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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FEBRUARY 2013 Wednesday 13 Saturday 16 Wednesday 20 Saturday 23 ALL CONCERTS START AT 7PM GATES OPEN FROM 4PM MSO.COM.AU Conditions of entry & all other information available online BRING A PICNIC! twitter.com/melbsymphony facebook.com/melbournesymphony emirates.com/au Meet the world at 40,000 feet Some of the most memorable moments on Earth aren’t happening on Earth. Find inspiration in exclusive lounges, refresh in Shower Spas and enjoy room to think in quiet tranquility. Hello to the Emirates Airbus A380. Hello Tomorrow Flying the A380 to more destinations from Sydney and Melbourne including Amsterdam, Auckland, London, Manchester, Munich, Paris and Rome. For more information visit emirates.com/au, contact your local travel agent or call Emirates on 1300 303 777. EMI0007_MSO_FPC_v1.indd 1 13/11/12 4:23 PM Sign up to MSO e-News by February 28 2013 andmici you 125 will go in the draw to win one of two Sachs A ustralia. Scooters from the good folks at Scooterama A For full terms and conditions and to enter visit www.mso.com.au SCOOTERAMA AUSTRALIA Located at Corner of Brunswick Street and Alexandra Parade Fitzroy North, Melbourne. www.scooterama.net.au WELCOME is enshrined in these Sidney Myer Free Concerts. The year ahead brings many opportunities for the kind of two-way engagement exemplified by the Bowl concerts. We’re preparing for our third open-house Education Week at the Melbourne Town Hall in June; and we continuously look for new ways to inspire the people of Victoria through performances, jams, recordings and broadcasts. Head over to the MSO marquee near gate 1 to find out how you This breadth of achievement speaks can get involved with your Orchestra of a commitment by the Orchestra throughout the year, or connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. Since joining the Melbourne Symphony to reach out to the richly diverse Orchestra late last year, I have been community it serves. I know from experience that the Sidney hugely impressed at the range of the In our annual welter of activity, the Myer Music Bowl is one of the world’s Orchestra’s activities. In December, Myer Bowl season has special meaning. great outdoor venues for music. I hope for example, the musicians moved Thanks to the far-sighted generosity you enjoy your Orchestra, and the effortlessly from performances of of Sidney Myer, these events allow us wonderful conductors and soloists, Handel’s Messiah with the MSO Chorus to present to you great music from performing sublime music for you in to a festive collaboration with Human the orchestral literature in a beautiful these events. Nature. And in just a few weeks’ time, outdoor setting – all for free. As a Best wishes a concert featuring composer Tan Dun recently arrived French Canadian, I conducting his music for Crouching Tiger, have come to appreciate the significant Hidden Dragon and the other films in the summer rituals in this city – the Martial Arts trilogy precedes a series of Boxing Day test and the Australian performances of Mozart’s Requiem. Open particularly – but a special part André Gremillet of Melbourne’s summer time soul Managing Director Partnering in a great legacy Sidney Myer was not only one of Australia’s most visionary business figures and entrepreneurs, but also one of the most generous individuals of his time. In 1932 he generously established a trust fund at the University of Melbourne to provide a permanent series of free open-air concerts of orchestral music for the public of Melbourne. Originally given under the direction of the University of Melbourne’s Ormond Professor of Music, today the concerts are given by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. unimelb.edu.au 4 CRICOS No: 00116K WELCOME Sidney Myer loved music, particularly In 1959, the Sidney Myer Charity Trust outdoor performances. By creating the presented a remarkable gift to the Sidney Myer Free Concerts he wanted people of Victoria – the Sidney Myer the people of Melbourne to enjoy his Music Bowl. passion for classical music.In 1929 Sidney Myer was a great Victorian, a and 1930, with his gift, the Melbourne dedicated philanthropist and a lover Symphony Orchestra was able to of classical music. All those attributes provide six free concerts to the public. come together in the Melbourne These concerts were held in the Symphony Orchestra’s annual Sidney Royal Botanic Gardens until they Myer Free Concerts series, one of moved to their natural home at “The Sidney Myer’s many legacies that Bowl” in 1959. The acoustics of “The continue to this day. Bowl” help to deliver a great musical SIDNEY MYER The 2013 series will take audiences on experience, and Melbourne’s late a journey across the ages and around summer offers the changing colours Ours is a city that cherishes arts and the globe. It will feature music by to autumn, warm, long nights and the culture and this summer Melbournians Beethoven and Mozart, alongside calm of the city’s most noted outdoor will again have the chance to enjoy works by Hollywood composer John performance venue. some of our finest artists. Williams and Melbourne’s own Sidney Myer’s legacy lives on through Brenton Broadstock. One of our most popular free musical the philanthropic work of the Sidney events is back with the return of the These Free Concerts have become Myer Fund. Indeed, in 1999 the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s an iconic event of summer in Sidney Myer Fund, with the Victorian summer concert program at the Sidney Melbourne. Fittingly, the final concert Government, carefully renovated Myer Music Bowl. on 23 February coincides with the “The Bowl” to ensure its long-term inaugural White Night Melbourne The MSO has graced this popular future. Victorians, Australians and event, which will see the city come venue for more than 50 years and each visitors to our country have enjoyed alive with cultural events from dusk year more than 40,000 enjoy its world- quintessential summer experiences, until dawn. It will be a great way class performances. This series truly including the iconic Carols by to kick off this new major event for is a must-see event in Melbourne’s Candlelight on Christmas Eve. Victoria, and I encourage you to stay summer calendar. The Sidney Myer story is part of the on and explore our city in a new light The City of Melbourne has a long and story of the City of Melbourne and the throughout that night. distinguished association with the State of Victoria. Born in Russia in The Victorian Government is a proud MSO. We were a major supporter of 1878, he arrived in Australia in 1899. supporter of the MSO, and we share its 2007 European tour and, through His career as a draper with his brother its commitment to ensuring that all an innovative funding initiative, Elcon in the goldfields in central Victorians have the opportunity to helped the orchestra present its Secret Victoria is a story of the success of experience the Orchestra’s world- Symphony late night events in 2012. the migrant community of the time. class performances. Whether you’re A successful small store in Bendigo Community involvement has been a a regular or a first timer, enjoy the led to the purchase of his first store in recent highlight of the Orchestra’s music, this quintessential Melbourne Melbourne in 1911. By the time of his Bowl programs and this year is no setting and the great gift that is the death in 1934, this business enterprise exception. On 16 February, the MSO Sidney Myer Free Concert series. had grown considerably and continues Jams will encourage the audience to thrive across Australia today. to make music before the main Likewise, his renowned philanthropic performance, while The Air Force work left its mark on the City. Band will perform before the final concert on 23 February. This year’s concerts offer the finest of symphonic music for all in Melbourne I invite you to enjoy the magical to enjoy. On behalf of the Trustees of Ted Baillieu MLA summer sounds of the MSO in the the Sidney Myer Fund, we invite you Premier and Minister for the Arts wonderful surrounds of the Sidney to enjoy the music and your nights at Myer Music Bowl. “The Bowl”. Robert Doyle Lord Mayor Sid Myer AM Chairman, The Sidney Myer Fund 5 1 - AINARS RUBIK,IS CONDUCTOR ALEXEY YEMTSOV PIANO Latvian conductor Aina¯rs Rubik,is Alexey Yemtsov has appeared with came to international attention as the Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA winner of the Third International West Australian and Tasmanian - Gustav Mahler Conducting Symphony orchestras, with conductors AINARS RUBIK,IS conductor Competition in 2010. The following such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mark ALEXEY YEMTSOV piano year he received the Nestlé and Elder, Lawrence Foster, Vladimir Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Verbitsky and Simone Young. He is a Award and in 2012 he became Music regular soloist for the Canberra and DVORˇÁK Czech Suite Director and Chief Conductor of Willoughby Symphony orchestras, as BARTÓK Piano Concerto No.3 Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and well as the Australian Youth Orchestra, INTERVAL 25 MINUTES Ballet Theatre. with whom he toured China in 2010. He has also performed with the Recent engagements include TCHAIKOVskY Symphony No.4 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, I the Hong Kong, Brussels and Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Kiev Poznan´ Philharmonic orchestras, Camerata and the Ukraine National The concert will conclude at the Edinburgh Festival with the Symphony Orchestra. He regularly approximately 9pm and will Bamberg Symphony, the Lockenhaus gives recitals for festivals and concert be hosted by ABC Classic FM Chamber Music Festival and an series throughout Australia, and presenter Julia Lester acclaimed performance with the collaborates with chamber ensembles Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra such as the Seraphim Trio and the at the Salzburg Festival.
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