Musica Viva Australia - 2022 Season

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04 Karin Schaupp & Flinders Quartet

20 National Tour Dates

06 Van Diemen’s Band

23 Tribute Concerts

08 Paul Grabowsky & Andrea Lam

24-25 Ticketing Information

10 A Winter’s Journey Allan Clayton & Kate Golla

26-27 Experience Musica Viva Australia

12 Z.E.N. Trio 14 Avi Avital & Giovanni Sollima 16 Signum Saxophone Quartet & Kristian Winther

Musica Viva Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we meet, work and live, and we pay our respects to 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.

— With special thanks to the Amadeus Society for its support for Musica Viva Australia’s 2022 Concert Season.

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W E L C O M E As a teenager, newly in love with classical music, I’d spend a tiny portion of my milk-run wages each month on a copy of 24 Hours (later Limelight), underlining each piece I wanted to hear, planning my weeks around these broadcasts. Later, with more money (though earned with less physical exertion), I’d do the same with other people’s season launches, writing in a diary the live performances I couldn’t possibly miss. Of course, these two behavioural patterns are connected; the child, after all, is father to the man.

And now it’s my own seasons I happily anticipate.

Any concert season tells a story, and the one Musica Viva Australia tells in 2022 is simple, if boldly told: it is a tale of creativity during adversity; of partnerships that span the country and the world; of resilience, communal experience and the sheer, astonishing joy of live performance.

Come do your part, for music is meaningless without our beloved audiences. Join us – along with the many donors and partners who tirelessly and generously make our work possible – for a season of innovation and wonder.

Paul Kildea, Artistic Director

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Once in a while a collaboration reaches the heart of why we make music. This Musica Viva Australia concert honours such a collaboration, built on the longstanding friendship between award-winning classical guitarist Karin Schaupp and the renowned Flinders Quartet.

For this tour, composer Carl Vine has created a new work Endless to be premiered by Karin and the Flinders, commissioned by a longstanding Musica Viva Australia subscriber wishing to immortalise the joyous memory of her late daughter.

Accompanying this celebration of life and music is Imogen Holst’s moving Phantasy Quartet; and Southern Cross Dreaming by Australia’s Richard Charlton. Deliciously contrasting works for guitar and strings from three very different Italians round out the program, ending with Boccherini’s fiery Fandango.

This special program captures the spirit of works rarely heard but exceedingly inspiring – all carrying the passion, artistry and friendship that characterise Musica Viva Australia’s concerts.

KARIN SCHAUPP & FLINDERS QUARTET Karin Schaupp & Flinders Quartet are presented in association with Adelaide Festival.

Jonathan Paget & Darlington Quartet perform in Perth in association with Perth Festival.

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Program CARULLI Guitar Concerto, Op. 8 (1809) CHARLTON Southern Cross Dreaming (2007) CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Quintet, Op. 143, for Guitar & String Quartet (1950) VINE Endless for Guitar & String Quartet (2021)* I HOLST Phantasy Quartet (1928) BOCCHERINI Guitar Quintet No. 4: Grave and Fandango (1798) — National Tour Dates 20 Feb–12 Mar Livestream: Mon 7 Mar, 7pm AEDT — This tour is generously supported

by Ian and Caroline Frazer. * World premiere performances.

Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia in loving memory of Jennifer Bates.

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VAN DIEMEN’S BAND Tasmanian Baroque ensemble Van Diemen’s Band invites you to explore the historic borderlands of Europe on their national tour with Musica Viva Australia. For centuries, generations of musicians wrote dances and masses, symphonies and quartets, as their homelands changed ownership under their feet.

Or their nations remained steadfast, allowing the most magical cultural overlaps at the border fringes.

Through composers such as Samuel Scheidt and Dietrich Becker, you will hear the trials of battle – loss, regret, resentment – and, at long last, healing. Listen to composers who were touched by the Thirty Years’ War within the Holy Roman Empire, their countries crumbling around them.

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María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (Iceland) and Donald Nicolson (Australia) are living composers who will bring you closer to our time.

Just as Van Diemen’s Band invites instrumental guests from across Australia’s state borders, these composers remind us how we’re still united through music – no matter what borders lie between us.

Program ‘Borderlands’ BECKER Sonata No. 5 in F Major (1674) SCHEIDT Galliard Battaglia (1621) BECKER Paduan SAINTE-COLOMBE Les Pleurs SCHEIDT Courant ERLEBACH Courant ANON Sonata Jucunda BIBER Ciacona from Mensa Sonora (1680) ROSENMÜLLER Sonata No. 9 in D Major (1682) NICOLSON New work (2022) ALBINONI Sonata No. 5 in C Major (1700) SIGFÚSDÓTTIR Clockworking (2013) MUFFAT Sonata in D Major (1677) — National Tour Dates 26 Apr–14 May Livestream: Mon 9 May, 7pm AEST — This tour is generously supported

by Ian Dickson and Reg Holloway.

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PAUL GRABOWSKY & ANDREA

LAM

In 1741 J. S. Bach sketched a simple, almost transparent, aria that he then spun into thirty miraculous variations. In this concert Andrea Lam and Paul Grabowsky present their very different takes on the resultant work, the Goldberg Variations.

Pianist Andrea Lam – who first performed with an orchestra at the age of thirteen, studied music at Yale, and whose praises have been sung by the Wall Street Journal – will play each note on the instrument where she earned her fame.

These notes will then be twisted and turned into something completely different when pianist Paul Grabowsky performs his own variations. Expect nothing short of jazz improvisation on Bach’s centuries-old theme.

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Program BACH Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1741) GRABOWSKY Improvisations on the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations — National Tour Dates 11–25 June Livestream: Sat 25 June, 7pm AEST — 09

A W I N T E R ’ S In 1827 Franz Schubert composed an emotionally charged song cycle.

Setting poems of the German writer Wilhelm Müller, Schubert created an emotional journey of a man trekking across frozen rivers and snowy landscapes, lamenting his lost love. It is indeed a winter’s journey (Winterreise), full of images and metaphors of love, loss, and nationhood.

A Winter’s Journey is a new staging by Musica Viva Australia of Schubert’s iconic songs, bringing a very different winter into focus, set against a backdrop of Australian painter Fred Willliams’ vivid landscapes.

Acclaimed stage director Lindy Hume is our cartographer, mapping the terrain of heart and country for the gripping stage charisma of English tenor Allan Clayton and sensitive musicianship of Australian pianist Kate Golla. Videographer David Bergman provides the backdrop, bringing to life 24 Fred Williams paintings that match and contradict Müller’s poems and Schubert’s musical imagination, all in gorgeous larger-than-life imagery.

This powerful artistic combination sets the perfect conditions to experience Schubert’s immortal masterpiece – songs of love and loss that still speak to us vividly, in this far distant time and place.

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J O U R N E Y A LL A N C L AY TO N & K AT E G O L L A Program SCHUBERT Winterreise, D911 (1827) — National Tour Dates 12–27 July Filmed broadcast date TBC — This tour is generously supported

by Peter Griffin AM and Terry Swann.

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Z. E. N.

T R I O

With fiery passion and heartwrenching emotion, the intensely expressive musicians in Z.E.N. Trio come together for a rare and unforgettable tour with Musica Viva Australia.

Comprised of three internationally acclaimed soloists, the Z.E.N. Trio have made their name through the BBC New Generation scheme, a Deutsche Grammophon recording, and countless acclaimed concerts.

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Embarking on their first national tour, the Trio premiere a new work from Musica Viva Australia FutureMaker, Matt Laing, a composer of great virtuosity and originality. Other highlights include Arno Babajanian’s thrilling trio, and either Dvořák’s intoxicating ‘Dumky’, or Brahms’s gloriously passionate Trio No. 1, depending on which city you’re in.

Program 1 BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major (1889) LAING New work (2022)* BABAJANIAN Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello in F Sharp Minor (1952) — Program 2 BABAJANIAN Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello in F Sharp Minor (1952) LAING New work (2022)* DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ (1891) — National Tour Dates 13–27 Aug Livestream: Tue 23 Aug, 7pm AEST — This tour is generously supported

by The Australian Music Foundation. * World premiere performances.

Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia

by Graham Lovelock and Steve Singer.

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Take an intriguing musical journey around the Mediterranean, with the brilliant Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital and the spectacular Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima as your guides!

Touring for Musica Viva Australia, this concert is your passport to a rich musical landscape, covering four centuries of culture from opposite sides of the sea. These good mates will use words and music to share traditional Salento, Bulgarian, Turkish, Sephardic and Macedonian works. They’ll also 16

forge new traditions when Giovanni plays one of his own improvisations, followed by Tarantella orientale from composer Eliodoro Sollima.

Nestled between these experiences will be a couple of Baroque sonatas (enter Italian legends Scarlatti and Castello), and a 17th-century canzona from Frescobaldi.

So come along. Listen to music with world roots brought to local stages.

Be part of a musical community as diverse as Australia.

AVI G I OVAN N I

AV I TA L & S O L L I M A

Program ‘Mediterranean’ TRADITIONAL SEPHARDIC Yo en la prison

CASTELLO Sonata No. 4

TRADITIONAL TURKISH Nacyem Nacyem

FRESCOBALDI Canzona No. 3

TRADITIONAL MACEDONIAN Ako umran il zaginam

SOLLIMA Tarantella orientale TRADITIONAL SEPHARDIC Una ora

SOLLIMA Improvisation

TRADITIONAL SALENTO Fronni d’alia —

SOLLIMA ‘Federico II’ from Il viaggio in Italia

National Tour Dates

SCARLATTI Sonata in D Minor, K89

SOLLIMA ‘Alep Pesce’ from Il bestiario di Leonardo

20 Sep–8 Oct Livestream: Tue 27 Sep, 7pm AEST — This tour is generously supported

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Program BACH Italian Concerto, BWV 971 (1735, transcr. Tochio) WEILL Violin Concerto, Op. 12 (1924, arr. Wells)* GERSHWIN Three Preludes (1926, arr. Signum Saxophone Quartet) BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1960, arr. Dedenon) CAMILO Caribe (1988, arr. Leitinger) — National Tour Dates 8–24 Nov Livestream: Mon 21 Nov, 7pm AEDT — * Arrangement commissioned for Musica Viva Australia under the auspices of the Hildegard Project.

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SIGNUM

SAXOPHONE Q U A R T E T & KRISTIAN WINTHER

Musica Viva Australia is thrilled to present the internationally acclaimed Signum Saxophone Quartet in their debut national tour.

In this ripper program, the Signums will be joined by Australian violinist Kristian Winther to premiere Jessica Wells’ new arrangement of Kurt Weill’s Violin Concerto: a daredevil work for the soloist, and showing off the myriad colours of the saxophones.

Having achieved cult status on instruments still rarely found in the concert hall, the group have become renowned for championing composers living and lost, while filling the world’s best venues.

With a meeting of top creative talents in a program spanning Bach to Gershwin, these concerts are like the best kind of musical fireworks – surprising, absorbing, and extraordinary.

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KARIN SCHAUPP — FLINDERS QUARTET

VA N DIEMEN’S BAND

Program Carulli, Charlton, CastelnuevoTedesco, Vine, I Holst, Boccherini

Program ‘Borderlands’

Perth

Perth

CONCERT HALL

Sun 20 February*

6:30pm

*Alternative Artists for this concert: Jonathan Paget & Darlington Quartet

Canberra

LLEWELLYN HALL

Thu 24 February Melbourne Tue Sat

RECITAL CENTRE

1 March 5 March

Brisbane Thu

7:00pm 7:00pm

CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE

3 March

7:00pm CITY RECITAL HALL

Mon 7 March Sat 12 March Adelaide 8 March

Newcastle Thu 10 March



7:00pm 2:00pm TOWN HALL

7:30pm CITY HALL

7:30pm

7:30pm

Adelaide

TOWN HALL

Thu 28 April Sydney

Melbourne



2:00pm 7:00pm

RECITAL CENTRE

Tue 3 May Sat 14 May

Thu

7:30pm CITY RECITAL HALL

Sat 30 April Mon 9 May

Brisbane

Sydney

Tue

7:00pm

CONCERT HALL

Tue 26 April

7:00pm 7:00pm

CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE

5 May

Newcastle Tue 10 May Canberra Thu 12 May

7:00pm CITY HALL

7:30pm LLEWELLYN HALL

7:00pm

PAUL GRABOWSKY — ANDREA LAM

A WINTER’S JOURNEY

Program Bach: Goldberg Variations

Program Schubert: Winterreise

Brisbane Sat

CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE

11 June

Perth

CONCERT HALL

Mon 13 June

TOWN HALL

Wed 15 June

CITY RECITAL HALL

Tue 21 June Sat 25 June

2:00pm 7:00pm RECITAL CENTRE

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Newcastle Thu 23 June

Sat

 Concerts will be livestreamed.

7:30pm

Sat Tue

QPAC

14 July

Melbourne

7:00pm RECITAL CENTRE

16 June 19 June

7:00pm 7:00pm

Adelaide

TOWN HALL

Thu 21 July Sydney

7:00pm 7:00pm CITY HALL

CONCERT HALL

12 July

Brisbane

7:30pm

Sat 18 June Mon 20 June Melbourne

Tue

7:30pm

Adelaide

Sydney

Perth

7:00pm

Sat 23 July Mon 25 July Canberra

7:30pm

Wed 27 July



7:30pm CITY RECITAL HALL

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2:00pm 7:00pm

LLEWELLYN HALL

7:00pm

Filmed performance – broadcast date TBC.

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Z.E.N. TRIO

Program ‘Mediterranean’

Program 1 Brahms, Laing, Babajanian Program 2 Babajanian, Laing, Dvořák

Melbourne

RECITAL CENTRE

Sat 13 August [2] Tue 23 August [1] Perth

7:00pm 7:00pm



CONCERT HALL

Mon 15 August [2] Canberra

7:30pm

LLEWELLYN HALL

Thu 18 August [1] Sydney

7:00pm

CITY RECITAL HALL

Sat 20 August [1] Mon 22 August [2] Adelaide

2:00pm 7:00pm TOWN HALL

Thu 25 August [1] Newcastle Sat

AV I AV I TA L — G I OVA N N I SOLLIMA

27 August [2]

7:30pm CITY HALL

7:30pm

Melbourne

RECITAL CENTRE

Tue 20 September Sat 24 September Newcastle

CITY HALL

Thu 22 September Sydney

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7:30pm

CITY RECITAL HALL

Mon 26 September Sat 8 October Brisbane

Perth Sun

2 October

Canberra Wed

Thu

7:00pm 2:00pm

CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE

Tue 27 September

5 October

Adelaide  Concerts will be livestreamed.

7:00pm 7:00pm

6 October



7:00pm

CONCERT HALL

6:30pm LLEWELLYN HALL

7:00pm TOWN HALL

7:30pm

SIGNUM SAXOPHONE QUARTET — KRISTIAN WINTHER Program Bach, Weill, Gershwin, Bernstein, Camilo

Newcastle Tue

CITY HALL

8 November

TOWN HALL

Thu 10 November

7:30pm RECITAL CENTRE

Sat 12 November Tue 22 November Perth

7:00pm 7:00pm CONCERT HALL

Mon 14 November Canberra

7:30pm

LLEWELLYN HALL

Thu 17 November Sydney

Brisbane

7:00pm

CITY RECITAL HALL

Sat 19 November Mon 21 November

T R I B U T E C O N C E RTS Celebrating an extraordinary contribution to Musica Viva Australia.

7:30pm

Adelaide

Melbourne

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

2:00pm 7:00pm

Sat 5 March Graeme Watson Tribute Melbourne

Thu 5 May Steve Kinston Tribute Brisbane

Tue 21 June Paul Morawetz Tribute Melbourne

Mon 22 August Charles Berg Tribute Sydney

Sat 8 October Ken Tribe Tribute Sydney

CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE

Thu 24 November

7:00pm

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Masterclasses

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Experience another aspect to performances with our masterclasses, as experienced professional international and Australian artists appearing in Musica Viva Australia’s 2022 Season share their knowledge with talented young musicians.

Musica Viva Australia produces a range of informative pre- and post-concert events and content designed to enhance your concert experience.

Learn more about the artists and the repertoire before the performance with our pre-concert talks. As a ticketholder, you’ll receive them directly in advance of the concert in our Pre-Concert Insight emails.

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Our masterclasses offer unique perspectives on musical interpretation, technique and performance as they dissect and explore artistic approaches to different repertoire. These entertaining and enriching events are fascinating and insightful whether you’re studying music, a teacher, or simply curious!

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A N Y C O N C E RT S E A S O N T E L L S A STO RY, A N D T H E O N E M U S I C A V I VA AU ST R A L I A T E L L S I N 2 0 2 2 I S S I M P L E , I F B O L D LY TO L D : I T I S A TA L E O F C R E AT I V I T Y D U R I N G A DV E R S I T Y; O F PA RT N E R S H I P S T H AT S PA N T H E C O U N T RY A N D T H E W O R L D ; OF RESILIENCE, COMMUNAL EXPERIENCE A N D T H E S H E E R , A STO N I S H I N G J OY OF LIVE PERFORMANCE. Paul Kildea, Artistic Director