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MOOREJUNE 11 BEETHOVEN– MAY 21 BRAHMSTWO TOUR AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET National Season 2019 This is a special concert for us. Australian landscape - a sound that is familiar to all of us, but not generally heard coming We are thrilled to welcome Sharon Grigoryan from the stage. It is most fitting that this piece back to the stage, who returns from parental is dedicated to our esteemed ASQ Patron, leave. We’ve been honoured to play with Maria Myers AC, whose commitment to some fine musicians over the past year and preserving Australian culture is an inspiration we thank all of them for being a part of our to us all. Also, a special thanks to sound artist journey. We are very excited to be reunited Brendan Woithe, whose concert prelude will as a quartet and to bring the family of transport you into Kate Moore’s sound-world. Guadagninis back together again. This year has already seen us undertake We open tonight’s program with a piece some exciting projects in addition to our first close to our hearts. Through the generosity National Season Tour - a recording with iconic of our donors who contributed to the Australian singer songwriter Katie Noonan, Australian String Quartet Richard Divall our beloved ASQ festivals at Dunkeld and Australian Music Fund, we were delighted Margaret River, a brand new concert to commission Australian composer experience at the Adelaide Fringe Festival Kate Moore to write her third string quartet, and an appearance at the Four Winds Cicadidae. In this piece, Moore sets out Easter Music Festival in Bermagui, NSW. to evoke a sound synonymous with the 3 WELCOME2019 TO SEASON TOUR ONENATIONAL Looking ahead, we will be spending more time in residence across various parts of Australia, building our ever-growing anthology of Australian music recordings, presenting several more of our popular Close Quarters concerts in groovy spaces (check our website for details) and taking part in concerts to celebrate NAIDOC week. We believe that no matter who you are, where you live or how you spend your days, music makes life richer. As we near the end of the financial year, we ask that you consider making a tax deductible donation to support our extensive nation-wide concert and workshop program. We are so grateful that you could join us tonight and hope that you enjoy the concert. Dale, Francesca, Stephen and Sharon Brendan Woithe Prelude Kate Moore String Quartet no 3, Cicadidae* (Premiere Season) Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, op 18 no 4 INTERVAL Brahms String Quartet in C minor, op 51 no 1 * Commissioned by the Australian String Quartet through the Australian String Quartet Richard Divall Australian Music Fund, in honour of ASQ Patron Maria Myers AC. 5 MOORE BEETHOVEN BRAHMS PROGRAMBEETHOVEN DETAILSMOORE Brisbane** Melbourne Tue 21 May 7pm Mon 27 May 7pm Conservatorium Theatre Melbourne Recital Centre Sydney Perth Thu 23 May 7pm Tue 28 May 7pm City Recital Hall Government House Ballroom Canberra Adelaide Sun 26 May 2pm Tue 11 June 7pm Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia Adelaide Town Hall ** Recorded by ABC Classic for broadcast Our next concert on 11 June at 7.30pm. IVES WESTLAKE DEBUSSY 4 – 20 September 2019 asq.com.au Dedicated to musical excellence Ulrike Klein AO. The instruments Guadagnini with a distinctly Australian flavour, are on loan to the ASQ for their exclusive Quartet the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) use through the generosity of UKARIA. creates unforgettable experiences The centrepiece of 2019, our for audiences worldwide. Project National Season, is filled with masterful From our home base at the renditions of the classic repertoire In 2010, UKARIA embarked Diana Ramsay Foundation, Major Gifts University of Adelaide, Elder juxtaposed with new works that on one of the most significant Didy McLaurin, Joan Lyons, Don and Veronica Aldridge Conservatorium of Music, we reach speak to our Australian identity. out across Australia and the world to philanthropic projects in Australia’s David McKee AO and Elizabeth Clayton Looking beyond, we are collaborating musical history - the acquisition of Pam McKee, and many other John Clayton engage people with an outstanding with acclaimed singer-songwriter a unique quartet of rare stringed donors, UKARIA completed the Colin and Robyn Cowan program of performances, workshops, Katie Noonan, to record and perform instruments (c.1743-1784) project on 18 December 2017, Katherine Fennell commissions and education programs. crafted by Giovanni Battista raising the funds to acquire all Frances Gerard a program of works by ten Australian Guadagnini. four instruments at a total cost Julian and Stephanie Grose We are privileged to perform on a composers, based on the distinctive of $6,183,188. Andrew and Hiroko Gwinnett Guadagnini is one of history’s matched set of Guadagnini instruments. poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Our Richard Harvey AM foremost luthiers, in company This project has brought Hand crafted by Giovanni Battista annual ASQ Festivals, Margaret River Lyndsey and Peter Hawkins with Stradivarius and Guarneri together a group of visionary Janet and Michael Hayes Guadagnini between c.1743 - 1784 Weekend of Music and Dunkeld Festival del Gesu. This matched set of patrons who understand the Jari and Bobbie Hryckow in Turin and Piacenza, Italy, these of Music will feature the artistry of special instruments, held in trust by significant cultural value in a Thora Klein exquisite instruments were brought guest musicians, Li-Wei Qin (cello) and UKARIA and made available as collection of this calibre. Tupra Pastoral Company together through the vision of Konstantin Shamray (piano) and the a set in perpetuity to Australia’s Philanthropic Champions Macquarie Foundation most outstanding string quartet, Ulrike Klein AO Mr H.G. MacLachlan is unprecedented anywhere in the Klein Family Foundation Mrs S.T. McGregor 6 world. The current recipients are 7 Allan J Myers AC Peter and Pamela McKee the Australian String Quartet. Maria J Myers AC Janet McLachlan Robert O’Callaghan AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET The instruments included in James and Diana Ramsay the collection are: Foundation and Pam O’Donnell Didy McLaurin John Phillips 1784 Guadagnini Violin (Turin) launch of ASQ’s first international Joan Lyons Margaret Piper weekend of music will extend our reach Jill Russell 1748-49 Guadagnini Violin Mrs F.T. MacLachlan OAM to New Zealand’s breathtaking Central (Piacenza) David McKee AO and Pam McKee Nigel Steele Scott Pauline Menz Sidney Myer Fund Otago region. We are also excited to 1783 Guadagnini Viola (Turin) Dr Rabin Bhandari Mary Louise Simpson be extending our education programs Gary and Janet Tilsley c.1743 Guadagnini Cello Lang Foundation and Close Quarters series to more Ian and Pamela Wall ‘Ngeringa’ (Piacenza) Hartley Higgins metropolitan and regional areas Janet Worth across Australia. Through the generosity of The Board of UKARIA To every patron who contributed Ulrike Klein AO, The Klein Family also recognises and thanks to this project we thank you for At home in South Australia, we Foundation, Maria Myers AC, the following donors who your support. continue our work as Quartet-in- Allan Myers AC, The James and have each made a significant contribution To learn more visit UKARIA.com Residence at the University of Adelaide’s to this project: Dale Barltrop plays a 1784 Elder Conservatorium of Music with Guadagnini Violin, Turin various projects, and performances Francesca Hiew plays a 1748–49 as part of the Elder Hall Lunchtime Guadagnini Violin, Piacenza Concert series. Mornings at UKARIA will continue to bring the sounds of the Stephen King plays a 1783 string quartet to the beautiful landscape Guadagnini Viola, Turin of the Adelaide Hills and a collaboration Sharon Grigoryan plays a c.1743 with didgeridoo master William Barton Guadagnini Violoncello, Piacenza, will celebrate NAIDOC Week at the ‘Ngeringa’ Adelaide Festival Centre. BRENDANNOTES WOITHEPROGRAM Prelude (2019) Prelude is a short sound work commissioned by the Australian String Quartet as an auditory transition to Kate Moore’s new piece, Cicadidae. Brendan explores the ideas of metamorphosis and emergence, mirroring the period in a cicada’s life cycle when they transform from a soil dwelling nymph to the short-lived cicada we know so well here in Australia through its evocative song. Brendan has drawn on both personal field recordings and samples of Soundscape Artist/Composer instructed improvisations from members Brendan Woithe is a Sydney based of the ASQ, changing their form into an composer and soundscape artist working abstract soundscape using technological in film, dance, theatre, installations and 9 interventions and algorithmic experiential. He works at the intersection manipulations. The soundscape will of creativity and technology, exploring welcome the audience as they enter the stories and ideas exposed interrogating auditorium, and then continue on as a that space. He has recently composed prelude to Cicadidae. scores for Reincarnation, with the West Australian Ballet, the upcoming feature filmGo!, Eyes, an experiential theatre work, and Do Not Disturb, a 10 part series premiered at this year’s Cannes Series Festival. Brendan collaborates regularly with Australian Dance Theatre, where his most recent works are The Beginning of Nature, Habitus, and North/South, premiering later this year. He has worked with the Zephyr Quartet on commissions and new technologies for the last decade. Some of his recent installations include Circadian Cycle, a dance film and installation for Adelaide Festival Theatre & Adelaide Airport, The Australian Music Vault, a permanent installation at the Arts Centre Melbourne, and Road to Zero, a permanent multi-channel generative installation at the Museum of Melbourne. PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM KATE MOORECOMPOSER GUEST KATE MOORE Kate Moore is an Australian-Dutch KATE MOORE (1979 – ) out of sight. Where creatures congregate musician and composer of new music. String Quartet no 3, Cicadidae (2019) near water, the climactic intensity in which In 2001 she was awarded B.Mus Cum the dynamics of their song grows, attests Laude with the University Medal from The ‘What happens next?’ to its miraculous gift of life.