AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET
NATIONAL SEASON 2 015
ABUNDANCE TOU R TWO 1—8 SEPTEMBER, 2015
WELCOME
In this concert, Abundance, new life is celebrated in Mozart’s D minor quartet and in a new work by Matthew Hindson, String Quartet no 3, Ngeringa. For Mozart the new life at the time of writing was that of his first-born child. It is an unsettled work in a minor key that is at one moment brooding and in the next optimistic. Hindson’s work, commissioned by the Ngeringa Arts, celebrates the opening of a landmark new concert hall in the Adelaide Hills. The four-movement work is a homage to visionaries such as Ulrike Klein, and the tenacity and enterprise of those people behind the scenes who help drive creative life in Australia. It is often easy to forget that Webern wrote in a highly romantic style, stretching the boundaries of harmony, melody and timelessness. The single-movement Langsamer Satz, written by Webern on a mountain holiday with his fiancée, is a beautiful love-struck outpouring for string quartet. Bedrˇich Smetana included four chapters of his autobiography inside the pages of his first string quartet From my life. “I wanted to paint in sounds, the course of my life,” he said. He does this through the most joyful use of Bohemian dances that are, however, clouded by the fanfare of fate, the weight of nostalgia, the eventual shock of deafness and the resignation of acceptance – a poignant ending to an evening reflecting on love’s abundance in life. For this concert we heartily welcome violinists Susie Park and Brendan Joyce. Sydney-sider Susie Park lives in New York where she is an avid chamber musician, soloist and collaborator. Brendan Joyce is in demand as a leader and concertmaster in Australia and internationally, and leads the Camerata of St John’s – Queensland’s chamber orchestra. We were thrilled recently to announce the news that violinists Dale Barltrop and Francesca Hiew have joined the Australian String Quartet and will be performing from February 2016. Dale, Francesca, Steve and Sharon look forward to sharing our 2016 National Season program in mid-September with you. Australian String Quartet
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PROGRAM
Mozart, String Quartet no 15 in D minor K421 Matthew Hindson, String Quartet no 3, Ngeringa* (World Premiere performances) Webern, Langsamer Satz Smetana, String Quartet no 1 in E minor, From my life With guest violinists Susie Park and Brendan Joyce *Commissioned by Ngeringa Arts
DATES
Brisbane, Tuesday 1 September, 7pm Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank Sydney, Wednesday 2 September, 7pm City Recital Hall Angel Place Melbourne, Thursday 3 September, 7pm Melbourne Recital Centre Adelaide, Monday 7 September, 7pm Adelaide Town Hall Perth, Tuesday 8 September, 7pm Government House Ballroom
Don’t miss our next national tour TRANSCEND with guest soprano Allison Bell and violinists Sophie Rowell and Francesca Hiew. 29 October – 7 November 2015
AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET
With a rich history spanning over 30 years, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has 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 frequently performs with leading guest artists and in recent years has appeared with internationally acclaimed artists including pianists Angela Hewitt and Piers Lane, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, clarinetist Michael Collins, violist Brett Dean and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. The Quartet’s performance calendar for 2015 comprises its National Season featuring three 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 an international tour in Italy in May. 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. For this year, the viola and cello are on loan to the ASQ for their exclusive use through the generosity of Ulrike Klein and Ngeringa Arts. The ASQ has recently appointed Dale Barltrop as first violin and Francesca Hiew as second violin. The new quartet will make their full debut in February 2016 in their first national concert season. In 2015, violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper are joined by invited guest violinists to present the Quartet’s continuing busy season of performances.
STEPHEN KING VIOLA
SHARON DRAPER CELLO
Stephen King played violin while growing up in Canberra and turned to the dark side (viola) after all but completing an architecture degree in Brisbane. Stephen holds a Doctorate in Chamber Music from the University of Maryland. His teachers include Elizabeth Morgan, James Dunham, and Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet. From 1997 Stephen was violist of the Coolidge String Quartet based in Washington D.C. and also Associate Principal Viola of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Stephen returned to Australia in 2003 to join the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Since 2012 he has performed with the Australian String Quartet.
Sharon Draper began her career as a freelance cellist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Melbourne Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. After joining the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s (ACO) Emerging Artists program, she toured extensively with the ACO, was appointed to the MSO, and founded the Hopkins String Quartet. In 2011 she studied in Berlin and toured with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Spira Mirabilis Chamber Orchestra. Sharon joined the Australian String Quartet in 2013 and this year performed as a guest with the Australian World Orchestra, and guitarist Slava Grigoryan.
Guadagnini Quartet Project The members of the Australian String Quartet are privileged to have access to a matched set of Guadagnini instruments. Hand crafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini between c.1743-1784 in Turin and Piacenza, Italy, these exquisite instruments were brought together through the vision of Ulrike Klein, founder of Ngeringa Arts. For this tour, the viola and cello are on loan to the Australian String Quartet from Ulrike Klein and Ngeringa Arts. In order to secure the instruments for future generations, Ngeringa Arts has launched the Guadagnini Quartet Project. Its aim is to acquire all four instruments for future generations of Australian musicians and music lovers. Once complete it will be the only matched set of Guadagnini instruments in the world and Ngeringa Arts will hold it in perpetuity. Already through the generosity of the Klein Family and other donors, Ngeringa Arts has acquired the viola and earlier this year Ngeringa Arts acquired the violin crafted in Turin, 1784, through the generosity of Allan J Myers AO, Maria J Myers AO and the Klein Family. Its next priority is the cello. Crafted in 1743 it is one of his finest and was featured in an international exhibition
in Parma, Italy to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Guadagnini’s birth.
Mr H.G. MacLachlan
Through the generosity of the Klein Family Foundation, the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation and a group of committed donors we aim to raise the purchase price of $1.83M by 30 June next year. History-making endeavors like this are born from passion. To succeed, Ngeringa Arts needs the involvement of visionaries who understand the significant cultural value in a collection of this calibre. The Board of Ngeringa Arts recognizes and thanks the following patrons who have each made a significant contribution to this project.
Ian and Pamela Wall
Klein Family Foundation Allan J Myers AO Maria J Myers AO James and Diana Ramsay Foundation Diana McLaurin Joan Lyons Mrs F.T. MacLachlan OAM
Hartley Higgins David and Pam McKee Janet and Michael Hayes Richard Harvey Jill Russell Skye McGregor Lyndsey and Peter Hawkins Jari and Bobbie Hryckow Janet and Gary Tilsley Anonymous (1) Please join Ngeringa Arts in building this extraordinary musical legacy. To donate go to www.ngeringaarts.com For more information contact Alison Beare General Manager, Ngeringa Arts P (08) 8227 1277 E Alison@ngeringaarts.com
GUEST ARTIST S U S I E PA R K VIOLIN
GUEST ARTIST BRENDAN JOYCE VIOLIN
Hailed as “prodigiously talented” (Washington Post) and praised for her “freedom, mastery and fantasy” (La Libre, Belgium), Australian violinist Susie Park has gained worldwide recognition for her searing emotive range and dynamic stage presence. Among her numerous awards and honours, she won top prizes at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and the Wieniawski Competition (Poland), and was winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (France).
Brendan Joyce is the Leader of Camerata of St John’s – Queensland’s chamber orchestra – and his leadership was recently described by The Australian as “dynamic” and in Limelight Magazine as “indefatigable”. He is a long-time member and guest Concertmaster of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) and he frequently leads the Orchestra of the Antipodes for Pinchgut Opera. During his study years he played for and eventually led the early Camerata of St John’s and was Concertmaster for the Queensland Youth Symphony and Australian Youth Orchestra. In 2011-2013 he performed the complete cycle of Bartók’s String Quartets as a member of the Kurilpa Quartet. This year Brendan has performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, Marjan Mozetich’s Affairs of the Heart Violin Concerto with Camerata of St John’s, and toured as soloist for the ABO in their world premiere performances on period instruments of Max Richter’s Vivaldi Four Seasons Recomposed.
She was the violinist of the Eroica Trio from 2006 to 2012, whose CD for EMI “An American Journey” was nominated for a Grammy™ award. She has toured Germany with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the US with Vienna Symphony Orchestra. A native of Sydney, Susie Park first picked up the violin at age three, making her solo recital debut at the age of five. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory. She currently resides in New York City.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
String Quartet no 15 in D minor, K421 (1783) I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Menuetto (Allegretto) – Trio IV. Allegretto ma non troppo In 1785 Haydn heard three of the quartets Mozart had dedicated to him, and made his famous statement to Leopold Mozart that ‘your son is the greatest composer known to me’. Unusually for Mozart the quartets were written ‘on spec’ and over a period of two years. Mozart, naturally, had to give priority to paid work, but as he himself said in his dedicatory letter to Haydn, these were the ‘fruits of long and laborious study’. Baron Gottfried van Swieten presented concerts of Bach and Handel every Sunday morning, and Mozart attended these regularly from 1781. He would take the scores home to his new wife, Constanze, who would listen to ‘nothing but fugues, particularly Bach and Handel’, and encouraged Mozart to write some himself. Baroque music had nothing like the currency it does now: most music lovers in Mozart’s day were only interested in new music, and even to Mozart himself the discovery of Bach in particular came as a revelation. Haydn and Mozart probably didn’t know each other all that well, though their relations were cordial. We know they played quartets on at least one occasion with composers Vanhal and Dittersdorf (sadly, we don’t know what they played). Mozart was highly impressed with Haydn’s String Quartets op 33, published in 1781, which Haydn justifiably claimed had been written ‘in an entirely new way’. He had discovered a way or making all four instruments into equal participants in the musical discourse, freeing the cello, for instance, from merely supplying the bass line. Haydn breaks his themes up into memorable but elastic motifs that are threaded through the texture. In his ‘Haydn’ quartets, Mozart marries that technique with the contrapuntal practice and emotive chromaticism of Bach. D minor in Mozart is associated with the turbulence of his Piano Concerto K466, Don Giovanni and the Requiem. The Quartet K421 has much of this tragic sense. It relies heavily on baroque counterpoint, as in the first movement where the theme is imitated (repeated sequentially by the different instruments). The Andante is simple and lyrical, a foil to the energetically tense minuet and trio. In later years, Constanze remembered that Mozart was composing this movement while she was in labour with their first child, and would divide his time between composing and comforting her. The finale is a variations movement, perhaps a tribute to Haydn (the theme bears a passing resemblance to the G major quartet from Haydn’s op 33) These works received some bad press. ‘Too highly seasoned’, wrote one critic. But scholar Maynard Solomon rightly argues that these pieces ‘transfigured the genre and imbued it with a degree of subjectivity and intensity of feeling that was not again reached until Beethoven’s “Rasumovsky” Quartets.’ Gordon Kerry © 2006
MATTHEW HINDSON (BORN 1968)
String Quartet no 3, Ngeringa I. The landscape as viewed from Mount Barker II. Encroaching ‘civilization’ and development III. The Idea IV. Construction and Realisation Matthew Hindson is one of the most-performed and most-commissioned composers in the world. His music has been performed by every Australian orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic and by dance companies such as the Birmingham Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, National Ballet of Japan and the Sydney Dance Company. Matthew is the Acting Head of School and Acting Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has been Chair of the Music Board, and later a board member, of the Australia Council, and from 2004-2010, artistic director of the Aurora Festival. In 2006 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his contributions to music education and composition. The composer writes: String Quartet no 3, Ngeringa, was written for the Australian String Quartet and commemorates the opening of Ngeringa Cultural Centre at Mount Barker, South Australia. It is a homage to the vision, tenacity and enterprise of Australia’s behind-the-scenes cultural leaders - people like Ulrike Klein and Ngeringa Arts. The work was completed early in 2015 and consists of four main sections. The first depicts the landscape seen from Mount Barker, which overlooks the current site of the Centre. A place of significance to its traditional custodians since long before European settlement, from its summit one sees an ancient landscape stretching back towards the Adelaide Hills, or in the opposite direction across very flat and dry terrain. The second section is built around the idea of the new housing developments continually moving out from town centres. This has both positive and negative implications: people need to live somewhere and many choose to live in new suburbs that are developed in landscapes that have stood essentially unchanged for eons. But this development also means that new facilities, such as the Ngeringa Cultural Centre, are needed: sites of beauty in amongst urban sprawl. The third section is based upon ‘The Idea’, the burgeoning of creative thoughts in making new art. It also celebrates the need for a symbol of creative achievement and the vision of a space for its realisation, such as... a new concert hall. The final section is inspired by notions of construction and realisation – the process of putting a creative idea into practice, and making it a reality. It expresses the idealistic hope that such an achievement will make a positive difference to people’s lives. © Matthew Hindson 2015
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ANTON VON WEBERN (1883-1945)
Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) for string quartet In one of the great ‘what if…?’ scenarios of music history, Webern approached Hans Pfitzner in Berlin for composition lessons in 1904. Pfitzner’s reactionary views on the music of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler gave Webern pause, and he returned to Vienna where he began his association with Arnold Schoenberg. Webern’s period of formal study with Schoenberg lasted from 1904-1908 after which he began to compose works that grew out of Schoenberg’s experiments in atonality and, much later, serialism. In 1904 he heard Schoenberg’s hyperRomantic string sextet, Verklärte Nacht and as he put it, ‘The impression it made on me was one of the greatest I had ever experienced’. Verklärte Nacht’s musical language has its roots in the Wagner of Tristan und Isolde as filtered through that of Mahler and Richard Strauss, and it describes a moonlit walk taken by two lovers. Webern’s music up until 1905, when he wrote his Langsamer Satz, is steeped in the same passionately erotic and opulent sound. This is hardly surprising, given that the work is said to have been inspired by a hiking trip that Webern took with his future wife, his cousin Wilhelmine Mörtl. In a muchquoted diary entry, Webern ecstatically describes one evening’s walk, when sharing a coat for shelter from the rain, ‘our love rose to infinite heights and filled the Universe. Two souls were enraptured.’ For all the late-Romantic sensuality of the work’s sound, there is more than a hint of Brahms, the presiding deity of Viennese music, in some of its melodies. The first theme, with its rising contour is perhaps Wagnerian in tone, but the second theme, after the passion of the first has been momentarily exhausted, is pure Brahms. Formally the piece is a simple arch: these two themes contend in the first and third sections. There is a contrasting central section, and Webern ends with a long goodbye – an extended coda in which it seems he cannot bear to let the music stop. In a sense the Langsamer Satz is a counterpart to Im Sommerwind, Webern’s orchestral homage to late Romantic excess, composed the previous year. Neither work was published during the composer’s lifetime, and the Langsamer Satz was not even performed until 1962 in Seattle, USA. Such works give us a more rounded sense of this great but enigmatic composer. © Gordon Kerry 2015
B E D Rˇ I C H S M E T A N A (1824-1884)
String Quartet no 1 in E minor, From my life Allegro vivo – appassionato Allegro moderato a la polka Largo sostenuto Vivace Only in the wake of the revolutions of 1848, and the related flowering of Romanticism in the arts, did ‘nationalist’ art music arise; by the 1870s Bedrˇich Smetana was regarded as the doyen of Czech composers. But Smetana’s eminence had not come easily. He failed to achieve fame as a piano virtuoso and, while a music institute that he founded enabled him to survive, he left Prague in 1855 feeling neglected and settled in Göteborg where the Swedes, he complained, thought of any music composed after Mozart as ‘indigestible’. He returned to Prague in 1862 where, largely through the medium of opera – in Czech – he contributed to the foundation of a confident national art music. In 1874, however, Smetana went suddenly and completely deaf. But like Beethoven, who admonished himself to ‘let your deafness no longer be a secret, even in art’, Smetana used his affliction as the nub of his first String Quartet. Smetana regarded the work as ‘private…and so purposely written for four instruments which, as in a small circle of friends, talk among themselves about what has oppressed me so significantly’. The first movement, he said ‘depicts my youthful leanings toward art, the Romantic atmosphere, the inexpressible yearning of something I could neither express nor define, and also a kind of warning of future misfortune’. In the second, ‘a quasi-polka brings to mind the joyful days of youth when I composed dance music…being known myself as a passionate lover of dancing’. Here the viola, played by Dvorˇák at the work’s premiere, is asked to imitate a trumpet. The slow movement suggests ‘the happiness of my first love, the girl who later became my first wife’ – who, sadly, died during the period in Sweden. Finally, ‘the discovery that I could treat national elements in music, and my joy in following this path until it was checked by the catastrophe of the onset of my deafness, the outlook into the sad future, the tiny rays of hope of recovery, but remembering all the promise of my early career, a feeling of painful regret.’ The onset of deafness is depicted in a striking gesture, ‘a joke’ he permitted himself – a low rumble over which the first violin plays a piercing E miles above the stave, an image of the maddening tinnitus the composer endured. This leads to heartbreaking reminiscences of earlier sections and a gradual descent into silence. Gordon Kerry © 2009
DONORS
The Australian String Quartet would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank the following donors for their ongoing support along with those donors whose very important contribution remains anonymous. The following donations reflect cumulative donations made from 2008 onwards. The ASQ is registered as a tax deductible recipient. Donations can be made by phoning the ASQ on 1800 040 444.
$350,000+ Allan Myers AO & Maria Myers AO $250,000+ Klein Family Foundation $50,000+ Nicholas & Elizabeth Callinan Clitheroe Foundation Thyne Reid Foundation Richard Harvey & the late Tess Harvey Lyndsey & Peter Hawkins Hunt Family Foundation Norma Leslie Michael Lishman The Ian Potter Foundation $30,000+ Mr Philip Bacon Wright Burt Foundation Janet & Michael Hayes David & Pam McKee Peter & Pamela McKee $20,000+ Mrs Diana McLaurin $10,000+ Brenda Shanahan Charitable Fund Macquarie Group Foundation Josephine Dundon Angela Flannery Lang Foundation Joan Lyons Skye McGregor P. M. Menz Robert Salzer Foundation $5000+ Don and Veronica Aldridge Bernard & Jackie Barnwell Berg Family Foundation
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POSTCARD FROM I TA LY Since our last National Season tour we have been privileged to undertake a tour of Italy with thanks to the generous support of the Klein Family Foundation and a number of supporting patrons. Commencing with performances in Rome, including a private performance at the home of Ambassador Mike Rann, the concerts featured Australian repertoire by Graeme Koehne, Ross Edwards and the late Peter Sculthorpe, alongside classical European works. The Quartet was delighted to perform in the stunning Scuola Grande di San Rocco as part of Australia’s involvement at the Venice Biennale for the Australia Council for the Arts. This special performance was filmed by renowned Australian Director, Scott Hicks, as part of a documentary featuring the rare 18th Century Italian instruments which are generously on loan to the Quartet through Ngeringa Arts. The tour concluded with performances in Como at Villa D’Este for the Circolo Bellini Association and at the Giovanni Arvedi auditorium in the Museo del Violino in Cremona. We extend our thanks and appreciation to the individuals and organisations who have generously supported this tour. Our particular thanks to guest violinists Zöe Black and Wilma Smith who joined ASQ violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper for these memorable European performances.
From left, Zöe Black, Wilma Smith, Sharon Draper, Stephen King performing at the Museo del Violino in Cremona.
ASQ F E S T I VA L S
The Australian String Quartet has pleasure in presenting two exclusive chamber music festivals with its new line-up and leading guest artists.
Dunkeld Festival of Music Fri 1 – Sun 3 April 2016 Sun 3 – Tue 5 April 2016
Margaret River Weekend of Music Fri 8 – Sun 10 April 2016
Set in the magnificent surrounds of Dunkeld in Victoria’s Southern Grampians, enjoy wonderful hospitality provided by the iconic Royal Mail Hotel with intimate concerts presented in the Myers’ Gallery and the charming Mt Sturgeon Woolshed.
Savour the best of this spectacular Western Australian wine region with a musical adventure at Cape Lodge, Fraser Gallop Estate, Vasse Felix and Voyager Estate. With matched food and wine from four of the region’s finest wineries, this weekend of music is a feast for the senses.
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MEET THE NEW ASQ
We are delighted to announce the appointment of violinists Dale Barltrop and Francesca Hiew who join current members, violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper, to form the new Australian String Quartet. Hear the new line-up of the ASQ in our first National Season tour in February/March 2016. Full details of the National Season 2016 will be announced in mid-September 2015.
ASQ BOARD Alexandra Burt Nicholas Callinan (Chair) Janet Hayes Paul Murnane Maria Myers AO Susan Renouf Jeanette Sandford-Morgan OAM Angelina Zucco – Chief Executive
Quartet-in-Residence The University of Adelaide SA 5005 Australia T 1800 040 444 (Freecall) F +61 8 8313 4389 E asq@asq.com.au asq.com.au Facebook.com/AustralianStringQuartet Twitter.com/ASQuartet