St John Passion HOBART SPECIAL 1 Saturday 6 April 7.30pm There is an art to selling fine homes Federation Concert Hall Hobart Stephen Layton conductor JS BACH Just as an artist plays the perfect note, we position your property in the finest light to showcase its true value. June Tyzack chorusmaster St John Passion Sara Macliver soprano Parte prima To those who value the unique, Sotheby’s International Realty is the local real estate agency that offers unrivalled Jess Dandy contralto Duration 38 mins access to qualified buyers and distinctive properties around Tasmania & the world. Ruairi Bowen tenor Parte seconda Gwilym Bowen Evangelist Duration 65 mins For a complimentary appraisal or any information regarding the Sotheby’s Realty difference on showcasing your Michael Craddock Pilate property to the world, contact our Hobart office on: 6234 2400 or sothebysrealtytasmania.com This concert will be performed without Laurence Williams Jesus an interval. It will end at approximately TSO Chorus 9.30pm. GLOBAL REACH. LOCAL EXPERTISE. Tasmania Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast and streamed throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. Sotheby’s International Realty and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. 15 Hunter Street, Hobart. 23 Stephen Layton is Director of the Grammy- June Tyzack became Chorusmaster of the Sara Macliver is one of Australia’s most Jess Dandy studied at Trinity College, nominated choir Polyphony, which he TSO Chorus in 2001 following a career in popular and versatile artists, and is regarded Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music founded in 1986. He is also Fellow and Sydney with Opera Australia and the Opera as one of the leading exponents of Baroque and Drama. She won the London Bach Director of Music at Trinity College Studio of the Sydney Conservatorium repertoire. Sara is a regular performer with all Society Singers Prize 2017 and Oxford Lieder of Music. Under her direction, the TSO Cambridge and Music Director of the Holst the Australian symphony orchestras as well as Young Artist 2018. Opera highlights include Chorus has given performances in Hobart Singers. He was formerly Chief Conductor the Perth, Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, Royal Opera House workshops on new works of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, Chief and regional Tasmania, and through her Pinchgut Opera, he Australian Chamber including Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis. She Guest Conductor of the Danish National initiative, collaboration with interstate choirs Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, also covered the role of the Messenger and Vocal Ensemble, Artistic Director and has resulted in performances with Sydney Musica Viva and a number of international was a member of the ensemble in the Royal Principal Conductor of the City of London Philharmonia Choirs, Victorian Opera, companies. Sara records for ABC Classics Opera House/Roundhouse production of Sinfonia, and Director of Music at the Adelaide Festival Chorus, West Australian with more than 35 CDs and many awards to Monteverdi’s Orfeo and played the multi- Temple Church in London. Stephen Layton Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and in Hong her credit. In 2017-2018 Sara sang with the has worked with numerous orchestras Kong with the WASO Chorus and Hong Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney part contralto role in Into the Little Hill for such as the London Philharmonic and the Kong Philharmonic. She has devised and Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Shadwell Opera. On the concert platform Philadelphia Orchestra as well as, recently, directed cutting-edge a cappella TSO Chorus Opera, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, appearances include Mozart’s Requiem the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, programs for a number of festivals, including Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Australian (St Martin-in-the-Fields), Berlioz’s Roméo in the Spiegeltent for Ten Days on the Island, Denmark’s Odense Symphony, the BBC String Quartet, St George’s Cathedral, et Juliette at the Barbican and Salle Pleyel Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, Synaesthesia National Orchestra of Wales and Auckland the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and with the London Symphony Orchestra and and Synaesthesia+, and for the TSO, she Philharmonia. He has collaborated with in several programs with the Melbourne Valery Gergiev, Andriessen’s De Staat (Queen directed Bach’s St Matthew Passion. In 2017 the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Symphony Orchestra; she also sang with Elizabeth Hall) and Steve Reich’s Music for she facilitated a group of TSO choristers Sinfonia. For English National Opera he Bangalow Festival, St George’s Cathedral Large Ensemble at the BBC Proms. Recent to participate in the Mitsingonzert in the conducted Deborah Warner’s production of and Collegium Musicum amongst many Berlin Philharmonie and, this year, in the engagements include the world première Bach’s St John Passion. A champion of new other projects. She recorded a CD of Calvin Palau de la Musica, Barcelona. While on of Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix with the BBC music, Stephen Layton has premièred works Bowman songs which was released last tour, she will conduct the TSO Chorus in a National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, a by composers such as Thomas Adès, Arvo year. In 2019 Sara will sing with the West concert of Australian repertoire featuring a recording of Handel’s Samson with John Butt Pärt and James MacMillan. His recordings Australian, Tasmanian, Queensland and commissioned work by Lisa Cheney. She is and the Dunedin Consort, the première of range from the music of Handel and Bach Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, Sydney responsible for the TSO surtitles which this Alex Mills’s Dear Marie Stopes at the Tête-a- with original instruments to Bruckner and Philharmonia, Ten Days on the Island, year include Bach’s St John Passion and Tête Opera Festival and recitals at the Oxford Poulenc, to Lukaszewski, Lauridsen, Whitacre the Peninsula Summer Festival, Brisbane Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata Symphony and Ešenvalds. His recordings have garnered Camerata and Australian National Academy Lieder Festival. She is also co-founder, with No 2, Lobgesang. two Gramophone Awards, France’s Diapason of Music, amongst others. Sara has been mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries, of Song Path, d’Or de l’Année, the Echo Klassik award in awarded an honorary doctorate from the a walking concert series, founded to promote Germany, Spanish CD compact award, and University of Western Australia in recognition walking and music-making in the context of Limelight Recording of the Year in Australia. of her services to singing. mental health and raising funds for Mind UK. 24 25 Ruairi Bowen began his musical education Gwilym Bowen’s repertoire ranges from London-based Michael Craddock began his Laurence Williams trained at The Guildhall as a chorister at St David’s and St Paul’s baroque to contemporary music. Upcoming musical education with the choir of Trinity School of Music and Drama and graduated Cathedrals. He spent a term singing with engagements include Handel’s Brockes- College Cambridge. His consort work has with distinction and a Concert Recital the choir of St Thomas’ Church 5th Avenue, Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music included engagements with Polyphony Diploma in 2017. He has performed as a New York, before taking up a choral at the Barbican and Gluck’s Bauci e Filemone (with director Stephen Layton), the Marian soloist both internationally and across the scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge. and Orfeo at the Southbank Centre. Recent Consort, Ludus Baroque, The London UK. Recent highlights include: Christus in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Auckland Recent highlights include Monteverdi’s operatic highlights have included Valletto Choral Sinfonia, Le Concert d’Astrée, Philharmonia Orchestra and Stephen Layton, Vespro della Beata Vergine at the Three in The Coronation of Poppea for Angers- The Cardinall’s Musick, the Gabrieli Consort broadcast on Radio NZ, Haydn’s Nelson Choirs Festival, the world première and Nantes Opéra, Eurimaco/Giove in The Return and the Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Mass with the Orchestra of the Age of recording of Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix with of Ulysses at the Grange Festival, Lysander He is a founding member of the Gesualdo Enlightenment and John Butt in Bath (he also the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in Six, an all-male consort whose first recording, performed in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Wales, and a European tour of Bach cantatas Aldeburgh, and Damon in Handel’s Acis English Motets, was released in 2018. the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English and Galatea with the Academy of Ancient He also frequently works with the Amici in December), Mozart’s Requiem with Baroque Soloists, including performances Music. In contemporary repertoire, Gwilym Voices who specialise in performing the Brandenburg Sinfonia at St Martin-in-the- at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Bowen has created the roles of Tamino in works of Bach one to a part and who have Fields, and the world première of Stephen Musikverein, the Barbican Centre and Be With Me Now at the Festival d’Aix-en- recently recorded a disc commemorating the McNeff’s The Walking Shadows with Mark the Chapelle Royale, Versailles. He has Provence, the protagonists in two operas 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. Forkgen and Canticum Choir at St Martin- performed Bach’s St John and St Matthew by Kate Whitley, Unknown Position and Michael Craddock’s operatic performances in-the-Fields. Recent operatic roles have Passions widely around the UK and Europe, 0520, and Smith in Matt Rogers’ and Sally include Smirnov in Walton’s The Bear included the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene while other recent engagements include O’Reilly’s And London Burned.