PRESENTED WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA
WATA
a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra 31 MARCH – 1 APRIL
Artists Benjamin Northey conductor Paul Grabowsky director / piano 2021 MSO COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred vocals and bilma (South East Arnhem Land) David Yipininy Wilfred yidaki (South East Arnhem Land) Soloists from the Australian Art Orchestra
Helen Svoboda double bass
Aviva Endean bass clarinet
Erkki Veltheim violin
Peter Knight trumpet and electronics
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Program GRABOWSKY, WILFRED AND WILFRED Wata: a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra
Running time: Approximately 1 hour, no interval. In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for silencing and dimming the light on your phone.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is a leading cultural figure in the Australian arts landscape, bringing the best in orchestral music and passionate performance to a diverse audience across Victoria, the nation and around the world. Each year the MSO engages with more than 5 million people through live concerts, TV, radio and online broadcasts, international tours, recordings and education programs. The MSO is a vital presence, both onstage and in the community, in cultivating classical music in Australia. The nation’s first professional orchestra, the MSO has been the sound of the city of Melbourne since 1906. The MSO regularly attracts great artists from around the globe including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lang Lang, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, while bringing Melbourne’s finest musicians to the world through tours to China, Europe and the United States. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we perform and would like to pay our respects to their Elders and Community both past and present.
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The Australian Art Orchestra With an emphasis on improvisation, The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) explores the meeting points between disciplines and cultures, and imagines new musical forms to reflect the energy and diversity of 21st century Australia. Founded by Paul Grabowsky AO in 1994 the AAO is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Now led by daring composer/trumpeter/sound artist Peter Knight, its work constantly seeks to stretch genres and break down the barriers separating disciplines, forms and cultures. It explores the interstices between the avant-garde and the traditional, between art and popular music, between electronic and acoustic approaches, and creates musics that traverse the continuum between improvised and notated forms.
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Benjamin Northey
Paul Grabowsky AO
Since returning to Australia from Europe, Benjamin Northey has rapidly emerged as one of the nation’s leading musical figures. He is currently the Principal Resident Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in 2015.
Paul Grabowsky is a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor — and is one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. Born in Papua New Guinea, he was raised in Melbourne. During his early career, he became prominent in the Melbourne music scene and performed with many jazz luminaries internationally.
His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia.
In the 90s, he held roles as musical director of Tonight Live with Steve Vizard and Commissioning Editor (Arts and Entertainment) for ABC Television. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, which he led from 1994–2013.
conductor
director / piano
He has conducted L’elisir d’amore, The Tales of Hoffmann and La sonnambula for SOSA and Turandot, Don Giovanni, Carmen and Cosi fan tutte for Opera Australia. Limelight Magazine named him Australian Artist of the Year in 2018. In 2021, he conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Christchurch Symphony and all six Australian state symphony orchestras.
Paul was Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival from 2005– 2007, and was Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts for 2010 and 2012. He has written scores for television, feature films, and works for the theatre. He has recorded a range of albums and received numerous awards, including 8 ARIAs. He is currently a Professor at Monash University, and director of the Monash University Performing Arts Centres and the Monash Art Ensemble. In 2014, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia.
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Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred
David Yipininy Wilfred
Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred is a Yolngu song man from Ngukurr, South East Arnhem Land (NT), and a ceremonial leader for the Wägilak people, singing manikay and playing bilma at ceremonies.
David Yipininy Wilfred is a Ritharrŋu man, and the traditional djunggayi (manager) of the manikay (songs) of the country of Nyilipidgi. He lives in Ngukurr, NT and teaches song and dance to the local children at the Ngukurr School.
vocals and bilma (South East Arnhem Land)
yidaki (South East Arnhem Land)
His collaboration with the AAO goes back a decade; performing and touring internationally with the project Crossing Roper Bar; as a contributor to projects The Hearkening, Seoul Meets Arnhem Land and Hand to Earth; and acting as a leading faculty member of the AAO’s annual Creative Music Intensive. In 2019, Daniel was the recipient of the NT Arts Fellowship. This allowed him to work with Indigenous elders Shellie Morris, Moses Wirrpanda and Fred Leone, and to attend the Wîchoîe Ahiya Indigenous Singer Songwriter Intensive in Banff, Canada. At the 2020 Art Music Awards he was awarded the NT Luminary Award, together with David Wilfred, for cultural leadership and sustained creative contributions within Australia and beyond.
Together with his family members Daniel and Benjamin Wilfred, he has performed with the Australian Art Orchestra for almost 15 years, bringing his songs and culture to people all over the world. David has also been a leading faculty member at the AAO Creative Music Intensive for the past 6 years, sharing his wisdom and artistry with over 150 alumni to date. In 2020 “The Singing Bones”, a book exploring David and Daniel Wilfred’s musical collaboration was published, and in September the Art Music Awards by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre jointly awarded David and Daniel their NT Luminary Award. Photo credit: Sarah Walker
Photo credit: Sarah Walker
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Helen Svoboda
Aviva Endean
Helen Svoboda is a double-bassist, vocalist and composer. Born of Finnish/ Australian heritage, she draws influence from genres as diverse as minimalist neoclassical music to folk and experimental jazz. Following her recent return from Europe, Svoboda was awarded the 2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship and named 2020/2021 Pathfinders Associate Artist for the Australian Art Orchestra.
Aviva Endean works as a composer, clarinettist, improviser, and performancemaker, and creates unusual, spatially engaged, and participatory contexts for listening.
double bass
bass clarinet
As a composer her work has been commissioned both locally and internationally, including a solo bass work for Dutch coffee roaster, Blanche Dael. She has produced and released numerous albums across her own projects including her solo debut, Vegetable Bass (Made Now Music 2019) and The Biology of Plants (QLD Jazz Music Award Winners 2019). Helen was head curator of the Deep Listening Series in Maastricht, Netherlands from 2018–2020 and her touring experience spans Europe, USA and Australia, collaborating with a diverse range of artists including Kristin Berardi and Sebastian Gramss (GER). Photo credit: Vanessa van Dalsen
Her recent works include creating the sound score for Token Armies by Chunky Move (winner of a Green Room Award for best sound for dance 2020), Sonic Labyrinth a large scale interactive sonic journey for children and families (nominated for a Green Room Award for best experimental sound work) and working as Associate Artist with The Australian Art Orchestra as the inaugural recipient of the Pathfinders Music Leadership position. Her debut solo release cinder : ember : ashes was released on Norwegian label SOFA in 2018 to critical acclaim, and she is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Freedman Fellowship, and the APRA/AMCOS Art Music Fund. She was also finalist for the Melbourne Prize 2019, and is composer in residence at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks composers residency in 2021. Photo credit: Sarah Walker
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Erkki Veltheim
Peter Knight
Erkki Veltheim is an Australian composer, improviser and performer. He has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Musica nova Helsinki, and his pieces have also been performed by groups such as the London Sinfonietta and defunensemble (Finland). He composed the orchestral works for celebrated indigenous musician Gurrumul’s posthumous album Djarimirri, which debuted at No.1 on the ARIA charts, and won 4 ARIA Awards and the 2018 Australian Music Prize.
Perpetually curious, composer/trumpeter/ sound artist Peter Knight’s practice exists in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures.
violin
trumpet and electronics
Erkki has performed with ensembles such as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble MusikFabrik and Ensemble Modern. Close collaborators include artist and film maker Sabina Maselli, improvising trumpeter Scott Tinkler and pianist/ composer Anthony Pateras. He has played with many other musicians from a wide range of styles and backgrounds as well as created arrangements for artists such as Archie Roach, Kate MillerHeidke, Laura Jean and Tim Minchin. Photo credit: Sarah Walker
As Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra Peter has emerged as a significant international force in contemporary music, initiating commissions, collaborations, and performances with a diverse range of artists including recently, Anthony Braxton (USA), Nicole Lizée (Canada), Amir ElSaffar (USA), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land), Hyelim Kim (UK/Korea), Baliphonics (Sri Lanka), and Alvin Lucier (USA). He has also performed his works with the Orchestra at major international festivals with recent highlights including, JazzFest Berlin, and London Jazz Festival. In addition to his role with the AAO, Peter regularly presents his music as both performer and composer in a range of settings; he also composes for contemporary theatre, film, and creates sound installations. He has won numerous awards, nominations, and fellowships. He holds a doctorate from Queensland Conservatorium. Photo credit: Sarah Walker
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About The Music Wata: a Gathering for Manikay Performers, Improvising Soloists and Orchestra Paul Grabowsky writes: Wata is the latest chapter, and in a way a culmination, of a seventeen-year association I have enjoyed with the Wilfred clan from Ngukurr, NT. I was drawn to this collaboration by the exciting possibility of connecting with the world’s oldest performative musical tradition, one that continues to blossom and reveals facets of itself in the face of our linear-historical thinking about music, past, present and future. The form of the songs you will hear performed by these master musicians known as Daniel and David Wilfred is called manikay, cycles of poetic invocations of time and place intended for public ceremonial events. The titles of each of the seven parts of Wata carry concepts conveyed through the powerful ritual words sung by Daniel, and overseen by David. They are: 1. Ŋaraka-Wäƞa (Bone Country) in which the ancestor figure called Djuwalpada walks through the land as he creates, names and embodies it. 2. Lärra (Stone Spear Country) in which Djuwalpada runs through the land, joyfully. The land rises up to meet him. 3. Marayunmara Gara (Spear Dance) in which Djuwalpada fashions a spear needed for hunting, setting in motion the cycle of birth, death and regeneration. 4. Yarrata (String Line) in which Djuwalpada makes a spear thrower. The title refers to the law which joins the manikay in one line from the deepest past, through the present, into the future. All things are bound by this line, this fundamental law. 5. Madayin (Ancestral Law). The spear in flight transcends time and place; these generative acts are renewed, relived with each performance. Manikay are openended musical statements. Anything which is accepted into an immediate sonic relationship to the manikay in effect becomes part of the manikay, as it represents a model of a holistically interconnected universe. 6. Wärrara (The Blood of the Setting Sun). Here the purifying Wata (here meaning ‘smoke’, another manifestation of Djuwalpada) settles his (and therefore our) troubled soul, preparing him for a journey away from this place. 7. Birrk-Birrk (The Lap-Winged Plover Flies on the Wind). Djuwalpada flies away in his guise as the plover, a totem representing the creator figure in his ever-present state, as he wishes us well on our individual journeys. The Australian Art Orchestra and the Wilfreds (aka the Young Wägiluk Group) developed this collaboration over many years. The improvisations, themselves embedded within the manikay run as a skein linking the sections together. Now, the MSO have been welcomed into this living, breathing, organic musical world. We are all one.
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Michael Koswig
Pamela Furnell
Pramote Kothanakul
Mary Gaidzkar
Peta Kowalski
Justin Gan
Viji and Margaret Krishnapillai
Elizabeth Giddy
Barbara Kuriata
Sonia Gilderdale
John and Wendy Langmore
Prue Gill
Peter Lawrence
Sandra Gillett and Jeremy Wilkins
Paschalina Leach
Craig W Gliddon
Anne Leversha and Roger Smith
Hugo and Diane Goetze
Bronwyn Lewis
Tim and Liz Grazebrook
Amanda Lynn
Christine Grenda
Dr Takako Machida
Rosemary Greness
Jane Madden
Terry Griffin
Amer Makhoul
Jennifer Grinwald
John L Martiensen
Richard Gubbins
Janice Mayfield
Jing Guo
Fred and Alta McAnda
Dawn Hales
Julie E McConville
Kay Hannaford
and Neil McEwen
R J Harden
Gail McGregor and Margaret Badminton
Phillip and Janette M Head
Shirley A McKenzie
Rev Kenneth Hewlett
Tracey and Lorraine McKerrow
Paul Higham
John and Rosemary McLeod
Margaret R Hook
Bernard McNamara
Katherine Horwood
Richard McQueen
Noelle Howell and Judy Clezy
Noreen C Megay
Linsey and John Howie
Jennifer and Andreas Meister
F Louise Jamson
Irene Messer
Professor Geoffrey Metz
Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead
Helen Midgley
Robyn and Bruce Ryan
Helen Miles
Justin-Paul Sammons
Dr Leigh and Margaret Mitchell
Grant Samphier
Anne Moon
Dr John C Sampson
Ann Moore
Ken Sandars
Peter Moran
Bev Sanders
Ian Morrey and Geoffrey Minter
Frances Scholtz
Peter Morris
Dr Peter Seligman
Joan Mullumby
Paul Selmo
Dr Bruce and Judy Munro
David Sherwood
Jennifer Murchie
Sally Shuter
Maureen Nakonesky
Dr Frank and Valerie Silberberg
Francis P Newman
Paul and Margarita Schneider
Barbara Nichol and Ian McCormick
Dr Max and Annette Simmons
Michael Noble
Libby Skilling
Jenny O’Brien
John E Smith
Conrad O’Donohue and Dr Rosemary Kiss
Margaret Smith
Uri and Nili Palti
Colin Squires
Dr Judith Paphazy
Geoff and Judy Steinicke
Jillian Pappas
Andrew Stephenson
Phil Parker
Professors Gabriela and George Stephenson
Sarah Patterson
Heather Stock
Ronald Pitcher AM
Rowan Streiff and Dr Murray Sandland
Dr James Polhemus
Ruth Stringer
Jill Poynton and Heather Maplesden
Nancy Sturgess
Sandra Price and Judy Hillman
Anthony Summers
Hendrik Prins
Ricci Swart
Kerryn Pryde
Helen M Symons
Professor Charles Qin and Kate Ritchie
Brett Thomas
Christine Rainford
Luanne Thornton
Marilyn Richards
Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman
Phillip M Richards
Michael Tomkins
Joy and David Ritchie
Alan and Glenda Trethewey
Lawrence and Anne Robinson
Noel and Jenny Turnbull
Marion Robertson and Linton Edwards
Dr Elsa Underhill and Professor Malcolm Rimmer
Thea Roche Alister Rowe Margaret and Roger Rush Anne Russell Dr Emily and Kevin Russo Judy Ryan
Dr Chris van Rompaey Gabrielle Vertessy Jillian Waddell Dr Adrian and Catherine Wallis Wendy and Robert Warren Supporters – 21
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Matthew O’Sullivan
Margaret Watters
Rosia Pasteur
Angela Westacott
Penny Rawlins
Ken Whitney
Joan P Robinson
Agnes Wong
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Joyce Woodroffe
Suzette Sherazee
Professor Barbara Workman
Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead
Lorna Wyatt
Anne Kieni-Serpell and Andrew Serpell
Harold Zwier
Jennifer Shepherd
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Prof Gabriela Stephenson and Prof George Stephenson
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Pamela Swansson
Jenny Anderson
Lillian Tarry
David Angelovich
Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman
G C Bawden and L de Kievit
Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock
Lesley Bawden
Michael Ullmer AO
Joyce Bown
The Hon Rosemary Varty
Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John Brukner
Marian Wills Cooke and Terry Wills Cooke OAM
Ken Bullen
Mark Young
Peter A Caldwell
Anonymous (29)
Luci and Ron Chambers
The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates:
Beryl Dean Sandra Dent
Norma Ruth Atwell
Alan Egan JP
Angela Beagley
Gunta Eglite
Christine Mary Bridgart
Mr Derek Grantham
The Cuming Bequest
Marguerite Garnon-Williams
Margaret Davies
Dr Rhyl Wade and Dr Clem Gruen
Neilma Gantner
Louis Hamon OAM
The Hon Dr Alan Goldberg AO QC
Carol Hay
Enid Florence Hookey
Graham Hogarth
Gwen Hunt
Rod Home
Family and Friends of James Jacoby
Tony Howe Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James Audrey M Jenkins John Jones George and Grace Kass Bruce and Natalie Kellett Sylvia Lavelle Pauline and David Lawton Cameron Mowat David Orr
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Lu Siqing MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC The MSO honours the memory of Life Members
$500+ (Overture)
John Brockman OAM
$2,500+ (Associate)
The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC
$5,000+ (Principal)
Roger Riordan AM
$10,000+ (Maestro)
Ila Vanrenen
$20,000+ (Impresario)
$1,000+ (Player)
$50,000+ (Virtuoso) $100,000+ (Platinum)
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