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3 – 5 October, 2014 An exclusive weekend celebrating fine music, food and wine
Elder Conservatorium of Music
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Delivering over 130 years of music excellence The Elder Conservatorium of Music is one of Australia’s oldest and most distinguished tertiary music schools. For more than a century, staff at the Conservatorium have educated and inspired generations of performers, composers, teachers and leaders in the arts. Home to the ASQ—our quartet in residence, the Conservatorium hosts a vibrant community of talented musicians and provides a supportive environment that encourages creativity, independence and excellence in music.
Staff and students of the Conservatorium are committed to the artistic, educational and community experience of music, and they share their passion and expression with the public through regular performances and concerts. Visit our website to learn more about the program of events, and comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees available in a wide variety of specialisations.
music.adelaide.edu.au
MARGARET RIVER WEEKEND OF MUSIC AT A G L A N C E Friday 3 October C U LLEN WI NES
6.45pm Pre-concert drinks and canapés, Cullen Wines Restaurant 7.30pm Opening concert, Cullen Wines Barrel Cellar Saturday 4 October VOYAG ER ES TAT E
10.00am Gardens open, Voyager Estate Served at 10.30am High-tea brunch, Voyager Estate Restaurant 12.30pm Morning concert, Voyager Estate Barrel Cellar C AP E LODG E
6.15pm Pre-concert drinks and canapés, Cape Lodge* 7.00pm Gala concert, Cape Lodge Restaurant Lounge* 8.00pm Gala dinner and short performance, Cape Lodge Restaurant* Sunday 5 October VAS S E F ELI X
11.30am Morning tea, Vasse Felix 12.00pm Finale concert, Vasse Felix Art Gallery 1.00pm Farewell lunch, Vasse Felix Restaurant*
*Starred items are not included in the Silver Package
MARGARET RIVER WEEKEND OF MUSIC CONCERT PROGRAM
Friday 3 October C U LLEN WI NES
7.30pm Opening concert Schubert / String Quartet in C minor Quartettsatz D703 Australian String Quartet Shaun Rigney / The Garden of Forking Paths Australian String Quartet and Slava Grigoryan Beethoven / String Quartet op 95, Serioso Australian String Quartet
Saturday 4 October VOYAG ER ES TAT E
12.30pm Morning concert Peter Sculthorpe / String Quartet no 13, Island Dreaming Australian String Quartet and Sara Macliver A selection of works performed by Sara Macliver and Slava Grigoryan Boccherini / Guitar Quintet no 4 in D major G448, Fandango Australian String Quartet and Slava Grigoryan
Saturday 4 October C AP E LODG E
7.00pm Gala concert A selection of works performed by Slava Grigoryan Haydn / String Quartet op 76 no 5 Australian String Quartet Vivaldi / In furore iustissimae irae, RV626 Australian String Quartet and Sara Macliver 8.00pm Gala dinner A showcase performance by Sara Macliver and Anna Goldsworthy
Sunday 5 October VAS S E F ELI X
12.00pm Finale concert Schubert / Impromptu D899 no 2 in E flat Schubert / Impromptu D899 no 4 in A flat Anna Goldsworthy Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, op 34 Australian String Quartet and Anna Goldsworthy
C UL L E N W IN ES
The words quality, integrity and sustainability define the Cullen philosophy. This second generation family company use biodynamic practices to create the best quality expression of the vineyard in the wine.
PHOTO: FRANCES ANDRIJICH
V O YA G E R ES TAT E
Founded by Michael Wright, Voyager Estate offers a truly memorable wine experience. The vineyard’s location was selected because it has the ideal characteristics to create wines of elegance, complexity and balance.
CA PE L ODGE
Voted Australia’s Best Boutique Hotel - Cape Lodge is a luxury country house hotel and gourmet retreat. Sitting on its own vineyard in the heart of Margaret River Wine Country - Cape Lodge attracts those seeking a private, stylish and sophisticated retreat. Cape Lodge has 22 rooms and an award winning restaurant and cooking school.
VA SSE F E L I X
Margaret River’s oldest wine estate, Vasse Felix focuses on crafting wines that best express the distinct characteristics of the region’s best performing varieties. In 2012, Vasse Felix was rated as a ‘Top 100 International Winery’ by Wine & Spirits Magazine, USA.
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4323 Caves Road Wilyabrup WA 6280 T (08) 9755 5277
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1 Stevens Road Margaret River WA 6285 T (08) 9757 6354
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3341 Caves Road Yallingup WA 6282 T (08) 9755 6311 KARRIDALE
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Caves Road (Cnr Tom Cullity Drive) Formerly Harman’s Road South Margaret River, WA 6284 T (08) 9756 5000
(L to R): Kristian Winther, Ioana Tache, Stephen King, Sharon Draper.
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 recently completed a tour of China, and 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 in the Southern Grampians and Margaret River; regional touring and prestigious invitations to collaborate with leading artists and organisations including their performance earlier this year 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.1743-1784 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’.
GUEST ARTIST S L A VA G R I G O R Y A N / G U I T A R
His debut classical album for ABC Classics, Sonatas and Fantasies, was released in March 2002 and was awarded Best Classical Album at the 2002 ARIA Awards. 2003 saw the release of two new albums on the ABC Classics label, Play (with Leonard Grigoryan) and Saffire (The Australian Guitar Quartet), which went on to win the 2003 Best Classical Album ARIA. Since then he has recorded a further two albums with Saffire, a recording of the Rodrigo Concertos with his brother Leonard and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, an album of music composed by Nigel Westlake entitled Shadowdances, and an album of baroque guitar concertos with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra under Benjamin Northey. Slava Grigoryan was born in 1976 in Kazakhstan and immigrated with his family to Australia in 1981. As a major prizewinner at the Tokyo International Classical Guitar Competition, Slava was signed by the Sony Classical Label in 1995 and has since released six solo albums and many collaborative recordings. He has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Radio Orchestra, the Klagenfurt Symphony Orchestra in Austria, the Halle Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the New Zealand Symphony, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and all of the Australian Symphony Orchestras. He was a founding member of Saffire (The Australian Guitar Quartet) with whom he toured Europe, North America and Australia.
The collaboration with brother Leonard Grigoryan is developing as his most significant one. They have now released their fifth duo recording, The Seasons, and have performed together throughout the world. Slava Grigoryan was appointed as Artistic Director of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival for 2010, 2012 and 2014.
GUEST ARTIST SARA MACLIVER / SOPRANO
In 2013 engagements included a very successful national tour with the Academy of Ancient Music for Musica Viva, Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, St Matthew Passion for Opera Queensland, Messiah with the Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, and the Poulenc Stabat Mater with WASO. In 2013 Sara was nominated for a Helpmann award for her performance in Monteverdi’s Orfeo. In 2014 Sara performs with the Australian String Quartet, at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, ANAM, St George’s Cathedral and many others.
Sara Macliver is one of Australia’s most popular and versatile artists, and is regarded as one of the leading exponents of Baroque repertoire. Sara is a regular performer with all the Australian symphony orchestras as well as the Perth, Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, Pinchgut Opera, the ACO and ABO, and Musica Viva, and a number of international companies. Sara records for ABC Classics with more than 35 CDs and many awards to her credit. Recent engagements include a national tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Mahler symphonies with the Adelaide, Sydney, West Australia and New Zealand Symphony orchestras, a national tour with the Australian String Quartet, David in Charpentier’s David & Jonathan for Pinchgut Opera, Creation with the Academy of Ancient Music, major roles with West Australian Opera, and in Monteverdi’s Orfeo with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
Sara has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Australia in recognition of her services to singing. Photo credit: Rhydian Lewis
GUEST ARTIST ANNA GOLDSWORTHY / PIANO
Described by The Australian as a ‘musical ambassador,’ Anna Goldsworthy is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and versatile musicians. As a piano soloist, she has performed extensively throughout Australia and internationally, with highlights including solo appearances at the Teatro Colon for the Buenos Aires International Music Festival, for the Orchestra of Colours in Athens, at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Masters Series. Her solo CDs, Come With Us and Piano Lessons, are available on the ABC Classics label. An accomplished chamber player, Anna is a founding member of Seraphim Trio, which in 2014 celebrates its twentieth anniversary. She collaborates regularly with Australia’s most distinguished musicians, such as oboist Diana Doherty, clarinettist Paul Dean, trumpeter David Elton, soprano Jane Sheldon and the Australian String Quartet. Anna’s literary publications include the memoirs Piano Lessons and Welcome to Your New Life, as well as the Quarterly Essay Unfinished Business. She is currently Artistic Director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Kenneth Moore Memorial Music Scholar at Janet Clarke Hall, and Research Fellow at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.
PRESENTER F R À P R O F E S S O R R I C H A R D D I VA L L A O O B E
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 I, 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, and was recently appointed to King’s College, London.
ADELAIDE BRISBANE CANBERRA MELBOURNE PERTH SYDNEY
Relativity 10 — 19 November
String Quartet E-flat major And Once I Played Ophelia (Australian premiere) P E T E R S C U L T H O R P E String Quartet no 13 Island Dreaming F E L I X M E N D E L S S O H N String Quartet in A minor op 13 FA N N Y M E N D E L S S O H N BRETT DEAN
With guest artist Greta Bradman, soprano For dates and booking information: www.asq.com.au
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S AV E T H E D A T E F O R 2 0 1 5 Margaret River Weekend of Music Fri 17 – Sun 19 April 2015
ASQ BOARD Paul Clitheroe AM (Chair) Alexandra Burt Nicholas Callinan Janet Hayes Ulrike Klein Paul Murnane Maria Myers AO Susan Renouf Jeanette Sandford-Morgan OAM Angelina Zucco – Executive Director
The University of Adelaide SA 5005 Telephone 1800 040 444 www.asq.com.au asq@asq.com.au