Song Cycles

SONG CYCLES

25 MAY 6.30PM

Iwaki Auditorium

ARTISTS

MSO Chorus

Warren Trevelyan-Jones Chorus Director

Timothy Mallis piano

PROGRAM

JOSEPH TWIST Timeless Land [30’]

JONATHAN DOVE CBE The Passing of the Year [22']

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For more than 50 years the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been the unstinting voice of the Orchestra’s choral repertoire. The MSO Chorus sings with the finest conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Manfred Honeck, Xian Zhang and Nodoko Okisawa, and is committed to developing and performing new Australian and international choral repertoire.

Commissions include Brett Dean’s Katz und Spatz, Ross Edwards’ Mountain Chant, and Paul Stanhope’s Exile Lamentations. Recordings by the MSO Chorus have received critical acclaim. It has performed across Brazil and at the Cultura Inglese Festival in Sao Paolo, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final and at the Anzac Day commemorative ceremonies.

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WARREN TREVELYAN-JONES CHORUS DIRECTOR

Warren Trevelyan-Jones is regarded as one of the leading choral conductors and choir trainers in Australia. He is Head of Music at St James’, King Street, Sydney, a position he has held since relocating to Australia in 2008. Under his leadership, The Choir of St James’ has gained a high-profile international reputation through its regular choral services, orchestral masses, concert series and a regular program of recording and both interstate and international touring.

Warren has had an extensive singing career as a soloist and ensemble singer in Europe, including nine years in the Choir of Westminster Abbey and regular work with the Gabrieli Consort, Collegium Vocale (Ghent), the Taverner Consort, The Kings Consort, Dunedin Consort, The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars.

He is also a co-founder of The Consort of Melbourne and, in 2001 with Dr Michael Noone, founded the ‘Gramophone’ award-winning group Ensemble Plus Ultra. In September 2017 he was appointed Chorus Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and has recently been appointed Chorus Master of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He is also an experienced singing teacher and qualified music therapist.

MSO CHORUS PERFORMING IN THIS CONCERT

SOPRANO

Philippa Allen

Julie Arblaster

Sheila Baker

Helena Balazs

Giselle Baulch

Samantha Davies

Keren Evans

Catherine Folley

Susan Fone

Carolyn Francis

Penny Huggett

Gina Humphries

Katie Lewis

Judy Longbottom

Caitlin Noble

Susie Novella

Tanja Redl

Beth Richardson

Jodi Samartgis

Julienne Seal

Fiona Steffensen

Elizabeth Tindall

Katy Turbitt

Asami Weaver

Veryan Croggon

ALTO

Judy Anderson

Ruth Anderson

Margaret Arnold

Tes Benton

Catherine Bickell

Cecilia Björkegren

Kirsten Boerema

Jane Brodie

Alexandra Chubaty

Juliarna Clark

Marie Connett

Nicola Eveleigh

Jill Giese

Natasha Godfrey

Debbie Griffiths

Ros Harbison

Jennifer Henry

Kristine Hensel

Christina McCowan

Charlotte Midson

Penelope Monger

Natasha Pracejus

Lisa Savige

Victoria Sdralis

Libby Timcke

Jacqueline Cheng

Claudia Funder

Sophia Gyger

TENOR

Kent Borchard

Steve Burnett

Peter Campbell

Allan Chiang

James Dipnall

Simon Gaites

Lyndon Horsburgh

Fergus Inder

Michael Mobach

Jean-Francois Ravat

Colin Schultz

Robert Simpson

Elliott Westbury

BASS

Maurice Amor

Kevin Barrell

Roger Dargaville

Ted Davies

Simon Evans

Michael Gough

Elliott Gyger

Andrew Ham

John Hunt

Gary Levy

Douglas McQueenThomson

Vern O’Hara

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PROGRAM NOTES

JOSEPH TWIST

b. 1982

Timeless Land: An Australian Song Cycle

1. Sunrise on the Coast

2. Andy’s Gone With Cattle

3. Wonga Vine

4. Magpie

5. Lorikeets

6. Jellyfish

7. Ashes

8. Time is Running Out

Timeless Land is a choral celebration of the beauty of Australia’s natural environment and the uniqueness of our flora and fauna, as expressed by our most celebrated poets. This cycle of choral songs traverses a comprehensive and contrasting array of Australian voices over the last century, with each movement presenting a setting of words by such poets as Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, Judith Wright, Michael Leunig, Les Murray and Oodjeroo Noonuccal. More importantly, in the wake of devastating bushfires and the continued effects of climate change on our world, the overarching message of this work is a lament for the continued destruction and depletion of Australian ecological wonders. The colourful celebration at the outset of the work is contrasted dramatically with statistics of natural devastation and species extinction, as the work reaches its climax with Noonucall’s Time Is Running Out; a passionate expression of the destruction of land stolen from First Australians, and an important voice in conveying the work’s overall message.

© 2024 Joseph Twist

JONATHAN DOVE CBE (b. 1959)

The Passing of the Year Song cycle for double chorus and piano

1. Invocation

2. The narrow bud opens her beauties to the sun

3. Answer July

4. Hot sun, cool fire

5. Ah, Sun-flower!

6. Adieu! Farewell earth’s bliss!

7. Ring out, wild bells

Jonathan Dove was born in London in 1959, sang in the Catholic Church as a child, and studied composition with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University. In 1981, he spent three months in India, where he soaked up the unique metrical and melodic frameworks of North Indian classical music. Returning to England, he worked as a freelance vocal accompanist and arranger before being named assistant chorus master at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1987.

A decade later, Glyndebourne Touring Opera offered Dove a breakthrough commission to write Flight, a comic opera inspired by the story of the Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived for years inside Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport (also the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal ). Dove has gone on to write more than 30 operas and a significant catalogue of vocal and instrumental music, including commissions from the BBC Proms, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award, two British Composers Awards, the Ivor Novello Award, and was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Dove has described his style as “modal and rhythmic,” embracing extended tonal harmonies and propulsive patterns, reminiscent of the Indian music he studied, as well as American minimalist and post-minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and John Adams.

The Passing of the Year, scored for double chorus and piano, was commissioned by the London Symphony Chorus and premiered at the Barbican Centre in March 2000. “I started looking for texts which I thought would be suitable for a large group of people to sing— something different from the intimate lyrics you might expect for a solo song,” Dove told the choral conductor Brendan Lord, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the piece. “I was imagining a songcycle, but it was only gradually that the idea emerged of a cycle following the cycle of the seasons.”

Still, this is no Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, with painterly scenes of weather and landscapes. Instead, the sevenmovement cycle (roughly divided into three sections) expresses a sense of change, inevitability, and loss. “Quite often I find … that I write things up which turn out to be actually quite personal, but I don’t notice that while I’m writing,” Dove said. After completing the piece, he dedicated it to the memory of his mother, who died at age 54 when he was only 20.

The first three movements focus on summer, with an Invocation and The narrow bud opens her beauties to the sun, both texts from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake (1757–1827), followed by a setting of Answer July by Emily Dickinson (1830–86). The Invocation contrasts sturdy calls of “O Earth, return!” with murmuring echoes of the same words. “The narrow bud” is more spacious and intimate, with solo turns for alto and tenor, and a touch of humming. This song also quotes a medieval English round, or rota, Sumer

is icumen in Lhude sing cuccu (Summer has arrived, Loudly sing, cuckoo!). Answer July pushes forward with a driving piano riff.

The second group of songs moves toward autumn with Hot sun, cool fire from the Elizabethan play The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe by George Peele (1556–96), followed by a return to Blake in Ah, Sun-flower!, and then another Elizabethan extract in Adieu!

Farewell earth’s bliss! from Summer’s last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe (1567–1601). Hot sun is hazy and impressionistic, running directly into Ah, Sun-flower! with gently rocking chords. Adieu! touches directly on death, and comes closest to sacred music.

Ring out, wild bells sets a poem by Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), and stands alone as the coda to the cycle. It brings back themes from the opening Invocation, creating a sense of closure by coming full circle.

© 2024 Benjamin Pesetsky

LIBRETTO

JOSEPH TWIST Timeless Land: An Australian Song Cycle

1. Sunrise on the Coast

– Banjo Patterson

Grey dawn on the sand-hills—the night wind has drifted

All night from the rollers a scent of the sea;

With the dawn the grey fog his battalions has lifted, At the call of the morning they scatter and flee.

Like mariners calling the roll of their number

The sea-fowl put out to the infinite deep. And far over-head—sinking softly to slumber—

Worn out by their watching, the stars fall asleep.

To eastward, where resteth the dome of the skies on

The sea-line, stirs softly the curtain of night;

And far from behind the enshrouded horizon

Comes the voice of a God saying “Let there be light.”

And lo, there is light! Evanescent and tender,

It glows ruby-red where ‘twas now ashen-grey;

And purple and scarlet and gold in its splendour—

Behold, ‘tis that marvel, the birth of a day!

2: Andy’s Gone With Cattle

– Henry Lawson

Sophia Gyger Alto

Our Andy’s gone with cattle now—

Our hearts are out of order

With drought he’s gone to battle now

Across the Queensland border

He’s left us in dejection now

Our thoughts with him are roving

It’s dull on this selection now

Since Andy went a-droving

Who now shall wear the cheerful face

In times when things are slackest

And who shall whistle round the place

When Fortune frowns her blackest

Oh, who shall cheek the squatter now

When he comes round us snarling

His tongue is growing hotter now

Since Andy crossed the Darling

The gates are out of order now

In storms the ‘riders’ rattle

For far across the border now

Our Andy’s gone with cattle

Poor Aunty’s looking thin and white

And Uncle’s cross with worry

And poor old Blucher howls all night

Since Andy left Macquarie

Oh may the showers in torrents fall

And all the tanks run over

And may the grass grow green and tall

In pathways of the drover

And may good angels send the rain

On desert stretches sandy

And when the summer comes again

God grant ’twill bring us Andy.

3. Wonga Vine – Judith Wright

Samantha Davies Soprano

Look down; be still. The sunburst day’s on fire, O twilight bell, flower of the wonga vine.

I gather you out of his withering light. Sleep there red; sleep there, yellow and white.

Move as the creek moves to its hidden pool. The sun has eyes of fire; be my white waterfall.

Lie on my eyes like hands, et no sun shine— O twilight bell, lower of the wonga vine.

4: Magpie – Michael Leunig

Magpie, magpie, dive on me, Swoop down from your holy tree; As I pass the flower bed Stick your beak into my head. Magpie, magpie, make a hole, Through my head into my soul: As I pass beneath the sun Bring my troubled head undone. Magpie, magpie it is spring Is my soul a happy thing? As I pass around the tree Make a hole so you can see.

5: Lorikeets – Peter Skrzyneki

North from the rain-forests

They invaded our trees

In their screeching flocks

Each morning, bringing summer On green-and-gold wings, crimson breasts, Purple rainbows of outspread tails:

These nomads that lay waste

To orchards and crops—camphorlaurels, Silky oaks, black bean-trees

Arching with blossoms and honey, Leaving the round darkened

With torn leaves, branches, empty buds, By midday they were gone Like a storm cloud—south or north We could never tell,

As they wheeled in circles

Above the valley forests

6: Jellyfish – Les Murray

Globe globe globe soft glass bowls upside down over serves of nutty udder and teats under the surface of the sun.

7: Ashes – Jack Twist

Katy Turbitt Soprano

A fading sun of dirty orange, horizon swathed in smoke, the sun goes down, relieved to leave a world of starless, darkening dust.

Morning shows a valley still beneath a blanket of black Smoke, from logs and fallen trees the only thing that moves.

A land of ash, up to the hills into the sallow sky.

What once were trees now still as death, like sentinels clad in black who guard a world of ashen waste that abounded once with life.

Rocks and stones that once made homes for creatures underneath an arched and shrivelled world, where once were tall providers of shelter and food for life.

Now mere tombs that shelter nought but bones of devastation.

Then one rock moves, of scorched and broken fur, lifts its head and tries to move, with pink paws flecked with blood.

Crouches, then surrenders low, again becomes the ash.

Dust to dust, disappears, awaits its final hours.

A hundred and forty three million mammals.

two point four six billion reptiles, fifty one million frogs, a hundred and eighty million birds.

8: Time is Running Out – Oodgeroo Noonuccal

The miner rapes

The heart of earth

With his violent spade. Stealing, botting her black blood

For the sake of greedy trade.

On his metal throne of destruction, He labours away with a will, Piling the mountainous minerals high With giant tool and iron drill.

In his greedy lust for power, He destroys old nature’s will. For the sake of the filthy dollar, He dirties the nest he builds.

Well he knows that violence

Of his destructive kind Will be violently written Upon the sands of time.

But time is running out And time is close at hand, For the Dreamtime folk are massing To defend their timeless land.

Come gentle black man Show your strength; Time to take a stand. Make the violent miner feel Your violent Love of land.

JONATHAN DOVE The Passing of the Year

1. Invocation – William Blake (1757–1827)

O Earth, O Earth, return!

2. The narrow bud opens her beauties to the sun – William Blake

Victoria Sdralis Alto Kent Borchard Tenor

The narrow bud opens her beauties to The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;

Blossoms hang round the brows of morning, and Flourish down the bright cheek of modest eve, Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing, And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round

The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

3. Answer July – Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

Answer July –Where is the Bee –Where is the Blush –Where is the Hay?

Ah, said July –Where is the Seed –Where is the Bud –Where is the May –Answer Thee – Me –

Nay – said the May –Show me the Snow –Show me the Bells –Show me the Jay!

Quibbled the Jay –Where be the Maize –Where be the Haze –Where be the Bur? Here – said the Year –

4. Hot sun, cool fire – George Peele (1556–96)

Hot sun, cool fire, temper’d with sweet air, Black shade, fair nurse, shadow my white hair: Shine, sun; burn, fire; breathe, air, and ease me; Black shade, fair nurse, shroud me and please me:

Shadow, my sweet nurse, keep me from burning, Make not my glad cause, cause of [my] mourning.

Let not my beauty’s fire Enflame unstaid desire, Nor pierce any bright eye That wand’reth lightly.

5. Ah, Sun-flower! – William Blake

Ah, Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller’s journey is done: Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.

6. Adieu! farewell earth’s bliss! – Thomas Nashe (1567–1601)

Adieu! farewell earth’s bliss! This world uncertain is: Fond are life’s lustful joys, Death proves them all but toys. None from his darts can fly: I am sick, I must die –Lord, have mercy on us!

Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health; Physic himself must fade; All things to end are made;

The plague full swift goes by: I am sick, I must die –Lord, have mercy on us!

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour:

Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair Dust hath closed Helen’s eye: I am sick, I must die –Lord, have mercy on us!

7. Ring out, wild bells – Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

O Earth, O Earth, return!

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the time; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

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Rob Jackson

Wendy Johnson

Irene Kearsey & Michael Ridley

John Keys

Lesley King

Dr Kim Langfield-Smith

Pauline and David Lawton

Paschalina Leach

Kay Liu

David Loggia

Helen Maclean

Eleanor & Phillip Mancini

Joy Manners

Morris and Helen Margolis

In memory of Leigh Masel

Janice Mayfield

Gail McKay

Shirley A McKenzie

Marie Misiurak

Adrian and Louise Nelson

Marian Neumann

Ed Newbigin

Valerie Newman

Amanda O’Brien

Brendan O’Donnell

Jillian Pappas

Phil Parker

Sarah Patterson

The Hon Chris Pearce and Andrea Pearce

William Ramirez

Geoffrey Ravenscroft

Dr Christopher Rees

Professor John Rickard

Michael Riordan and Geoffrey Bush

Fred and Patricia Russell

Carolyn Sanders

Dr Marc Saunders

Julia Schlapp

Hon Jim Short and Jan Rothwell Short

Madeline Soloveychik

Tom Sykes

Allison Taylor

Reverend Angela Thomas

Mely Tjandra

Chris and Helen Trueman

Rosemary Warnock

Amanda Watson

Michael Whishaw

Deborah and Dr Kevin Whithear OAM

Adrian Wigney

Charles and Jill Wright

Anonymous (13)

FUTURE MSO ($1,000+)

Justine Battistella

Shayna Burns

Jessica Agoston Cleary

Alexandra Champion de Crespigny

Josh Chye

Barry Mowszowski

Jayde Walker

Demetrio Zema

MSO GUARDIANS

Jenny Anderson

David Angelovich

Lesley Bawden

Peter Berry and Amanda Quirk

Joyce Bown

Patricia A Breslin

Jenny Brukner and the late John Brukner

Peter A Caldwell

Luci and Ron Chambers

Sandra Dent

Sophie E Dougall in memory of Libby Harold

Alan Egan JP

Gunta Eglite

Marguerite Garnon-Williams

Dr Clem Gruen and Dr Rhyl Wade

Louis J Hamon OAM

Charles Hardman and Julianne Bambacas

Carol Hay

Dr Jennifer Henry

Graham Hogarth

Rod Home

Lyndon Horsburgh

Katherine Horwood

Tony Howe

Lindsay and Michael Jacombs

John Jones

Pauline and David Lawton

Robyn and Maurice Lichter

Christopher Menz and Peter Rose

Cameron Mowat

Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James

David Orr

Matthew O’Sullivan

Rosia Pasteur

Penny Rawlins

Margaret Riches

Anne Roussac-Hoyne and Neil Roussac

Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead

Anne Kieni Serpell and Andrew Serpell

Jennifer Shepherd

Suzette Sherazee

Professors Gabriela and

George Stephenson

Pamela Swansson

Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman

Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock

Peter and the late Elizabeth Turner

Michael Ullmer AO

The Hon Rosemary Varty

Francis Vergona

Terry Wills Cooke OAM and the late Marian Wills Cooke

Mark Young

Anonymous (23)

The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates:

Norma Ruth Atwell

Angela Beagley

Barbara Bobbe

Michael Francois Boyt

Christine Mary Bridgart

Margaret Anne Brien

Ken Bullen

Deidre and Malcolm Carkeek

The Cuming Bequest

Margaret Davies

Blair Doig Dixon

Neilma Gantner

Angela Felicity Glover

The Hon Dr Alan Goldberg AO QC

Derek John Grantham

Delina Victoria Schembri-Hardy

Enid Florence Hookey

Gwen Hunt

Family and Friends of James Jacoby

Audrey Jenkins

Joan Jones

Pauline Marie Johnston

Christine Mary Kellam

C P Kemp

Jennifer Selina Laurent

Sylvia Rose Lavelle

Peter Forbes MacLaren

Joan Winsome Maslen

Lorraine Maxine Meldrum

Prof Andrew McCredie

Jean Moore

Joan P Robinson

Maxwell and Jill Schultz

Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE

Marion A I H M Spence

Molly Stephens

Gwennyth St John

Halinka Tarczynska-Fiddian

Jennifer May Teague

Elisabeth Turner

Albert Henry Ullin

Jean Tweedie

Herta and Fred B Vogel

Daphne White

Joyce Winsome Woodroffe

Dorothy Wood

COMMISSIONING CIRCLE

Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC

Tim and Lyn Edward

Weis Family

FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE

John and Lorraine Bates

Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah

Golvan

Sascha O. Becker

Maestro Jaime Martín

Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence

Guy Ross

The Sage Foundation

The Kate and Stephen Shelmerdine Family Foundation

Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer

ADOPT A MUSICIAN

Margaret Billson and the late Ted Billson

Peter Edwards

Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan

Roger Young

Andrew Dudgeon AM

Rohan de Korte, Philippa West

Tim and Lyn Edward

John Arcaro

Dr John and Diana Frew

Rosie Turner

Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser

Stephen Newton

Dr Mary-Jane Gething AO

Monica Curro

The Gross Foundation

Matthew Tomkins

Dr Clem Gruen and Dr Rhyl Wade

Robert Cossom

Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC

Saul Lewis

Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM

Abbey Edlin

David Horowicz

Anne-Marie Johnson

Dr Harry Imber

Sarah Curro, Jack Schiller

Margaret Jackson AC

Nicolas Fleury

Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio

Elina Fashki, Benjamin Hanlon,

Tair Khisambeev, Christopher Moore

Peter T Kempen AM

Rebecca Proietto

The late Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM

Anthony Chataway

Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher

Craig Hill

Gary McPherson

Rachel Shaw

Anne Neil

Eleanor Mancini

Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield

Cong Gu

Patricia Nilsson and Dr Martin Tymms

Natasha Thomas

Andrew and Judy Rogers

Michelle Wood

Glenn Sedgwick

Tiffany Cheng, Shane Hooton

Anonymous

Prudence Davis

Anonymous

Rachael Tobin

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Life Members

John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC

Sir Elton John CBE

Lady Primrose Potter AC CMRI

Jeanne Pratt AC

Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer

Anonymous

MSO Ambassador

Geoffrey Rush AC

The MSO honours the memory of Life Members

The late Marc Besen AC and the late Eva Besen AO

John Brockman OAM

The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC

Harold Mitchell AC

Roger Riordan AM

Ila Vanrenen

MSO ARTISTIC FAMILY

Jaime Martín

Chief Conductor

Benjamin Northey

Principal Conductor

Artistic Advisor – Learning and Engagement

Leonard Weiss

Cybec Assistant Conductor

Sir Andrew Davis CBE †

Conductor Laureate (2013–2024)

Hiroyuki Iwaki †

Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)

Warren Trevelyan-Jones

MSO Chorus Director

Erin Helyard

Artist in Residence

Karen Kyriakou

Artist in Residence, Learning and Engagement

Christian Li

Young Artist in Association

Katy Abbott

Composer in Residence

Naomi Dodd

Cybec Young Composer in Residence

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

First Nations Creative Chair

Xian Zhang

East meets West Ambassador

Artistic Ambassadors

Tan Dun

Lu Siqing

MSO BOARD

Chairman

David Li AM

Co-Deputy Chairs

Margaret Jackson AC

Di Jameson OAM

Managing Director

Sophie Galaise

Board Directors

Shane Buggle

Andrew Dudgeon AM

Martin Foley

Lorraine Hook

Gary McPherson

Farrel Meltzer

Edgar Myer

Glenn Sedgwick

Mary Waldron

Company Secretary

Demetrio Zema

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:

$500+ (Overture)

$1,000+ (Player)

$2,500+ (Associate)

$5,000+ (Principal)

$10,000+ (Maestro)

$20,000+ (Impresario)

$50,000+ (Virtuoso)

$100,000+ (Platinum)

PRINCIPAL PARTNER

PREMIER PARTNERS

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM PARTNER

ORCHESTRAL TRAINING PARTNER

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

VENUE PARTNER

MAJOR PARTNERS

EDUCATION PARTNERS

Quest Southbank Ernst & Young

MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS

TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

The Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation, The Angior Family Foundation, Flora & Frank Leith Trust, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund

East meets West Program Supporters

Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Melbourne PROGRAM SUPPORTERS

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

SUPPORTERS

Ministry of Culture and Tourism China

CONSORTIUM PARTNERS