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Download Program Notes ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON 2019 MASTER SERIES 8 New Worlds September Thu 26, 6.30pm Fri 27, 8pm Adelaide Town Hall MASTER SERIES 8 New Worlds September Douglas Boyd Conductor Thu 26, 6.30pm Anthony Marwood Violin Fri 27, 8pm Adelaide Town Hall Cathy Milliken Weave World Premiere Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO23 In kräftigem, nicht zu schnellem Tempo (In a strong, not too fast tempo) Langsam (Slowly) – Lebhaft, doch nicht schnell (Lively, but not fast) Interval Dvořák Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 From the New World Adagio – Allegro molto Largo Molto vivace Allegro con fuoco Duration Broadcast This concert runs for approximately 2 hours This concert will be broadcast on ABC Classic including a 20 minute interval. on 4 October, 8pm and 5 November, 8pm. Classical Conversation One hour prior to Master Series concerts in the Meeting Hall. ASO’s Composer in Association Cathy Milliken and ASO’s Artistic Coordinator Andrew Groch discuss the inspiration, impetus, and process behind the composer’s newly commissioned work for the ASO. The ASO acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and future. 3 Vincent Ciccarello Managing Director Good evening and welcome. Orchestras, and as a hub for music education”. The recommendation has Many of you will have been among the more received the in-principle support of the than 800 supporters and stakeholders who State Government Cabinet. attended one of five 2020 Season launches at Palace Nova Cinemas a fortnight ago. While it is impossible to predict the outcome of such a business case, it is nonetheless The response to our 2020 program and to our pleasing that the subject is on the State tagline, “create a space for music”, has been Government’s agenda. overwhelmingly positive. And if you haven’t already seen it, we will shortly be posting Our 2020 season highlights some of the on our website the beautiful, specially good and important work the ASO does created 15-minute video which screened and is doing – commissioning of new music at the launch. by Australian composers; showcasing some of the amazing young musical talent It is probably obvious that our tagline can be from home and around the world; giving read at several levels. It is first and foremost voice the long-neglected music of women a gentle, individual “call to action”: we’d like composers; the debuts of four exciting to encourage everyone to make a conscious young women conductors; and so on – that effort to sequester time out of our busy, often seeks to broaden and is deserving of a wider congested lives for the deliberate act of audience. And we are yet to release our listening to and being immersed in music. Learning and Family Programs for 2020… Often, our listening, proper listening, is We want the ASO to be an orchestra for hampered by the hubbub that surrounds everyone; and how better to achieve that us. Creating a space for music literally and than by opening the doors and welcoming figuratively means just that: create the everyone in to our own home, a space environment, the time, the conditions for for music? deep, thoughtful listening. But there is a none-too-subtle message in our tagline, too. Now, more than ever, the ASO requires its own home and a fit-for-purpose space to create and to share music. To this end, we were delighted to read in the recently released State Arts Plan the recommendation to “fund a business case to assess the viability of an acoustic venue (concert hall) to serve the local music industry, as a home for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Youth 4 Douglas Boyd Conductor Douglas Boyd is currently Artistic Director North. Productions he has conducted for of Garsington Opera and Music Director of Garsington Opera include Le nozze di Figaro, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte, Eugene Onegin, Capriccio, Silver Birch (Roxanna Panufnik, Previously he has held the positions of Chief world premiere), concert performances of Conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Music Director of Manchester Camerata, with members of the Royal Shakespeare Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Company and Haydn’s The Creation with Ballet Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Partner of St Rambert. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of City of London Sinfonia. Douglas Boyd’s recording of the Bach Concerti for DG marked his recording debut as director/ Over recent years in the UK Douglas Boyd soloist and he has since gone on to build has conducted all the BBC Orchestras, an extensive discography. His recordings the Philharmonia Royal Scottish National conducting the Manchester Camerata in the Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, complete Beethoven Symphonies, Mahler London Mozart Players, City of Birmingham Symphony No. 4 (on Avie) and Das Lied von Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony der Erde have received universal critical Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia. On acclaim. He has also recorded Schubert the continent he has worked with, amongst Symphonies with the St Paul Chamber others, the Bergen Philharmonic, Basel Orchestra on their own label as well as several Sinfoniieorchester, Finnish Radio Symphony recordings with Musikkollegium Winterthur. His Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, recordings with L’Orchestre de Chambre de Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Paris include Intution with Gautier Capucon Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Budapest for the Erato label, and a disc of Haydn Festival Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Symphonies for future release. Salzburg, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, as well as Munich Chamber Orchestra and In addition to his concerts with L’Orchestre Kammerakademie Potsdam. de Chambre de Paris, both in Paris and on tour, recent and future highlights include Further afield he has conducted the Nagoya concerts with the Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Symphony Orchestra in Japan and made Auckland Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, hugely successful visits to Australia conducting BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, the Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne Kammerakademie Potsdam, Orchestre Symphony Orchestras. He also regularly National de Lyon, Opéra Orchestre national conducts across North America and Canada. Montpellier, Philharmonia Orchestra and Operatic engagements have included Die Tasmania and West Australia Symphony Zauberflötefor Glyndebourne Opera on Tour, Orchestras. Salieri’s La Grotto di Tronfonio for Zürich Opera and Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with Opera 5 Anthony Marwood Violin British violinist Anthony Marwood, awarded programming, alongside more traditional an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year repertoire. Among those new works composed Honours list, is known worldwide as an artist for him is Thomas Adès’ Violin Concerto of exceptional expressive force. His energetic Concentric Paths. Anthony first performed and collaborative nature places him in great the concerto in Berlin and at the BBC Proms, demand as soloist/director with chamber with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe orchestras worldwide. He is Principal Artistic conducted by the composer. This concerto Partner of the celebrated Canadian chamber inhabits a uniquely popular standing among orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, a post he took contemporary violin concerti and Anthony up in 2015. He was Artist in Residence at the continues to perform it with leading orchestras Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in the 2016- worldwide. Also composed for Anthony were 17 season, and enjoys regular collaborations Steven Mackey’s Four Iconoclastic Episodes, with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, premiered in 2009 with the Irish Chamber Tapiola Sinfonietta in Helsinki and the Adelaide Orchestra, as well as the violin concerti by Sally Symphony Orchestra, among others. Beamish (1995) and Samuel Adams (2014). His renown as a soloist has led to collaborations Anthony Marwood’s most recent release – his with celebrated conductors such as Valery 50th on the Hyperion label – is a recording of Gergiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Thomas Søndergård, Walton’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish David Robertson, Douglas Boyd, Jaime Martin, Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. The Giordano Bellincampi and Bernard Labadie, disc has received critical acclaim, including with orchestras across the globe, from the Los a 5-star review in The Guardian and Classical Angeles Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Source and a ‘Recommended Recording’ in to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the The Strad Magazine, whilst the Sunday Times Sydney Symphony. hailed Marwood as “a thrilling, virtuosic soloist”. Anthony also recorded Schumann and Brahms’ The 2019/2020 season include performances violin sonatas with Aleksandar Madžar on the of the Schumann Violin Concerto with Adelaide award-winning Wigmore Live label. Symphony Orchestra under Douglas Boyd, Adès’ Concentric Paths with the London Anthony is co-Artistic Director of the Peasmarsh Philharmonic under Andrew Manze, and in Chamber Music Festival in East Sussex, which Australia at Adelaide Festival, the Beethoven celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018. He Violin Concerto in the US with the Milwaukee performs annually at the Yellow Barn Festival Symphony under Gemma New, and in Europe in Vermont and enjoys a close association with with Concerto Budapest. Furthermore Anthony the Australian National Academy of Music in will be involved in chamber
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