YARRAGONSTUDIO Winter Feast
SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2024
Welcome to the Yarragon Studio Winter Feast Programme
15:15 15:30 16:15 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00
Arrive carpark, walk to St Jarlath’s
Introduction Concert
Afternoon Tea Reeds Bending Concert
Supper with Wine
After Dinner Gala
Return to carpark
Location: St Jarlath’s Catholic Church & Church Hall 30 Campbell St, Yarragon VIC 3823
Reeds Bending
Rachel Bullen - Oboe
Mitch Berick - Clarinet
Niels Bijl - Saxophones
Jorja Withall - Bass Clarinet
Matthew Kneale - Bassoon
“The reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”
Confucius
Reeds Bending, a new sensation in Australian chamber music, is a quintet united by their mastery of reed instruments. Instigated by Yarragon Studio’s own Saxophonist Niels Bijl and Bassoonist Matthew Kneale, this reed quintet will present their inaugural concert at the 2024 Yarragon Studio Winter Feast.
Dimity Shepherd
Mezzo Soprano
Dimity Shepherd is one of Australia’s most experienced and renowned mezzo sopranos, with over 25 years experience as a professional singer and performer in opera and musical theatre. A five-time Green Room award winner and 2018 Helpmann Nominee, Dimity has a reputation for delivering performances celebrated equally for their dramatic and vocal intensity
Richard Piper Actor, Singer
Richard Piper has had a distinguished acting career in England and Australia, appearing in over 80 productions, including 40 for Melbourne Theatre Company. In the 1980s he travelled to Australia as part of the band The Bouncing Czecks, before deciding to move to Melbourne permanently.
Introducing the Reeds - JS Bach (1685-1750)
Canon alla Ottava from the Art of Fugue *
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio Opus 87: III - Menuet
Reeds Bending - Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Air from the Holberg Suite
Introducing Richard PiperWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Under the Greenwood Tree
Introducing Dimity ShepherdHenry Purcell (1659-1695)
Dido’s Lament *
Richard and Dimity - John Prine (1946-2020)
In spite of Ourselves
Reeds Bending - Ton Ter Doest (1964-)
Circus Muziek I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII
* Transcription Niels Bijl
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Marc Mellits (1966-) - Splinter
II - Sugar Maple
V- Cherry
VI - River Birch
VIII - Red Pine
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Children’s Corner
I - Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
II - Jimbo’s Lullaby
III - Serenade of the Doll
IV - The Snow is Dancing
V - The Little Shepherd
VI - Cake-Walk
Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite
I - Praeludium, Allegro Vivace
II - Sarabande
V - Rigaudon
Church Going
Reeds Bending - John Dowland (c. 1563-1626)
Flow my Tears *
Dimity and Reeds Bending -
Georges Bizet (1838 –1875)
Seguidilla and Habanera from Carmen *
Richard Piper - William Shakespeare
Come to Dust
Dimity and Reeds Bending
Folksongs from Armenia, France, Mexico, Azerbaijan & Great Britain
* Transcription Niels Bijl
The Long Paddock, Lindenow
Tanya Bertino and Anton Eisenmenger
This chef duo have worked in a star-studded lineup of fine-dining restaurants, but The Long Paddock is about going back to basics. They honour their abundant East Gippsland home by championing its produce and creating honest flavours.
Afternoon Tea
Selection of Cakes & Cream
Winter Supper
Onion Soup with Gruyere Croutons
Bœuf Bourguignon
Savoury Tart for the Vegetarians
Duchess Potatoes
Dressed Watercress
Bread and Butter
Entropy Wines
Ryan Ponsford
Awarded the 2022 Young Gun of Wine Award, Ryan makes unique and minimal-intervention wines from the savagnin, sauvignon blanc, semillon, pinot noir and syrah grapes he harvests. He is challenging perceptions about some varietals, with wines he describes as quite traditional in style. He uses "...old barrels, wild ferments, simple winemaking...I just want to make well-farmed wines that speak of the incredible place we live..."
2025 Yarragon Studio Festival
Sunday 2 March
Food by Messmates & Wine by Xavier Goodridge
Upcoming Yarragon Studio Concerts
Sunday 8 September - 3 PM
Georgina Lewis - Piano Recital Mists and Exhalations
Special guest Vincent Ward - Cello
Music by Debussy, Caroline Shaw, Stuart Greenbaum, Philip Glass and others
Sunday 13 October - 3 PM
Duo Kirsanova - Brozgul
Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Janacek Sonata, Margaret Sutherland's Nocturne
Thanks to:
Elizabeth Flann, Rachel Needoba & Bill Downie, Jude Conway, Emma Nicolson, Barbara Kingwill, Stuart Meredith, Oscar Bijl, Martha Downie, Emerson Downie, Quentin Downie, Rosella Marshall, Woodland Marshall
