri Clarke piano Orchestra Victoria FANTASY Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 7PM Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Melbourne Recital Centre Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets Full $47 Sen/Conc $38 RAVEL Jeux d’eau Bookings melbournerecital.com.au RAVEL Sonatine 03 9699 3333 RACHMANINOV Suite no. 2 ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL (for 2 pianos) WED 28 OCTOBER 1PM FRI 30 OCTOBER 1PM Complimentary morning tea GERSHWIN Porgy & Bess Fantasy is served from 10.15am in the (for 2 pianos) HIDAS Baroque Concerto MORALES Parce mihi Domine MRC Ground Floor Foyer RAVEL Piano concerto in G major SCHUMANN 3 Romances op. 94 SCHULLER Abstraction MOZART Die hölle Rache RUSSO Music for alto saxophone & Kathryn Stott piano SMALL Conversation strings op. 9 SOUNDBITE Jessica Cottis conductor NEWCOMB Flying & Floating ANAM Pianists Amanda Tillett (SA) trombone FRI 16 OCTOBER 1PM YEDID Myth of the cave ANAM Orchestra Rhodri Clarke piano HOLST The Planets (arr. for 2 pianos) ANAM Musicians Luke Carbon (QLD) clarinet Venue South Melbourne Town Hall ANAM Musicians ANAM Musicians Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL TUE 27 OCTOBER 11AM ANAM RECITAL LA VALSE WED 28 OCTOBER 3PM SAINT-SAËNS Bassoon sonata FRI 30 OCTOBER 3PM TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER 11AM in G major op. 168 PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet MOZART Bassoon concerto suite (arr. trombone & piano) MOZART Flute quartet in DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après midi in B flat major K 186e SPILLMAN Bass trombone concerto D major K 285 d’un faune (arr. for 2 pianos) BOZZA Nocturne-Danse SMALL Conversation for tenor DEAN Falling ever deeper POULENC Sonata for 2 pianos ROSSINI Bassoon concerto & bass trombone ALWYN Concerto for ADAMS Hallelujah Junction Concerto da esperimento SCHNYDER Zoom Out flute & 8 wind instruments RAVEL La valse (arr. for 2 pianos) Cameron Burnes (NSW) bassoon Elijah Cornish (VIC) bass trombone Jennifer Timmins (NZ) flute Kathryn Stott piano Louisa Breen piano Rhodri Clarke piano Leigh Harrold piano ANAM Pianists ANAM Musicians ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets All $27 Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door Performance to be followed by light ANAM RECITAL refreshments and an opportunity to ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL meet the artists TUE 27 OCTOBER 6PM THU 29 OCTOBER 6PM MON 2 NOVEMBER 1PM CLYNE Steelworks HINDMAN Tapping the Furnace REICH Electric Counterpoint RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (piano solo) for solo percussion (arr. Percussion) RACHMANINOFF Suite no. 2 FJELLSTRÖM Alchemist Dances FAIRCLOUGH The Boom & the Bap for two pianos in C minor op. 17 LANG Anvil Chorus for solo percussion WESLEY SMITH For Marimba & Tape Adam McMillan (QLD) piano DE JAGER New work (Title TBA) Kaylie Melville (WA) percussion ANAM Musician ANAM Musicians Hamish Upton (NZ) percussion Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door

ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 16 8 WHAT’S ON

ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL ETERNAL MYSTERY MON 2 NOVEMBER 3PM THU 5 NOVEMBER 11AM FRI 6 NOVEMBER 1PM ANAM FELLOWSHIP PERFORMANCE TUE 10 NOVEMBER 6PM JS BACH Cello suite no. 4 JS BACH Violin sonata no. 2 in A PROKOFIEV 5 Melodies for in E flat major BWV 1010 minor BWV 1003 violin & piano op. 35 LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre DEAN 3 Intimate Interludes for FAURÉ Violin sonata op. 13 BRAHMS Violin sonata no. 1 CRUMB Lux Aeterna cello & piano SZYMANOWSKI 3 Myths for in G major op. 78 for five masked musicians BEETHOVEN Cello sonata violin & piano BARTÓK Rhapsody no. 1 FOSS Time Cycle in C major op. 102 WIENIAWSKI Polonaise Brillante for violin & piano, Folk Dances MESSIAEN Resurrection Gemma Tomlinson (QLD) cello Hilary Hayes (NZ) violin Kyla Matsuura-Miller (QLD) violin Justine Anderson (VIC) soprano Leigh Harrold piano Leigh Harrold piano Rhodri Clarke piano ANAM Musicians ANAM Musicians ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets All $15 Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door Bookings Tickets at the door CURIOSITY IN EXILE EMERALD HILL ANAM RECITAL ANAM RECITAL ANAM FELLOWSHIP PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL WED 4 NOVEMBER 11AM THU 5 NOVEMBER 1PM FRI 6 NOVEMBER 6.30PM SUN 15 NOVEMBER 10AM — 4PM JS BACH Violin sonata no. 2 BOCCHERINI Sonata for 2 cellos PROKOFIEV Overture on Visit anam.com.au for more information in A minor BWV 1003. Allemande in A major Hebrew Themes SCHUBERT Violin sonata DELIUS Romance POPOV Chamber symphony op. 2 A FREE community arts and culture in A major D 574 KODÁLY Cello sonata op. 8 event for the whole family BLOCH Baal Shem, “Three Pictures Justin Beere (VIC) clarinet Jonathan Bekes (NSW) cello Venue In and around the South of Chassidic Life” (Excerpts) ANAM Musicians Louisa Breen piano Melbourne Town Hall SIBELIUS Humoresque in D minor ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Information anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 op. 87, no. 2. Allegro assai Tickets $15 (ANAMates $5) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Karla Hanna (VIC) violin Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Louisa Breen piano SOUNDBITE Bookings Tickets at the door ANAM Musicians ST SILAS MON 16 NOVEMBER 1PM Venue South Melbourne Town Hall SUNDAYS NO 3 NONO ...sofferte onde serene... Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) AUSTRALIAN VOICES FLENADY Si el clima fuera un banco SUN 8 NOVEMBER 2.30PM Bookings Tickets at the door 4: ALAN HOLLEY NEUWIRTH Incidendo/Fluido THU 5 NOVEMBER 6PM Visit anam.com.au for program details KEE YONG Time Flows II ANAM RECITAL HOLLEY Canzona for Ligeti Katie Yap (alumna) Alex Raineri (QLD) piano WED 4 NOVEMBER 8PM HOLLEY Ornithologia Venue St Silas Anglican Church Venue South Melbourne Town Hall HOLLEY Loaded With Dream 99 Bridport St, ALBERT PARK Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) GRANDAGE The Drowning Dream HOLLEY The Estuaries of Time Tickets Full $25 Conc / ANAMates $15 Bookings Tickets at the door DRUCKMAN Reflections on the HOLLEY The Winged Viola Bookings trybooking.com/HPLD Nature of Water TAN DUN Water concerto David Elton curator/trumpet ANAM CHAMBER ANAM Musicians Thea Rossen (WA) percussion SOUNDBITE COMPETITION: Venue Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Leigh Harrold piano TUE 10 NOVEMBER 1PM ROUND 2 ANAM Percussionists Tickets Full $25 Conc $15 Bookings mebournerecital.com.au SPOHR Grand Nonetto in WED 18 NOVEMBER 9.30AM Venue South Melbourne Town Hall 03 9699 3333 F major op. 31 Visit anam.com.au for program details Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) BEETHOVEN Septet for winds & Bookings Tickets at the door strings in E flat major op. 20 ANAM Musicians ANAM RECITAL ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall FRI 6 NOVEMBER 11AM Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Bookings Tickets at the door BOCCHERINI Sonata for Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) 2 cellos in C major Bookings Tickets at the door SCULTHORPE Requiem for ANAM CHAMBER cello alone SHOSTAKOVICH Cello sonata COMPETITION in D minor op. 40 FINAL Daniel Smith (QLD) cello SAT 21 NOVEMBER 7PM Rhodri Clarke piano Visit anam.com.au for program details ANAM Musicians ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Reservations recommended anam.com.au 03 9645 7911

ANAM 9 WHAT’S ON ANAM EXCLUSIVE

OBOE CLASS BEETHOVEN 7 CONCERT FRI 4 DECEMBER 7PM MON 23 NOVEMBER 6.30PM BRITTEN Variations on a Visit anam.com.au for program details Theme of Frank Bridge op. 10 P DEAN Violin concerto ANAM Musicians BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 7 Venue South Melbourne Town Hall in A Major op. 92 Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Anthony Marwood violin/director Bookings Tickets at the door Paul Dean conductor ANAM Orchestra THE SOLDIER’S TALE Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 FRI 27 NOVEMBER 11AM Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 SHOSTAKOVICH Piano quintet in G minor op. 57 STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale Suite THE END OF A CHAUSSON Concerto op. 21 DEANASTY Anthony Marwood violin SUN 6 DECEMBER 6PM ANAM Musicians SCHUBERT The Shepherd on the Rock Venue South Melbourne Town Hall D 965 op. 129 Tickets All $27 COPLAND Appalachian Spring suite Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 for 13 Instruments Performance to be followed by light STANHOPE Morning Star II refreshments and an opportunity to BRAHMS Quintet for Clarinet and meet the artists Strings in B minor op. 115 Paul Dean clarinet IN CONVERSATION Greta Bradman soprano AN EXCLUSIVE WITH ANTHONY ANAM Faculty, Musicians and Alumni MARWOOD Venue South Melbourne Town Hall VIEWING OF MASTERPIECES Tickets All $35 FRI 27 NOVEMBER 3PM Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 FROM THE HERMITAGE: Anthony Marwood violin THE LEGACY OF Venue South Melbourne Town Hall MOSTLY MOZART Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) CATHERINE THE GREAT Bookings Tickets at the door WED 16 DECEMBER 11AM BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture, Including a performance from EVENING SOUNDBITE op. 84 Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, MOZART Piano concerto no.12 FRI 27 NOVEMBER 6PM in A major K 414 featuring members of ANAM’s Faculty VIÑAO Water MENDELSSOHN Symphony no. 4 and ANAM Musicians. NANCARROW Study No. 14 op. 90, Italian MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER VIÑAO Book of Grooves Laurence Matheson (VIC) piano NANCARROW Study No. 18 Wilma Smith leader 6.30PM to 9.00PM VIÑAO Estudios de frontera Colin Fox host $150 — includes $100 tax-deductible ANAM Musicians Orchestra Victoria donation to ANAM, to further assist our Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Melbourne Recital Centre musicians as they undertake their studies Bookings Tickets at the door Tickets Full $47 Sen/Conc $38 Bookings melbournerecital.com.au BOOKINGS 03 9699 3333 AFFINITY COLLECTIVE anam.com.au/2015-events/ngvanam Complimentary morning tea ANAM FELLOWSHIP PERFORMANCE is served from 10.15am in the 03 9645 7911 MON 30 NOVEMBER 6.30PM MRC Ground Floor Foyer Join us for this special evening, including

SCHOENBERG Trio for strings op. 45 a performance from Tchaikovsky’s SYMONDS Duo for violin & cello

RAVEL String quartet in F major Souvenir de Florence featuring members of All details are correct at time of Mee Na Lojewski (NSW) cello printing. Please visit anam.com.au ANAM’s Faculty and ANAM Musicians. Affinity Collective for the most up to date information. Following the performance, the exhibition Venue South Melbourne Town Hall will be open for private after-hours access to Tickets Full $15 Conc/ANAMates $10 Bookings trybooking.com/GXOH one of the world’s greatest art collections. ANAM wish to thank the NGV for supporting this event

ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 16 10 LIFE AT ANAM ANAM ALUMNI Q+A

A world of opportunity We catch up with ANAM Alumni ANAM Alumni share what collaborate closely with composers and they enjoyed about ANAM we performed a lot of 20th and 21st and where they are now century works which shaped the kind of music that I am passionate about bringing to audiences today. That’s not to say that there wasn’t an emphasis on studying and performing works throughout the ages – one of my most memorable concerts was performing Beethoven 7 directed by . I was fortunate enough to be playing all of the wonderful flute solos Sharn McIver horn in that work which was thrilling. The ANAM Musician 2011 opportunity to spend the year studying with Margaret Crawford was hugely What was the best thing Named after pre-eminent cellist and musicians. The evenings were left for inspiring. That was also the year that about being at ANAM? chamber musician Howard Penny, who a daily revision of ideas we’d learnt we had the opportunity to work with brought the group together in 2014 before we concluded with mass sight- I loved the few times I got to work with Gillian Howell, who following my year during their time at the Australian reading sessions – of Haydn string visiting artist Anthony Marwood. He is as an ANAM Musician invited myself National Academy of Music (ANAM), quartets, of course! such an amazing chamber player and and two other musicians from ANAM the Penny Quartet are an exciting new As a quartet, we felt the time spent musician and I really learnt a lot from to assist her on a community music addition to Australian chamber music learning and participating in a vast him about taking risks and working project in Timor Leste. So yes, it was making. As joint recipients of ANAM’s array of sessions each day was so together to create amazing results. a time of opening many doors through John and Rosemary Macleod Travelling inspiring. We had the opportunity to I also got so much out of my private the power of music. Scholarship (2014) the quartet have immerse ourselves completely in the lessons with Andrew Bain and Ben recently returned from travels in quartet genre, and were constantly Jacks – two of the greatest Australian What are you doing now? America where they participated in a pushed to achieve more from ourselves, horn players and orchestral musicians. range of activities made possible by I am currently in the middle of a tour to listen harder, communicate more such support. ANAM Musician and with the Australian Chamber Orchestra effectively and perform with more What are you doing now? Penny Quartet cellist Gemma and mezzo-soprano Suzan Graham. conviction. Observing so many Tomlinson expands: I am now the Associate Principal I am a freelancer based in Melbourne, ensembles and musicians first hand Horn of the West Australia Symphony and have the pleasure of working In late June, the Penny Quartet gave us great insight into the standard Orchestra. After ANAM I spent a with a number of the country’s great embarked on an exciting adventure of quartet playing that is required to year as part of the Symphony ensembles and musicians. I co-direct across the world to take part in an really create an impact on our audiences. Fellowship program, over a year on my own band, Press, Play with pianist incredible chamber music seminar at Not wanting to end the adventure, after contract with the Adelaide Symphony Sonya Lifschitz. We perform both old Stanford University, California. Directed our time at Stanford we travelled Orchestra as Associate Principal Horn, and new Western art music and have by the St. Lawrence String Quartet across the country to New York, where then went on trial in the West an upcoming collaboration with artist (SLSQ), the seminar provided us with we stayed for five days. This time spent Australia Symphony Orchestra for Angela Cavalieri, in partnership with intensive one-on-one tuition with some in one of the worlds cultural capitals my current position. for a performance of the world leaders in string quartet allowed us to expand our experience, season during the 2015 Melbourne performance, including members of the and observe music and art in many Festival. I’m also preparing for an SLSQ, Tokyo String Quartet, Pacifica different forms. Particular highlights upcoming Asialink residency, which Quartet and Orion String Quartet. We included our night at the ballet, will see me performing in remote also enjoyed various performance watching Prokofiev’s Cinderella parts of Timor Leste, sharing the opportunities in both concert and performed by the American Ballet music I like to play with the people masterclass settings, and worked in a Company and exploring the various art of those communities. small ensemble of selected seminar galleries including the Metropolitan participants directed by Jesse Irons Museum of Art (MoMa) and the Lina Andonovska flute from the leading American chamber Guggenheim. Here we were able to soak ANAM Musician 2010 string ensemble, A Far Cry. Most up art forms that we, as musicians, ANAM Fellow 2013 importantly however, we were able to often neglect to observe, but that are linaandonovska.com meet and befriend like-minded so influential to our musical expression. individuals all sharing the same goal – What was the best thing to learn from each other and perform Of course, none of these incredible about being at ANAM? beautiful music together. experiences would have been possible without the generous support of John I look back on my time at ANAM with A day in the life of a seminar participant and Rosemary Macleod. Each year they very fond memories. There were a started off in the best possible way, generously donate to selected ANAM number of firsts for me as a flautist with a choir rehearsal! This helped us Musicians, a Travelling Scholarship and emerging young artist that have open our ears each morning and which provides ensembles like ours (and been unparalleled anywhere else that prepare for the day ahead. Shortly after individuals of course) once in a lifetime I have travelled and studied. It was choir, it was into the rehearsal studio to opportunities. Their support is very one of the first times I was able to start warming up for our coaching much appreciated by myself and all of sessions. We would then spend an hour my colleagues at ANAM, especially as soaking up the knowledge from one of experiences such as these are becoming the resident coaches, filling our musical more and more difficult to achieve toolbox with ideas to apply to our through other avenues. Thank you for repertoire. After a much needed lunch giving us the opportunity to have such break, it was back into rehearsal to incredible and enriching experiences! prepare for our second tutorial of the day. As our sessions would typically run overtime, we then rushed to the daily For more information on the Penny masterclass to watch our colleagues Quartet visit pennyquartet.com perform (or perform ourselves), and

learn more from the masterful

ANAM 11 ANAM RECITALS

Jennifer Timmins (NZ) flute Kaylie Melville (WA) percussion What have you found to Daniel Smith (QLD) cello be the most challenging? How and why did you come How and why did you come How and why did you come I’m expecting to encounter some to choose this program? to choose this program? to choose this program? challenges in terms of managing My concept for this recital was to I’d been thinking about a program set-ups for my practice. I’ve always I chose my program because it explore the role of the flute in different drawn together by the ideas and sounds been drawn to large multi-percussion showcases various contrasting styles ensemble types – flute with strings, of factories and metalwork for some set-ups, so I’m expecting to spend a lot of music as well as a multitude of flute with keyboard, flute with winds. time now. I’ve recently returned from of time chasing down instruments and techniques required to play at a the Bang on a Can Summer Festival in trying to figure out how to fit high calibre level. I have programmed the Mozart Flute the US, which is held in a contemporary everything on the stage! I am also quartet because it gives the flute player For me, this repertoire represents the art gallery in a series of incredible performing Dorothy Hindman’s Tapping the rare opportunity to play in chamber music I have used to change and buildings that have previously been used the Furnace for a speaking percussionist music’s most revered ensemble – the improve my style of playing during as industrial spaces. The buildings are which includes a number of lighting string quartet, essentially adopting the my studies so far at ANAM. It also equally harsh and beautiful to look at, changes that are cued for pivotal role of the first violin. Plus it puts a spans such a huge threshold of styles and the sense of history is made even moments in the piece – I’m looking smile on my face and reminds me and time – it will be satisfying for more interesting when the structures forward to seeing how the dialogue, why I love to play chamber music with me to show my ability to quickly are compared with the very modern art instruments and lighting interact to passionate musicians. adapt to the different styles in a scattered throughout the buildings and create a really theatrical performance. performance setting. grounds. This program has taken on What is significant about extra significance for me in light of this the chosen repertoire? What are you most looking forward experience – with the inclusion of David ANAM RECITAL to about this performance? Falling Ever Deeper is a new work by Lang’s The Anvil Chorus, this program is ANAM’s Artistic Director, Paul Dean, a little bit of a love letter to the Bang on TUE 27 OCTOBER 6PM Putting into play all of the technical and commissioned by the 2015 a Can Summer Festival, Mass MoCA, advancements I have made during Australian Flute Festival. I was very and my time there. CLYNE Steelworks my studies under the guidance of keen to present this piece as part of my HINDMAN Tapping the Furnace Howard Penny. ANAM recital because this is Paul’s last What is significant about for solo percussion year at ANAM and he has played a vital the chosen repertoire? FJELLSTRÖM Alchemist Dances What have you found to be part in my musical development during LANG Anvil Chorus for solo percussion the most challenging? I’m really thrilled to be giving the my last two years at ANAM. Australian premiere of Marcus Kaylie Melville (WA) percussion It has been challenging to plan the best Fjellström’s work, Alchemist Dances. ANAM Musicians and most effective way of presenting What are you most looking forward I’m a huge fan of his works, and this my recital and keep to the time to about this performance? Venue South Melbourne Town Hall piece is a great example of how Marcus Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) restriction. Not to mention the use I discovered William Alwyn’s Concerto combines live sound, electronics and Bookings Tickets at the door of Scordatura (different tuning) in for flute & 8 wind instruments on a CD video to create compelling experiences the Sculthorpe! of British flute concerti recorded by for performers and audiences alike. Emily Beynon during my summer break. I immediately fell in love with its cheeky What have you found to be the most ANAM RECITAL rhythms and luscious melodies. I am satisfying elements of programming very excited to be performing this work this performance? FRI 6 NOVEMBER 11AM in its original instrumentation alongside A little bonus of creating a program eight of my very talented friends and BOCCHERINI Sonata for based around factories and metalwork colleagues. This performance has been 2 cellos in C major is that I’ll be spending a lot of time a long time in the making – the score SCULTHORPE Requiem for plating metal percussion instruments, and parts have had to be especially cello alone which are my favourites! I’ve found it ordered in from overseas – but I am SHOSTAKOVICH Cello sonata satisfying to hear how these composers very proud to be presenting an in D minor op. 40 have used the instruments in different Australian premiere of this very ways and created wildly different pieces, Daniel Smith (QLD) cello inspiring flute concerto. despite the similar underlying themes. Rhodri Clarke piano ANAM Musicians ANAM RECITAL Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door FRI 30 OCTOBER 3PM MOZART Flute quartet in D major K 285 DEAN Falling ever deeper ALWYN Concerto for flute & 8 wind instruments ANAM Jennifer Timmins (NZ) flute Leigh Harrold piano ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall SPRING Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door RECITAL PROGRAM ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 14 12 SEASON CONCERT

Wild Percussion: William Winant and the music of John Zorn Hamish Upton (NZ) percussion Cameron Burnes (NSW) bassoon By Peter Neville What is significant about How and why did you come Saxophonist, composer, band leader, multi-instrumentalist, the chosen repertoire? to choose this program? entrepreneur, record label producer… just some of the talents For me, I have chosen a mix of old and The program is centred around two of American musical polymath John Zorn, who has often new repertoire. My research says that works that support my research into the Rossini concerto was only re- been cited as one of the most influential musical figures in exploring the use of digital sound discovered in the late 1990’s in an Italian the USA music scene. technology to enhance percussion library by an Italian bassoonist Sergio performance. These pieces are Zorn’s influence has spread wider It is no surprise therefore that Azzolini. He made the first edition which supported by For Marimba and Tape, a though and in 2014 he was the featured Winant is both an authority on the I heard during my studies and have landmark Australian piece that uses a musical guest at the aforementioned composers and a wanted to perform it ever since. backing track made up of pre-recorded of Arts, which dedicated him headline groundbreaking figure in his own right – marimba sounds manipulated using billing, to celebrate his 60th year one of the percussionists at the centre What are you most looking forward the first commercially available digital in style. Along for the journey were of our developing practice and heritage. to about this performance? sampler. And I’ll also be performing a twenty-plus of his esteemed musical Over many years I had seen his name new work by Peter de Jager for The possible Australian premiere of the colleagues from the USA, performing come up time and again on all manner percussion and marimba. complete Rossini concerto. in sold out concerts at the Adelaide of interesting recordings and projects and Festival Centre. I was lucky enough I had, for a long time, had him in mind It has also been rewarding building What is significant about to work with him as we prepared a as someone we must invite to ANAM. performance stamina and researching program of his avant-garde chamber the chosen repertoire? It also seemed fitting that his residency the works I will be playing. works with the ELISION ensemble. His and concert should focus on the works I am particularly excited to present a personality was every bit as dynamic as of Zorn. So, the Wild Percussion concert percussion arrangement of Electric What have you found to be his works and we were able to drill down on October 9 will feature Zorn’s music Counterpoint by Steve Reich, featuring the most challenging? into the details of his compositions. A for percussion alone, alongside his my own pre-recorded backing track of number of Australians have featured Finding the perfect reed! famous improvisation work Cobra, the 12 accompanying guitar parts. on CD releases on Zorn’s TZADIK label, a piece which Winant has tutored Another significant element is the live including composers Chris Dench and around the world. Cobra is improvised signal processing in The Boom and the Anthony Pateras, both of whose works ANAM RECITAL according to a strict set of instructions Bap, a new composition by Matthew have been performed at ANAM. Fairclough inspired by one of the cued by various numbered and coloured most frequently sampled drum breaks TUE 27 OCTOBER 11AM Another musical polymath is Zorn’s cards. The structure, however, is open longtime collaborator and percussive and every performance is therefore in history. SAINT-SAËNS Bassoon sonata go-to man, Californian based different. Zorn has stated that he has in G major op. 168 percussionist William Winant, who has deliberately chosen not to publish or What are you most looking forward MOZART Bassoon concerto worked with everyone from John Cage even write down the rules of the ‘game’ to about this performance? in B flat major K 186e and Frank Zappa to Faith No More and preferring the piece to be passed on BOZZA Nocturne-Danse Exposing the audience to a range of the avant-rock band Mr. Bungle. He is from person to person. ROSSINI Bassoon concerto interactive pieces using mediums that also on the staff at Mills College, itself Concerto da esperimento The chance to perform the work with they may not have experienced before one of the most interesting institutions Winant – someone so experienced with in a concert. I have found interactive Cameron Burnes (NSW) bassoon in the USA having counted amongst it – was irresistible. So… it’s hard-hats works that excited me as a listener so Louisa Breen piano its past teachers including musical on for a week of wild percussion! I’m looking forward to sharing them. luminaries Darius Milhaud, John Cage Venue South Melbourne Town Hall I’m also looking forward to seeing my and Lou Harrison as well as graduates Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) parents and one of my brothers who such as Steve Reich. Interestingly, each Bookings Tickets at the door will be here for the concert! of those figures have been pivotal in WILD PERCUSSION the development of percussion writing What have you found to be For more information on these and FRI 9 OCTOBER 7PM in the 20th century, with Milhaud the most challenging? other ANAM recitals see the Music innovatively using massive orchestral ZORN Dark River for 4 bass drums Makers calendar or visit anam.com.au Finding all of the required equipment percussion sections in the 1910’s as ZORN The Nymphs for solo and a recording space to create a well as being the composer with the bass marimba backing track for the Reich – a big distinction of having written both of the ZORN Gri-Gri for 13 tuned thank you to Stephen Whately for first concertos for multiple percussion drums (1 player) providing a space in his living room and marimba. Cage wrote a number of ZORN Cobra for me to do so. his ground breaking percussion works William Winant percussion whilst at Mills and both Lou Harrison ANAM Musicians and Reich are also canonic figures in ANAM RECITAL percussion literature. Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets Full $55 Sen $40 Conc $30 THU 29 OCTOBER 6PM Bookings anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 REICH Electric Counterpoint (arr. Percussion) FAIRCLOUGH The Boom & the Bap WESLEY SMITH For Marimba & Tape DE JAGER New work (Title TBA) Hamish Upton (NZ) percussion Venue South Melbourne Town Hall Tickets $5 (ANAMates Free) Bookings Tickets at the door

ANAM 13 FACULTY Q+A

Insights from ANAM Faculty’s Damien Eckersley and Howard Penny… languages – and I was accepted into therefore the program, is dynamic by the Vienna Musikhochschule (where nature – keeping it alive and exciting for Brahms had studied!) and was again all involved. I love working with all the fortunate to have a great trajectory students – or, as I like to see them, through that. The day after my final younger colleagues – as well as with our exam I became Principal Cello of the extraordinary faculty and staff, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, which fact that my activities in the institution became a base for other activites, means always being connected to the including the Beethoven Trio Vienna, whole cohort. It is a place where great which had an international career for things can happen with a minimum 15 years. I learnt a lot through that as of fuss or red tape, and I know that I was driving and building it, right down our alumni will shape a bright future to doing the tax returns! A huge part of for music wherever life takes them. my musical education however was my membership – still current – of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Are there any ANAM programs performing with Abbado, Harnoncourt, that you are particularly looking Damien Eckersley Howard Penny Solti, Haitink, Kremer, Argerich etc. on forward to this year? ANAM Head of Double Bass ANAM Head of Cello and Strings a regular basis, and being part of some DE — In my experience, any time now legendary recordings. I also Simone Young walks through the door, ANAM Faculty members Damien Eckersley and Howard became fascinated with historical there is a vibe around the place. I’m Penny take time to share with Music Makers their background performance practice, and was invited really looking forward to her visit in to become the Lecturer for this at the in music, career highlights and what they love about ANAM. September. There will be some Mozarteum University in Salzburg. I’ve wonderful music made and the How did you come to playing Can you briefly outline always loved teaching. I was chatting to orchestra will be expected to perform your instrument? your path so far? former ANAM Artistic Director Brett to the absolute best of their ability. Dean in Berlin soon after he was DE — I was playing guitar and electric DE — I was very lucky. Growing up in appointed here at ANAM, and was truly HP — That is of course hard to answer, bass, planning on becoming a shredding , the Canberra School of excited about the possibilities for the as there is the customary ANAM rockstar, then, at about the age of 16 Music ran some pre-tertiary scholarship place. Five years ago I decided to move degustation menu! Obvious highlights I discovered classical music. One thing programs, and the teacher there was back and commit full time – and love it! will be the Simone Young and Brahms led to another and I ended up playing the one and only Max McBride. I was Gala Concert and the Anthony the double bass. studying with him during my last two Marwood concerts. Both are amazing years of school, then for another four HP — Well Canberra back in the What are some of the highlights artists who will galvanise our students’ years completing my Honours degree. Pleistocene Era, when I was young, was in your career so far? energy to create memorable I don’t think I took it for granted, but in many ways a country town. In many performances of great works. Working looking back, I think how truly fortunate DE — As much as I love the Symphony good ways: it was safe and easy, and at close hand with such people is of I was to have such a wonderful mentor. Orchestra, I think the experiences that the bush was never more than 15 tremendous benefit and is inspiring I then spent a year freelancing and have had the most lasting impact on minutes away. Another advantage was for all in the building, as well as our doing various contracts with various me are the opportunities that I have that many creative individuals (who audiences. ANAM Quartetthaus is orchestras around Australia before had playing with some of the world’s could do really great things!) lived there always an utterly magical experience heading off to Vienna to do some more great soloists. Hearing people who have including an extraordinarily inspiring and demonstrates ANAM’s leadership study. Again, I was very fortunate to reached such a level that they are able woman named Judy Clingan. Judy in the creative delivery of the fruits meet Johannes Auersperg and Tim to say exactly what they want with their started the Canberra Children’s Choir of months dedicated to some of the Dunin (also an Australian and ex instruments or voices is totally inspiring – the reason I fell in love with music – greatest repertoire there is. But my student of Max McBride), who had a and often deeply moving. and I always wanted to sing the lower personal pick is the Chamber Music huge influence on my development as or middle parts, creating harmony Oh, and opera! There are works in the Competition as it acts as a focus point a musician. I studied and worked over (probably the only harmony I created opera repertoire that I could quite and summary, if you like, of all the work there for a few years before heading at that age). My parents always had happily play every night for the rest of we’ve all done during the year, involving back to Australia. classical music playing at home, either my life. Having said that, I think my every ANAM Musician – it’s a Christmas records or the radio so I had an idea of HP — I was incredibly fortunate that proudest moments would have to be party everyone is invited to! what instruments could do. I’d done I was a teenager when the Canberra watching my students succeed in their some recorder and piano with Judy and School of Music started its heyday. efforts, and seeing them develop as a my parents asked me if I wanted to The visionary Ernest Llewellyn (first result of their hard work and dedication. What would we be surprised learn another instrument; I was sort of Australian judge on the Tchaikovsky to know about you? dithering between clarinet, oboe and competition, with Oistrakh in those DE — I’m right into my karaoke, cello, and the decision was made easy days) had the magnificent building built What do you find rewarding about I can speak German and Japanese, as the wife of the church choir I also and attracted an extraordinary faculty. teaching at ANAM? love the Sydney Swans, and Puccini, sang in was the cello teacher in In some cases, artists returned to DE — The young musicians at ANAM Ravel and Mozart are my absolute Canberra (yes, she was the only one!) Australia from overseas to be a part are of such a high standard and so favourite composers. so we went along to try it out. of the faculty. One artist to do so was highly motivated, that it is really much I immediately loved the physicality Nelson Cooke – he had studied with HP — I once sang Queen of the Night more of a collaborative approach to of making that sound and the rest, Casals and had been THE principal cello for 200 German chemists – really! study as opposed to just a student/ as they say, is history. in London for decades before coming But that is a LONG story… teacher relationship. back to Australia for this appointment. I was his very first student at age 14. HP — ANAM is an inspiring story that He was an incredible mentor and continues to be written every day. We I performed a huge amount, won the are in the position to genuinely provide ABC competition and played concertos expertise and experience for Australia’s all over Australia. I’d always been keen brightest talents which will enable them to study overseas – I always loved to discover the musicians that they are, become the best musicians they can be, and then make a difference when they enter professional life. The process and

ANAM MUSIC MAKERS / VOLUME 16 14 GALA CONCERT

STANHOPE Fantasia Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Simone Young’s ANAM THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL on a theme of Melbourne Recital Centre residency is generously supported by Vaughan Williams ACADEMY OF MUSIC (ANAM) Tickets Full $85 Sen/Conc $70 Lepley Properties. DUPARC Selected songs Bookings melbournerecital.com.au BRAHMS Symphony no. 2 Emma Matthews’ ANAM PRESENTS or 03 9699 3333 residency is generously in D major, op. 73 supported by The John and Booking fees may apply Jennifer Brukner Foundation Emma Matthews soprano Simone Young conductor SIMONE YOUNG SIMONE ANAM Orchestra RETURNS TO LEAD THE For more information ANAM ORCHESTRA. visit anam.com.au ALSO JOINED BY YOUNG AND AUSTRALIA’S MOST HIGHLY AWARDED SOPRANO, BRAHMS EMMA MATTHEWS. GALA CONCERT Friday 18 September 7.30pm GALA GALA CONCERT CONCERT

YOUNG BRAHMS

Shaped with great care by Young, the work’s sweeping narrative and intense vitality& were conveyed with superb nuance and engaging clarity, rightly earning thunderous applause and standing ovations.

The Australian, August 2014 (ANAM Orchestra Brahms Symphony no. 4)

ANAM 15 COMMUNITY EVENT One more thing…

From Dame Elisabeth Murdoch The Emerald Hill Festival to Memphis Minnie Julie Edgar will be well known to ANAM audiences as returns to the Hill on the sculptor of the bronze bust of ANAM’s founding patron, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, in the foyer of the South Melbourne Town Hall. Julie is a Melbourne artist Sunday 15 November with a specialist in portrait sculptures. The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra has acquired three of her Now in its fifth year, the Emerald Hill works and she has sculptured many prominent figures Festival is a free community celebration from motor racing’s Peter Brock to famed principal highlighting the work of the iconic arts dancer of The Australian Ballet, Steven Heathcote. and culture organisations that reside in Julie is a keen supporter of ANAM and is an enthusiast the vicinity of the South Melbourne of many musical genres, so it is not surprising that she has sculpted a number of musicians, including Town Hall the Australian National Paul Dyer, Director of the Australian Brandenburg Academy of Music (ANAM), the Orchestra and the late Melbourne Symphony Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW), Orchestra conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki – whose portrait Arts Access Victoria (AAV) and now graces the entrance to the Iwaki Auditorium in Southbank. Most recently, Julie was invited to Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV). Again contribute a bronze portrait sculpture of Memphis this year, the Festival spills out of the Minnie to the newly opened Blues Hall of Fame in Town Hall, the Tapestry Workshop and Memphis, Tennessee. Joined by fans from across the the Emerald Hill Library onto the green world and families of performers in the Hall of Fame, Julie was delighted to be present to see her sculpture in front of the town hall for a fun-filled The Festival boasts an array of events for the whole of Minnie recently unveiled. Who will Julie’s next day that the whole family can enjoy. family to enjoy including children focused activities sculpture be? such as storytime at the Emerald Hill Library, bilingual The 2015 Festival includes the return of the Written by Iain Buckland readings, music and dance performances, and inspirational Richard Gill for ‘The Big Sing’. Richard is weaving for kids at the Tapestry Workshop. And we one of Australia’s most renowned conductors and can’t forget the food-trucks and cafes that will be music educators who will lead Festival participants in serving all day. THANK YOU a ‘big sing’ of excerpts from Faure’s Requiem, accompanied by the ANAM Orchestra. Visitors can The Hill has been a gathering place for different also gain a fascinating insight into the sound peoples for over 10,000 years, and the Emerald Hill production and construction of a grand piano by Festival continues that spirit. It is a day for the whole joining ANAM’s Head of Piano and Chamber Music, community to be a part of, to celebrate the unique Tim Young, as he dismantles and then reassembles a arts and culture the Emerald Hill area has to offer. grand piano in ‘What’s in the Black Box?’. For aspiring young instrumentalists, there will be the opportunity to join ANAM’s ‘Buddy Band’ and sit side-by-side with EMERALD HILL FESTIVAL ANAM Musicians, working together to prepare then perform an orchestral work. SUN 15 NOVEMBER 10AM — 4PM

Other highlights of the day will include multicultural Visit anam.com.au for program details and chamber music performances in ANAM Quartetthaus, concerts, exhibitions and workshops on A FREE community arts and culture event AAV’s Nebula stage, Auslan storytime, Polynesian for the whole family dancers and a special collaboration between ANAM Venue In and around the South Melbourne Town Hall and AAV, in partnership with the Delta Project, that Information anam.com.au 03 9645 7911 explores the creative link between deafness, music and dance.

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