Performance of a Lifetime: LIVE | Concert Program 13-14 December 2021

Performance lifetime i ve 13–14 DECEMBER

Sidney Myer Music Bowl

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Concert Program

Presented by MSO Premier Partner, Ryman Healthcare.

Monday 13 December / 7.30pm Tuesday 14 December / 7.30pm Sidney Myer Music Bowl

Featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor Zan Rowe host

Guest Appearances from (in alphabetical order)

Kylie Auldist & Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos) Artists of The Australian Ballet Rhonda Burchmore Kate Ceberano Deborah Cheetham Alinta Chidzey & Des Flanagan (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) Gillian Cosgriff (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) Emma Donovan Lucy Durack Nicolette Fraillon (Orchestra Victoria) Virginia Gay Paul Grabowsky Kaiit Lior Ali McGregor Meow Meow Dannii Minogue Mo’Ju Courtney Monsma & Jemma Rix (Frozen the Musical) Josh Piterman (The Phantom of the Opera) Felix Riebl (The Cat Empire) Tim Rogers (You Am I) Liz Stringer

e m o c l e W What a year it has been. In fact, let’s make that two.

Earlier this year the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra launched a public campaign on behalf of the Victorian arts and entertainment community to encourage the people of Melbourne to roll up their sleeves and give their Performance of a Lifetime.

At that time our theatres and stages were dark. The music we play, the stories we tell, the songs we sing and the moves we dance, were temporarily silenced.

For the arts companies, artists, performers and theatre workers that make up this industry, it has certainly been a challenging time.

Performance of a Lifetime Live is an opportunity for the arts companies, theatre productions and live music artists of Melbourne to come together at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl and give back to the people of Melbourne. It is also a chance to get back on stage and let our extraordinary Victorian artists do what they do best.

Above all tonight is a moment to celebrate.

Welcome to Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s final concert for 2021. Enjoy the show!

Mark Sutcliffe Executive Producer MSO Presentations

This concert may be recorded for future broadcast on MSO.LIVE. In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for silencing and dimming the light on your phone.

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Repertoire ACT ONE Deborah Cheetham Acknowledgement of Country: Long Time Living Here

by Deborah Cheetham

The Australian Ballet Swan Lake Black Swan Pas de Deux Act II

by Tchaikovsky

Paul Grabowsky Angel Arr. Nicholas Buc

Liz Stringer The Metrologist Arr. Nicholas Buc

Deborah Cheetham Yilaambiyal

by Deborah Cheetham

Lior Compassion: VII. Avinu Malkeinu (Hymn of Compassion)

by Lior Attar and Nigel Westlake

Virginia Gay Monologue from Cyrano

Score by Xani Kolac, Additional Arr. Nicholas Buc

Meow Meow Un Año de Amor (C’est Irreparable)/Tear Down the Stars

Un Año de Amor (C’est Irreparable) by Nino Ferrer & Gaby Verlor, Arr. Evan Kuhlmann Tear Down the Stars Music by Iain Grandage, Lyrics by Meow Meow, Arr. Iain Grandage

Rhonda Burchmore Get Happy

Music by Harold Arlen, Lyrics by Ted Koehler, Arr. Tommy Tycho

Andy Lee Nothing Else Matters*

by James Hetfield & Lars Urlich, Arr. Nicholas Buc

Gillian Cosgriff Round the Twist

by Andrew Duffield, Arr. Nicholas Buc

Jemma Rix & Courtney Monsma I Can’t Lose You (from Frozen The Musical)

by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, Arr. Dave Metzger, Orch. Nicholas Buc

Josh Piterman The Music of the Night (from The Phantom of the Opera)

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webberm Lyrics by Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe

INTERVAL 4

Dannii Minogue This is It

by Van McCoy, Production Ian Masterson, Arr. Nicholas Buc

Kate Ceberano Pash

by Kate Ceberano & Mark Goldenberg, Arr. Ross Irwin

Kate Ceberano Sweet Inspiration

by Kate Ceberano & Rick Price, Arr. Ross Irwin

Lucy Durack At Last

by Harry Warren & Mack Gordon, Arr. Luke Speedy-Hutton

Ali McGregor Creep

by Radiohead, Arr. Nicholas Buc

Alinta Chidzey & Des Flanagan Your Song (from Moulin Rouge! The Musical)*

by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Arr. Justine Levine |Orch. Nicholas Buc

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ACT TWO

Kylie Auldist & Lance Ferguson Daydream

by Lance Ferguson & Kylie Auldist, Arr. Ross Irwin

Emma Donovan Pink Skirt

by Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, Arr. Nicholas Buc

Kaiit Natural Woman

by Kaiit (based on the song by Gerald Goffin/Carole King/Gerald Wexler), Arr. Nicholas Buc

Mo’Ju Native Tongue

by Mo’Ju & Rita Seumanutafa/Joel Ma, Arr. Jamie Messenger, Arrangement originally commissioned

by Orchestra Victoria.

Felix Riebl Everyday Amen

by Felix Riebl, Arr. Ross Irwin & Nicholas Buc

Tim Rogers Day in the Life

by John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Arr. Nicholas Buc

Tim Rogers Heroes

by David Bowie & Brian Eno, Arr. Nicholas Buc

* Monday performance only

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Yilaambiyal Beginning here, The Morning Star your silent companion Where are you going?

An ancient song will hold you As you fly now to your shining dream.

Acknowledging Country In the first project of its kind in Australia, the MSO has developed a musical Acknowledgment of Country with music composed by Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham AO, featuring Indigenous languages from across Victoria. Generously supported

by Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the MSO is working in partnership with Short Black Opera and Indigenous language custodians who are generously sharing their cultural knowledge.

The Acknowledgement of Country allows us to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which we perform in the language of that country and in the orchestral language of music.

Australian National Commission for UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

About Long Time Living Here In all the world, only Australia can lay claim to the longest continuing cultures and we celebrate this more today than in any other time since our shared history began. We live each day drawing energy from a land which has been nurtured by the traditional owners for more than 2000 generations. When we acknowledge country we pay respect to the land and to the people in equal measure.

As a composer I have specialised in coupling the beauty and diversity of our Indigenous languages with the power and intensity of classical music.

In order to compose the music for this Acknowledgement of Country Project I have had the great privilege of working with no fewer than eleven ancient languages from the state of Victoria, including the language of my late Grandmother, Yorta Yorta woman Frances McGee. I pay my deepest respects to the elders and ancestors who are represented in these songs of acknowledgement and to the language custodians who have shared their knowledge and expertise in providing each text.

I am so proud of the MSO for initiating this landmark project and grateful that they afforded me the opportunity to make this contribution to the ongoing quest of understanding our belonging in this land.

— Deborah Cheetham AO

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Production Credits Executive Producer Mark Sutcliffe

Head of Operations James Foster

Film Production CVP – MSO Premier Production Partner David McKinnon (Director) Callum Walker (Vision Operator)

Orchestra Manager Helen Godfrey

Stage Manager Darren Kowacki

Associate Producer/Artist Liaison Stephen McAllan

Orchestra Manager Nina Dubecki Production Manager Steele Foster Production Coordinator Geetanjali Mishra Production Assistant Esther Carlin Artistic Administrator Michael Williamson Artistic Planning & Digital Rights Coordinator Hannah Cui Director of Marketing and Sales Dylan Stewart Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications Clare Douglas Digital Marketing Manager Emiko Hunt Digital Projects Manager Phil Paschke Graphic Designer Katya Dibb Marketing Assistant Emily Plater Publicist Prue Bassett Senior Manager, Sales & Customer Experience Shannon Toyne Box Office Manager Danielle Nicolaidis Orchestra Library Manager Luke Speedy-Hutton Orchestra Library Coordinator Veronika Reeves Orchestra Library Assistant Jennifer Powell MSO.LIVE Project Officer Andrew Groch Lighting Designer Alex Saad Lighting Services ResolutionX FOH Audio Engineer Alex Stinson Assistant Audio Engineer Adele Conlin Audio Services Norwest Ricky Gallagher (Monitors) Chad Lynch (System Design) Marcus Dyt (Floor Technician)

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Assistant Stage Manager Rosemary Osmond Annie Reid Programming Consultant Ali Webb Commissioned Arrangements Nicholas Buc Cyrano Score Xani Kolac Cyrano Filming Chloe Angelo – Director of Photography Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney Producer for Dannii Minogue Ian Masterson Yilaambiyal Film by Reko Rennie Editor Carlo Zeccola Music and Lyrics by Deborah Cheetham Originally commissioned by Rising Used by permission of Rising and Station Gallery Performance of a Lifetime (watch here) Produced by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Written & Directed by Emma Muir-Smith Producers Steele Foster & Liam Hennebry Published 19 July 2021 Hair & Makeup Celesté Jackson – Dannii Minogue Kerrie Stanley – Zan Rowe Otis Fantauzzo (Hair) Elisa Clarke (Makeup) Stylists Linda Britten – Alinta Chidzey, Courtney Monsma, Jemma Rix Rachel Dennis – Dannii Minogue Des Flanagan – Suit by Dom Bagnato

Ben Balfour, Andre Calman, Andrew Crowley, Mark Gogoll, James Grierson, Sarah Grynberg, Frank Hansen, Georgie Hagerty, Melanie Hiluta, Charlotte James, Andy Kent, Katie Krollig, Melissa Le Gear, Scott McKenzie, Dace McLuckie, Sarah McMillan, Lisa Mann, Mike Murray, Heléne Neuwirth, Al Parkinson, Eliza Paschke, Tania Patti, Scott Pietriche, Catherine Poulton, Wendy Richards, Sandy Rocca, Lee Rogers, Katie Rynn, Frank Stivala, Ali Webb, Peta Webb, Rebecca Young, Reuben Zylberszpic

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Special Thanks David Hallberg, Alex Wyatt – The Australian Ballet Sara Pheasant, Simonette Turner – Orchestra Victoria Virginia Lovett – Melbourne Theatre Company Lyndon Terracini, Pella Gregory – Opera Australia Paula McKinnon, James Robertson – Disney Theatrical Australia Carmen Pavlovic, Angela Dalton, Scott Dawkins – Global Creatures Michael Cassel, Rhys Holden, Kendra Reid, Jake Jarrett, Sophie Inkster – Michael Cassel Group Grace Herbert – Rising

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is a leading cultural figure in the Australian arts landscape, bringing the best in orchestral music and passionate performance to a diverse audience across Victoria, the nation and around the world.

Each year the MSO engages with more than 5 million people through live concerts, TV, radio and online broadcasts, international tours, recordings and education programs.

The MSO is a vital presence, both onstage and in the community, in cultivating classical music in Australia. The nation’s first professional orchestra, the MSO has been the sound of the city of Melbourne since 1906.

The MSO regularly attracts great artists from around the globe including AnneSophie Mutter, Lang Lang, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, while bringing Melbourne’s finest musicians to the world through tours to China, Europe and the United States.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations, on whose un‑ceded lands we honour the continuation of the oldest music practice in the world.

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Your MSO Jaime Martín

Chief Conductor Designate

Xian Zhang

Principal Guest Conductor

Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind#

FIRST VIOLINS

Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Tiffany Cheng Freya Franzen Cong Gu Andrew Hall Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young

Dale Barltrop

VIOLAS

Benjamin Northey Principal Conductor in Residence

Nicholas Bochner

Cybec Assistant Conductor

Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate

Hiroyuki Iwaki †

Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)

Concertmaster David Li AM and Angela Li#

Sophie Rowell

Concertmaster The Ullmer Family Foundation#

Tair Khisambeev

Assistant Concertmaster Di Jameson#

Peter Edwards

Assistant Principal

Christopher Moore Principal Di Jameson#

Christopher Cartlidge Associate Principal

Lauren Brigden Katharine Brockman Anthony Chataway

Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM#

Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Anne-Marie Johnson Kirstin Kenny Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor

Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones

SECOND VIOLINS

Miranda Brockman

Matthew Tomkins

Principal The Gross Foundation#

Robert Macindoe Associate Principal

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Monica Curro

Anne Neil#

Fiona Sargeant CELLOS David Berlin

Principal Hyon Ju Newman#

Rachael Tobin

Associate Principal

Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal

Michelle Wood

Andrew and Judy Rogers#

DOUBLE BASSES Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Frank Mercurio and Di Jameson#

Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#

FLUTES Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Wendy Clarke

Associate Principal

Sarah Beggs PICCOLO Andrew Macleod Principal

OBOES Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal

Ann Blackburn

The Rosemary Norman Foundation#

COR ANGLAIS Michael Pisani Principal

CLARINETS David Thomas Principal

Philip Arkinstall

Associate Principal

Geelong Friends of the MSO#

Craig Hill

Rohan de Korte

BASS CLARINET

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant

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Jon Craven Principal

Jack Schiller

TIMPANI

Principal

PERCUSSION

Elise Millman

John Arcaro

Associate Principal

Anonymous#

Natasha Thomas

Robert Cossom

Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson#

CONTRABASSOON Brock Imison

Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

HARP Yinuo Mu

Principal

Principal

HORNS

GUEST MUSICIANS

Nicolas Fleury

Guest Soloist Sulki Yu (Orchestra Victoria)

Principal Margaret Jackson AC#

Saul Lewis

Principal Third The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall#

Abbey Edlin

Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Trinette McClimont Rachel Shaw Gary McPherson#

TRUMPETS Owen Morris Principal

Shane Hooton

Associate Principal

William Evans Rosie Turner

John and Diana Frew#

TROMBONES Richard Shirley

Anonymous#

Mike Szabo

Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA Timothy Buzbee

Principal

First violin Zoe Black Phoebe Masel Lynette Rayner Second violin Jacqueline Edwards Madeleine Jevons Michael Loftus-Hills Oksana Thompson

Timpani Brent Miller Percussion Robert Allan Greg Sully Lara Wilson Harp Megan Reeve Keyboard/Band Leader Jack Earle Guitar Troy Downward Bass Patrick Schmidli Drums Kieran Rafferty

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BASSOONS

Backing Vocalists Nilusha Dassenaike Janine Maunder

Viola Ceridwen Davies Isabel Morse Cello Kalina Krusteva Zoe Wallace Double bass Rohan Dasika Emma Sullivan Oboe Annabelle Farid Trombone Cian Malikides

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C L I C K TO D O N AT E

Zan Rowe

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.

Zan Rowe is a broadcaster and fan, who has championed music over the past twenty years. She is the ABC’s National Music Correspondent, host of Double J Mornings and the Take 5 podcast, and co-host of the Bang On podcast with Myf Warhurst. When the headphones are off, she co-hosts ABC TV’s New Years Eve broadcast, and covers music festivals around Australia and the world.

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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.

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Ben Northey

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.

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Kylie Auldist & Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos)

Artists of T he Australian Ballet

The Bamboos are undoubted pioneers of Funk & Soul in Australia and their 10th studio album Hard Up is a consolidation of their now 21 years of hard graft in getting Australian Soul music accepted both here and worldwide. Their impact on what would become the now world-famous Melbourne Soul scene is undeniable, blazing a path and inspiring so many to play, record and explore new ideas in Soul, Funk, Jazz and Beats.

For almost 60 years, The Australian Ballet has been inspiring, delighting and challenging audiences through the power of its performances. A commitment to artistic vibrancy, a spirited style and a willingness to take risks have defined the company from its earliest days, both onstage and off.

Formed in 2000 by guitarist Lance Ferguson they held their own against the overwhelming tide of rock music on Australian venues. The band’s one of a kind lead vocalist Kylie Auldist joined the band in 2007 and in a short space of time they became one of the first local Funk & Soul live drawcards, establishing a reputation as one of the best live bands in the country regardless of genre.

International attention came quickly and they were the first Australian Funk & Soul act to be signed to an overseas label and then the first to tour overseas.

Along the way have been nominated for five ARIA Awards, three APRA Awards and have been invited to play many of the country’s top music festivals.

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For the last 20 years, through the leadership of its longest-serving artistic director, David McAllister, the company has evolved into a unique expression of Australian culture, crystallising the nation’s athleticism, aspiration to excellence and love of dance.

The company regularly represents Australia on the world stage and has performed to critical acclaim in numerous cities worldwide including New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, London and Paris. Caring for tradition yet daring to be different, The Australian Ballet performs beloved classical ballets and commissions new work annually; it presents upwards of 250 shows and 1,700 education and audience engagement events each year.

In addition to 80 exceptional dancers, The Australian Ballet employs master craftspeople and leaders in injury prevention, dance education, marketing and philanthropy as well as an orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, of over 60 musicians. (images Principal Artist Robyn Hendricks and Senior Artist Callum Linnane)

South African-born Robyn Hendricks began ballet classes aged eight after her grandfather observed her dancing on her toes all the time. Growing up in an academic family, Robyn was the first family member to pursue a creative passion. Training in the Cecchetti Syllabus, Robyn travelled to Melbourne in 2001 to participate in the annual Cecchetti International Competition. During the competition, she was approached by The Australian Ballet School and was asked to audition formally for entrance into the prestigious national school. During her time at The Australian Ballet School, Robyn was one of four students selected to participate in a student exchange to Canada, where she studied for four weeks with the National Ballet School in Toronto. She joined The Australian Ballet in 2005; she was promoted to soloist in 2011, to senior artist in 2016, and to principal artist the same year.

Callum Linnane grew up in Ballarat, Victoria. At the age of seven he began training in all styles of dance at the Ballarat Centre of Music and the Arts; he started ballet classes with Lauren Young at the age of eleven. Callum was accepted into The Australian Ballet School in 2008 and graduated dux with honours. He joined The Australian Ballet in 2015; he was promoted to coryphée in 2017 to soloist in 2018 and to senior artist in 2021.

From Sydney to London’s West End to the depths of the South African jungle, Rhonda Burchmore has endeared herself into the hearts of all Australians.

Highlights of Rhonda Burchmore’s illustrious career include performing on London’s West End in Sugar Babies featuring Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller, Stop The World I Want To Get Off with Anthony Newley, starring opposite David Atkins in the original Hot Shoe Shuffle and opening Crown Casino with her cabaret spectacular Red, Hot & Rhonda — playing to over 60,000 people.

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Rhonda Burchmore

Other productions include lead roles in Into the Woods, Mame, Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun, The Boyfriend, Urinetown, They’re Playing Our Song, Song & Dance, Guys & Dolls, Respect — A Musical Journey of Women, Little Orphan Trashley, Eurobeat, Calendar Girls, La Cage Aux Folles, Jerry’s Girls, The Drowsy Chaperone co-starring Geoffrey Rush and as Tanya in the original Australian production of Mamma Mia!

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Kate Ceberano

Deborah Cheetham AO

Fronting pop funk band I’M TALKING, Kate notched up 5 consecutive hit singles and a Platinum debut album ‘Bear Witness’ (The 100 Best Australian Albums). The year was 1986 and Kate won Most Popular Female Artist at the Countdown Awards.

Deborah Cheetham, Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and educator has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), for “distinguished service to the performing arts as an opera singer, composer and artistic director, to the development of Indigenous artists, and to innovation in performance”.

Kate’s racked up 28 albums over 35 years. 13 x Platinum status, 8 x Gold, 3 x ARIA awards and 7 nominations for Best Female Artist, Kate is Australian entertainment royalty. She performed across the country in the legendary Australian Made tour with INXS, Barnesy & Divinyls, starred in Jesus Christ Superstar with John Farnham, had her own hit tonight show Kate Ceberano & Friends on the ABC TV, won Dancing With The Stars, awarded an Order of Australia for services to arts and charity (2017), first Australian woman inducted into the Australian Songwriters Association (ASA) Hall of Fame in 2014, just to name a few of her milestones.

Kate’s latest album SWEET INSPIRATION (ARIA Top 5), places Kate in the pantheon of acts who have achieved Top 10 ARIA albums over 5 decades; 80s / 90s / 00s / 10s and now 2020s.

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In 2009, Deborah Cheetham established Short Black Opera as a not-forprofit opera company devoted to the development of Indigenous singers.

The following year she produced the premiere of the landmark work Pecan Summer, Australia’s first Indigenous opera. In 2019 her work Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace received its orchestral premiere at a sold-out performance with the MSO. Recent awards and honours include: Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia (2018); Merlyn Myer Commission Prize (2019); Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award (2019); Melbourne Prize for Music (2019); and, Limelight Magazine’s Artist of the Year (2019). In 2021 Deborah Cheetham was announced as MSO’s First Nations Creative Chair.

Des Flanagan

Alinta originated the role of Satine in Moulin Rouge! The Musical for Australian audiences. In a career highlights, Alinta played the famed role of Velma Kelly in Chicago for the Gordon Frost Organisation, and sassy Anita in West Side Story, which saw her nominated for several awards, including a Helpmann, Green Room and Sydney Theatre Award. In 2011 she won the Australian Dance Award for Most Outstanding Performance.

Des is honoured to be currently performing the role of Christian in Moulin Rouge Australia.

(Moulin Rouge! The Musical)

Alinta is an acclaimed jazz vocalist, songwriter and recording artist. She released her debut album with Hook Turn Orchestra, titled Jazz and the Silver Screen. She also released her original music with Alinta and the Jazz Emperors, titled I Got You. Alinta performed alongside Hugh Jackman in his Broadway to Oz tour (Dainty Group) and played Petra for the Victorian Opera season of A Little Night Music. She played Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar, Magnolia in Show Boat, Kathy Selden in Singin’ In the Rain, Svetlana in Chess, Niki Harris in Curtains and Sibella Hallward in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.

(Moulin Rouge! The Musical)

Des graduated from the VCA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre).

Since then, he has performed in several musicals, a highlight being Handa Opera’s West Side Story on Sydney Harbour under the direction of Francesca Zambello. Des most recently played Thomas in The Beautiful Game with Manilla Street Productions.

Other credits include Grease the Arena Experience (Harvest Rain) and The Songs of Pasek and Paul: You Will Be Found.

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Alinta Chidzey

Screen credits include T-Bone in Neighbours and in the acclaimed short film Rabbits directed by Riley Sugars in which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at Black Bird International Film Festival New York.

Des is proudly represented

by AMM.

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Gillian Cosgriff (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) Gillian is a singer, writer, actor, musician, and comedian who graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2010 with a Bachelor of Music Theatre.

Theatre credits include: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions); Vivid White (Melbourne Theatre Company); Company (Watch This); Loving Repeating (Vic Theatre Company); and The Pirates Of Penzance (The Production Company).

Television credits: ABC Comedy Up Late, Upfront Gala, Tonightly, Offspring, House Husbands, Fat Tony & Co., Ricketts Lane, Get Krack!n, and Back In Very Small Business. She has toured extensively with her solo shows as a comedian and cabaret performer, most notably at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Leicester Square Theatre in London. In 2018 she co-wrote the opera Lorelei for Victorian Opera with Casey Bennetto and Julian Langdon, which premiered at the Malthouse Theatre.

Emma Donovan Emma Donovan is an acclaimed Australian soul singer and songwriter best known for her work with rhythm combo The Putbacks and prior to this, The Black Arm Band project. Emma has toured and recorded with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, Spinifex Gum, Christine Anu, Yothu Yindi, Jimmy Little and Paul Kelly among others.

Starting her singing career at age seven, Emma appeared in family band The Donovans. On her mother’s side, Emma is part of the famed Donovan family of singers of the Gumbaynggirr people from Northern NSW. On her father’s side, Emma is of the Yamatji people in Western Australia.

In 2004, Emma was the subject of SBS documentary Gumbaynggirr Lady and in 2007 she joined The Black Arm Band, reproducing iconic songs of the Aboriginal resistance movement in a theatrical setting. The Band, consisting of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists was an enormously important group, producing a number of shows which toured internationally and helped establish the careers of a new generation of Indigenous singers.

Lucy is one of Australia’s most wellknown leading ladies with major roles to her credit including in Netflix hits Sisters and The Letdown, Nine Network/Acorn TV’s Doctor Doctor, as a judge on Australia’s Got Talent and onstage nationally as Glinda in Wicked, Princess Fiona in Shrek and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde for which she won a Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Award.

Lucy has appeared on stage in countless other musicals, plays and concerts and onscreen in films.

Lucy created and hosted My Soundtrack which was the ABC’s most downloaded radio show for the five summers of its run and features on albums Witches and her self titled album (on which she is also a songwriter), both for ABC Music.

Her screenwriting debut Lift in which she also stars premiered on Ten Peach, is available to be streamed on Ten Play and won the Best Screen Play Asia Web Award. Lucy’s second series Love in Lockdown, which she wrote and stars in, won the 2020 AACTA Award for Best Online Drama or Comedy. Lucy is about to star in Touching The Void for the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Nicolette Fraillon

(Orchestra Victoria) Nicolette Fraillon began her music studies on violin and piano at an early age, furthering her instrumental studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna and in Hannover.

In 1990 Nicolette moved to the Netherlands, where she became Assistant Musical Director for the 1991–92 season of Les Misérables, was invited to conduct for the Nederlands Dans Theater, and became Music Director and Chief Conductor of the National Ballet of the Netherlands.

During the following five years she worked with countless orchestras in Northern Europe before taking up the position of Director at the School of Music, Australian National University, and continuing her conducting work with Australian and international companies.

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Lucy Durack

She debuted with The Australian Ballet in 2002, and in 2003 was invited by David McAllister to become Music Director and Chief Conductor. Since joining the company, Nicolette has conducted all programs for The Australian Ballet, including all its overseas tours, and has been a guest conductor for San Francisco Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet.

Since 2014, Nicolette has also been Artistic Director of Orchestra Victoria.

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Virginia Gay

Paul Grabowsky AO

Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be Julia Gillard in the STC’s Wharf Revue, and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch.

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.

She won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress for Calamity Jane, starred in the film Judy & Punch which premiered at Sundance, and wrote and directed her first short film Paper Cut, which made Tropfest finals.

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. 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.

In 2020 she wrote two new plays: an adaptation of Cyrano for MTC (cancelled by lockdown on its opening night — what a time to be alive) and The Boomkak Panto for Belvoir, which will premiere November 2021 (crosses literally every bone in her body). She would have starred in both and will also co-direct The Boomkak Panto.

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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.

Lior

Papua New Guinea born, now Naarm/ Melbourne based, Kaiit (pronounced Ky-yeet) burst onto the scene in 2017 with her debut single “Natural Woman”.

The subsequent release of her debut EP Live From Her Room (and, in particular, the smoother-than-smooth love ballad “OG Luv Kush Pt 2”) fuelled her first sold out national tour and established her as a must-see act at Bigsound 2018.

Liorburst onto the Australian music scene in 2005 with his debut album Autumn Flow which has become one of the most successful independent debut releases in Australian music history. Lior has since released a further six albums and has toured extensively both in Australia and internationally.

He is a multi-ARIA award winner as well as an APRA Screen Award winner for his song-writing work for film and television.

Kaiit has gone on to build a truly global community of fans, amassing over 15 million streams and 50,000 followers on Spotify alone. She achieved a career highlight when she took home Best Soul/R&B Release at the 2019 ARIA Awards for “Miss Shiney”. On the live front, Kaiit has sold out multiple national tours, performed at Splendour in the Grass and Laneway Festival, and supported a number of international heavyweights, including SZA and The Internet. Her passion for jazz and soul is evident in her music, and was confirmed by neo-soul queens Jill Scott and Erykah Badu who personally claimed her as their ‘musical love child from down under’.

Performance of a lifetime | 13–14 December 2021

Kaiit

In 2014, Lior collaborated with Nigel Westlake on a symphonic song cycle for voice and orchestra called Compassion. Lior and Nigel Westlake toured Compassion with the major state orchestras and won the ARIA for Best Classical Album in 2014. In 2016, Lior premiered Compassion in the US with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and subsequently went on to win the 2016 Austin Table Critics’ Award for Best Symphonic Performance.

In 2019, Lior completed an international tour as the featured guest vocalist for the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s ‘Luminous’ concert series. Lior was recently awarded the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, awarded to only nine artists nationally across all artforms.

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Performance of a lifetime | 13–14 December 2021

Ali McGregor

Meow Meow

Ali McGregor started her career as a principal soprano with Opera Australia later diversifying onto the cabaret stage and was Artistic Director of Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2016–18. She has won multiple Green Room Awards for both opera and cabaret, a Helpmann Award for her portrayal of Yma Sumac: The Peruvian Songbird and was nominated for an ARIA in 2017 for best Children’s release. She is Creative Director of FLUXUS that brings new Australian work to the operatic stage, most notably the award winning ‘Lorelei’ for Victorian Opera.

Meow’s unique brand of entertainment has hypnotised audiences worldwide from London’s West End to Lincoln Centre New York. Her original music theatre works have been commissioned

by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Baryshnikov amongst others, and with orchestras she specialises in Weimar and French chanson repertoire as well as jump-cut explorations of Schubert and Schumann.

Meow has performed her “orchestrated chaos” with The London Philharmonic, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco Symphonies and her latest album Hotel Amour with Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale was ranked in the Times UK top 100 albums of 2019. Her theatre credits include on the West End in London, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, and a critically acclaimed Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at Royal Albert Hall.

She has created numerous fantastical song cycles including in Liverpool UK involving the city’s brass bands, a riot and a requiem in a graveyard. She performed recently at Hollywood Bowl with Pink Martini and in her original work at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and in Meow’s Pandemonium with Melbourne Symphony at Hamer Hall.

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Mo’ju

Very few experience the success and longevity in the entertainment industry Dannii has enjoyed. She first rose to prominence and became a household-name for her six-year role in the weekly Saturday night prime-time live variety show Young Talent Time.

As one of Australia’s biggest female exports, Dannii Minogue holds the music title Queen of the Clubs after scoring a record-breaking 14 Number One singles in the UK Dance Charts.

Dannii’s theatre and musical roles include her all-time favourite movie character ‘Rizzo’ in production of Grease the Arena Experience, playing to more than 450,000 around Australia, to the lead role ‘Esmeralda’ for five sell-out months in Notre Dame De Paris in the West End at London’s prestigious Dominion Theatre playing to a 2,000 strong audience, seven times a week.

Dannii’s television judging and hosting roles on Australian and UK television have taken up much of her career space for the last decade. She has starred in international formats including The X Factor UK, Australia’s Got Talent, Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model, The X Factor Australia and The Masked Singer. Dannii has graced the covers of international magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle and Marie Claire. She’s a fashion and entertainment icon with global success in the television, fashion, literary and music fields.

Mo’ju has been called “one of Australia’s most exciting singer/ songwriters”, 2018’s release Native Tongue was one of the year’s most important and awardwinning releases. 2019 saw the release of a mini-album Ghost Town, reaching into an electronica inspired sound and 2021 sees a new E.P. ‘O.K.’.

Performance of a lifetime | 13–14 December 2021

Dannii Minogue

Right before the pandemic, Mo’ju completed almost 200 shows on 3 continents in 18 months. Highlights included national tour supports for both The Hilltop Hoods and Paul Kelly, Festival dates including WOMAD and SXSW and 2 Headline tours including dates at Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Arts Centre. In February of 2021 Mo’ju returned to the stage with a full band for a one off show accompanied by the Victorian Orchestra at Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Mo’ju took on a BIGSOUND keynote address in 2019 and hosted her own panel in 2020, has spoken to media giants including SBS The Feed, VICE, Q&A and TheGuardian, and even delved into writings sessions at the famed Songhubs in Brooklyn. Currently Mo’ju is working on a 4th studio album.

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Performance of a lifetime | 13–14 December 2021

Courtney Monsma

Jemma Rix

Courtney is currently starring as Anna in Disney’s Frozen the Musical at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre.

Jemma Rix is one of Australia’s most prominent leading ladies of Musical Theatre. She is best known for her portrayal of Elphaba in Wicked, Over the course of eight years Jemma performed in excess of 1,200 shows. She received a Helpmann Award nomination and won a Theatre People Pro Choice Award for her performance.

(Frozen the Musical)

She played Katherine Howard in SIX The Musical presented by Michael Coppel, Louise Withers and Linda Bewick at the Sydney Opera House in 2020 and covered the roles of Princess Jasmine in the Australasian tour of Disney’s Aladdin and Sophie in the Australian tour of MAMMA MIA! presented by Michael Coppel, Louise Withers and Linda Bewick.

Other musical theatre credits include Opera Queensland’s Kiss Me Kate.

Courtney graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre.

At the Conservatorium, under the direction of Associate Professor Paul Sabey, Courtney appeared as Charity in Sweet Charity, Carmen in The Life and Maria in West Side Story. She also toured with the production of I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change.

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(Frozen the Musical)

Jemma is currently starring in the lead role of Elsa in Disney’s smash hit, Frozen the Musical.

Other leading role credits include: Lucy Harris, opposite Anthony Warlow, in Jekyll and Hyde in Concert; Molly Jenson in Ghost the Musical; Teen Angel in Grease and the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, for which she received a Helpmann Award nomination.

Jemma has performed at many special events including the Melbourne Cup, the Australian Open, the NRL State of Origin, Carols by Candlelight, Carols in the Domain and the Australian Olympic Team Presentation Night. One of the highlights of such occasions was performing for His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, for his 80th birthday.

Felix Riebl

Josh Piterman was the most recent Phantom in the brilliant original West End Production of The Phantom of the Opera in London, prior to the COVID shutdown. He has just been announced to return as Phantom in the upcoming Sydney Opera House season of The Phantom of the Opera, later in 2021.

Felix Riebl is a singer, songwriter, and composer based in Melbourne. He is the co-founder and band leader of the internationally acclaimed, and still un-categorizable The Cat Empire, who have made 7 multi-platinum albums, played around the world becoming one of the most loved and unique stories of Australian music over the past decade.

In 2021, Felix will release a solo album as well as tour with The Cat Empire in a special series of shows.

(The Phantom of the Opera)

Josh kicked off his career performing with the International pop opera group The Ten Tenors and then made his mark as Tony in the 2010 Australian production of West Side Story. His other musical theatre credits include Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger in the 2016 season of Cats, a role that won him the Green Room Award for Best Supporting Actor in A Musical; Edward in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers; Corny Collins in the UK tour of Hairspray; The Caliph in Kismet; Giuseppe in The Light in the Piazza; Jamie in The Last Five Years and Gerry Goffin in the Australian tour of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. In 2018 his debut self titled album went to number 1 on both the Aria and iTunes Charts (Classical Crossover) in Australia.

(The Cat Empire)

Performance of a lifetime | 13–14 December 2021

Josh Piterman

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Performance of a lifetime | 13–14 December 2021

T im Rogers

Liz Stringer

Thirty-one years after setting off on a great rock’n’ adventure with You Am I, Tim Rogers is still operating at the top of his game, not in retirement but writing songs as rich and memorable, and as heart-breaking too, as any he has ever written.

Liz Stringer is one of Australia’s most admired and versatile songwriters and instrumentalists. A venerated guitarist and vocalist, her notoriously powerful live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs have earned her a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era.

The evidence is there on this year’s The Lives of Others, the 11th studio album from You Am I. It is an album recorded under difficult circumstances during a pandemic yet soaring from the speakers with all the power and grace under pressure of the band’s earlier classics like Hi Fi Way and Hourly, Daily.

The Lives of Others follows the 2017 Rogers solo set An Actor Repairs, the kind of record which confirms that, in certain circumstances, a songwriter can keep on getting better through the years. It features The Umpires Son, a story of childhood so vivid that you can almost smell the liniment and hear the bounce of ball on turf. Other songs, like One More Late Night Conversation and A Mother Daughter Thing, reveal the emotional honesty that songwriters can find with a lifetime of experience.

If you didn’t already know that Rogers is one of the great lyricists as well as one of the finest writers of a melody that Australia has ever produced, these two albums will set you straight.

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2019 saw the release of collaborative project Dyson Stringer Cloher’s self-titled debut album through Melbourne’s Milk! records to wide media acclaim and a sold-out headline tour and Stringer was honoured at Woodford Folk Festival as an ‘emerging legend of Australian song’ with a performance of selections from her back catalogue by her musical peers.

Liz Stringer’s sixth studio album—First Time Really Feeling— through Milk!

Records / Remote Control Records is a ten-song collection documenting a recent reckoning and metamorphosis for the acclaimed Australian singersongwriter.

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ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS Chief Conductor Jaime Martín Dr Marc Besen AC and the late Dr Eva Besen AO Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair Nicholas Bochner The Cybec Foundation Concertmaster Chair Sophie Rowell The Ullmer Family Foundation Concertmaster Chair Dale Barltrop David Li AM and Angela Li Assistant Concertmaster Tair Khisambeev Di Jameson Young Composer in Residence Matthew Laing The Cybec Foundation

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