Coffs Harbour Music Society - 2020 Season

COFFS HARBOUR MUSIC SOCIETY INC.

DEAR SUBSCRIBERS &FRIENDS

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It has been my great pleasure over the past 25 years or so to share with you, and those who have gone before you, the sheer enjoyment provided to us by some of the finest musicians of the day.

Now, under a new initiative, subscribers will have the chance to share this experience with their friends.

This year if you subscribe to the complete series of concerts, that is both Series 1 and Series 2, you will be given the opportunity to invite, at no additional cost, a friend to one nominated concert during the year.

When subscribing, please note on your acceptance your choice of bonus concert so we can make appropriate seating, ticketing and catering arrangements for your guest. Your guest will, of course, be seated in the non-subscriber seating area of the auditorium, but there will be ample opportunity for you to get together over drinks both pre-concert and at Interval.

Subscribing couples of course may invite two guests.

What joy there is in sharing – be it a coffee, a meal or an evening of sublime music.

Following the success of the 2019 Masterclass programme, in 2020 every concert will be accompanied on the same day by a Masterclass of 2 hours where our visiting artists will help develop aspiring young musicians in our local area.

Subscribers are invited to attend these classes for free.

There you will get to know the performers pre-concert and learn from them just what it takes to turn mere notes into living, breathing music. The insights thus shared by the musicians will doubtless heighten your own sensibilities and enjoyment of future concerts.

No prior booking is required for the Masterclasses.

Further details, including starting times, will be provided on our website, coffsmusicsociety.com.au, prior to each concert. Non-subscribers are also invited to attend these classes for a small fee of $10.

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2020 SEASON SERIES 1 features faces familiar to our audience.

Classical guitarist Johannes Möller makes a welcome return in March after several years’ absence.

This year he will be playing in recital with fellow guitarist, Laura Fraticelli.

With a change of our venue in May, we are thrilled to present singer/songwriter Lior in conjunction with Tinalley String Quartet at the St John’s Anglican Church. A highlight of this performance will be a reimagining for string quartet by Lior and Nigel Westlake of Sim Shalom from Westlake’s masterpiece ‘Compassion’. Lior’s live recording of this with the SSO won the 2014 ARIA Award for the best classical album.

In 2019, Lior performed with the ACO on its ‘Luminous’ tour.

Series 1 closes in July when Coffs Harbour raised, but for many years now Helsinki based, pianist Adam Herd who will again perform for us. Adam’s programmes are always thoughtful and innovative. This year he has chosen a leitmotif of birds and birdsong.

SERIES 2 opens in September with our especially featured international artists, the Goldmund Quartet, best known to Australian audiences through their prize-winning performances in the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. These brilliant young musicians from Germany are renowned for their more relaxed 21st century approach to performance.

Rachael Beesley’s newly-formed Baroque Trio, in October, will take us back to the late 17th and early 18th centuries in a programme featuring that giant of the lute family, the theorbo. Only rarely are we fortunate enough to hear such period instruments.

Another familiar face – the ever-popular cellist Umberto Clerici – will be joined by pianist Daniel de Borah in November to complete our felicitous 2020 programme with a recital featuring two of Mendelssohn’s finest pieces.

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Please remember to subscribe early for best prices and to retain, or possibly improve, your existing seating. If you are subscribing to both Series 1 and Series 2 of our concerts, please don’t forget to let us know of your chosen free bonus guest concert with your completed booking order.

Finally, I remind you that we welcome further donations to enable us to bring international artists to our venue.

This year, we also invite donations to a separate fund to help with the costs involved in our Masterclass programme. All these most generous donations will be acknowledged in our concert programmes throughout the year.

Thank you for your support.

I do hope to see you and your friends in 2020.

Best wishes

Liz Jamison oam p r e s i d e n t

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SERIES 1

FRI 20 / 03 / 2020 - 7.30PM

JOHANNES MÖLLER & LAURA FRATICELLI Lecture Theatre D Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

SUN 24 / 05 / 2020 - 7.30PM

LIOR & TINALLEY STRING QUARTET St John’s Anglican Church 2 McLean Street

FRI 31 / 07 / 2020 - 7.30PM ADAM HERD

Lecture Theatre D Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

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SERIES 2

WED 02 / 09 / 2020 - 7.30PM GOLDMUND QUARTET

Lecture Theatre D Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

FRI 30 / 10 / 2020 - 7.30PM

BEESLEY, KRAEMER & MARTYN-ELLIS Lecture Theatre D Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

FRI 27 / 11 / 2020 - 7.30PM

UMBERTO CLERICI & DANIEL DE BORAH

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Lecture Theatre D Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

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MASTERCLASSES

Visiting artists will present Masterclasses to explore repertoire and pass on wisdom and inspiration to young aspiring musicians.

Music loving audiences are welcome to this unique opportunity to become better acquainted with how classical musical skills are developed in youth.

Johannes MĂśller /guitar

FRI 20 / 03 / 2020 - 1-3PM

Lecture Theatre D, Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

Adam Chalabi /violin

SUN 24 / 05 / 2020 - 1-3PM

St John’s Anglican Church, 2 McLean Street

Adam Herd /piano

FRI 31 / 07 / 2020 - 1-3PM

Lecture Theatre D, Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

Christoph Vandory /viola

WED 02 / 09 / 2020 - 3-5PM

Lecture Theatre D, Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

Rachael Beesley /violin

FRI 30 / 10 / 2020 - 1-3PM

Lecture Theatre D, Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

Umberto Clerici /cello

FRI 27 / 11 / 2020 - 3-5PM

Lecture Theatre D, Coffs Harbour Education Campus, Hogbin Drive

Musicians who wish to participate (Grade 5 and above) should email to: enquiries@coffsmusicsociety.com.au or call 0466 985 652 to register.

Participants: $50 Audience: $10 / Free for subscribers

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JOHANNES MÖLLER & LAURA FRATICELLI GUITAR DUO FRI. 20 MAR — 7.30PM

The Unique fusion between Swedish Perfection and Argentinian Passion Award-winning European guitarist Johannes Möller’s close collaboration with Argentinean guitarist Laura Fraticelli has resulted in a unique form of musical expression. Their emotional playing style as well as their strong connection and stage presence make their performances unforgettable events.

JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ JUSTO T. MORALES FEDERICO SPREAFICO JULIO S. SAGRERAS JOHANNES MÖLLER ZHENGAN

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“...breathtaking technique and all the colors of the rainbow...” - about Johannes Möller JURY OF LJUNGGRENSKA COMPETITION, SWEDEN (2007)

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SUN. 24 MAY — 7.30PM

LIOR & TINALLEY STRING QUARTET

Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia

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Through Nature to Eternity Singer/songwriter, Lior (Attar) is renowned for his beautiful voice and lyrics that radiate truth and sincerity, and as the world searches for compassion and understanding, the importance of music as a means of communication cannot be undervalued. In this musical narrative of love, loss and compassion, Tinalley and Lior perform a new song cycle by Melbourne composer, Ade Vincent. Three of Dvorák’s rousing love songs from his collection of Cypresses; echoes of love cherished, tormented and forgotten, are paired with Barber’s haunting ‘Adagio’ from his String Quartet Opus 11 and Lior’s achingly haunting ‘My Grandfather’. In a final quest for peace, Lior and Nigel Westlake reimagine Sim Shalom (Grant Peace) from ‘Compassion’, merging the symphonic world with that of the string quartet.

Lior burst on to the Australian music scene in 2005 with his stunning debut album “Autumn Flow”. Recorded and released entirely independently, the album became one of the most successful independent debuts in Australian history with sales surpassing Platinum.

Internationally acclaimed for its ‘addictive sound’ and ‘intuitive’ music making, Australia’s Tinalley String Quartet has established itself as one of the finest string quartets of its generation since forming in 2003. Awarded First Prize at the 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition and Grand Prize at the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, the Quartet has performed throughout Europe, America, Canada and Australia to critical acclaim.

RAVEL VINCENT/ATTAR DVORÁK ATTAR BARBER WESTLAKE/ATTAR

String Quartet in F Major Hours I Have Never Known* (World Premiere) Cypresses for String Quartet ‘My Grandfather’ ‘Adagio’ from String Quartet Op. 11 Sim Shalom from ‘Compassion’

“A damn-near-perfect display of incisive and thoughtful music-making.”

LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE

CHANGE OF VENUE: ST JOHN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, 2 MCLEAN STREET 9

FRI. 31 JUL — 7.30PM

ADAM HERD

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Blackbird - Pianistic birdsong from Baroque to the Beatles Coffs Harbour raised, Adam is now based in Helsinki, Finland. Adam has travelled the world perfecting his pianism and piano repertoire. Adam’s love of the outdoors is heard in folk songs from the forests of Finland and semi-improvised impressions of Australian bush birds performed alongside compositions from more familiar composers.

RAMEAU Le Rappel des Oiseaux SAINT-SAËNS The Swan BALAKIREV/GLINKA The Lark LENNON/MCCARTNEY Blackbird (Arr. Adam Herd) DUTILLEUX Blackbird RAVEL Mother Goose Suite

“Herd’s playing sparkles clean and sharp…”

© Aaro Keipi

FINE MUSIC MAGAZINE (2011)

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WED. 2 SEP — 7.30PM

GOLDMUND QUARTET

Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia

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Germany’s youthful Goldmund Quartet began their career in stellar fashion, winning prizes at major events including the 2018 Wigmore Hall Competition and the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and bursting onto the concert scene with a jam-packed schedule of performances across Europe and, more recently, in Asia and North America.

For their debut Australian tour, Goldmund offer some of the great masterpieces of the string quartet canon: Haydn and Schubert, set alongside a brand-new work, written for this tour by rising Australian composer Elizabeth Younan.

HAYDN String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5 YOUNAN String Quartet No.2 (World Premiere)* SCHUBERT String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D810

‘Death and the Maiden’

*commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Julian Burnside

“Incredible musicality, rhythmic precision and crystal clear intonation” RADIO HR2 – ‘KULTUR’

Florian Schötz (violin) Pinchas Adt (violin) Christoph Vandory (viola) Raphael Paratore (cello)

© Gregor Hohenberg

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FRI. 30 OCT — 7.30PM

BEESLEY, KRAEMER & MARTYN-ELLIS BAROQUE TRIO

Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia

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Internationally renowned baroque violinist, Rachael Beesley is joined by cellist Natasha Kraemer and theorbist Simon Martyn-Ellis.

The program is a mixture of ensemble music and solo works, including Biber’s charming Sonata Representativa, in which the violin imitates the sounds of various creatures including a nightingale, a frog, a cat, as well as a squad of musketeers!

BACH

Sonata in G major for Violin and Basso Continuo BWV 1021 MATTEIS Other Ayres and Pieces GABRIELLI Sonata for Violoncello Solo

and Basso Continuo No. 1 in G major RAVENSCROFT The Three Ravens DE MURCIA Gaitas MCCRAE Rachel Rae GEMINIANI Scots Tunes BIBER Sonata Representativa in A major

for Violin and Continuo CORELLI Sonate for Violin and Basso Continuo Op. 5 No. 4 VERACINI Sonata in A major, Op. 2, No. 9

“Perhaps the best thing I’ve heard all year” CLIVE O’CONNELL ON 3MBS FM, MELBOURNE (OCTOBER 2009)

Rachael Beesley (violin) Natasha Kraemer (cello) Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo and baroque guitar)

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FRI. 27 NOV — 7.30PM

UMBERTO CLERICI & DANIEL DE BORAH

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Principal Cellist of the Sydney Symphony, Umberto Clerici, joins esteemed pianist Daniel de Borah for a special concert in Coffs Harbour.

Umberto made his debut as a soloist with SSO in 2017 with Strauss’ Don Quixote and in 2018 the Brahms double concerto. He has recorded several CDs with concertos, solo and chamber music and, in 2017, he realized two new solo recordings for ABC Classic.

Daniel de Borah is firmly established as one of Australia’s foremost musicians, consistently praised for the grace, finesse and imaginative intelligence of his performances.

Festival appearances have included the Adelaide Festival, Musica Viva Festival, Huntington Estate Music Festival and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Daniel is a founding member of Ensemble Q. MENDELSSOHN CHOPIN CHOPIN

MENDELSSOHN

Song without words Op. 109 in D Major Cello Sonata in G Minor Op. 65 Songs without words No. 8 in D Major and No. 9 in G Major from Op. 74 Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58

“Clerici’s playing is soulful, robust, and beautifully sculpted.”

ANDREW ARONOWICZ, LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE (31 AUGUST 2017)

Daniel de Borah © Keith Saunders

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SUBSCRIBE! Series 1: Concerts 1-3 or Series 2: Concerts 4-6 Early Bird*................................. $ 130* Adult......................................... $ 140 Student (with Student ID)........... $ 55 *if received by Friday 21/02/2020

Subscribe by mail Return the attached Booking Form online www.coffsmusicsociety.com.au phone 0466 985 652 (Jean)

SINGLE TICKETS Adult......................................... $ 50 Student (with Student ID)........... $ 20 online www.coffsmusicsociety.com.au phone 0466 985 652 (Jean) at the door Cash, Mastercard or Visa only No refunds are available on subscription or single tickets. Please choose carefully.

Seating will be allocated by the Ticket Officer.

VENUES Lecture Theatre D Coffs Harbour Education Campus Hogbin Drive, Coffs Harbour Lior & Tinalley String Quartet: St John’s Anglican Church 2 McLean Street, Coffs Harbour 14

COFFS HARBOUR MUSIC SOCIETY INC The Coffs Harbour Music Society is a voluntary non-profit incorporated body. Our aim is to support and foster the appreciation and performance of fine music in Coffs Harbour.

Since the early 1990s the Society, in association with Musica Viva, Australia’s foremost presenter of fine ensemble music, and the Sydney International Piano Competition, has presented a series of concerts featuring some of the finest classical musicians from Australia and around the world.

As well as bringing international artists to the region the Society has placed strong emphasis on supporting developing Australian music professionals. This year we are delighted to present a Masterclass series with every concert, demonstrating the Society’s vision to foster classical music in our region.

DONATE! We greatly appreciate the donations made by our subscribers, both past and future which enable us to bring international artists to Coffs Harbour.

Thank you.

This year every concert is preceded by a Masterclass for aspiring music students in the area. To help cover our costs for these events we ask for your generosity in supporting this initiative.

To contribute to either cause, please complete the donation section on the Booking Form or please contact us.

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2020/ BOOKING FORM SERIES 1 (CONCERTS 1-3)

Adult subscription: $130* / $140

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