2025 Yarragon Studio Winter Feast Program

YARRAGONSTUDIO Winter Feast

SUNDAY 3 AUGUST 2025

Welcome to the Yarragon Studio Winter Feast Program

Arrive carpark, walk to St Jarlath’s

Concert Part I: White Arches

Afternoon Tea

Concert Part II: Haydn & Shaw

Supper with Wine

Concert Part III: Pure Present

Return to carpark

Location:

St Jarlath’s Catholic Church & Church Hall

30 Campbell St, Yarragon VIC 3823

and singer-songwriter & composer Nir Tsfaty, share the Yarragon Festival stage on a special afternoon in three parts:

Part I: White Arches

A solo performance of Nir Tsfaty featuring Sophia Kirsanova.

Part II: Haydn & Shaw String quartet works performed by Melbourne Strings

Part III: Pure Present

Poetic pop songs with cinematic strings; Nir Tsfaty & Melbourne Strings.

His latest single, The Sun in the Sand, draws inspiration from the film Scorpion Ascent, for which he wrote the music.

Tsfaty is Music Director at Production Alley Studios.

Sophia Kirsanova

Concert violinist

Latvian violinist Sophia Kirsanova has been a regular in the Yarragon Studio concert series over the last four years. She is passionate about new repertoire and commissions With a particular interest in her cultural heritage, she explores the extraordinary depth of music from her homeland Latvia and its distinctive musical voice since its independence.

In 2024 Sophia received the culture award [Krišjāņa Barona Balva] from the World Federation of Free Latvians (PBLA) and an honorary acknowledgment from the Latvian Association in Australia and New Zealand for the promotion of Latvian composers (2022). She was also invited to perform at the opening of the Latvian Embassy at the National Gallery in Canberra.

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

String Quartet Op. 77 No. 2 in F Major, 1799

Allegro moderato

Menuet: Presto

Andante

Finale: Vivace assai

Joseph Haydn is often referred to as the father of the string quartet. And rightly so, for in his continuous exploration of music, he created the string quartet as a form He composed sixty-three string quartets and the very last is Opus 77 No. 2. It is “ my most beautiful quartet”, said Haydn himself, and it is also music overflowing with melodic force and rhythmic energy. www.konserthuset.se/en/play/two-string-quartets-shaw-haydn

Caroline Shaw (1982-)

Entr'acte for string quartet, 2011

Entr’acte was written in 2011 after hearing the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 2 with their spare and soulful shift to the D-flat major trio in the minuet It is structured like a minuet and trio, riffing on that classical form but taking it a little further I love the way some music (like the minuets of Op 77) suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolor transition. caroline-shaw-editions.myshopify.com/products/entr-acte

Sardine Dining, Paynesville

Victoria & Mark Briggs

Sardine is the brainchild of culinary team

Victoria and Mark Briggs. The hatted restaurant offers a menu that highlights fresh, locallysourced ingredients, with a particular emphasis on seafood.

Afternoon Tea

Basque Cheesecake

GF option available

Winter Supper

Duck Cassoulet

Vegan Cassoulet for those that don’t do duck

Green Salad

Patrick Sullivan Wines Ellinbank

Patrick is an absolute local - his vineyard is a 15-minute drive up the hills behind us in the direction of Mount Worth. His 2022 Patrick Sullivan Ada River Chardonnay won the Different Drop 2023 White Wine of the Year.

“What I try and do is be as honest as I can to the vineyard… So that’s maximum intervention in the vineyard. Pruning, leaf thinning, being out in the vineyard all the time What I’m trying to do is be as reflective of the site as possible at that time and at that place.”