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AVI AVITAL & GIOVANNI SOLLIMA

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• Pre-concert talk: 6:45pm, Prince Alfred Room BRISBANE Conservatorium Theatre, Griffith University, South Bank Tuesday 27 September, 7pm This concert will be livestreamed

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ADELAIDE Adelaide Town Hall

• Pre-concert talk: 6:15pm, Function Room • Meet the Artists after the concert Saturday 8 October, 2pm Ken Tribe Tribute Concert

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• Meet the Artists after the concert CANBERRA Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music Wednesday 5 October, 7pm

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• Pre-concert talk: 6:15pm, Larry Sitsky Room

Newcastle City Hall Thursday 22 September, 7:30pm

• Pre-concert talk: 1:15pm, Function Room • CD signing after theCoverconcertphoto: Gary Heery AVITAL Mandolin GIOVANNI SOLLIMA

Musica Viva Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we meet, work and live. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present – people who have sung their songs, danced their dances and told their stories on these lands for thousands of generations, and who continue to do so.

• Meet the Artists after the concert

MELBOURNE Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre Tuesday 20 September, 7pm • Pre-concert talk: 6:15pm, Salzer Suite, Level 2

• Meet the Artists after the concert Saturday 24 September, 7pm Recorded for broadcast by ABC Classic

• Pre-concert talk: 6:45pm, Mulubinba Room PERTH Perth Concert Hall Sunday 2 October, 6:30pm

With special thanks to Eleanor Goodridge OAM for her support of this tour, and to the Producers’ Circle and Amadeus Society for their support of the 2022 Concert Season.

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• Pre-concert talk: 6:15pm, Boardroom

• Pre-concert talk: 6:15pm, Salzer Suite, Level 2

• Pre-concert talk: 5:45pm, Corner Stage Riverside, Terrace Level SYDNEY City Recital Hall Monday 26 September, 7pm

Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima had a similar impact when, on tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, I invited him and Richard Tognetti to be part of the 2014 Four Winds Festival to contribute what turned out to be an inspiring series of solo and chamber works. Asked to perform his favourite concerto cadenza, Giovanni mentioned by way of introduction that he used to perform this piece naked. ‘Come on then,’ Richard demanded.

Giovanni partially obliged.

The Israeli mandolin player Avi Avital is well known to Australian audiences, courtesy of a sequence of visits in which his fabulous musicality and virtuosity have stunned and charmed all those he encountered.

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Early conversations about the program for this Musica Viva Australia tour soon landed on the fact that both musicians grew up looking at the same patch of sea, if from very different countries and cultures. Thus, we talked about what the Mediterranean meant to each of them – not simply as a physical mass separating one country from the other, but more importantly as a source of myth and metaphor, of folksong and fantasy. If these were the bones, the flesh is rich and ample. Both brilliant improvisors, Avi and Giovanni dreamed up a way of telling the stories of their respective homelands through a patchwork of existing or improvised pieces, all stitched together with tales of their childhoods and their gradual emergence as two of the most original and fearless artists working today.

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Domenico SCARLATTI (1685–1757) Sonata in D Minor, K89 7 min I Allegro (Fast) II Grave (Slow and solemn) III Allegro (Fast) Giovanni SOLLIMA (b 1962)

PROGRAM

Canzona Terza (Canzona No. 3) 5 min Traditional Sephardic Una ora (One hour) 5 min Traditional Salento Fronni d’alia (A garland of olive leaves) 4 min

Traditional Sephardic Yo en la prisión (I, in prison) 4 min Traditional Turkish Nacyem Nacyem 5 min Traditional Macedonian Ako umram il’ zaginam (If I die or perish) 4 min

Improvisation 7 min

Please note this program is performed without interval. ‘Mediterranean’

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Federico II from Viaggio in Italia (Italian Journey) 5 min Alep (Pesce [Fish]) from Il bestiario di Leonardo (Leonardo’s bestiary) 4 min Dario CASTELLO (1602–1631)

Quarta Sonata (Sonata No. 4) 5 min Eliodoro SOLLIMA (1926–2000) Tarantella Orientale 4 min Traditional Bulgarian (arr. AVITAL) Prelude and Bučimiš 6 min Girolamo FRESCOBALDI (1583–1643)

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GIOVANNI SOLLIMA

AVI AVITAL

MEET THE ARTISTS

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Avital collaborates with musicians across many genres including accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, early keyboard specialists Mahan Esfahani and Kristian Bezuidenhout, pianist Alice Sara Ott, countertenor Andreas Scholl, Dover Quartet, Danish String Quartet, the Brooklyn Rider quartet, jazz artists Omer Klein and Omer Avital, actress Martina Gedeck and the Georgian puppet theatre Budrugana Gagra. His versatility has led to engagements as feature artist at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, BOZAR in Brussels and the Dortmund Concert Hall’s ‘Time Island’ series, and he is a regular presence at major festivals such as Aspen, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Spoleto, Ravenna, MISA Shanghai, Cheltenham, Verbier and Tsinandali. Born in Be’er Sheva in southern Israel, Avital began learning the mandolin at the age of eight and soon joined the flourishing mandolin youth orchestra founded and directed by his charismatic teacher, Russianborn violinist Simcha Nathanson. He studied at the Jerusalem Music Academy and at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua with Ugo Orlandi. Winner of Israel’s prestigious Aviv Competition in 2007, Avital is the first mandolinist in the history of the competition to be so honoured. He plays on a mandolin made by Israeli luthier Arik Kerman.

The first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical Grammy, Avi Avital has been compared to Andrés Segovia for his championship of his instrument and to Jascha Heifetz for his incredible virtuosity. Passionate and ‘explosively charismatic’ (New York Times) in live performance, he is a driving force behind the reinvigoration of the mandolin repertory. Highlights of the 2021–22 season have included performances with Les Violons du Roy, a return to the Wigmore Hall with Arcangelo, and a tour of Germany with Il Pomo d’Oro performing a program of Neapolitan music. His recent engagements include concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of the Academy of St Cecilia, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de Lyon, Il Giardino Armonico, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic.

Giovanni Sollima is an internationally renowned cellist and composer whose works are performed around the world. He has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Viktoria Mullova, Ruggero Raimondi, Mario Brunello, Kathryn Stott, Giuseppe Andaloro, Yuri Bashmet, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Stefano Bollani, singer Patti Smith, jazz trumpeter Paolo Fresu, actor Antonio Albanese and with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Liverpool Philharmonic (Artist in Residence, 2015), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Moscow Soloists, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, Cappella Neapolitana, Accademia Bizantina, Holland Baroque Society and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

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Avi Avital is an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. His sixth album, The Art of the Mandolin, has been received with high praise and top reviews in The Times, The Independent, Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. This follows a disc of solo Bach; Avital meets Avital with oud/bassist Omer Avital; the ECHO Klassik Award-winning CD Vivaldi; an album of Avital’s own transcriptions of Bach concertos; and Between Worlds, a cross-genre chamber collection exploring the nexus between classical and traditional music.

Giovanni Sollima has an extensive recording history, spanning nearly 25 years and with his music featuring on more than 30 CD releases. Highlights include 4 Strings, an album of his own compositions performed by the Alkemia Quartet on the Dynamic label; Onyricon, on the Decca label; and We Were Trees, on Sony BMG. He has also brought to light the music of 18th-century composer Giovanni Battista Costanzi, whose sonatas and symphonies for cello and basso continuo he has recorded for the Glossa label. Most recently, his album Natural Songbook features original compositions and reworkings of classical favourites. EXPLORATION

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He has composed music for directors Peter Greenaway, John Turturro, Robert Wilson, Carlos Saura, Marco Tullio Giordana, Peter Stein, Lasse Gjertsen and Anatoly Vasilyev, and for choreographers Karole Armitage and Carolyn Carlson. In 2015 he composed the sound logo for the Milan Expo and inaugurated the new museum space of Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà. Sollima has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Knitting Factory and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Sydney Opera House. Sollima explores different genres using ancient, oriental, electric and inventive instruments, playing in the Sahara Desert, underwater, and with an Ice Cello. In 2012, together with Enrico Melozzi, he founded the project 100 Cellos. In 2018 he received the Anner Bijlsma Award at the Cello Biennale in SinceAmsterdam.2010hehas been teaching at the National Academy of St Cecilia.

Giovanni Sollima plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1679).

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The first three items on the program are Traditional tunes. The first is Sephardic, being music of the Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Iberian Peninsula (occupied today by Spain and Portugal). The second is Turkish; the third, Macedonian (a geographic and former administrative region of Greece). Following this selection of folk music is a sonata by Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), a Naplesborn composer of the Baroque, who spent much of his career on the Iberian Peninsula.

Today’s program is a little different from a ‘regular’ Musica Viva Australia program, and therefore About the Music will be a little different, too. The majority of the ‘program notes’ for this performance will come from the artists onstage.

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Federico II is a piece originally written for string quartet as part of a 2001 project called Viaggio in Italia (Italian Journey): one hour of music for quartet/quintet and voice which premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York. Federico II is inspired by the controversial 13th-century figure of Friedrich Hohenstaufen – Federico Ruggero in his native Italy – who was King of Sicily (from the age of three!), King of Jerusalem and Holy Roman Emperor, ruling over a vast empire that stretched through Italy, all the way north to Germany. He lies buried in Palermo Cathedral. On the one hand, he was a major patron of science and the arts, a scholar, poet, composer and architect (some of his buildings are truly amazing, and many are still open today); on the other, Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy places him in Hell.

Three works by Giovanni Sollima himself are next up; the cellist balances his performing life with that of a composer. The first of these works is literally an Improvisation, drawing on themes or fragments from traditional tunes (from Sicily, the Balkans etc), or from his own works, or from Bach’s Cello Suites... Sollima describes it ‘a surprise moment in the program’.

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Avi Avital’s own thrilling arrangement of a traditional Bulgarian tune may be familiar to listeners who have attended his Musica Viva Australia concerts previously – back by popular demand! Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643), meanwhile, was a highly influential Italian composer of mostly keyboard music; he held the position of organist of St Peter’s ConcludingBasilica.theprogram are two more folk tunes; one Sephardic and one from Salento (in the ‘heel’ of the Italian ‘boot’). Iberian Peninsula Traditional Sephardic Turkey Turkish Macedonian Naples, Italy Domenico Scarlatti’s birthplace Palermo, Sicily Giovanni Sollima’s birthplace Venice, Italy Castello – Sonata No. 4 Marsala, Sicily Eliodoro Sollima’s birthplace Bulgaria Bučimiš St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City Frescobaldi Canzona No. 3 Salento, Italy Traditional Salento Be’er Sheva, Israel Avi Avital’s birthplace

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Alep (Pesce) is also born from a larger-scale project. Sollima describes it as ‘essentially a song, in an antique or folk style. Leonardo’s Bestiary is a text that I love very much by Leonardo da Vinci who, among all his codices, discoveries, experiments, inventions and paintings, had the time to write musical jokes, rebus puzzles and games. The Bestiary is a catalogue of animals, real and imaginary: Leonardo gives them names – Alep is a fish –and human characters, both the virtues and the vices...’. Dario Castello (1602–1631) worked mostly in Venice: he held a position as violinist at St Mark’s Basilica under Claudio Monteverdi. His Sonata is followed by a Tarantella by Sollima’s father, also a composer: Eliodoro Sollima (1926–2000).

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MUSICA VIVA AUSTRALIA SUPPORTING THE NORTHERN RIVERS MUSIC COMMUNITY IN A TIME OF NEED

Musica Viva Australia was set to present four concerts and a number of workshops at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium this year, an important presenting partner for our extensive regional touring program. Sadly, these plans were not realised as intended. The devastating floods of February and March left the Conservatorium nearly destroyed, with two of its three floors completely submerged. Not a single instrument in the building was Shockedsalvageable.bythe damage and in the spirit of Musica Viva Australia’s longstanding friendship with the Conservatorium, our CEO Hywel Sims reached out to the Conservatorium’s Executive Director Anita Bellman: ‘Musica Viva Australia has a deep and longstanding connection to Lismore – we’ve been touring to schools and the Conservatorium there for many years. As soon as we heard news of the flooding, I contacted Anita Bellman and asked how we could help. Anita and I came up with the idea of providing free seats at concerts and, separately, we also decided to provide free tours to local schools. We were determined to continue providing live music to the region and, thankfully, we were able to do so. At the first concert, more than 250 people took advantage of our free seats initiative – proof that music is most needed when times are tough. We look forward to providing more free seats at the rest of this year’s concerts in Lismore.’

Lior Attar and the Tinalley String Quartet at Southern Cross University. Over half of the audience attended thanks to subsidised tickets. Image courtesy of the Hon Ben Franklin MLC.

Southern Cross University is generously providing space for the scheduled concerts and activities to take place, while artist fees for concerts and workshops are being covered by Musica Viva Australia donors.

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STORIES TO INSPIRE

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If you would like to support the provision of free, live music to schools and concert audiences, please contact Caroline Davis, Individual Giving Manager cdavis@musicaviva.com.au / 02 8394 6636.

For example, Katherine and Reg Grinberg are supporting subsidised tickets for affected Lismore audiences to attend the Avi Avital and Giovanni Sollima concert program.

In addition to the overwhelmingly successful season opener with Lior and the Tinalley String Quartet, we will also present Ian Munro’s newly composed score for The Sentimental Bloke, performed by Ying Ho and Ian Munro. Avi Avital and Giovanni Sollima are visiting the region during this mainstage concert tour, and as part of their visit, they will also be presenting a workshop to the students of Northern Rivers Conservatorium at Southern Cross University.

‘The generous support of Musica Viva Australia in being able to offer free tickets to flood-affected members of the Lismore and wider Northern Rivers community is extremely beautiful,’ says Anita Bellman. ‘Our local community is deeply touched by the kindness and generosity of this gesture, bringing the healing power of music during the difficult recovery from the catastrophic floods of February this year.’

As one of the largest providers of live music education to schools, we also contacted teachers in the area to ask how we could help. Here too, schools welcomed the idea of free concerts, and so, again with support from donors, we will be providing free tours to a number of local schools affected by the floods.

Minister Franklin speaks from stage at the first concert in Lismore since the floods. Image courtesy of the Hon Ben Franklin MLC.

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Through the 1970s and 1980s Ken’s influence in Australian cultural life was far-reaching. He served on boards and committees for organisations including the Australia Council for the Arts, Canberra School of Music, Sydney College of the Arts, the NSW Arts Advisory Council, the Australian Opera and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as it was then known. With apparently endless energy Ken also worked on the boards of a number of trusts, funds and in different capacities with a large number of arts bodies. Much of Ken’s value to the community over the years was ‘behind the scenes’ support, always pro bono.

Ken retired from the Presidency of Musica Viva Australia in 1986 and was Patron until his death in July 2010. He maintained a visionary commitment to commissioning new music from Australian composers and his support has enabled new works by luminary composers including the late Richard Meale, the late Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards, Carl Vine and Nigel Westlake. This commitment will continue to be honoured by Musica Viva Australia through the Ken Tribe Commemorative Fund for Australian Composers. It would be impossible to overstate Ken’s impact on the arts in Australia and on music especially. Our lives have been enriched because of his unique capacity to combine plain hard work with a vision of what things might be. As part of Musica Viva Australia for more than 60 years, Ken’s influence was enormous.

KENNETH W TRIBE AC (1914 – 2010)

Kenneth Wilberforce Tribe was born in Sydney in 1914, the second of three children born to Cecil and Elizabeth Tribe. Having attended St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir School, Ken won scholarships to Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore), then to the University of Sydney to study Law, graduating in 1937 (music not being regarded as a viable occupation during that time of the Great DespiteDepression).family responsibilities and an extremely demanding professional life, Ken soon began a pattern of engaging in activities outside of his profession; the most significant and long-standing of these associations was with Musica Viva Australia. In 1949 Ken joined Musica Viva Australia as Chairman of the executive and in 1966 took on the role of Artistic Director, which amalgamated with that of President in 1973. It was Ken’s initiative that created Musica Viva Australia’s National Board in 1980–81.

The concert in Sydney on Saturday 8 October celebrates Ken Tribe’s contribution to Musica Viva Australia.

A WINTER’S JOURNEY ALLAN CLAYTON & KATE GOLLA THE BARBICAN, LONDON: WED 7 DECEMBER ONLINE CONCERT: WED 7 DECEMBER, 7PM (AEDT) musicaviva.com.au/a-winters-journey-online1800688482 (Australian Book Review) (Limelight Magazine) (The Age)

Fresh from triumphant seasons as Hamlet (The Met) and Peter Grimes (Covent Garden), tenor Allan Clayton joins pianist Kate Golla for Schubert’s immortal songs of love and loss. Director Lindy Hume and video designer David Bergman weave a magical Australian setting from Fred Williams’ wondrous landscapes.

As Australia’s flagship music education and non-profit touring company, we continuously strive to provide more for all music lovers – more music education and teacher professional development opportunities to help feed young imaginations everywhere; more exceptional artists on stage performing on metropolitan and regional stages and online to bring audiences together across the country; and more creative projects to promote a continuously evolving and vibrant music sector. Help us to continue to keep doing more so that everyone, regardless of age, location or circumstance, can access and share the very best live music. For more information contact our Individual Giving Manager: Caroline Davis, cdavis@musicaviva.com.au