Dunkeld Festival of Music Friday 19 – Sunday 21 April 2013
Dunkeld Festival of Music at a glance Friday 19 April 8.00pm Opening concert Myers’ Gallery Saturday 20 April 11.30am Morning concert Penshurst Catholic Church 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 21 April 10.00am Finale concert and morning tea Mt Sturgeon Woolshed
Dunkeld Festival of Music concert program Friday 19 April
Saturday 20 April
8.00pm Opening concert Myers’ Gallery
11.30am Morning concert Penshurst Catholic Church
Rameau / Selected works from Pieces de Clavecin Debussy / L’isle Joyeuse Timothy Young Debussy / Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano Ashley William Smith and Timothy Young Shostakovich / String Quartet in C minor, op 110 no 8 Australian String Quartet
Haydn / String Quartet in E flat major, op 33 no 2 (Hob.III: 38), The Joke Australian String Quartet Britten / Suite for Harp: Overture Ross Edwards / The Harp & the Moon (excerpt) GF Handel arr Béon / Passacaglia Marshall McGuire Caplet / Conte fantastique after Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death (for harp and string quartet) Australian String Quartet and Marshall McGuire 2.30pm Afternoon concert Mt Sturgeon Woolshed Schubert / String Trio D471, Allegro Anne Horton, Stephen King and Rachel Johnston Brahms / Quintet in B minor, op 115 Australian String Quartet and Ashley William Smith
Guest artists: Elizabeth Layton / violin Marshall McGuire / harp Ashley William Smith / clarinet Timothy Young / piano
Saturday 20 April
Sunday 21 April
6.30pm Evening concert Myers’ Gallery
10.00am Finale concert Mt Sturgeon Woolshed
Ross Edwards / Adagio from Arafura Dances (arranged for harp & string quartet) Australian String Quartet and Marshall McGuire Grainger / Shepherd’s Hey Grainger / Molly on the Shore Rachel Johnston, Ashley William Smith and Timothy Young
Clarinet and Harp Duet Ashley William Smith and Marshall McGuire Mozart / Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581 Australian String Quartet and Ashley William Smith
Schumann / Piano Quintet in E flat major, op 44 Australian String Quartet and Timothy Young
Violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Piacenza, c. 1748 - 49)
Haydn / String Quartet op 64 no 5, Lark Bartók / String Quartet no 3 Schubert / String Quintet in C major D956 With guest artist Timo-Veikko Valve, cello Appears courtesy of the Australian Chamber Orchestra Haydn and Bartók prepare the way for the flawless unity of five strings in Schubert’s famous quintet.
Melbourne Mon 27 May, 7pm Melbourne Recital Hall (03) 9699 3333 melbournerecital.com.au Brisbane Tues 28 May, 7pm Conservatorium Theatre QTIX 136 246 qtix.com.au Perth Thurs 30 May, 7pm Perth Concert Hall Ticketek 1300 795 012 ticketek.com.au
Sydney Tues 4 June, 7pm City Recital Hall Angel Place 1300 797 118 cityrecitalhall.com Adelaide Wed 5 June, 7pm Adelaide Town Hall BASS 131 246 bass.net.au
Pre-concert talks will be held in all venues prior to the concert at 6.10pm.
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A. Myers’ Gallery and Garden– Opening and evening concert B. Penshurst Catholic Church – Morning concert C. Mt Sturgeon Woolshed – Picnic lunch, afternoon concert, and finale concert D. Royal Mail Hotel – Gala dinner
Australian String Quartet Kristian Winther – Violin Anne Horton – Violin Stephen King – Viola Rachel Johnston – Cello The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) was established in 1985 and is Quartet-inResidence at the University of Adelaide. Touring widely to capital centres and regional communities and commissioning many works by leading Australian composers – the ASQ has had a major impact on the musical life of Australia. The Quartet is broadcast frequently on ABC Classic FM and regularly record for commercial release.
Kristian Winther plays a 1784 Guadagnini Violin, Turin Anne Horton plays a 1748-49 Guadagnini Violin, Piacenza Stephen King plays a 1783 Guadagnini Viola, Turin Rachel Johnston plays a c.1743 Guadagnini Violoncello, Piacenza, ‘Ngeringa’
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. In 2012, the ensemble’s international performance highlights included engagements at the prestigious Trasimeno Music Festival in Italy which saw the Quartet working with leading international artists Angela Hewitt, Anne Sofie Von Otter and the Cremona String Quartet. The members of the Australian String Quartet 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 the Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation. Please note that Kristian Winther is taking personal leave during this period and will be replaced by leading violinist Elizabeth Layton.
Guest artist: Elizabeth Layton violin Elizabeth Layton was born in London and studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, continuing her studies as a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. Full scholarships to the Aspen Festival enabled her to work closely with the Juilliard and Cleveland String Quartets. Elizabeth made her UK debut with the Philharmonia, also appearing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Bournemouth Symphony, English Sinfonia, Calgary Philharmonic, City of Barcelona Symphony, Lahti Symphony and many others. Festival appearances include Bath, Edinburgh, Harrogate, Cheltenham, Valencia, Gstaad and numerous music societies. At the age of twelve, Elizabeth was invited to join Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin for a chamber music concert to celebrate the latter’s Golden Jubilee, broadcast from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Since then she has worked with many other distinguished chamber musicians, including Yuri Bashmet, Zara Nelsova, Schlomo Mintz, Rudolph Buchbinder and Artur Pizzarro. She has toured and recorded extensively with the Nash Ensemble, giving concerts in Europe, North America, Hong Kong, Japan and New Zealand and was also a member of Trio Zingara. Among appearances at major international festivals, were recordings of complete piano trios of Beethoven (nominated for a Gramophone Award) and trios of Ravel, Schubert and Shostakovich. Other discs include violin and piano works of Schubert (Daily Telegraph ‘CD Choice’) as well as chamber music for DG, Hyperion, BIS and Chandos.
In 1997 Elizabeth was appointed Associate Leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, recording and touring with them worldwide, and appearing frequently as soloist with Iona Brown in concerti of Vivaldi, Bach and Tippett. In 1999, she became Leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth appeared regularly as soloist with the orchestra, working with conductors such as Osmo Vanska, Ilan Volkov, Martyn Brabbins and Jerzy Maksymiuk. She also regularly directed the orchestra from the violin, with soloists Michael Collins, Martin Roscoe and Alison Balsom, performances all broadcast by the BBC. Other guest directing appearances included the Manchester Camerata, Scottish Ensemble and Ambache Ensemble. A commitment to contemporary music has seen the BBC broadcasting a number of solo performances, in works of Dutilleux, Cresswell, Knussen, van der Aa and Scelsi. In 2010 she was soloist in a critically acclaimed CD of Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Scena’ with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov. Elizabeth has had strong links with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow, working as Professor of Violin. She also formed the Academy String Ensemble, working closely with students to perform concerts throughout Scotland. Elizabeth Layton moved to Australia with her family in 2010. She appears this season as both recitalist and chamber musician, also making a number of recordings for ABC. She is a regular guest leader of major symphony orchestras in Australia and New Zealand, and is on the teaching staff at the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide.
Guest artist: Marshall McGuire harp Acclaimed as one of the world’s leading harpists in contemporary and baroque repertoire, Marshall McGuire studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music, London. His London debut recital was presented at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group. He has commissioned and premiered more than 100 new works for harp, and has been a member of the ELISION ensemble since 1988. He has performed as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and the Australia Ensemble and has appeared at international festivals including Aldeburgh, Melbourne, Milan, Geneva, Brighton, Moscow, Vienna, Huddersfield, Huntington and Adelaide. In 2010, he conducted performances of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas for the Macau International Music Festival. Marshall has received fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust, and was artistin-residence at Bundanon in 2003. He has released seven CDs and received three ARIA Award nominations, and in 1997 received the Sounds Australian Award for the Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music.
Marshall is founding President of the New Music Network, a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra Artistic Advisory Committee, a trustee of the Hephzibah Tintner Trust and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, and was head of artistic planning with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2011. Performances in 2013 include Castlemaine Festival, performances with the Australian String Quartet, a new project with Paul Capsis and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, and a season of performances with Ludovico’s Band at Melbourne Recital Centre. Marshall is currently Co-Artistic Director of Ludovico’s Band, and Music Programmer at Arts Centre Melbourne. © Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2013
Guest artist: Ashley William Smith clarinet Described as ‘incandescent... a masterly display of skill and insight... as an apologist for contemporary music-making, you would search hard to find this young clarinettist’s equal’ (The Age), clarinettist Ashley William Smith has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting young musicians. Winner of the ‘other instruments’ category of the 2010 ABC Symphony International Young Performer Award, Ashley has been identified as a ‘rising star’ by the world’s leading clarinet manufacturer, and is a Buffet-Crampon Artist. Born in Perth in 1984, Ashley has presented major public recitals throughout Australia and the east coast of the USA. He has appeared as a soloist with the Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria and the Orchestra of the Australian National Academy of Music. Ashley’s dedication to the promotion of new music has seen him perform numerous Australian premieres, especially those of works by Jorg Widmann and Magnus Lindberg. His Melbourne premiere of the Lindberg Concerto was ranked amongst The Age Newspaper’s Top 5 Classical Performances 2010 and was described as ‘a stand-out occasion ... for once a talented performer fully identified with the music he was playing; it was impossible to imagine a more committed, sympathetic interpretation’(The Age). Other career highlights include performing the Lindberg Clarinet Quintet at the gala concert of the World Congress of Chamber Music Competitions and recitals of music by Australian composers in New York and Washington D.C.
Ashley has future performances scheduled in the USA, Canada and Europe with his duo partner, Australian pianist Aura Go. In 2013 Ashley appears with the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Centre and will take a core position in Melbourne’s Syzygy Ensemble. Ashley graduated from the University of Western Australia with First Class Honours and prizes including the Lady Callaway Medal, the Edith Cowan Prize. In addition he was awarded the Sir Harold Bailey Award as the most outstanding graduate of the UWA Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and was nominated for the J.A. Wood Prize, the University’s most prestigious honour. Ashley is also an alumnus of the Australian National Academy of Music and in 2010 was an Academy Fellow. In 2009 he won both the jury and audience prizes at the Academy’s Concerto Competition and in 2010 was awarded the inaugural Harold Mitchell Fellowship. He is currently pursuing postgraduate studies on full scholarship at Yale University and is mentored by David Shifrin. Ashley is the Yale School of Music’s current nominee for the prestigious Arthur Foote Prize. Most recently, Ashley was named the 2012 Music Council of Australia Freedman Fellow and will subsequently pursue an international recital tour and study program in 2013. Alongside his passion for new music and the clarinet, Ashley is a die-hard fan of opera and is undergoing intense tuition to tame his recently discovered heldentenor voice. He has dreams of one day singing at the Met Opera in New York.
Guest artist: Timothy Young piano ‘…truly magnificent piano playing’ The Classical Review (US) Feb 2011 Marc Rochester Timothy Young is one of Australia’s most prominent and versatile pianists. Currently the Co-ordinator of Piano at the Australian Academy of Music and a founding member of Ensemble Liaison, he performs regularly in recital as a soloist and in partnership with leading Australian and international musicians and ensembles. Timothy received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Melbourne with first class honours as a student of Ronald Farren-Price and Mack Jost. He then continued his studies in Europe with Lidia Baldecchi-Arcuri, receiving his Diploma with a rarely awarded distinction from the Ministry of Education and as dux of his year at the Nicolò Paganini Conservatorium in Genova, Italy. During almost a decade of performing throughout Italy and Europe, Timothy also won first-prize in the Premio Kawai-Tortona, the Palma d’Oro-Finale Ligure and in Trio the 1st Chamber Music Competition of Liguria. He performed works by Luciano Berio for the composer himself and worked with the Orfeo and Aulodia ensembles. Festival appearances included Chiavari, Bordighera, Ravello and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Since his return to Australia Timothy has appeared at the Queensland Biennial Festival of Music, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Port Fairy Festival (Victoria), Bangalow Music Festival, Melbourne International Festival of Brass, Music in the Round at Monash University, the Utzon Room music series at the Sydney Opera House, Canberra
International Music Festival, the Aurora Festival (ISCM) in Sydney, the Perth Concert Hall Summer Series, the Novi Sad Music Summer Festival in Serbia and the Kotor Arts International Festival in Montenegro. He has performed in recital with, among many others, Alexander Baillie, Howard Penny, Wanda Wilkomirska, Anthony Marwood, Daniel Kossov, Tanya Prochazka, Peter Exton, William Hennessy, Henning Kraggerud, Philippe Muller, Michael Goldschlager, Johannes Moser, Oleh Krysa, Rudolf Koelman, Suren Bagratuni, Patricia Pollett, Caroline Henbest, Brett Dean, Paul Neubauer, Andra Darzins, Roger Benedict, John Harle, Paul Rozcek, John Harding, Csaba Erdélyi, Howard Davis, Ma Xiaohui, Mats Lidström, Alexander Ivashkin, David Pereira, Geoffrey Collins, Michael Kieran-Harvey, Tony Gould, Hansjorg Schellenberger, Michael Collins, the Griffith Trio, the Libra Ensemble, the Consort of Melbourne, the Australia Ensemble, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brass Quintet. Timothy has been a guest lecturer for the music faculties of Melbourne University, the Victorian College of the Arts, Griffith University and has taught and lectured at the Australian Institute of Music, Sydney. He has also been a jury member on both national and international piano and chamber music competitions. His internationally acclaimed discography for the Melba label include recordings collaborating with Ensemble Liaison, violist Roger Benedict, violinist Ray Chen, soprano Cheryl Barker and a solo recital of works by G.F Boyle. For Tall Poppies he has recorded with French Hornist, Darryl Poulsen, Ensemble Liaison and cellist, David Pereira.
Presenter: Frà 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. As a musicologist he has undertaken 40 years of editing and research on early Australian music and baroque music. He is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University, and an Associate Professor of Music at The University of Melbourne. Frà Richard is a Knight of Malta in Solemn Religious Profession.
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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Major Patrons
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Leader Sponsor
Viola Sponsor
Philip Bacon
CLITHEROE FOUNDATION PETER & LYNDSEY HAWKINS
Project partners Tyne Reid Foundation
Cellist Sponsors
Ian Potter Foundation
Robert Salzer Foundation
Season partners National Wine Sponsor Our thanks also go to : Staff of the Royal Mail Hotel Scott Horn, General Manager Dan Hunter, Executive Chef Cassie Franklin, Event Co-ordinator
ASQ Board
Paul Clitheroe AM (Chair) Nicholas Callinan Angela Flannery Janet Hayes Ulrike Klein Paul Murnane Maria Myers AO Susan Renouf Jeanette Sandford-Morgan OAM Angelina Zucco – Executive Director
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