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Haydn and Mozart What’s On Virtuoso Series Master Series Master Series Romantic Songs from the Beethoven’s Visions Bush Quintet Cimarosa Concerto for Busoni Suite for Clarinet and Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op. 43 Clarinet and Strings String Quartet in G minor Hindemith Kleine Rachmaninoff Trio élégiaque Meurant Concertino for Kammermusik for Wind No. 1 in G minor Clarinet and Strings [World Quintet, Op. 24, No. 2 Premiere] Beethoven Septet in E flat Françaix Quartet for Winds major, Op. 20 Mozart String Quartet No. 17 Beethoven Quintet in E flat ‘The Hunt’, K. 458 major for Piano and Winds, Munro Clarinet Quintet Op. 16 ‘Songs from the Bush’ Date and Time Date and Time Date and Time Wednesday 5 April, 7:30pm Sunday 7 May, 2:30pm Sunday 8 October, 2:30pm Venue Venue Venue City Recital Hall Utzon Room, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House Bookings cityrecitalhall.com Bookings Bookings 02 8256 2222 sydneyoperahouse.com sydneyoperahouse.com 02 9250 7777 02 9250 7777 Haydn and Mozart Sunday 19 February 2017, 2:30pm Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Debussy String Quartet in G minor 27 mins Hoadley Clarinet Quintet, ‘Broken Songs’ [World Premiere] 9 mins Interval (20 mins) Haydn String Quartet No. 53 in D major 20 mins Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major 30 mins Cover Image, Neil Thompson. Credit: Bruce Terry The Ensemble Omega Ensemble shines a light on composers, including Daniel Rojas outstanding musicians, giving every (Hard Boiled Overture), Mark Isaacs instrument its own voice. (Chamber Symphony No. 2), Cyrus Meurant (Eventide Visions), George Founded in 2005, Omega Ensemble Palmer, Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne initially performed in churches and fast Boyd, Matthew Hindson, Christopher became one of Australia’s finest and Gordon, John Peterson, Margery Smith, most lauded chamber groups. Its mission Stuart Greenbaum, Paul Stanhope, Ben is to showcase outstanding artists who Hoadley, and their latest world premiere, captivate and excite audiences through Contradance by acclaimed composer, a revelatory program of chamber author and music journalist Andrew Ford. music. With a dedication to engaging the finest Australian musicians, as well As well as performing a diverse range of as international guest artists, Omega well-known and loved repertoire, Omega presents outstanding musicians in an Ensemble’s programming includes works intimate and stimulating chamber setting. that have been lost to time. Omega’s ability to find these pieces and bring Omega Ensemble is unique in that them to life spells out a deep love and the combination of musicians varies passion not only for well-known chamber for each concert. Ranging from full music, but also for exploring gems chamber orchestra to duos it constantly that delight, entertain and enrich their provides a fresh and invigorating musical audiences. experience, captivating audiences. Omega’s players pride themselves Omega’s innovative approach to concert on performing a diverse range of repertoire and programming is further repertoire; whether it is an iconic gem, a enhanced by Omega On Demand, in neglected beauty or a brand new work, which audiences can relive the magic of their passion and commitment to the a live performance. Beyond these videos, highest level of craft is still deployed. For Omega Ensemble’s performances are audiences, a performance by Omega now included as part of Qantas’s inflight touches mind, heart and spirit. entertainment. To date, the Omega Ensemble has commissioned and performed over twenty new works that demonstrate a Who’s Who roster of Australian 4 Haydn and Mozart David Rowden Maria Co-Artistic Director Raspopova Co-Artistic Director David Rowden was born in Sydney and Maria Raspopova is an acclaimed and studied clarinet from a young age. He virtuosic chamber musician and recitalist. was awarded a scholarship to study She is the Co-Artistic Director of Omega at the Royal Academy of Music where Ensemble, and has performed with a he won the Geoffrey Hawkes Prize for number of acclaimed musicians. clarinet performance. David also studied Maria began learning the piano at a in Italy with Anthony Pay and in France young age in Russia. At seventeen she with Paul Meyer. moved to Australia with her family and Since returning to Sydney David has soon commenced studies at Sydney performed as a freelance orchestral Conservatorium of Music where her musician with the Sydney Symphony teachers were Gerard Willems and Orchestra, the Australian Opera and Philip Shovk. She was then awarded a Ballet Orchestra and many others, as well scholarship to attend the Manhattan as being Guest Principal Clarinet with the School of Music, studying piano Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2011 he performance with Philip Kawin. Since was a finalist in the ABC Young Performer returning to Australia, Maria has of the Year Awards. From 2013-2014 recorded and performed recitals in David curated the House Music series at Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. During Government House. the past few years she performed at both the Art Gallery of New South Wales In 2005 David founded the Omega and in the Government House Music Ensemble where he has overseen the series with acclaimed soprano Emma growth of the organisation since. In 2016 Matthews. With Omega Ensemble she David was elected an Associate of the has also performed in a number of newly Royal Academy of Music and he recently commissioned Australian works. appeared on the 50th Anniversary DVD of Australia’s iconic children’s program, Maria has received wide acclaim for her Play School. 2016 saw David record performances with Omega Ensemble. with Omega Ensemble alongside Dimitri Most recently she performed Saint- Ashkenazy performing George Palmer’s Saens’ Septet to a standing-ovation and Clarinet Concerto, It Takes Two, on received wide-spread positive reviews. Omega’s debut album. Recently Maria performed Mahler’s’ Piano Quintet in A Minor at City Recital Hall which also received positive press. Sunday 19 February 2017 5 Musicians Natsuko Yoshimoto Ike See Neil Thompson Violin Violin Viola David Rowden Paul Stender Clarinet Cello For full biographies, On Demand video and featured interviews with all our 2017 musicians, visit omegaensemble.com.au/ensemble 6 Haydn and Mozart Meet the Musician Neil Thompson, Viola What are some of your most memorable musical experiences? I would have to say performing in regional areas on tour. Audiences are very passionate about coming to hear you, even though they might not know the music or the instrument you are playing. This makes for an exciting experience all round. What do you love most about playing Haydn and Debussy String Quartets? Haydn is often referred to as the “father of the string quartet”, so whenever you When did you start playing the viola and see other composers working with a what do you love most about it? string quartet it’s like watching a species I started playing when I was eight evolve. It’s interesting to go back to years old in my home town of Whyalla. Haydn’s piece and see the original I love the sonority and resonance of the workings. Debussy’s string quartet freed instrument, and the fact that we can chamber music and it certainly sounds dip into different ranges. The viola is like this: this impressionistic, light and fundamentally the ‘middle’ voice of the flowing work is so beautiful and a lot of group. It’s like the rudder on a ship. It fun to play. steers the music harmonically. What do you love about performing with What do you love most about performing Omega Ensemble? chamber music? We are all great friends so it makes In an orchestra you are trying to make for some fantastic music making. The an overall sound whereas in chamber repertoire is always fresh, there are music you are a set of unique, individual new compositions and music that has voices that can be clearly heard. Playing never been heard before, and it’s always in a chamber group is a lot like being in performed with such a high level of a band, and we certainly rock out just as musicianship. hard. Sunday 19 February 2017 7 Claude Debussy (1862–1918) String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 I. Animé et très décidé II. Assez vif et bien rythmé III. Andantino, doucement expressif IV. Très modéré - En animant peu à peu - Très mouvementé et avec passion The Ysaÿe Quartet’s 1893 premiere of work of the genre. To today’s listener, Debussy’s first – and only – string quartet its sensual abandon sounds much less left its audience somewhat perplexed. outlandish and the Quartet’s musical Staunch supporters of the classical lineage is thus less obscured: Debussy’s Viennese composers, attendees at the break with history was not quite so National Society concert were baffled by dramatic as early audiences imagined. Debussy’s flagrant disregard for the rules The work’s opening statement presents of harmony and by his apparent failure the thematic material that sustains to observe the structural conventions the entire work. Yet while elevating that had served Haydn, Mozart and the importance of rhythm and timbre, Beethoven so well. While one critic Debussy adopts traditional sonata form; ventured to praise the quartet’s ‘poetic he introduces a second subject before themes’ and ‘rare sonorities’ it was not turning his attention to development, until a performance the following year and then concludes with a restatement that the work won its first enthusiastic of the movement’s two main ideas. advocate, with the critic Dukas hailing The contrasting textures of the second Debussy “one of the most gifted and movement’s Scherzo give way to a more original artists of the younger generation” lyrical slow movement in which melody and heaping lavish praise on the work: rises to the fore.