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2017 is an exciting year of change and growth for MAPA. As each week passes, we see the Alexander Theatre, our iconic Modernist performance space built in 1967, undergoing its transformation into the most technologically advanced proscenium arch theatre in Australia – and the most versatile. Building on the original principles as outlined at its opening when the Clayton Campus lay on Melbourne’s eastern fringe, this is a theatre of versatility and attention to detail; it is intended to be at the service of all of its communities, both within the campus, and to the many stakeholder groups that make up the dynamically changing south-east of greater Melbourne.
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For we now find ourselves at the centre of a diverse, aspirational modern city, and our new theatre is designed to reflect that. Featuring Meyer Sound’s Constellation system, the Alexander Theatre will have a fully programmable acoustic, taking the listener seamlessly into whatever sonic environment is required, whether for spoken word theatre, acoustic chamber music, or contemporary dance music. With the latest in lighting and theatre technology, the theatre will launch in 2018 as the centrepiece of the new Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, an ambitious initiative by a University proud of its reputation as a centre of excellence in so many fields. And this is only the beginning. 2019 will see the opening of the Centre’s additional two venues: the Sound Gallery, and Jazz Club.
The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts will herald a new era of 21st century performing arts facilities at the Clayton campus. Alexander Theatre opening in 2018 Sound Gallery and Jazz Club opening in 2019
Our programming reflects our commitment to diversity, excellence and inclusivity. We will welcome distinguished performer William Yang, ground-breaking theatre companies Illbijerri Theatre Company and She Said Theatre, as well as Melbourne’s premier modern dance innovators Chunky Move. Building on the success of our piano series Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air, we will present an exciting series of seven recitals by stars of the keyboard including composer Elena Kats-Chernin and
The ever-popular Monash Academy Orchestra will delight in 2017 with performances including world premieres and canonical masterpieces led by an international array of leading conductors. If jazz is your thing, join us at our first Jazz Greats weekend, featuring James Morrison, Kate Ceberano and Joe Camilleri over two evenings of the best of the Australian scene. Once again, I look forward to seeing you at our events, and sharing our excitement at what lies ahead. Professor Paul Grabowsky AO Executive Director
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
Keep up to date on the progress of the Alexander Theatre Redevelopment at www.alexander-theatre.monash
Chris Abrahams, pianist with improv superstars The Necks. Join us on the stage of Robert Blackwood Hall for an unforgettable, intimate experience of music-making at its finest.
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MAPA 2016 Calendar
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She Said Theatre: HART
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MSO and the Australian String Quartet
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MSO Plays Beethoven 8
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Sounds of Spring
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W O O D, M E TA L & V I B R AT I N G A I R
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MONASH ACADEMY ORCHESTRA
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Leslie Howard
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Organ Symphony
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Chris Abrahams
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Vine Choral Symphony
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Anna Goldsworthy
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Dvořák 7 Symphony
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Virginia Black
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Northey Conducts Australian Premiere
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Hoang Pham
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Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Elena Kats-Chernin
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Rule of Thirds: Chunky Move
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Kenji Fujimura
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Free Sound Series
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Organ Recital Series
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CORANDERRK
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The Story Only I Can Tell
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2017 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
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How to Book
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Plan your visit
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JA Z Z G R E AT S W E E K E N D AT M O N A S H
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James Morrison
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Kate Ceberano, Joe Camilleri and Paul Grabowsky – The Bob Dylan Song Book
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THEATRE PERFORMANCES WOOD, METAL AND VIBRATING AIR PIANO SERIES JAZZ GREATS WEEKEND AT MONASH MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
2017 MAPA PRESENTATIONS
MARCH
APRIL
AUGUST
OCTOBER
She Said Theatre HART
Chunky Move Rule of Thirds
Organ Series Recital 2: Christopher Cook
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 7: Kenji Fujimura
Wednesday 15 March, 1:00pm & 7:30pm
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Tuesday 11 April, 8:00pm
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Saturday 5 August, 6:00pm
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Saturday 14 October, 7:30pm
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MARCH
M AY
AUGUST
OCTOBER
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 1: Leslie Howard
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 3: Anna Goldsworthy
Monash Academy Orchestra Dvořák 7 Symphony
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Sounds of Spring
Saturday 18 March, 7:30pm
Tuesday 2 May, 7:30pm
Saturday 5 August, 7:30pm
Friday 1 December, 8:00pm
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AUGUST
Jazz Greats Weekend at Monash: James Morrison
Organ Series Recital 1: David Macfarlane
William Yang The Story Only I Can Tell
Saturday 25 March, 7:30pm
Saturday 13 May, 6:00pm
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Thursday 10 August, 8:00pm
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MARCH
M AY
SEPTEMBER
Jazz Greats Weekend at Monash: Kate Ceberano, Joe Camilleri & Paul Grabowsky
Monash Academy Orchestra Vine Choral Symphony
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 6: Tamara-Anna Cislowska and Elena Kats-Chernin
Saturday 13 May, 7:30pm
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Wed 20 Sep, 7:30pm
ADDITIONAL EVENTS:
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MARCH
M AY
OCTOBER
SEMESTER
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 2: Chris Abrahams
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 4: Virginia Black
Organ Series Recital 3: John O’Donnell
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music – Free Lunchtime Series
Tuesday 28 March, 7:30pm
Sunday 14 May, 4:00pm
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Saturday 7 October, 6:00pm
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Thursdays, 1:10pm
OCTOBER
SEMESTER
Ilbijerri Theatre Company CORANDERRK
Monash Academy Orchestra Northey Conducts Australian Premiere
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music – Free Sound Series
Saturday 7 October, 7:30pm
Commences 28 April
Tuesday 23 May, 1:00pm & 7:30pm
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MAPA 2017 season
APRIL
J U LY
OCTOBER
JUNE
Monash Academy Orchestra Organ Symphony
Wood, Metal and Vibrating Air Piano Series Recital 5: Hoang Pham
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Plays Beethoven 8
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Friday 13 October, 8:00pm
Various dates
Sunday 9 April, 2:30pm
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Thursday 13 July, 7:30pm
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Australian String Quartet Page 16
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Friday 31 March, 8:00pm
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Sunday 26 March, 7:30pm Page 15
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MONASH ACADEMY ORCHESTRA DANCE PERFORMANCE ORGAN SERIES RECITALS
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“I was always like, like a magnet with my Dad, like everywhere he went I was right next to him … He never got rid of me…” Throughout Australia’s history, an unknown number of Indigenous children have been forcibly removed from their families. Parents driven mad, grandparents hear tbroken, siblings torn apart, language lost, culture stripped away. HART is a one-man verbatim theatre piece about the lived experiences of Stolen Generations survivors and the ongoing effects experienced by Indigenous Australians.
Wednesday 15 March 1:00pm and 7:30pm Drama Theatre $15 – $20 $10 Monash Students Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Ian Michael Creator and performer Ian Michael & Seanna van Helten Writers Penny Harpham Director
Monash Academy of Performing Arts in association with She Said Theatre presents
HART
‘One of the most important pieces of Australian theatre…in a long time.’ – Great Scott!
‘Ian Michael is so strong, so true, so giving and spiritually honest.’ – The Barefoot Review
‘Beautiful, heartbreaking and liberating storytelling… Once told, stories cannot be lost and we have to keep telling them until everyone listens.’ – Anne-Marie Peard, AussieTheatre.com
– Cameron Woodhead, The Age MAPA 2017 season 8
Credit: Gabi Briggs
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are warned that this production contains images of deceased persons.
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
‘A brave and quietly devastating performance… Moving theatre that handles some emotionally harrowing material with dignity and grace.’
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents
WOOD, METAL & VIBRATING AIR
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Some of Australia’s most outstanding pianists present a series of unique and intimate recitals. Limited to an audience of just 150, this series of seven recitals offer an excellent opportunity to be seated on stage with the performer. Featuring music from Beethoven and Brahms to Carl Vine, and including a piano duo recital, these concerts will certainly provide a very special musical experience.
Seven Piano Recitals
Chris Abrahams A solo piano performance by The Necks’ pianist Chris Abrahams is a special event. Following on from the release late last year of his fifth solo piano album, Climb, and fresh from performances in New York and Chicago, Chris’ solo career is entering a new phase.
‘Routinely in play is Abrahams’ penchant for glacial beauty, enigma and a sense of disquiet’
All performances at Robert Blackwood Hall
John Shand SMH
Tuesday 28 March 7:30pm
Chris combines a probing approach to the sonic potentialities of the piano with a strong emotional and melodic sensibility. His music unfolds from simple starting points, in a mesmerising and, at times, psychedelic trajectory, to become something hallucinatory and epic. He uses a conventional pianistic approach to transcend the generally perceived sound world of the piano and his use of pianistic touch and dynamics explores the minutiae of the mechanism by which a piano hammer hits a piano string.
$15 – $25 Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Leslie Howard Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1833/4), S154 Großes Konzertsolo (1850), S176 Scherzo und Marsch (1851), S177
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Aïda di Giuseppe Verdi – Danza sacra e duetto finale (1879), S436 Mephisto Waltz No 2 (1881), S515
Intimately familiar with Liszt’s music and completely up to the challenge of these most technically difficult pieces, Howard guides us through some discoveries and delights. In the process he will reveal a complex character – refined and bold and as much a poet as a daredevil – as well as his own skills as a virtuoso pianist and interpreter of the highest calibre. ‘Howard’s was a performance of stunning intensity, as might be expected from the undisputed master of this repertoire.’ – Adelaide Advertiser
Carl Vine Sonata No. 1 Saturday 18 March 7:30pm
Prokofiev Five Sarcasms Ravel Jeux d’eau Schubert Impromptus from Op. 90, No.2 – No.4 Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.53 ‘Waldstein’
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. An accomplished chamber player, Anna is a founding member of Seraphim Trio, which in 2015 celebrated its twenty-first anniversary. Recent collaborators have included cellists Narek Hakhnazaryan and Rachel Johnston, and violinists Andrew Havaron, Hrabba Atladottir, and Niki Vasilakis. 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 a Lecturer in Ensemble at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, a Research Fellow at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, and the Kenneth Moore Memorial Music Scholar at Janet Clarke Hall. Anna records for the ABC Classics label. Her most recent CD is Beethoven Piano Trios with Seraphim Trio, released in February 2016.
Tuesday 2 May 7:30pm
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
Variationen über das Motif von J. S. Bach: ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’ (1862), S180
Leslie Howard is responsible for one of the most staggering achievements in classical music: recording the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt. The finished product of nine years of effort is 99 CDs containing 7,255 minutes of formidably virtuosic work. Howard’s recordings and live performances reveal the multifaceted genius of Liszt – one of the first musicians to give public recitals, a ‘rock star’ performer, and a restless innovator, pushing the boundaries of his instrument and music.
Anna Goldsworthy
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents
WOOD, METAL & VIBRATING AIR
Virginia Black JS Bach Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 Rameau Cinq Pieces from Suites in D major/minor and A major/minor Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K.457 Soler Four Sonatas Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat major Op.31 No.3
Following a dazzling international career specialising in the virtuoso repertoire for the harpsichord, Virginia has turned full circle and returned to her roots as a pianist. She has a recently delighted audiences by performing a series of recitals in England, France and Italy of baroque and classical masterworks, comprising principally of works by Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, together with some more contemporary works. She has also released a recording of the six Bach Partitas and recordings of Scarlatti and Rameau are in progress.
Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Elena Kats-Chernin Sunday 14 May 4:00pm (afternoon tea from 3:00pm)
Elena Kate Chernin Original scores
Described as “a true dream team”, the duo’s critically acclaimed 2016 album, Butterflying (ABC Classics) was selected as Classic FM’s ‘CD of the week’, and Limelight magazine’s ‘Editor’s Choice’ (5 stars - August 2016), hailed as “a dazzling collection… extremely accessible… Fasten your seatbelts and hold on.”
Join us for this Mother’s Day Concert and enjoy a pre concert afternoon tea including finger food, tea, coffee and a glass of sparkling wine. All included in the standard ticket price. ‘… a communicative artist, extrovert, colourful, spontaneous but with a deep sense of poetry.’ The Gramophone
ARIA winner for ‘Best Classical Album’, pianist TamaraAnna Cislowska and one of Australia’s great composers, Elena Kats-Chernin invite you to this intimate and unique tête-a-tête with the composer and her long-time collaborator, performing Kats-Chernin’s thrilling, lyrical and meditative music four hands at the piano, with the composer improvising live over her own scores. As one of Australia’s foremost contemporary composers, Elena KatsChernin attracts commissions from the world’s leading opera, ballet, and theatre companies and festivals.
Wednesday 20 September 7:30pm
Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s foremost pianists, winner of many awards including the 2015 ARIA Award for ‘Best Classical Album’ for her recording of Peter Sculthorpe’s complete piano works. This is a program sure to delight audiences already familiar with Kats-Chernin’s oeuvre, as well as being an irresistible introduction for those yet to discover the unique beauty, vitality and scope of her music.
Hoang Pham Brahms Rhapsody in B minor, Op.79 No.1
Hoang Pham was born in Vietnam and moved to Australia with his parents at an early age.
Brahms Intermezzo in A, Op.118 No.2
He studied privately in Melbourne with Rita Reichman and at the Australian National Academy of Music, and in New York at the Manhattan School of Music where he graduated with a Masters of Music Degree.
Rachmaninov Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.36 Rachmaninov Preludes from Op.3, 23 and 32
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In Australia, Hoang is regularly engaged by the leading recital series and he has appeared as concerto soloist with the Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmanian symphony orchestras.
Programme to be announced.
Kenji Fujimura has been a keen explorer of the byways of classical music. He has become internationally renowned for his unearthing of forgotten works by composers such as William Hurlstone, Max d’Ollone and George Frederick Pinto. His performances have become feted for their eclectic programming, combining music of the Western canon with these gems of a bygone era. This recital will continue in this tradition of juxtaposing the familiar with the not-so-familiar.
Saturday 14 October 7:30pm
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
Brahms Hungarian Dances (selections)
Hoang was the winner of the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers’ Award, has been a prize winner of the Bösendorfer Piano Competition and the Cleveland International Piano Competition in the USA, and won the 2005 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition in Brisbane and the 2010 inaugural Melbourne Recital Centre’s Great Romantics Competition. At the 2008 Sydney International Piano Competition he was awarded Best Australian pianist.
Kenji Fujimura Thursday 13 July 7:30pm
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents
Kate Ceberano, Joe Camilleri and Paul Grabowsky The Bob Dylan Song Book
Jazz Greats Weekend at Monash
Kate Ceberano vocals Joe Camilleri vocals Paul Grabowsky musical director and piano Luke Andresen drums Rob Burke saxophone
Two of Australia’s most popular and celebrated contemporary vocalists, Kate Ceberano and Joe Camilleri, and six time Aria Award winner Paul Grabowsky and the Paul Grabowsky Quartet join forces to bring you a concert featuring the music of one of the 20th century’s greatest song writers and poets – Bob Dylan – reimagined and transformed.
Sunday 26 March 7:30pm Robert Blackwood Hall $15 – $45 Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Jonathan Zion double bass
James Morrison James Morrison trumpet The James Morrison Quintet James Mustafa composer and conductor James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra
The James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra is one of Australia’s most celebrated and renowned large ensembles. Formed in 2013 by Australian composer, bandleader and instrumentalist James Mustafa, the group has gone on to record an award-winning debut album and performed numerous sellout shows across Victoria. The ensemble is a 20 piece jazz orchestra comprised of some of the country’s finest and most respected musicians. Their debut album The Last Sanctuary, released under the Jazzhead record label, has been a best seller. MAPA has commissioned a new work from James Mustafa featuring this outstanding 20 piece Jazz Orchestra with James Morrison as featured soloist.
Saturday 25 March 7:30pm Robert Blackwood Hall $15 – $45 Bookings via MAPA Box Office Monash Academy of Performing Arts
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James Morrison is acclaimed around the world for his virtuosity and musicianship. His concerts sell out across Europe, North America and Australia. MAPA is thrilled to be presenting him in this special event in Robert Blackwood Hall.
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
MSO Plays Beethoven 8 Dvořák Serenade for Winds Kats-Chernin Ornamental Air Mendelssohn Konzertstück Beethoven Symphony No.8 Michael Collins clarinet/director Lloyd Van’t Hoff clarinet
MSO and the Australian String Quartet Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Hindson The Rave and The Nightingale Schubert String Quartet No.14 Death and the Maiden (orchestral version)
Australian String Quartet
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We begin with Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks, a private commission to celebrate the thirtieth wedding anniversary of Robert and Mildred Bliss, an American couple living in a 19th century mansion in Washington DC called ‘Dumbarton Oaks’. With his daughter’s terminal tuberculosis weighing heavily on his mind, Stravinsky took inspiration from the gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, which the composer loved, to create this work. Australian composer Matthew Hindson’s The Rave and the Nightingale takes its inspiration from Schubert’s monolithic last string quartet, Quartet No.15 in G Major, composed in 1826. In this work for string quartet and orchestra, Hindson questions what sort of music would Schubert write, if he had been born in the late 20th century – techno-inspired electronica anthems perhaps? Schubert’s own much loved String Quartet No.14 Death and the Maiden, played in a version for string orchestra, concludes the program. The MSO is pleased to welcome the Australian String Quartet as its 2017 Ensemble in Residence.
Robert Blackwood Hall $39 – $69* Bookings via MAPA Box Office
In this special one-off concert, British clarinet virtuoso Michael Collins returns to play with and conduct the MSO in a riveting series of works, including the dynamic Ornamental Air, written for him by MSO’s Composer in Residence Elena Kats-Chernin. Also on the program is Dvorak’s ‘old worldy’ Serenade for Winds and one of Mendelssohn’s Konzertstücke, in which Collins will be joined by the 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, Darwin-born Lloyd Van’t Hoff. This work is followed by Beethoven’s Symphony No.8, which the composer fondly referred to as his ‘little Symphony in F’. The MSO is delighted to welcome Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia’s leading composers, as its 2017 Composer in Residence.
Friday 31 March 8:00pm
Sounds of Spring
Robert Blackwood Hall $39 – $69* Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Friday 1 December 8:00pm Robert Blackwood Hall
Beethoven Spring Sonata Copland Appalachian Spring Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Eoin Andersen violin/director Stefan Cassomenos piano
Subscription package available at mso.com.au/monash
MSO Concertmaster Eoin Andersen invites you to enjoy some of his favourite works celebrating the return of spring.
$39 – $69* Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, bursting with lyricism and pastoral themes will see Eoin Andersen together with Melbourne’s own Stefan Cassomenos, who in 2013 was a laureate of the International Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn. The second work on the programme, Copland’s powerful evocation of the life of American pioneers in the Appalachian Mountains, will be played in the original version for 13 instruments, lead from the first violin by Andersen. In the second half we go to the southern hemisphere, where Astor Piazzolla mixes the fire of the tango with Vivaldi-flourishes in his highly original take on Four Seasons in Buenos Aires for violin and string orchestra.
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
Dale Barltrop violin/director
In the first of three exciting chamber music concerts in 2017, the Australian String Quartet and the MSO delve into some personal favourites from MSO’s Concertmaster and ASQ violinist Dale Barltrop.
Featuring the music of one of Australia’s most accomplished and vibrant compositional talents, Elena Kats-Chernin, don’t miss the MSO showcasing the power and versatility of woodwind.
Friday 13 October 8:00pm
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MONASH ACADEMY ORCHESTRA 2017 SEASON
Monash Academy of Performing Arts in association with the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music presents
Monash 2017 Academy Season Orchestra
Organ Symphony Elena Kats-Chernin Mythic Medtner Piano Concerto No.1 in C minor, Op.33
Sunday 9 April 2:30pm
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.78 ‘Organ Symphony’
Robert Blackwood Hall
Jessica Cottis conductor
Free Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Jayson Gillham piano
Vine Choral Symphony A concert in association with the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
Peter Sculthorpe Earth Cry Nigel Westlake Out of the Blue Graham Koehne Powerhouse Carl Vine Choral Symphony
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Mark Atkins didgeridoo The Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Orchestra and Choir Monash University Singers
Robert Blackwood Hall Free Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
Warwick Stengards conductor
Welcome to the 2017 Monash Academy Orchestra season. These four concerts bring some of Australia’s finest conductors and soloists together to perform with our exceptional young players.
Saturday 13 May 7:30pm
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MONASH ACADEMY ORCHESTRA 2017 SEASON
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music presents
Dvořák 7 Symphony Lisa Illean New work (2017 Monash University Ed Byrne Commission world premiere)
Saturday 5 August 7:30pm
Bartók Piano Concerto No.3 in E major, Sz 119
Robert Blackwood Hall
Dvořák Symphony No.7 in D minor, Op.70
Free
Natalia Raspopova conductor
Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Anthony Barnhill piano
Lunchtime Concert Series
Northey Conducts Australian Premiere Beethoven The Consecration of the House Horsley Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op.29
Saturday 7 October 7:30pm
Schumann Symphony No.3 in E flat major, Op.97 ‘Rhenish’
Robert Blackwood Hall
Sophie Rowell violin
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Bookings via MAPA Box Office
The Lunchtime Concerts take place on Thursdays during semester from 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm. They are held in the Music Auditorium, 55 Scenic Boulevard, Monash University, Clayton. For further information please visit: artsonline.monash.edu.au/events/lunchtime-concerts/
Commences Thursday 2 March Free events No bookings required Monash Academy of Performing Arts
Benjamin Northey conductor
Free
The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music’s Lunchtime Concert Series provides staff, students and members of the wider community an opportunity to enjoy a musical lunch break. The School encourages and promotes diversity and integration of traditional, multi-cultural and contemporary styles of music performance at the highest level with performances given by our students, staff and visiting artists.
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts in association with Chunky Move presents
Tuesday 11 April 8:00pm Drama Theatre $15 – $25 $10 Monash Students Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Chunky Move
Rule of Thirds “Chunky Move’s Rule of Thirds flows with emotions”. – The Age
A powerful and intricate piece, Rule of Thirds brings Chunky Move’s Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk’s unique and highly physical movement style to the stage. Three dancers emerge from the darkness, meet, collide and battle an invisible force field that exists between them. All players are needed but who will lead? Be mesmerised by this daring, virtuosic performance, which celebrates perseverance, audacity and our common desire for reinvention. Rule of Thirds is the third part in the Embodiment series, initiated by Anouk van Dijk in 2013, a trilogy of interventions between dancers, a movement score and a chosen site. The movement score is malleable and deliberately deconstructed, dismantled and stretched on each new site, affecting the performance, the meaning and the intensity of the work.
Photos by: Pippa Samaya
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
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Chunky Move is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; and supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music presents
Organ Recital Series Sound Series Sound Series concerts are evening showcase events which highlight the vast range of performances given by the students of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music.
Commences 28 April
The series features the many solo and ensemble programs available for music students during their studies at Monash University.
No bookings required
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For further information please visit: artsonline.monash.edu.au/events/sound-series/
Presented by John O’Donnell, David Macfarlane and Christopher Cook, these short 50 minute recitals will be an ideal way to kick off an evening of music at Monash. These recitals require no bookings. Before and after the recital you can enjoy a number of different food options close to the Hall and then attend the Monash Academy Orchestra concert commencing at 7.30pm.
David Macfarlane: May 13, 6:00pm-6:50pm Christopher Cook: August 5, 6:00pm-6:50pm John O’Donnell: October 7, 6:00pm-6:50pm
Saturday 13 May Saturday 5 August Saturday 7 October 6:00pm – 6:50pm Robert Blackwood Hall Free No bookings required
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
All performances are held in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Music Auditorium, 55 Scenic Boulevard, Clayton Campus except for Monash Small Ensemble Recitals.
Free events
Welcome to our free organ recital series for 2017. This year you can enjoy the glorious Arend Organ in Robert Blackwood Hall prior to three of our free Monash Academy Orchestra concerts.
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Monash University Academy of Performing Arts in association with ILBIJERRI Theatre Company & Belvoir presents
Tuesday 23 May 1:00pm and 7:30pm Drama Theatre $15 – $20 $10 Monash Students Bookings via MAPA Box Office
CORANDERRK Andrea James & Giordano Nanni Writers Eva Grace Mullaley Director Trevor Jamieson Performer
CORANDERRK is about what might have been. At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board. Their goal was both simple and revolutionary: to be allowed to continue the brilliant experiment in self-determination they had pioneered for themselves on the scrap of country left to them. CORANDERRK recreates the Inquiry. This is both great theatre and great history. It revives the voices of all those, black and white, who fought for a better pact between the country’s oldest and newest inhabitants. This special production pays tribute to the resilience and adaptability of a people who rose to the challenge despite the odds, appropriating the power of the written word to make their own voices ring loud and clear. Monash Academy of Performing Arts
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Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences are warned that this production contains images of deceased persons.
‘This is a vital Australian story, with the ability to inspire a new generation of utopian thinking – a must see for all.’ – ArtsHub
Photo of Trevor Jamieson by Tyson Mowarin
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents
Friday 2 June – Sunday 11 June
The Story Only I Can Tell
2017 Melbourne International Jazz Festival Celebrating its 20th year, in 2017 the Melbourne International Jazz Festival will showcase jazz legends and sonic innovators from around the globe. The Festival’s Education Partnership with Monash University plays an invaluable role in its long-standing commitment to providing pathways for the next generation of Australian jazz artists.
William Yang Creator and Performer
John McCallum THE AUSTRALIAN
He is internationally renowned for his poignant work exploring social diversity, belonging and travel. From behind the camera, Yang connects with audiences around Australia and the world through his intimate photographs and observations of events and people around him.
Thursday 10 August 8:00pm Drama Theatre $15 – $20 $10 Monash Students Bookings via MAPA Box Office
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is Australia’s pre-eminent jazz event, drawing audiences of more than 45,000 to celebrate jazz in all its forms. Stay tuned for full details when the 2017 line-up is launched on 23 March. www.melbournejazz.com
Monash Academy of Performing Arts
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‘William Yang’s performances are among the enduring pleasures of Australian Theatre’
The Story Only I Can Tell is the fascinating story of William’s life. His forebears migrated from China to Australia over a hundred years ago and subsequent generations adapted to Western culture. William grew up in North Queensland on a tobacco farm, and has made his way in the world as an architect, a playwright, a photographer, a visual artist, a film-maker, and now a story-teller. He has led a varied life, working alongside many of Australia’s best-known artists from all artforms, including Brett Whitely, Jenny Kee and Patrick White.
Through the inspiring Jazz Futures program, Monash University music students and staff will rehearse and perform with international jazz icons, and the Monash Art Ensemble will collaborate with Steve Swallow (bass, USA), Andy Sheppard (saxophone, UK) and the iconoclastic composer, arranger and pianist Carla Bley and her trio (USA) to perform music from her seminal 2008 album Appearing Nightly.
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