Experience the best live music live best the Experience OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2019 Nemanja Radulović FRI 25 OCTOBER Virtuosic, elegant & passionate, violinist Nemanja Radulovic joins Ensemble Liaison for chamber music at its best. Beethoven string quartets played by the great chamber ensemble Quatuor Ebène Robert Henke’s ecstatic light & sound work returns for Melbourne Music Week Kimberley Echoes captures the unique beauty of the Kimberley Beloved Christmas story The Snowman comes to life with a live score PP1000016130 PHOTO: CHARLOTTE ABRAMOW CHARLOTTE PHOTO: OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1 Tue Lambert p4 1 Fri Nineteen to the Dozen p20 1 Sun Patriots Concert 3 p37 2 Wed American Songs p4 2 Sat Mirusia & the Original Seekers p20 2 Mon Free Music p37 Angie McMahon p4 Sound the Trumpet p21 The Apotheosis of Corelli p37 Fem Belling p20 Peter Bence p38 3 Thu Remy van Kesteren p5 3 Sun Shostakovich 1 p22 3 Tue Coming Together p38 4 Fri Paco Peña Esencias p5 Quartets on Track p22 4 Wed Nico Muhly and the New p39 7 Mon Free Music p5 4 Mon Free Music p22 First Impressions p6 6 Wed Seraphim Trio & Martin p23 5 Thu Sculptress p40 Alexander 8 Tue ANAM Prize Winners Concert 2 p6 6 Fri Stoneflower p40 7 Thu Karin Schaupp in Recital p23 9 Wed A Multitude of Voices p6 7 Sat The Snowman p43 From the Caravan to the Club 8 Fri p23 Noël! Noël! p44 10 Thu Joan As Police Woman p7 9 Sat Selby & Friends p24 10 Tue Wet Ink p41 11 Fri Brendan Gallagher - p6 The Four Seasons p24 Jimmy Little's Messenger Georgia Fields p24 11 Wed Thin Places p41 12 Sat Nevermind p8 10 Sun The Four Seasons p24 12 Thu The Barber of Seville p42 11 Mon Behzod Abduraimov p25 13 Sun A Thousand Thoughts p8 13 Fri Celebrating Richard Mills p42 12 Tue 2018 MICMC Winners - Trio Marvin p26 14 Mon Baroque Birds & Beasts p11 Velvet Revolution p26 14 Sat The Barber of Seville p42 A Thousand Thoughts p8 Iaki Vallejo p41 13 Wed The Belgian Violin p27 15 Tue Even the Blood Must Sleep p11 PLEXUS: Paracosm p26 15 Sun Christmas Greetings p44 Nevermind p8 14 Thu The Lost Clog p27 16 Wed Translations p11 Melody of Japan: Animation, p27 Red Bull Music Festival - p48 Film & Classics with Mai Fujisawa SYNTHESIS 15 Fri Beethoven, Haydn & Schubert p27 17 Thu Stalin's Piano p9 16 Sat Dance Until the Sunrise p28 Skride Piano Quartet p28 18 Fri Lina Andonovska p9 17 Sun TANEC: 70 Year Jubilee p28 Spring: Lu Siqing in Recital p13 18 Mon Magical Brahms p28 19 Sat Ghost Gamelan p10 Robert Henke: Lumière IIIx p29 20 Sun Wind Symphony & Concert Band p13 19 Tue From Russia With … p30 21 Mon Ben Winkelman Trio p13 Skride Piano Quartet p28 20 Wed Mozart & Haydn p30 23 Wed Antarctica p13 Death & the Maiden p30 Herald Sun Aria with p14 Music Victoria Awards p31 Melbourne Opera 21 Thu Anja & Zlatna p31 24 Thu From My Life p14 The Light Within p31 25 Fri Nemanja Radulović with p15 22 Fri British Connections p31 Ensemble Liaison 23 Sat Anouska Taylor: p32 p14 Tasmanian Stories Eva Cassidy Unplugged 26 Sat Brahms' Requiem p16 Steve Davislim & Daniel de Borah p32 Johannes Luebbers Dectet p16 24 Sun Mozart the King p32 27 Sun Hoang's Concerto Concert with p16 25 Mon Mad Dog: The Elizabethan Lute p33 Geelong Symphony Orchestra 26 Tue Modern Masters p33 28 Mon Sabin, Holst, Rimsky-Korsakov p16 27 Wed Apoorva Krishna & the p33 Intimate Bach p17 Australian Sruthi-Laya Quintet 28 Thu William Barton, Kalkadoon Man p33 29 Tue A Storytelling p17 Inventi Plays Mozart Church Sonatas p34 Bach's Art of Fugue p17 Mozart the King p32 30 Wed YPA 2018 Winner Recital p17 29 Fri Andrea Keller & p34 p19 Quatuor Ebène Stephen Magnusson The information in this brochure is correct at Mojo Juju p35 the time of printing. Artist lineup and program 30 Sat Happy Axe & Kcin p34 subject to change without notice. Kimberley Echoes p36 2 Wominjeka, Inside this issue Welcome GHOST GAMELAN p10 Melbourne Recital Centre is situated right in Admired for her unearthly voice and the heart of our city’s vibrant Arts Precinct. Our incandescent stage presence, don’t miss neighbour, the brand new Ian Potter Southbank singer Susheela Raman’s live Melbourne Centre has started to come alive with students Festival show featuring young gamelan and faculty, and we’re delighted to welcome virtuosos alongside her extraordinary band. them to the precinct. Look out for a new series of concerts presented in the Conservatorium’s 380-seat Hanson Dyer Hall, starting with a performance by Melbourne Baroque ensemble NEMANJA Ludovico’s Band (2 November). This is the RADULOVIĆ perfect opportunity to visit the Conservatorium’s state-of-the-art Centre and discover Melbourne’s p15 newest venue. We’re excited to present Australian R'n'B, hip-hop and soul artist (29 November), who has In June we announced the appointment of Mojo Juju just won Album and Song of the Year at the Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulović Professor Andrea Hull AO as the new Chair of National Indigenous Music Awards. Not to be has taken the classical music world by storm our Board of Directors. No stranger to the missed is (30 November) a with his thrilling virtuosity, depth of Melbourne Arts Precinct, Andrea has had an Kimberley Echoes cross-cultural collaboration exploring the people expression and adventurous programming. extraordinary career in the arts, government and landscape of the Kimberley, featuring An electrifying concert of Khachaturian, and education sectors, including serving as the Aboriginal artists Mark Atkins and Stephen Pigram. Bartók and Brahms with local artists Director of the Victorian College of the Arts for Ensemble Liaison. many years. See page 12 to learn more about her. Thrilling Melbourne International Arts performances include the return of This year has been a landmark year for the Festival (13 & 14 October), Centre, with artists, audiences and friends Kronos Quartet Stalin’s Piano (17 October), the powerful story of Joseph Stalin BEHZOD coming together night after night to celebrate and Maria Yudina told by pianist Sonya Lifschitz ABDURAIMOV our 10th Anniversary. It started with our 10th with video projections, and , an Birthday Gala Concert in February, and the Ghost Gamelan enchanting contemporary exploration of Javanese performances we have planned for you over the p25 gamelan music (19 October). next few months will give you new reasons to keep joining in our musical party. If you or a music-lover you know has never visited Behzod Abduraimov burst onto the the Centre before, go to melbournerecital.com.au Melbourne Recital Centre is the best place to international scene in 2009 winning the and explore our $10 ticket offer. It’s our birthday hear great artists from Australia and around the London International Piano Competition. gift to you and an opportunity to secure tickets for world, such as phenomenal Great Performer, Don’t miss his much-anticipated return to the just $10 to selected 2019 Melbourne Recital Centre pianist Behzod Abduraimov (11 November). Centre performing piano masterpieces by Presents concerts.* Chopin, Debussy and Mussorgsky. Acclaimed French ensemble Quatuor Ebène (30 October) treats you to an all-Beethoven Thank you for celebrating our 10th Anniversary evening of exquisite string quartets. German with us this year. I look forward to welcoming you sound artist Robert Henke (18 November) to more performances that will move, inspire and MOJO recreates his audio-visual spectacular Lumière entertain you for many years to come. JUJU IIIx in a special extended version for Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Music Week. p35 EUAN MURDOCH CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre Australian music trailblazer Mojo Juju pulls Melbourne Recital Centre proudly stands back the curtain on the raw, honest and on the land of the Kulin Nation and we pay our intrinsically political stories behind the songs respects to Melbourne’s First People, to their on her third album, Native Tongue, in a live, Elders past and present, and to our shared future. *Terms and conditions apply. emotionally charged performance. 3 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE About the artists OCTOBER Angie McMahon (pictured below) performed in a nine-piece soul band called The Fabric before beginning her solo career. Lambert Melbourne Art Song Collective Angie McMahon LOCAL HEROES Lambert American Songs Angie McMahon German neo-classical composer Lambert is Melbourne Art Song Collective showcases Australian songwriter Angie McMahon is the the masked man at the piano. A character the variety and richness of the art song twenty-something heroine you can relate to and without history. A phantom haunting the space tradition, as well as selected masterpieces from root for – the star of her charming, honest songs between romanticism and pop culture. His solo piano and chamber music repertoire. This about life, love, and comfort food. Drawing music guides the listener through an intimate, concert celebrates a plurality of voices from inspiration from Bruce Springsteen, Lianne La emotional journey, traversing rhythm-oriented across America. It embraces the Romanticism Havas and Big Thief, her music ranges from pop and classically rooted styles. The grandiose of pioneering composer Amy Beach, the charm punchy rock to whispering ballads, but hums with simplicity of his compositions is enchanting. and sophistication of Ned Rorem's work, and the humanity and realness of a true original. a joyous tribute to George Gershwin. INFORMATION INFORMATION INFORMATION Tue 1 October 7.30pm Wed 2 October 7pm Primrose Potter Salon (75-mins no interval) Wed 2 October 6pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Four hours incl. interval) Lambert piano (Germany) Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Angie McMahon vocals Tickets $39 ($29 conc) Ned Rorem Women's Voices With support act to be announced Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in Beach Three Browning Songs, Op.44 Tickets $40 arrangement with Four Tone Artists G.