What's On : July, August, September 2015

23 & 29 SEPTEMBER

A STATE OF GRACE

The Music of Tim & Jeff Buckley

July August September 2015 THIS EDITION Painted From Memory with Bobby Fox & Michael Falzon American Songbook Festival – Broadway classics, jazz standards & pop hits Kate Ceberano sings love songs My Latin Heart with José Carbó & the Grigoryan Brothers Grammy Award-winning Sweet Honey in the Rock

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Willy Mason performs in A State of Grace: The Music of Tim & Jeff Buckley

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Wednesday Plexus:Progressions p7

AMERICAN SONGBOOK FESTIVAL 12 JUNE–4 JULY A Schubert Journey p9

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NPCO Essence – p16 I Fagiolini – p16

AUGUST

Spirit of India Double-Bill – p19

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European Horizons p26

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Lieder des Abschieds p14

22 Wesley College Concert – p17

Plexus: Panorama p34

21 Be Not Afraid of Greatness – p36

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Chronos – The God of Time – p20

The School for Lovers - Mostly Mozart – p20

Sacré Coeur Music Concert – p20

Voices of Remembrance – p20

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17 Li-Wei, Natsuko & Krisitan – p14

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Love Songs– p21

Westbourne Grammar School Annual Concert – p18

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7th Melb Int Chamber Music Comp 2015 Finals – p12

7th Melb Int Chamber Music Comp 2015 Winners’ Concert p12

Miracles – p12

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French Baroque with Circa – p15

The Browning Song Cycle – p15

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What Words Can’t Describe – p18

26 Triple Baroque – p19

I Fagiolini – p16

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Tales & Tributes – p22

07 Boundless Journeys p23

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Cello Sonatas with Haileybury in Concert Julian Smiles p25 p25

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Conversations – p23

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French Baroque with Circa – p15

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08 Enigma – An Introspective – p23

14 Mahler 4, ANAM & Ensemble Liaison p25

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Let’s Misbehave: A Cole Porter Soirée p26

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Hansel & Gretel – p27

Mooncalf – p26 My Latin Heart – p27

25 ‘To Music’ – p28

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Mediterranean Stories Abundance – p30 p28

Paul Lewis – p28

28 Lotus Verses – p30

01 Corradini & the Courtesan – p30 Carey Baptist Grammar School Whole School Concert – p31

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02 Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School - Annual Music Concert – p31

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Orava Quartet – p34

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A State of Grace: The Music of Tim & Jeff Buckley – p35

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Paul Lewis – p28

03 Creations – p31

04 Clarion/Whisper – p31

10 News From Nowhere p33

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29 A La Danza – p30

Garrick Ohlsson – p29

Mozart’s Symphony No.40 – p33

11 Simone Young & Brahms - Gala Concert p33

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A State of Grace: The Music of Tim & Jeff Buckley – p35

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Operatic Emotion p36

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Timeless Melody – p8

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Something Blue – p18

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A Celebration of Music p32

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Timeless Melody p8

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Stories - 2015 Gala 8 Hands. 40 Fingers.

Infinity of Possibilities Concert – p17

The Divine – p26

31 Americana – p30

Corpus Medicorum p8

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Susie Park – p24

St Michael’s 120th Celebration Concert p24

24 Our Lady of Mercy College Celebration Concert – p27

Lady Sings the Blues p6

Still Still – p12

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11 Unmasqued – p24

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Serioso – p10

Lauriston Girls’ School Gala Concert – p22

Pinchas Zukerman & Angela Cheng – p22

Beethoven in Melbourne Part 2 p24

A Journey Through Jazz, All Strung Out p6

Manins & Gould with Graeme Lyall – p10

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Sweet Honey in the Rock – p11

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27 James Hullick Unravelled – p19

Aura Go – p10

L’Esprit d’Elégance p14

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A French Celebration with Susan Graham p13 Siegel Selleck Blues Concerto – p16

Painted From Memory – p6

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A Schubert Journey p9

07 Ears Wide Open 2 p10

Baroque to Broadway p13

Sotto Voce – p7

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A Schubert Journey p9

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Barney McAll Solo p32

Monash Sinfonia with Paul Dyer – p32

Mozart's Fortepiano p32

Mozart’s Fortepiano p32

Mozart’s Symphony No.40 – p33

Souvenir de Florence p34

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Calling All Angels – back cover

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Welcome Melbourne Recital Centre is the best place to hear Australia’s most exciting array of musicians this winter. Come inside for cozy cabaret in the Salon or the hottest stars of contemporary music in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall; there’s something for everyone. Tickets are selling fast for celebrated violinist Pinchas Zukerman with pianist Angela Cheng (10 August). It’s sure to be a standout concert this season. The American Songbook Festival brings Broadway razzle dazzle to Southbank as performers including Mary Wilson, Storm Large, Michael Falzon, Bobby Fox celebrate songwriting at its greatest. More legendary songs will be showcased in the world premiere of A State of Grace: The Music of Tim & Jeff Buckley (23 & 29 September). This moving concert brings together a stellar collection of six of folk, pop and blues’ best and brightest with Gary Lucas’s band Gods and Monsters. Music director Gary Lucas worked with both Tim and Jeff, lending this concert a powerful authority, enhanced by images and words evoking the Buckleys’ unique magic. Don’t miss this stirring special event, heard for the very first time at Melbourne’s home of great music.

MARY VALLENTINE AO CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre

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The partnership enables Etihad Airways to enrich the experience of Centre patrons by bringing internationally renowned performers to Melbourne from across the world.

This year we are excited to connect the Centre with more cultural hubs than ever before as we expand our global network with eight new destinations including Rome and Zurich.

We also look forward to showcasing the quality of our guest experience and our modern Abu Dhabi hub to new, discerning audiences.

Jon Marshall Acting General Manager Australia & New Zealand Etihad Airways

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12 JUNE– 4 JULY

THE SONGS THAT GOT AWAY

THE MUSIC OF HAROLD ARLEN

Take a stroll to 1930s Manhattan.

‘Wilson is an incredible performer in her own right, combining raw talent with an elegance that is matched by her humility.’

The music of Arlen reigns supreme with ‘Stormy Weather’, ‘I Got The World On A String’, ‘That Old Black Magic’ and the classic, ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’.

From 1930-1970, Arlen contributed over 500 songs to popular music sung by the likes of Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Pearl Bailey and Judy Garland. A vocal powerhouse of jazz, blues, musical theatre and opera, Johanna Allen explores the music he wrote and the women who sang it.

INFORMATION Fri 12 June 7pm | Sat 13 June 4pm & 7pm Salon (70-mins no interval) – in cabaret mode $38 (Conc. $28) Johanna Allen, vocals Mark Simeon Ferguson, musical director

MARY WILSON UP CLOSE

Johanna Allen

Melbourne Recital Centre welcomes back Mary Wilson of The Supremes: Motown royalty, cultural ambassador and iconic entertainer. Get up close and personal with Mary as she shares stories and songs from the breadth of her celebrated career. The Supremes were the most successful vocal group in American history, with twelve #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, countless international tours, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. In Mary Wilson: Up Close you’ll hear hits such as ‘My World Is Empty Without You’ as well as Wilson’s own impeccable versions of standards such as ‘New York State of Mind’, ‘I Am Changing’ and ‘Both Sides Now’.

INFORMATION Sat 13 June 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (1 hour & 50-mins incl. interval) A reserve $75 ($65 concession) B reserve $65 ($55 concession Mary Wilson vocals (USA) Mark Zier piano/musical director (USA) Frank Di Sario bass Craig Fermanis guitar Darryn Farrugia drums

Mary Wilson

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STORM LARGE & LE BONHEUR

BROADWAY CLASSICS, JAZZ STANDARDS AND POP HITS

WOMANIFESTO

‘...sure to send shivers down your spine throughout this beautiful storm of a show.’ Edinburgh Festival Magazine

‘Clotilde is an extraordinary talent.’

Fanfare Magazine

Reuniting with her loyal and fearless band, Le Bonheur, Storm Large delivers a collection of tortured and titillating love songs; beautiful, familiar, yet twisted – much like Storm herself. Lead singer in Pink Martini and finalist in the reality show, Rock: Star Supernova, by the voice, beauty and visceral talent of Storm Large makes her an artist who truly lives up to her name.

Women consistently play an extraordinary role in history. In America, women have lent their voice to the struggle for their own rights, for civil rights, human rights and the movement for peace. The women of the American Songbook are emblematic of those movements. French singer Clotilde revisits this repertoire through her own eyes, own voice, and own experience as a woman singing the music of Nina Simone, Joan Baez, Janis Ian, Odetta and more.

INFORMATION Fri 19 June 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (1 hour & 15-mins no interval) A reserve $65 ($55 concession) B reserve $55 ($45 concession) Storm Large vocals (USA) Le Bonheur

INFORMATION Fri 26 & Sat 27 June 7pm Salon (70-mins no interval) – in cabaret mode Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Clotilde voice/flute (France) Alexandre Saada piano/fender/loops/ percussion/ukulele This concert is supported by Alliance Française

Storm Large

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Alexandre Saada & Clotilde

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12 JUNE– 4 JULY

PAINTED FROM MEMORY Michael Falzon and Bobby Fox interpret Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello’s heartbreaking album Painted from Memory and more.

In the late 90s, Burt Bacharach teamed up with the inimitable Elvis Costello to create the remarkable song ‘God Give Me Strength’. Bacharach and Costello continued to write together, earning a Grammy Award for ‘I Still Have That Other Girl’ from the 1998 album Painted From Memory.

Taking its name from the Bacharach and Costello album, Painted From Memory will be a first for Melbourne Recital Centre audiences. Australian artists Michael Falzon and Bobby Fox perform a unique interpretation of the album along with other

LADY SINGS THE BLUES classic hits. Falzon and Fox are two wellestablished stars of the Australian musical theatre scene both individually hand-picked by music legends (Queen's Brian May and Frankie Valli respectively) to star in We Will Rock You and Jersey Boys.

INFORMATION Thu 2 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) A reserve $65 ($55 concession) B reserve $55 ($45 concession) Michael Falzon vocals Bobby Fox vocals With orchestra Isaac Hayward musical direction Jonathan Biggins director In association with Asia Theatricals & Good Egg Creative

Michael Falzon & Bobby Fox

Mama Alto

‘If we can't have Billie Holiday, I'm more than happy with Mama Alto.’ ArtsHub This year marks 100 years since the birth of jazz singer Billie Holiday, one of the most exquisite and influential vocalists to ever interpret the American Songbook.

In this special event, countertenor diva and cabaret artiste Mama Alto pays homage to the musical genius and cultural legacy of a complex and captivating icon, and celebrates the centenary of the legend called Lady Day. INFORMATION Sat 4 July 7pm Salon (1 hour & 20-mins incl. interval) – in cabaret mode $30 ($25 concession) The music of Billie Holiday.

Mama Alto vocals Tiffanni Walton musical director/piano

A JOURNEY THROUGH JAZZ, ALL STRUNG OUT Violinist/arranger, Roger Young takes the listener on a voyage which plots the line between jazz and classical chamber music.

The program pays tribute to the pioneers of jazz string playing and celebrates some of the great vocal standards. A quintet of some of Melbourne’s most versatile string instrumentalists will share the stage with vocalist Sarah McDonald, pianist Hue

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Blanes and master drummer David Jones performing the music of George Gershwin, Edgar Meyer, Pat Metheny and more.

INFORMATION Fri 3 July 6pm Salon (1 hour no interval) – in cabaret mode Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Roger Young Collective

Roger Young Collective

PLEXUS: Progressions

LOCAL HEROES 2015 PLEXUS (Monica Curro, violin, Philip Arkinstall, clarinet & Stefan Cassomenos, piano) Progressions features new works by five luminaries of the jazz world, whose backgrounds bring a unique flavour to the clarinet trio genre. These five composers draw on a shared provenance, whilst inhabiting different facets of the jazz prism, resulting in music that presents glittering reflections of their very individual perspectives.

INFORMATION

PLEXUS

Wed 1 July 6pm Salon (70-mins no interval) World premieres by Tony Gould, Luke Howard, Lachlan Davidson, Martin Kay and Allan Zavod.

PLEXUS Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Plexus

SPOTLIGHT SERIES

Sotto Voce The Australian Brass Quintet explores five and a half centuries of music, revealing commonality in breath, sound and melody from Gesualdo to Stockhausen. Featuring all Australian arrangements and a work written for the Quintet by Melbourne composer and sound artist Peter Knight, five of Australia’s finest brass musicians come together to present Sotto Voce with exceptional artistry.

INFORMATION Thu 2 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) STOCKHAUSEN (arr. Williams) Tierkreis (i) DEL ENCINA (arr. Kinmont) Five Villancicos ANDRE iv 6a GESUALDO Resta di darmi noia LACORCIA (arr. Hughes) O fra tanti sospir GESUALDO (arr. Hughes) Gia piansi nel dolore

SAMPSON Distant Voices BIEBL (arr. Pittaway) Ave Maria KNIGHT Extended Brass Quintet STOCKHAUSEN Tierkreis (ii) Australian Brass Quintet Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation

Australian Brass Quintet

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Timeless Melody

Returning 35 years after his first Australian Tour, ‘The Chinese Yehudi Menuhin’ Zhongguo Sheng and his soul mate, Japanese pianist Hiroko Seta, will ignite Melbourne with a night of Timeless Melody. The duo will bring China’s most spectacular love story, The Butterfly Lovers to life on stage, which is known as the oriental Romeo and Juliet.

Zhonguo Sheng’s rendition of the piece confronts love and death through exquisite techniques and poetic expression with his understanding of both Eastern and Western music.

In 1980, Sheng became the first Chinese solo artist to perform in Australia. His successful tour of Australia ultimately led the ABC to list Zhongguo Sheng as ‘one of the world’s greatest artists’. In 1979, Sheng performed Bach’s Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, and was praised by Menuhin as ‘the best partner in China to perform Bach’.

Hiroko Seta & Zhongguo Sheng

Corpus Medicorum In its mid-year concert Corpus Medicorum presents Mozart’s Oboe Concerto performed by the very talented young oboe virtuoso Andrew Kawai, followed by Mahler’s great Symphony No.1, Titan.

‘The best partner in China to perform Bach.’ Yehudi Menuhin

INFORMATION Fri 3 & Sat 4 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) BRAHMS Scherzo Op. Posthumous MASSENET ‘Meditation’ from Thaïs DVOŘÁK Humoreske KREISLER Schön Rosmarin FRANCK Violin Sonata in A GANG CHEN & ZHANHAO HE (arr Zhongguo Sheng) The Butterfly Lovers CHAO ZHANG Chinese Dream HANKUN SHA Pastoral Song JINPING ZHANG Harvest Celebration BAZZINI La Ronde des Lutins Zhongguo Sheng violin (CHINA) Hiroko Seta piano (JAPAN) Premium $168 ($159.60 concession) A reserve $118 ($112.10 concession) B reserve $88 ($83.60 concession) C reserve $58 ($55.10 concession) Presented by Castiglione Arts & Culture Pty Ltd ‘One of the world’s greatest artists.’

Australian Broadcasting Commission

INFORMATION Sun 5 July 5pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (95-mins incl. interval) MOZART Oboe Concerto in C, K.314 MAHLER Symphony No.1 in D, Titan Corpus Medicorum Andrew Kawai oboe Keith Crellin conductor Tickets $60 ($50 concession) Presented by Corpus Medicorum

Corpus Medicorum

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GREAT PERFORMERS 2015

A SCHUBERT JOURNEY

Audiences and critics alike are wild about the extraordinary Florian Boesch. The bass-baritone made his debut at Austria’s Schubertiade festival in 2002 and his star keeps rising.

He has already made his mark on the operatic stage with Don Giovannis and Papagenos from Vienna to Tokyo. It is, however, in the intense and intimate space of lieder — German art song — that he has made the biggest splash.

When Boesch performed Schubert’s Winterreise at Carnegie Hall with legendary lieder pianist Malcolm Martineau, The New York Times’ critic wrote, ‘song recitals don’t come much better or more transporting than this’. The sentiment has been echoed around the world, both for Boesch’s gripping live performances and for the acclaimed series of CDs he’s recorded with Martineau. The song cycles will be performed over three consecutive evenings in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

Florian Boesch

Austrian baritone Florian Boesch was born in Vienna, where he received his initial vocal training from Ruthilde Boesch. In 1997, he began studies at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, concentrating on the fields of lieder and oratorio with his teacher Robert Holl.

He subsequently appeared with the Vienna Chamber Opera and has since been heard in a number of Mozart and Handel operas at international venues. Boesch is counted as one of today's foremost lieder interpreters, with appearances at Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Edinburgh International Festival, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, Schwetzinger Festival, and with Philharmonie Luxembourg in the USA and Canada. He will be joined by Edinburgh-born pianist Malcolm Martineau, recognised as one of the leading Schubertians of his generation.

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Malcolm Martineau

Mon 6 July Die schöne Müllerin Tue 7 July Schwanengesang Wed 8 July Winterreise Elisabeth Murdoch Hall 7.30pm Free pre-concert talks at 6pm by Songmakers Australia Florian Boesch baritone (AUSTRIA) Malcolm Martineau piano (UK) Premium $105 ($55 concession) A reserve $95 ($55 concession) B reserve $79 ($55 concession) C reserve $55 Three-concert package (save 10%) Premium $282 ($150 concession) A reserve $255 ($150 concession) B reserve $213 ($150 concession) C reserve $150 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Program partners The Langham Melbourne, ABC Classic FM & Montblanc Supported by Leadership Circle Patrons & the Legal Friends of Melbourne Recital Centre

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Manins & Gould with Graeme Lyall Imogen Manins (cello) and Tony Gould (piano), mark their 2015 series with the celebration of Tony's 75th birthday. This year their performances have seen them joined by some of Tony’s favourite colleagues - on this occasion being Graeme Lyall, one of Australia’s most influential and inspiring musicians, and a recent inductee into the Australian Jazz Bell Awards ‘Hall of Fame’.

Tony Gould

Ears Wide Open 2

Enshrining the spirit of America’s pioneers, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring is a defining work of the 20th century, evocatively capturing the wide open spaces of frontier America. An enduring concert hall favourite, its innovative harmonic structure borrows from jazz, spirituals and folksong. Join Australia’s most charismatic musical personality Richard Gill and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on an interactive journey through this immortal piece of music.

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Richard Gill

Richard Gill discusses Copland’s Appalachian Spring.

Tue 14 July 6.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) COPLAND Appalachian Spring (chamber version) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Richard Gill conductor/host Tickets $40 ($35 concession) *Prices are subject to change without notice

Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

LOCAL HEROES 2015

Serioso La Clemenza di Tito. Beethoven’s renowned quote ‘The guitar is an orchestra itself’ opens up a world of imagination and invites MGQ to explore a selection of late 18th-century string music by Haydn and Beethoven.

INFORMATION Sat 11 July 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) — in cabaret mode Imogen Manins cello Tony Gould piano Graeme Lyall saxophone Joseph Batrouney percussion Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Manins & Gould

SALON: SOLO

Aura Go Continuing the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Sibelius’ birth, Finnish-based Australian pianist Aura Go presents a recital of piano masterpieces by Sibelius and Schubert. Franz Schubert’s final three sonatas were underappreciated in the composer’s lifetime but are now regarded as masterpieces.

The solo piano music of Jean Sibelius, which also suffers from neglect compared to his popular orchestral works, is still rarely performed outside of Finland. Yet today, these are uncontested works of genius.

INFORMATION Wed 15 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) SIBELIUS Reverie, Op.58, No.1 Scherzino, Op.58, No.2 Der Hirt, Op.58, No.4 Des Abends, Op.58, No.5 Nocturno, Op.24, No.8 Kyllikki (three lyric pieces), Op.41 SCHUBERT Sonata in A, D.959 Aura Go piano Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

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Jeremy Tottenham

Melbourne Guitar Quartet (MGQ) joins forces with one of the country’s leading pianists for a memorable exploration of innovative chamber music. Mozart’s Wind Quintet finds a new home within the ‘guitar family’, so too the delightful overture to

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Thu 16 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) MOZART (arr Field) La Clemenza di Tito overture BEETHOVEN (arr Dix) String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.95, Serioso (selections) HAYDN (arr de Fossa) Grand Duos MOZART (arr Field) Wind Quintet in E-flat, K.452 Melbourne Guitar Quartet Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Guitar Quartet

Aura Go

Sweet Honey in the Rock ‘If you have never seen them, go. It will change your life.’

Sydney Morning Herald

Possessing a stunning vocal prowess that captures the complex sounds of blues, spirituals, traditional gospel hymns, rap, reggae, African chants and so much more, Sweet Honey in the Rock is truly something different. This Grammy Award-winning ensemble is rooted in a deeply held commitment to create music out of the rich textures of African-American legacy and tradition, as it educates, entertains and empowers its audience and community through the dynamic vehicles of a capella singing and American sign language interpretation.

Raising their voices to advocate for truth, justice and compassion while addressing the critical issues of democracy, freedom, racism and economic and social justice, Sweet Honey in the Rock will bring you a performance you will never forget.

INFORMATION Fri 17 July 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins no interval) Sweet Honey in the Rock A reserve $75 ($65 concession) B reserve $65 ($55 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Sweet Honey in the Rock

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Prodigious vocalist and composer Gian Slater performs stunning original music from her latest album, Still Still with her Trio featuring brother Nathan Slater (guitar) and partner Christopher Hale (bass). Still Still is a subtle, powerful and deeply emotional suite of songs, setting Slater’s pure, distinctive voice alongside intricately arranged guitars.

STILL STILL

INFORMATION

Gian Slater Trio

LOCAL HEROES 2015

Miracles A concert of miracles, magic & wonder.

A moonlit Bavarian forest and the vast Latvian lowlands are the backdrop for this concert of miracles, magic and wonder. Arnold Schoenberg plunged the deepest, darkest corners of Romanticism in his portrayal of love, new life and ultimate acceptance inspired by the poetry of Richard Dehmel. Originally a wordless meditation for choir and strings, Vasks’ Plainscapes explores the complex relationship between nature and man and the fragile beauty of life. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Benaud Trio and their concerts look nostalgically to some favourite pieces but also enthusiastically into the future with new music from composers with whom the Trio feels a special connection.

INFORMATION Sat 18 July 3pm & 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) SCHOENBERG (arr Steuermann) Verklarte Nacht VASKS Plainscapes Benaud Trio Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Benaud Trio

Benaud Trio

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Fri 17 July 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) Gian Slater Trio Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Gian Slater

7th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015 A prestigious event held every four years, the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition is a launching pad for piano trios and string quartets to a performing career on the world stage. Now in its seventh iteration, auditions for the competition were held in late 2014 in Melbourne, Vienna, Hannover, Paris, London and New York.

A thrilling week of public concerts at South Melbourne Town Hall culminates in the finals at Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July. Don’t miss the chance to see the next generation of exquisite chamber musicians.

INFORMATION Piano Trios Final Sat 18 July 2pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Tickets $65 ($55 concession & $35 student) String Quartet Final Sat 18 July 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Tickets $65 ($55 concession & $35 student) Final series tickets to both $110 ($90 concession & $55 student)

The Winners’ Concert Sun 19 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Tickets $75 ($65 concession & $35 student) Piano Trios Trio Bonnensis (Australia & Germany) Allant Trio (Canada, South Korea & USA) Classicus Trio (Russia) Estivo Trio (Australia) Linos Piano Trio (UK) Trio Adorno (Germany) Trio Medici (France & Russia) Trio Palmer (France) String Quartets Altius Quartet (USA) Argus Quartet (USA) Aris Quartet (Germany) Castalian String Quartet (Finland, UK, France) Giocoso String Quartet (Germany, Netherlands, Romania) Noga Quartet (France, Israel) Patronus Quartet (Australia) Verona Quartet (Canada, Singapore, USA) Presented by Chamber Music Australia in association with Melbourne Recital Centre

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Baroque to Broadway is a wide-ranging traversal across the music of some of the greatest composers. From the Baroque Monteverdi and Handel, via the Classical elegance of Mozart, to the emergence of Romantic passion in Schubert, this is a program designed to showcase the beauty of the human voice. The rhythmic verve of Rossini then gives way to the longing of Vaughan Williams. Melodious hits by Gershwin, Weill and Bernstein complete an exquisite program.

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Melba Opera Trust is Australia’s premier scholarship program for promising young opera singers. Driven by Dame Nellie Melba’s conviction ’a beautiful voice is not enough’, the program nurtures artistic development alongside business training, mentoring and performance experience. Each year Melba Opera Trust selects a small group of outstanding young singers from a national pool who have completed their academic studies, and who demonstrate the ability and drive to succeed.

Mon 20 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) Featuring music by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weill, Strauss and more.

Nikki Hill soprano Jade Moffat mezzo-soprano Brenton Spiteri tenor Daniel Carison bass-baritone Stefan Cassomenos associate repetiteur Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melba Opera Trust

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A French Celebration with Susan Graham Susan Graham is not just one of the world’s favourite mezzo-sopranos. She has also been awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Ordre des Artes et Lettres, one of France’s most prestigious awards, an honour she shares with the likes of Rudolf Nureyev, Philip Glass and Cate Blanchett. She earned the Légion d’Honneur for her passionate commitment to the music of France. Now she brings a very personal selection of repertoire from La Belle Epoque.

Christopher Moore, Ike See, Timo-Veikko Valve and guest violinist

Susan Graham

Karen Gomyo join Graham to explore the inscrutable ‘je ne sais quoi’ of music by Ravel and Franck. Lose yourself in Respighi’s evocative depiction of a sunset and enjoy a master musician’s homage to ‘magicien des mots’, Stéphane Mallarmé. Then close your eyes and let your imagination roam to the exquisite sounds of piano and strings.

INFORMATION Mon 20 July 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) RAVEL Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Piano Trio in A minor RESPIGHI Il tramonto FRANCK Piano Quintet in F minor Members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra Susan Graham mezzo soprano Karen Gomyo violin A reserve $120 ($104 Concession) B reserve $98 ($83 Concession) C reserve $73 ($68 Concession) D reserve $51 ($45 Concession) Under 30s $49 Presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra

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Kristian Chong

LOCAL HEROES 2015

Latitude37

LOCAL HEROES 2015

Eidit Golder & Siobhan Stagg

LOCAL HEROES 2015

Lieder des L’Esprit d’Elégance Abschieds In the 18th century the court of Versailles represented the pinnacle of European society and good taste. From its elegant rules of social conduct and conversation to its rhetorical dance steps, the graces of French courtly behaviour were imitated across the continent.

Baroque trio Latitude 37 presents a program of refinement and beauty, designed to amuse the most sophisticated artistic taste of the French aristocracy.

INFORMATION Tue 21 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) DE LA GUERRE Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor FORQUERAY Pièces de Viole COUPERIN Grand Passacaile RAMEAU Premier Concert from Pièces de Clavecin en Concert BOISMORTIER Premier Sonate en Trio in G LULLY Ritournelle et plaints d’Ariadne from ‘La Naissance de Vénus’ REBEL Sonata in B minor Latitude 37 Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Latitude 37

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Melbourne Art Song Collective has been bringing fine music to audiences since 2009 with a diverse program of iconic, well-loved song cycles and brand new compositions in a way that respects the history of Art Song while showing it to be a vibrant and evolving genre.

Lieder des Abschieds sees the welcome return of Siobhan Stagg, one of Australia’s most successful young sopranos. The music of Korngold has been afforded a radical reappraisal in the past two decades: far from being a footnote to the music of the first half of the 20th century, his intoxicating harmonies, innate melodic gifts and compositional fluency put his work on par with Wolf and Richard Strauss.

INFORMATION Thu 23 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) KORNGOLD Lieder des Abschieds, Op.14 Vier Kleine Fröhliche Walzer Marietta’s Lied from ‘Die tote Stadt’ STRAUSS selected lieder Siobhan Stagg soprano Eidit Golder piano Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Art Song Collective

Li-Wei, Natsuko & Kristian The second concert in ‘Kristian Chong & Friends’ features three of Australia’s leading musicians and close friends presenting three outstanding works in one of the finest chamber concerts in Melbourne this year.

A rare chance to hear one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed cellists Li-Wei Qin with extraordinary violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto and renowned pianist Kristian Chong in a program including the rarely heard ‘La Folia’ for solo cello by Giovanni Sollima, Beethoven’s inspired Sonata for piano and cello Op.69 and Brahms’ epic and dramatic Piano Trio Op.8.

Their last outing together in 2013 was described by The Age as ‘an exhilarating exposition’. This is a concert not to be missed.

INFORMATION Fri 24 July 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) BEETHOVEN Sonata for piano & cello in A, Op.69 SOLLIMA La Folia for solo cello BRAHMS Piano Trio No.1 in B, Op.8 Natsuko Yoshimoto violin Li-Wei Qin cello Kristian Chong piano Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Kristian Chong & Friends

AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA FRENCH BAROQUE WITH CIRCA A tantalising journey through heaven and earth lit by the romance and glamour of French Baroque.

An immersive performance exploring the tensions between heaven and earth, sacred and profane, night and day.

While the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra performs a glorious all-French program, Circa artists inhabit the physical space around the audience and musicians.

Bringing together both heaven and earth is French soprano Claire Lefilliâtre, whose divine voice, virtuosity and daring are an electrifying circus act all in themselves.

Featuring the more intimate works by Rameau and Lully, Lefilliâtre’s gifts are perfectly suited to the elegance and sophistication inherent in these French Baroque masterpieces. Circa travel the world performing their uniquely Australian brand of circus. In their own words, ‘we create circus that moves the heart, mind and soul’ – a manifesto that could easily be applied to the music made by the Brandenburg.

The Browning Song Cycle

INFORMATION Sat 25 July 7pm & Sun 26 July 5pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) RAMEAU Overture to Naïs Suite from Les Indes Galantes LE CAMUS Laissez durer la nuit A pasticcio created by Paul Dyer featuring Marais, Lully, Tessier, Boesset & more.

Claire Lefilliâtre soprano (France) Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Paul Dyer AO Circa (Aust) contemporary circus Yaron Lifschitz artistic director Premium $152 A reserve $130 B reserve $102 ($71 concession) C reserve $68 ($48 concession) Presented by Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

The Browning Song Cycle for voice and piano is a series of art songs composed by Noel Fidge based on the poetry of Robert Browning.

The rich voices of mezzo-soprano Caroline Vercoe and bass, Matthew Thomas are accompanied by the award winning pianist, Hoang Pham, who bears much of the expressive and dramatic content of Fidge’s challenging compositions.

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Robert Browning

Sat 25 July 7.30pm Salon (70-mins no interval) Noel Fidge composer Caroline Vercoe mezz-soprano Matthew Thomas bass Hoang Pham piano Tickets $38 ($28 concession & $18 student) Presented by Noel Fidge

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Siegel Selleck Blues Concerto One of the world’s great bluesharmonica masters returns to Australia.

Corky Siegel

Concerto for Blues Harmonica was composed

by Johanna Selleck in 2010 in collaboration with Corky Siegel. Renowned for his joyful spontaneity and exuberance, Siegel is one of the world’s great blues-harmonica masters and is returning to Australia especially for the world premiere of the revised concerto. The performance brings together some of Australia’s most outstanding classical and jazz performers in group improvisations, selections from Siegel’s chamber music, and Selleck’s concerto.

NPCO Essence: Gemma Turvey, Anna Orzech & Jeremy Blackman

INFORMATION Mon 27 July 7pm Salon (One hour & 45-mins incl. interval) CORKY SIEGEL Chamber Blues Suites Op.14 & Op.17 (selections) JOHANNA SELLECK Concerto for blues harmonica & orchestra Corky Siegel harmonica Joe Chindamo piano/accordion Philip Rex bass Danny Fisher drums Max Walker guitar Peter Neville percussion Johanna Selleck composer/flute Silo String Quartet Timothy Phillips conductor Tickets $35 ($25 concession) Presented by Johanna Selleck In the second of the New Palm Court Orchestra’s Essence series, NPCO cellist Anna Orzech, violinist Jeremy Blackman and pianist/composer Gemma Turvey perform music from and inspired by Classical, Celtic, and Hebraic traditions, including original compositions and improvisations alongside timeless works

by Ernest Bloch and Manuel de Falla.

INFORMATION Tue 28 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) Anna Orzech cello Jeremy Blackman violin Gemma Turvey piano Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & The New Palm Court Orchestra

Gemma Turvey

I Fagiolini Lovers of great singing and choral music will welcome making the acquaintance of this superb group.

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Pronounced Ee far-joe-LEE-nee (‘the little beans’), the exciting English vocal ensemble I Fagiolini makes its debut national tour with a characteristic mix of old and new, tossing early madrigals in with spectacular new works to create a delicious musical salad. The concert also features a special new piece by Australian composer Andrew Schultz, commissioned for I Fagiolini and Musica Viva by Geoff Stearn.

I Fagiolini

INFORMATION Tue 28 July & Sat 1 Aug 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) VICTORIA Alma redemptoris mater GIBBONS O clap your hands CROCE Il gioco dell’Occa MONTEVERDI selection of madrigals JANEQUIN La Chasse POULENC Sept chansons HOWELLS Inheritance SCHULTZ world premiere commission WILLIAMS Hymn to awe VARIOUS Insalata I Fagiolini selection I Fagiolini Premium $133 ($116 concession) A reserve $111 ($97 concession) B reserve $78 ($68 concession) C reserve $52 ($45 concession) Presented by Musica Viva

LOCAL HEROES 2015

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Infinity of Possibilities The Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story.

One of the 20th-century’s masterpieces, the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story, is adapted in a dazzling and virtuosic transcription for two pianos and percussion. Coupled with one of the gems of modern repertoire, George Crumb's transcendent and mystical Music for a Summer Evening, pianists Stephen Emmerson and Sonya Lifschitz’s program is a tour de force in the interpretation of the seminal works of the modern epoch, revealing their inherent dramaturgy, theatrical imagination and richness of colour.

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Stephen Emmerson Sonya Lifschitz

Wed 29 July 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) CRUMB Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (arr for two pianos & two percussion) Stephen Emmerson & Sonya Lifschitz piano Vanessa Tomlinson & Leah Scholes percussion Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Emmerson-Lifschitz Duo

Stories – 2015 Gala Concert St Catherine's School returns to Melbourne Recital Centre for their 2015 Gala Concert. The School extends a warm invitation to the wider community to share in a variety of musical ‘Stories’ as performed by their talented senior musicians. The concert will showcase a diverse repertoire, from Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre to selected movements from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Join students and staff as St Catherine's School celebrate their passionate and dedicated musicians and the stories within the music.

INFORMATION Thu 30 July 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Three hours incl. interval) St Catherine’s School music students Tickets $20 ($10 concession) Presented by St Catherine's School Tickets on sale 9 June

Wesley College Concert Wesley College Glen Waverley Campus Music School presents a concert featuring the School’s Symphony Orchestra, Senior Symphonic Band, Campus Choir, auditioned string ensembles and concerto soloists.

INFORMATION Wed 29 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Wesley College Glen Waverley Campus music students Tickets $38 ($25 concession) Presented by Wesley College Glen Waverley Campus

St Catherine's School music students

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Something Blue

Westbourne Grammar School Annual Concert This annual concert features all the major ensembles in the Senior School as well as selected Junior School groups, and a range of talented soloists. Some featured collaborations this year will include the overture and chorus from Verdi’s opera Nabucco, a tribute to the ANZACs and an item from this year’s senior musical Children of Eden.

Something Blue explores the many meanings of ‘blue’. A feeling of blue is evident in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.2, written in memory of a friend. Australian composer Maria Grenfell utilises the word in the title of her A Feather of Blue, itself a phrase taken from a poem by Kevin Ireland, ‘A View From A Window’. The Piano Trio in B-flat by Australian composer Frederick Kelly is a grandiose work in the Romantic tradition.

However, his life was tragically cut short at the Battle of the Somme in World War I.

INFORMATION Fri 31 July 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Westbourne Grammar School music students Tickets $24 ($16 concession) Presented by Westbourne Grammar School Tickets on sale 19 June

INFORMATION Fri 31 July 6.30pm Salon (One hour no interval) KELLY Piano Trio in B-flat GRENFELL A Feather of Blue SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op.67 Trio Anima Mundi Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Trio Anima Mundi

Streeton Trio

LOCAL HEROES 2015

What Words Can’t Describe Trio Anima Mundi

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Music has ways of touching us that words cannot express. No words can describe the naive simplicity of Mozart’s Piano Trio in C major, the deep emotion felt when listening to Mendelssohn’s beautiful Songs Without Words, nor the solemn tragedy of Smetana’s dramatic Piano Trio in G minor. These pieces move, transfix and transport you to another world in a way that only music can. Winners of the 2011 Musica Viva Chamber Music Competition, Streeton Trio has performed to great acclaim in prestigious venues across the globe.

INFORMATION Sat 1 August 3pm & 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) MOZART Piano Trio in C, K.548 MENDELSSOHN (arr Kopp) Songs Without Words No.3 SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor Streeton Trio Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Streeton Trio

Triple Baroque Melbourne Chamber Orchestra brings to life the vivacious spirit of the Baroque in a spectacular kaleidoscope of musical colour crossing five centuries. In a program that takes you from the most dazzling highs to the most intimate depths, MCO features Bach chorales arranged by great conductors, Scarlatti’s piano sonatas brilliantly reinvented by an English contemporary, and a showstopping Baroque-style concerto by Finnish composer Olli Mustonen. Partners in life and on stage, Ioana Tache and Kristian Winther are among Australia’s finest violin soloists.

With passion and energy to spare, they join MCO soloists to perform the most wonderful concerti for three violins and orchestra

by Vivaldi and Bach.

AUSTRALIAN VOICES

This concert unravels some of the central threads to James Hullick’s unique compositional voice. Ranging across recontextualisations of interactive scores, electronic sound, percussion, piano culture and chamber music writing, the program maps out 20 years of composition by Hullick.

ANAM musicians will join Hullick’s BOLT ensemble members in sharing the work of this increasingly noted Australian composer and performer.

James Hullick Unravelled

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INFORMATION Sun 2 August 2.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) BACH (arr Ormandy) Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring BWV146 (arr for string orchestra) VIVALDI/JANITSCH Symphony for string orchestra RV132/RV Anh 96 VIVALDI Concerto for three violins, Op.23, No.1 MUSTONEN Triple Concerto (Australian premiere) BACH (arr Klemperer) ‘Bist du bei mir’ from Anna Magdalena Notebook BWV508 (arr for string orchestra) AVISON Concerto No.12 from Concertos Done from Scarlatti’s Lessons: I, III, IV & VI BACH Concerto for three violins BWV1064R Ioana Tache & Kristian Winther violin Melbourne Chamber Orchestra William Hennessy director Premium $119 ($109 concession) A reserve $99 ($89 concession) B reserve $79 ($69 concession) C reserve $59 ($49 concession) Under 40s $40 Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

James Hullick

Mon 3 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) Peter Neville curator/percussion James Hullick piano ANAM Musicians BOLT Ensemble Tickets $25 ($15 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

Spirit of India Double-Bill: Jayanthi Kumaresh & Pandit Kaivalya Kumar This Spirit of India double-bill welcomes to Australia for the first time eminent Carnatic veena player Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh and admired classical singer Pandit Kaivalya Kumar. The veena is India’s most ancient and revered musical instrument and closest to the human voice. All the Hindu gods and goddesses are associated with it, especially Saraswati, who is shown in painting and sculpture playing the instrument. It is believed that you will attain immortality if you can play the veena well. Jayanthi is the most eminent veena player in India and is the pupil of Balachander, the erratic genius who dominated South Indian music in the second half of the 20th century. Pandit Kaivalya Kumar is one of India’s best loved and admired classical singers from the north. Through his grandfather and father, he inherits and continues the noble tradition of Hindustani Kirana gharana singing style, developed by the great master Abdul Karim Khan.

Jayanthi Kumaresh

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Tue 4 August 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Jayanthi Kumaresh veena Pandit Kaivalya Kumar vocals Shubh Maharaj tabla Rohit Marathe harmonium Arjunan Kumar mridangam Krshnaswamy ghatam Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

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Pandit Kaivalya Kumar

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Chronos – The God of Time Throughout history, time has been viewed as both a forward arrow and as a circle forever tracing over itself. Syzygy Ensemble explores both these notions respectively through Wesley-Smith’s D.B. which constantly transforms its material without ever repeating it, and Maxwell Davies’ Fantasia on a Ground which relies on the constant repetition of a bass-line for its power (and humour).

Most impressive of all though, is Berg’s concept of ‘mirrored-time’ in his Adagio; in the middle of the piece a clock chimes midnight and time briefly stands still, before the whole piece runs backwards, creating a 10-minute-long palindrome.

INFORMATION Wed 5 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) HAAS Tria ex Uno WESLEY-SMITH D.B. BERG Adagio (after the Chamber Symphony) ADES Four Court Studies from ‘The Tempest’ MAXWELL DAVIES Fantasia on a Ground and Two Pavanes Syzygy Ensemble Daniel Richardson percussion Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Syzygy Ensemble

Sacré Cœur Music Concert Empire of the Sun, Lord of the Rings, Mary Poppins, The Pink Panther, Shrek and many more. Experience the vibrant talents of the school’s Year 7 to 12 girls and Community Choir; comprised of alumnae, parents, staff and friends of the School. This inspiring evening promises to be one you’ll long remember.

INFORMATION Sacré Cœur presents a night of music from the movies. Celebrating the genre of film score, over 200 performers will present some of the best music from award-winning Hollywood films including renowned composers John Williams, Danny Elfman and Henri Mancini.

Featuring music from blockbusters Star Wars,

Wed 5 August 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Sacré Cœur music students Tickets $29.95 ($24.95 concession) Presented by Sacré Cœur Tickets on sale 29 June

LOCAL HEROES 2015

MOSTLY MOZART

Voices of Remembrance On the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine, The Consort of Melbourne presents Voices of Remembrance, a program of new works for vocal ensemble. Themes of the fragility of human life as well as its capacity to endure and recover will be explored through works by Japanese composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Noboru Kitagawa, Tōru Takemitsu, Joji Yuasa and Kan Ishii, accompanied by works of European and Australian composers in the Western choral tradition.

INFORMATION Thu 6 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) NOBORU KITAGAWA Chagall and a leaf TŌRU TAKEMITSU Kaze no uma and Tsubasa JOJI YUASA Utterance KAN ISHII Anatawa kaze STEVEN HODGSON Lamentations PER NØRGÅRD Vinterkantate The Consort of Melbourne Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & The Consort of Melbourne

Syzygy Ensemble

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The Consort of Melbourne

The School for Lovers Spend an hour with good company, great music & light refreshments.

Although well received in Mozart’s day, Così fan tutte was generally considered a bit too risqué for audiences throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries and it is only more recently that its ebullient, melodious charm has begun to grace opera houses once more.

Mozart’s comic tale of manipulative and unfaithful lovers would seem perfectly at home in a modern day soap opera but his music is undoubtedly timeless. The C major Piano Concerto No.21, K.467, is perhaps the most famous of all Mozart’s piano concerti, thanks to its prominent featuring on the soundtrack of the 1967 Swedish film, Elvira Madigan, with its famous slow movement prefiguring the beguiling lyricism of Chopin and the Romantics. A distillation of musical effervescence, Schubert’s fifth symphony brings this program to a close with a symphonic expansion of the composer’s gift for song-like melody and transparent textures.

INFORMATION Thu 6 August 11am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (70–mins no interval) MOZART Overture to Così fan tutte, K.588 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.467 SCHUBERT Symphony No.5 in B-flat, D.485 Alex Raineri piano (ANAM soloist) Orchestra Victoria Wilma Smith leader Colin Fox host Tickets $47 ($38 concession/senior) — includes morning tea Three concert season ticket $120 ($96 concession/senior) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre, Orchestra Victoria & Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

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LOVE SONGS KATE CEBERANO & PAUL GRABOWSKY

This stripped back performance by two of Australia’s most respected musicians presents reinterpretations of some of the great love songs of the past 50 years.

These songs were selected because of their ability to connect on a deep emotional level and more importantly, because they have influenced both artists at some point in their lives.

Kate Ceberano, the high priestess of pop and an award-winning jazz singer, has lived the rock-star life that many jazz vocalists dream of. After 24 albums, countless awards, TV appearances, festival highlight performances and generally prolific creative output, Kate stands as the icon emerging artists appeal to for hope,

integrity and pride in their work. She is more than a national treasure, she is a cultural diplomat and carries with her the torch to light a thousand paths for the future of live jazz vocalists everywhere.

Kate brings with her long-time musical partner Paul Grabowsky. The two have not worked this intimately since their legendary heydays together at the Continental in Prahran in 1996. Paul’s contribution to Australian jazz is vast and deep, and his influence underscores generations with his wise, wonderful and whimsical way of approaching music making. The performance will also include Grabowsky originals and hits and memories re-interpreted from the Ceberano songbook.

Do not miss this very personal journey into words and music.

INFORMATION Thu 6 August 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Kate Ceberano vocals Paul Grabowsky keyboards Tickets $50 ($45 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre, Raz Music & Ralph Carr Management

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Tales & Tributes Three of Australia’s finest musicians join forces in a highly charged concert. Brothers Brett Dean (viola) and Paul Dean (clarinet), combine their talents with Lisa Moore (piano) in a virtuosic program of classic and modern works. Opening with the stately flow of Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio, Brett Dean then delivers a striking personal tribute to a revered Berlin Philharmonic colleague in his Sketches for Siegbert. The first half concludes with the mysteriously titled *** Trio by Martin Bresnick.

The second half opens with the passionate Fairy Tales of Robert Schumann, followed by the elegantly succinct Alban Berg Op.5 pieces for clarinet and piano. The concert closes with the delicately devastating and enigmatic Hommage à Robert Schumann by Hungarian composer György Kurtág. Don't miss the unique collaboration and Melbourne premiere of Dean-Moore-Dean.

INFORMATION Sat 8 August 7pm Salon (90-mins incl. interval) MOZART Kegelstatt Trio in E-flat, K.498 BRETT DEAN Sketches for Siegbert MARTIN BRESNICK *** Trio SCHUMANN Märchenerzählungen, Op.132 BERG Four Pieces for clarinet & piano, Op.5 GYÖRGY KURTÁG Hommage à Robert Schumann, Op.15 Paul Dean clarinet Brett Dean viola Lisa Moore piano Tickets $45 ($35 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & the Dean-Moore-Dean Trio

GREAT PERFORMERS 2015

Pinchas Zukerman & Angela Cheng ‘His sound is utterly inimitable – as it has been for more than 30 years…

Completely breathtaking’.

Some artists make their mark as explosive young prodigies. Others take time to develop their technique and, with it, a mature and nuanced artistic vision. Then there are those rare individuals who, like a great bottle of wine, just keep getting better and better.

Pinchas Zukerman is one of those. His career spans half a century: he recorded his first Mendelssohn with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, his first Tchaikovsky with Antal Doráti and the London Symphony Orchestra and partnered Isaac Stern in Mozart and Bach on both violin and viola. He launched his conducting career with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1970 and currently holds positions with the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London. Pinchas is deeply committed to developing the next generation of musicians, leading innovative education programs in London, New York, China, Israel and Ottawa. This is your chance to hear this superhero of the violin yourself, for just one evening when Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Angela Cheng give a recital in the intimate surrounds of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

The program, like the violinist, is much-loved: eloquent songs for violin by Dvořák, Elgar and Schumann, balanced with thought-provoking sonatas by Beethoven and Franck, all played with the golden tone and remarkable beauty of a master interpreter.

INFORMATION Pinchas Zukerman Mon 10 August 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm ELGAR Six Pieces, Op.22 DVOŘÁK Four Romantic Pieces, Op.75 BEETHOVEN Sonata for violin & piano No.1 in D, Op.12 SCHUMANN Three Romances, Op.94 FRANCK Violin Sonata in A Pinchas Zukerman violin Angela Cheng piano Premium $105 A reserve $95 ($55 concession) B reserve $79 ($55 concession) C reserve $55 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Program partners The Langham Melbourne, ABC Classic FM & Montblanc

Lauriston Girls’ School Gala Concert

Brett Dean

Join Lauriston Girls’ School for their biennial gala music concert. This much-anticipated event showcases the musical prowess of girls from Prep to Year 12. Come along for a fabulous evening of instrumental and choral pieces performed in Melbourne’s state-of-theart performance hub. This is your chance to experience Lauriston’s music program and to support the students as they perform in a professional environment.

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Lisa Moore

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Wed 12 August 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Three hours incl. interval) Lauriston Girls’ School music students Tickets $39 ($33 concession) Presented by Lauriston Girls’ School

SPOTLIGHT SERIES

Conversations Ben Opie and Melissa Doecke are the Artistic Directors of this dynamic new group devoted to performing the finest music of all ages. The group re-invigorates the classics of master composers of the past, performing and collaborating with outstanding musicians, artists, dancers and the latest technology, and inspiring and commissioning composers to create masterworks of the future. Between them, Inventi Ensemble members have performed at festivals worldwide including the BBC Proms, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, Lucerne Festival Academy and worked with international orchestras and ensembles and are recording artists on the Master Performers record label.

They premiere several new works composed for the ensemble.

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Ben Opie & Melissa Doecke

Thu 13 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) JULIAN BLISS Conversations JONATHAN HARVEY Lotuses EDWIN ROXBURGH Ecclissi MARK GAYDON The Arguments of Beatrice and Virgil Inventi Ensemble Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Inventi Ensemble Supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation

LOCAL HEROES 2015

Boundless Journeys Melbourne-based living treasure Julian Yu’s Piano Quartet is known for its clarity and distinctive musical language. Originally a piano trio, this valuable work in the Australian piano quartet oeuvre will receive its premiere at Melbourne Recital Centre. Also on the program is Alex Pozniak, often considered the enfant terrible of the Sydney contemporary music scene. Australia Piano Quartet presents the Melbourne premiere of his groundbreaking new work Bordersongs. Reflecting on his Polish background and the struggles faced by refugees in modern Australia, Bordersongs is sure to present the piano quartet at the precipice of what the genre can be.

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Australia Piano Quartet

Enigma — An Introspective

Les Gyori

Take a musical journey through a redefined landscape of diverse musical elements creating mood and atmosphere.

From string trio to ambient opera soaked realms, through to world and urban infused beats, all immersed in an audio/ visual projection with electronic soundbytes. Enigma is a cross-pollination of beats worked in with minimal jazz inflections and popular song structures.

Fri 14 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) YU Piano Quartet, Op.26 POZNIAK Bordersongs FAURÉ Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor, Op.45 Australia Piano Quartet Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Australia Piano Quartet

INFORMATION Sat 15 August 7.30pm Salon (70-mins no interval) Works by Les Gyori Les Gyori acoustic/electric violin Ceridwen Davies viola Caerwen Martin cello Dan Pearson drums Sarah Capodicasa vocals Simon Fisenden bass Rueben Russi keyboard CJ Dolan multi-media Teresa Duddy soprano Michael Boc rapper Tickets $24 ($21 concession) Presented by Les Gyori

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LOCAL HEROES 2015

Beethoven in Melbourne Part 2

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Susie Park

This year Seraphim Trio has been shining the spotlight on Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano trios.

Susie Park

Seraphim Trio

Presented over several captivating programs, Seraphim Trio’s ‘Beethoven in Melbourne’ delves into the rhetoric and argument of classical chamber music as revealed by the most important composer of the period.

Beethoven was one of the most democratic of all composers, and his reach extends well beyond the concert hall. These immersive concerts form part of a multi-faceted project in which Seraphim Trio will bring Beethoven into the very fabric of Melbourne with pop-up recitals, lectures, schools concerts, an interactive concert installation called ‘choose-your-own Beethoven’, and a collaboration with street artist Peter Drew.

INFORMATION Mon 17 August 7pm Salon (One hour & 45-mins incl. interval) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E-flat, Op.1, No.1 Piano Trio No.4 in B-flat, Op.11 Piano Trio in D, Op.70, No.1, Ghost Seraphim Trio Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Seraphim Trio

St Michael’s 120th Celebration Concert

Ludovico’s Band is one of Australia’s most dynamic Baroque bands. Led by Marshall McGuire (harp) and Tommie Andersson (theorbo/lute), the group creates a unique sound world through the combination of lush plucked continuo and soaring Baroque bows.

The passion and drama of Baroque music is evident, and it is especially powerful in the masques and operas of the time.

INFORMATION Tue 18 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) Featuring excerpts from the dramatic works of Handel, Locke and Monteverdi.

Ludovico’s Band Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Ludovico’s Band

St Michael’s celebrates 120 years through music, dance and reflections upon key events not only in its rich history but those that shaped the Australian identity.

INFORMATION Tue 18 August 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour & 15-mins no interval) ELGAR Chanson du Nuit DANIELS Cotton Time DALEY In Flanders Field

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Hailed as ‘prodigiously talented’ (Washington Post) and praised for her ‘freedom, mastery and fantasy’ (La Libre, Belgium), Australian Susie Park has gained worldwide recognition for her emotional range and dynamic stage presence. In this Salon: Solo performance Susie explores Aaron Copland’s elegiac Sonata for violin and piano, which was dedicated to the memory of a friend tragically killed in the First World War. Ravel’s virtuosic Sonata for violin and piano was a late composition in Ravel’s life, written after his musical language had developed beyond his early Impressionistic style, it masterfully brings together a range of disparate musical influences, from the avant-garde bitonality of Satie and Stravinsky to the popular rhythms of jazz and blues.

Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso rounds out the program on a lighter note, brimming as it does with lyrical charm and graceful, virtuosic élan.

INFORMATION Wed 19 August 6pm Salon (70-mins no interval) COPLAND Sonata for violin & piano RAVEL Violin Sonata JANÁČEK Violin Sonata SAINT-SAËNS Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso in A minor Susie Park violin Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

PORTER Anything Goes GARLAND In the Mood MILLER Moonlight Serenade HANDEL Zadok the Priest YOUNG The Real Thing MACKINTOSH Living in the 70s HAY Land Down Under AMAROSI Absolutely Everybody MARTIN Viva La Vida CHAMBERS Let me entertain you Students of St Michael’s Grammar School Tickets $28.90 ($11.90 concession & $72.60 family) Presented by St Michael’s Grammar School

Haileybury in Concert

Haileybury in Concert is a whole school event featuring the best musicians from across the school. Senior students perform a variety of classical, jazz and contemporary music.

Ensembles include the school Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, combined Middle School Concert Band, Wind Symphony, Stage Band, Brass Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Guitar Orchestra, Magenta Choir, Senior Vocal Ensembles and Haileybury Singers.

The program features combined items and some exciting new Australian music giving students the opportunity to showcase their wonderful talents.

INFORMATION Wed 19 August 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Music students of Haileybury FREE – tickets required with entry.

Details at melbourenrecital.com.au Presented by Haileybury Tickets available from 1 July

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Cello Sonatas with Julian Smiles

Mahler 4, ANAM & Ensemble Liaison Ensemble Liaison expand their forces with some of Australia’s finest young musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) to present two magnificent large scale chamber works; Copland’s Appalachian Spring and the chamber arrangement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

by Klaus Simon. The Ensemble welcomes back two friends, Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Natsuko Yoshimoto and soprano, Greta Bradman. The concert also features the world premiere of a new work by Mark Viggiani, winner of the Melbourne Recital Centre and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Composition Award.

INFORMATION Fri 21 August 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) COPLAND Appalachian Spring MARK VIGGIANI new work for voice & ensemble* (world premiere) MAHLER (arr Simon) Symphony No.4 Greta Bradman soprano Natsuko Yoshimoto violin Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Ensemble Liaison Tickets $50 ($40 concession)

One of Australia’s finest cellists and a founding member of the Goldner String Quartet, this is a rare opportunity to hear Julian Smiles in recital performing César Franck’s epic Sonata in A with the grand and mystical Sonata for cello and piano by Sergei Prokofiev. Julian is joined by Melbourne-based pianist Daniel de Borah to explore these masterworks of the duo repertoire.

INFORMATION Thu 20 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) FRANCK Cello Sonata in A PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C, Op.119 Julian Smiles cello Daniel de Borah piano Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Daniel de Borah

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*commissioned for Melbourne Recital Centre and University of Melbourne with support by Majlis Pty Ltd

Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Ensemble Liaison

Julian Smiles

Ensemble Liaison

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Let’s Misbehave: A Cole Porter Soirée with Mark Nadler ‘Mark Nadler gets my vote for Mr Show Business... an immensely talented latter day Al Jolson.’ The New York Times Internationally acclaimed, award-winning entertainer, Mark Nadler, explores the wit, the romance and the life of arguably the greatest of American songwriters: Cole Porter.

Songs include such timeless hits as ‘Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)’, ‘Night and Day’ and ‘You're the Top’ as well as many lesser known gems.

Mark Nadler has become a staple of the Adelaide Festival, where he has performed an unprecedented six times and has been nominated for a prestigious Helpmann Award.

Sat 22 August 4pm & 6pm Salon (90-mins no interval) — in cabaret mode Mark Nadler piano Tickets $45 ($30 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre

Mark Nadler

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European Horizons The music of Mozart and Schumann open the program with works of characteristic beauty and grace, followed by the little-known, beguiling trio by the Spanish nationalist Joaquin Turina. Finishing the program is Henze’s Serenade for piano trio, tautologically named Adagio adagio.

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Firebird Trio is on a mission to perform music from all periods with this concert focussed on European music spanning 250 years.

The Divine

Kegelstatt Ensemble

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Firebird Trio

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Mon 24 August 7pm Salon (One hour & 50-mins incl. interval) MOZART Piano Trio in E, K.542 SCHUMANN Piano Trio No.3 in G minor, Op.110 TURINA Piano Trio No.2 in B minor, Op.76 HENZE Adagio adagio Firebird Trio Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Firebird Trio

Kegelstatt Ensemble explores the music of composers who have yearned to break free of formal boundaries, turning to the natural and the mystical for inspiration. The fantastical soundscapes of Debussy’s landmark Sonata for flute, viola and harp invoke a higher plane, free of such earthly horrors as the impending World War. The Trio by Lowell Liebermann is highly influenced by the impressionism of Debussy, and also traces a journey from darkness to light. George Crumb’s iconic Voice of the Whale, through its use of masks and light, strives to transcend even the physicality of the performers themselves, insignificant against the vastness of the earth, the sea and the cosmos.

INFORMATION Tue 25 August 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) LIEBERMANN Trio No.2 for flute, cello & piano, Op.87 DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola & harp CRUMB Voice of the Whale Kegelstatt Ensemble Melina van Leeuwen harp Alexandra Castle flute Kim Worley cello Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Two concert season ticket $65 ($48 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Kegelstatt Ensemble

Mooncalf

Georgie Darvidis & Marty Hicks

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Revelling in the moments in music that would normally be discreetly shifted aside – such as audible breaths, extraneous noises, cracks in the voice, and the rustling of material and machine inside the piano, Mooncalf heralds these as sounds sharing the same value and beauty as the notes that are a product of them, celebrating the inescapable humanity, and inherent imperfection, in making music.

INFORMATION Thu 27 August 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) Georgie Darvidis vocals Marty Hicks piano Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Mooncalf

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My Latin Heart – José Carbó & the Grigoryan Brothers An evening of tango & latin song.

Internationally-acclaimed baritone José Carbó is joined by Australia’s favourite guitarists, Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, for an evening of passionate music and tango. José’s hit album My Latin Heart features a sensuous collection of Latin American songs that shot straight to number one on the Limelight Classical Music Charts and was nominated for the ARIA Award for Classical Record of the Year when released. José and the Grigoryans perform songs from the album and treasures given to him by his grandfather, Donato back in Argentina, and soulful classics from the heart of Latin America including Lara’s ‘Granada’,

Piazzolla’s ‘Ave Maria’ and ‘Oblivion’ as well as brilliant tangos such as ‘Caminito’, ‘Mi Buenos Aires Querido’ and ‘Adiós’. Join José Carbó and the Grigoryan brothers for a night in Buenos Aires with sumptuous song, stunning strings and tantalising tango.

INFORMATION Thu 27 August 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) José Carbó baritone Slava & Leonard Grigoryan guitar Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Grigoryan Brothers & Friends

Slava Grigoryan, José Carbó & Leonard Grigoryan

Our Lady of Mercy College Celebration Concert A celebration of music featuring students from years 7 to 12 performing as soloists and in small and large ensembles.

INFORMATION Mon 31 August 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Musicians & performing arts students from Our Lady of Mercy College Tickets $30 ($20 concession) Presented by Our Lady of Mercy College Tickets on sale 31 July

Hansel & Gretel Introduce your children to the magic of opera through Opera Australia’s delightful production of one of the best-loved Brothers Grimm tales. Children will be captivated by the story of two young people and the bewitching characters that they meet on their journey of hardship, forgiveness and selfdiscovery. Featuring professional singers, colourful costumes and an enchanting set, this version of Humperdinck’s opera has been devised especially for primary aged students.

INFORMATION Sat 29 August 11am Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) Free post-performance Q&A with the cast HUMPERDINCK Hansel & Gretel Originally devised & directed by Christine Anketell Music & libretto adapted by Tim Sexton & Ian Bone Hugh Halliday director Raymond Lawrence musical director Opera Australia Tickets $23 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Opera Australia Suitable for children six years & older Melbourne Recital Centre’s children’s programming is supported by Betty Amsden AO

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‘To Music’

Alexandra Flood

Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis

The bright young stars from Melba Opera Trust perform a selection of works which are sure to delight. An die Musik (To Music) spotlights some of music's most exquisite miniatures. Two masterpieces by Purcell evince his simplicity of utterance and unmatched pairing of words to melody.

Britten’s sparse yet apposite arrangements of folksongs transforms into whimsical and touching subject matter. The restrained passion of Monteverdi’s conspiring lovers contrasts with the sarcasm of Mozart’s revolutionary man servant, while the soaring vocalism of Verdi’s innocent Gilda and Richard Strauss’s sophisticated musings on love are juxtaposed with the keenly felt outpourings of Schubert and Mendelssohn.

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A great piano recital is chamber music in its purest form, intimate but universal. In the hands of a master such as Paul Lewis, it can be a transcendent experience and a personal sharing of ideas and emotions. Music by Brahms lies at the centre of this program.

His Ballades Op.10 were written when he was a very young man, and their easy melodiousness is tempered by melancholy. The Intermezzi Op.117 came at the other end of his life, when his vows of retiring were often stalled by the creation of new pieces of innovative beauty.

Brahms always struggled with ‘the heavy tread’ of Beethoven, the great master whose works, he felt, were so good as to make life almost impossible for the composers who came after him. Paul Lewis bookends the program with two of Beethoven’s last works for piano, highlighting the musical relationships between the composers. The word ‘monumental' is sometimes applied too lightly, but here it’s completely apt. With these late sonatas

Beethoven did what he had previously done to the concerto and the symphony – turned them from showpieces or mere entertainment, into art.

Tue 1 September 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) Featuring music by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weill, Strauss and more.

Alexandra Flood soprano Nicholas Tolputt countertenor Jeremy Kleeman bass-baritone Stefan Cassomenos piano Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melba Opera Trust Melba Opera Trust is Australia’s premier scholarship program for promising young opera singers.

INFORMATION Tue 1 & Sat 5 September 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 20-mins incl. interval) BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109 Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111 BRAHMS Four Ballades, Op.10 Three Intermezzi, Op.117 Paul Lewis piano (UK) Premium $125 ($108 concession) A reserve $104 ($90 concession) B reserve $73 ($64 concession) C reserve $49 ($43 concession) Presented by Musica Viva

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Mediterranean Stories

Cosmo Cosmolino

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Luscious strings, gypsy music, tangos & song.

Cosmo Cosmolino, an ensemble of strings, accordion and voices, explores the music of Eastern-Europe and the Mediterranean through new arrangements of their favourite composers, performing their own original works and unique settings of folk tunes.

Mediterranean Stories features an original tarantella, traditional Greek dances, as well as unique arrangements of the well-loved Falla ‘Seven Spanish Folk Songs’, and the divine ‘Pavane pour un enfante défunte’ by Ravel.

Cosmo Cosmolino explores the many stories of the Mediterranean, songs of maternal and

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romantic love, and hypnotic, Bacchanalian dances which may or may not cure the tarantula’s bite.

INFORMATION Wed 2 September 6pm Salon (One hour on interval) Music by Falla, Ravel, Witton, Bizet, Ponce, Gunson, Mountfort & traditional folk songs Cosmo Cosmolino Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Cosmo Cosmolino

Garrick Ohlsson

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‘Remarkable assurance in executing wicked pyrotechnics… with extraordinary power and demonic furor.’ The New York Times

Garrick Ohlsson is no devil, but he is fiendishly talented. Last year he was awarded another accolade, the 2014 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University. It places him in the highest echelon of pianists in the world today, sharing the title with previous winners including Stephen Hough, Yefim Bronfman and Murray Perahia. If anyone is a match for Schubert’s Wanderer-fantasie, a veritable Mount Everest of the piano, it is Ohlsson. After almost half a century on the concert platform he brings an encyclopaedic knowledge of the repertoire to his art, not to mention an exceptional span – he can stretch a 12th on the keyboard with his left hand.

GARRICK OHLSSON This award-winning master musician now returns to Melbourne for a recital which mixes fiery brilliance with voluptuous joy.

The grand edifice that is Schubert’s Wanderer-fantasie stands with the breath-catching beauty of Beethoven’s late, great, Piano Sonata Op.110. Completing the program is Garrick Ohlsson’s own selection from a work critic Ernest Newman described as ‘a gorgeous treat for the fingers’, the vibrant Goyescas of Granados. A treat for the fingers and no doubt for our ears too.

INFORMATION Wed 2 September 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) Free pre-concert talk 6.45pm BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat, Op.110 SCHUBERT Fantasy in C, Wanderer-fantasie GRANADOS From Goyescas: ‘Los requibros’, ‘El fandango de candil’, ‘Quejas, ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor’, ‘El pelele: Escena Goyesca’ Garrick Ohlsson piano (USA) Premium $105 A reserve $95 ($55 concession) B reserve $79 ($55 concession) C reserve $55 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Program partners The Langham Melbourne, ABC Classic FM & Montblanc Garrick Ohlsson’s recital is supported by Jennifer Brukner

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Abundance

Lotus Verses

According to his wife, Constanza, Mozart wrote his D minor String Quartet during the birth of their first child – and the leaps in the second movement represent her cries. It leaves a lasting record of the event better than any other!

To contrast Mozart, the Australian String Quartet performs Matthew Hindson’s engaging new work Ngeringa.

With a pure velvet voice that crosses two languages, Nilusha Dassenaike reveals her latest album. Her composing and arranging skills weave together a rare synthesis of contemporary jazz and Sri Lankan folk music that takes an entirely fresh approach to contemporary vocal improvisation. Elements of soul and pop are integrated with the rich traditions of jazz, world music and so much more.

Smetana’s quartet From My life is a programmatic story told in the autumn of life following the onset of the composer’s deafness.

This casts a shadow over the end of the work, but otherwise represents hope, joy and an abundance of life and love.

INFORMATION Thu 3 September 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) MOZART String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K.421 MATTHEW HINDSON String Quartet No.3 Ngeringa* WEBERN Langsamer Satz SMETANA String Quartet No.1 in E minor, From My Life Australian String Quartet Tickets $76 ($57 concession)

INFORMATION Fri 4 September 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) Nilusha Dassenaike vocals Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Nilusha Dassenaike

*commissioned by Ngeringa Arts

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Americana Discover the many talents of the remarkable wizard of the piano, Joe Chindamo.

Joe, the equally masterful pianist and composer, is writing a new piano quintet titled Anatomy of Melancholy which reflects the Americana theme of this concert. He also creates a new chamber music arrangement of music by Gershwin to surround the original and influential American voice of Charles Ives first string quartet. Joe as composer, arranger and performer joins violinist Wilma Smith and a fascinatingly eclectic group of chamber musicians guaranteed to produce sparks.

INFORMATION Mon 7 September 6pm Salon (70-mins no interval) GERSHWIN (arr Chindamo) Theme from Rhapsody in Blue CHINDAMO Broadway and the Abstract Truth (world premiere) IVES String Quartet No.1 CHINDAMO Anatomy of Melancholy (world premiere) Wilma Smith & Zoë Black violin Christopher Cartlidge viola Rosanne Hunt cello Joe Chindamo piano Tickets $50 ($40 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Wilma and Friends

Corradini & the Courtesan Latitude 37 explores the musical dichotomy of early 17th-century Italy with a program that includes the emotionally devout music of one of Italy’s rarely heard composers, Nicolo Corradini, and the music of Barbara Strozzi, one of Venice’s most famous courtesans.

Beguiling soprano Anna Sandstrom and Matthew Manchester playing the evocative cornetto are guest artists in this rich program where music of piety rubs shoulders with that of the darker side of everyday life.

INFORMATION Tue 8 September 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) Music of Catello, Crotti, Cavalli, Strozzi, Bertali, Corradini, Falconieri & Corradini Latitude 37 Anna Sandstrom soprano Matthew Manchester cornetto Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Latitude 37

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Nilusha Dassenaike

Wilma Smith

A La Danza In the Renaissance and early Baroque, innovative styles of dance music emerged from Italy and Spain – they included the chacona, passacalle, folia and passamezzo.

Reaching new heights of popularity throughout all of Europe, these tunes allowed for total artistic freedom in interpretation, and were the foundation for virtuosic melodic variations. Internationally acclaimed for their individualistic style and expressiveness La Compañia rediscovers these dance groves with a rich palate of period instruments and voice.

La Compañia

INFORMATION Sat 5 September 4pm & 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) La Compañia Danny Lucin director Tickets $39 ($29 concession) Presented by La Compañia

‘La Compañia presents concerts that heighten expectations.’ The Age

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Carey Baptist Grammar School Whole School Concert

Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School Annual Music Concert

Clarion/Whisper Since its inception in 2010, the Invenio singers have been gathering recognition from audiences and critics alike. Formed by singer/ composer, Gian Slater, Invenio is an innovative large ensemble of improvising and contemporary singers, experimenting with the vocal group/choral format through conceptual composition, extended vocal technique, fluid improvising, choreographed movement and inventive performance. They will perform music from their second and latest album release, Clarion/Whisper.

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Carey Baptist Grammar School, in conjunction with Friends of Carey Music, is proud to present Carey Baptist Grammar School Whole School Concert with very special guest artist Adam Page.

Adam brings his remarkable skills as a performer, composer and educator to Carey, working with students over several months to prepare the world premiere of a work commissioned for the Carey Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

This concert also features Carey ensembles from the Junior, Middle and Senior schools.

Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School presents their Annual Music Concert featuring an array of musical and vocal talent.

Performances from the School’s orchestras, stage band, concert bands, choirs and ensembles will showcase the talents of girls from Year 4 to Year 12. This evening of fine music promises to be an entertaining one and will bring together all performers for a stunning finale.

Fri 11 September 7pm Salon (One hour no interval) Invenio Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Invenio

INFORMATION INFORMATION Tue 8 September 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 30-mins incl. interval) Carey Baptist Grammar School Students Adam Page multi-instrumentalist/composer Tickets $33.90 ($21.90 concession & $87.60 family) Presented by Carey Baptist Grammar School Tickets on sale 13 July

Wed 9 September 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 15-mins incl. interval) Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School choirs, orchestra, concert bands & smaller ensembles Tickets $35 ($25 concession & $112 family) Presented by Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School Tickets on sale 22 July

Invenio

Creations Join students of the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School as they time-travel with three unique works. Young soloists and ensembles from the VCA Secondary School present selections from Haydn’s masterpiece The Creation, based on the Book of Genesis,

and sung in English. Be transported by Tchaikovsky’s sublime homage to Mozart, the Serenade for Strings, and experience the contemporary vision of 18 year old Jessop Maticevski-Shumack, with a new work for classical guitars and chamber orchestra.

A vision, a homage & a masterpiece.

INFORMATION Thu 10 September 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) MATICEVSKI-SHUMACK new work (world premiere) TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings HAYDN The Creation (selections) Marco Van Pagee conductor Dermot Tutty choral director Michael Sargeant conductor Students of the VCA Secondary School Tickets $49 ($34 concession) Presented by Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Tickets on sale 20 July

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Barney McAll

Barney has also performed/toured with major U.S. artists Kurt Rosenwinkel, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Cobb, Eddie Henderson and Dewey Redman, as well as leading his own ensembles.

For this solo concert he draws on spiritual harmonies he learned playing in the African– American church for a decade, blended with slow meditative ambiences, in a unique and uplifting experience.

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Mozart’s Fortepiano with Kristian Bezuidenhout & Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

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Barney McAll Solo

Loved by players and audiences alike, Kristian Bezuidenhout is part of the Brandenburg family. To honour this connection, and Bezuidenhout’s continued ascendency Barney McAll is a musical conjurer in the music world, Australian Brandenburg of the highest order.

Orchestra Artistic Director Paul Dyer took great pleasure in offering him the opportunity to guest direct and conduct a concert series in 2015. Family, both literal and musical, play an important role in the program Bezuidenhout has devised, starting with two wonderful sinfonias by J.S. Bach’s oldest and youngest children: the more traditional W.F. Bach, who worked in the style of his father; and the more contemporary J.C. Bach – whose compositions had a direct influence on Mozart’s concerto style. Directing the Brandenburg from his beloved fortepiano, Bezuidenhout will perform perhaps the finest of Mozart’s keyboard concertos – the dramatic Piano Concerto in D minor. Following this, the delicate joy of Mozart’s Andante for flute, featuring the Orchestra’s own principal flute, Melissa Farrow will lift spirits. And as a fitting climax for such Monash String Sinfonia a brilliant young musician as Kristian, the lilting and exuberant Linz Symphony – written in only a few days, yet full of depth and sophistication.

Monash Sinfonia with Paul Dyer

INFORMATION Sat 12 September 7pm & Sun 13 September 5pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two house incl. interval) J.C. BACH Sinfonia in G, Op.3 No.6 W.F. BACH Sinfonia in D minor MOZART Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466 Andante for flute, K.315 Symphony No.36 in C, Linz K.425 Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano/guest director & conductor (UK) Melissa Farrow period flute Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Premium $152 A reserve $130 B reserve $102 ($71 concession) C reserve $68 ($48 concession) Presented by Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

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Grammy nominated pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger, Barney McAll grew up in Melbourne and moved to New York City in 1997 after being invited to join the Gary Bartz Quartet. Today he continues to tour internationally with Bartz, in addition to Fred Wesley and the JB’s, and Josh Roseman.

A Celebration of Music

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Sat 12 September 6.30pm Salon (Two hours incl. interval) Barney McAll piano Tickets $30 ($25 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Jazz Co-operative

The Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Paul Dyer returns as guest conductor of the Monash String Sinfonia in a program of Baroque music that will delight and thrill with its energy and youthful exuberance.

INFORMATION Sun 13 September 2.30pm Salon (One hour no interval) Monash String Sinfonia Elizabeth Sellars director Paul Dyer guest conductor Tickets $15 Presented by Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University

Brighton Grammar School’s strong musical tradition is showcased in this music concert, A Celebration of Music. The performance provides an opportunity to present the musical talents of students from the Junior, Middle and Senior School performing in choirs, instrumental ensembles and as outstanding soloists. The variety and vibrancy of the evening’s program is reflective of the schools’ ethos that addresses a balanced development of the mind, the body, the aesthetic and the spirit.

INFORMATION Tue 15 September 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours & 40-mins incl. interval) Brighton Grammar School music students Tickets $30 ($15 concession) Presented by Brighton Grammar School Tickets on sale 27 July

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Melbourne Guitar Quartet

News From Nowhere

One of the most trailblazing works written for the guitar family.

Alongside premiering a new work for the Melbourne Guitar Quartet (MGQ) by highly acclaimed Australian composer, Robert Davidson, MGQ also performs one of the most influential and trailblazing works ever written for the ‘guitar family’, composed by Phillip Houghton. Teaming up once more with the

remarkable Ron Murray (didgeridoo) this concert undoubtedly captures the spirit of what it is to be a ‘Local Hero’, celebrating some of the country’s greatest composers and artists. The program will also premiere new arrangements of works by Ligeti and Britten for the guitar family.

Mozart’s Symphony No.40 Across the gulf of two centuries, Mozart and Stravinsky created distinctive works shaped and inspired by the rigor of classical forms.

Stravinsky’s Octet for Winds, an early neo-classical masterpiece performed here by the wind section of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), and the composer’s compact Concerto in D – led by MSO Concertmaster Eoin Andersen – are balanced

by Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5, a youthful work of matchless elegance and execution.

With its famous melancholic opening theme, Mozart’s Symphony No.40 hints at a deep disquiet beneath its trademark refinement.

INFORMATION Thu 17 September 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) PHILLIP HOUGHTON News from Nowhere ROBERT DAVIDSON Cliffs & River LIGETI (arr Field) Six Bagatelles BRITTEN (arr Tottenham) Simple Symphony (selections) Melbourne Guitar Quartet Ron Murray didgeridoo Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Guitar Quartet

INFORMATION Thu 17 September 8pm & Sat 19 September 6.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) STRAVINSKY Concerto in D for Strings Octet for Winds MOZART Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219 Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550 Eoin Andersen violin/director Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Premium $133 A-Reserve $112–$120 ($90–$115 concession) B-Reserve $92–$99 ($73–$89 concession) C-Reserve $71–$79 ($57–$69 concession) *Prices are subject to change without notice

Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Simone Young & Brahms – Gala Concert Last year Simone Young electrified Melbourne audiences with her enthralling account of Brahms’ Fourth Symphony.

She returns in 2015 to lead the ANAM Orchestra in Brahms’ radiant Second Symphony, sharing her unique insights into the great Romantic repertoire.

Also featuring Australia’s most highly awarded soprano Emma Matthews, this concert promises to be irresistible.

INFORMATION Fri 18 September 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (90-mins incl. interval) STANHOPE Fantasia on a theme of Vaughan Williams DUPARC selected songs BRAHMS Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73 Emma Matthews soprano Simone Young conductor ANAM Orchestra Tickets $85 ($70 concession) Presented by Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

Simone Young

Souvenir de Florence

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PLEXUS: Panorama

PLEXUS

Tchaikovsky

In 2014, Australian Octet gave audiences their first taste of a new kind of chamber music concert. An ensemble grander than a quartet and more intimate than an orchestra; a concert experience filled with spectacular soloistic writing, symphonic textures, pinpoint precision and high-octane energy. Australian Octet returns with a dramatic program of chamber music featuring two of the greatest works of festival chamber music. The iconic work for string sextet, Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence is a feast of bravura string playing.

Penned during the composer’s summer sojourn in 1890, its unique musical language fuses Russian melody and rhythm with the Western tradition. It is matched with Bruch’s lustrous final masterpiece, the Concerto for Octet, and a new work specially commissioned for Australian Octet by acclaimed Australian composer Paul Stanhope.

PLEXUS (Monica Curro, violin, Philip Arkinstall, clarinet & Stefan Cassomenos, piano) presents a panoramic picture of the contemporary compositional landscape, spanning two hemispheres and traversing a variety of individual stylistic terrains. Join the ensemble as they set out on an epic expedition to rediscover the vibrancy and creativity of five celebrated composers, for this grand finale to a year of cutting edge musical exploration.

INFORMATION Mon 21 September 6pm Salon (70-mins no interval) World premieres by Bresnick, Chindamo, Finsterer, March and Munro PLEXUS Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Plexus

Orava Quartet The exciting young Australian ensemble Orava Quartet is best known to Melbournians through its prize-winning appearances at the 2013 Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition.

They return to make their Coffee Concerts debut with a polished program of Haydn and Mendelssohn, and the excitement of a world premiere from talented young Melbourne composer Kym Dillon.

INFORMATION Tue 22 September 11am (morning tea from 10am) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (One hour no interval) HAYDN String Quartet in D, Op.76, No.5 DILLON String Quartet* (world premiere) MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No.6 in F minor, Op.80 Orava Quartet Tickets $49 (includes cake & refreshments) * commissioned for Musica Viva by William J Forrest AM

Presented by Musica Viva

INFORMATION Sun 20 September 2.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) STANHOPE Octet for Strings* (world premiere) BRUCH Concerto for Octet TCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D minor, Op.70 Souvenir de Florence Australian Octet Premium $99 ($91 concession) A reserve $79 ($71 concession) B reserve $59 ($51 concession) C reserve $39 ($31 concession) Under 40s $40 *commission supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation & the Australia Council

Presented by Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

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A State of Grace: The Music of Tim & Jeff Buckley ‘Tim Buckley embodied all the virtue of grace.’ Rolling Stone ‘Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.’ Bono (1997)

Tim and Jeff Buckley’s legacy has inspired generations of musicians and listeners. A State of Grace celebrates their brilliant, complicated lives and music, bringing together six stellar singers and musicians who worked with the Buckleys with images and stories. It is a moving, definitive portrait of two of the most beloved voices in rock, overseen by Gary Lucas, the legendary New York guitarist/composer who worked closely with Jeff, co-writing the immortal songs ‘Grace’ and ‘Mojo Pin’.

Jeff Buckley completed only one studio album in his too-brief life, but it made him one of the most influential musicians of the 1990s and beyond. His commanding stage presence, boy-next-door good looks and rich musical vocabulary were matched by a voice that could soar with the angels. Grace, that fragile yet ferocious miracle of an album, moved millions, earning Buckley an almost evangelical following. The ultimate musician’s musician, his fans include Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Chris Cornell and Thom Yorke.

After Jeff’s tragic accidental death in the Mississippi River, U2’s Bono told a stadium audience, ‘Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.’

Jeff only met his father Tim a handful of times during his even shorter life; Tim died in 1975, aged 28. But the musical legacy Tim left behind – a wildly eclectic and brilliant collection of eight studio albums – served as Jeff’s musical touchstone. Tim also influenced his contemporaries Van Morrison, James Taylor and Leonard Cohen, and such 21st-century acts as Fleet Foxes and Beth Orton. Jeff strived for the same kind of far-reaching, liberating and often downright sexy music that Tim produced during landmark LPs Blue Afternoon and 1972’s Greetings from LA. As Rolling Stone magazine once declared, ‘Tim Buckley embodied all the virtue of grace.’

Assembled to recapture the magic of Tim and Jeff Buckley’s songs are musicians with the depth, breadth and empathy to do them justice: Martha Wainwright, Casper Clausen (of Efterklang), Willy Mason, Camille O’Sullivan, Steve Kilbey and Cold Specks, led by guitarist/ producer Gary Lucas with his band Gods and Monsters. Tim and Jeff’s music becomes a point of departure for soul-stirring reinterpretation and exploration in this world premiere event.

INFORMATION Wed 23 September & Tue 29 September 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (Two hours incl. interval) The music of Tim & Jeff Buckley Commissioned by Melbourne Recital Centre with the support of The Hugh Williamson Creative Production Fund Martha Wainwright, Willy Mason, Casper Clausen (Efterklang), Cold Specks, Camille O’Sullivan vocals Steve Kilbey vocals/guitar Gary Lucas musical director/guitar Ernie Brooks bass Jason Candler saxophone/clarinet Richard Dworkin drums Jordan Shapiro piano/keyboards Jeff Apter writer Merri Cyr visual consultant Premium $110 A reserve $90 ($80 concession) B reserve $75 ($65 concession) C reserve $65 Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in association with Gaynor Crawford Presents

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LOCAL HEROES 2015

Be Not Afraid Of Greatness

There is little doubt that Haydn and Beethoven remain towering greats of the Quartet genre, and although Bach did not write specifically for the string quartet, his Art of Fugue is perhaps one of the greatest musical conversations of all time. Haydn’s Op.20 Quartets are considered defining works of the genre and the second quartet fascinates with an operatic sense of grand gesture and drama.

Beethoven’s Op.74 Quartet, nicknamed the ‘Harp’ for its elegant pizzicato sections, is exquisitely constructed. The work’s uniquely shaped movements combine with a miraculous unity of purpose, design and expression. Tinalley String Quartet invites you to be enriched by greatness, fearing only in the power of enchantment.

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Tinalley String Quartet

Mon 28 September 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) BACH Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 HAYDN String Quartet No.2 in C, Op.20 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.10 in E-flat, Op.74 Tinalley String Quartet Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Tinalley String Quartet

Quartz is a refreshing and exciting string quartet of highly acclaimed Melbourne musicians, joined by local harpist Marshall McGuire for this program of classic beauty. Both Bax (English composer and poet) and Korngold (famous for his film scores in the 1930s and 40s) described their desire to continue to express emotion through lyrical writing, despite (indeed, in response to) the turmoil of world events and the prevalence of atonalism in the early 20th century. Verdi, a master of operatic emotional expression, wrote only one instrumental composition: String Quartet in E minor, composed during a hiatus before the opening of Aida in Naples in 1873.

LOCAL HEROES 2015

OPERATIC EMOTION

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Quartz String Quartet

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Tue 29 September 6pm Salon (One hour no interval) VERDI String Quartet in E minor KORNGOLD String Quartet No.2, Op.26 BAX Quintet for harp & strings Quartz String Quartet Marshall McGuire harp Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Quartz

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Thank You Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the generous support of its business, philanthropic partners and patrons Founding Patron The Late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch ac dbe Board Members Kathryn Fagg, Chair Peter Bartlett Stephen Carpenter

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‘I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t listening to voices, to great singers and their songs.

This concert is my chance to summon and pay homage to some of my favourite angels of song.’

Bernadette Robinson

PR E S E N T E D B Y M E L B O U R N E R E C I TA L C E N T R E

Calling All Angels In her critically acclaimed show Calling All Angels, Bernadette Robinson interweaves contemporary songs (think Joni Mitchell and Jane Siberry) with uncanny evocations of Piaf, Garland, Cline and Holiday and comic demolitions of Streisand, Callas, Bassey and Andrews.

Bernadette Robinson draws audiences into the various worlds of stage and screen greats in an eclectic, thrilling and immensely satisfying whirlwind tour of different styles across the decades.

Don’t miss a rare chance to see this wonderful singer.

Bernadette Robinson vocals

TICKETS $55 ($45 CONCESSION)

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