Event Guide: June & July 2012

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Melbourne Recital Centre JUNE & JULY 2012

Camille O’Sullivan – Feel 23 June 2012

June & July 2012 Sunday

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Three Lanes 6pm – pg 4

Doug de Vries Trio presents Baden Powell and the Afro-Sambas 6pm – pg 4 Hiromi: The Trio Project 7.30pm – pg 5

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Hiromi: Solo / Eli Degibri Quartet 7.30pm – pg 5

ALBARE iTD 7.30pm – pg 6

Monash University Jazz Futures 6pm – pg 4

Monash University Jazz Futures 6pm – pg 4 Terence Blanchard 7.30pm – pg 6

Monash University Jazz Futures 6pm – pg 4 Renaud Garcia-Fons Arcoluz Trio 7.30pm – pg 7

Fish Boast of Fishing 6pm – pg 6 ‘For Ella’ featuring Patti Austin 1.30pm & 7.30pm – pg 7

Australian Voices – Gerard Brophy 6pm – pg 8 Oliver She 11am – pg 8

Benjamin Martin 6pm – pg 8

Legacy 7pm – pg 9

Sea Pictures 6pm – pg 9

Story & Allegory 3pm – pg 10 Midwinter Dream 7pm – pg 10

Matinee Concert for Secondary Students 11am – pg 11

Queen of the Golden Age 6pm – pg 11

Laneway Funk/ Bitsat Seyoum 7pm – pg 12

Made in the USA– Born in Boston 8pm – pg 12

Soundstream Collective: Circles Series 6pm – pg 12 Camille O’Sullivan: Feel 8pm – pg 13

Takács Quartet 7pm – pg 14

Animalia with Baby Love Music Fun 10am & 11.30am – pg 17 Richard Tognetti 7.30pm – pg 15

Celtic Divas 8pm – pg 16

Takács Quartet 8pm – pg 14

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Pure Strings 2.30pm – pg 14

David Soo Piano Recital 6pm – pg 14

A German Requiem

by Johannes Brahms 3pm – pg 18

In Foreign Taste 6pm – pg 18

Corpus Medicorum 5pm – pg 20

The Magic Flute 11am – pg 17 French Letters/ Aussie Accents 6pm – pg 20

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Exiles and Émigrés 6pm – pg 18

Irena’s Song – A Ray of Light through the Darkness 7pm – pg 19

Simple Gifts – Julia Messenger Quintet 7.30pm – pg 19

Simple Gifts – Julia Messenger Quintet 7.30pm – pg 19

Cédric Tiberghien 7.30pm – pg 21

Music at Night 7pm – pg 22

Janet Seidel Trio – Dear Blossom 7.30pm – pg 22

Janet Seidel Trio – Dear Blossom 7.30pm – pg 22

Joe Chindamo’s Gershwin Songbook 5pm & 8pm – pg 22

Trout Quintet & Quartet for the End of Time 8pm – pg 23

Dialogue III 7pm – pg 24 As Dreams are Made On 7.30pm – pg 24

Mista Savona with Aminata Doumbia Findlay 6pm – pg 24

Hey World, Here I Am – The Streisand Story 7.30pm – pg 25

National Boys Choir of Australia in Concert 7.30pm – pg 25 Hey World, Here I Am – The Streisand Story 8pm – pg 25

Trout Quintet & Quartet for the End of Time 8pm – pg 23

Music on the Mind 6pm – pg 27

Pipe Dreams – Mostly Mozart 11.30am – pg 26 Pierrot’s Creator 6pm – pg 26

Moon River – Michelle Nicolle Quartet 7.30pm – pg 27

Moon River 6.30pm – pg 27 Dazzling Viruoso 7pm – pg 29 Melbourne Open House – pg 29

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Trout Quintet & Quartet for the End of Time 2.30pm – pg 23

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Amarcord 8pm – pg 28

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Dazzling Viruoso 5pm – pg 29

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Amarcord 7pm – pg 28

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The Best Place to Hear Uwe Hagen Managing Director, Audi Australia

Now in our fourth year of partnership with Melbourne Recital Centre, we are proud that our Principal Partnership is playing a key role in the ongoing success this Australian cultural icon and worldrenowned music venue is currently enjoying. Our partnership is based on a shared commitment to progressive performance brought to life with energy, quality and passion. The Audi team is looking forward to the upcoming June and July season at the Centre, and the world-class performances that will be showcased. The ongoing partnership between our two successful brands is a great way to give back to the Australian community through cultural endeavours that can be enjoyed and accessed by all Australians. I commend the impending concerts to all music aficionados – enjoy!

Come in from the cold and hear more music this winter. In June, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival brings a host of luminary performers to the Centre, and in July you can hear gems from the American Songbook, a cabaret-style showcase of jazz and pop music. The captivating Camille O’Sullivan makes her Recital Centre debut, demonstrating once again why this French-Irish chanteuse has a cult following around the world (23 June). Hear the best of Melbourne’s chamber ensembles in our Local Heroes series, or discover a future star at our annual free Bach Competition for young musicians (17 June). We welcome the virtuosos of the Australian Chamber Orchestra to Elisabeth Murdoch Hall for intimate music by Schubert and Messiaen, whose ravishing Quartet for the End of Time is a 20th-century classic (16-23 July), while their charismatic leader, violinist Richard Tognetti, makes his Melbourne recital debut (27 June).

From Bach to Broadway, Melbourne Recital Centre presents the city’s most diverse range of music and musicians in one of the world’s finest centres. Join us.

LINDSAY WHTE Country Manager Australia & New Zealand, Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is a proud supporter of Melbourne Recital Centre. We share a commitment to exceptional performance and inspired customer service experiences.

Voted the World’s Leading Airline for three consecutive years from 2009 to 2011, Etihad Airways is delighted to bring the Centre’s superb international artists to Melbourne to enrich the cultural life of the city and its people. We invite you to experience the luxury, convenience, and modern Arabian hospitality of Etihad Airways when next you fly.

Timo-Veikko Valve, Christopher Moore & Maxime Bibeau – Australian Chamber Orchestra

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

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Andrea Keller

Terence Blanchard

Three Lanes

Monash University Jazz Futures

Melbourne-based jazz pianist and composer Andrea Keller creates music with two of her most admired, intriguing and broadminded colleagues: Genevieve Lacey and Joe Talia. With the release of a new album, the trio combines acoustic, electronic, prepared, improvised and composed elements, allowing the unique and distinctive contribution of each of these three celebrated Australian musicians to be given a voice.

During the 2012 Festival, aspiring students from Monash University Jazz and Popular Studies are provided with the extraordinary opportunity to rehearse and perform with leading international artists. The inspiring Jazz Futures series sees Australia’s next generation of jazz musicians take to the stage with School of Music staff members Rob Burke, Paul Williamson and Jordan Murray for a celebration of excellence in jazz education.

John Lockwood, Bob Gullotti – are renowned as practitioners as well as educators, on faculty at Berklee College of Music, New York University and the New England Conservatory.

Terence Blanchard, known for his sophisticated film scores (notably Spike Lee films), holds impeccable educational credentials including directorships at the Henri Mancini Institute and Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

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Fri 1 June 6pm Salon (no interval) Andrea Keller piano Genevieve Lacey recorders Joe Talia revox B77, electronics & percussion Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Stalwarts on the Boston free jazz scene, The Fringe members – George Garzone,

Tarbaby – Orrin Evans, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits – are all ‘cutting edge’ musicians who are in demand as clinicians at conservatories and universities around the world.

Wed 6 June 6pm – with Terence Blanchard Quintet Thu 7 June 6pm – with The Fringe Fri 8 June 6pm – with Tarbaby Salon Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Doug de Vries Trio presents Baden Powell and the Afro-Sambas

Doug de Vries

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We pay homage to one of Brazil’s most celebrated guitarists, Baden Powell, and his development of the Afro-Samba style.

Baden Powell’s virtuosity finds its match with Melbourne’s own Doug de Vries, one of Australia’s foremost guitarists and leading exponents of Brazilian guitar repertoire.

Doug is joined by Frank DiSario and Alastair Kerr for a tour through Brazil’s unique musical landscape.

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival

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Sat 2 June 6pm Salon (no interval) Doug de Vries guitar Alastair Kerr drums/percussion Frank DiSario bass Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Hiromi

Eli Degibri

Hiromi: The Trio Project

Hiromi: Solo/Eli Degibri Quartet

Dazzlingly talented keyboardist-composer Hiromi dominates the next wave of jazz superstars, possessing musicianship beyond her years and an electrifying stage presence. Her ability to blend jazz, progressive rock and classical styles has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. Few artists can boast a gig with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at age 14, a personal invitation to play with Chick Corea at 17, and a mentorship with Ahmad Jamal at the Berklee College of Music before launching their professional career.

This special double bill brings together two rapidly-rising stars from opposite sides of the globe, each charting new directions in jazz.

With her vast repertoire of styles, lightning-fast technique and the irrepressible joy she brings to each performance, pianist and composer Hiromi is a must-see.

Making her Australian debut hot on the heels of lauded appearances at the Umbria,

San Sebastian, Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals, Hiromi takes to the stage with two equally formidable players, bassist Anthony Jackson (Paul Simon, The O’Jays, Steely Dan, Chick Corea) and drummer Simon Philips (Toto, The Who, Judas Priest, David Gilmour and Jack Bruce).

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Sat 2 June 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall A reserve $69 ($61 concession) B reserve $59 ($49 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Israeli-born saxophonist, composer and bandleader Eli Degibri matches Hiromi with his high-energy, superbly crafted live performances. He makes his Australian debut with a quartet of musicians from the vanguard of the burgeoning Israeli jazz scene, including Melbourne-born Simon Starr and the 16-year-old prodigy Gadi Lehavi.

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‘ That’s the beautiful thing about music without words. It’s just a matter of using your imagination, finding your own voice within the music, and travelling with it wherever it takes you.’ Hiromi

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

Mon 4 June 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall A reserve $69 ($61 concession) B reserve $59 ($49 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

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ALBARE iTD

featuring Antonio Sanchez

Guitarist and composer ALBARE – Albert Dadon – brings his latest project to the Melbourne International Jazz Festival with an international collaboration of the kind rarely heard in Australia. Making its Australian debut, International Travel Diary (iTD) features a dazzling new sextet including: three-time Grammy Award-winner Antonio Sanchez, ‘one of the standout jazz drummers

on the contemporary scene’ (The New York Times); saxophonist George Garzone, whose warm, expansive tone and daring improvisations make him a truly compelling performer; Argentinian-born avant-garde pianist Leo Genovese, hailed as a ‘flat-out, fantastic player’ by All About Jazz; Hendrik Meurkens, easily the most important jazz harmonica player since Toots Thieleman; and ALBARE’s long-term collaborator, Evripedes Evripidou, whose inventive and electrifying use of six and seven string basses and a variety of electronic effects takes bass playing to the extreme.

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Tue 5 June 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall A reserve $69 ($61 concession) B reserve $59 ($49 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Fish Boast of Fishing

Terence Blanchard Film-score master and one of the most distinguished trumpeters of the post-Miles Davis era, five-time Grammy Award winner Terence Blanchard makes his Australian debut with his incendiary quintet. Emerging during the 1980s with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard developed as an influencer on the modern New Orleans jazz scene with his hard bop style warmed with African elements. But it is Blanchard’s cinematic abilities that have made him recognisable the world over, with 29 albums and over 50 movie scores to his name, including repeat collaborations with filmmaker Spike Lee for the likes of Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, Clockers and the unflinching Hurricane Katrina documentary, When the Levees Broke. He also created his own impassioned, award-winning requiem for Katrina, A Tale of God’s Will. While equally at home in the recording studio or lecture hall, it is as a live performer that Blanchard shines. This is a rare opportunity to see an artist of revolutionary stature in a Festival exclusive performance that will be nothing short of phenomenal.

‘ Blanchard is one of jazz’s best trumpeters.’

The poetry of e.e. Cummings is the spring board for an innovative collaboration that brings together improvisation, electronics and composition in a daring and spontaneous fusion of musical ideas. Featuring some of Australia’s leading improvisers and musical experimenters, Fish Boast of Fishing will surprise and beguile with its blend of jazz, classical, contemporary and minimalism.

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Thu 7 June 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall A reserve $79 ($71 concession) B reserve $69 ($59 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

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Sat 9 June 6pm Salon Peter Knight trumpet & laptop Erik Griswold prepared piano Vanessa Tomlinson percussion Gideon Brazil bass clarinet Frank Di Sario bass Joe Talia drums & electronics Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

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Peter Knight

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • 2012 JUNEMelbourne International Jazz Festival

Terence Blanchard

Renaud Garcia-Fons Arcoluz Trio

Renaud Garcia-Fons

From the moment ‘the Paganini of Bass’, French/Spanish bass wunderkind Renaud Garcia-Fons, first held a double bass in his hands at age 16, the future of the instrument was destined to change. Garcia-Fons quickly rose above the technical restraints of traditional bass playing to develop a transcendent, lyrical form of expression – an amalgam of double bass, cello, violin, guitar, lute and oud sounds. His advancement of the instrument’s possibilities is reminiscent of other musical pioneers like Astor Piazzolla, Jimi Hendrix and Paco de Lucia. His drive for new ideas and talent to translate them into compositions has seen him draw from a breadth of musical influence that essentially knows no bounds – including classical, jazz

and flamenco, as well as the music of Persia, India, the Mediterranean, South America and many other forms from around the globe.

Renaud Garcia-Fons comes to Melbourne with his critically celebrated trio for an Australian premiere performance that promises to bridge musical genres in the unique Garcia-Fons way – an exhilarating and truly surprising performance adventure.

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Fri 8 June 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall A reserve $69 ($61 concession) B reserve $59 ($49 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

‘ For Ella’ featuring Patti Austin Few performers have the credentials to pull off a fitting and genuinely thrilling tribute to ‘America’s first lady of song’ Ella Fitzgerald, but Grammy Award-winning Patti Austin possesses the heritage, experience and voice to do so. Debuting at New York’s famed Apollo Theater at the tender age of four with the encouragement of her godparents Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones, Austin grew up witnessing legendary performers like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Judy Garland who were instrumental in shaping her inimitable vocal style.

Her illustrious, almost 60-year career includes collaborations with artists as diverse as Randy Brecker, George Benson, Luther Vandross, Johnny Mathis and Michael Jackson. Her chart-topping 1982 duet with James Ingram, Baby, Come to Me went gold and saw her become a household name. In 2002, Austin released For Ella and commenced her decade-long love affair

with performing the songs of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Fats Waller and others as sung by Ella Fitzgerald, even mirroring Ella’s famous scatting talents. Expect to hear timeless hits such as Too Close For Comfort, You’ll Have To Swing It (Mr Paganini) and How High the Moon in a tribute show that is like no other.

INFORMATION

Sat 9 June 1.30pm & 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall A reserve $79 ($71 concession) B reserve $69 ($59 concession) Presented by Melbourne International Jazz Festival

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

Patti Austin

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Australian Voices – Gerard Brophy ‘ Gerard Brophy’s combination of electronic sound with orchestral scoring creates a fascinating range of sonic landscapes.’

Gerard Brophy

Exotic rhythms and a broad palette of instrumental colours dominate the music of Gerard Brophy, the critically-acclaimed Australian composer. Join pianist Lisa Moore and the musicians of ANAM in an exploration of Brophy’s detailed and expertly crafted approach to writing for chamber forces.

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Tue 12 June 6pm Salon Lisa Moore piano/curator ANAM musicians Tickets $25 ($15 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Australian National Academy of Music

Benjamin Martin In this special recital Benjamin Martin pays tribute to the late John Browning, his teacher at New York’s Juilliard School of Music. One of America’s greatest pianists, Browning was an advocate of 20th-century music and gave the world premieres of Barber’s Piano Concerto and Martin’s Three Portrait Etudes.

This recital features American 20th-century music as well as works by Ravel and the premiere of Martin’s new work, The Carousel, with special guests the Elanee Ensemble.

Oliver She

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Wed 13 June 6pm Salon (no interval) BARTÓK Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm BARBER Nocturne, Op.33 RAVEL Sonatine BERIO Wasserklavier RILEY Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight Benjamin Martin piano Elanee Ensemble Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Barely out of his teens, Brisbane pianist Oliver She has scooped Australia’s music prizes, including the 2010 ABC Young Performer of the Year and the coveted David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for pianists. This delightful program offers the chance to hear the combination of technique and sensitivity that regularly attracts such accolades, encompassing the perfumed, moonlit dreaminess of Debussy and the brilliant displays of Chopin exemplified in his ‘Heroic’ polonaise.

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Oliver She

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Tue 12 June 11am (morning tea from 10am) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (no interval)

Benjamin Martin

CHOPIN Etude in E flat minor, Op.10 No.6 Three Mazurkas, Op.59 (No. 36, 37 & 38) Fantasie in F minor, Op.49 Berceuse in D flat major, Op.57 Polonaise No.6 in A flat major, Op.53 Héroïque DEBUSSY Les sons et les parfums tournent l’air du soir, from Préludes Book 1 No.4 La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune from Préludes Book 2 No.7 Oliver She piano Tickets $42 Presented by Musica Viva

Kristian Winther, Anne Horton, Stephen King & Rachel Johnston – Australian String Quartet

Legacy ‘ Judged only by the excellent balance of fire and faintness in the central fugue, the new ASQ maintains its high standard of incisive interpretation.’

Sea Pictures

Beethoven’s Op.18 quartets were his debut for this combination and, although composed under the lingering shadow of Haydn and Mozart, quickly established his credentials as a major musical force.

The miraculous profundity of the slow movement in Op.18 No.3 is a harbinger of his later genius in this form. In contrast, Johannes Brahms heeded the immortal words of Dylan Thomas not ‘to go gentle into that good night…’ with his Op.111 String Quintet. Despite being composed well into the composer’s middle age, its energy and dynamism make it seem like a product of a glorious Indian summer. Contemporary Australian composer Brett Dean used the same instrumental combination as Brahms

in a very 21st-century take in his Epitaphs for viola and string quartet to create engrossing musical portraits in memory of departed friends.

Man’s fascination with the sea is legendary.

Since the beginning of time the sea has been a way of exploring, discovering and escaping. Andrea Katz (piano), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano) and Nicholas Dinopolous (bass-baritone) present songs from around Europe, which travelled together with migrants and settlers on sailing ships at the height of The Age of Sail, in one of the most expansive human migrations in history.

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Songmakers Australia

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

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Thu 14 June 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D major, Op.18, No.3 DEAN Epitaphs BRAHMS String Quintet in G major, Op.111, No.2 Australian String Quartet Brett Dean viola Tickets $62 ($48 concession) Presented by Australian String Quartet

Fri 15 June 6pm Salon (no interval) ELGAR Sea Pictures, Op.37 FAURÉ L’horizon chimérique, Op.118 FINZI Sea Shanties IRELAND Sea Fever QUILTER It Was a Lover and His Lass Songmakers Australia Tickets $35 ($30 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Songmakers Australia Local Heroes 2012

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Midwinter Dream Seraphim Trio explores the intersections between Shakespeare, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, alongside a new work by Australian composer Alan Holley. Benjamin Martin’s new arrangement of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream captures Shakespeare at his most effervescent.

Beethoven’s Ghost Trio, inspired by Macbeth, speaks to the Bard’s more serious side.

The program concludes with Mendelssohn’s dramatic Trio in C minor, in which Beethoven’s influence is everywhere apparent.

‘ Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?’ Macbeth

Story & Allegory

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Sat 16 June 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall MENDELSSOHN (arr Martin) Selections from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (world premiere) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio No.1 in D major, Op.70, Ghost HOLLEY The Estuaries of Time (world premiere) MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No.2 in C minor, Op.66 Seraphim Trio Tickets $45 ($40 concession) Two concert subscription package $72 ($64) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Seraphim Trio Local Heroes 2012

Helen Ayres, Anna Goldsworthy & Timothy Nankervis

The fertile influence of Europe’s folklore fills this program. Martinu˚’s Bergerettes begin a dazzling and breathtaking journey deriving inspiration from amorous French pastoral song and dance. The mood then shifts to the excitement and virile energy of Hungarian dance in the last movement of Haydn’s famous Gypsy Trio. Shostakovich’s profoundly moving Second Piano Trio completes the program, with some music that is referred to as a ‘dance of death’.

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Sat 16 June 3pm Salon HAYDN Piano Trio No.39 in G major, Hob. XV:25 Gypsy ˚ Bergerettes MARTINU SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op.67 Trio Anima Mundi Tickets $40 ($30 concession) Three concert subscription package $102 ($76.50) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Trio Anima Mundi

Rochelle Bryson, Kenji Fujimura & Miranda Brockman

Bach Competition Now in its third year, Melbourne Recital Centre’s Bach Competition is dedicated to young musicians passionate about the music of JS Bach. Come and listen to an array of budding young performers battle it out on stage and enjoy an afternoon of the Baroque genius.

Please visit melbournerecital.com.au for information, competition guidelines and an application form.

Local Heroes 2012

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‘ A trio of vitality, charm and aplomb.’

Sun 17 June 3pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall FREE (tickets required) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre The 2012 Bach Competition is supported

by Richard Mills AM

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Matinee Concert for Secondary Students

Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra present an interactive matinee concert for secondary students, covering key elements of the VCE level 5 and 6 music curriculum. Students are taught how music is built and how to listen for key elements in the music. They also gain behind-the-scenes insights into the Orchestra’s performance and ensemble techniques. Resources including curriculum-based notes and exercises, recordings and musical scores are provided upon booking.

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Tue 19 June 11am Salon (no interval) MOZART Symphony K.196/121 La finta giardiniera MEALE Cantilena Pacifica SCHUBERT (arr Tognetti) String Quartet No.14, Death and the Maiden Australian Chamber Orchestra Richard Tognetti artistic director/lead violin Tickets $23.50 Presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra Australian Chamber Orchestra © Paul Henderson Kelly

Queen of the Golden Age

‘ ...such a telling combination of passion and scholarship.’

The Golden Age of England under the reign of Elizabeth I was a period of great musical innovation and development. Music became increasingly expressive, inventive and refined, and music as a form of entertainment grew to phenomenal heights of popularity. On period instruments, Australia’s premiere Renaissance ensemble La Compañia presents a program of Elizabethan songs and consort music from composers Anthony Holborne, John Dowland and more.

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Wed 20 June 6pm Salon (no interval) La Compañia Danny Lucin director Siobhan Stagg soprano Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Three concert subscription package $89.25 ($63.75) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & La Compañia Local Heroes 2012

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

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Laneway Funk/ Bitsat Seyoum Laneway Funk, led by Jason Heerah, perform their unique blend of soul, funk and reggae. In this special collaboration, they welcome emerging artist Bitsat Seyoum, who will perform Ethiopian Amharic songs about love and traditional songs about life and its cycles. Jason and Bitsat worked together as part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Visible mentoring program and have developed a strong musical bond.

Experience a unique pairing of musical styles and language and revel in the universal power and enjoyment of music.

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Thu 21 June 7pm Salon Laneway Funk Bitsat Seyoum Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Melbourne Recital Centre, in association with Multicultural Arts Victoria Part of the Visible Music Series

Xenia Hanusiak

Made in the USA– Born in Boston Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and James Taylor are just a few musical luminaries who share a deep connection to Boston. Together Tony Gould and Xenia Hanusiak take you on a quintessential American journey – unexpected re-imaginings from two artists renowned for taking you to unexpected musical destinations.

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Fri 22 June 8pm Salon (no interval) Xenia Hanusiak soprano Tony Gould piano Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Boston Sister Cities Association

Jason Heerah

Soundstream Collective: Circles Series Following their acclaimed Australian premiere in Brisbane, Soundstream Collective presents Hanna Kulenty’s Circles Series (1994–6). The series represents Kulenty’s self titled ‘European trance music’, her original version of ‘post-minimalist’ style. The result is music of incredible emotional intensity and sheer sonorous impact, reflecting the richness of the composer’s internal life. One recalls Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic description of music as ‘feelings transformed into audible landscape.’

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Sat 23 June 6pm Salon (no interval) KULENTY Circle Series Soundstream Collective Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & New Music Network

‘ One of Poland’s most interesting composers.’

Soundstream Collective

Camille O’Sullivan

Camille O’Sullivan: Feel A Camille O’Sullivan concert is an intense theatrical experience. The Irish-French chanteuse has established a formidable reputation for her arresting Weimar-meetsrock interpretations of music by Jacques Brel, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and more. Her electrifying stage presence has captivated audiences around the world earning rave reviews and full houses at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Royal Festival Hall and the Sydney Opera House. Camille’s

performances have been described as ‘an intense emotional journey... hypnotic,’ a place where music leads to personal catharsis and anything might happen. Camille will appear with a five–piece Australian band.

Dark, fierce, amusing and mesmerising – Camille is unforgettable.

‘ Mad, magical and magnificent... A major star.’

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

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Sat 23 June 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Camille O’Sullivan vocals with five-piece band Premium $75 A reserve $65 ($55 concession) B reserve $55 ($45 concession) C reserve $40 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

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Pure Strings Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

‘ One of the most famous works by JS Bach and considered among the best examples of the work of the late Baroque period.’

A concert celebrating the richness and power of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s justly-acclaimed string section in masterworks that continue to astonish and delight. A rare treat by Donizetti and favourite Baroque concertos provide a counterpoint to the rich and romantic strains of Tchaikovsky’s tribute to his beloved Florence.

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William Hennessy

Sun 24 June 2.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall BACH Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1043

Takács Quartet Founded in Budapest and steeped in the Hungarian tradition, the Takács Quartet is arguably the best string quartet in the world.

Now based in the United States, it perfectly straddles the old and new worlds. Years of playing and touring together have made the group a rock-solid team that thinks and plays as one. Yet their individual personalities make each performance feel totally spontaneous. You’ll hear years of wisdom ooze from every note, guiding your ears through compelling repertoire from Janácˇek, Britten, Debussy and Ravel. Don’t miss the opportunity to witness one of the world’s most remarkable quartets in their element.

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Tue 26 June 7pm & Sat 30 June 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall

DONIZETTI String Sonata in D major VIVALDI Concerto for two Violins in A minor, RV523 TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence Op.70 William Hennessy director/violin Rochelle Bryson violin Kate Sullivan violin Francesca Hiew violin Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Premium $99 ($91 concession) A reserve $89 ($81 concession) B reserve $79 ($71 concession) Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

David Soo Piano Recital

Tue 26 June program: ˇEK String Quartet No.2, Intimate Letters JANÁC BRITTEN String Quartet No.3, Op.94 KERRY Variations for string quartet* RAVEL String Quartet in F major, Op.34 Sat 30 June program: ˇEK String Quartet No.1, Kreutzer JANÁC BRITTEN String Quartet No.1 in D major, Op.25 KERRY Variations for string quartet* DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op.10 *Commissioned by Diane Parks in association with Musica Viva Australia in honour of David Bookallil’s 60th birthday

Takács Quartet Premium $119 ($103 concession) A reserve $99 ($86 concession) B reserve $69 ($60 concession) C reserve $46 ($40 concession) Presented by Musica Viva

Winner of Melbourne Recital Centre’s Elisabeth Murdoch Prize as part of the 2011 Great Romantics Competition, David presents an exclusive showcase recital.

Commended for his 2011 performance of Liszt, the judging panel marvelled at his ‘profound maturity, great sense of poise, sensitivity and poetry.’

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Geraldine Walther, Edward Dusinberre, András Fejér & Károly Schranz

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Mon 25 June 6pm Salon (no interval) SCRIABIN Sonata No.2 in G sharp minor, Op.19 LISZT Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat major, Op.110 BRAHMS Intermezzo in A minor, Op.118 No.1 Intermezzo in B minor, Op.119 No.1 Capriccio in D minor, Op.116 No.7 David Soo piano Tickets $25 ($15 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Richard Tognetti Richard Tognetti is an agent provocateur who plays like an angel. Finding musical inspiration in the most unlikely places from surfing to the idea of nothing, Tognetti is Australia’s most original, ambitious and thought-provoking musician.

While he’s breaking boundaries, Tognetti’s performances of Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire with his acclaimed Australian Chamber Orchestra have an international reputation.

A solo recital by Richard Tognetti is a rare event. With imaginative leaps from Beethoven to Sculthorpe, Tognetti has devised a program that explores a vast emotional terrain, playing to his strengths as a powerful interpreter of Romantic

and modern music. Janácˇek’s ardent and mysterious Violin Sonata was written on the brink of World War I, the composer saying that he could hear ‘the sound of the steel clashing’ over his ‘troubled head’.

Beethoven’s Spring Sonata is the bright opposite, a blithe celebration of nature, generated somehow spontaneously out of the interplay between violin and piano.

Similarly rooted in nature is Sculthorpe’s Irkanda I. From an Aboriginal word meaning a remote and lonely place, this work hauntingly evokes a truly Australian landscape. Brahms’ Third Violin Sonata allows us to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between musicians, in this case two of Australia’s finest.

INFORMATION

Wed 27 June 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm ˇEK Violin Sonata JANÁC BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24 Spring SCULTHORPE Irkanda I BRAHMS Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108 Richard Tognetti violin Benjamin Martin piano Premium $105 A reserve $85 ($50 concession) B reserve $65 ($50 concession) C reserve $50 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Program partner The Langham Melbourne Part of Melbourne Recital Centre’s Great Performers 2012 series

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Celtic Divas

‘Celtic Divas’ presents a glittering array of artists performing a beautiful set of songs that emerge from the timeless and windswept landscapes of an ancient world that still lives on in the modern imagination. With elegant accompaniment from some of Ireland and Australasia’s top musicians, they bring us on a journey of movement and migration, through leaving and homecoming, sharing with us the beauty and a poignancy of nations steeped in love, loss and joy. Celtic Divas will introduce the beautiful Irish duo Lumiere, featuring Éilis Kennedy and Pauline Scanlon. We’ll also hear the sublime vocals of Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce (Grada) as they weave an evocative and haunting showcase.

INFORMATION

Noriana Kennedy, Nicola Joyce, Pauline Scanlon & Éilis Kennedy

Fri 29 June 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Noriana Kennedy vocals Nicola Joyce vocals Lumiere A reserve $79 ($69 concession) B reserve $72 ($62 concession) Presented by Showpro Touring in association with Gerry Paul & ABC Events

The art of the recitalist Franz Liszt

What was odd was that Liszt would appear alone on stage to perform the piano for an entire concert, completely unaccompanied by an orchestra. Vladimir Statsov went to Liszt’s St. Petersburg debut in 1842 and wrote: ‘This was something unheard of, utterly novel, even somewhat brazen.

What conceit! What vanity! As if to say, “All you need is me. Listen only to me – you don’t need anyone else.”’

Liszt’s programs on these occasions were eclectic – arrangements of popular arias, his own compositions, excerpts from Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony – a kind of replica of a typical orchestral concert of the time, with him as the only star.

This led to the innovation of arranging the piano so that the pianist’s profile could be admired (in fact, Liszt would have two pianos on stage facing in

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Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert would have been puzzled by the practice. Chopin did it only reluctantly. It was the virtuoso pianist-composer Franz Liszt who started it in the late 1830s by giving a peculiar new kind of concert. opposite directions, alternating between them so that both sides of the auditorium got their money’s worth). The word ‘recital’ was first applied to this kind of concert by one of Liszt’s promoters in London in 1840 and it quickly caught on.

One of the most relentless recitalists of the 19th-century was Louis Moreau Gottschalk, an exotic ‘creole’ pianist from Louisiana. He toured North and South America, as well as the usual European destinations, at the height of the American Civil War, traveling tens of thousands of miles by rail. His memoirs are testament to the pleasures, but, mostly, the privations of the touring artist, and implicit in them is a story about the growing appetite for culture across all classes in the United States, where concert halls were springing up

like a crop of mushrooms, demanding a new kind of performer to fill them.

A recital affords the most intimate and personal communion with a musical personality and with a certain kind of music that you don’t hear otherwise – a canon of ‘standard recital fare’ has been established, pieces which best establish a performer’s interpretative and technical credentials. Even the ready availability of recordings hasn’t diminished the appeal of seeing favourite musicians live, in majestic profile. After all, there’s no risk in a recording where you can lay down another more perfect take. The public performance of a really difficult piece is something of a high-wire act. We know that our trapeze artist won’t fall, even as we gasp at their daring. That’s all part of the recitalist’s art.

The Magic Flute The Magic Flute is a mysterious and wonderful tale, following four young people’s journeys as they discover their own strengths and weaknesses and pass the tests of true love. The story of truth and light, friendship and forgiveness, told with enchanting music, continues to delight audiences around the world. This semistaged abridged version of Mozart’s

opera was devised especially for Opera Australia’s Oz Opera by Tim Sexton and Christine Anketell.

This concert is appropriate for primary school age children.

Melbourne Recital Centre children’s programming is supported by The Hugh Williamson Foundation.

INFORMATION

Mon 9 July 11am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (50 mins without an interval) MOZART The Magic Flute Devised and Directed by Christine Anketell Music and Libretto adapted by Tim Sexton Opera Australia’s Oz Opera Tickets $25 ($15 children) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Animalia with Baby Love Music Fun Fun-filled interactive concerts for babies and toddlers return with Animalia by Baby Love Music Fun. Join opera singer Melanie Maslin and her team as she leads you and your baby or toddler through key musical and movement activities that babies find fun and stimulate their development. Incorporating music by Saint-Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov, Aaron Copland as well as nursery rhymes and lullabies, these concerts feature live singing, puppets, props and facilitated movement to enhance you and your baby or toddler’s experience of music.

INFORMATION

Wed 27 June 10am & 11.30am Salon (40 mins without an interval) Tickets $20 per child (each child ticket purchased allows entry of 1 adult free of charge) Additional adult tickets $20 per adult Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre This concert is appropriate for children up to 3 years of age (all children must be accompanied by an adult).

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A German Requiem

The Star Chorale, originally formed by the coming together of the Methodist Ladies College Old Collegians and Male Voice Choirs, has been delighting audiences for more than 10 years with its classical repertoire.

Under the inspired direction of its founder/ music director, Jane Elton Brown OAM, this community choir is open to anyone who has a commitment to continue and enhance a tradition of excellence in the performance of choral music. The premiere performance of Brahms’ German Requiem was in Bremen on Good Friday in 1868. Brahms' deeply personnal requiem draws on text from the German Bible which he set to some of his most richly autumnal music. This performance, by the 110 voices of The Star Chorale, will be sung in German and accompanied by the very talented members of The Star Chorale Orchestra.

INFORMATION

Sun 1 July 3pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall BRAHMS A German Requiem, Op.45 The Star Chorale & Orchestra Jane Elton Brown OAM conductor Siobhan Stagg soprano Roger Howell baritone Tickets $48.50 ($43.50) Presented by The Star Chorale & Orchestra The Star Chorale & The Star Chorale Orchestra

Exiles and Émigrés In celebration of American Independence Day, Aria Co explore the work of émigré composers to the USA who made contributions to the cultural landscape of the United States, both inside and out of the realm of art music. Some like Korngold and Eisler made significant impacts on the role and significance of film scores in Hollywood.

Stefan Wolpe was a prolific composer and made a notable contribution as an educator and mentor to the following generation of composers including Charles Wuorinen.

The concert will be presented in Aria Co’s trademark theatrical style in which they explore the interrelationship between recital, cabaret and performance art.

In Foreign Taste

Marin Marais was a brilliant composer and virtuoso performer, and held a prestigious post in the court of King Louis XIV. He was also the subject (played by Gérard Depardieu) of the film Tous les Matins du Monde. His most significant contribution was the five books of Piéces de Violes, of which book IV’s Suite d’un Goût Etranger (In Foreign Taste) contains some of the most striking examples of Marais’ technical skill, mastery of harmony, innovation and imagination. The viola da gamba (Laura Vaughan) represents the height of refinement in French Baroque chamber music. For this recital it is paired

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INFORMATION

Wed 4 July 6pm Salon (no interval) Aria Co Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Aria Co

with another favourite of King Louis XIV, the theorbo (Samantha Cohen). Experience the King’s exquisite taste in music in the intimate Salon setting.

INFORMATION

Mon 2 July 6pm Salon (no interval) MARAIS works for viola da gamba The Continuo Collective Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & The Continuo Collective Local Heroes 2012

Simple Gifts Julia Messenger Quintet Heralded around the world for her exquisite vocal technique and ability to get to the core of the lyrics, Melbourne’s own Julia Messenger presents a very personal showcase of America’s great songwriters and singers.

Julia and her band will feature music by Hoagy Carmichael, Arlen and Harburg, Arthur Hamilton, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Kurt Weill, as well as songs sung

by America’s great singers Peggy Lee, Roberta Flack, Patsy Cline, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and Nina Simone. These songs are simple gifts to the world and each holds special meaning for Julia. Join Julia for a very personal tribute and treasure these ‘simple gifts.’

INFORMATION

Fri 6 & Sat 7 July 7.30pm Salon (no interval) Julia Messenger Quintet Tickets $45 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Part of the American Songbook Series

‘ …through the full spectrum, from fragile candied sweetness to a scorching souldiva holler.’

Julia Messenger

Irena’s Song – A Ray of Light through the Darkness The Embassies of Israel and Poland, in conjunction with Orchestra Victoria, are showcasing the Australian premiere of Kobi Oshrat’s masterpiece in a concert tribute to Irena Sendler.

Irena Sendler

Sendler was instrumental in saving thousands of children from the Warsaw Ghetto. One night only, this event is not to be missed. It will be conducted by the original Israeli composer Kobi Oshrat and feature Orchestra Victoria as well as Polish and Jewish musical performers.

For bookings visit melbournerecital.com.au or phone 03 9699 3333

INFORMATION

Thu 5 July 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall OSHRAT Irena’s Song – A Ray of Light through the Darkness Karin Shifrin soprano Members of Orchestra Victoria Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by the Embassies of Israel & Poland and Orchestra Victoria

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10th Anniversary Celebration: the Royal Melbourne Hospital Doctors’ Orchestra

Come with Corpus Medicorum on a journey of the mind and heart, through philosophy, religion, and deep passion. Clemens Leske explores the monumental Piano Concerto No.2 of Brahms, a work of great athleticism, vigour and emotional depth. Mendelssohn combines a strict solemnity with joy and pathos in his Fifth Symphony, the Reformation. Written to honour the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, and executed with typical Mendelssohnian deftness, the symphony is built around the twin Lutheran pillars of the Dresden Amen and Ein’ Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott, interspersed with a delightful scherzo and a gentle chorale.

Corpus Medicorum was founded in 2002 building a tradition of music and medicine – Music of the Heart.

INFORMATION

Sun 8 July 5pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Royal Melbourne Hospital Doctors' Orchestra MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.5, Op.107 Reformation BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, Op.83 Clemens Leske piano Orchestra of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Keith Crellin conductor Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by The Royal Melbourne Hospital

French Letters/Aussie Accents Arcko Symphonic Project begins 2012 with a glance back to one of the most iconic works of French modernism, Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître (1955) for chamber ensemble set to the poetry of René Char. From the surrealist to the symbolist, this program pairs Boulez with Kevin March’s chamber setting of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem Ophélie (2007).

Arcko continues to exhibit the diversity of modern chamber music spanning from the 50s to today.

INFORMATION

Mon 9 July 6pm Salon (no interval) MARCH Ophelia BOULEZ Le marteau sans maître Arcko Symphonic Project Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Arcko Symphonic Project

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Arcko Symphonic Project

Cédric Tiberghien ‘ Tiberghien leaps from the ruck of talented young pianists by making the music his own, taking you onto a plane where the interpreter’s craft is fully disposed to communicating the music’s fundamentals.’

Cédric Tiberghien’s poetic sensibility and perfect technique are the ideal match for the wonders of Claude Debussy’s Préludes.

These miraculous pieces reinvent the piano: instead of a machine of hammers and strings, it is an infinitely colourful instrument of mysterious liquid depths and transparency.

Debussy’s imagination is sometimes whimsical, sometimes savage and always surprising: the 24 Preludes depict everything from fairies to fireworks, each a tiny detonation of quiet radicalism. Tiberghien

has been immersed in the sound of French music, of course, but his interests range further afield to the jazz of Keith Jarrett and Björk, both impressionists in their own way.

Tiberghien’s combination of thoughtfulness and virtuosity has earned him a busy career on the international touring circuit, making him a regular visitor to prestigious orchestras and halls. He now returns to the Centre: the ideal place to discover the dazzling worlds of Debussy through Tiberghien’s mastery.

INFORMATION

Tue 10 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm DEBUSSY Préludes, Book I & II Cédric Tiberghien piano Premium $105 A reserve $85 ($50 concession) B reserve $65 ($50 concession) C reserve $50 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Program partner The Langham Melbourne Part of Melbourne Recital Centre’s Great Performers 2012 series

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Joe Chindamo

Joe Chindamo’s Roger Jonsson, Benjamin Martin & Josephine Vains

Music at Night Firebird Trio

The title of Aldous Huxley’s essay Music at Night captures the somnambulistic and the fantastic; an inspiration for Firebird Trio and this unique program. Haydn’s Piano Trio No.31, nicknamed Jacob’s Dream, begins our journey into the twilight. Written on the cusp of the 20th-century, Transfigured Night is an epic tone-poem drawing listeners into Schoenberg’s psychological labyrinth performed here in a smaller arranged version.

And in a final bid to explore a musical slumber, the Trio performs the passionate Piano Trio in D minor by the musical creator of midsummer nights, Felix Mendelssohn.

INFORMATION

Wed 11 July 7pm Salon (no interval) HAYDN Piano Trio No.31 in E flat minor, Hob. XV:31 Jacob’s Dream SCHOENBERG Verklarte Nacht Op.4 (arr Steuermann) MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in D minor, Op.49 Firebird Trio Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Firebird Trio Local Heroes 2012

‘ Cosmopolitan program reveals trio of immense energy and focus.’

Dear Blossom – Janet Seidel Trio Australia’s first lady of jazz, Janet Seidel, pays loving homage to one of the grande dames of jazz, Blossom Dearie. Blossom was one of America’s most famed jazz singers and composers. Her idiosyncratic style, distinctive voice and her way with a lyric made her one of jazz’s great free spirits until her death in 2008. She recorded over 30 albums of her own works and unforgettable takes on standards by America’s favourite songwriters; George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter. In performance, Blossom blurred the lines between jazz club and cabaret, establishing a sparky

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rapport with delighted audiences. With her trademark sensitivity, Janet Seidel honours a truly remarkable artist from the golden age of the American Songbook.

INFORMATION

Thu 12 & Fri 13 July 7.30pm Salon (no interval) Janet Seidel vocals/piano David Seidel bass Chuck Morgan guitar Tickets $45 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Part of the American Songbook Series

Gershwin Songbook Joe Chindamo returns to the American Songbook series to celebrate one of America’s greatest composers and songwriters, George Gershwin. An inventive arranger as well as a brilliant pianist, Chindamo is joined by his trio to perform excerpts from Gershwin’s exhaustive catalogue of brilliant works that traverse both popular and classical genres. From his days in Tin Pan Alley and his first big hit, the piano rag Rialto Ripples, through to major orchestral scores and Broadway musicals including Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess, Lady Be Good – Gershwin’s legacy is unrivalled.

INFORMATION

Sat 14 July 5pm & 8pm Salon (no interval) Joe Chindamo piano Ben Robertson bass Danny Farrugia drums Tickets $45 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Part of the American Songbook Series

Trout Quintet & Quartet for the End of Time Australian Chamber Orchestra

This concert pairs two great works inspired by very different experiences away from home, both written for the musicians available and, as a result, for unusual combinations of instruments.

Aged 22, Schubert had his first holiday in the country. In the Trout, he captures the mood of those carefree summer days and his ecstatic delight in the countryside, in warm, beguiling melodies and harmonies.

A prisoner of war, Messiaen wrote the Quartet for the End of Time for the musicians he found in the camp, premiering it to an audience of inmates and guards. ‘Never’ he said, ‘was I listened to with such rapt attention and comprehension.’ Critic Alex Ross calls it ‘the most ethereally beautiful music of the 20th-century... as overpowering now as it was on that frigid night in 1941.’

ACO Principals Helena Rathbone, Christopher Moore, Timo-Veikko Valve and Maxime Bibeau are joined by clarinettist Paul Dean and dynamic young pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar, making his Australian debut.

INFORMATION

Helena Rathbone

Mon 16 July 8pm, Sun 22 July 2.30pm & Mon 23 July 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A major, Trout MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time Australian Chamber Orchestra principals Paul Dean clarinet Saleem Abboud Ashkar piano A reserve $99 ($84 concession) B reserve $79 ($68 concession) C reserve $59 ($49 concession) D reserve $40 ($37 concession) Presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra

MON–FRI 7AM TIL LATE, SAT 8AM–LATE, SUN CLOSED FOR DAY OF REST

mymexicancousin@gmail.com (03) 9686 3389 Cnr of Sturt St & Southbank Boulevard, Southbank

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As Dreams are Made On Tinalley String Quartet

Dialogue III Tribute to Frederick the Great and his court at Potsdam Greg Dikmans (Baroque flute) and Lucinda Moon (Baroque violin) explore the rich and varied repertoire of the 18th-century instrumental solo without bass and duo for two melody instruments. They are joined by guest artist Glenys March performing rare sonatas by Frederick the Great (2012 is the 300th-anniversary of his birth) and Franz Benda, music by Quantz and Telemann and CPE Bach’s solo Flute Sonata in A minor.

INFORMATION

Tue 17 July 7pm Salon Elysium Ensemble Glenys March harpsichord Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Elysium Ensemble

Michelle Wood, Adam Chalabi, Lerida Delbridge & Justin Williams

‘ K ristian Chong is a pianist of impressive talent and sensitivity... a true chamber musician at work.’

Tinalley warms the heart and soul with music inspired by love, passion and intimacy.

Webern’s Langsamer Satz is a movement of high Romanticism, inspired by a lover’s hike in the mountains. The work is the perfect prelude to Schumann’s First String Quartet, a work written shortly after his marriage and filled with musical inventiveness and intense poetic emotions. In stark contrast, Brahms love story is that of unrequited love.

His Piano Quintet in F minor is a dark, tempestuous work of thundering climaxes, intimate utterings and symphonic scope which has made it beloved by all.

INFORMATION

Tue 17 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall WEBERN Langsamer Satz SCHUMANN String Quartet No.1 in A minor, Op.41 BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34 Tinalley String Quartet Kristian Chong piano Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by Tinalley String Quartet with the generous assistance of Andrew & Theresa Dyer

Local Heroes 2012

Mista Savona/Aminata Doumbia Findlay

Mista Savona

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Melbourne based songwriter/producer, Mista Savona, is responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed roots reggae, dancehall and dub rhythms to have graced the Australian music landscape.

His performances combine his trademark energy with superb musicianship. In this performance, Mista Savona will collaborate with emerging talent Aminata Doumbia (Black Roots, Black Jesus Experience), whose immense vocal abilities draw from her musical upbringing in East Africa.

INFORMATION

Wed 18 July 6pm Salon Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre, in association with Multicultural Arts Victoria Part of Visible Music Series

National Boys Choir of Australia in Concert

The National Boys Choir of Australia, one of Australia’s finest choirs, presents a program of superb choral music. Repertoire will include Gabriel Fauré’s Messe basse, selections from the French film Les Choristes

by Bruno Coulais and the world premiere of Three Poems of Walter De La Mare by Australian composer Todd McNeal.

Hey World, Here I Am The Streisand Story

INFORMATION

Sat 21 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall FAURÉ Messe basse COULAIS Les Choristes MCNEAL Three Poems of Walter De La Mare

National Boys Choir of Australia Peter Casey artistic director Philip Carmody artistic director Robyn Cochrane accompanist Tickets $40 ($33 concession, $20 child) Presented by National Boys Choir of Australia

‘ W hen Herman sings, Streisand is in the room. To paraphrase her Funny Girl finale, people who love Barbara, and see Herman, are the luckiest people in the world.’

Barbara Streisand’s name is synonymous with America’s great songwriting and singing tradition. For over 50 years she has been a star – feisty, bold, a trail-blazer, a perfectionist and a pop-icon. Her career has spanned all aspects of the entertainment industry: she has produced, directed, written and acted. But most of all, she has sung. Avigail Herman tells the Streisand story through her songs. Featuring the music of Jule Styne, Harold Arlen and Michel Legrand, Stephen Sondheim and Cole Porter, Avigail will sing all the

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favourites and then some. Explore the ‘funny girl’ from Brooklyn who took the world by storm.

INFORMATION

Fri 20 July 7.30pm & Sat 21 July 8pm Salon (no interval) Avigail Herman vocals Peter Bailey piano/guitar Tickets $45 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Part of the American Songbook Series

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Pierrot’s Creator Before Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire there was the mighty Kammersymphonie. Despite being a self-confessed ‘reluctant revolutionary’, it seems Schoenberg could not help but smash the pre-conceived notions of music (including his own) with every new piece he wrote. The frenetic hyperactivity of his early masterwork has 21st-century parallels in the exotic pointillism of Mantovani’s The Age of Nothing and the exhilaration of Loevendie’s Barn Dance.

Local Heroes 2012

INFORMATION

Wed 25 July 6pm Salon (no interval) LOEVENDIE Barn Dance MANTOVANI L’ère de rien TOWER Big Sky DEAN Equality SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No.1, Op.9 Syzygy Ensemble Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Syzygy Ensemble

Pipe Dreams Mostly Mozart

Mozart’s Oboe Concerto was only rediscovered in 1920 but oboists have been making up for lost time, firmly establishing this gem as one of the most popular works in the repertoire (perhaps supplanting the better known version for flute). Designed to showcase the oboe’s unique timbre and agility, the concerto finds Mozart at his cheeky best, setting up an obstacle course for the dextrous soloist to deftly overcome.

Mozart’s final trilogy of symphonies of 1788 begins with the opulently-scored and majestic No.39, a confident affirmation of Mozart’s powers as a symphonist. This would be the crown in any other composer’s career but Mozart’s two final symphonies took him to unexplored realms of darkness and light. But we open on a serene note with Peggy Glanville Hicks’ Gymnopedie for oboe, harp and strings, an homage to the Melbourne composer in her centenary year.

INFORMATION

Wed 25 July 11.30am Morning tea served from 10.45am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Glanville-Hicks Gymnopedie No.1 Mozart Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314 Mozart Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543 Orchestra Victoria Thomas Hutchinson oboe Tickets $35 ($26 concession & seniors) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre, Orchestra Victoria & Australian National Academy of Music

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Moon River

Michelle Nicolle Quartet

When invited to create a program for the American Songbook series, Michelle Nicolle immediately responded: ‘Well it just has to be Mercer and Mancini. Why? Moon River says it all'. The gorgeous, Oscar-winning song was penned by lyricist Johnny Mercer and composer Henry Mancini for Audrey Hepburn to sing in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Moon River epitomises the very best of the American song-writing tradition that stretches back to Gershwin and earlier. Moon River was one of the few collaborations between this pair, but between them they are responsible for thousands of entries in the American Songbook – Mercer was as accomplished a composer as he was a wordsmith.

Michelle and her band will survey hits like Days of Wine and Roses (another Mancini/ Mercer collaboration), That Old Black Magic (Mercer), Moonlight Sonata (Mancini), in a loving tribute to two geniuses’ work together and apart. Mancini was also the favourite composer of one of Michelle’s influential Adelaide University teachers, the late jazz pianist/educator, Eric Bryce.

INFORMATION

Fri 27 July 7.30pm & Sat 28 July 6.30pm Salon (no interval) Michelle Nicolle Quartet Tickets $45 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Part of the American Songbook Series

MUSIC ON THE

MIND Australia’s endangered song traditions

Across the globe, the oral-transmitted song traditions of indigenous people are facing extinction. This loss of song traditions presents a crisis for world society, for which the production of music, like language, is an important mode of human sociality, and for which musical, linguistic and cultural diversity is vital for the future of humanity. This presentation will discuss the state of endangered song traditions in Australia, explore why this is a crisis for local stakeholders and the Nation, and outline recent efforts in trans-disciplinary ethnomusicology to safeguard these traditions for the future.

This talk forms part of Melbourne Recital Centre’s Music on The Mind series, which

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explores the relationship between music and the human brain and the related links to social wellbeing, participation, learning and development and the role of music in our contemporary communities.

INFORMATION

Tue 24 July 6pm Salon Sally Treloyn (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne) speaker This is a Free Event and bookings are recommended.

Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & The Centre for Music, Mind & Wellbeing at The University of Melbourne

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Amarcord

If you could fuse together the Backstreet Boys and an East German Lutheran boys’ choir, you’d probably end up with something like Amarcord. This internationally acclaimed a cappella group owes much of its success, and its rich, engrossing sound, to Bach.

They first met as choirboys at his old stomping ground in Leipzig and you can hear the influence manifest in a beautifully romantic sound that’s unique to the city: warm, deep and layered. Hear resounding and powerful interpretations of Renaissance madrigals, works by the great composers from the 18th and 19th centuries, and new versions of folk songs from around the world.

INFORMATION

Thu 26 July 8pm & Tue 31 July 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Thu 26 July program: The Singing Club – Four Centuries of Song Renaissance madrigals, part-songs by Schubert, Schumann, Elgar, Dvorˇák, Grieg and others, alongside folk songs from around the world.

Tue 31 July program: Tales of Love and Murder Renaissance madrigals by Encina, des Prez, Lassus, Gesualdo and others, and part-songs by Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Poulenc and folk songs from around the world.

Amarcord Premium $109 ($96 concession) A reserve $92 ($80 concession) B reserve $64 ($56 concession) C reserve $43 ($37 concession) Presented by Musica Viva

Christine Brewer, soprano Anthony Legge, piano

Wednesday 1 August 7.30pm – Tickets from $50 Flexible four concert Great Performers package from $221 Storytelling is at the heart of all singing. A song is a one-person play and a recital is an evening where a dozen characters unfold a dozen dramas.

Christine Brewer is the consummate singing actress. Her recital promises transcendent beauty, superb technique, drama and warmth in equal measure.

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Dazzling Virtuoso Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Dazzling Virtuoso marks the Australian debut of Italian trumpet virtuoso Gabriele Cassone. He performs two of classical music’s best loved concertos by Haydn and Hummel on the keyed trumpet – the first time the instrument will be heard in Australia! The concert also includes Haydn’s sweeping Surprise Symphony, a feast for the senses brought to life by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra on period instruments.

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Sat 28 July 7pm & Sun 29 July 5pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall HAYDN Symphony No.94 in G major Surprise HAYDN Concerto for trumpet in E flat major GLUCK Larghetto & Chaconne from the ballet Don Juan HUMMEL Trumpet Concerto in E major

Gabriele Cassone keyed trumpet Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Paul Dyer artistic director Premium $135 A reserve $115 B reserve $93 ($57 concession) C reserve $56 ($48 concession) Presented by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Melbourne Open House This is your chance to unlock Melbourne Recital Centre and explore this incredible building for free.

Open to all, we invite you to explore the building and learn about the mechanics of this acoustically brilliant venue. Visit the website closer to the date for a complete program of activities.

Sat 28 July

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