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April May June 2015 THIS EDITION Blues pioneer Powerhouse vocalist Beth Hart Metropolis New Music Festival 2015 Angélique Kidjo a force in African music Paris Combo – our favourite French export

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Opposites Day with Opposites Day with Baby Little Promises – p8 An Affair to Paul Grabowsky – p10 Peter & the Wolf – p10 Love Music Fun – p7 Baby Love Music Fun Dismember – p9 Jake Shimabukuro – p9 Melb Piano Trio p7 The Romantic English – p7 Angélique Kidjo – p8 in Recital – p10 John Mayall – p6 Strings of the Soul Tour University of Melb 06 07 p7 08 09 10 11 Orchestra – p10 12 Welcome Louis Lortie – p11 Oriental Horizons – p12 Mostly Mozart: Mozart Something Borrowed Buster Keaton's Cops, The Virtuoso the Romantic – p12 p13 One Week & The Goat Recorder – p15 Join us for inspiring music at Recital Centre this autumn. In April, the Centre Soloist in the Spotlight: Etihad Airways, the national airline of Sarah Chang – p12 Lagrime Mie: Tears & – p13 p14 presents legendary blues and roots artists Mavis Staples, Beth Hart, John Mayall, Angélique Lullabies – p13 The Mogilevski Duo the United Arab Emirates, is proud to 13 14 15 16 17 p14 18 19 Kidjo, and ukulele wunderkind Jake Shimabukuro, while the Great Performers series partner with Melbourne Recital Centre. continues with Canadian pianist Louis Lortie playing the exquisite preludes of Chopin, The partnership enables Etihad Airways Russian Cello – p15 Lamentations for a Infinite Variations NPCO Essence: From The Homeland Fauré and Scriabin. May sees the return of the Metropolis New Music Festival, our annual Soldier – p15 p16 Gemma Turvey & p17 to enrich the experience of Centre Goldner String Israel Independence Karen Heath Duo – p17 Amjad Ali, Amaan & exploration of fascinating contemporary music in collaboration with the Melbourne patrons by bringing internationally Quartet – p16 Day – p16 This Time – p17 Ayaan in Jugalbhandi renowned performers to Melbourne p18 Symphony Orchestra in music inspired by the moving image, including Tan Dun’s score for 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In June, author/pianist Anna Goldsworthy brings us Piano from across the world. Isang Enders – p18 Isang Enders – p18 Don't Mention the Beethoven's Spring Solo Piano Works of Fado ao largo – p20 Lessons, in a unique blend of recital and theatre based on her acclaimed book. In addition to This year we are excited to connect the War… – p18 Sonata – p19 Javad Maurofi –p19 Goldner String hosting unforgettable , the Centre plays an increasing role in developing the next Centre with more cultural hubs than ever Fairy Tales & VCE Top Class 2015: Quartet – p16 Gumboots – p19 Top Acts – p20 generation of performers. In January we were thrilled to receive $136,000 in funding from before as we expand our global network 27 28 29 30 01 02 03 The Department of Education and Training to support the development of selected with eight new destinations including outstanding young musicians. Four passionate and skilled young performers will gain Rome and Zurich. Between two parts Delicacies of Molten Undine - The Spirit of Moonfall – p22 Dark Twin – p23 A Bigger Picture – p23 there is an Horror – p21 Water – p21 Nostalghia – p23 access to the Centre’s world-class musicians and resources through their participation in We also look forward to showcasing the MAY intermission of Shaun Tan's The quality of our guest experience and our 100,000 years – p21 Arrival – p22 ACCELERANDO – a three-year mentoring program for gifted and talented music students in 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 their senior secondary years. If you’re as passionate as we are about providing opportunities modern Abu Dhabi hub to new, for young musicians, consider making a donation to the Centre’s programs when you discerning audiences. The Light – p24 Light is Calling – p24 Celebrating Marshall There Will Be Blood Vivaldi Unwired – p25 McGuire’s Birthday p24 purchase tickets online or visit melbournerecital.com.au/support to learn more. p25 I look forward to welcoming you to a concert soon. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Discovering Percy Mary Carewe & Philip Schellenberger Percy Grainger – p26 Il Diabolo – p28 Sondheim on Mostly Mendelssohn Grainger – p25 Mayers – p26 conducts the Uni of Paavali Jumppanen Sondheim – p28 p28 Vivaldi Unwired – p25 To Thine Own Self Be Melb Orchestra – p26 p27 España 1556 – p28 Jon Marshall True – p26 MARY VALLENTINE AO Acting General Manager 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Australia & New Zealand CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre Etihad Airways And...Action! – p29 Destination: Venice Let's Sell the Horse, Christian Leotta – p30 Manins & Gould with Stoneflower Trio –p31 Mostly Mendelssohn p29 Let's Sell the House - Snow White & Other Sam Evans – p30 p28 Melbourne Girls Just to Dance – p30 Grimm Tales – p30 Grammar Concert 25 p29 26 27 28 29 30 31

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2 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • The information in this brochure is correct at time of printing. FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 3 LOCAL HEROES 2015 MOOD INDIGO Beth Hart Joe Chindamo & Zoë Black 1 Beth Hart Powerhouse vocals, story & stage presence Iconic violin works and new INFORMATION Incredible vocalist Beth Hart turns the art of compositions Wed 1 April 6pm singing into an out-of-body experience. Beth Salon (One hour no interval) has ridden incredible highs, enjoyed A-list Acclaimed violin and piano duo Joe CHINDAMO Symbiosis for violin & piano collaborations, and experienced heart- Chindamo and Zoë Black’s first concert for HANDEL (arr. Chindamo) ‘Cara sposa’ breaking lows in the past, but these days she’s the year embraces one of the 20th century’s IVES Violin Sonata No.1 reaching new career heights including her most iconic violin works, alongside a range of Zoë Black violin nomination for a Blues Music Award in the entirely new compositions for the duo by Joe Chindamo piano category: Best Contemporary Blues Female Chindamo. Charles Ives’ haunting first violin Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Artist in 2014 and a Grammy nomination with sonata is both nostalgic and avant-garde and Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 concession) Joe Bonamassa in 2014 for their album Seesaw, complements Chindamo’s arrangement of Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & which went to number one on the Billboard Joe Chindamo & Zoë Black Handel’s famous aria from Rinaldo. Joe Chindamo and Zoë Black Blues Album Chart, as did their most recent release Live In Amsterdam. Hart’s most recent MOOD INDIGO solo CD, Bang Bang Boom Boom was released in Australia in 2013 and reached number three on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. Beth’s Legendary rhythm & blues diva new solo album is set to be released in early Mavis Staples 2015. We can’t wait for her first appearance at Melbourne Recital Centre performing the For the last 67 years, from her ground-breaking ‘Mavis Staples is the highlights of a stellar career and brilliant family gospel group The Staple Singers (‘I’ll most underrated new material. Take You There’, ‘If You’re Ready [Come Go diva of the century. With Me], ‘Respect Yourself’) to her solo career, INFORMATION She has an almost Mavis Staples is responsible for blazing a Thu 2 April 7.30pm rhythm and blues trail while never superhuman Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 20-mins relinquishing her gospel roots. It is now that her ability to implant incl. interval) star is shining brightest. Her two collaborations the pure power Beth Hart vocals (USA) ‘Hart is masterful, totally in control of with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy ‘You Are Not Alone’ of passion and Premium $90 an incredibly wide swath of emotion, and ‘One True Vine’, have earned her a playing with the melodies, and in emotion.’ A reserve $75 ($65 concession) Grammy Award and a new generation of fans B reserve $65 ($55 concession) the process inventing the kind of whose legions grow with every performance. C reserve $55 vocal stretch that only the greats can Mavis Staples is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre command.’ Goldmine Magazine Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winner, and a National Heritage Fellowship Award LOCAL HEROES 2015 recipient. Rolling Stone calls her one of the hundred Greatest Singers of All Time. Staples' passion for freedom and social justice Lifeblood animates her life and music. In the mid-1960s, tumult of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C minor, the Staples were the spiritual and musical to the beauty and religious solemnity of voice of the civil rights movement, with close Kurtág’s ‘Varga Bálint’ Liturgy, and the tragedy ties to Martin Luther King Jr. The fire has not and deep love expressed in Arensky’s left her and the 50-year fight for change is not masterful Piano Trio in D minor. This concert over. ‘One True Vine’ is a dark night of the soul, features three truly great compositions for a journey from a search for faith to glorious piano trio sure to get the blood flowing. relief. It positions her, once again, as a leading, inspiring light in American roots. INFORMATION Sat 4 April 3pm & 6pm INFORMATION Salon (One hour no interval) Wed 1 April 7.30pm BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C Minor Op.1, No.3 Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins KURTÁG ‘Varga Bálint’ Liturgy for violin, cello incl. interval) Winners of the 2011 Musica Viva Chamber & piano Mavis Staples vocals (USA) Music Competition, Streeton Trio has ARENSKY Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.32 Premium $95 performed to great acclaim in prestigious Streeton Trio A reserve $80 ($70 concession) venues across the globe. Lifeblood takes you Tickets $38 ($28 concession) B reserve $65 ($55 concession) on a rollercoaster ride through some of the Three concert package $97 ($71 concession) C reserve $55 most intense emotions we experience in life. Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Mavis Staples Streeton Trio From the passionate struggle and dramatic Streeton Trio

4 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • APRIL FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 5 MOOD INDIGO Fun-filled interactive concerts for babies and LOCAL HEROES 2015 Opposites Day toddlers return these Easter Holidays with Opposites Day. Join opera singer Melanie Maslin and her team as she leads you and your The Romantic with Baby Love baby or toddler through key musical and John movement activities that babies find fun and Music Fun which stimulate their development. This fun English concert will incorporate well known music Wilma Smith presents a moveable chamber such as Justine Clarke's ‘Opposite Day’, Bjork's music feast that showcases different Mayall ‘It's Oh So Quiet’, ‘Ants Go Marching’, ‘Open performers and instrumentation in each Shut Them’ and more. These concerts feature concert. The only constant is curator and The godfather of British blues returns live singing, projection, dancing, props and violinist Wilma herself who puts together a facilitated movement to enhance you and your guest roster of some of the finest musicians John Mayall is a pioneer of the blues. baby or toddler's experience of music. performing engaging and often seldom-heard repertoire in combinations guaranteed to He founded John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers INFORMATION in the 60s which backed legendary create chemistry. The Romantic English musicians including John Lee Hooker and Tue 7 & Wed 8 April 10am & 11.30am focuses on the horn trio and the beautiful became a launching platform for the likes Salon (45-mins no interval) romantic repertoire for this most satisfying of , , , Baby Love Music Fun combination by some less known English , , John McVie Tickets $20 masters. and Don Sugarcane Harris. With a career Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre spanning well over 50 years, Mayall has Suitable for children up to three years of age INFORMATION released over 60 albums including the Wed 8 April 6pm all-time classic Bluesbreakers with Eric Salon (70-mins no interval) Clapton as well as a number of dynamic HOLBROOKE Horn Trio albums throughout the 80s and 90s BERKELEY Trio for horn, violin & piano, Op.44 including; Behind The Iron Curtain, Strings of the JOSEPHS Horn Trio Chicago Line, A Sense of Place, and the Andrew Bain horn Grammy-nominated Wake Up Call that Soul Tour Wilma Smith violin featured guest artists Buddy Guy, Mavis Ian Munro piano Staples, Albert Collins and Mick Taylor. Tickets $50 ($40 concession) In 2002, Mayall with the Bluesbreakers, Santiago Cañón Three concert season ticket $128 recorded Stories which debuted on the ($102 concession) Billboard Blues Chart at number one. Valencia in Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Never one to give up the blues, John Mayall Wilma Smith and Friends celebrated his 80th birthday in 2013 by producing his first studio album in five Concert years and one of the most critically- acclaimed and personal albums of his Passionate, sensual, playful, the outstanding career. A Special Life has a deep devotion international virtuoso cellist Santiago Cañón to blues and roots music and has received Valencia, direct from the U.S., returns to numerous accolades. Mayall has also Australia with the Strings of the Melbourne continued to tour with high acclaim. Sinfonietta led by Roger Jonsson. Having been hailed by a critic as ‘a phenomenon who is ‘Mayall celebrated his 80th birthday without doubt already one of the finest cellists with a dynamic and flawless onstage on the world stage today’, the young virtuoso cellist has established himself as one of the blues performance.’ Examiner most exciting new musical talents.

‘At 80, he moves, plays, and tours INFORMATION like he was in his 20s. The flame still Wed 8 April 7.30pm burns bright.’ BAM magazine Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) INFORMATION GRIEG From Holberg’s Time, Op.40 Tue 7 April 7.30pm RACHMANINOFF Vocalise (arr. for cello & Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & string orchestra) 20-mins incl. interval) BRUCH Kol Nidrei Op.47 John Mayall vocals/guitar (UK) HAYDN Cello Concerto in C A reserve $95 ($88 concession) Santiago Cañón Valencia B reserve $80 ($73 concession) Strings of the Melbourne Sinfonietta Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Roger Jonsson leader Tickets $99.75 ($94.50) Presented by Skyhigh Promotions Santiago Cañón Valencia Wilma Smith

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Jake Shimabukuro, a wizard with the Little Promises ukulele, returns on an Australian tour with his Alex & Nilusha presents music from their INFORMATION most ambitious and magical album yet, Grand Jake Shimabukuro Ukulele, produced by Alan Parsons (Dark Side new, critically acclaimed album Tales to Tell. Thu 9 April 7pm Recorded in Melbourne, Cuba, Argentina, Salon (One hour no interval) of The Moon, Abbey Road). He found fame England and the U.S.A., Tales to Tell takes – in cabaret mode initially on YouTube with his rendition of listeners on an alluring journey with sounds Nilusha Dassenaike vocals George Harrison’s ‘While My Guitar Gently gathered from around the globe showcasing Alex Pertout percussion Weeps’ which led to collaborations with the original compositions by Alex Pertout and Tickets $30 ($25 concession) likes of Jimmy Buffett, Bela Fleck & The Nilusha Dassenaike and features an eclectic Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Flecktones, Bette Midler, Yo-Yo Ma, Cyndi Alex & Nilusha cast of outstanding guests. Alex and Nilusha Lauper, Ziggy Marley, Levon Helm, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Les Paul, Dave Koz and Chris Botti. MOOD INDIGO

Angélique Kidjo is one of the greatest forces Let Jake Shimabukuro open your ‘Forget everything you know about in African music, a creative energy with 12 mind to his incredible uke-world the ukulele.’ Time magazine international albums to her name. An extraordinary singer and storyteller, Angelique In a relatively short career, Jake Shimabukuro Kidjo packed Melbourne Recital Centre in 2011 has already redefined a heretofore under-the- bringing the audience to their feet calling for radar instrument, been declared a musical more. Exiled from her homeland, the West ‘hero’ by Rolling Stone, won accolades from the African country of Benin for her role as an disparate likes of Eddie Vedder, Perez Hilton outspoken humanitarian activist, Kidjo has used and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, wowed audiences on TV Angélique her music to bring global attention to the plight (Jimmy Kimmel, Conan), earned comparisons of women and children in Africa. According to to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis, and even The Guardian (UK), Kidjo is one of the Hundred played in front of the Queen of England. Most Inspiring Women in the World. Kidjo INFORMATION One of the greatest forces ‘I like to tell people that if you don’t Sat 11 April 8pm in African music know Angélique, you haven’t lived Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 20-mins because there’s not one person who incl. interval) Jake Shimabukuro ukulele (USA) would be in her presence and not be Tickets $55 changed.’ Alicia Keys Jake Shimabukuro Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre The Grammy Award-winning artist is a global pop star and has collaborated with artists as MOOD INDIGO diverse as Alicia Keys, John Legend and Dianne Reeves and drawn inspiration from Miriam Makeba, James Brown, Otis Redding and the music of Benin. She has also An Affair to collaborated with the greats from the jazz and pop worlds – including Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, Branford Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Dismember Bono, Josh Groban, Carlos Santana, Dave Matthews, Dr John and Joss Stone. Kidjo’s If you have ever lost in love you will appreciate concerts are joyous and exuberant. With a this pithy historical survey of the art of the richly powerful voice, commanding stage break-up song. Hear how they did it in 1915. presence and a dramatic past, Kidjo is an icon: Hear them break up in Paris, New Orleans, ‘Africa’s premier diva’. Her Melbourne concert Sicily and Dubbo, via Django Reinhardt, Dinah is essential for anyone interested in the way Washington, Nina Simone, Paul Kelly and music can shape and be shaped by history. more. Versatile pianist and songwriter Monique diMattina takes you on a comic, INFORMATION sonic journey through heartbreak – with a Fri 10 April 8pm twist ending you won't forget. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 20-mins incl. interval) INFORMATION Angélique Kidjo vocals (BENIN/ ) Fri 10 April 7pm Premium $130 Salon (One hour no interval) A reserve $109 ($95 concession) Monique diMattina in Trio B reserve $85 ($75 concession) Tickets $40 ($35 concession) C reserve $65 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Angélique Kidjo Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Monique diMattina Monique diMattina

8 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • APRIL FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 9 MOOD INDIGO Paul Grabowsky is a prominent feature in Australia’s jazz landscape as a pianist, University of composer, arranger, conductor and Paul Grabowsky programmer. A distinguished artist, Grabowsky has won four ARIA awards, two Melbourne Helpmann Awards, several Bell Awards and a Deadly award. He returns to Melbourne Orchestra with Recital Centre to perform original works for solo piano. Fabian Russell INFORMATION Sat 11 April 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) Paul Grabowsky piano Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Paul Grabowsky Paul Grabowsky

Peter & Melbourne Piano the Wolf Trio in Recital Following three sold out concerts at Peter & the Wolf is an interactive concert for Melbourne Recital Centre, Holly, Chris and the whole family composed and written by Rhodri of Melbourne Piano Trio return to Sergei Prokofiev and performed by perform a powerful recital of Eastern Melbourne Piano Trio. This delightful European piano trios; Dvořák’s Piano Trio program introduces the audience to the No.4, Op.90, Dumky and Babajanian’s Trio in elements of music, such as melody and F-sharp minor. Musicians and audiences love rhythm and invites them to become a part of Dvořák’s Dumky for its deep emotion, and the the music making and storytelling experience. ensemble is thrilled to present the stunning, little-known gem piano trio by Armenian INFORMATION composer Arno Babajanian. Sun 12 April 11am & 2pm Poet of the Piano Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION PROKOFIEV (arr. Patrick Miller) Sun 12 April 5pm The University of Melbourne Orchestra, GREAT PERFORMERS 2015 Peter & the Wolf Salon (One hour & 40-mins no interval) conducted by principal guest conductor Louis Lortie Melbourne Piano Trio DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No.4, Op.90, Dumky Fabian Russell, begin their 2015 season with a Patrick Miller narrator BABAJANIAN Piano Trio in F-sharp minor French-inspired program. The concert will ‘Lortie’s sparkling and swarthy playing is Tickets $25 ($15 concession) Melbourne Piano Trio feature the Melbourne Conservatorium of impressively glamorous.’ BBC Music Magazine Presented by Patma Music Family Concerts Tickets $40 ($30 concession) Music 2014 Concerto Competition winner, Suitable for children 5 to 15 years of age Presented by Melbourne Piano Trio saxophonist Justin Kenealy, performing Tomasi’s Saxophone Concerto, alongside Debussy’s ever-popular Prélude à l'après-midi INFORMATION d'un faune, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and The ‘ever imaginative, ever immaculate’ create a unique and compelling sound Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnole. Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has become world. But Chopin is just the beginning for Tue 14 April 7.30pm a regular visitor to Australia in the last 10 this program. Gabriel Fauré and Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. INFORMATION years. Audiences are ever keen to hear Alexander Scriabin both took inspiration interval) Sun 12 April 5pm how this sophisticated artist picks his way from Chopin’s Preludes as they began Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90- mins incl. through the lush extravagances of the exploring the sonic possibilities of the FAURÉ Préludes, Op.103 interval) Romantic repertoire. Playing Chopin with piano and, like Lortie, they brought their SCRIABIN 24 Preludes, Op.11 DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune grand bravado is one thing; inhabiting it, own, highly individual voices to the genre. CHOPIN 24 Preludes, Op.28 TOMASI Saxophone Concerto finding the quiet heart and To mark the centenary of Alexander Louis Lortie piano (Canada) STRAVINSKY Pulcinella: Suite communicating that with an earnest Scriabin’s death, Lortie performs his Op.11 Premium $105 RAVEL Rhapsodie Espagnole clarity is quite another. This is where Preludes in their entirety, alongside the A reserve $95 ($55 concession) University of Melbourne Orchestra Lortie comes in. sometimes terse, sometimes elegiac B reserve $79 ($55 concession) Justin Kenealy saxophone Lortie’s early studies in Montreal were Preludes of Gabriel Fauré, written as he C reserve $55 ($55 concession) Fabian Russell conductor with Yvonne Hubert, herself a student of faded gently from life. This is not just piano Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre FREE – tickets required with entry. the legendary Alfred Cortot, famous for music. This is three-dimensional sound, Program partners The Langham Melbourne, Details at melbournerecital.com.au her interpretations of Chopin. Lortie has lovingly sculpted to reveal the delicate ABC Classic FM & Montblanc Presented by Melbourne Conservatorium thus taken the wisdom of two generations lines, the invisible dances, the unspoken Melbourne Piano Trio of Music, The University of Melbourne and added his own, searching insights to words of three poets of the piano.

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INFORMATION Wed 15 April 7pm Oriental Salon (One hour & 40-mins incl. interval) Lagrime Mie: Tears & Lullabies TAKEMITSU Between Tides Horizons GRABOWSKY new work for Firebird Trio The Continuo Collective revels in rarely INFORMATION LISZT (arr. Humble) Orpheus Symphonic heard works with members Samantha Cohen Thu 16 April 6pm Local artists Firebird Trio performs a concert Poem No.4 (theorbo) and Geoffrey Morris (Baroque guitar) Salon (One hour no interval) dedicated to the influence of Orientalism in BEETHOVEN Ten Variations on ‘Ich bin der dedicating their talent to exploring the lute and Selected songs by Merula, Caccini & Strozzi. music. Takemitsu’s Between Tides offsets the Schneider Kakadu’, Op.121a guitar families in early music. In this concert, Continuo Collective compass with its exquisite irregularities of RACHMANINOFF Trio élégiaque No.1 in they perform songs by women and about Vivien Hamilton soprano metre and harmony, while Paul Grabowsky’s G minor women that are brimming with raw emotion Ryan Williams recorders new work will shift the radius even further. Firebird Trio and bursting with inner strength. From the Reidun Turner viola da gamba Liszt’s tone-poem Orpheus is realised in a Tickets $50 ($40 concession) extraordinary passion and skill of Barbara Tickets $38 ($28 concession) luminous arrangement by Keith Humble, Three concert season ticket $128 ($102 Strozzi and Francesca Caccini to the chilling Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 concession) while Beethoven’s variations on a theme from concession) Nina Nana lullaby of Tarquinio Merula, these Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Muller’s opera and Rachmaninoff’s stirring Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre exponents of the ‘seconda pratica’ were in the Continuo Collective Firebird Trio trio round off the concert. & Firebird Trio Vivien Hamilton centre of Italian New Music in the 17th century.

One of the most gifted violinists of her LOCAL HEROES 2015 generation, Sarah Chang gave an electrifying Augie March Soloist in the performance of Barber’s Violin Concerto with Something Borrowed the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2013. Trio Anima Mundi explores Spotlight: Now she returns to perform Brahms’ Violin Sonata No.3, a four-movement symphony in borrowed ideas for compositions miniature, along with Bartók’s Romanian Folk Sarah Chang Dances and Tchaikovsky’s late masterpiece, Souvenir de Florence.

INFORMATION Wed 15 April 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances BRAHMS Violin Sonata No.3 Trio Anima Mundi TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence Sarah Chang violin Something Borrowed presents three works Caroline Almonte piano which use material borrowed from other Members of the Melbourne Symphony sources. In the case of the variations by Ludwig Orchestra van Beethoven, the main theme is from Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Wenzel Müller’s song ‘Ich bin der Schneider Augie March Sarah Chang Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Kakadu’. For the works by Bedrich Smetana In 2014, one of Australia's finest and most- first-ever show 16 years earlier, in Brunswick and Kenji Fujimura, each composer has MOSTLY MOZART loved bands Augie March announced their . They ended up playing for five nights, ‘borrowed’ material from their own previous return from a six-year hiatus. This very by popular demand. It was indeed a INFORMATION compositions; the theme of the final movement Spend an hour with good company, welcome news was swiftly followed by the triumphant return, with the band in best-ever Mozart the Romantic Thu 16 April 11am (morning tea from 10.15am) of the Smetana Piano Trio is taken from his news that the band had quietly been creating form, enjoying themselves for the first time in great music & light refreshments Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (70-mins no interval) earlier Piano Sonata in G minor, and Fujimura a fifth studio album,Havens Dumb, over the a long time. the Romantic era, from Beethoven and Liszt to MOZART borrows ideas from his own earlier work preceding three years. Tchaikovsky. By contrast, the celebrated Overture to Don Giovanni, K.527 Au Revoir for violin and piano. Taking to the stage ahead of Augie March will Symphony No.35, Haffner, was originally Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219, Turkish For Melbourne Recital Centre in 2015, Augie be local troubadour Fraser A Gorman, conceived as a serenade to celebrate the Symphony No.35 in D, K.385, Haffner INFORMATION March - Glenn Richards, Kiernan Box, described by The Music as 'A concoction of ennoblement of one of Mozart’s patrons and Zoe Freisberg violin (ANAM soloist) Fri 17 April 6.30pm Edmondo Ammendola, Adam Donovan and old-west country tunes and Australian thus embodies all the highest ideals of grace Orchestra Victoria Salon (One hour no interval) Dave Williams, plus long-time alumni The charm-of-youth conversation... fresh and and nobility that one expects from Mozart’s Wilma Smith leader BEETHOVEN Ten Variations on ‘Ich bin der Arnold Horns - will play a special concert familiar.' featuring songs from throughout their 17-year most elegant music. Composed when he was Colin Fox host Schneider Kakadu’, Op.121a INFORMATION only 19 years old, the highly operatic Violin Tickets $47 ($38 concession/senior) – includes FUJIMURA new work career. For a band that creates rare sounds on a Fri 17 April 8pm Concerto No.5, K.219, is one of Mozart’s most morning tea SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor, Op.15 regular basis, and take great care to get their Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 20-mins daring and original works. From its fiery Four concert season ticket $141 ($114 Trio Anima Mundi wonderful songs just how they would like them, incl. interval) opening bars to its frenzied ‘Turkish’ finale, it’s concession/senior) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) this concert promises to be one for the ages. Augie March Premiered in 1787, the dramatic overture to easy to see why this extraordinary piece Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre, Three concert season ticket $97 ($71 concession) Augie March's return to the live stage after the With special guest Fraser A Gorman Don Giovanni went on to serve as an quickly became the benchmark against which Orchestra Victoria & Australian National Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & hiatus came in the form of playing a show a Tickets $60 ($55 concession) inspiration for many of the great composers of all other violin concerti are measured. Academy of Music (ANAM) Trio Anima Mundi few streets away from the scene of their Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

12 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • APRIL FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 13 INFORMATION Buster Keaton's Cops, One Week & The Goat The Virtuoso Sun 19 April 2.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. Melbourne Recital Centre favourites Blue interval) Grassy Knoll is back as part of the Melbourne Recorder HANDEL International Comedy Festival to present the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba scores to three hilarious Buster Keaton short A sparkling celebration of Baroque Concerto Grosso in D, Op.6, No.5 films. But this time, the Blue Grassy Knoll crew recorder music with Genevieve Lacey RAVEL (arr. Buc) is joined by some friends. Some of this city's Menuet sur le nom Haydn favourite comedians performing as part of the A musician of unrivalled finesse and intensity, Ma mere l’oye: Le jardin féerique Melbourne International Comedy Festival will utterly devoted to her craft, recorder virtuoso Menuet antique join the fellas on stage, sharing their Genevieve Lacey is deservedly one of TELEMANN Recorder Concerto in C, perspectives, thoughts and observations on the Australia’s best-loved soloists. Genevieve TWV51:C1 genius of Buster Keaton. These films showcase performs with Melbourne Chamber BUC new work for string orchestra (world Buster's most creative, anarchic and influential Orchestra in Bach’s ever-popular premiere) period of comedy filmmaking, and audiences Brandenburg Concerto No.4 and two joyful BABELL Recorder Concerto in C today still marvel at the breathtaking skill and concerti by Telemann and Babell. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.4 gracefulness this master comedian Interweaving the program are gorgeous Ravel Genevieve Lacey recorder commanded. Blue Grassy Knoll has been menuets and brilliant music by Handel, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra performing live scores to these films since 1996, including his famous Arrival of the Queen of William Hennessy director and has become synonymous with Keaton's Sheba. To top off a program of delights, the Premium $119 ($109 concession) comedy, receiving five-star reviews everywhere Orchestra has commissioned a new work by A reserve $99 ($89 concession) from Edinburgh to New York. Nicholas Buc, whose Rhapsody for All Seasons B reserve $79 ($69 concession) was rapturously received by audiences in MCO C reserve $59 ($49 concession) INFORMATION Virtuosi’s 2014 season. Under 40s $40 Sat 18 April 4pm & 8pm Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Genevieve Lacey Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) KEATON & BLUE GRASSY KNOLL Cops, One Week & The Goat Blue Grassy Knoll Stars from the Melbourne International Russian Cello Comedy Festival Blue Grassy Knoll Tickets $40 ($35 concession) ‘A well-balanced partnership indeed.’ Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Part of the Melbourne International Comedy ‘This splendid entertainment is a breathing, shared creative triumph.’ INFORMATION Festival ***** The Scotsman Launching their fifth CD on the MOVE label, Mon 20 April 6pm Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid enter the Salon (One hour no interval) world of Russia. A duo that relishes playing Works by Gretchaninoff, Glazunov, unknown works alongside much loved classics, Stravinsky, Glière, Prokofiev& they perform brilliant pieces by Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninoff Featuring students Gretchaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Glière Zoe Knighton cello in a concert that celebrates a romanticism in Amir Farid piano The Mogilevski Duo of Mark Mogilevski composition inspired by the combination of Tickets $38 ($28 concession) cello and piano. Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Zoe Knighton & Amir Farid

The Mogilevski Duo (Mark and Elena includes violin solos, duets and quartets, LOCAL HEROES 2015 Mogilevski) formed in 1972 when two talented performed by Mark and his students, young musicians met each other while celebrating the couple’s contribution to studying at the Kharkov Conservatory. During Melbourne’s performing arts community. Lamentations for a Soldier the following five years the duo honed their INFORMATION chamber and ensemble skills, broadening As they enter their fourth decade, Australia’s INFORMATION their repertoire under the direction of the best Sat 18 April 6pm most innovative vocal ensemble, The Song Tuesday 21 April 6pm music teachers in the USSR. Mark and Elena Salon (90-mins incl. interval) Company, continues to explore new territory Salon (One hour no interval) immediately established a name for Works by Schubert, Vivaldi, Sarasate, and revisit the familiar. The haunting sound of WHITE Lamentations for six voices themselves when they arrived in Melbourne Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and the Turkish flute or ney, form the anchor of the MÜLAYIM new setting of Rumi verse two decades ago. Mark joined the Melbourne others ensemble’s 2015 Easter program which TRADITIONAL selection of traditional Sufi Symphony Orchestra as Associate Mark Mogilevski, Helen Ayres, Matt features Oguz Mülayim (Turkey) on ney, and music (Turkish) Concertmaster and wife Elena began teaching Tomkins, Sarah Curro, Phillipa West, Ji composer/performance artist Ekrem Mülayim The Song Company piano at the Victorian College of the Arts. Won Kim & Lachlan Bramble violin (Australia). East and West collide through the Oguz Mülayim ney (Turkey) Since then they have been an invaluable part Elena Mogilevski piano juxtaposition of Robert White’s beautiful Ekrem Mülayim performance artist of Melbourne's cultural life as teachers, Tickets $38 ($28 concession) setting of the biblical Lamentations and Tickets $59 ($54 concession) Mark Mogilevski performers and mentors. This program Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre traditional music from the Sufi tradition going Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & back to the central figure of Rumi. The Song Company

14 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • APRIL FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 15 A piece too dangerous to perform behind LOCAL HEROES 2015 This Time, guitarists Slava and Leonard the Iron Curtain; a heartfelt, lyrical Grigoryan's latest album and 6th duo release, Goldner String Quartet offering of thanksgiving after a life- highlights the brothers’ astounding skills which threatening illness; and a new work are at the core of the critical acclaim they have tailor-made just for them: this is how achieved in Australia and on the international Australia’s pre-eminent chamber ensemble stage. They perform works from this new celebrates its 20th anniversary. Be moved album which was recorded in Norway at the by the intense emotions in music by Ligeti, legendary RainbowStudio and features music Beethoven and Paul Stanhope. by Nigel Westlake, William Lovelady, Shaun INFORMATION Rigney, Luke Howard, Ralph Towner and original compositions by Leonard Grigoryan. Tue 21 April & Sat 2 May 7pm It is fitting, then, that this concert is in tribute to Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & the Horwood Brothers of Preston, some of our 20-mins incl. interval) ANZAC Local Heroes whose stories we are LIGETI String Quartet No.1 sharing throughout the year. Métamorphoses nocturnes STANHOPE String Quartet No.3* INFORMATION BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.15 in A Thu 23 April 7pm minor, Op.132 Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour & 50-mins Goldner String Quartet incl. interval) Premium $118 ($102 concession) Music by Nigel Westlake, William Lovelady, A reserve $98 ($85 concession) Shaun Rigney, Luke Howard, Ralph B reserve $69 ($60 concession) This Time Towner and originals by the brothers. C reserve $46 ($40 concession) Slava & Leonard Grigoryan guitar *commissioned for Musica Viva by Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Goldner String Quartet Huntington Estate & friends Three concert season ticket $117 ($91 concession) Presented by Musica Viva Australia Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Slava & Leonard Grigoryan Grigoryan Brothers and Friends

LOCAL HEROES 2015 MOOD INDIGO Infinite Variations NPCO Essence: Gemma Turvey & Karen Heath Duo A unique perspective from which to experience Bach’s greatest keyboard work A fresh take on a 20th-century tradition, the INFORMATION J.S. Bach’s timeless masterpiece, The Goldberg modern epoch. The past and the present are New Palm Court Orchestra's Essence series Thu 23 April 6pm Variations, is re-imagined for two pianos. seamlessly interwoven, affording the listener a brings together some of Melbourne’s best jazz, Salon (One hour no interval) Premiered by Stephen Emmerson and Sonya unique perspective from which to experience classical and improvising musicians, led by Gemma Turvey piano Lifschitz in 2012 at the Four Winds Festival, Bach’s greatest keyboard work. pianist and composer Gemma Turvey. In this Karen Keath clarinet/bass clarinet/flute this mesmerising arrangement conjures up the Essence series debut, Gemma Turvey is joined Tickets $38 ($28 concession) INFORMATION same sense of awe that comes from watching a by multi-instrumentalist Karen Heath, described Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & sunrise, touching sandstone, or listening to the Wed 22 April 6pm Israel Independence Day by ABC Classic FM as ‘virtuosic’, to perform The New Palm Court Orchestra patterns in the sounds of the rain. The Salon (One hour no interval) Concert - Yom Ha’atzmaut original compositions and improvisations for exquisite counterpoint and the transcendent BACH (arr. Emmerson) Goldberg Variations piano and woodwind. They also explore the rich spiritual beauty of Bach’s masterpiece, made BWV 988 (arr. two pianos) Celebrate 67 years of Israel’s independence and colourful arrangements of Brazilian and poignant and irresistible by the two pianists 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg: New with a festive concert featuring a selection of Gemma Turvey Argentinean folk music. engaging in a musical dialogue, add a sheen of Variations on the Goldberg Theme (selections) familiar and contemporary Israeli music pure wonder to the totality of musical Stephen Emmerson & Sonya Lifschitz piano performed by local artists. This celebration LOCAL HEROES 2015 experience. 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg Tickets $38 ($28 concession) brings together a diverse group of talent, is a present-day reflection and sonic Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 young and old, and showcases a range of From the Homeland commentary on Bach’s most revered work, concession) Israeli musical styles, creating a festive re-conceptualised by America’s leading Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & atmosphere that will resonate long after the Dvořák and Smetana produced INFORMATION composers from the perspective of a post- Emmerson-Lifschitz Duo last note is played. beautiful works full of Czech nationalistic Fri 24 April 6.30pm fervour with their joyously infectious folk Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION music themes. This year Duo Chamber SMETANA ‘From the Homeland’ JB 1:118 Wed 22 April 7.30pm Melange, Ivana Tomaskova (violin) and GRABOWSKY new work for solo piano Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Tamara Smolyar (piano) celebrate their DVOŘÁK Four Romantic Pieces, Op.75 Adam Starr musical director remarkable 15-year partnership. They perform MARTINŮ Sonata No.3 Yom Ha’atzmaut Band Smetana’s enchanting ‘From the Homeland’, Duo Chamber Melange Premium $67 Martinů’s stirring sonata alongside a new Tickets $38 ($28 concession) A reserve $38 ($20 youth) piano work written by Melbourne based Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 concession) Family $105 (2A + 2C) composer Paul Grabowsky. The concert Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Presented by Zionist Council of Victoria highlights music sans frontières as it Duo Chamber Melange seamlessly connects the jazz and classical worlds. This is a program of great colour and Sonya Lifschitz & Stephen Emmerson Duo Chamber Melange rich variety – music without borders.

16 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • APRIL FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 17 LOCAL HEROES 2015 Amjad Ali, Amaan & Ayaan in Jugalbhandi Ensemble Liaison presents two classic masterpieces alongside what can only be ‘It was like watching an Indian classical answer to Eric Clapton… it was easy described as a modern masterpiece, David to see why great Indian music can be as exciting as classic blues and rock.’ Fairy Tales & Gumboots Bruce’s Gumboots. Opening with Ensemble The Guardian (UK) Classical & modern masterpieces Liaison’s own arrangement of Schumann’s delightful Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales), Amjad Ali is the world's foremost player of the and with their father in India as well as the program’s mix of masterpieces concludes sarod (Indian lute-like stringed instrument) overseas. They are expected to carry on the with Brahms’ glorious Piano Quintet in F and he returns to Australia by popular great family tradition which you can hear minor. Joining the Ensemble are three of demand. Universally admired for his unique first-hand live on stage in the brilliant Australia’s finest chamber musicians, violinists hypnotic style and virtuoso inventiveness, acoustics of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Paul Wright, Elizabeth Sellars and violist Amjad is an international celebrity whose Cameron Hill. sublime music regularly reverberates INFORMATION INFORMATION throughout concert halls in Europe and the Fri 24 April 7.30pm USA. On this occasion he is accompanied by Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Wed 29 April 7pm his sons Amaan and Ayaan. This performance Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali & Ayaan Ali Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour & 50-mins includes a jugalbhandi (duet) between father sarod (INDIA) incl. interval) and sons in what promises to be exciting Satyajit Talwalkar tabla (INDIA) SCHUMANN (arr. Ensemble Liaison) evening of Indian classical performance. A reserve $75 ($65 concession) Märchenerzählungen, Op.132 Amaan and Ayaan are now eminent musicians B reserve $65 ($55 concession) BRUCE Gumboots in their own right, performing solo, together C reserve $50 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34a Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali & Ayaan Ali Presented by Nataraj Cultural Centre Inc Ensemble Liaison Paul Wright & Elizabeth Sellars violin SPOTLIGHT SERIES SALON: SOLO Cameron Hill viola Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Don't Mention the War... Three concert season ticket $128 ($102 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Ensemble Liaison Ensemble Liaison & Friends Isang LOCAL HEROES 2015 In the opening concert of Kristian Chong and Solo Piano Works Enders Beethoven's Friends for 2015, Melbourne pianist Kristian Chong teams up with outstanding Australian of Javad Maurofi violinist Sophie Rowell in what is most likely Spring Sonata the most popular Beethoven sonata for piano Persian-Australian pianist Amir Farid explores and violin, the Spring Sonata. Showing how the piano works of one of Iran's greatest quickly and adeptly the sonata developed over musical figures, Javad Maroufi. A classically- the next century, Saint-Saens’ spirited, virtuosic trained pianist, Maroufi was greatly influenced and animated first sonata for violin and piano is by the output of Chopin, Mozart and David Barnard placed before this, and Beethoven’s first creation Beethoven. But it was his ability to meld these in the genre, the Op.12 No.1 Sonata, already Western sounds with traditional Persian music Two of Australia’s leading recitalists take you showing the consummate characteristics of his styles that resulted in a unique and immensely on a comical romp through some of the best contribution to the duo sonata form opens the loved body of work that is sure to please. loved and popular cabaret song repertoire program. This promises to be an exceptional from Australia, France, Germany, the USA and performance of beauty, exhilaration and INFORMATION England. Seated in cabaret style, be elegance from two renowned performers. Fri 1 May 6pm transported to the nightclubs of Berlin, the Salon (One hour no interval) music halls of London, Paris’ burlesque INFORMATION MAUROFI solo piano works nightlife and country Australia. Songs by Thu 30 April 2pm & 6pm Amir Farid piano Novello, Coward, Granger, Lehrer and some Salon (One hour no interval) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) modern comic surprises. Isang Enders BEETHOVEN Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Sonata for piano & violin in D, Op.12, No.1 INFORMATION An exciting musician who spans the Baroque INFORMATION Sonata for piano & violin in F, Op.24, Spring Wed 29 April 6pm through to the rich Classical-Romantic Mon 27 & Tue 28 April 6pm SAINT-SAËNS Sonata for violin & piano in D Salon (One hour no interval) – in cabaret mode repertoire and the newest music by emerging Salon (75-mins no interval) minor, No.1, Op.75 Works by Novello, Coward, Lehrer, Seegar, composers, Isang Enders is causing a stir on BACH Sophie Rowell violin Albert, Grainger, Dumont & more the international scene. Born in Frankfurt to Cello Suite No.1 in G Kristian Chong piano Brad Cooper tenor German and Korean parents, both of whom Cello Suite No.2 in D minor Tickets $38 ($28 concession) David Barnard piano were musicians, don't miss Cello Suite No.6 in D Three concert season ticket $107 ($82 Tickets $38 ($28 concession) debut of this thrilling young artist performing Isang Enders cello concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre three Bach cello suites, which form part of his Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation latest CD release for Sony Classical. Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Kristian Chong Kristian Chong and Friends Amir Farid

18 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • APRIL FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 19 Top Acts showcases VCE performing arts INFORMATION MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE & MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENT VCE Top students who achieved outstanding results Fri 1 May 7.30pm in Dance, Drama, Theatre Studies, Music Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & Performance, Music Investigation and 30-mins incl. interval) Music Style and Composition in 2014. METROPOLIS NEW Class 2015: VCE performing arts students This two-hour concert comprises stunning Tickets $32 ($28 concession) performances of solo and ensemble Presented by Victorian Curriculum & MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015 Top Acts contemporary and classical music, Assessment Authority scripted and originally devised drama MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE AND MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENT METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 4 TO 16 MAY. and dance pieces. Top Acts offers current students, their teachers, families and the PURCHASE TICKETS TO TWO OR MORE METROPOLIS 2015 CONCERTS AND BECOME A METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015 general public the opportunity to see MEMBER TO RECEIVE FURTHER TICKET OFFERS, DISCOUNTS AND BENEFITS. some of Victoria’s finest emerging performing artists. BETWEEN TWO PARTS DELICACIES OF UNDINE - THERE IS AN INTERMISSION MOLTEN HORROR THE SPIRIT OF WATER OF 100,000 YEARS Melbourne Piano Trio gives world premieres Syzygy Ensemble explores the idea of music Moving between two performance spaces, by two of Australia's leading composers – the as water, of sound as a fluid entity. Marc Yeats’ Speak Percussion herald the opening of the second commissioned work for the trio by Paul recent works are deliberately ‘unsynchronised’ Metropolis New Music Festival 2015 with a Dean following the success of Fractured – each part is meticulously notated but does program of world premieres. Video Moments and an exciting new collaboration not need to vertically align with any other projections, suspended objects and electronics from film specialist Christopher de Groot. part; Neils Rønsholdt plays with the fluidity of are combined with shifting instrumentations In-between the two premieres, the Trio explores memory, and on the way a single thought can and audience orientations for each work. the work of Japan's leading film composer be etched into the brain and yet continually Melbourne's award-winning champions of new Sakamoto who has won Grammy, Academy and transformed; for Helena Tulve, the analogy is music present three commissions inspired by Golden Globe awards for his compositions. more literal – Stream draws out long lines of MOOD INDIGO the moving image by some of the nation's best liquid sound from each instrument, from the INFORMATION emerging composers, Jeanette Olivia Little, tiniest trickle to great gushing oceans. This Alma Mater will take you back in time, to a Peter de Jager and Alexander Garsden. Tue 5 May 6pm concert includes a video collaboration with Fado ao largo world where delicate beauty and unrefined Salon (One hour no interval) visual artist Agatha Yim. INFORMATION DE GROOT Delicacies of Molten Horror passion walk hand-in-hand down the snaking INFORMATION corridors of an antique city. Alma Mater is a Mon 4 May 7.30pm (world premiere) Melbourne-based group that plays fado, the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall & Salon (One hour & SAKAMOTO Wed 6 May 6pm traditional music of Portugal, with a 20-mins no interval) Babel – Bibo no Aozora Salon (One hour no interval) contemporary twist. The music is dramatic and LITTLE new work (world premiere) The Last Emperor TULVE Stream passionate, yet melodic and tantalisingly soft. DE JAGER new work (world premiere) Seven Samurai POZNIAK new work Alma Mater are Yuliya Mik (voice), Tiago Brissos GARSDEN new work (world premiere) Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence YEATS the half-life of facts (guitar) and Julian Scheffer (seven-string Speak Percussion PAUL DEAN new work (world premiere) RØNSHOLDT Burning guitar). In this performance they launch their Peter de Jager piano Melbourne Piano Trio Syzygy Ensemble debut album, Fado ao largo, meaning ‘fado Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Christopher de Groot live electronics Agatha Yim visual artist from offshore’ and are joined by special guests. Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Tickets $38 ($28 concession)

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20 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • MAY FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 21 London-based pianist, Zubin Kanga returns INFORMATION SHAUN TAN'S THE ARRIVAL DARK TWIN to Melbourne with Dark Twin: music of Fri 8 May 6pm deception and mystery for piano and Salon (One hour no interval) The inventive graphic stories by World respected percussionist Ben Walsh multimedia. With a host of world and VAN DER AA Transit internationally renowned illustrator Shaun randomly discovered The Arrival in a Australian premieres of works by Julian Day, DAY Dark Twin Tan have already migrated from page to bookshop. He fell in love with the work and Cat Hope, Michel van der Aa and Steve Reich, HOPE The Fourth Estate screen, with the Oscar-winning film The Lost immediately imagined the whole story Dark Twin explores the potential for multiple PRINS Piano Hero Thing. In Tan's much-loved book The Arrival brought to life in sound. This masterpiece identities, malevolent doppelgängers and BLINKHORN frostbYte: chalk outline we follow the melancholic yet hopeful of visual storytelling has inspired superlative mysterious landscapes in music that expands REICH Piano Counterpoint adventures of a refugee in a strange world. reviews and awards from across the globe. the sonic and visual capabilities of the piano. Zubin Kanga piano Celebrated composer Ben Walsh brings this Sequential narrative, devoid of text, places Whether interacting with distorted and Tickets $38 ($28 concession) story to life in a live sonic-scape, performed by a renewed focus on the illustrations to tell the warped piano sounds, playing through an a 10-piece band ‘Orkestra of The Underground’, story. The Arrival’s sepia toned work is some avatar, creating massive walls of sound or with projections of Tan's exquisite illustrations. of the most compelling work produced – grooving within an invisible piano ensemble, straddling the line between graphic novel and the works toy with and subvert the concept of picture book. Ben Walsh is a musical chameleon Zubin Kanga a ‘solo’ piano recital. straddling genres, styles and performance ‘Ben Walsh has an innate talent for bringing mediums effortlessly and with aplomb. talented individuals together around musical projects. His Orkestra Of The INFORMATION Underground pools the diverse and creative Wed 6 May 7.30pm talent of Australia's music scene towards A BIGGER PICTURE Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) composition projects.’ Time Out The Arrival illustrations & story by Shaun Tan Described as ‘visionary’ by The New Yorker, a singing and speaking pianist, inspired by Ben Walsh Australian virtuoso pianist Lisa Moore William Blake's 1820s original text and Orkestra of The Underground presents a multi-dimensional solo concert template collection using projected imagery Tickets $55 ($50 concession) using her voice and projected imagery in of drawings and illuminated manuscripts. works by Philip Glass and Martin Bresnick. This remarkable music is inspired by evocative INFORMATION concepts found in motion pictures, opera, Sat 9 May 6pm Ghandi, Buddhism and William Blake. Philip Salon (90-mins incl. interval) Glass' Mad Rush was composed for the Dalai GLASS Lama's entrance into New York's St. John the Mad Rush Divine Cathedral; Metamorphosis One and Two Metamorphosis One & Two were written for the movies The Thin Blue Line Satyagraha Act III Lisa Moore and The Hours; and the Act III conclusion to BRESNICK For The Sexes: The Gates of Paradise the opera Satyagraha projects the spirit of Lisa Moore piano/voice non-violent resistance. Martin Bresnick's For Text and original imagery by William Blake the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise is a 30-minute Visuals by Puppetsweat Theatre dramatic solo oratorio-fantasia composed for Tickets $38 ($28 concession) NOSTALGHIA The Arrival Live Ben Walsh Takemitsu’s Nostalghia, a meditative tribute to the last film by Russian cinematic giant Andrei Tarkovsky, recalls the director’s signature scenes of darkness and isolation, whilst Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a INFORMATION Cinematographic Scene – written to Sat 9 May 8pm MOONFALL accompany a dramatic scenario of his own Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. imagining – viscerally evokes danger, fear and interval) Multi-disciplinary ensemble Forest Collective INFORMATION catastrophe within just eight intense minutes TAKEMITSU Nostalghia is joined by local artists Rubik's Collective for Thu 7 May 6pm of music. Nico Muhly’s Cello Concerto, ‘In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky’ new works encompassing film, dance and new Salon (One hour no interval) acclaimed by The Guardian for its ‘sharply SCHOENBERG Accompaniment to a music. The performance features Swedish HOLMS (arr. Lawson) Moonfall from Mystery heard orchestral palette’, is performed by Cinematographic Scene composer Marcus Fjellström's Odboy & of Edwin Drood British cellist Oliver Coates, to whom it is MUHLY Cello Concerto (Australian premiere) Erordog, a work influenced by 1980s computer FJELLSTRÖM Odboy & Erordog episodes 1, 2 dedicated. Blow Bright, a darkly atmospheric BJARNASON Blow Bright (Australian games, that centres around a boy and his dog & 3 (Australian premiere) work from Icelandic composer Daníel premiere) sent off on a mission by a nameless authority. LAWSON Orpheus and the Cave (world Bjarnason – also known for his collaborations Sophie Rowell violin Contrasting this, Moonfall includes two world premiere) with post-rock group Sigur Rós – concludes the Oliver Coates cello (UK) premieres, Elanor Webber's new dance-music WEBBER Texture of It (world premiere) program. This concert also includes a new Melbourne Symphony Orchestra filmThe Texture of It based on her 2014 live Forest Collective work commissioned as part of the MSO’s Cybec André de Ridder conductor (BELGIUM) performance and a new work by Evan Lawson. Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Oliver Coates 21st-Century Australian Composers Program. Tickets $54 ($44 concession)

22 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • MAY FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 23 Marshall McGuire Melbourne-based harpist Marshall McGuire INFORMATION THE LIGHT LIGHT IS CALLING is one of Australia’s most versatile, busiest and Fri 15 May 6pm most charming musicians, appearing Salon (75-mins no interval) Brawny punk energy and electrifying sonic Ensemble Offspring, masters of innovative regularly around the country in contexts as Marshall McGuire harp images abound in Fuel, Julia Wolfe’s multi- new music, delves into the immersive world of diverse as early music bands, contemporary Genevieve Lacey recorder media collaboration with filmmaker Bill sound and image with Light is Calling. This classical ensembles and in the soloist’s seat Flinders Quartet Morrison, which explores the global captivating program features virtuosic solos with orchestras. His infectious bonhomie and Tickets $20 INFORMATION implications of the fossil fuel economy. Tan written by minimalist heroes Steve Reich, spectacular technique have endeared him to Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto, a concert work Michael Gordon and Nico Muhly for Thu 14 May 6pm music lovers everywhere. Marshall recently based on the composer’s Academy Award- percussion, violin and clarinet, and two Salon (70-mins no interval) celebrated his 50th birthday, and what better ‘Marshall McGuire...is plainly a winning score to Ang Lee’s martial arts epic, Australian trios – a world premiere by GORDON Light is Calling way to celebrate than with a musical soiree. musician of exceptional imagination provides an exquisite contrast with poignant Brisbane composer Christopher Perrena MUHLY It Goes Without Saying Marshall and his guests share a few of his themes unfurling over six movements, based on the movement of underwater divers, PERREN Divers (world premiere) favourite pieces old and new, some composed and flair, reflected in his choice connected by a glorious cello cadenza. The and the stunning Fractured Again Suite REICH Vermont Counterpoint Celebrating Marshall especially for him by luminary Australian of music as well as in his superbly Light, Phillip Glass’ first full scoring for inspired by splintering glass, from the group's RICKETSON Fractured Again Suite McGuire’s Birthday composers. assured playing.’ The Times (UK) symphony orchestra, is a hypnotic, continually co-artistic director Damien Ricketson with Ensemble Offspring evolving reflection on the way great moments video by Andrew Wholley. Tickets $38 ($28 concession) of clarity can metaphorically ‘illuminate’ intellectual and scientific endeavour. Its starting point: the famous 1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment, in which American physicists determined the velocity of the speed of light, setting the scene for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. This concert will also include a new work commissioned as part of the MSO’s Cybec Vivaldi 21st-Century Australian Composers Program. Unwired INFORMATION Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Wed 13 May 8pm reinvigorate Vivaldi's The Four Seasons Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) WOLFE Fuel (Australian premiere) Kirsty McCahon DUN Crouching Tiger Concerto GLASS The Light A shared belief in the transformative power of Vivaldi’s work. Staying faithful to the structure C.P.E. BACH Concerto for soprano saxophone, Oliver Coates cello (UK) music and a spirit of intrepid adventure led of the canon, Richter’s Recomposed Four Wq 170 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Ensemble Offspring award-winning British composer Max Richter Seasons is in turns beautiful, peaceful and RICHTER Vivaldi Recomposed (Vivaldi’s The André de Ridder conductor (BELGIUM) to take a Baroque classic – Vivaldi’s Four serene, yet also wild, passionate and intensely Four Seasons) Tickets $54 ($44 concession) Seasons – and reimagine it for orchestra and emotional. Brendan Joyce Baroque violin Jonny Greenwood THERE WILL BE synthesiser, and for Paul Dyer to take up the Christina Leonard soprano saxophone challenge to present the recomposed piece INFORMATION Paul Dyer AO synthesiser BLOOD with period instruments, and to take the reins Sun 17 May 5pm & Mon 18 May 7pm Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Launching an evening of ominous works, of the synthesiser himself. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. Premium $152 excerpts from Jonny Greenwood’s soundtrack The result is an audacious creation that takes interval) A reserve $130 to There Will Be Blood invokes the dark the audience through the same landscape of BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.3, BWV 1048 B reserve $102 ($71 concession) brutality of pioneering America. John spring, summer, autumn and winter but with a VIVALDI Concerto Op.3, No.8, RV 522 from C reserve $68 ($48 concession) Corigliano’s Baroque-inspired Chaconne from renewed sense of the indestructible genius of L’estro armonico Presented by Australian Brandenburg Orchestra The Red Violin gives a lyrical account of doomed love, while Penderecki’s Polymorphia AUSTRALIAN VOICES channels the soundtrack to a swathe of horror films – the piece having featured in such classics as The Shining and The Exorcist. To Discovering Percy Grainger close out the program, Edgard Varèse’s Déserts Penelope Thwaites AM, pianist, composer and This is the perfect supplement to the exciting is performed alongside a breathtaking visual broadcaster, has performed and researched concert on Thursday 21 May in the Salon, collage, created by Bill Viola a half-century Grainger's music for more than three decades in which Penelope will be joined by students after the original composition of the avant- and her recordings include an extensive from the Australian National Academy of garde masterpiece. Grainger discography. She is also the editor of Music (ANAM) in the Australian Voices INFORMATION The New Percy Grainger Companion, an program, Percy Grainger. invaluable source of information on Grainger Sat 16 May 8pm repertoire and performance. In this special INFORMATION Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. PENDERECKI Polymorphia illustrated lecture, Penelope shares Mon 18 May 5.30pm interval) VARÈSE Déserts perspectives on Melbourne-born Grainger's Salon (90-mins no interval) GREENWOOD There Will Be Blood: suite violin Sophie Rowell unique musical world, and introduces an array Penelope Thwaites AM piano/presenter (Australian premiere) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra of recorded examples - orchestral, choral, Tickets $25 ($15 concession) CORIGLIANO The Red Violin: Chaconne for André de Ridder conductor (BELGIUM) André de Ridder Percy Grainger multi-piano, percussion and wind-band. Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre violin & orchestra Tickets $54 ($44 concession)

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Tinalley String Quartet presents an evening INFORMATION GREAT PERFORMERS 2015 of powerful music making inspired by loss, Tue 19 May 6pm grief and acceptance. Purcell’s Fantasias, Salon (One hour no interval) Paavali Jumppanen conceived for four viols, an ensemble rapidly PURCELL Fantasias losing favour with players and audiences, are SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No.7 in Heart on Sleeve pure fantasy, exciting with wild dissonances, F-sharp minor, Op.108 complex timbres and visceral discourse. BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.9 in C, Op.59, Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet in the tragic No.3 Razumovsky Paavali Jumppanen is one of the many Schumann’s Piano Sonata No.1, dedicated to reveal a very different side of the piano. key of F-sharp minor is perhaps a musical Tinalley String Quartet musical prodigies to have emerged from the to Clara Wieck, is not so much a love letter And finally, who better to play the music study of marriage, composed following the Tickets $38 ($28 concession) tiny Republic of Finland in recent years. Is it as a personal manifesto, a confessional of Jean Sibelius, the father of Finnish music, sudden death of his first wife. Beethoven’s Two concert season tickets $65 ($48 the remote location, the long winters, an declaration of this brilliant but troubled in the sesquicentennial anniversary of Op.59, No.3 Quartet exposes the troubled soul concession) enlightened approach to music education, artist’s character. That his beloved Clara his birth? of a man wrestling with his deafness; notes Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & or just happenstance? Whichever way, it is went on to become his wife proves that truth above the sketch cry out ‘Let your deafness no Tinalley String Quartet always a pleasure to experience the fresh is a powerful weapon indeed. Alongside INFORMATION longer be a secret – not even in art’. Tinalley String Quartet insights and intense passion of this brilliant Schumann’s passionate outpourings, Thu 21 May 7.30pm young pianist. Since his last visit to Australia, Jumppanen offers two telling contrasts. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. Jumppanen has taken time out from his interval) Schellenberger AUSTRALIAN VOICES busy touring schedule to undertake an The spare poetry and Eastern twang of Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm Mary Carewe & intensive study of the music of Romantic Claude Debussy’s first book of Préludes DEBUSSY 12 Préludes, Book I conducts the University renegade Robert Schumann. cuts through Schumann’s Romanticism SIBELIUS selected pieces for solo piano Percy Grainger SCHUMANN Piano Sonata No.1 in F-sharp Philip Mayers of Melbourne Orchestra minor, Op.11 Led by pianist Penelope Thwaites AM, this Paavali Jumppanen piano (FINLAND) Principal oboe with the Berlin Philharmonic concert continues the Australian National Premium $105 for over 20 years, Hansjörg Schellenberger Academy of Music’s exploration into the A reserve $95 ($55 concession) teams up with The University of Melbourne dazzling array of works by Percy Grainger. A B reserve $79 ($55 concession) Orchestra in this concert of orchestral musician of incredible vision and innovation, C reserve $55 ($55 concession) favourites, including one of the most popular Grainger continues to be an influence on the Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre works in the orchestra repertoire, Dvořák’s next generation of Australian musicians and Program partners The Langham Melbourne, famous Symphony No.9, From the New World. composers. Sure to be a highlight is the ABC Classic FM & Montblanc Australian premiere performance of Youthful INFORMATION Piano Concerto Movement, written by the Wed 20 May 7.30pm composer at age 13 in Frankfurt, and brought Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) to life by Penelope Thwaites and ANAM's MOZART Overture to Idomeneo young musicians. Flute concerto in G, K313 DVOŘÁK Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 INFORMATION From the New World Thu 21 May 6pm Mary Carewe & Philip Mayers University of Melbourne Orchestra Salon (One hour no interval) A world of jazz, musical theatre & Hansjörg Schellenberger conductor GRAINGER 1930s Berlin (GERMANY) The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, Green FREE – tickets required with entry. Bushes, My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone, The songs of this ‘serious cabaret’ straddle that Details at melbournerecital.com.au Widow's Party March, Baharilyale v. enigmatic, intriguing space between high art Presented by Melbourne Conservatorium Palaniyandi, Random Round, Free Music, Molly and light entertainment, where composers dip of Music, The University of Melbourne on the Shore & Youthful Piano Concerto their toes in the world of jazz, musical theatre Movement (Australian premiere) or 1930s Berlin. The expressive voice of British Penelope Thwaites AM curator/piano singer Mary Carewe is the perfect medium for ANAM musicians the witty arrangements of pianist Philip Tickets $25 ($15 concession) Mayers, in their celebrated partnership. Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) INFORMATION Tue 19 May 11am (morning tea from 10am) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) Music of Britten, Mayers, Gershwin, Schoenberg, Hollaender, Barber, Adès, Bolcom, Sondheim, Vine, Barry & Weill Mary Carewe soprano (UK) Philip Mayers piano Tickets $49 (includes cake & refreshments) Presented by Musica Viva Penelope Thwaites

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The 2015 Melbourne Girls Grammar Concert INFORMATION at Melbourne Recital Centre will be a Tue 26 May 7.30pm España kaleidoscope of the School's larger Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins Instrumental and Choral Ensembles. incl. interval) The audience will hear the students of the Students of Melbourne Girls Grammar La Compañia three schools within the larger Merton Hall Tickets $24.50 ($20 concession) 1556 Presented by Melbourne Girls Grammar campus: the Year 5 and 6 students of Wildfell, Tickets on sale 13 April Period experts La Compañia explores the infectious rhythms are deliciously portrayed The Duke of Calabria’s Songbook those of St Hilda's in Year 7 and 8 and the music of the celebrated Spanish manuscript on diverse and unique instruments, displaying La Compañia Senior students in Years 9 to 12. The Middle ‘The Duke of Calabria’s Songbook’, published the musical mastery and emotions of the Danny Lucin director Years Concert Band, the Concert Band and in 1556. The Duke was the quintessential Spanish Renaissance. Tickets $39 ($29 concession) the Stage Band, the String Orchestra and the Renaissance man and his court, in the famed Three concert season ticket $96 ($72 younger 'training' strings, the Orchestra, metropolis of Valencia, was filled with music, INFORMATION concession) the five Choirs will perform throughout the beauty and culture. This collection of Sat 23 May 4pm & 6pm Presented by La Compañia Concert and come together in the spectacular colourful songs, with sensual melodies and Salon (One hour no interval) finale.

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Cosmo Cosmolino, an ensemble of strings, accordion and voices, explores the music of Stoneflower Trio Stoneflower Trio Eastern-Europe and the Mediterranean through new arrangements of their favourite With beauty and craftsmanship, Australian voice of Jacqueline Gawler (singer/ INFORMATION Cosmo Cosmolino composers, performing their own original trio Stoneflower steal the hearts of audiences percussionist with Coco's Lunch) with one of Sat 30 May 7pm works and unique settings of folk tunes. In this around the country with their evocative Australia's most distinctive and virtuosic Salon (One hour no interval) INFORMATION concert the group perform a selection of music journeys through vocal jazz, Brazilian bossa guitarists, Stephen Magnusson. After sell-out Stoneflower Trio which is exciting, rhythmic, sometimes tragic, Wed 27 May 2pm & 6pm nova and sublime pop adaptations. shows around the country, Stoneflower bring Tickets $30 ($25 concession) often joyous, both ancient and very modern. Salon (One hour no interval) Stoneflower Triobrings together the artistry their enchanting brand of elegant pop and Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & There is a sense of mystery and excitement in Music by Bartók, Dvořák, Vittorio Monti & of PBS Young Elder of Jazz Award winner contemporary sounds to the Salon for an Stoneflower Trio the harmonies and rhythms, which pervades others Tamara Murphy (bass/vocals) and the silken evening of exquisite music making. the vocal and instrumental works of Bartók, Cosmo Cosmolino Dvořák and Vittorio Monti, the original Tickets $38 ($28 concession) compositions by Cosmo Cosmolino members, Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 concession) MOOD INDIGO and the folk song about selling the horse and Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Pharoah Eoin Andersen & even the house, just to dance. Cosmo Cosmolino Things She Said MOOD INDIGO SALON: SOLO Sanders Quartet Daniel de Borah Things She Said is a captivating blend of song, Described by Ornette Coleman as the best spoken word and still imagery. Singer and A delicious musical assortment: tenor player in the world, Manins & Gould Christian Leotta Pharoah Sanders composer Nilusha Dassenaike has crafted Mozart, Bartók, Schumann & Kreisler has spent a lifetime as a sonic innovator. Since eight new works based on the writings of coming to prominence in John Coltrane’s Violinist Eoin Andersen and pianist Daniel with Sam Evans Australian artist Barbara Hanrahan. The de Borah offer a delicious musical assortment: free-jazz groups of the mid-60s, Sanders went multidisciplinary performance features an on to establish himself as a pioneer of two sonatas unveil the sweetness of Mozart array of Australia’s finest contemporary jazz and the Hungarian fire of Bartók, before a Eastern-influenced, spiritually-charged free and improvising musicians including vocalists jazz. Possessing one of the most distinctive selection of dazzling miniatures from Nilusha herself, Gian Slater and Chantal sounds in the genre, his music is by turns Schumann and Kreisler rounds out the Christian Leotta Mitvalsky, the Wintersweet Vocal fierce, majestic, lyrical and raw, incorporating morning’s program. Ensemble, percussionists Alex Pertout and musical influences from around the globe. Italian pianist Christian Leotta has been You think you know the fairy tales, but be Rob Clarke, jazz bassist Frank Di Sario and INFORMATION described as ‘…one of the major Beethoven warned. The original stories have a darker and Don’t miss the chance to witness this true guitarist, composer Geoff Hughes. All Tue 9 June 11am (morning tea from 10am) soloists of our time’ (Pizzicato, Luxemburg). more sinister tone that will keep you on the living legend of jazz in concert. enveloped by the enigmatic artwork of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) Christian’s affinity to Beethoven’s music has edge of your seat. Join Opera Scholars INFORMATION Hanrahan, projected as the performance MOZART Sonata for piano & violin in E minor, been unanimously recognised thanks to ‘his Australia on a journey of discovery, as they unfolds. A true celebration of Australian art Sam Evans K.304 prodigious technique used to better express present Snow White & Other Grimm Tales, an Thu 4 June 7.30pm and a not to be missed special event. BARTÓK Sonata for violin & piano No.2, Sz.76 Audiences can always expect an engaging and the poetry of Beethoven’s music’ (The Whole exciting new work by Gordon Kerry. Australia's Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. SCHUMANN Novelette Op.21 No.8 diverse presentation from the Imogen Note, Toronto). His career goes from strength finest young singers will be performing with interval) INFORMATION KREISLER The Old Refrain; Rondino on a Manins and Tony Gould duo and this concert to strength not least through his completion members of the dynamic, Melbourne based, Pharoah Sanders Quartet (USA) Sat 6 June 7pm Theme of Beethoven; Midnight Bells will be no exception with renowned tabla this past January of the fifth and final volume Hopkins Sinfonia. – opening act Joe O’Connor Trio Salon (One hour no interval) Eoin Andersen violin player Sam Evans joining as guest soloist. of his recordings of the complete Beethoven A reserve $89 ($81 concession) The Queen poisoned the apple but does she Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Daniel de Borah piano Evans' extraordinary gifts as a musician are Sonatas and his constant international touring B reserve $79 ($71 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & founded from over a decade of studying in as both a recitalist and concerto soloist. In an survive the wedding? Tickets $49 (includes cake & refreshments) Presented by the Melbourne International Nilusha Dassenaike Presented by Musica Viva India and a solid grounding in the tradition of intimate performance Christian celebrates the Jazz Festival INFORMATION Western Music, including the intricacies of prodigy of Beethoven with his selection of Exclusive pre-sale. Use promo code JAZZ to improvised music. Evans brings a whole new, piano sonatas. Thu 28 May 7.30pm book these tickets before the general public beautiful dimension to music-making. Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) INFORMATION KERRY Snow White & Other Grimm Tales INFORMATION Thu 28 May 6pm (Australian premiere) Fri 29 May 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) John Kinsella libretto Salon (One hour no interval) BEETHOVEN Opera Scholars Australia Imogen Manins cello Piano Sonata No.10 in G, Op.14, No.2 Hopkins Sinfonia Tony Gould piano Piano Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109 Louis Sharpe conductor Sam Evans percussion Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 Kyahl Anderson director Tickets $45 ($30 concession) Christian Leotta piano (ITALY) Jackson Harnwell OSA associate conductor Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Manins & Gould Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Presented by Opera Scholars Australia Pharoah Sanders Nilusha Dassenaike Eoin Andersen

30 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • MAY FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 31 GREAT PERFORMERS 2015 Paris Combo Paris Combo After continuously touring Europe, 20 tours of the USA including two sold-out concerts at the Nikolai Demidenko Hollywood Bowl, French quintet Paris Combo returns to Australia for the first time in over a Great Expectations decade. Delightfully cosmopolitan and seductively swinging, Paris Combo is as diverse and The only predictable thing about a recital by sophisticated as the city from which the band Nikolai Demidenko is that it will be thrilling. hails. Combining gypsy swing with elements of Throw away your preconceptions of Russian flamenco, chanson and alt-cabaret, the quintet pianists and Polish composers and prepare to mixes in Latin and North African rhythms for be astonished – Nikolai Demidenko has been good measure. Holding all the diverse surprising audiences for nearly half a century. elements together is the sprightly vocalist Belle Brought up in Moscow, he came to the West in du Berry, who’s joined by Australian the 80s and made England his home in 1990. trumpeter/keyboardist David Lewis, jazz Since then, he has become an intrinsic part of bassist Emmanuel Chabbey, French drummer the musical landscape, teaching, recording François Jeannin, and Potzi, an Algerian gypsy and performing with Europe’s great guitarist whose virtuosic style and natty orchestras and leading conductors. His INFORMATION appearance recalls Django Reinhardt. Russian heritage naturally lends him an Wed 10 June 7.30pm authority in Russian repertoire, but this Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour Formed in the early 1990s, the group had its powerful and charismatic artist does not & 45-mins incl. interval) origin in the retro review Champêtres de Joie, confine himself to the great barnstorming Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm which performed in the historic Berry Zèbre works of his homeland. Demidenko is also CHOPIN cinema in Paris’ Belleville district and celebrated as an astute and very different Selected Nocturnes collaborated with renowned choreographer interpreter of Chopin, winning the 2010 Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35 Philippe Decouflé at the closing ceremony of MIDEM Special Chopin Award for his recent Nikolai Demidenko Berceuse in D-flat, Op.57 the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. recording of the 24 Preludes. Four Scherzos (Op.20, Op.31, Op.39, Op.54) For this recital he immerses himself in the Nikolai Demidenko piano (RUSSIA) ‘My favorite French cultural export espaces imaginaires of Chopin, from the Premium $105 of the decade.’ Seattle Times agitated Sonata No.2 to the mesmerising A reserve $95 ($55 concession) stillness of Berceuse. He also brings us a very B reserve $79 ($55 concession) INFORMATION personal selection of nocturnes and scherzi C reserve $55 ($55 concession) Thu 11 June 7.30pm which, besides offering a dazzling Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) demonstration of pianism, may reveal some Program partners The Langham Melbourne, Paris Combo (FRANCE) radical new ideas about old friends. ABC Classic FM & Montblanc A reserve $85 ($70 concession) B reserve $65 ($55 concession) LOCAL HEROES 2015 C reserve $55 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Time Present & Time Past INFORMATION Tracing family footprints during WW1 Hennessy's Beethoven Sun 14 June 2.30pm Elizabeth Sellars’ grandfather Vernon Sellars From one of Beethoven’s most sublime Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. was a talented baritone who enlisted in the AIF creations to Haydn’s incandescent wit, you’re interval) in 1914, serving in Gallipoli and France where in for a treat. Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s HAYDN Symphony No.60 in C, Il distratto he was wounded in the last weeks of the war. Artistic Director William Hennessy’s stellar WALTON Incidental music to Henry V Following his recovery in England, he studied INFORMATION career has seen him perform as soloist in over SCHUBERT (arr. Dahlenburg) Quartettsatz the interpretation of modern English classics Wed 10 June 6.30pm 250 concerto performances around the world. D703 at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Salon (One hour no interval) In celebration of his 60th birthday, William BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Op.61 before returning to Australia at the end of 1919. HAYDN Piano Trio No.40 in F-sharp performs as the soloist with MCO in William Hennessy violin Time Present & Time Past combines the minor, Hob XV:26 Beethoven’s soaring, spiritual and spectacular Melbourne Chamber Orchestra musical road discovered by Vernon Sellars in VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Lovely on the Water Violin Concerto. Get ready for the sheer Michael Dahlenburg conductor William Hennessy London after the war with a Haydn Trio which GRABOWSKY new work (world premiere) delight of Il distratto (The Distracted One), the Premium $119 ($109 concession) also began its performance life in London. BRIDGE Romance most eccentric of all Haydn’s symphonic A reserve $99 ($89 concession) Bridging the past with the present, this concert PARRY Piano Trio in E minor creations. With violins stopping to ‘tune’ in the B reserve $79 ($69 concession) also features a new work by Paul Grabowsky Sutherland Trio middle of the piece and a stream of musical C reserve $59 ($49 concession written for the Sutherland Trio as a tribute to Tickets $38 ($28 concession) jests, this is Haydn at his fast-paced, fiercely- Under 40s $40 Sutherland Trio his grandfather who died at Gallipoli. Presented by Sutherland Trio imaginative best. Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

32 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • JUNE FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 • TRANSACTION & DELIVERY FEES MAY APPLY 33 Winter Music Soloist in the Spotlight: The St Michael’s Winter Music concert focuses Ian Bostridge on the School’s talented musicians in Years 6 David Helfgott performs the Rach 3 to 9 performing an eclectic and engaging variety of chamber music. A rare opportunity to witness renowned One of Australia’s most-loved musicians, challenge of performing the arrangement British tenor and distinguished academic Ian pianist David Helfgott, returns to perform for two pianos. Helfgott will be joined by INFORMATION Bostridge – hailed by The Guardian for his the work which earned him worldwide internationally acclaimed pianist Rhodri Mon 15 June 7pm ‘expressive ability to inhabit character and fame in the Academy Award winning film Clarke, a highly sought after accompanist Salon (90-mins no interval) emotion’ – performing the great Lieder of Shine – Rachmnainoff’s Piano Concerto who has performed with many St Michael’s Grammar School music students Schubert and Vaughan Williams’ nostalgic No.3 in D minor. Helfgott is one of internationally renowned musicians. Tickets $21.90 ($11.90 concession) song cycle On Wenlock Edge. Schubert’s Australia’s most prolific and treasured INFORMATION Presented by St Michael’s Grammar School Moments musicaux, one of the composer’s musicians. Almost 20 years on from the most popular piano works, forms the perfect film that catapulted him onto the world Sun 21 June 4pm instrumental interlude in this intimate stage, he continues to tour internationally Elisabeth Murdoch Hall evening with the Melbourne Symphony to critical acclaim and enchant audiences (Two hours incl. interval) Steven Isserlis with Connie Shih Orchestra and one of the world’s most worldwide with his passionate musical BACH Italian Concerto BWV971 extraordinary voices. interpretations and triumphant personal BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.23 in F INFORMATION Steven Isserlis is revered amongst cellists story. Widely known as one of the most minor, Op.57 Appassionata not just for his consummate technical Tue 16 & Sat 20 June 7pm INFORMATION technically demanding piano concerti ever RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No.3 in mastery, but also for his enquiring mind Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours written, Helfgott’s quest to conquer ‘The D minor, Op.30 (arr. for two pianos) Mon 15 June 7.30pm that seeks out lesser-known repertoire and incl. interval) Rach 3’ was central to the 1996 film Shine. David Helfgott & Rhodri Clarke piano Salon (90-mins incl. interval) the vibrant stage presence that carries his SAINT-SAENS Cello Sonata No.1 in C minor, Following his enormous success at the Tickets $95 ($85 concession) SCHUBERT enthusiasm straight to every listener. Op.32 Sydney Opera House in August, Helfgott Presented by Andrew McKinnon A selection of Lieder Joined by brilliant young Canadian pianist FAURÉ Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor, will once again embark on the rare Connie Shih, he creates an unforgettable Op.117 Moments musicaux emotional journey, traversing glorious ADÈS Lieux retrouvés VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge works by four great composers united by FRANCK Cello Sonata, from violin Ian Bostridge tenor (UK) their love of all things French. sonata in A Amir Farid piano Steven Isserlis cello (UK) Members of the Melbourne Symphony David Helfgott Connie Shih piano (CANADA) Orchestra Premium $133 ($116 concession) Tickets $30 ($25 concession) SALON: SOLO A reserve $111 ($97 concession) Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra B reserve $78 ($68 concession) C reserve $52 ($45 concession) Peter Sculthorpe Solo Piano Works Presented by Musica Viva Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s Salon: Solo recital she will focus on material most acclaimed and recognised pianists. from her recently released new CD, Peter Tamara has won international prizes in Sculthorpe: Complete works for Solo Piano. London, Italy and Greece, including the Rovere d’Oro, and in Australia was the INFORMATION youngest pianist to win ABC Young Performer Tue 23 June 6pm of the Year at age 14. She is a recipient of the Salon (One hour no interval) Ian Bostridge prestigious Freedman Fellowship (2003) from SCULTHORPE solo piano works Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih the Music Council of Australia, a 2012 Art Tamara-Anna Cislowska piano Music Award for ‘Performance of the Year’ Tickets $38 ($28 concession) (ACT) and nominated for a 2014 AIR Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Piano Lessons Independent Music Award. In this special Tamara-Anna Cislowska Piano Lessons takes the audience inside a production and part concert, Piano Lessons musician's journey through a unique real-life provides insight into the lives and inspirations MOOD INDIGO performance. Concert pianist Anna of the great masters to expose the process of Goldsworthy's deeply-felt memoir, Piano learning, interpreting and creating music. Lessons, comes to glorious musical life once The Company of Pianos III with Timothy Stevens more after its world premiere performance at INFORMATION the 2011 Queensland Music Festival. Wed 17 June 7pm, Thu 18 June 2pm, 7pm & Fri Meeting for the first time in concert, two of Goldsworthy herself stars in this stage 19 June 7pm Australia's favourite jazz pianists and composers adaptation, which, like the book, elegantly Salon (Two hours & 15-mins incl. interval) unite performing their original music in an illustrates the intriguing relationship between Piano Lessons intimate two-piano setting. Andrea Keller, INFORMATION the young pianist and her Russian teacher. Written by Anna Goldsworthy described as ‘one of this country's most daring Wed 24 June 7pm This charismatic enigma inspires and Directed by Michael Futcher and fascinating composers’, and Timothy Salon (One hour no interval) challenges her young charge in equal measure Anna Goldsworthy piano/narrator Stevens whose work has been reviewed as ‘one Andrea Keller & Timothy Stevens piano as they work through a program of sublime Helen Howard actor of the most original and radical recordings of Tickets $30 ($25 concession) piano pieces, including selections from Tickets $38 ($28 concession) improvised jazz’ join forces to create Australia’s Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Anna Goldsworthy Mozart, Liszt and Chopin. Part theatrical Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Timothy Stevens newest keyboard duo. Andrea Keller

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Part concert, part theatre – an Press, Play sees three of Melbourne’s most Declaration intimate & exhilarating journey acclaimed and diverse musicians, Lina Andonovska (flute), Leah Scholes (percussion) and Sonya Lifschitz (piano), come together to engage listeners in an intimate and exhilarating musical journey. Part concert, Keep Me Informed part theatre, Declaration explores musical works that demand the musicians engage with the audience. The works on this program Immerse yourself in our great program of music and events. challenge established musical traditions and To keep informed through our program brochures or to receive dismantle the walls typically separating the updates online select the options below that best suit your needs. performer from the audience as they play, narrate, speak and sing, creating a unique, whimsical, deeply personal and unforgettable Please keep me informed and post new program guides and updates to my address below musical experience. 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Members of the Melbourne Symphony Transaction Fees (Please tick as many as applicable) The understated beauty of Bach’s Concerto Orchestra A transaction fee of between $5.50 and $8 Popular: includes pop, rock, jazz, film music and musical theatre for Two Violins is followed by the adrenaline- Premium $133 applies to all bookings except for subscriptions charged virtuosity of The Four Seasons. The A reserve $125 ($115 concession) and those made in person. Choral: music for the voice including choral music, opera and song evening also features Variations on a theme B reserve $107 ($89 concession) of Frank Bridge, the playful masterwork that C reserve $85 ($69 concession) For information on access services please Instrumental: orchestral music including chamber, concerto, early music and Baroque Dale Barltrop contact 03 9699 3333 or visit the website. launched Benjamin Britten’s career. 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