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MONASH UNIVERSITY
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2016 contents
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Executive Director Welcome
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M o n a s h A c a d e m y O r c h e s t r a
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MAPA 2016 Calendar
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Elgar Cello Concerto
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The Last Sanctuary James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra
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Mass in Time of War
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A l l S t o p s O u t
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In Conversation - French music of the 20th Century with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Professor Paul Grabowksy AO
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John O’Donnell
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Jennifer Chou
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Christopher Wrench
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Elizabeth-Anne Nixon
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Monash Art Ensemble / Barney McCall
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S OUND S PACE S
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Norman Westberg with guest Bonnie Mercer
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Melbourne Symphony O r c h e s t r a M o n a s h S e r i e s
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Sir Andrew Davis Conducts Mahler 5
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Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
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Shakespeare Classics
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Tognetti and The Lark Ascending
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Hrůša Conducts Suk’s Asrael Symphony
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John Chantler with guest Andrew Tuttle
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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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Melbourne International Jazz Festival
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Caroline Almonte
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Boy Out of the Country
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Stefan Cassomenos
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Free Lunchtime Concert Series
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Andrea Keller
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How to Book
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Simon Tedeschi
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Plan your visit
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Lisa Moore
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Tamara Smolyar
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WELCOME
2016 will mark a significant milestone in the history of performing arts at Monash University. The Alexander Theatre, our modernist masterpiece built in 1968, and for many years home to one of Australia’s most-loved stages, has closed for a major redevelopment. This will see it reborn as an exciting, contemporary, performance space and a major investment by Monash in the performing arts. The Alex, as it is fondly known, has served its various communities well and we can now look forward to the next phase of its life with excitement. Updates on the progress of the project will be available on a dedicated website and announcements will be forthcoming with regard to the reopening of the theatre. Meanwhile our presentations, largely concentrated on Robert Blackwood Hall, will continue to diversify during 2016, beginning with the exciting James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra featuring the award-winning music of this very gifted Monash alum. The ever-popular Monash Academy Orchestra will appear during Season 1 with guest conductors Natalia Raspopova and Warwick Stengards. We will have an in-conversation with the great French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and speaking of pianists, we will debut a series of piano recitals at which the audience will join the star soloists on the stage of the Robert Blackwood Hall in an intimate and
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The Alex, as it is fondly known, has served its various communities well and we can now look forward to the next phase of its life with excitement.
delightful musical experience. Our popular series of organ recitals will continue, again curated by John O’Donnell, and yet again Monash will collaborate with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival in presenting international artists of significance working together with our students and staff. Although our theatre may be closed for 2016, our commitment to theatre-making will not, as the relationship between the Centre for Theatre and Performance and the Malthouse Theatre will continue under the guidance of Fleur Kilpatrick, and we are pleased to present ‘Boy Out of the Country’ by Felix Nobis at the Drama Theatre. Exciting times indeed, and so much to look forward to. Please take advantage of these wonderful opportunities, and I look forward to seeing you at our events. Professor Paul Grabowsky AO Executive Director Monash University Academy of Performing Arts
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MAPA 2016 calendar MARCH
M AY
J U NE
J U LY
The Last Sanctuary
All Stops Out
All Stops Out
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra
John O’Donnell
Christopher Wrench
Shakespeare Classics
Sunday March 13, 2.30pm Page 8
Sunday May 1, 2.00pm Page 21
Monday June 6, 1.00pm Page 22
Friday July 22, 8.00pm Page 11
MARCH
M AY
J U NE
AUGUST
In Conversation French music of the 20th Century
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Caroline Almonte
Stefan Cassomenos
Lisa Moore
Tuesday May 3, 7.30pm Page 14
Tuesday June 7, 7.30pm Page 14
Tuesday 9 August, 7.30pm Page 14
MARCH
M AY
J U NE
AUGUST
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Monash Academy Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
All Stops Out
Sir Andrew Davis Conducts Mahler 5
Warwick Stengards
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Elizabeth-Anne Nixon
Wednesday March 16, 1.00pm Page 9
Friday March 18, 8.00pm Page 10
Sunday May 29, 2.30pm Page 18
Friday June 10, 8.00pm Page 11
Monday August 15, 1.00pm Page 22
APRIL
M AY
J U NE
AUGUST
Monash Art Ensemble
All Stops Out
SOUND SPACES
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jennifer Chou
John Chantler with guest Andrew Tuttle
Tognetti and The Lark Ascending
Saturday June 18, 3.00pm Page 24
Friday 19 August, 8.00pm Page 12
J U NE
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SEPTEMBER
Boy Out of the Country
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Friday April 1, 8.00pm Page 22
APRIL
Monash Academy Orchestra
Natalia Raspopova
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Visit monash.edu/mapa for more ticketing information
Monday May 30, 1.00pm Page 21
Andrea Keller
Tamara Smolyar
Sunday April 10, 2.30pm Page 18
Thursday June 2, 7.30pm Friday June 3, 7.30pm Saturday June 4, 6.30pm Page 24
Tuesday 21 June, 7.30pm Page 15
Thursday 1 September, 7.30pm Page 16
APRIL
J U NE
SOUND SPACES
J U LY
Norman Westberg with guest Bonnie Mercer
2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air
Saturday April 16, 3.00pm Page 24
June 3 - 12 Page 23
Simon Tedeschi Thursday 14 July, 7.30pm Page 15
SEPTEMBER
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Hrůša Conducts Suk’s Asrael Symphony Friday 2 September, 8.00pm Page 12 Monash Academy of Performing Arts
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Monash Academy of Performing Arts in association with the City of Monash presents
The Last Sanctuary
“Based in Melbourne, Mustafa brings together some of the country’s finest players to perform a host of new compositions arranged for the 20 piece band. Whilst this ensemble is rooted in the big band tradition, the album also seeks to explore new directions, with hints of Maria Schneider, Carla Bley and Helge Albin. The group is one of a number of emerging large ensembles in Australia bringing exciting new music to the table”
Performing their debut album LIVE on stage.
ABC Jazz on The Last Sanctuary album Jan 2015
James Mustafa Jazz Orchestra
Winner of the 2015 Young Jazz Artist of the Year, James Mustafa presents “The Last Sanctuary”. Alongside his award winning orchestra made up of some of Australia’s leading jazz instrumentalists, this special concert will highlight the lush contemporary works and world-class improvisation from the ensemble’s debut album.
Sunday March 13 2.30pm Robert Blackwood Hall Free Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Monash University Academy of Performing Arts in association with the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music presents
In ConversationFrench music of the 20th Century
Internationally acclaimed pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Professor Paul Grabowksy AO
Widely acclaimed as a key figure of the music of our time, Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys an internationally celebrated career. Performing throughout the world each season, with the most significant orchestras and conductors, current and future highlights include solo recitals in London, New York, Chicago, Paris and Tokyo. Aimard’s concerto performances include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the New York Philharmonic.
Wednesday March 16 1.00pm Music Auditorium, 55 Scenic Boulevard, Monash University Clayton Free admission No bookings required.
In recent seasons Aimard has been invited by Carnegie Hall, Vienna's Konzerthaus and Paris's Cité de la Musique to devise and perform in ground-breaking residencies. He is Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival and was Artistic Adviser to ‘Exquisite Labyrinth’ – the festival of Boulez’s music at London’s Southbank Centre. Join these two musicians as they discuss, demonstrate and dissect French music of the 20th century, including Boulez and Messiean.
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Monash Series 5 Concerts At 8pm
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Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto R. Strauss Serenade for Winds Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
The glorious acoustic surrounds of the Robert Blackwood Hall is the perfect setting for this five-concert series of the finest orchestral music.
R. Strauss, arr. Dean Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite
Join us in the Robert Blackwood Hall foyer before each concert for a free 20-minute talk at 7pm.
Eoin Andersen violin/ director
MSO Concertmaster Eoin Andersen directs the MSO in a fascinating program of music by Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and Felix Mendelssohn (his beloved Violin Concerto, with Andersen as soloist). It has been noted that the full title of Strauss’ tone poem Till Eulenspiegel takes almost as long to say as the piece does to perform: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche nach alter Schelmenweise in Rondeauform für grosses Orchester gesetz (Till Eulenspiegel’s merry pranks, after the old rogue’s tale, set for large orchestra in rondo-form). The version of the work which will be heard in this performance is arranged for chamber orchestra by Australian composer Brett Dean. Opening the program is Strauss’ Serenade for 13 wind instruments, written when he was just 17. And at 9 minutes, it is the soul of brevity.
Sir Andrew Davis Conducts Mahler 5
Shakespeare Classics
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Mahler Symphony No.5
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture
Sir Andrew Davis conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
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If Austrian virtuoso Paul Wittgenstein hadn’t lost his right arm during World War I we would be all the poorer without the innovation and resourcefulness of composers of the early twentieth century, composing works especially for Wittgenstein to perform with the left hand. Among the composers commissioned by Wittgenstein were Benjamin Britten, Eric Wolfgang Korngold and Paul Hindemith; less successful were Richard Strauss or Sergei Prokofiev, whose concertos failed to meet Wittgenstein’s exacting standards. Ravel passed muster, but only just. Referring to the ingenious opening solo cadenza, the pianist wrote to Ravel, ’If I wanted to play without the orchestra, I wouldn’t have commissioned a concerto’. Happily, Wittgenstein relented. A latterday, and fortunately ambidextrous, pianistic genius, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, is soloist. Sir Andrew Davis’ Mahler cycle with the MSO reaches the halfway point with the Symphony No.5 which goes through a huge emotional range. Its triumphant conclusion reflects a joyous period of Mahler’s life — his successful romance with Alma Schindler. Mahler’s Symphony No.6, performed later in the year, is the complete opposite, named the Tragic, it’s one of the darkest but most powerful of Mahler’s symphonies.
Friday 18 March 2016 8:00pm Robert Blackwood Hall $45 - $79* Booking via MAPA Box office
Mozart Piano Concerto No.27 Korngold Much Ado About Nothing: Suite Walton Henry V: The Death of Falstaff Walton Henry V: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part R. Strauss Macbeth Alexander Shelley conductor Lars Vogt piano
In 2016, it will be 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, who, as history has it, supposedly expired on the same day as Miguel de Cervantes. No Don Quixote, though, in this program, which is mostly devoted to the Bard and three of the countless composers who were inspired by him. There’s magic in Mendelssohn’s silvery overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and youthful vitality in Richard Strauss’ early tone poem, Macbeth (another of his tone poems was Don Quixote: Cervantes could still get a look-in). The concert, conducted by Alexander Shelley, also includes extracts from William Walton’s inspired suite from his score for Laurence Olivier’s film of Henry V. It was Olivier who generously said of Walton, ‘the music actually makes the film’. Although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart didn’t write anything distinctly Shakespearean, he’s always welcome, especially when his final Piano Concerto is performed by German virtuoso, Lars Vogt.
Friday 10 June 2016 8:00pm Robert Blackwood Hall $37 - $72* Booking via MAPA Box office
Friday 22 July 2016 8:00pm Robert Blackwood Hall $37 - $72* Bookings via MAPA Box Office
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Monash University Academy of Performing Arts presents
Tognetti and The Lark Ascending Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Lutosławski Partita Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Sir Andrew Davis conductor Richard Tognetti violin
Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis with Australia’s violin master, Richard Tognetti, this concert will feature Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending which was placed No.1 in the ABC’s Swoon Classic 100 countdown in 2015. The work itself remains a glorious evocation of English pastoral life — the solo violin being the evocation of George Meredith’s soaring verse.
Wood, Metal & Vibrating Air Six Piano Recitals
Friday 19 August 2016 8:00pm Robert Blackwood Hall $45 - $79* Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes conveys all the scrunchy saltiness of the coast of his beloved East Anglia. The program also includes the Partita for Violin and Orchestra, by Witold Lutosławski, and Rachmaninov’s vibrant Symphonic Dances.
Six of Australia’s most outstanding pianists present a series of unique and intimate recitals. Limited to an audience of just 150, you will also be seated on stage very close to the performer. Featuring music from Bach to Gershwin and beyond, these concerts will certainly provide a very special music experience. Single concert tickets or subscriptions are available.
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Hrůša Conducts Suk’s Asrael Symphony Mozart Symphony No.25 Suk Symphony No.2 Asrael Jakub Hrůša conductor
The Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša has formed a significant bond with the MSO. In 2014, he conducted an extraordinary performance of Smetana’s great nationalistic hymn, Má vlast (My Country) — the orchestra’s first ever performance of the complete cycle. In 2016, Hrůša conducts another, less wellknown Czech masterpiece, the Symphony No.2 Asrael, by Josef Suk (1874-1935). When Hrůša conducted the same work in London, with the Philharmonia, he spoke about Suk’s unique ability to inspire. ‘Specifically, Asrael is the greatest example here. The personal tragedy [the deaths within two years of Dvořák, his father-in-law and teacher, and Otilie, his wife, and Dvořák’s daughter] was transformed through the power of musical art into a vision of hope and comfort for everybody.’
Friday 2 September 2016 8:00pm Robert Blackwood Hall $37 - $72* Tickets via MAPA Box Office
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W o o d , M e ta l & V ibr ati n g Air
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Caroline Almonte
Stefan Cassomenos
Andrea Keller
Simon Tedeschi
Gold through Glass
Cassomenos plays Beethoven
Solo Piano & Loops
I Got Rhythm - Music of Gershwin
Bach Goldberg Variations intertwined with music from Phillip Glass.
Beethoven Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op.53, “Waldstein”
Phillip Glass notes Bach as one of his major influences and indeed Glass’ etudes are inspired by Bach’s two part inventions where both voices overlap and imitate each other creating counterpoint.
Beethoven/Liszt Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op.67
Performing music from her 2013 release Family Portraits, alongside other selections from her considerable body of work, Keller presents a concert of original music and improvisations for solo piano and loop pedal.
“Gershwin has in many ways been the musical accompaniment to my life. Like any composer however, George Gershwin was more than an island - he was a repository of cultural influences and experiences that informed his compositional style. From 19th century Russia to Tin Pan Alley, Stride piano to Cuba, Gershwin took everything in but invested them all with his unique sound. Join me on a personal journey through some of Gershwin’s works and classical composers in his world.” - Simon Tedeschi.
In this performance of Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations, Caroline Almonte has threaded fragments of Phillip Glass’s etudes, Metamorphosis and music from his film score ‘The Hours’ to hint at the timeless synergy between two Supreme musical masters, Bach and Glass. Melbourne-born Caroline Almonte has a reputation as a gifted, versatile and sensitive artist. She studied with renowned pianist Stephen McIntyre at the VCA and Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School, New York. She has won numerous awards, including winner of the keyboard section of the ABC Young Performer’s Awards and 1st prize at the international chamber music competition in Italy “Trio di Trieste”. Caroline gives regular solo and chamber music recitals around Australia and internationally.
Beethoven Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op.110
Stefan has performed internationally since the age of 10, and performed the premiere of his own composition Piano Concerto No. 1: Aegean Odyssey with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16. More recently, he has performed concertos with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, MSO, QSO, and Orchestra Victoria. Stefan gives regular solo recitals and concerto performances throughout Australia, Europe, and Asia. In 2013, he was recipient of the Second Grand Prize and the Chamber Music Prize in the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition Bonn. In 2012, he was a grand finalist in the Rhodes International Piano Competition. He has also been a grand finalist and prizewinner in the 2013 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition and the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer Awards. He is also active as a composer, an artistic director of various festivals, projects and collaborations, and is a founding member of PLEXUS.
Tuesday 3 May, 7.30pm
Tuesday 7 June, 7.30pm
Robert Blackwood Hall
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$15 - $25. Season subscriptions available on page 30
$15 - $25. Season subscriptions available on page 30
Bookings via MAPA Box Office
Bookings via MAPA Box Office
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An aural family tree, Family Portraits is dedicated to Keller’s ancestors and loved ones, capturing the love, humour and sadness of a small and geographically disparate family. “Coming from a migrant family meant that I grew up with a sense of envy and longing to feel more deeply embedded in life. I embarked on the Family Portraits project after my grandmother passed away in early 2010. I felt lucky to have finally met her in my adult life, and that we had sat together and written down what she knew of her ancestors. Her death however, triggered the mourning of another lost connection in our small chain, and a desire to salvage some memories for my children.”
The program will include Gershwin favourites including I Got Rhythm, Summertime, ‘S Wonderful, The Man I Love, Rhapsody in Blue and more from composers from Gershwin’s world, including Rachmaninov, Debussy, Grainger and Fats Waller performed by one of Australia’s most renowned and sought-after pianists.
Tuesday 21 June, 7.30pm
Thursday 14 July, 7.30pm
Robert Blackwood Hall
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$15 - $25. Season subscriptions available on page 30
$15 - $25. Season subscriptions available on page 30
Bookings via MAPA Box Office
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Monash University Academy of Performing Arts in association with Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music present
W o o d , M e ta l & V ibr ati n g Air
Monash Academy Orchestra 2016 Season, Semester One
Lisa Moore
Tamara Smolyar
Soft/Loud
Premieres
Janáček Sonata 1.x.1905
Kenji Fujimura New work (world premiere)
Missy Mazzoli Orizzonte
Anatoly Documentov Preludes (Australian premiere)
Paul Grabowsky Aus der Tiefen
Anthony Halliday Introduction and Fugue for Tamara (world premiere)
Martin Bresnick Ishi’s Song J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue, B minor Bk 1 Kate Neal New work (world premiere) Philip Glass Etude No. 2 Frederic Rzewski Piano Piece No. 4 New York-based, Australian pianist Lisa Moore performs concerts all over the world. She collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians, ensembles and artists – groups such as the London Sinfonietta, Bang on a Can, Steve Reich Ensemble, New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra and So Percussion. From 1992-2008 Lisa was the founding pianist for the Bang On A Can All-Stars and winner of Musical America’s 2005 Ensemble of the Year Award. Lisa has worked with composers ranging from Iannis Xenakis, Elliot Carter, Philip Glass and Frederic Rzewski to Ornette Coleman, Meredith Monk, Thurston Moore, Hannah Lash and Martin Bresnick.
Jane Hanmond By the lake with Grieg (world premiere) Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea New work (world premiere) Sergei Rachmaninov arr. Smolyar & Halliday Trio Élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op.9 (world premiere) Experience a memorable evening of solo piano music, performed by internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue Tamara Smolyar, Coordinator of Piano at Sir Zelman Cowen of Music. This recital presents a unique program of music by outstanding pianists who combine the arts of performance and composition. The program is crowned by a new arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Trio Élégiaque No.2 by Tamara Smolyar and Anthony Halliday which explores the tonal possibilities of Rachmaninov’s lushly romantic writing for piano, violin and cello in a new interpretation for solo piano.
“The Monash Academy Orchestra gave rich definition to the word priceless where just one performance seemed not enough.” - Aussie Theatre, August 2015.
Monash Academy Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based on the Clayton campus of Monash University. Consisting of students from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music as well as musicians from across the wider Monash campuses and community, it is an orchestra committed to sharing the joy of musical performance with all Victorians.
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
The orchestra has established an enviable reputation as an outstanding training and mentoring orchestra, performing a large variety of major symphonic repertoire from Beethoven and Mozart to Stravinsky and Duke Ellington. Students are provided with the opportunity to develop their knowledge of orchestral repertoire, as well as the ensemble skills necessary for professional practice. The orchestra is committed to performing the work of Australian composers. To this end an Australian work is performed in every concert, and each year the orchestra commissions a new work from an Australian composer. The orchestra works closely with established and renowned conductors and recognised soloists. This provides students with the opportunity to learn from some of the very best in the industry.
Thursday 1 September, 7.30pm Robert Blackwood Hall $15 - $25. Season subscriptions available on page 30
Tuesday 9 August, 7.30pm
Bookings via MAPA Box Office
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M o n a sh Ac a d e my Orch e str a 2 0 1 6 S e a s o n
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All Stops Out Organ Series 2016
Monash’s 2016 organ series is devoted entirely to Baroque music, for which Robert Blackwood Hall’s great Jürgen Ahrend organ is without peer in the Southern Hemisphere. While Bach and his German forebears are well represented, there are also contributions from the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy — a multi-flavoured feast. The series features four of Australia’s outstanding organists — Jennifer Chou and Elizabeth-Anne Nixon from Melbourne, and Christopher Wrench from Brisbane, along with Monash University organist John O’Donnell.
Elgar Cello Concerto
Mass in Time of War
Sculthorpe Mangrove
Carl Vine Our Sons- Cantata for soprano and strings
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D major, K.385 (Haffner)
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 in D major
Haydn Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:9 (Missa in tempore belli)
Natalia Raspopova conductor
Warwick Stengards conductor
Luke Severn cello*
Merlyn Quaife soprano
*Winner, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Concerto Competition 2015
Sally-Anne Russell mezzo soprano Andrew Goodwin tenor Nicholas Dinopoulos baritone
Sunday 10 April, 2.30pm
Monash University Singers
Free Concert Bookings via MAPA Box Office from Monday 29 February
Sunday 29 May, 2.30pm Free Concert Bookings via MAPA Box Office from Monday 4 April
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ALL STOPS OUT
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John O’Donnell
Jennifer Chou
Christopher Wrench
Elizabeth-Anne Nixon
Dietrich Buxtehude Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 149
Nicolaus Bruhns Praeludium in G major
Georg Muffat Toccata Septima from Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata 5 in C major, BWV 529
Johann Sebastian Bach Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 527 Sonata 3 in D minor, BWV 527 Deiβ sind die heilgen zehn Geboth, BWV 678 Passacaglia in C minor, DWV 582
Claudio Merulo Susanne un jour
Antonio Vivaldi arr. J.S. Bach Concerto in D minor, RV 565/BWV 596 Georg Böhm Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend
Pablo Bruna Tiento de falsas de segundo tono Dietrich Buxtehude Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein, BuxWV 210
Pierre du Mage Livre d‘Orgue
Antonia Vivaldi arr. J.S. Bach Concerto in D major, RV 230/BWV 972
Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 582
Jacques Boyvin Suite du 8e ton from Second Livre d’Orgue
Currently Director of Music at All Saints’ East St Kilda, Director of Ensemble Gombert and Monash University organist, John O’Donnell studied at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and the University of Durham. John has enjoyed an international reputation as an organist and harpsichordist since performing the complete organ works of Bach in 1974.
Since coming to Australia in 2004, Jennifer Chou has established herself as an accomplished recitalist both at home and afar, having given recitals at venues including Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Westminster Abbey in London, and Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany, as well as across Australia. At present Jennifer is Director of Music at Toorak Uniting Church.
Francisco Correa de Arauxo Tientos 68 & 69 from Facultad Organica Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Onder een linde groen Georg Böhm Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig
Brisbane-based Christopher Wrench is an internationally renowned organist, having given recitals in Austria, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy and Sweden, as well as appearing as soloist with orchestras including the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Christopher is currently lecturer in Organ at the Queensland Conservatorium.
Monday 6 June, 1.00pm Sunday 1 May, 2.00pm
Monday 30 May, 1.00pm
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
Free concert
Free concert
Free concert
No bookings required
No bookings required
No bookings required
Johann Sebastian Bach Pièce d’Orgue, BWV 572 It was the organ works of Bach and the opportunity to study with Robert Boughen that first drew Elizabeth-Anne Nixon to the organ as a university student in Brisbane. After completing her Bachelor of Music degree with first class honours in performance, Elizabeth-Anne undertook extended studies with John O’Donnell (Melbourne) and Lorenzo Ghielmi (Italy), as well as intensive studies with Daniel Roth (France) and David Sanger (England). Elizabeth is currently the Director of Music at St George’s Anglican Church, Malvern.
Monday 15 August, 1.00pm Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University Free concert No bookings required
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Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music presents
Monash Art Ensemble / Barney McCall
The Monash Art Ensemble acts to support the development of excellence in young Australian musicians.
Barney McCall Zephyrix (2015) Eugene Ball Intrusions (2013) The award-winning Monash Art Ensemble presents a concert featuring a newly commissioned work from acclaimed pianist and composer Barney McAll entitled Zephyrix. A Zephyrix is a mythical figure that symbolises the tension created by the restrictions of life – the mundanity, the struggles and sometimes evils of life – and the liberating creative expression of who we really are: our true selves. This piece endeavours to express the strain and colours of this dichotomy and the potential emergence of a newness of mind or metanoia. Also featured in the programme is Melbourne composer and trumpeter Eugene Ball’s Intrusions, commissioned by the ensemble in 2013.
Friday April 1 8.00pm Music Auditorium, Monash University, 55 Scenic Boulevard Free
The Monash Art Ensemble, alongside musicians from the Australian Art Orchestra, support the development of excellence in young Australian musicians, foster a culture of innovation amongst established Australian musicians and encourage community engagement with Australian musicians and music. The ensemble offers pathways for talented students to interact with mentors and builds on this basis, strong and uniquely Australian 21st century musician.
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2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
SOUND SPACES Programmed by Francis E. Parker Sound Spaces is a performance series of experimental and improvised music that embraces the growing overlap between visual art and sound art. Sound Spaces opens up MUMA’s artistic program to ephemeral presentations by Australian and international artists and musicians, encompassing both acoustic performance and electronics. A rotating collaboration, Sound Spaces sees MUMA work with different innovative experimental music organisations such as the Australian Art Orchestra, Liquid Architecture and Room40 for each iteration of the series. The series runs in parallel with MUMA’s exhibition program with occasional direct dialogues with particular exhibition projects.
Feast for the soul, uniting jazz legends and innovators from around the globe.
The 2016 Melbourne International Jazz Festival will be a feast for the soul, uniting jazz legends and innovators from around the globe.
Friday 3 June – Sunday 12 June 2016
Headliners of the electrifying 10 day program include the masterful Wayne Shorter Quartet and spellbinding bassist-singer-composer Esperanza Spalding with her new project Emily’s D+Evolution. As Education Partner and through the inspiring Jazz Futures program, Monash University music students and staff will also have the opportunity to rehearse and perform with another Grammy Award-winning jazz icon. Stay tuned for full details when the 2016 line-up is launched on 15 March.
Norman Westberg with guest Bonnie Mercer
John Chantler with guest Andrew Tuttle
Presented in collaboration with Room40 Brisbane.
Presented in collaboration with Room40 Brisbane.
For over thirty years, Norman Westberg has been a central figure in New York experimental rock and noise music. As the longest serving member of SWANS, Westberg has defined an approach to guitar that is singular and powerful. His solo work is more reductive, merging the pulsing intent of American Minimalism with the tonality of post-drone music, he creates a deeply evocative sonic world drawn from six strings. He is joined by Melbourne artist Bonnie Mercer, whose work with guitar is also utterly personal and powerful.
John Chantler is one of the true stalwarts of Room40’s fifteen year history. Over the course of the label he has been responsible for some of its most provocative and focused statements. Chantler’s approach to modular synthesis, which has been his primary focus for more than half a decade, is entirely individual. Working in a quadraphonic set up, he uses control voltage to unexpected ends – equally beautiful and abstract. His Australian performances herald the release of a new set of recordings due later this year.
Saturday April 16, 3.00pm
Chantler is joined by Brisbane electro-acoustic experimentalist Andrew Tuttle, who presents works from his newly released Fantasy League album.
Now in its 18th year, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival is the largest of its kind in Australia, drawing audiences of more than 42,000 to celebrate jazz in all its forms. www.melbournejazz.com
Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Monash University, Caulfield Campus Free
Saturday June 18, 3.00pm
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Centre for Theatre and Performance in association with Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents
Boy out of the Country
Written and Directed by Felix Nobis
A family property, worthless for generations is suddenly zoned as part of a regional housing estate to accommodate an ever-increasing urban sprawl. After a seven year absence Hunter returns to find his boyhood house boarded up, his mother in a retirement home and goes in search of answers. And he starts with his brother Gordon.
Martin Blum Christopher Bunworth Jane Clifton Matt Dyktynski Amanda LaBonte Bang Mango Cools
‘Boy out of the Country takes the verse style of Banjo Paterson and dusts it off, gives it a polish and then uses it to tell a story any modern Australian would be hard pressed not to enjoy’ –
Boy out of the Country is a unique drama written in Australian poetic vernacular reminiscent of Banjo Paterson. It tunes into the rhythms of the country to examine relationships and uncover the landscape. It is a play where an old Australia meets a new Australia: where a country cop comes to terms with catchment areas, where a fifth bedroom is more important than a backyard, and where new technologies have the potential to uncover old family secrets.
Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3 at 7.30pm Saturday June 4 at 5pm followed by a Q&A at 6.30 Drama Theatre, 55 Scenic Boulevard, Monash University, Clayton $15 - $25 Tickets via MAPA Box Office
Touching, funny, raw, bittersweet, the play is at once uniquely Australian and thematically universal” Australian Book Review
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Free Lunchtime Concert Series March 3
Piano Highlights
March 10
New Wave
March 17 Murray/Schultz/Starr/Williamson: Collaborative Composition and Performance March 24 Songmakers Australia: Cello Romance April 7 Horn Trio: Roy Theaker, Peter Baker, Roman Ponomariov April 14 Stoneflower April 21 Vinod Prassana, Bansuri: Hindustani Classical Flute April 28
Lisa Grosman and friends
May 5
The Monash University Big Band
May 12
Breakthrough
May 19 World Music Ensemble and Jazz Vocal Ensemble May 26
University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Richard Schechner Delivering a public lecture in Season 2 2016
All concerts Thursday at 1.10pm Music Auditorium, 55 Scenic Boulevard, Monash University Free
Monash’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, the Monash Academy of Performing Arts and Coopers Malthouse Theatre are delighted to present an evening with Professor Richard Schechner. One of the world’s most influential and provocative theatre makers, Richard Schechner has rightly been termed ‘the father of performance studies’. From his ground-breaking productions of the 1960’s through to his revolutionary theorising of what performance is, Richard Schechner has led the theatrical and intellectual avant garde. No other theorist/practitioner has had such a profound impact on the way we view performance or make theatre as Richard Schechner.
In this one-off event, Monash University will host Professor Schechner at the Malthouse Theatre in an evening of conversation, provocation, and inspiration. A must for all theatre practitioners, performance-makers, academics, students and lovers of performance, this promises to provide an extraordinary insight into the working practices and philosophy of one of the world’s greatest performance makers. Schechner received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1956, a Master's degree from the University of Iowa two years later, and a Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1962. He edited The Drama Review, formerly the Tulane Drama Review, from 1962–1969; and again from 1986 to the present. He went on to become one of the founders of the Performance Studies
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Guitar Ensemble Staff of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music
Ensemble Liaison Noir Wednesday 27 April, 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
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Classical Concerts Ensemble Liaison Fuoco – Ensemble Liaison with Nemanja Radulovic Thursday 7 July, 7pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
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department of the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He founded The Performance Group of New York in 1967 and was its artistic director until 1980, when TPG changed its name to The Wooster Group. The home of both TPG and TWG is the Performing Garage in New York's SoHo district, a building acquired by Schechner in 1968. That year Schechner signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. In 1992, Schechner founded East Coast Artists, of which he was the artistic director until 2009. He additionally writes for journals worldwide.
Duo Chamber Melange Continental Shift Friday 29 April, 6.30pm Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
Trio Anima Mundi Frei aber einsam – Free but lonely Sunday 12 June, 3pm The Geelong College, Geelong Sunday 19 June, 3pm Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne
Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
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