CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 28 APRIL – 8 MAY 2016 Experience the music adventure WE’RE THE MOST AWARDED REBRAND AGENCY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC principals.com.au 2 CONCERT CALENDAR PAGE 1 Opening Gala: Tango Tambuco 7.30 pm Friday April 29 Fitters’ Workshop 9 WE’RE 2 Fandango 1 pm Saturday April 30 Fitters’ Workshop 13 The Brodsky Quartet & Katie Noonan: 3 6 pm Saturday April 30 Fitters’ Workshop 15 With Love and Fury Il racconto di mezzanotte 4 9.30 pm Saturday April 30 Fitters’ Workshop 17 A Midnight Tale THE MOST 10 am Saturday April 30 5 Ear of the Cat 10 am Sunday May 1 Ainslie Arts Centre 19 2 pm Sunday May 1 NGA 6 Barbara Blackman’s Festival Blessing 2 pm Sunday May 1 21 AWARDED Gandel Hall 7 Petite Messe solennelle 6 pm Sunday May 1 Fitters’ Workshop 25 Sounds on Site - NGA 8 12.30 pm Monday May 2 27 REBRAND Bells and Smells Sculpture Garden 9 The Streets of Madrid 6.30 pm Monday May 2 Fitters’ Workshop 29 Sounds on Site - 10 12.30 pm Tuesday May 3 Hotel Hotel 33 AGENCY Nishi Sequenza 11 Scarlatti meets Handel meets Bach 6.30 pm Tuesday May 3 Fitters’ Workshop 37 Sounds on Site - Gorman House to 12 12.30 pm Wednesday May 4 41 IN THE ASIA Braddon’s Bread and Games Ainslie Arts Centre French Invention 13 6.30 pm Wednesday May 4 Fitters’ Workshop 43 Invention française Sounds on Site - 14 12.30 pm Thursday May 5 Garema Place 47 PACIFIC Garema Place principals.com.au 15 El Camino 6.30 pm Thursday May 5 Fitters’ Workshop 49 Sounds on Site - National 16 12.30 pm Friday May 6 53 Gardens of Delight Botanic Gardens 17 The Battle of the Sexes 7.30 pm Friday May 6 Fitters’ Workshop 55 18 Vivaldi Unseasoned 11 am Saturday May 7 Fitters’ Workshop 59 Argentina Mágica: Celebrating 19 2.30 pm Saturday May 7 Fitters’ Workshop 61 Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) 20 Twilight 5.30 pm Saturday May 7 Fitters’ Workshop 65 The Chocolate Factory - 21 11 am Sunday May 8 Fitters’ Workshop 67 A Family Concert NGA 22 Mexican Wave 2 pm Sunday May 8 69 Gandel Hall 23 Festival Finale: Viva Brasil! 6 pm Sunday May 8 Fitters’ Workshop 71 1 TALK OF THE TOWN SERIES In association with Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres AINSLIE ARTS CENTRE 10.30am 65 mins. Friday 29 April Meet Forma Antiqva Wednesday 4 May Roland Peelman in conversation with Meet José María Gallardo del Rey and Aarón, Daniel and Pablo Zapico Gerard Brophy With the assistance of the Embassy of Spain Dan Sloss in conversation with guitarist and Acción Cultural Española José María Gallardo del Rey and Composer-in-Residence Gerard Brophy Monday 2 May With the assistance of the Embassy of Spain Marco Beasley: talk and masterclass and Acción Cultural Española Tenor Marco Beasley works with singers from the ANU, The Song Company and Thursday 5 May Festival Young Artists to reveal the art of Meet Nadia Ratsimandresy and the ondes recitar cantando, with the Zapico brothers Martenot (Forma Antiqva) providing continuo; Natalie Williams from the School of introduced by Joseph Falcone, Director of Music, ANU, in conversation with Nadia the Gorman Arts Centre Ratsimandresy, ondes Martenot virtuoso, With the assistance of the Embassy of Italy and composer Konstanin Koukias and the Italian Cultural Institute with the assistance of the Embassy of France Tuesday 3 May Friday 6 May Meet the Boccherini Trio Meet Eugene Ughetti and Ricardo Gallardo Liz McKenzie in conversation with violinist Roland Peelman in conversation with Suyeon Kang, violist Florian Peelman and Eugene Ughetti, Artistic Director of Speak cellist Paolo Bonomini Percussion, and Ricardo Gallardo, Artistic Director of the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble. with the assistance of the Embassy of Mexico 2 Thursday 5 MAY In association with Bungendore Wood Works Gallery, Eden Road Wines and Poachers Pantry Poacher'S WAY Festival TRIP Bungendore Wood Works Gallery Heitor Villa Lobos 1887-1959 Preludes 1, 3 and 5 Choro No. 1 Andrey Lebedev guitar Eden Road Wines Carlos Salzedo 1885-1961 Ballade Op. 28 Jolly Piper, Concert Fantasy on the theme of the Sailor's Hornpipe Alice Giles HARP Poachers Pantry Carl Nielsen 1865-1931 Wind Quintet Op. 43 Allegro ben moderato Praeludium Tema con variazioni Kim Falconer flute Edward Wang OBOE Magdalenna Krstevska clarinet Justin Sun BASSOON James Bradley HORN THIS EVENT IS supported BY ANNA & BOB PROSSER ANDREY LEBEDEV IS supported BY MURIEL WILKINSON & JUNE GORDON 3 Message from Message from ACT Chief Minister Festival Patrons, Andrew Barr MLA Major General the Hon. Michael Jeffery and Mrs Marlena Jeffery It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to One of the great joys of autumn that Marlena the Canberra International Music Festival. and I look forward to each year is our nationally Now in its 22nd year, the festival will once again recognised Canberra International Music fill the city’s most iconic public places with Festival. world-class music. A prominent feature in Set in some of Canberra’s iconic venues and Canberra’s events calendar, the festival helps show-casing our own local talent, the Festival confirm Canberra’s position as one of the has grown over 22 years to attract renowned world’s coolest little capitals. musicians from all around Australia and This year, the festival’s Artistic Director Roland overseas. Peelman has created a program that focusses For 10 wonderful days and nights, Canberrans on Latin music. Canberrans will hear some of are treated to inspirational programs mixing the best guitarists, singers and percussionists great classical music that is familiar to us with from Spain and Italy, Mexico and Argentina – not exciting lesser-known works. to mention Belgium, France, Germany and the Young Australian musicians come to learn from UK – who will join many of our own musicians. and perform alongside international artists. The Sounds on Site series will be scattered And although each year it grows in reputation, around the city, allowing the festival to be the festival retains the intimate feeling of being complemented by some of the food and wine community based. offerings in the Canberra region. We’ve been pleased to have sponsored I am delighted to extend a warm welcome to all concerts over the years, and we are honoured the musicians who have travelled to be part of to have been asked to become patrons of the the Festival and I wish you every success for the Canberra International Music Festival. next ten days. Andrew Barr Michael and Marlena Jeffery 4 Music and Migration by Roland Peelman Last year the world witnessed the largest proud to have it bounce off some pillars of wave of immigration since the end of WWII. Western heritage such as Scarlatti. As we know, An estimated 1.2 million people crossed the the sounds of non-Western instruments has Mediterranean, often in the most desperate had as profound an influence on contemporary and perilous ways, to seek a safe haven in music-making as the period instruments that led Europe. It remains unclear how many will the historic research into the music of the past. remain in Europe, but the circumstances of this Let us briefly look into our European mass exodus are well known, and reach beyond musical past. Roman imperialism and early the conflict in Syria. All European countries Christian evangelisation went hand in hand in affected by this crisis are wavering between disseminating a musical style that originated humanitarian goodwill and protectionist fear. in the Middle East. Constantinople and Rome The anti-emigration agenda ranges from the served as the conduits, but the rites and chants shrillest level of bigotry to an endemic fear of represented a mix of Jewish and Hellenistic change – all the way to a genuine dread for loss traditions , whilst adventure and missionary of national cultural identity. The other side of zeal turned Lives of the Saints into the first the argument is driven by human decency and European travel blogs. The great wave of humanitarian refugee policies sprinkled with migration that contributed to the collapse of economic opportunism. the Roman Empire laid the foundations for Yet many Western European countries have a broad variety of regional cultures that still absorbed immigrants from North Africa, central characterise the European continent, from Africa, Asia and Latin America for decades. Most Portugal to Scandinavia. The subsequent major European cities are thriving communities, rise of Islam brought the trade with Africa to colourful and creative hubs, precisely because a temporary standstill with the exception of of the multicultural mix, including the fresh input Naples. But soon enough two new routes were of families from the Middle East. In my home carved to Jerusalem: one, the Crusaders’ most country of Belgium, the venerated classical direct itinerary through Constantinople; the Flanders Ballet last year appointed as its new other, a longer route through extended Muslim Artistic Director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the son territory via Spain and Alexandria. This is the of a Moroccan immigrant and a collaborative time of the first European epics, a flowering of artist of extraordinary reach. On a broader poetry and song, driven by travelling knights musical scale, the global phenomenon called and minstrels in a cultural environment that ‘world music' would never have occurred circles around the Mediterranean and owes as without the strong underpinning of significant much to Arab scholarly refinement as it does to communities from India, Africa or the Middle Christian values. Marco Beasley gives us a fine East in Western societies. Here in Australia, we taste of this rich and complex world in his solo have no better example than the genre-hopping performance ‘A Midnight Tale’.