Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala: Carmina Burana

CONCERT PROGRAM

RYMAN HEALTHCARE WINTER GALA

CARMINA BURANA

4–6 JULY

Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

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ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Jaime Martín conductor William Barton yidaki Kathryn Radcliffe soprano Andrew Goodwin tenor Christopher Tonkin bass MSO Chorus Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus director Young Voices of Melbourne Mark O’Leary OAM chorus director

PROGRAM R. STRAUSS Don Juan [17'] SCULTHORPE Earth Cry [11'] – Interval – ORFF Carmina Burana [65'] Our musical Acknowledgment of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, will be performed at these concerts.

CONCERT EVENTS PRE-CONCERT TALKS Want to learn more about the music being performed? Arrive early for an informative and entertaining pre-concert talk with Nicholas Bochner (Head of Learning of Engagement), Leonard Weiss (Cybec Assistant Conductor) and Gabrielle Halloran (MSO violist).

4 July at 6.45pm in the Stalls Foyer on Level 2 at Hamer Hall.

5 July at 6.45pm in the Stalls Foyer on Level 2 at Hamer Hall.

6 July at 1.15pm in the Stalls Foyer on Level 2 at Hamer Hall.

These concerts may be recorded for future broadcast on MSO.LIVE.

Duration: 2 hours including interval.

Timings listed are approximate.

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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 Fraillon 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.

About Long Time Living Here As a Yorta Yorta/Yuin composer the responsibility I carry to assist the MSO in delivering a respectful acknowledgement of country is a privilege which I take very seriously. I have a duty of care to my ancestors and to the ancestors on whose land the MSO works and performs.

As MSO continues to grow its knowledge and understanding of what it means to truly honour the First people of this land, the musical acknowledgment of country will serve to bring those on stage and those in the audience together in a moment of recognition as as we celebrate the longest continuing cultures in the world.

– Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

Australian National Commission

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for UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Committed to shaping and serving the state it inhabits, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is Australia’s preeminent orchestra and a cornerstone of Victoria’s rich, cultural heritage.

Each year, the MSO and MSO Chorus present more than 180 public events across live performances, TV, radio and online broadcasts, and via its online concert hall, MSO.LIVE, engaging an audience of more than five million people in 56 countries.

In 2024 the organisation will release its first two albums on the newly established MSO recording label.

With an international reputation for excellence, versatility and innovation, the MSO works with culturally diverse and First Nations artists to build community and deliver music to people across Melbourne, the state of Victoria and around the world.

In 2024, Jaime Martín leads the Orchestra for his third year as MSO Chief Conductor.

Maestro Martín leads an Artistic Family that includes Principal Conductor Benjamin Northey, Cybec Assistant Conductor Leonard Weiss CF, MSO Chorus Director Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Composer in Residence Katy Abbott, Artist in Residence Erin Helyard, MSO First Nations Creative Chair Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, Young Cybec Young Composer in Residence Naomi Dodd, and Artist in Association Christian Li. 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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MUSICIANS PERFORMING IN THIS CONCERT

VIOLAS Christopher Moore Principal Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio#

Acting Associate Concertmaster Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio#

Jos Jonker

Lauren Brigden William Clark Aidan Filshie Gabrielle Halloran Fiona Sargeant Andrew Crothers* Karen Columbine* Isabel Morse* Kate Worley*

Peter Edwards

Monica Curro

Assistant Principal Dr Mary-Jane Gething AO#

CELLOS

FIRST VIOLINS

SECOND VIOLINS

Glenn Christensen*

Matthew Tomkins

Guest Concertmaster

Tair Khisambeev

Assistant Principal Margaret Billson and the late Ted Billson#

Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Karla Hanna Kirstin Kenny Eleanor Mancini Anne Neil#

Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Anna Skálová Kathryn Taylor Zoe Black* Jacqueline Edwards* Michael Loftus-Hills*

Principal The Gross Foundation# Acting Associate Principal

Mary Allison Isin Cakmakçioglu Freya Franzen Cong Gu

David Berlin Principal

Rachael Tobin

Associate Principal Anonymous#

Rohan de Korte

Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield#

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Andrew Hall Robert Macindoe Isy Wasserman Philippa West

Peter T Kempen AM#

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Patrick Wong Juliette Boirayon*

Rebecca Proietto Angela Sargeant Caleb Wong Jonathan Chim* Anna Pokorny* Zoe Wallace*

DOUBLE BASSES Jonathon Coco Principal

Stephen Newton

Acting Associate Principal Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#

Benjamin Hanlon

Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio#

Suzanne Lee Caitlin Bass° Emma Sullivan° Luca Arcaro* Benjamin Saffir*

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Correct as of 21 June 2024.

Learn more about our musicians on the MSO website.

BASSOONS

TROMBONES

Prudence Davis

Elise Millman

Don Immel°

Tasman Compton^

Richard Shirley Mike Szabo

Principal Jean Hadges#

Wendy Clarke

Associate Principal

Sarah Beggs

PICCOLO Andrew Macleod Principal

Associate Principal

CONTRABASSOON Brock Imison Principal

HORNS Nicolas Fleury

Acting Principal

Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA Timothy Buzbee Principal

OBOES

Principal Margaret Jackson AC#

TIMPANI

Michael Pisani

Abbey Edlin

Principal

Ann Blackburn

Josiah Kop Rachel Shaw

PERCUSSION

Gary McPherson#

Principal

Natalia Edwards*

John Arcaro

TRUMPETS

Robert Cossom

Acting Associate Principal

COR ANGLAIS Rachel Curkpatrick° Acting Principal

CLARINETS David Thomas Principal

Craig Hill

Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher#

BASS CLARINET Jon Craven Principal

The Hanlon Foundation#

Matthew Thomas

Shaun Trubiano Tim and Lyn Edward#

Owen Morris

Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

Shane Hooton

Marc Damoulakis* Hugh Tidy* Scott Weatherson*

Principal

Associate Principal Glenn Sedgwick#

Rosie Turner

John and Diana Frew#

HARP

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FLUTES

Yinuo Mu Principal

KEYBOARD Aidan Boase* Louisa Breen* Laurence Matheson*

* Denotes Guest Musician ^ Denotes MSO Academy ° Denotes Contract Musician # Position supported by

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JAIME MARTÍN CONDUCTOR

Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2022, Jaime Martín is also Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (Spanish National Orchestra) for the 22/23 season and was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2022.

Having spent many years as a highly regarded flautist, Jaime turned to conducting full-time in 2013, and has become very quickly sought after at the highest level.

Recent and future engagements include appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE (ORTVE) and Galicia Symphony orchestras, as well as a nine-city European tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Martín is the Artistic Advisor and previous Artistic Director of the Santander Festival.

He was also a founding member of the Orquestra de Cadaqués, where he was Chief Conductor from 2012 to 2019.

Jaime Martín’s Chief Conductor Chair is supported by the Besen Family Foundation in memory of Eva and Marc Besen.

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William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as a highly esteemed composer, instrumentalist and vocalist. William first learnt the instrument from his uncle, Arthur Peterson, an Elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people and was working from an early age with traditional dance groups, fusion/rock/jazz bands, orchestras, string quartets and mixed ensembles.

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WILLIAM BARTON YIDAKI

Throughout his diverse career he has forged a path in the classical musical world from the London, Berlin and Bremer Philharmonic Orchestras to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli and the Beijing Olympics.

William holds honorary doctorates from both Griffith University and the University of Sydney. He has released 5 albums on the ABC Classics label including Heartland 2022 with Veronique Serret and the words of William’s mother, Aunty Delmae Barton.

William has been developing a new musical language, which is epitomised in this record. William was named Queensland Australian of the Year for 2023 and was an Australian of the Year Nominee. In 2023 he also received the Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music.

In 2022 he was recognised for his work with the Australian Chamber Orchestra for the Soundtrack of the film River. River won Best Soundtrack Album and Best Original Song Composed for the Screen at the APRA AMCOS Screen Awards, Best Original Score in a Documentary at the AACTA Awards and Best Original Soundtrack at the ARIA Awards. His other awards include the prestigious Don Banks Music Award from the Australian Council in 2021, winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album at the ARIA Awards for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012.

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KATHRYN RADCLIFFE SOPRANO

In 2021, Kathryn Radcliffe sang Leila in Victorian opera’s production of The Pearl Fishers – appearing also in Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty and Kevin March’s new opera Echo and Narcissus. In 2022, she appeared in Elektra for VO and was soprano soloist in Melbourne Symphony’s Messiah and Melbourne Bach Choir’s Creation.

2023 engagements for Victorian Opera included Ilia (Idomeneo) and Italian Singer (Capriccio) and Orff’s Carmina Burana for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Kathryn made her Opera Australia mainstage début as Delia in Il viaggio a Reims.

For Victorian Opera, she has sung Berta in The Barber of Seville and The Queen in The Princess and the Pea; for Tasmanian Symphony – Frasquita in Carmen.

Winner of the 2014 Herald-Sun Aria, she starred the following year as Pamina in Opera Australia’s touring production of The Magic Flute and won the Opera Foundation Vienna Award.

For the Vienna State Opera, she made her debut in The Cunning Little Vixen and covered roles such as Pamina, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Ortlinde in Die Walküre, Pousette in Manon, Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos and The High Priestess in Aida.

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Andrew Goodwin has appeared with opera companies and orchestras in Europe, Asia and Australia including the Bolshoi Opera, Gran Theatre Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, La Scala Milan, Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney Chamber Opera, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia, the New Zealand, Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Moscow and Melbourne Chamber Orchestras, and in recital with pianist Daniel de Borah at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder, Port Fairy and Canberra International Music Festivals.

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ANDREW GOODWIN TENOR

This year Andrew returns to Adelaide Festival as Renaud in Stravinksy’s The Nightingale and other fables, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for Elijah, Melbourne Bach Choir for Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios, and each of the Australian Symphony orchestras in repertoire ranging from Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C, Haydn’s Harmony Mass to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.

Recent engagements have included Handel’s Il Trionfo with Yulia Lezhneva and Dmitry Sinkovsky (Moscow), Beethoven No.9, (Brandenburg State Orchestra), Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Adelaide Festival), Jacquino, Fidelio (West Australian Symphony Orchestra), Diary of one who disappeared and Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera), Nadir, The Pearlfishers (State Opera South Australia), Artaxerxes title role (Pinchgut Opera).

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CHRISTOPHER TONKIN BASS

Australian baritone Christopher Tonkin has appeared throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Roles include Il Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Valentin (Faust), Pollux (Castor et Pollux), Anténor (Dardanus), Robert (Iolanta), Maximilian (Candide), Sam (Trouble in Tahiti), Ping (Turandot), Sharpless (Butterfly), Algerian (Intolleranza), Tarquinius (Rape of Lucretia), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos).

In Australia, Christopher’s performances have included Marcello (La bohème), the Count (Capriccio) and Novice’s Friend (Billy Budd) for Opera Australia; the Black Minister (Le Grand Macabre) Adelaide Festival; Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore, Green Room Award nomination) and Chou En-Lai (Nixon in China) for Victorian Opera; Silvio (Pagliacci) for West Australian Opera and Don Giovanni for Melbourne Opera.

On the concert platform, notable performances include, Der Tod Jesu (Lucerne Festival), Carmina Burana, Messiah and Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 (MSO and QSO) Duruflé Requiem (Auckland Choral Society), Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater (The Barbican Centre) and Haydn’s Nelson Mass (Victoria Chorale).

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, and the VCA, Melbourne, Christopher was resident principal baritone at Staatsoper Hannover, Germany 2010–2016.

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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.

The MSO Chorus is always welcoming new members. If you would like to audition, please visit mso.com.au/chorus for more information.

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 highprofile international reputation through its regular choral services, orchestral masses, concert series and a regular program of recording and both interstate and international touring.

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MSO CHORUS

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.

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MSO CHORUS PERFORMING IN THIS CONCERT SOPRANO

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Shirin Albert Giselle Baulch Anne-Marie Brownhill Eva Butcher Ariel Chou Gabrielle Connell Michele de Courcy Clarissa Dodawec Keren Evans Catherine Folley Carolyn Francis Karina Gough Juliana Hassett Penny Huggett Gina Humphries Theresa Lam Natasha Lambie Katie Lewis Charlene Li Susie Novella Karin Otto Tanja Redl Beth Richardson Jo Robin Danielle Rosenfeld-Lovell Jodi Samartgis Jillian Samuels Jemima Sim Eleanor Smith Fiona Steffensen Elizabeth Tindall Katy Turbitt Fabienne Vandenburie Asami Weaver Tara Zamin Veryan Croggon

Ruth Anderson Judy Anderson Catherine Bickell Cecilia Bjorkegren Kate Bramley Jane Brodie Alexandra Chubaty Juliarna Clark Lesley Collins Mari Eleanor-Rapp Dionysia Evitaputri Lisa Faulks Debbie Griffiths Ros Harbison Jennifer Henry Kristine Hensel Helen Hill Yvonne Ho Helen MacLean Christina McCowan Penelope Monger Nicole Paterson Natasha Pracejus Alison Ralph Kate Rice Kerry Roulston Lisa Savige Melvin Tan Jacqueline Cheng Claudia Funder Julie Lotherington

James Allen Adam Birch Kent Borchard Steve Burnett Allan Chiang Keaton Cloherty James Dal-Ben James Dipnall Simon Gaites Lyndon Horsburgh Michael Mobach Jean-Francois Ravat Colin Schultz Robert Simpson Cameron Tait Elliott Westbury Stephen Wood

Correct as of 21 June 2024.

BASS Maurice Amor José Miguel Armijo Fidalgo Kevin Barrell Richard Bolitho Stephen Bordignon Roger Dargaville Peter Deane Simon Evans Andrew Ham John Howard Jordan Janssen Tim March Douglas McQueenThomson Douglas Proctor Stephen Pyk Liam Straughan Caleb Triscari

YOUNG VOICES OF MELBOURNE Young Voices of Melbourne was founded by Mark O’Leary OAM in 1990, and is now regarded as one of Australia’s finest choral programs for young singers. Its choirs are admired for their passionate performances, engaging repertoire and outstanding Kodály based music education program (Sight Singing School) which is now used in over 50 countries.

Young Voices of Melbourne performs regularly in and around Melbourne, and has released 13 recordings. The choir has performed for major events such as the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006, as well as at popular events such as the National Folk Festival in Canberra, and Festival of Voices in Hobart.

It regularly hosts visiting choirs from overseas and interstate, and its voice was widely heard singing the theme song of Chris Lilley’s popular television shows We Can be Heroes, and Summer Heights High.

The choir has a proud history of touring, having undertaken 40 tours to all states and territories of Australia as well as to Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, the USA, Ireland, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Samoa, New Zealand and Japan.

PERFORMING IN THIS CONCERT Teresa Anthony Alex Brown Kian Carter-Fourcroy Ryan Carter-Fourcroy Lila Chatfield Adele Finn Benjamin Fullarton

Jarrah Gillan Marcus Harders Poppy Heyden Zoe Kalanis Celia Langley Pearl Lee Ava Loke

Evelyn Mitchell Kempe Sabrina Mott Marianne Panas Nyah Trewin Hailey Wu Bella Xie

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PROGRAM NOTES RICHARD STRAUSS

(1864-1949) Don Juan

In Nicolas Lenau’s incomplete drama Don Juan (1884), the eponymous antihero sets out to experience the love of women in the most comprehensive way possible. But as the posse of spurned lovers, enraged fathers and illegitimate children begins to prove bothersome, the Don begins to tire of the chase.

Challenged to a duel, and fatigued by the prospect of yet another victory, he throws away his sword and is run through by his adversary.

Taking the Lisztian notion of the tone poem as his guide, while still adhering reasonably closely to traditional sonata form, the young Strauss set out to ‘dramatises’ through music the various stages of Don Juan’s career, clearly contrasting the predatorial Don with the token protestations of his conquests.

Gradually, however, as we enter the mind of Don Juan, fleeting doubts and wisps of dark themes begin to creep in. They are held at bay for a time by recapitulation of the main themes and the perennial sense of action bursting forth. But the end is inevitable, and the duel’s huge orchestral crescendo comes to a dramatic halt: the sword through the gizzard is conveyed in a sustained pianissimo chord, pierced suddenly by a trumpet shriek, and a few dying whimpers.

The 25-year-old Strauss conducted the premiere, on 11 November 1889.

It was a huge was a huge success, despite the initial reticence of an orchestra who had never encountered such technical difficulties before.

Several of the wind players pleaded

for mercy during rehearsals, but they soon recognised that these ‘novelties’ actually demonstrated a phenomenal understanding of the instruments, and Don Juan has remained one of Strauss’ most played orchestral works.

Adapted from a note by Martin Buzacott © 2001

PETER SCULTHORPE

(1929–2014) Earth Cry

William Barton yidaki Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe graduated from the University of Melbourne and then studied at Oxford with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra before returning to Australia. He taught at Sydney University and was a visiting professor at both the University of Sussex and Yale University. In his own music, Sculthorpe attempted to express something uniquely Australian, and the inspiration and many of the titles of his works reflect his awareness of the vast Australian landscape, the influence of Aboriginal languages and music, and— later—the complex rhythms of several of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Rim. Earth Cry was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Company in 1985 and was composed the following year. It was premiered in Adelaide on August 22, 1986 by the Adelaide Symphony under the direction of Jorge Mester. The composer himself prepared a program note, which has been made available by his publisher, Faber Music: My initial idea for this work was to write the second piece of a projected Mangrove series. I found, however, that my thoughts were more concerned with Australia as a whole than with particular parts of it. For instance, whenever I have returned from abroad in recent years, this country has seemed to me to be one of the last places on earth

Eric Bromberger © 2019

CARL ORFF

(1895–1982)

Carmina Burana Kathryn Radcliffe soprano Andrew Goodwin tenor Christopher Tonkin bass In 1803 a large collection of medieval poetry was discovered in the abbey of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria. Its 320 poems, written on parchment and illustrated with illuminated capital letters, represent an anthology of styles and languages including medieval Latin, Old French and Middle High German.

It seems that the collection was compiled for the Bishop of Seckau in 13th century Austria. The Bishop must have been quite worldly as the collection includes songs of springtime and love as well as drinking songs. In the mid 1930s the collection came to the attention of Carl Orff who later remarked: Fortune smiled on me when she put into my hands a Würzburg secondhand books catalogue, in which I found a title that exercised on me an attraction of magical force: Carmina burana: Latin and German songs and poems of a 13thcentury manuscript from Benediktbeuern, edited by J.A. Schmeller.

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where one could honestly write quick and joyous music. I decided, therefore, to write such a piece. Reflecting upon this, it soon became clear that it would be dishonest of me to write music that is altogether quick and joyous. We still lack a common cause, and the selfinterest of many has drained us of much of our energy. A bogus national identity and its commercialisation have obscured the true breadth of our culture. Most of the jubilation, I came to feel, awaits us in the future. We need to attune ourselves to this continent, to listen to the cry of the earth, as the Aborigines have done for many thousands of years. Earth Cry is a straightforward and melodious work. Its four parts are made up of a quick ritualistic music, framed by slower music of a supplicatory nature, and an extended coda. It owes a debt to a setting of Aboriginal poetry, The Song of Tailitnama, that I completed in 1976.

While the music of Earth Cry is very much in my own personal idiom, the treatment of the orchestra represents a new departure. This is particularly noticeable in the way that instruments are doubled. First and second violins, for instance, sing in unison for most of the work; and lower strings often sing with the lower brass. I have done this in order to summon up broader feelings and a broader landscape.

(Peter Sculthorpe)

Orff spoke more truly than he knew: certainly Carmina burana (Songs of Beuern) would make his fortune, at least artistically. But its success put much of his subsequent achievement in the shade.

Orff was born in 1895 into a military family with intellectual and artistic interests and studied music from an early age including, significantly, research into non-European music.

His early opera Gisei for instance is based on Japanese Nōh drama. In 1917 he enlisted in the German army, but was wounded and invalided out. The 1920s saw the gradual development of the music-education theories for which,

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apart from Carmina burana, he is best remembered today.

Orff’s own compositions during the 1920s show an increasing interest in the use of percussion often with piano (influenced partly by Stravinsky’s Les Noces), harmony which is essentially diatonic but avoids the goal-directed feel of traditional tonal music, and rhythm characterised by the ‘Stravinskylike’ use of repeated figurations. These musical techniques reached their first realisation in 1931’s Carmina Catulli, settings of one of the great Roman poets. Carmina burana followed a few years later, and was first performed in Frankfurt in 1937.

1937 was of course a time when Hitler and the Nazis were doing their utmost to win the hearts and minds of Germany.

Carmina burana comes perilously close to the kind of music favoured by the regime; the cheerfully hedonistic poetry (‘I am the Abbot of Cockaigne’) similarly reflects the growing anti-clericalism in 1930s Germany.

For this reason we need to take with a grain of salt Orff’s assertion that the work never got a good review in Nazi Germany. Generally critics praised the work in language redolent of much Nazi propaganda, noting its ‘radiant strengthfilled life-joy’.

Wherever it has been performed, Carmina burana retains its ability to evoke what Alex Ross calls ‘primitive, unreflective enthusiasm’. And that’s partly because of the texts. Orff described the reading the collection:

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On opening it I immediately found, on the front page, the long-famous picture of ‘Fortune and her wheel’ and under it the lines O fortuna/velut luna/statu variabilis…Picture and words seized hold of me…a new work, a stage work with singing and dancing choruses, simply following the illustrations and texts, at once came into my mind.

The ‘O Fortuna’ chorus bookends the whole work with its mighty choral and orchestral forces and implacable rhythms. The body of the work, which uses 23 of the published poems, is divided into three main sections.

The first, ‘Springtime’ and ‘On the Meadow’, uses the conventional genres of pastoral poetry: spring returns, the sun warms the earth, forests awaken, and a young person’s thoughts turn to love. But not before a brief spell ‘In the Tavern’, a maledominated environment in which Orff creates a number of memorable characters. None more so, if only musically, than the Roasting Swan, a high tenor whose lament is for the loss of his whiteness as much as for his imminent consumption. Finally ‘The Courts of Love’ take up the erotic threads of ‘Spring’ contrasting delicacy and robust humour before the soaring soprano solo of ‘Dulcissime’ and ecstatic chorus to ‘Blanziflor and Helena’. The ecstasy will, of course, be swept away by Fate, so the music returns to ‘O Fortuna’.

As Michael Steinberg has noted, one wouldn’t guess from the music that the last line of the poetry is ‘mecum omnes plangite’ (come, weep with me).

Gordon Kerry © 2006

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SUPPORTERS MSO PATRON Her Excellency Professor, the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC, Governor of Victoria

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE The Gandel Foundation The Gross Foundation Besen Family Foundation Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio Harold Mitchell Foundation Lady Primrose Potter AC CMRI Cybec Foundation The Pratt Foundation The Ullmer Family Foundation Anonymous (1)

ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS Chief Conductor Chair Jaime Martín Besen Family Foundation Concertmaster Chair David Li AM and Angela Li Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair Leonard Weiss CF Cybec Foundation Acting Associate Concertmaster Tair Khisambeev Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio Cybec Young Composer in Residence Naomi Dodd Cybec Foundation

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Now & Forever Fund: International Engagement Gandel Foundation Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program Cybec Foundation Digital Transformation Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment First Nations Emerging Artist Program The Ullmer Family Foundation East meets West The Li Family Trust, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations Community and Public Programs AWM Electrical, City of Melbourne, Crown Resorts Foundation, Packer Family Foundation

Live Online and MSO Schools Crown Resorts Foundation, Packer Family Foundation Student Subsidy Program Anonymous MSO Academy Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio, Mary Armour, Christopher Robinson in memory of Joan P Robinson Jams in Schools Melbourne Airport, Department of Education Victoria, through the Strategic Partnerships Program, AWM Electrical, Jean Hadges, Hume City Council, Marian and EH Flack Trust, and Flora and Frank Leith Trust.

Regional Touring AWM Electrical, Creative Victoria, Freemasons Foundation Victoria, Robert Salzer Foundation, Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation Sidney Myer Free Concerts Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund and the University of Melbourne, City of Melbourne Event Partnerships Program

PLATINUM PATRONS $100,000+ AWM Electrical Besen Family Foundation The Gross Foundation Margaret Jackson AC Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio David Li AM and Angela Li Lady Primrose Potter AC Anonymous (1)

VIRTUOSO PATRONS $50,000+ Jolene S Coultas Dr Harry Imber Packer Family Foundation The Ullmer Family Foundation Anonymous (1)

H Bentley The Hogan Family Foundation Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence Weis Family Lady Marigold Southey AC Gai and David Taylor The Yulgilbar Foundation Anonymous (2)

MAESTRO PATRONS $10,000+ John and Lorraine Bates Margaret Billson and the late Ted Billson Jannie Brown Mary Davidson and the late Frederick Davidson AM Andrew Dudgeon AM Val Dyke Jaan Enden Kim and Robert Gearon Dr Mary-Jane H Gething AO Hanlon Foundation David Horowicz David R Lloyd Peter Lovell Dr Ian Manning Maestro Jaime Martin Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher Farrel and Wendy Meltzer Paul Noonan Opalgate Foundation Ian and Jeannie Paterson Hieu Pham and Graeme Campbell Janet Matton AM & Robin Rowe Liliane Rusek and Alexander Ushakoff Glenn Sedgwick The Sun Foundation Athalie Williams and Tim Danielson Lyn Williams AM

PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+ The Aranday Foundation Mary Armour Alexandra Baker Barbara Bell in memory of Elsa Bell Bodhi Education Fund

Julia and Jim Breen Nigel and Sheena Broughton Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan Lynne Burgess Ken Ong Chong OAM John Coppock OAM and Lyn Coppock Cuming Bequest The Dimmick Charitable Trust Tim and Lyn Edward Bill Fleming John and Diana Frew Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Carrillo Gantner AC and Ziyin Gantner Geelong Friends of the MSO Dr Rhyl Wade and Dr Clem Gruen Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC Louis J Hamon OAM Dr Keith Higgins and Dr Jane Joshi Dr Alastair Jackson AM John Jones Merv Keehn and Sue Harlow Peter T Kempen AM Suzanne Kirkham Lucas Family Foundation Dr Jane Mackenzie Gary McPherson The Mercer Family Foundation Anne Neil in memory of Murray A. Neil Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield David Ponsford Jan and Keith Richards Dr Sam Ricketson and Dr Rosemary Ayton Andrew and Judy Rogers Guy Ross Helen Silver AO and Harrison Young Brain Snape AM Dr Michael Soon P & E Turner Mary Waldron Janet Whiting AM and Phil Lukies Dawna Wright and Peter Riedel Igor Zambelli Anonymous (2)

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IMPRESARIO PATRONS $20,000+

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ASSOCIATE PATRONS $2,500+ Carolyn Baker Marlyn Bancroft and Peter Bancroft OAM Janet H Bell Alan and Dr Jennifer Breschkin Dr Lynda Campbell Oliver Carton Janet Chauvel and the late Dr Richard Chauvel Sage Foundation Kaye Cleary Michael Davies and Drina Staples Leo de Lange Sandra Dent Sophie E Dougall in memory of Libby Harold Barry Fradkin OAM and Dr Pam Fradkin Janette Gill R Goldberg and Family Goldschlager Family Charitable Foundation Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah Golvan Charles & Cornelia Goode Foundation Jennifer Gorog Miss Catherine Gray Marshall Grosby and Margie Bromilow Mr Ian Kennedy AM & Dr Sandra Hacker AO Susan and Gary Hearst Gillian Hund OAM and Michael Hund Geoff and Denise Illing Paul and Amy Jasper Sandy Jenkins Jenny Tatchell Ann Lahore Carolynne Marks Margaret and John Mason OAM Ian McDonald H E McKenzie Dr Isabel McLean Ian Merrylees Dr Paul Nisselle AM Simon O’Brien Roger Parker and Ruth Parker Alan and Dorothy Pattison Ruth and Ralph Renard Peter and Carolyn Rendit

James Ring Tom and Elizabeth Romanowski Dr Ronald and Elizabeth Rosanove Christopher Menz and Peter Rose Marshall Segan in memory of Berek Segan OBE AM and Marysia Segan Jeffrey Sher KC and Diana Sher OAM Steinicke Family Caroline Stuart Robert and Diana Wilson Shirley and Jeffrey Zajac Anonymous (5)

PLAYER PATRONS ($1,000+) Dr Sally Adams Jessica Agoston Cleary Helena Anderson Margaret Astbury Robbie Barker Justine Battistella Michael Bowles & Alma Gill Allen and Kathryn Bloom Richard Bolitho Joyce Bown Drs John D L Brookes and Lucy V Hanlon Stuart Brown Suzie Brown OAM and the late Harvey Brown Jill and Christopher Buckley Dr Robin Burns and Dr Roger Douglas Shayna Burns Ronald and Kate Burnstein Daniel Bushaway and Tess Hamilton Peter A Caldwell Alexandra Champion de Crespigny Joshua Chye Breen Creighton and Elsbeth Hadenfeldt Mrs Nola Daley Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das Caroline Davies Rick and Sue Deering John and Anne Duncan Jane Edmanson OAM Diane Fisher Grant Fisher and Helen Bird Alex Forrest Chris Freelance

Wayne McDonald and Kay Schroer Lois McKay Lesley McMullin Foundation Dr Eric Meadows

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Applebay Pty Ltd David and Esther Frenkiel Mary Gaidzkar Anthony Garvey and Estelle O’Callaghan David I Gibbs AM and Susie O’Neill Sonia Gilderdale Dr Celia Godfrey Dr Marged Goode Hilary Hall, in memory of Wilma Collie David Hardy Tilda and the late Brian Haughney Cathy Henry Gwenda Henry Anthony and Karen Ho Rod Home Lorraine Hook Doug Hooley Peter and Jenny Hordern Katherine Horwood Penelope Hughes Jordan Janssen Shyama Jayaswal Basil and Rita Jenkins Jane Jenkins Emma Johnson Sue Johnston John Kaufman Angela Kayser Drs Bruce and Natalie Kellett Dr Anne and Leonard Kennedy Akira Kikkawa Dr Judith Kinnear Dr Richard Knafelc and Mr Grevis Beard Tim Knaggs Professor David Knowles and Dr Anne McLachlan Dr Jerry Koliha and Marlene Krelle Jane Kunstler Kerry Landman Janet and Ross Lapworth Bryan Lawrence Dr Jenny Lewis Dr Kin Liu Andrew Lockwood Elizabeth H Loftus Chris and Anna Long

Sylvia Miller Ian Morrey and Geoffrey Minter Anthony and Anna Morton Barry Mowszowski Dr Judith S Nimmo Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James George Pappas AO, in memory of Jillian Pappas Susan Pelka Ian Penboss Kerryn Pratchett Peter Priest John Prokupets Professor Charles Qin OAM and Kate Ritchie Eli and Lorraine Raskin Cathy Rogers OAM and Dr Peter Rogers AM Marie Rowland Viorica Samson Martin and Susan Shirley P Shore Janet and Alex Starr Dr Peter Strickland Dr Joel Symons and Liora Symons Russell Taylor and Tara Obeyesekere Geoffrey Thomlinson Frank Tisher OAM and Dr Miriam Tisher Andrew and Penny Torok Christina Turner Ann and Larry Turner Sandra and the late Leon Velik Jayde Walker Edward and Paddy White Nic and Ann Willcock Lorraine Woolley Dr Kelly and Dr Heathcote Wright George Yeung Demetrio Zema Anonymous (14)

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OVERTURE PATRONS $500+ Jane Allan and Mark Redmond Mario M Anders Jenny Anderson Doris Au Lyn Bailey Mr Robin Batterham Peter Berry and Amanda Quirk Miranda Brockman Dr Robert Brook Roger and Coll Buckle Jungpin Chen Robert and Katherine Coco Dr John Collins Gregory Crew Sue Cummings Dr Oliver Daly and Matilda Daly Suzanne Dembo Carol des Cognets Bruce Dudon Margaret Flatman Brian Florence Elizabeth Foster M C Friday Simon Gaites David and Geraldine Glenny Hugo and Diane Goetze Louise Gourlay OAM Christine Grenda Dawn Hales George Hampel AM KC and Felicity Hampel AM SC Dr Jennifer Henry William Holder Gillian Horwood Oliver Hutton Rob Jackson Wendy Johnson Leonora Kearney Irene Kearsey & Michael Ridley John Keys Lesley King Dr Kim Langfield-Smith Heather Law Pauline and David Lawton Paschalina Leach

Kay Liu David Loggia Helen Maclean Eleanor & Phillip Mancini Joy Manners Morris and Helen Margolis Sandra Masel in memory of Leigh Masel Janice Mayfield Gail McKay Shirley A McKenzie Dr Alan Meads and Sandra Boon Marie Misiurak Adrian and Louise Nelson Marian Neumann Ed Newbigin Valerie Newman Amanda O’Brien Brendan O’Donnell 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 Dr Hugh Taylor and Dr Elizabeth Dax Reverend Angela Thomas Mely Tjandra Chris and Helen Trueman Noel and Jenny Turnbull Phil Parker Rosemary Warnock Amanda Watson Michael Whishaw Deborah and Dr Kevin Whithear OAM Adrian Wigney Charles and Jill Wright Anonymous (13)

Justine Battistella Shayna Burns Jessica Agoston Cleary Alexandra Champion de Crespigny Josh Chye Cara Cunningham Akira Kikkawa 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 Frank Tisher OAM and Dr Miriam Tisher 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

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FUTURE MSO ($1,000+)

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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 Dorothy Wood Joyce Winsome Woodroffe

Tim and Lyn Edward

COMMISSIONING CIRCLE

Elina Fashki, Benjamin Hanlon, Tair Khisambeev, Christopher Moore

Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC Tim and Lyn Edward Weis Family

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

Jean Hadges Prudence Davis

Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC Saul Lewis

The Hanlon Foundation 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 Peter T Kempen AM Rebecca Proietto

Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher Craig Hill

FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE

Professor Gary McPherson

John and Lorraine Bates Equity Trustees Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah Golvan Maestro Jaime Martín Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence Guy Ross The Sage Foundation Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer

Anne Neil

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

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John Arcaro

Rachel Shaw

Eleanor Mancini

Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield Cong Gu

Patricia Nilsson Natasha Thomas

Andrew and Judy Rogers Michelle Wood

Glenn Sedgwick

Tiffany Cheng, Shane Hooton

Anonymous

Rachael Tobin

MSO ARTISTIC FAMILY

Life Members John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC Jean Hadges Sir Elton John CBE Lady Primrose Potter AC CMRI Jeanne Pratt AC Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC

Jaime Martín

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 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

Chief Conductor

Benjamin Northey

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HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Principal Conductor Artistic Advisor – Learning and Engagement

Leonard Weiss CF

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 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)

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Thank you to our Partners PRINCIPAL PARTNER

PREMIER PARTNER

VENUE PARTNER

INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM PARTNER

MAJOR PARTNERS

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

ORCHESTRAL TRAINING PARTNER

EDUCATION PARTNERS

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

Quest Southbank

Ernst & Young

MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS

TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

Freemasons Foundation Victoria

Flora & Frank Leith Trust, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund