music.adelaide.edu.au/concerts 2 The Elder Conservatorium of Music WELCOME Continuing a 137 year THE ELDER tradition of bringing great CONSERVATORIUM music to the community of HAS BEEN THE HEART South Australia, the faculty OF MUSICAL CULTURE and students of the Elder IN ADELAIDE FOR Conservatorium of Music OVER 130 YEARS. welcome you to our 2020 concert series. We are delighted to have you join us, in the venerable and recently rejuvenated surroundings of Elder Hall, for a richly varied and exciting musical journey. Our program will, as always, showcase the finest of Adelaide’s musicians enriched by distinguished guests from interstate and overseas. We thank you for your continuing support of our activities as performers, creators, teachers, researchers and cultural ambassadors. We greatly value your role in the eternal partnership between music-makers and music-lovers. Professor Graeme Koehne AO Director, Elder Conservatorium of Music Concert Series 2020 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES SEASON ONE Friday 20 March Friday 3 April FROM START TO FINNISH À QUATRE MAINS Daniel Dodds violin Konstantin Shamray & Michael Ierace Kristian Chong piano piano four hands Olli Mustonen Sonata for Violin and Piano Dvorˇák Slavonic Dances (selections) Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin Op. 30 Stravinsky Petrushka No. 2 in C minor “I had in my mind a distinct picture of a puppet, Finnish composer Olli Mustonen’s striking and suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the propulsive sonata for violin and piano is a piece patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades for our time, while Beethoven’s beauty and of arpeggios. The orchestra in turn retaliates relevance never seem to fade. Two of Australia’s with menacing trumpet blasts.” This was finest chamber musicians grace the stage in the Stravinsky’s initial vision of Petrushka, which opening concert of the season. was subsequently shaped by Diaghilev and his Ballet Russes into one of the most popular Friday 27 March and enduring ballets of the twentieth century. ELDER CONSERVATORIUM Pianists Konstantin Shamray and Michael SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ierace bring Petrushka to life once again in this fiery version for piano four hands. Luke Dollman conductor Philippa McAuliffe harp* Friday 17 April Glière Harp Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 74* SHE GAVE HIM OLEANDER Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 Derek Pascoe tenor saxophone The shimmering arpeggios of Glière’s harp Chris Martin piano concerto are the calm before the storm, prior to John Aue bass fate knocking at the door with the ominous first Lauren Henderson voice four notes of Beethoven’s fifth symphony. An evocative mixture of words and music encompassing jazz, folk and traditional songs in a contemporary setting. Four experienced musicians bring poetry from the likes of Robert Burns and A.E. Housman to life. 4 The Elder Conservatorium of Music All concerts in Elder Hall Doors open at 12:30pm Concert from 1:10 – 2:00pm Tickets $14 at the door Subscriptions available – see booking form for details Friday 24 April Friday 1 May AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET SONGS OF THE CABARET Beethoven String Quartet in G major, Stephanie Acraman voice Op. 18 No. 2 Liam Wooding piano Beethoven String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No. 1 William Bolcom Cabaret Songs In the year of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary A result of over twenty years collaboration the Australian String Quartet look back to the between himself and poet Arnold Weinstein, composer’s early works. The string quartets of Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs draws inspiration opus 18 provide a taste of the romanticism that from a plethora of musical styles and forms, would follow, as the young composer deftly representing the melting pot that is American builds on the foundations of his forebears. culture and vernacular. Versatile vocalist Stephanie Acraman and exciting pianist Liam Wooding are a formidable pairing to tell these stories of the cabaret. Concert Series 2020 5 Friday 8 May Friday 29 May JAZZ AWARD WINNERS NATURAL MUSIC The 2020 Helpmann Academy Jazz Award Elder Conservatorium Chorale winners come together to share the joys, the Carl Crossin OAM conductor jazz and the decadence of 1920’s jazz. Enjoy the music of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jake Runestad Come to the Woods Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith and Duke Luke Byrne Desert Sea/Where Sails Once Flew Ellington while our students show you how they earned their awards! Directed by Dr …and other inspiring choral music that Lyndon Gray. explores the beauty of nature – and the nature of beauty! Friday 15 May Friday 5 June ELDER CONSERVATORIUM CHAMBER VIOLIN DUO ORCHESTRA Adam Chalabi violin Elizabeth Layton director/violin Elizabeth Layton violin William Madden trumpet* Elder Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra Handel Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6 No. 1 Torelli Trumpet Concerto in D major* Leclair Sonata for two violins in A major, Op. 3 Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 2 in D major Prokofiev Sonata for two violins, Op. 56 Nielsen Little Suite for Strings, Op. 1 JS Bach Concerto for two violins in D minor A chamber orchestra is a versatile ensemble, Leclair’s sonata for two violins in A major lithely dancing across a range of repertoire and contains all the expressiveness you’d expect styles. In this concert the Elder Conservatorium from the founder of the French school of violin, Chamber Orchestra tackle Handel’s Concerto while Prokofiev’s opus 56 flaunts bold contrasts Grosso, Mendelssohn’s lush String Symphony – lyrical one moment, acerbic the next. Bach’s and Nielsen’s more sombre Little Suite. Double Concerto is a masterful example of Trumpeter William Madden joins the group to music from the late baroque period. perform Torelli’s spirited trumpet concerto. Friday 12 June Friday 22 May DEDICATION WAITING… Andrew Haveron violin Anna Goldsworthy piano Duo Matrimonial Kreutzer La Molinara Heidi von Bernewitz viola Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9, Kreutzer Robert Nairn double bass Join Duo Matrimonial, comprised of Heidi von Many will know the name Kreutzer from the Bernewitz and Robert Nairn, as they perform dedication of Beethoven’s prodigious violin a vital program of contemporary duos for sonata. One of the finest violinists of his day, double bass and viola. Featuring works by John Kreutzer was also a prolific composer who Hawkins, Elena Kats Chernin, Sándor Veress, wrote over 40 operas. Here, his La Molinara and a world premiere from Finnish composer variations feature alongside the grand work by Teppo Hauta-Aho. Beethoven that bears his name. 6 The Elder Conservatorium of Music LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES SEASON TWO Friday 14 August When, Blue Moon and Have You Met Miss CHOPIN ETUDES Jones will be presented in both contemporary and mainstream jazz styles by this talented Roy Howat piano group of young musicians, under the direction of James Muller. Keyboard Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Roy Howat has recently edited a selection of Chopin Friday 4 September Etudes for renowned publisher Edition REIMAGININGS Peters. Today he performs those sparkling, Joe Chindamo piano timeless etudes, intermixed with related Zoë Black violin pieces from Ravel, Chabrier and others. The boundaries between classical and Friday 21 August jazz are broken down in an innovative and thrilling program from virtuoso violinist Zoë ELDER CONSERVATORIUM Black and one of Australia’s greatest jazz SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA pianists, Joe Chindamo. Featuring original Luke Dollman conductor compositions by Joe Chindamo. Lauren McCormick New Work Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, Op. 93 Friday 11 September ELDER CONSERVATORIUM The spectre of Stalinist Russia looms over CHAMBER ORCHESTRA this mighty work premiered in the year of the dictator’s death. Its savage scherzo is Gustavo Quintino double bass* said to be a portrait of Joseph Stalin, while Elizabeth Layton violin / director the composer’s own enduring defiance is Mozart Divertimento in F major embodied in the third and fourth movements Bottesini Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in liberally stamped with his musical signature. B minor* Also featuring a new work by emerging Dag Wirén Serenade Op. 11 Adelaide composer Lauren McCormick. Giovanni Bottesini earned himself the Friday 28 August nickname “the Paganini of the double bass”, and while his double bass concerto does MY FUNNY VALENTINE contain challenging technical elements, the Join our Jazz Honours students as they work is also full of warmth and feeling. The celebrate the works of one the greatest song- good vibrations continue in the upbeat works writing teams of all time – Richard Rodgers by Mozart and Swedish composer Dag Wirén and Lorenz Hart. Songs like My Funny that bookend this uplifting program. Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Where or Concert Series 2020 7 Friday 18 September Friday 9 October ELDER CONSERVATORIUM WIND ORCHESTRA BROUGHT TO LIGHT Luke Dollman conductor Elizabeth Layton violin Bailey Coates clarinet* Michael Ierace piano Holst First Suite in E flat, Op. 28, No. 1 JS Bach arr. Siloti Schoenberg Theme and Variations, Op. 43a Sonatas for violin and piano Connor Fogarty Clarinet Concerto* Sonata No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1014 (world premiere) Sonata No. 2 in A major, BWV 1015 Sonata No. 3 in E major, BWV 1016 Two cornerstones of the wind band repertoire, and perhaps a third in the Alexander Siloti was a Russian pianist, making! Holst’s jaunty First Suite will have conductor and composer who studied you tapping your toes in accompaniment. under Tchaikovsky and Liszt. His artful Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations exploits transcriptions of these