Experience the best live music live best the Experience JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 2019 Ray Chen THU 26 SEPTEMBER Ray Chen, Australia’s golden boy of the violin, has been winning hearts with his incredible skill and charming stage presence. Distinguished concert pianist Stephen Kovacevich The 24-year old prodigy Jacob Collier is one of the most innovative, creative musicians of his generation Monteverdi’s Vespers are a towering masterpiece of the early Baroque Australian Brandenburg Orchestra dazzles with Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks PP1000016130 PHOTO: TOM DOMS TOM PHOTO: JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER 1 Mon Free Music p4 1 Thu Korowa Anglican Girls School p44 1 Sun The Firebird p29 The Theatre of the Soul p4 Annual Concert 2 Mon Music at the Centre — p44 2 Fri Two Pianos & Saxophone p14 2 Tue ANAM Prize Winners Concert #1 p4 War of the Worlds 3 Sat Louisa Rankin Quintet p15 3 Wed Hush p4 3 Tue Free Music p29 Handel’s Anthems & Fireworks p15 Soliloquy p30 4 Thu Joseph Tawadros Quartet p5 4 Sun Handel’s Anthems & Fireworks p15 Mullova, Barley & de Pledge p31 5 Fri Django’s Legacy p7 5 Mon Free Music p15 4 Wed Garden of Eden p30 6 Sat The Wiggles — Wiggle Fun Tour! p7 Shostakovich String Quartets p16 5 Thu Soweto Gospel Choir p32 Little Pictures p7 6 Tue Fretworks p16 6 Fri Other Plans p32 7 Sun The Wiggles — Wiggle Fun Tour! p7 Choir of King’s College, Cambridge p16 The Swingles p33 7 Wed The Commuter Variations p18 8 Mon The Wiggles — Wiggle Fun Tour! p7 Nicole Car, Étienne Dupuis & p17 7 Sat Petrushka p32 Byrd Song p7 Jayson Gillham 8 Sun FOJAM p34 9 Tue Aura Go p8 8 Thu French Connections p18 Classical Masterpieces p8 10 Tue Lowther Hall: p44 9 Fri Meu Fado Meu p18 Annual Music Concert 10 Wed More Than One Place p8 Phia feat. Melb Indie Voices 10 Sat p18 11 Wed Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak: p44 12 Fri The Barber of Seville p8 13 Tue Melbourne Guitar Quartet p19 Showcase Concert Winterreise 14 Sun Patriots Concert Two p10 p19 12 Thu Terms & Conditions p44 14 Wed German Romantics p19 15 Mon Stephen Kovacevich Master Class p9 13 Fri Berardi, McAll & Wilson p36 15 Thu Chrysalis Trio p20 17 Wed Vinod Prasanna & Bobby Singh — p10 Spinifex Gum p35 The Bamboos p48 Classical Hindustani Music 14 Sat Emerson Quartet p36 Stephen Kovacevich p9 16 Fri Björk Interpreted p20 15 Sun Flute & Harp p36 18 Thu Sounds of Space p10 17 Sat Quartet & Country p20 Arabian Nights: Scheherazade p10 19 Mon ‘Magnum Opus’ p22 16 Mon Without Regrets p37 Contours of Songlines p11 The Opus 5 of Corelli Paul Lewis Master Class p41 Jordan Rakei 19 Fri Torch Songs p12 p21 17 Tue Mad Visions p37 20 Tue Melbourne Girls Grammar p44 Emerson Quartet p36 20 Sat Songs of a Sunburnt Country p12 School Concert 18 Wed Wantirna College Gala Concert p44 21 Sun Westbourne Grammar School p44 21 Wed A Winter Concert — Wesley College p44 19 Thu Mozart & Bach p37 Annual Concert Kenny Broberg p22 Light & Dark p38 22 Mon The Versatile Saxophone p12 22 Thu Mozart & Bernstein p22 Brio & Passion p23 20 Fri Ives Westlake Debussy p38 23 Tue Chinese Diaspora p13 New Constellations p23 Explorations p38 25 Thu Grace Ferguson & Fia Fiell p13 23 Fri Margaret Leng Tan p24 21 Sat Next Generation Baroque p39 28 Sun Schubert Mass p13 Michelle Nicolle Quartet p23 22 Sun Next Generation Baroque p39 21st Birthday 30 Tue Ears Wide Open 2 — p14 23 Mon Lightness of Being p39 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 24 Sat Australian Girls Choir p26 Monteverdi’s Vespers p39 31 Wed Tokyo Meets Paris p14 25 Sun Piano Battle Live in Australia p26 24 Tue Rowell & Moore p40 26 Mon Scintillating Debussy, p26 Melbourne Beethoven Quartet p40 Ravel & Bartók Ears Wide Open 3 — p27 Cycle Concert 6 L’Italiana in Algeri Paul Lewis p41 27 Tue One Thread That Binds Us All — p44 25 Wed Jams for Fams: Meeting p40 St Catherine’s School Mendelssohn 28 Wed Haileybury in Concert p44 Jessica Hitchcock p42 29 Thu The Tragedy of Mignon p27 26 Thu Turning Circles p43 Quintets with Friends p27 Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto p42 30 Fri Chiquinha Gonzaga p27 29 Sun Great Romantics Competition p43 Jacob Collier p28 The information in this brochure is correct at 30 Mon Cityscapes p43 the time of printing. Artist lineup and program 31 Sat Wa: Ikebana Performance with p29 the Grigoryan Brothers subject to change without notice. Jacob Collier p28 2 Wominjeka, Inside this issue Welcome JOSEPH TAWADROS QUARTET p05 Melbourne Recital Centre Charismatic oud player Joseph Tawadros celebrates musical expression shares an almost telepathic rapport with his band members: brother James, a and its power to move us. percussionist, bassist Karl Dunnicliff and jazz See page 25 to read about the Centre’s pianist Matt McMahon, in a performance full transformative work in providing learning of joyous spontaneous invention. and access opportunities to thousands of people each year. Everyone should be able to experience live music and that’s why we WILLIAM need your help: a donation to Melbourne Recital BARTON Centre sustains the vibrancy of our program, allowing us to support more artists and p11 continue our contribution to our community Stephen Kovacevich (17 July). We welcome for the next decade of our life and beyond. back Paul Lewis who concludes his epic survey of piano masterpieces (24 September). The Centre’s 10th Anniversary party continues Artist-in-residence William Barton performs with acclaimed international and Australian Australia’s best-loved arts companies make with three artists very dear to him. Together performers in our two sublime spaces. With Melbourne Recital Centre home. We’re proud they explore music and songs of country in Australia’s most diverse array of concerts, that the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra what will be a memorable evening of the Melbourne Recital Centre is the best place to is celebrating both its 10th season at the Centre finest expressive music. experience artists such as toy piano virtuoso and its 30th anniversary. The Brandenberg’s Margaret Leng Tan (23 August) one week August concert features Handel’s appropriately and YouTube pop sensation Jacob Collier festive Fireworks Music (3 & 4 August). You can (30 & 31 August) the next. Your favourite party MULLOVA, also enjoy concerts from Musica Viva, the ACO, BARLEY & band The Bamboos returns for Symphonic the Australian String Quartet and many others. DE PLEDGE Soul (15 August) and the fascinating rhythms I look forward to seeing you at a concert soon. of oud master Joseph Tawadros and his Quartet are inspired by Arabic classical music, p31 folk, jazz and rock (4 July). Our 2019 Artist-in- EUAN MURDOCH Residence William Barton, Australia’s foremost CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre Internationally acclaimed violinist didgeridoo player, curates a showcase for his Viktoria Mullova and husband music joined by leading Australian performers Matthew Barley, join long-time collaborator — a must-hear, one-off experience (18 July). Stephen de Pledge to perform Ravel and We’re excited to present Spinifex Gum Schubert in the intimacy of the piano trio. (13 September), an exquisite journey to the Pilbara region from Felix Reibl (Cat Empire) and Cairns-based Indigenous choir Marliya. It is breathtaking, uniquely Australian and FOJAM profoundly inspiring. Great Performers Nicole Car, soprano, and Étienne Dupuis p34 (baritone) make their Recital Centre debuts (7 August), as does revered pianist The Festival of Jewish Arts and Music Melbourne Recital Centre proudly stands (FOJAM) takes over the Centre in a day-long on the land of the Kulin Nation and we pay our immersion of contemporary Jewish culture respects to Melbourne’s First People, to their Elders with 30 performances across music, theatre, dance and conversation. past and present, and to our shared future. 3 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE JULY 2 3 1 4 SPOTLIGHT SERIES LOCAL HEROES Free Music The Theatre ANAM Prize Hush Melbourne Recital Centre opens of the Soul Winners Concert #1 Rubiks Collective presents five the doors of its intimate Salon one contemporary works exploring the Ensemble 642 specialises in music The Australian National Academy Monday a month for a free open power of voice, breath and gesture. from the age of basso continuo (late of Music (ANAM) trains exceptional rehearsal featuring the very best Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh’s The thin air 16th to early 18th century). Directed young classical musicians. This of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. between skins explores shimmering, by two leading young Australian concert shines a light on two of its It’s an open door policy for anyone nuanced exchanges between exponents of rare plucked-string outstanding prize winners, violinist to come in and discover something performers, Annika Socolofsky’s instruments: Hannah Lane Kyla Matsuura-Miller and cellist new or hear local artists rehearse sextet invokes the fragility and fury (Baroque triple harp) and Nicholas Caleb Wong. Joined by pianist new works, new programs and try of the female voice, and human and Pollock (theorbo, lutes & Baroque Adam McMillan, the three artists' out new ideas. machine duel in Dmitri Tymoczko’s guitar), Ensemble 642 collaborates energetic playing brings freshness world premiere song cycle featuring with the finest early music INFORMATION and warmth to beloved works by acclaimed London-based mezzo- performers in Australia to bring to Ravel, Brahms and Ligeti. soprano Lotte Betts-Dean. Mon 1 July 12 noon life exquisite music that hasn’t been Primrose Potter Salon INFORMATION heard for hundreds of years. INFORMATION (One hour) Tue 2 July 6pm FREE INFORMATION Wed 3 July 6pm Primrose Potter Salon Presented by Melbourne Recital Primrose Potter Salon Mon 1 July 6pm (One hour no interval) Centre Primrose Potter Salon (One hour no interval) Ravel Tzigane, Rhapsodie de concert (One hour no interval) Annika Socolofsky Don’t Say a Word Ligeti Sonata for solo cello Works by and Erin Gee Mouthpiece 28 Monteverdi Brahms Piano Trio No.1 in B, Op.8 Kasberger.