French salons were a melting pot of intellectuals as well as artists. Poulenc had his own salon which Marie Curie attended. Omega Ensemble’s creators (David Rowden – Clarinet, Maria Raspopova – Piano) perform Poulenc’s Flute and Clarinet Sonatas and other works from the Parisian salons with Omega’s flautist, Sally Walker. The concert premieres a new work by composer Gerard Nicholls.

Au Revoir - Brian Kim’s Farewell Recital

6:30PM, Friday August 3, 2018
Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Recital Hall East

Brian Kim - Flute
Gabriella Pusner - Piano
Steve Meyer - Cello

Ballade for flute and piano - Philippe Gaubert
Sonata in G minor BWV 1020 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata in A major - César Franck
Agrestide for flute and piano - Eugène Bozza

Before his departure to continue his flute studies in Paris, Brian Kim holds his last recital in Sydney (for now!) at the Sydney Conservatorium Recital Hall East. A night of music featuring works by Gaubert, Bach, Franck and Bozza. Come along to enjoy a farewell recital prepared by Brian Kim on the flute and Gabriel Pusner on the piano.

Performers:
Sally Walker – Flute
Rachel Scott- Cello
Featured Young Artist – Christopher Pantelidis

The first Newcastle performance of “Bach in the Dark”, run by Cellist/Music Educator, Rachel Scott. Scott’s witty and compassionate anecdotes of bringing music to indigenous and remote communities through the Australian Children’s Music Foundation accompanies the transcendental listening experience of J.S. Bach, his family and admirers in intense darkness.

“Contrasts”

Over 80 doctors and medical students from throughout NSW will perform under the baton of Dr David Banney in their annual Musicus Medicus fundraiser. This year’s concert offers an afternoon of sublime music, varied and contrasting in style and origin, with compositions from France, Russia, Mexico and Australia. The highlight will be the Sydney premiere performance of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Flute Concerto “Night and Now”, written especially for soloist and distinguished flautist Sally Walker.

The program also includes:

Gabriel Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op. 80

Rimsky Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34

Arturo Marquez: Danzon No.2

In addition, a children’s choir from Banksmeadow School will perform with Don Spencer, backed by the orchestra, to sing a couple of his iconic songs.

All concert proceeds will fund the NSW Drs Orchestra Sydney Eisteddfod Instrumental Scholarship, and benefit Australian Children’s Music Foundatoin (ACMF), founded by Don Spencer, to help ACMF to continue to provide free music education and instruments to disadvantaged children and youth at risk throughout Australia

Featuring music for Flute, Oboe and Piano by Cesar Franck, Hisatada Otaka, Madeleine Dring and John Peterson.

Performers: Tomomi Matsuo, Mark Xiao (Flute); Kate Mostert (Oboe) and Alan Hicks (Piano).

About the performers:

Mark Xiao has won numerous competitions and awards throughout Australia including the Leslie Barklamb Scholarships, the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year Award and the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition. In 2006, he was the winner of the Open Flute Competition at the Australian Flute Festival. Internationally, Mark was the recipient of the British Flute Society Award, the Zangger-Weber Stiftung and in 2012, he received the Third Prize and the Audience Prize at the August-Everding Music Competition in Munich, Germany.

At the age of 14, Mark was awarded a Licentiate Diploma with Distinction, making him the youngest flutist in Australia to have received the honour. He has since studied with such masters such as Virginia Taylor, Vernon Hill, Trevor Wye, Matthias Ziegler and Andrea Lieberknecht, accumulating a Bachelor of Music degree and three Master of Music degrees specialising in Performance, Soloist and Contemporary Music.

Mark was a guest member of the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich and has collaborated with several notable composers including Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, William Blank and Heinz Holliger; and conductors such as Kent Nagano, Lionel Bringuier, Roland Kluttig, Zsolt Nagy, David Zinman, Werner Ehrhardt, Douglas Boyd and Nello Santi. As a soloist, Mark has performed with the Bach Collegium München and the Filharmonie Hradec Králové.

Mark is now teaching and performing in Australia and is the National Sales Manager for Flutes & Flutists Pty Limited.

Tomomi Matsuo has been awarded several prizes throughout Japan both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, including the Gold Prize in the 26th All Japan Ensemble Contest and the 3rd Prize at the 58th Student Music Competition of Japan in Osaka. She has also been awarded prizes at the 19th Music Competition of Kanagawa in Japan and the 9th Biwako International Flute Competition.

Tomomi received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts followed by a two-year residential course at Trevor Wye’s Flute Studio in the UK. She has two Master of Music degrees, specialising in Orchestral Performance and Soloist from the Zurich University of the Arts where she studied with Matthias Ziegler. She was also Professor Ziegler’s assistant teacher during her time there.

Tomomi is a regular assistant performer at Trevor Wye’s lectures in the UK, USA and Japan and in September 2011, she began performing with the Senzoku-gakuen New Philharmonic Orchestra. Tomomi has also been invited as a guest performer at the National Flute Association Convention, the British Flute Society Festival and the Australian Flute Festival. More recently, Tomomi has had several performances with the Philharmonia Zurich. Tomomi has collaborated with many world-renowned conductors including Kazuki Yamada, Nelo Santi, Fabio Luisi, Alain Altinoglu and Jun Marrkl and in 2015, she had the opportunity to collaborate with Toshio Hosokawa as a soloist for his work, Voyage V.

In 2017, Tomomi moved to Sydney and is teaching and performing regularly around Australia.

Kate Mostert is an up and coming young oboist from Sydney. She is currently in her fourth year of a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying under Alexandre Oguey.

Kate has performed as principal oboe of the Sydney Youth Orchestra, Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra and Wind Symphony, as well as the 2016 Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute. This year, she was appointed principal cor anglais of the Australian Youth Orchestra and was selected to participate in AYO’s exclusive fellowship program with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Kate also performs regularly with her award winning chamber ensemble, Quintet Vivo, and was recently awarded the Sydney Conservatorium Association Scholarship Award for an outstanding young woodwind player.

Alan Hicks is a graduate of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He was appointed Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the RNCM in 1992 and subsequently joined the staff as Accompanist and Tutor in Piano.

In the course of eight years as a freelance pianist in London, Alan appeared at major recital venues including the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room and St John’s Smith Square. His CD recording with Kate Romano, 20th Century Music from the British Isles for clarinet and piano, was BBC Music Magazine’s Chamber Music Pick of the Month (Metier MSV CD92013). As pianist with the King Piano Trio he worked on Lord Menuhin’s Live Music Now! concert scheme and appeared at the 2000 Three Choirs Festival in Hereford. Alan was pianist with the London-based Australian contemporary music group the Bennelong Ensemble, appearing live on BBC Radio 3, at the Cheltenham Festival, and in concert tours of Italy and the UK.

Since his return to Australia, Alan has been appointed Vocal Coach and Accompanist at the ANU School of Music and was Assistant Musical Director, Repetiteur and Language Coach for their 2005 production of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. He continues to be in demand as a recital partner for national and international instrumentalists and vocalists.

Live at Lunch presents Yo Sebastian! a tribute to the beloved works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Artistic Director Jane Rutter, Chevalière des Arts et Lettres, together with Willoughby Symphony Soloists, perform J.S. Bach favourites including the gorgeous Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G major BWV 1049 for Two Flutes, Solo Violin, Continuo & Strings, and ‘Air On a G-string’ from Suite in D major BWV 1068.

Recognised as a major lunchtime musical event, the 2018 Live at Lunch Season will include mesmerising Gregorian Chant to Romantic Masterpieces by Schumann, Schubert and Brahms, exciting new Indian Arabic and Chinese-inspired World Chamber music, works by exiled WWII Composers, an homage to the Unsent ‘Love Letters’ of Erik Satie and a feast of Sacred Songs including ‘Ave Maria’s by different composers.

Season Subscriptions are available in 4, 5, 6 and 7 concert packages. To view the full 2018 Season, please click here

LUNCH: Join Jane and her guest artists for lunch after each concert. Purchase a lunch package with your concert ticket or Season Subscription.

SATURDAY 7th APRIL @ Seymour Centre Soundlounge 7.30pm

Aria Award-winning ABC Classics pianist Sally Whitwell joins breakout sensation Ephemera Trio for a night of spectacle and splendour!

Tickets: Adult $30/Conc $25 - food/drink avail

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SALLY WHITWELL 7.30pm

“Sharp, evocative and powerful” – Anna Lock, Australian Stage
Aria Award-winning, ABC recording artist, pianist and composer Sally Whitwell will perform a selection of her favourite contemporary classical works alongside her own compositions. Sally has won two ARIA Awards for Best Classical Album: in 2013, for All Imperfect Things: Solo Piano Music of Michael Nyman, and in 2011, for her debut album Mad Rush: Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7V1oxKWs2o

EPHEMERA TRIO 8.30pm

“Arresting, genre-blurring..Disquieting music with massive breadth and high drama.” John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald
Ephemera Trio: a musical exploration of celestial landscapes such as pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, sun and void. Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds, it is an original sonic experience. The ensemble is led by Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions) with Elsen Price (double bass/loop pedal) and Will Gilbert (trumpet) and includes freely improvised pieces. . Formed in 2015, this trio have had a series of successful shows around Sydney including being featured in the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival 2017.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sl09OmRDe

“RIVER SONGS” presented by

The Hourglass Ensemble

“The river has physical presence, deriving identity from water, currents, tides, light, mangroves, birds, ferries, people. It carries connotations of life itself, the miraculous continuity of time and generations.” - Betty Beath

The Hourglass Ensemble premieres two Australian commissions and reinvents well known local chamber works and song cycles, featuring soprano with flute, clarinet, violin, harp, and piano. A beguiling combination of instruments, rarely heard together, brings you into a sound world of unique combinations and enchanting stories. Hourglass is preparing for their third European tour, exporting native compositions to new global audiences again in 2018, in Poland, Germany, Denmark, and England.

Sensual, cool, and crystalline, “River Songs” portrays cities built around rivers and oceans, and the way those living there have connection, history, and belonging with water.

Meanwhile, in the sparkling Australian rainforest, the stunning “Lyrebird in my Piano” shows us the wizardry of our famous native bird, combining Bartok and Satie, Debussy and Ligeti, or Reich and Takemitsu, via the imagination of Brisbane composer Richard Grantham.

The program is packed with more Australian music - there is feisty sky dancing in Ball’s “Enemies of Gravity”, and novel nocturnal jazz musings in Lemon’s “Tangent Blues”. Finally, modern pumped up groves in Brophy's bass clarinet work, NRG.

www.hourglassensemble.com

Friday 9 March 7pm – Polish Consulate, Sydney

Saturday 10 March 7.30pm – Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House

Program:

The Lyrebird in my Piano trio for clarinet, violin, and piano – Richard Grantham (Australia)

River Songs song cycle for soprano and piano – Betty Beath (Australia)

Tangent Blues* duo for flute and piano – Karen Lemon (Australia)

Enemies of Gravity* for flute, clarinet, and piano – Andrew Ball (Australia)

Thais, an opera by Jules Massenet (France), including Meditation and the final act, arranged for soprano with chamber ensemble

Dumka for piano, opus 59 in C minor – Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Russia)

NRG Bass clarinet - Gerard Brophy (Australia)

The Hourglass Ensemble is a Sydney-based group of elite chamber musicians and soloists whose mission is to enjoy playing the best music with the best performers at the highest level, and to draw in an audience with a large range of experience with contemporary music to understand new artistic worlds.  Their unique expertise is in blending new and unusual combinations of woodwind, with strings, voice, percussion, piano, actors and designers, exploring timbral possibilities of familiar groupings, focusing on commissioning, premiering and recording Australian composers, and exporting works from their homeland to the world.  

The group returned from a highly successful debut tour of Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Austria in 2017, and are about to release their first two EPs. They’ll return to Europe and add North America to their audience in 2018.

Hourglass was born in 2015 from the manifesto of artistic director Andrew Kennedy– to play new and recent music that an audience will be able to enjoy and understand on first hearing, to deformalise the concert experience to make it less abstract and threatening, and to give the uninitiated listener an explicit guide to accessing the art music world.  Following that philosophy, the group has explored a diverse repertoire from unaccompanied solo pieces to well-loved late Romantic pieces, to re-imagined twentieth-century classics, to brand new chamber opera and Australian-themed song cycles.

Flute - Ewa Kowalski
Clarinets/Director - Andrew Kennedy
Violin - Ewan Foster
Harp - Marjorie Maydwell
Soprano - Laura King
Baritone - Andrew O’Connor
Piano - Anna Rutkowska-Schock

The first of the four-concert “Musical Luminati” Subscription Series.

Sally Walker – Flute
Prof. Eckart Altenmüller – Flute and Presenter
Peter Guy – Organ
Visualisation – Dr Bronwen Ackermann
Featured Young Artist: Benjamin Crosby – Cello

Presentation on Music and the Mind by a world authority in the area amidst works fit for a King by: Quantz, JS and CPE Bach and a premiere by Kats-Chernin (commissioned by Walker), with the use of computer-graphics to project the motions of the live performer into those of a skeleton-animation. This concert opens the HMRI Music and the Mind Symposium.

Sunday Afternoon Flute Recital
by
Alyse Faith

St. Mary’s Church, North Sydney
1.30PM Sunday 25 February

It is a pleasure to present to you an afternoon flute recital.

~Program Includes~

‘Bergère Captive’ from Trois Pièces pour Flûte Seule by P.O. Ferroud

Histoire Du Tango (1986) ii. Café 1930, for Flute and Guitar by Astor Piazzolla

Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 by J.S. Bach

Morceau de Concours by Gabriel Fauré

Sonata for Flute and Piano by Carl Vine

Pianist: Josephine Allan
Guitarist: Clancy Mcleod

Entry by donation, with proceeds going towards the Church and towards my study costs for my Royal Academy of Music Master of Arts in Performance Degree which I am commencing in London in September this year.

All are welcome to attend.

Music Over the Centuries
Medieval to Gershwin and Beyond

Join us as Janet Webb (former Principal Flute, SSO) and Louise Johnson (Principal Harp, SSO) take us on a guided musical journey through the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century eras of music.

Tickets at the door: $20/$25
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