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ABOUT THE MUSIC OHLSSON PLAYS BRAHMS /IN CONCERT march 2013 MOZART'S REQUIEM 7-9 MARCH VIVE LA FRANCE 15 MARCH MENDELSSOHN AND BRAHMS 17 MARCH MEET YOUR MSO MUSICIANS: PHILIP ARKINSTALL AND ANDREW HALL ForthcominG EVENTS FOR MSO PATRONS twitter.com/melbsymphony facebook.com/melbournesymphony Download our free app 1 from the MSO website. www.mso.com.au/msolearn THE SPONsoRS PRINCIPAL PARTNER MSO AMBAssADOR Geoffrey Rush HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Sir Elton John John Brockman OAM Professor John Hopkins GOVERNMENT PARTNERS CONCERTMASTER PARTNERS ASSOCIATE PARTNERS SUPPORTING ­PARTNERS SUPPLIERS Kent Moving and Storage Quince’s Scenicruisers Melbourne Brass and Woodwind Sputnik Agency 2 WELComE of Sidney Myer Free Concerts. helping us present artists of the It really is a great pleasure and highest quality and broaden our honour to be here in this role. range of programs. You already know what a cultural I must also point you to our jewel your orchestra is. This year third annual Education Week, marks the start of a new era for us, in Melbourne Town Hall from as we celebrate our first full season 28 May, which gives you the with the new Hamer Hall as our opportunity to experience just main performance home. In a few how much of a difference the weeks we welcome back Sir Andrew Orchestra’s work can make in Davis, for his first concerts as Chief the lives of young people. © LUCAS dawson Conductor, and later this year I look forward to seeing you Diego Matheuz returns, following at MSO events in coming his sensational appearances at A warm welcome to this months, and wish you all the the Bowl in 2012, as our Principal Melbourne Symphony Orchestra best for your musical enjoyment Guest Conductor. Sir Andrew’s concert and to our 2013 season. throughout 2013. Having taken up my position in Welcome Gala concerts on 26 November last year I am quickly and 27 April, featuring one of the coming to admire this wonderful greatest singers of our time, Bryn city and region, and the central Terfel, are not to be missed. place the MSO holds in the hearts This is also the year in which we and minds of our community. celebrate the tenth anniversary André Gremillet I have now met with many key of our Principal Partner Managing Director stakeholders and have had the relationship with Emirates. This privilege to experience a great enduring relationship has been of deal of what makes Melbourne so tremendous benefit to the MSO, special, including my first season EMIRATES CELEBRATES 10 YEARS AS PRINCIPAL PARTNER OF THE MSO The ten-year partnership showcases Emirates’ support for music lovers in Melbourne, across Australia, and around the globe, highlighting the airline’s shared commitment with the MSO to deliver first-class experiences. Whilst fostering the growth of the arts in one of the world’s most diverse and liveable cities, Emirates has steadily grown its services between Melbourne and Dubai, and onwards to more than 130 destinations globally. Emirates is equally proud to have brought its state- of-the-art Emirates Airbus A380 to Melbourne, now offering the ultimate in travelling comfort to Emirates is proud to enter its tenth year as Principal passengers travelling daily to Dubai and Auckland. Partner of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Emirates is proud to support organisations like the Emirates’ long-standing partnership with the MSO MSO, which make Melbourne such a wonderful is a shining example of how commercial and artistic place to live, playing host to talented musicians and partners can work together to achieve rewarding bringing the best in classical music to people in all results that benefit both the partners and their parts of Victoria. communities. 3 ABOUT THE MUSICARtists THEMENDELSSOHNIAN BOOSRCHETRIDSTRAGE ANDSING BRAHS MOZMARS T AND SCHUBERT © LUCAS DAWSON THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Harold Mitchell AC The MSO performs extensively events ranging from the Sidney Chairman with its own choir, the Melbourne Myer Free Concerts in the Sidney André Gremillet Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Myer Music Bowl to the series of Managing Director directed by chorus master Classic Kids concerts for young Jonathan Grieves-Smith. Recent children. The MSO reaches an Sir Andrew Davis performances together include even larger audience through its Chief Conductor Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast under regular concert broadcasts on Diego Matheuz Bramwell Tovey, Mahler’s ABC Classic FM, and CD Principal Guest Conductor Symphony No.3 under Markus recordings on Chandos and Stenz, music of Percy Grainger ABC Classics. The Orchestra’s Benjamin Northey under Sir Andrew Davis and, considerable ceremonial role in Patricia Riordan Associate as part of the 2011 Beethoven Victoria has included participation Conductor Chair Festival, Beethoven’s Ninth in the opening ceremony of the Symphony under Douglas Boyd. 2006 Commonwealth Games, in the 2009 Bushfire memorial Key musical figures in the With a reputation for excellence, service Together for Victoria, the Orchestra’s history include versatility and innovation, Prime Minister’s Olympic Dinner Hiroyuki Iwaki – who was Chief the internationally acclaimed and the 2010 and 2011 AFL Conductor and then Conductor Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Grand Final. is Australia’s oldest orchestra, Laureate, between 1974 and his established in 1906. death in 2006 – and Markus Stenz, The MSO’s extensive education who was Chief Conductor and and community outreach activities This fine Orchestra is renowned Artistic Director from 1998 until include the Meet the Orchestra, for its performances of the 2004. Oleg Caetani was the MSO’s Meet the Music and Up Close great symphonic masterworks Chief Conductor and Artistic and Musical programs, designed with leading international and Director from 2005 to 2009. specifically for schools. In 2011 Australian artists including In June 2012 the MSO announced the MSO launched an educational Maxim Vengerov, John Williams, the appointment of Sir Andrew iPhone and iPad App designed Osmo Vänskä, Charles Dutoit, Davis as Chief Conductor, for the to teach children about the inner Yan Pascal Tortelier, Donald 2013 season. workings of an orchestra. Runnicles, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yvonne Kenny, Edo de Waart, The MSO, the first Australian The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is Lang Lang, Nigel Kennedy, Jeffrey symphony orchestra to tour funded principally by the Australian Government through the Australia Tate, Midori, Christine Brewer, abroad, has received widespread international recognition in tours Council, its arts funding and advisory Richard Tognetti, Emma Matthews body, and is generously supported by to the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Teddy Tahu Rhodes. It has the Victorian Government through Arts also enjoyed hugely successful Europe, China and St Petersburg, Victoria, Department of Premier and performances with such artists Russia. In addition, the Orchestra Cabinet. The MSO is also funded by the as Sir Elton John, John Farnham, tours annually throughout regional City of Melbourne, its Principal Partner, Harry Connick, Jr., Ben Folds, Victoria including a concert season Emirates, and individual and corporate KISS, Burt Bacharach, The in Geelong. sponsors and donors. Whitlams, Human Nature, Sting Each year the Orchestra performs and Tim Minchin. to more than 200,000 people, at 4 CONTENTS The Sponsors 2 PROGRAM Welcome – André Gremillet 3 INFORMATION Concert GUIDES Melbourne Symphony Orchestra programs can be read on-line or Mozart’s Requiem 6 downloaded up to a week before Vive La France 22 each concert, from mso.com.au Mendelssohn and Brahms 30 If you do not need this printed program after your concert, we encourage you to return it to a Meet Your MSO musician: Philip Arkinstall 18 member of staff. The Orchestra 20 The Donors 21 Meet Your MSO musician: Andrew Hall 28 The Patron Program 29 Cover imaGE: SIR ANDREW DAVIS CONDUCTING THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY Orchestra and chorus in the new Hamer Hall 28 MAY TO 1 JUNE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL Discover the power of percussion, the subtlety of strings, the wonders of woodwind and the brilliance of brass in this first-hand experience of a live orchestra! Audiences of all ages are welcome. To receive a 2013 Education and Community Outreach brochure which includes full details about Education Week - please email: [email protected] or visit mso.com.au 5 Thursday 7 March and Friday 8 March at 8pm Saturday 9 March at 2pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Prelude Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste INTERVAL 20 MINUTES Mozart Requiem (compl. Süssmayr) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Elena Xanthoudakis soprano Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano Andrew Staples tenor Matthew Rose bass Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master This concert has a duration of approximately two hours, including one interval of 20 minutes. Friday evening’s performance will be broadcast and streamed live around Australia on ABC Classic FM. Mozart’s Please turn off your mobile phone and all other electronic devices before the performance commences. Requiem BEYOND THE STAGE Learn more about the music in these free events. MOZART’S REQUIEM PANEL DISCUSSION Thursday 7 and Friday 8 March at 7pm Saturday 9 March at 1pm Stalls Foyer, Hamer Hall A panel discussion featuring musicians of the MSO on the music being performed in this program and in the 2013 season ahead. 6 ABOUT THE ARTISTS MOZART’S REQUIEM Edward Gardner conductor Elena XanthoudaKIS soprano Edward Gardner began his tenure as Music Elena Xanthoudakis kicked off the 2012-13 season Director of English National Opera in May 2007 with as Pamina (The Magic Flute) at English National a critically acclaimed new production of Britten’s Opera and travelled to New York to cover the role of Death in Venice. Productions this season include Countess Adele (Le Comte Ory) for the Metropolitan Don Giovanni, Wozzeck and Martin’s Julietta. Opera, where she later returns to cover the role of He received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award Gilda (Rigoletto).
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