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2O 2O Nick Deutsch, The Australian National Academy of Music ANAM Artistic Director: “In my final year as Artistic Director, (ANAM) is dedicated to the artistic and I invite our audiences to immerse themselves and observe closely professional development of the most as we explore language and communication through music. exceptional young classical musicians from Our musicians will discover the nuanced art of ensemble leadership Australia and New Zealand. through their instruments, the timeless beauty and value of current, past and even lost languages, and the unique subtleties and power of communicating through our artform.” The position of ANAM Artistic Director is generously supported by Janet Holmes à Court AC DISCOVER LIFE AT ANAM Join us behind the scenes with Nick Deutsch (Photo by Pia Johnson) our latest blog posts, podcasts and Music Makers newspaper at anam.com.au/life-at-anam Making music at ANAM is unlike making SEASON CONCERT ANAM respectfully ANAM music anywhere else in the world. acknowledges the traditional RECITALS custodians of the land on which ANAM 2020 ANAM’s musicians breathlessly fly between the stage – performing we work and live. For centuries Alongside our Season Concerts, alongside some of the world’s finest musicians – and the studio, the high ground of Emerald SEASON OPENING ANAM musicians present over where they can receive more than 60 hours of one-on-one training and Hill in South Melbourne was a 180 concerts each year including hundreds of hours of coaching each year. From taking meditation classes, site of significance – of cultural CONCERT their individual recitals, which are singing Bach chorales, laying down a concerto, or building up a buzz exchange, ceremonial gathering, performed on a regular basis at around their forthcoming gig, to learning how to work a scale, work a celebration and learning – OPENING CONCERT: AWAKENING ANAM’s home in South Melbourne fugue, work a room, or work towards a vibrant future for classical music. for the Boon Wurrung people Saturday 7 March 7.30pm Town Hall. ANAM Recitals enable They may find themselves making music sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Kulin Nation. We uphold each musician to make their own with a class of local third-graders one day, to performing at City Recital and honour their continued TIPPETT Praeludium for brass, bells & percussion personal musical statement Hall in Sydney with the Australian Chamber Orchestra or at the Kölner relationship to this site, we BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture arr. Taubmann for 2 pianos (8 hands) through performance. Philharmonie in Germany with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the next. pay our respect to their Elders BIZET/WILLBERG Carmen Fantasie arr. for 2 pianos (8 hands) past, present and emerging, Check anam.com.au for details. This is the ANAM experience: music-making unlike anywhere else AKIRA NISHIMURA Ketjak and extend that respect to all in the world. STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite 100th Anniversary Aboriginal and Torres Strait HELMUT LACHENMANN Marche fatale for orchestra Australian Premiere Islander Peoples. ANAM Faculty ANAM Musicians Venue South Melbourne Town Hall VIC Bookings anam.com.au or 03 9645 7911 BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET CYCLE ANAM QUARTETTHAUS Wednesday 11 – Friday 20 November 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 7pm & 9pm 25O The 16 string quartets of Musicians from Beethoven span the composer’s Orchestra Academy of life. When experienced in their Bayerisches Staatsorchester entirety the cycle constitutes an (Munich) extraordinary journey into the mind Colburn School (Los Angeles) and heart of one of the greatest Guildhall School of Music creative artists ever to have lived. & Drama (London) Karajan Academy of the Bringing this once-in-a-lifetime Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin) project to life, ANAM and our Sibelius Academy (Helsinki) partner institutions from all ANAM corners of the globe will come ANAM Faculty together for two weeks to perform five cycles of Beethoven’s string Venue ANAM Quartetthaus quartets in the iconic ANAM More info anam.com.au Quartetthaus – a daringly intimate and breathtakingly visceral 52 seat Presented in partnership with bluebottle performance space. The series culminates with all musicians on stage at Melbourne Recital Centre to perform Beethoven’s sixteenth and final luminous quartet, under the direction of Richard Tognetti, Artistic Director and Lead Violin of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) – see page 4 for details. “ANAM Quartetthaus represents the biggest leap in immediacy and potency for the string quartet as an art form since microphones and speakers arrived. When people begin to realise how visceral the experience can be of hearing the flesh of fingers and rosined horse hair attack the strings, when the life-altering experience of being able to be so close together with the inner voice of music becomes known, then the reason the string quartet is so alive and thriving will be clear: because it sounds so intensely and wondrously human. At the ANAM Quartetthaus... the young players gave me immense hope for the future. Their performances now live like beacons inside me. These tactile, immensely vulnerable and incredibly Celebrate the 250th anniversary of beautiful performances give a new meaning for music in our time.” — DAVID HARRINGTON (2011 REVIEW), Beethoven’s birth KRONOS QUARTET 3 ANAM & ACO SIDE BY SIDE Llewellyn Hall ACT SEASON CONCERT BEETHOVEN 1, 2 & 3 BRUNCH WITH BEETHOVEN ANAM is proud to continue its close Saturday 8 February 8pm Saturday 8 – Monday 17 February Thursday 19 March 11am BEETHOVEN V partnership with the Australian Arts Centre Melbourne, Thursday 7 May 11am ANAM AT MELBOURNE BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 1 Hamer Hall VIC Thursday 4 June 11am Chamber Orchestra (ACO) in 2020. Sunday 9 February 2.30pm RECITAL CENTRE BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 2 Thursday 6 August 11am Monday 10 February 7.30pm ANAM and ACO musicians will BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 3 Thursday 8 October 11am Tuesday 24 November 7.30pm City Recital Hall NSW Enjoy a unique, intimate celebration of combine forces in February in the Richard Tognetti violin/director Tuesday 11 February 7pm BEETHOVEN Quartet no. 16 in Beethoven’s genius in one of Melbourne’s ANAM Strings Wednesday 12 February 7pm F major arr. Tognetti ACO’s electrifying season opener, most beautiful rooms – the Council Australian Chamber Orchestra Friday 14 February 1.30pm LOUIS ANDRIESSEN The nine symphonies Chamber in the South Melbourne Town Saturday 15 February 7pm of Beethoven touring to venues in the Australian Hall. Each concert features masterworks Bookings aco.com.au or 1800 444 444 Sunday 16 February 2pm from Beethoven’s vast output of chamber BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 5 music, and will be hosted by Caroline Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland Performing Henbest, ANAM Resident Viola Faculty. Arts Centre QLD Richard Tognetti violin/director With limited seating capacity, these Queensland and Victoria. Monday 17 February 7pm Musicians from beautiful concerts – which will be preceded by a delicious light brunch – are sure to Orchestra Academy of Presented by the Australian Chamber Bayerisches Staatsorchester Orchestra in collaboration with ANAM be popular. (Munich) ANAM’s participation in Beethoven Colburn School (Los Angeles) 1, 2 & 3 is generously supported by the Caroline Henbest host Angior Family Foundation Guildhall School of Music ANAM Musicians & Drama (London) Venue Council Chamber, Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin) South Melbourne Town Hall VIC Sibelius Academy (Helsinki) Bookings anam.com.au or 03 9645 7911 ANAM Orchestra Venue Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre VIC Bookings anam.com.au or 03 9645 7911 This performance is generously supported by John and Rosemary Macleod ANAM & ACO – Keep an eye out for more TARRAWARRA performances of Beethoven’s FESTIVAL music in 2020: Pastoral Symphony with Sunday 19 April 2.30pm Tabea Zimmermann (page 18) Diabelli Variations with ANAM Strings Timothy Young (page 11) “The memories I have here are “This [Beethoven] was a really inconvenient personality and Australian Chamber Orchestra quite extraordinary, life-changing… composer, and sometimes the music is ugly, sometimes it's Venue TarraWarra Museum It’s an extraordinary institution. awkward, it very often asks more than any human performer of Art VIC I can’t think of any other institution can give. This is part of what was an outsize personality and Bookings aco.com.au like this where the obsession is someone who was not just painting on the canvas, but on the or 1800 444 444 just music.” frames and the walls and the ceilings as well.” Presented by the Australian — RICHARD TOGNETTI, — SIR SIMON RATTLE, Chamber Orchestra ACO ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND LEAD VIOLIN CONDUCTOR REFLECTS ON HIS WORK AT ANAM 5 “The 30-or-so ANAM musicians looked extremely comfortable ANAM & WASO ANAM & alongside their WASO mentors. Even though the SIDE BY SIDE VICTORIAN OPERA median age of the orchestra had dipped somewhat, those from ANAM looked right at Thursday 6 August 7.30pm DIE TOTE STADT SEASON CONCERT home with WASO.” OPERA IN CONCERT Repertoire, artists and venue — LAURA BIEMMI, to be announced DID YOU KNOW? Friday 21 August 7.30pm THE ART OF SONG CUTCOMMON (2019 REVIEW) ANAM Alumni are members of Thursday 27 August 7.30pm ANAM Musicians orchestras across Australia and A mysterious and hallucinatory study Simone Young conductor, the world, including 19 in the West of grief, memory and obsession. ANAM Guest Faculty West Australian Symphony Orchestra Program to include lieder by Mozart, Australian Symphony Orchestra Based on a novella by Belgian symbolist Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms (WASO). Bookings waso.com.au or 08 9326 0000 poet Georges Rodenbach, Die tote Stadt Cast and Schumann (The Dead City) was one of the biggest Michael Schade Paul Sarah Blackman (violin 2009) Presented by the West Australian hits of the 1920s but has rarely been Michael Schade tenor Symphony Orchestra Marlis Petersen Marie/Marietta Alex Brogan (viola 2004) staged since World War II.