5 AUGUST 2017 CONCERT PROGRAM ARTISTS Paramount Vantage and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Miramax present Hugh Brunt conductor There Will Be Blood (2007) Riley Skevington violin Running time: 3 hours including Daniel Day-Lewis 20-minute interval Paul Dano Kevin J. O’Connor Ciarán Hinds Hugh Brunt Dillon Freasier Hugh Brunt is co-Artistic Director Music by Jonny Greenwood and co-Principal Conductor of the London Contemporary Cinematography Roert Elswit Orchestra, winners of the Ensemble Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson category at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards 2015. Based on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair He conducted the string and choir arrangements on Radiohead’s new Produced by JoAnne Sellar, Paul album A Moon Shaped Pool. A Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi collaborator of composer and guitarist Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Jonny Greenwood, he conducted his scores for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and Lynne Ramsay’s You LIVE PERFORMANCE CREDITS Were Never Really Here. With the LCO Soloists he has premiered seven short Film Licensing Paul Mackenzie works by Greenwood and conducted on behalf of Roadshow the first live screening of the Academy Film Preparation Tony Laughton Award-winning There Will Be Blood. Music Licensing and Preparation Other collaborative work includes Tim Brooke and Bruce MacRae Beck, Imogen Heap, Belle & Sebastian, Actress, Boiler Room and Foals. Music performed by arrangement with Faber Music Ltd., London and Riley Skevington Warner Chappell Music Australia Riley is a violinist from WA, where he studied under Professor Paul Wright, Dorothy Ford and Luci McArthur. He has performed in a number of national music festivals and in 2016 he joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra as an Emerging Artist, touring NSW and WA. In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for dimming the lighting Riley has performend at international on your mobile phone. festivals and venues throughout Europe and China, including the BBC The MSO acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are Proms in London, Menuhin Festival in performing. We pay our respects to their Gstaad, and the Concertgebouw in Elders, past and present, and the Elders from Amsterdam. other communities who may be in attendance. More than 100 dedicated musicians make up your orchestra. Meet the talented artists of the MSO at mso.com.au/about-us/the-orchestra Did you know? Connect with the MSO Ticket sales account for only 33% Like us on Facebook of the MSO’s revenue. The Orchestra is deeply appreciative of the support @MelbSymphony it receives from Federal, State and Local government funders, @MelbourneSymphonyOrchestra corporate partners, individual donors, trusts and foundations. @TheMSOrchestra For a full list of supporters and for ways to support your MSO, please visit mso.com.au/support You may also enjoy… MSO PLAYS THE COMPOSER HANDEL’S LA MER IS DEAD MESSIAH 30 September– 11 November 9–10 December 2 October Arts Centre Melbourne, Arts Centre Melbourne, Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Hamer Hall Hamer Hall Uh oh, there’s dreadful Since its triumphant Take an aural journey news from the concert premiere in Dublin in with the MSO through hall: the composer is 1742 – a performance Debussy’s shimmering dead! Join the MSO in so packed that ladies’ La Mer. With its a perplexing orchestral hooped skirts and atmospheric soundscapes ‘whodunnit’, starring gentlemen’s swords and impressionistic legendary comedian had to be banned – moods that ebb and flow Frank Woodley. Meet Messiah has remained throughout the work, the the orchestra, solve the Handel’s most frequently masterpiece is described mystery and have a good performed work. as the ‘greatest portrayal laugh in this engaging While most audiences of the sea in music’. introduction to classical would be familiar with music. With Dutch conductor the strident refrains of Otto Tausk directing All tickets are just $29 the Hallelujah Chorus, from the podium and so bring the family for how familiar are you with internationally-acclaimed this special MSO event. the larger work from pianist Saleem Ashkar Written by Lemony which it originated? (pictured) joining him Snicket and performed Kick the 2017 festive for Brahms’ Piano to packed houses around season off to a flying Concerto No.1 – one of the world over the past start in style with the world’s most-loved decade, this is your the MSO and one of piano concertos – this family’s chance to enjoy the biggest concerts is sure to be a night The Composer Is Dead of the year. of pure wonder. here in Melbourne. Tickets for these shows and more at mso.com.au.