Dunkeld Festival of Music Friday 11 – Sunday 13 April 2014
Mt Sturgeon Woolshed
Welcome
It’s our great pleasure to welcome you to this very special event – celebrating ten years of the Australian String Quartet’s flagship Dunkeld Festival of Music. For many of you, this Festival has been a long held annual tradition and we trust many memorable experiences have been had. Together we have enjoyed sharing the wonderful surrounds and charm of Dunkeld, exceptional musicianship from the Australian String Quartet and its leading guest artists and the generous spirit of hospitality offered by the Dunkeld community. We hope you enjoy this year’s rich and diverse program, presented in conjunction with the fine culinary offerings of the Royal Mail Hotel and Tomich Wines. Sit back, relax and enjoy.
Dunkeld Festival of Music at a glance Friday 11 April 8.00pm Opening concert Myers’ Gallery Saturday 12 April 11.30am Morning concert Myers’ Gallery 1.00pm Picnic lunch Mt Sturgeon Woolshed 2.30pm Afternoon concert Mt Sturgeon Woolshed 5.45pm Drinks and canapés Myers’ Garden 6.30pm Evening concert Myers’ Gallery 8.00pm Gala dinner Royal Mail Hotel Sunday 13 April 10.00am Morning tea and finale concert Mt Sturgeon Woolshed
Dunkeld Festival of Music concert program Friday 11 April
Saturday 12 April
8.00pm Opening concert Myers’ Gallery
11.30am Morning concert Myers’ Gallery
Kristian Winther / Duo (world premiere) Kristian Winther and Ioana Tache Telemann / Concerto for four violins, D major, TWV 40:202 Kristian Winther, Ioana Tache, Kate Sullivan and Francesa Hiew Bartók / Sonatina SZ55 for string quintet arr. David Paterson Auric Quartet and Stephen Newton Bartók / String Quartet no 1 Australian String Quartet
Ravel / Gaspard de la Nuit, Ondine Liszt / Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto Beethoven / No 30 op 109 – Final movement Theme and Variations Caroline Almonte Prokofiev / The Ugly Duckling op 18 for piano and soprano Grieg / Sech Lieder op 48 Jacqueline Porter and Caroline Almonte 2.30pm Afternoon concert Mt Sturgeon Woolshed Haydn / String Quartet op 20 no 4 Australian String Quartet and Auric Quartet Ross Edwards / Veni creator spiritus, string octet Australian String Quartet and Auric Quartet Golijov / Last Round nonet Australian String Quartet, Auric Quartet and Stephen Newton
Saturday 12 April
Sunday 13 April
6.30pm Evening Concert Myers’ Gallery
10.00am Finale concert Mt Sturgeon Woolshed
Chausson / Chanson perpetuelle, op 37 for soprano and piano quintet Australian String Quartet, Jacqueline Porter and Caroline Almonte
Mozart / Requiem for string quartet plus bass arr. Peter Lichtenthal K.626 (excerpt) Australian String Quartet and Stephen Newton
Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor op 34 Australian String Quartet and Caroline Almonte
Mendelssohn / Octet in E flat major, op 20 Australian String Quartet and Auric Quartet
Australian String Quartet With a rich history spanning 29 years, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has established a strong national profile as an Australian chamber music group of excellence, performing at the highest international level. From its home base at the University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, the ASQ delivers a vibrant annual artistic program encompassing performances, workshops, commissions and education projects across Australia and abroad. One of Australia’s finest music exports, the ASQ has appeared at international music festivals and toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, New Zealand and Asia in recent years. The Quartet is frequently broadcast on ABC Classic FM and records regularly for public release. The Quartet’s performance calendar for 2014 comprises its National Season featuring four unique concert programs presented in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney; its own flagship festivals, here in the Southern Grampians and at Margaret River; regional touring and prestigious invitations to collaborate with leading artists and organisations including their recent performance with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra premiering John Adams’ Absolute Jest at the Sydney Opera House.
As advocates for Australian music, the Quartet delivers an annual forum for emerging composers and regularly commissions, showcases and records new Australian work. Its education program extends beyond workshops and masterclasses to include the Quartet Project – a national mentoring program for emerging quartets. The members of the ASQ are privileged to perform on a matched set of Guadagnini instruments. Hand crafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini between c.17431784 in Turin and Piacenza, Italy, these exquisite Italian instruments were brought together through the vision of Ulrike Klein. The instruments are on loan to the ASQ for their exclusive use through the generosity of Ulrike Klein, Maria Myers and a group of donors who have supported Ngeringa Arts to acquire the viola. Kristian Winther plays a 1784 Guadagnini Violin, Turin Ioana Tache plays a 1748-49 Guadagnini Violin, Piacenza Stephen King plays a 1783 Guadagnini Viola, Turin Sharon Draper plays a c.1743 Guadagnini Violoncello, Piacenza, ‘Ngeringa’.
10 years of festival making history The Australian String Quartet is proud to have shared so many wonderful musical memories with our patrons in Dunkeld over the years. Bringing together leading guest artists to present chamber music in intimate, warm and welcoming settings including the iconic Woolshed and Gallery, the Dunkeld Festival of Music has truly become a highlight of the ASQ’s touring calendar.
Guest artists Caroline Almonte, piano (2011) Greta Bradman, soprano (2010) Jeffrey Crellin, oboe (2006) Jurg Dähler, viola (2009, 2010) Brett Dean, viola (2008) Daniel de Borah, piano (2012) Professor Richard Divall AO OBE, presenter (2008 – 2013) Jane Edwards, soprano (2004, 2005) Linda Kent, harpsichord (2008) Andrew Goodwin, tenor (2012) Slava Grigoryan, guitar (2012) Gareth Koch, guitar (2008) Imants Larsens, viola (2009) Janis Laurs, cello (2006) Elizabeth Layton, violin (2013) Sara Macliver, soprano (2008) Marshall McGuire, harp (2005 – 2013) Irina Morozonva, viola (2011) Geoffrey Morris, guitar (2004) Emma-Jane Murphy, cello (2008 – 2010) Trish O’Brien, cello (2007) Pictured Kathryn Selby, piano (2010) Professor Richard Divall AO OBE Elizabeth Sellars, violin (2011) Greta Bradman Ashley William Smith, clarinet (2013) Peter Wispelwey The Song Company (2009) Sara Macliver The Vocal Consort (2006) Slava Grigoryan Pieter Wispelwey, cello (2011) Daniel Yeadon, Baroque cello & viola da gamba (2008) Ashley William Smith Marshall McGuire Timothy Young, piano (2013)
Australian String Quartet 1 Natsuko Yoshimoto, violin, James Cuddeford, violin, Jeremy Williams, viola, Niall Brown, cello 2 Sophie Rowell, violin, Anne Horton, violin, Sally Boud, viola, Rachel Johnston, cello 3 Kristian Winther, violin, Anne Horton, violin, Stephen King, viola, Rachel Johnston, cello
A. Myers’ Gallery and Garden – Opening and evening concert B. Mt Sturgeon Woolshed – Picnic lunch, afternoon concert, and final morning concert C. Royal Mail Hotel – Gala dinner
Guest artist Auric Quartet
Kate Sullivan, violin Francesca Hiew, violin Matthew Laing, viola Jarrad Mathie, cello “Superbly matched, artistically, temperamentally and intellectually,” the Auric Quartet brings together four of Australia’s finest emerging musical talents. Formed in April 2012, the quartet “exhibits a rare combination of technical skill, musical maturity and a unified and exciting vision for its future.” The quartet made its debut at Quartetthaus, part of the 2013 Perth International Arts Festival, performing works by Bartók, Britten and Adès. The Auric Quartet is currently the Associate Ensemble in Residence at the Australian National Academy of Music; the 2013/2014 Visiting Ensemble in Residence in Bermagui/Bega, NSW, culminating in performances at the Four Winds Festival in 2014; the quartet-inresidence at the Mt. Buller chamber music festival in January 2014; and one of two aspiring quartets involved in the Australian String Quartet’s mentorship program,The Quartet Project.
Highlights for the quartet in 2013 include performances of the Mendelssohn Octet with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra in their regional tour of Victoria in June; participation in the finals of the Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition held in Melbourne in July, and a performance of Haydn and Britten at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in October. The members of the quartet have studied at conservatoriums around Australia and the United States, and are Alumni and Fellows of the Australian Academy of Music. Individually, the members have performed as soloists with Orchestra Victoria and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. They have performed inthe Melbourne, Sydney, and Tasmanian symphony orchestras; and have also been guest principals with Orchestra Victoria and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Guest artist Caroline Almonte — piano Melbourne-born pianist Caroline Almonte has a reputation as a gifted, versatile and sensitive artist who brings a wealth of experience to every performance. Caroline completed her postgraduate studies at the Juilliard School, having studied with Stephen McIntyre whilst at the Victorian College of Arts. She has won numerous awards, has recorded and produced for the ABC and, alongside her solo and chamber commitments, teaches piano at the University of Melbourne. In 2014, Caroline performs concertos with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and gives a solo recital at the Melbourne Recital Centre. She is also working with Daniel Hope and has an exciting season of trio concerts with the Sutherland Trio, of which she is a founding member. Last year, Caroline gave a recital tour with Pieter Wispelwey and she performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She also supported the Hush Music Foundation as
soloist on their latest album. Chamber collaborations in the past include the Flinders Quartet, Yvonne Kenny, Ralph Kirschbaum, Li-Wei Qin, Merlyn Quaife and Miki Tsunoda. She has appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Adelaide International Cello Festival, the Huntingdon Estate Music Festival and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville. Caroline has performed under conductors Nicholas Braithwaite, Oleg Caetani, Reinhard Goebel, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Richard Mills, Benjamin Northey and Marcus Stenz.
Guest artist Stephen Newton — double bass Stephen Newton was born in Sydney in 1982. He began learning the double bass in 1994 from David Potts. In 1999, he commenced studies with Maxime Bibeau and the following year enrolled at the University of New South Wales, where he was the inaugural recipient of the Sony Foundation Scholarship. In 2004, Stephen completed his Bachelor of Music with honours and was awarded a scholarship to study at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. In 2006, he returned to Sydney to study with Alex Henery at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in music performance. In August that year, he successfully auditioned for his position with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, he went to study in Austria with Tim Dunin at the University of Music, Graz. This trip was funded by the MSO Friends and a grant from the Ian Potter Foundation.
He has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz, Sydney Sinfonia, Sydney Youth Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Guest artist Jacqueline Porter — soprano Jacqueline Porter holds an honours degree in Music Performance and a Bachelor of Arts (Italian) from the University of Melbourne and was the recipient of a 2010 Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust Scholarship.
Hansel and Gretel, State Opera of South Australia “Porter created a beautifully complex character... a voice both rich and shimmering” Australian Stage, November 2010
She appears regularly with Australia’s major orchestras and choral societies, and has worked with conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Oleg Caetani.
The Ugly Duckling, Prokofiev Festival, Sydney Symphony Orchestra “The young Melbourne soprano Jacqueline Porter brought fresh vocal purity and an aptly wide-eyed narrative style to Prokofiev’s much earlier setting of The Ugly Duckling. ...Porter’s voice was precise and well-coloured.” Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 November 2009
Her career highlights include Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Prokofiev’s Ugly Duckling (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, also on CD), Rachmaninoff ’s The Bells and a Mozart/Haydn concert tour (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Last Night of the Proms (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s New Years’ Eve Gala, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel (State Opera South Australia), and a broadcast recital of Schumann Lieder (ABC). Recent and upcoming performances include Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) for VO, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite (SSO), Bach St. Matthew Passion and Fauré Requiem (Melbourne Bach Choir), B Minor Mass and the title role in Peri’s Euridice (Woodend Winter Arts Festival), and Mozart Exsultate Jubilate and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse (Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival).
“Jacqueline Porter sang with clear voiced agility” Murray Black, The Australian, 24 November 2009 “Jacqueline Porter charmed and captivated a packed out Concert Hall. “ Manly Daily ASO in Vienna, Adelaide Symphony orchestra “Discovery of the season was Melbourne Soprano Jacqueline Porter” Peter Burdon, Adelaide Advertiser 28 September 2009
Presenter Professor Richard Divall AO OBE Richard was the Music Director of Victoria State Opera for 25 years and Principal Resident Conductor of Opera Australia up to 2001. He has conducted 151 different operas, and many ballets and concerts. He is a Fellow of Queen’s College, and on the SCR of Newman College, at The University of Melbourne. As a musicologist he has undertaken 40 years of editing and research on early Australian music and baroque music. He was recently awarded a PhD in theology from the University of Divinity on eighteenth-century Maltese sacred music and a complete edition of the sacred music of Malta’s national composer Nicolò Isouard (1773-1818). He is editing an eighty volume Digital Music Archive of early Australian Music for Monash University, a project on early Australian sacred music, planning concerts of music for Monash composed by Australian troops in World War One, editing Baroque Neapolitan opera and sacred music, and finalising a complete edition of the music of the English Baroque violin composer, Michael Christian Festing (1705-1752).
He is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University, an Associate Professor of Music at The University of Melbourne, and a Visiting Professor at The University of Malta. Frà Richard is a Knight of Malta in Solemn Religious Profession, and undertakes community works for the homeless and in palliative care. He is the Hon Patron of 3MBS Classic Fine Music, St Paul’s Cathedral and St Francis Church Choirs. He was awarded the AO in 2009 and the OBE in 1981.
Thank you
The Australian String Quartet warmly acknowledges the generosity of Allan and Maria Myers, whose support and enthusiasm have made the Dunkeld Festival of Music such a special highlight of our season
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