Wata: a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra

PRESENTED WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA

WATA

a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra 31 MARCH – 1 APRIL

Artists Benjamin Northey conductor Paul Grabowsky director / piano 2021 MSO COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE

Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred vocals and bilma (South East Arnhem Land) David Yipininy Wilfred yidaki (South East Arnhem Land) Soloists from the Australian Art Orchestra

Helen Svoboda double bass

Aviva Endean bass clarinet

Erkki Veltheim violin

Peter Knight trumpet and electronics

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Program GRABOWSKY, WILFRED AND WILFRED Wata: a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra

Running time: Approximately 1 hour, no interval.

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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we perform and would like to pay our respects to their Elders and Community both past and present.

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The Australian Art Orchestra With an emphasis on improvisation, The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) explores the meeting points between disciplines and cultures, and imagines new musical forms to reflect the energy and diversity of 21st century Australia.

Founded by Paul Grabowsky AO in 1994 the AAO is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Now led by daring composer/trumpeter/sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates musics that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms.

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Benjamin Northey

Paul Grabowsky AO

Since returning to Australia from Europe, Benjamin Northey has rapidly emerged as one of the nation’s leading musical figures.

He is currently the Principal Resident Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in 2015.

Paul Grabowsky is a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor — and is one of Australia’s most distinguished artists.

Born in Papua New Guinea, he was raised in Melbourne. During his early career, he became prominent in the Melbourne music scene and performed with many jazz luminaries internationally.

His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia.

In the 90s, he held roles as musical director of Tonight Live with Steve Vizard and Commissioning Editor (Arts and Entertainment) for ABC Television. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, which he led from 1994–2013.

conductor

director / piano

He has conducted L’elisir d’amore, The Tales of Hoffmann and La sonnambula for SOSA and Turandot, Don Giovanni, Carmen and Cosi fan tutte for Opera Australia.

Limelight Magazine named him Australian Artist of the Year in 2018. In 2021, he conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Christchurch Symphony and all six Australian state symphony orchestras.

Paul was Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival from 2005– 2007, and was Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts for 2010 and 2012.

He has written scores for television, feature films, and works for the theatre. He has recorded a range of albums and received numerous awards, including 8 ARIAs. He is currently a Professor at Monash University, and director of the Monash University Performing Arts Centres and the Monash Art Ensemble. In 2014, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia.

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Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred

David Yipininy Wilfred

Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred is a Yolngu song man from Ngukurr, South East Arnhem Land (NT), and a ceremonial leader for the Wägilak people, singing manikay and playing bilma at ceremonies.

David Yipininy Wilfred is a Ritharrŋu man, and the traditional djunggayi (manager) of the manikay (songs) of the country of Nyilipidgi. He lives in Ngukurr, NT and teaches song and dance to the local children at the Ngukurr School.

vocals and bilma (South East Arnhem Land)

yidaki (South East Arnhem Land)

His collaboration with the AAO goes back a decade; performing and touring internationally with the project Crossing Roper Bar; as a contributor to projects The Hearkening, Seoul Meets Arnhem Land and Hand to Earth; and acting as a leading faculty member of the AAO’s annual Creative Music Intensive.

In 2019, Daniel was the recipient of the NT Arts Fellowship. This allowed him to work with Indigenous elders Shellie Morris, Moses Wirrpanda and Fred Leone, and to attend the Wîchoîe Ahiya Indigenous Singer Songwriter Intensive in Banff, Canada. At the 2020 Art Music Awards he was awarded the NT Luminary Award, together with David Wilfred, for cultural leadership and sustained creative contributions within Australia and beyond.

Together with his family members Daniel and Benjamin Wilfred, he has performed with the Australian Art Orchestra for almost 15 years, bringing his songs and culture to people all over the world. David has also been a leading faculty member at the AAO Creative Music Intensive for the past 6 years, sharing his wisdom and artistry with over 150 alumni to date.

In 2020 “The Singing Bones”, a book exploring David and Daniel Wilfred’s musical collaboration was published, and in September the Art Music Awards by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre jointly awarded David and Daniel their NT Luminary Award.

Photo credit: Sarah Walker

Photo credit: Sarah Walker

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Helen Svoboda

Aviva Endean

Helen Svoboda is a double-bassist, vocalist and composer. Born of Finnish/ Australian heritage, she draws influence from genres as diverse as minimalist neoclassical music to folk and experimental jazz. Following her recent return from Europe, Svoboda was awarded the 2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship and named 2020/2021 Pathfinders Associate Artist for the Australian Art Orchestra.

Aviva Endean works as a composer, clarinettist, improviser, and performancemaker, and creates unusual, spatially engaged, and participatory contexts for listening.

double bass

bass clarinet

As a composer her work has been commissioned both locally and internationally, including a solo bass work for Dutch coffee roaster, Blanche Dael.

She has produced and released numerous albums across her own projects including her solo debut, Vegetable Bass (Made Now Music 2019) and The Biology of Plants (QLD Jazz Music Award Winners 2019).

Helen was head curator of the Deep Listening Series in Maastricht, Netherlands from 2018–2020 and her touring experience spans Europe, USA and Australia, collaborating with a diverse range of artists including Kristin Berardi and Sebastian Gramss (GER).

Photo credit: Vanessa van Dalsen

Her recent works include creating the sound score for Token Armies by Chunky Move (winner of a Green Room Award for best sound for dance 2020), Sonic Labyrinth a large scale interactive sonic journey for children and families (nominated for a Green Room Award for best experimental sound work) and working as Associate Artist with The Australian Art Orchestra as the inaugural recipient of the Pathfinders Music Leadership position.

Her debut solo release cinder : ember : ashes was released on Norwegian label SOFA in 2018 to critical acclaim, and she is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Freedman Fellowship, and the APRA/AMCOS Art Music Fund. She was also finalist for the Melbourne Prize 2019, and is composer in residence at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks composers residency in 2021.

Photo credit: Sarah Walker

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Erkki Veltheim

Peter Knight

Erkki Veltheim is an Australian composer, improviser and performer. He has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Musica nova Helsinki, and his pieces have also been performed by groups such as the London Sinfonietta and defunensemble (Finland). He composed the orchestral works for celebrated indigenous musician Gurrumul’s posthumous album Djarimirri, which debuted at No.1 on the ARIA charts, and won 4 ARIA Awards and the 2018 Australian Music Prize.

Perpetually curious, composer/trumpeter/ sound artist Peter Knight’s practice exists in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures.

violin

trumpet and electronics

Erkki has performed with ensembles such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble MusikFabrik and Ensemble Modern.

Close collaborators include artist and film maker Sabina Maselli, improvising trumpeter Scott Tinkler and pianist/ composer Anthony Pateras. He has played with many other musicians from a wide range of styles and backgrounds as well as created arrangements for artists such as Archie Roach, Kate MillerHeidke, Laura Jean and Tim Minchin.

Photo credit: Sarah Walker

As Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra Peter has emerged as a significant international force in contemporary music, initiating commissions, collaborations, and performances with a diverse range of artists including recently, Anthony Braxton (USA), Nicole Lizée (Canada), Amir ElSaffar (USA), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land), Hyelim Kim (UK/Korea), Baliphonics (Sri Lanka), and Alvin Lucier (USA). He has also performed his works with the Orchestra at major international festivals with recent highlights including, JazzFest Berlin, and London Jazz Festival.

In addition to his role with the AAO, Peter regularly presents his music as both performer and composer in a range of settings; he also composes for contemporary theatre, film, and creates sound installations. He has won numerous awards, nominations, and fellowships.

He holds a doctorate from Queensland Conservatorium.

Photo credit: Sarah Walker

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About The Music Wata: a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra Paul Grabowsky writes: Wata is the latest chapter, and in a way a culmination, of a seventeen-year association I have enjoyed with the Wilfred clan from Ngukurr, NT. I was drawn to this collaboration by the exciting possibility of connecting with the world’s oldest performative musical tradition, one that continues to blossom and reveals facets of itself in the face of our linear-historical thinking about music, past, present and future. The form of the songs you will hear performed by these master musicians known as Daniel and David Wilfred is called manikay, cycles of poetic invocations of time and place intended for public ceremonial events. The titles of each of the seven parts of Wata carry concepts conveyed through the powerful ritual words sung by Daniel, and overseen by David. They are: 1. Ŋaraka-Wäƞa (Bone Country) in which the ancestor figure called Djuwalpada walks through the land as he creates, names and embodies it.

2. Lärra (Stone Spear Country) in which Djuwalpada runs through the land, joyfully.

The land rises up to meet him.

3. Marayunmara Gara (Spear Dance) in which Djuwalpada fashions a spear needed for hunting, setting in motion the cycle of birth, death and regeneration.

4. Yarrata (String Line) in which Djuwalpada makes a spear thrower. The title refers to the law which joins the manikay in one line from the deepest past, through the present, into the future. All things are bound by this line, this fundamental law.

5. Madayin (Ancestral Law). The spear in flight transcends time and place; these generative acts are renewed, relived with each performance. Manikay are openended musical statements. Anything which is accepted into an immediate sonic relationship to the manikay in effect becomes part of the manikay, as it represents a model of a holistically interconnected universe.

6. Wärrara (The Blood of the Setting Sun). Here the purifying Wata (here meaning ‘smoke’, another manifestation of Djuwalpada) settles his (and therefore our) troubled soul, preparing him for a journey away from this place.

7. Birrk-Birrk (The Lap-Winged Plover Flies on the Wind). Djuwalpada flies away in his guise as the plover, a totem representing the creator figure in his ever-present state, as he wishes us well on our individual journeys.

The Australian Art Orchestra and the Wilfreds (aka the Young Wägiluk Group) developed this collaboration over many years. The improvisations, themselves embedded within the manikay run as a skein linking the sections together. Now, the MSO have been welcomed into this living, breathing, organic musical world.

We are all one.

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Your MSO Xian Zhang

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Associate Principal

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Myra and Paul Kaufman

Robert Evans

Denise Kennedy and Damien Wohlfort

Douglas L Farch

Helen Kershaw

Jillian Fearon

John Keys

David and Catriona Ferguson

Phillip Kidd

Alisa Fiddes

Dorothy Kiers

Janette Fly

Daniel Kirkham

Elizabeth Fraser

Dr Anthony Klemm

Penny Fraser

Michael Koswig

Pamela Furnell

Pramote Kothanakul

Mary Gaidzkar

Peta Kowalski

Justin Gan

Viji and Margaret Krishnapillai

Elizabeth Giddy

Barbara Kuriata

Sonia Gilderdale

John and Wendy Langmore

Prue Gill

Peter Lawrence

Sandra Gillett and Jeremy Wilkins

Paschalina Leach

Craig W Gliddon

Anne Leversha and Roger Smith

Hugo and Diane Goetze

Bronwyn Lewis

Tim and Liz Grazebrook

Amanda Lynn

Christine Grenda

Dr Takako Machida

Rosemary Greness

Jane Madden

Terry Griffin

Amer Makhoul

Jennifer Grinwald

John L Martiensen

Richard Gubbins

Janice Mayfield

Jing Guo

Fred and Alta McAnda

Dawn Hales

Julie E McConville

Kay Hannaford

and Neil McEwen

R J Harden

Gail McGregor and Margaret Badminton

Phillip and Janette M Head

Shirley A McKenzie

Rev Kenneth Hewlett

Tracey and Lorraine McKerrow

Paul Higham

John and Rosemary McLeod

Margaret R Hook

Bernard McNamara

Katherine Horwood

Richard McQueen

Noelle Howell and Judy Clezy

Noreen C Megay

Linsey and John Howie

Jennifer and Andreas Meister

F Louise Jamson

Irene Messer

Professor Geoffrey Metz

Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead

Helen Midgley

Robyn and Bruce Ryan

Helen Miles

Justin-Paul Sammons

Dr Leigh and Margaret Mitchell

Grant Samphier

Anne Moon

Dr John C Sampson

Ann Moore

Ken Sandars

Peter Moran

Bev Sanders

Ian Morrey and Geoffrey Minter

Frances Scholtz

Peter Morris

Dr Peter Seligman

Joan Mullumby

Paul Selmo

Dr Bruce and Judy Munro

David Sherwood

Jennifer Murchie

Sally Shuter

Maureen Nakonesky

Dr Frank and Valerie Silberberg

Francis P Newman

Paul and Margarita Schneider

Barbara Nichol and Ian McCormick

Dr Max and Annette Simmons

Michael Noble

Libby Skilling

Jenny O’Brien

John E Smith

Conrad O’Donohue and Dr Rosemary Kiss

Margaret Smith

Uri and Nili Palti

Colin Squires

Dr Judith Paphazy

Geoff and Judy Steinicke

Jillian Pappas

Andrew Stephenson

Phil Parker

Professors Gabriela and George Stephenson

Sarah Patterson

Heather Stock

Ronald Pitcher AM

Rowan Streiff and Dr Murray Sandland

Dr James Polhemus

Ruth Stringer

Jill Poynton and Heather Maplesden

Nancy Sturgess

Sandra Price and Judy Hillman

Anthony Summers

Hendrik Prins

Ricci Swart

Kerryn Pryde

Helen M Symons

Professor Charles Qin and Kate Ritchie

Brett Thomas

Christine Rainford

Luanne Thornton

Marilyn Richards

Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman

Phillip M Richards

Michael Tomkins

Joy and David Ritchie

Alan and Glenda Trethewey

Lawrence and Anne Robinson

Noel and Jenny Turnbull

Marion Robertson and Linton Edwards

Dr Elsa Underhill and Professor Malcolm Rimmer

Thea Roche Alister Rowe Margaret and Roger Rush Anne Russell Dr Emily and Kevin Russo Judy Ryan

Dr Chris van Rompaey Gabrielle Vertessy Jillian Waddell Dr Adrian and Catherine Wallis Wendy and Robert Warren Supporters – 21

Amanda Watson

Matthew O’Sullivan

Margaret Watters

Rosia Pasteur

Angela Westacott

Penny Rawlins

Ken Whitney

Joan P Robinson

Agnes Wong

Neil Roussac and Anne Roussac-Hoyne

Joyce Woodroffe

Suzette Sherazee

Professor Barbara Workman

Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead

Lorna Wyatt

Anne Kieni-Serpell and Andrew Serpell

Harold Zwier

Jennifer Shepherd

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Prof Gabriela Stephenson and Prof George Stephenson

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

Pamela Swansson

Jenny Anderson

Lillian Tarry

David Angelovich

Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman

G C Bawden and L de Kievit

Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock

Lesley Bawden

Michael Ullmer AO

Joyce Bown

The Hon Rosemary Varty

Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John Brukner

Marian Wills Cooke and Terry Wills Cooke OAM

Ken Bullen

Mark Young

Peter A Caldwell

Anonymous (29)

Luci and Ron Chambers

The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates:

Beryl Dean Sandra Dent

Norma Ruth Atwell

Alan Egan JP

Angela Beagley

Gunta Eglite

Christine Mary Bridgart

Mr Derek Grantham

The Cuming Bequest

Marguerite Garnon-Williams

Margaret Davies

Dr Rhyl Wade and Dr Clem Gruen

Neilma Gantner

Louis Hamon OAM

The Hon Dr Alan Goldberg AO QC

Carol Hay

Enid Florence Hookey

Graham Hogarth

Gwen Hunt

Rod Home

Family and Friends of James Jacoby

Tony Howe Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James Audrey M Jenkins John Jones George and Grace Kass Bruce and Natalie Kellett Sylvia Lavelle Pauline and David Lawton Cameron Mowat David Orr

Audrey Jenkins Joan Jones Pauline Marie Johnston C P Kemp Peter Forbes MacLaren Joan Winsome Maslen Lorraine Maxine Meldrum Prof Andrew McCredie Jean Moore

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Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE

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Chairman Michael Ullmer AO Deputy Chairman David Li AM Managing Director Sophie Galaise Board Directors Andrew Dudgeon AM Danny Gorog Lorraine Hook Margaret Jackson AC Di Jameson David Krasnostein AM Hyon-Ju Newman Glenn Sedgwick Helen Silver AO Company Secretary Oliver Carton

Molly Stephens Halinka Tarczynska-Fiddian Jennifer May Teague Albert Henry Ullin Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood

EAST MEETS WEST Li Family Trust Biostime Swisse Xiaojian Ren & Qian Li Wanghua Chu and Dr Shirley Chu LRR Family Trust David and Dominique Yu

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Life Members Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC Sir Elton John CBE Harold Mitchell AC Lady Potter AC CMRI Jeanne Pratt AC Artistic Ambassadors Tan Dun

The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events.

The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows:

Lu Siqing MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC The MSO honours the memory of Life Members

$500+ (Overture)

John Brockman OAM

$2,500+ (Associate)

The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC

$5,000+ (Principal)

Roger Riordan AM

$10,000+ (Maestro)

Ila Vanrenen

$20,000+ (Impresario)

$1,000+ (Player)

$50,000+ (Virtuoso) $100,000+ (Platinum)

Supporters – 23

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