Eumeralla: a war requiem for peace

14 October

Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

Artists

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Benjamin Northey conductor

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO soprano (Yorta Yorta)

Linda Barcan mezzo-soprano

Jud Arthur baritone

MSO Chorus

Warren Trevelyan-Jones Chorus Director, MSO Chorus

The Consort of Melbourne

Steven Hodgson Artistic Director, The Consort of Melbourne

Dhungala Children’s Choir

Members of St Paul’s Cathedral Choir

The Gunditjmara translation was the work of senior Gunditjmara language custodian Vicki Couzens and linguist Travers Eira.

Program

DEBORAH CHEETHAM FRAILLON AO Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace

Our musical Acknowledgment of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, will be performed at this concert.

Concert Events

Pre-concert talk: 14 October at 6.45pm in the Stalls Foyer on Level 2 at Hamer Hall. Join conductor and musician Aaron Wyatt for an interview with artist and language translator Vicki Couzens.

In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for silencing and dimming the light on your phone.

A note from the Managing Director

Welcome to this evening’s performance of Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace. Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO’s work has held a special place in the MSO’s heart since we performed the orchestral world premiere in 2019. As an important work in the Australian orchestral canon, we are delighted to share it with you again tonight with the full forces of the MSO, MSO Chorus, the Consort of Melbourne, Dhungala Children’s Choir, Members of St Paul’s Cathedral Choir and an impressive lineup of Australian soloists. Although we programmed Eumeralla more than a year ago, tonight’s performance coincides with a watershed moment for our country. The Eumeralla Wars left a scar on our nation’s history, and today’s Referendum offers us a chance to take an important step towards reconciliation for all Australians.

We might not know the outcome of the Referendum before you leave Hamer Hall this evening. Whatever the result, we are honoured that you have chosen to spend this occasion with our musicians, our artists, our staff and our community as we strive together for a better future.

Enjoy the performance,

Sophie Galaise Managing Director Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

A note from the MSO First Nations Creative Chair

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this page contains the image and name of a deceased person.

Wominjeka and welcome to this evening’s performance of Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace. As the composer of this work and First Nations Chair of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra I am honoured to share this moment of national significance with you.

You have come this evening not only to hear the combined forces of over 200 musicians and singers but also to face the future with us, whilst confronting Australia’s past.

This work has come to commemorate the Resistance wars fought across the continent of Australia and in particular those lives which were lost in the brutal conflict known as the Eumeralla Wars in South Western Victoria. It is estimated that over 9000 men, women and children of the Gunditjmara clans were brutally murdered in that conflict.

In September this year we lost another Gunditmara warrior. I wish to dedicate this evening’s performance to Uncle Kenneth Joseph Saunders, Uncle Ken entrusted me with this story in 2014. He was proud of the impact this work has had in advancing our nation’s understanding of the wounds that are yet to be healed.

As we take to the stage in Hamer Hall this evening his spirit will surround us and the strength he gave to me to compose this score will help us to continue our journey of understanding what it is to belong to this country.

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

MSO First Nations Creative Chair and composer

The MSO thanks the Saunders family for giving permission to use Uncle Ken’s name and image.

Uncle Kenneth Joseph Saunders

Acknowledging Country

Australia, the MSO has developed a musical Acknowledgment of Country with music composed by Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, featuring Indigenous languages from across Victoria. Generously supported by Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the MSO is working in partnership with Short Black Opera and Indigenous language custodians who are generously sharing their cultural knowledge.

The Acknowledgement of Country allows us to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which we perform in the language of that country and in the orchestral language of music.

from a land which has been nurtured by the traditional owners for more than 2000 generations. When we acknowledge country we pay respect to the land and to the people in equal measure.

As a composer I have specialised in coupling the beauty and diversity of our Indigenous languages with the power and intensity of classical music. In order to compose the music for this Acknowledgement of Country Project I have had the great privilege of working with no fewer than eleven ancient languages from the state of Victoria, including the language of my late Grandmother, Yorta Yorta woman Frances McGee. I pay my deepest respects to the elders and ancestors who are represented in these songs of acknowledgement and to the language custodians who have shared their knowledge and expertise in providing each text.

I am so proud of the MSO for initiating this landmark project and grateful that they afforded me the opportunity to make this contribution to the ongoing quest of understanding our belonging in this land.

— Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is Australia’s pre-eminent orchestra and a cornerstone of Victoria’s rich, cultural heritage.

Each year, the MSO engages with more than 5 million people, presenting in excess of 180 public events across live performances, TV, radio and online broadcasts, and via its online concert hall, MSO.LIVE, with audiences in 56 countries.

With a reputation for excellence, versatility and innovation, the MSO works with culturally diverse and First Nations leaders to build community and deliver music to people across Melbourne, the state of Victoria and around the world.

In 2023, the MSO’s Chief Conductor, Jaime Martín continues an exciting new phase in the Orchestra’s history. Maestro Martín joins an Artistic Family that includes Principal Guest Conductor, Xian Zhang, Principal Conductor in Residence, Benjamin Northey, Conductor Laureate, Sir Andrew Davis CBE, Cybec Assistant Conductor Fellow, Carlo Antonioli, MSO Chorus Director, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Soloist in Residence, Siobhan Stagg, Composer in Residence, Mary Finsterer, Ensemble in Residence, Gondwana Voices, Cybec Young Composer in Residence, Melissa Douglas and Young Artist in Association, Christian Li.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations, on whose un-ceded lands we honour the continuation of the oldest music practice in the world.

EUMERALLA, A WAR REQUIEM FOR

Musicians Performing in this Concert

FIRST VIOLINS

Tair Khisambeev

Acting Associate Concertmaster

Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#

Peter Fellin

Karla Hanna

Lorraine Hook

Kirstin Kenny

Mark Mogilevski

Michelle Ruffolo

Kathryn Taylor

Jacqueline Edwards*

Andrea Keeble*

Michael Loftus-Hills*

Susannah Ng*

Marie-Louise Slaytor*

SECOND VIOLINS

Matthew Tomkins Principal

The Gross Foundation#

Mary Allison

Isin Cakmakcioglu

Freya Franzen

Cong Gu

Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield#

Andrew Hall

Isy Wasserman

Philippa West

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Roger Young

Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan#

Madeleine Jevons*

Jos Jonker*

Hana King*

VIOLAS

Paul McMillan Guest Principal *

Katharine Brockman

Anthony Chataway Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM#

William Clark

Gabrielle Halloran

Fiona Sargeant

Isabel Morse*

Aaron Wyatt+

CELLOS

Rachael Tobin

Associate Principal

Anonymous#

Elina Faskhi

Assistant Principal

Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#

Rohan de Korte

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Rebecca Proietto

Caleb Wong

Jonathan Chim*

Kalina Krusteva*

Zoe Wallace*

DOUBLE BASSES

Rohan Dasika

Acting Principal

Benjamin Hanlon

Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#

Caitlin Bass*

Siyuan Vivian Qu*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis

Principal Anonymous#

Alyse Faith^

PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod Principal

Correct as of 26 September 2023

Learn more about our musicians on the MSO website

* Denotes Guest Musician # Position supported by

OBOES

Michael Pisani

Acting Principal

Ann Blackburn

The Rosemary Norman Foundation#

COR ANGLAIS

Rachel Curkpatrick

Acting Principal

CLARINET

Justin Beere* Guest Principal

BASS CLARINET

Jon Craven Principal

BASSOONS

Elise Millman

Associate Principal

Natasha Thomas Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson#

CONTRABASSOON

Colin Forbes-Abrams* Guest Principal

HORNS

Andrew Young

Associate Principal

Saul Lewis

Principal Third

The late Hon Michael Watt KC and Cecilie Hall#

Abbey Edlin

Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Josiah Kop

TRUMPETS

Shane Hooton

Associate Principal

Glenn Sedgwick and Dr Anita Willaton#

Callum G’Froerer*

TROMBONES

Mark Davidson Principal

Robert Collins*

Mike Szabo Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA

Timothy Buzbee Principal

TIMPANI

Scott Weatherson* Guest Principal

PERCUSSION

Shaun Trubiano Principal

John Arcaro

Tim and Lyn Edward#

Robert Cossom

Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

HARP Yinuo Mu Principal

PIANO

Jacob Abela*

* Denotes Guest Musician

^ Denotes MSO Academy

+ Ensemble Dutala member

# Position supported by

Benjamin Northey conductor

PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR IN RESIDENCE

Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the Principal Conductor in Residence of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Northey also appears regularly as a guest conductor with all major Australian symphony orchestras, Opera Australia (Turandot, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Carmen), New Zealand Opera (Sweeney Todd ) and State Opera South Australia (La sonnambula, L’elisir d’amore, Les contes d’Hoffmann). His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia and Christchurch Symphony Orchestras.

Northey studied conducting with John Hopkins at the University of Melbourne and Jorma Panula at the Stockholm Royal College of Music.

With a progressive and diverse approach to repertoire, he has collaborated with a broad range of artists including Maxim Vengerov, Julian Rachlin, Karen Gomyo, Piers Lane and many others.

In 2023, he conducts the Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmanian and Christchurch Symphony Orchestras and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO FAHA

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO (Yorta Yorta/Yuin) soprano and composer is a respected human rights advocate and recognised thought leader on the importance of cultural authority in the Art Music space. Throughout a long and distinguished career Deborah has championed the voice and visibility of classically trained Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island musicians through her achievements a composer, performer and artistic director of the Australia’s national First Nations Opera Company Short Black Opera (est. 2009) and Director of Dhungala Children’s Choir (est. 2008).

In 2019 Cheetham Fraillon established the One Day in January project designed to develop and nurture Indigenous orchestral musicians. From this emerged Ensemble Dutala, Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Chamber Ensemble which has led to the increased visibility and status of First Nations orchestral musicians in Australia.

As a composer Cheetham Fraillon’s list of commissions for major ensembles and companies include works for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, West Australian Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, Rubiks Collective, Melbourne Ensemble, The ABC, The Sydney Philharmonia, Plexus Collective, Flinders Quartet Goldner Quartet, The Australian Ballet, Victorian Opera, The MPavilion Project, Chineke (UK) and Hawai’i Symphony.

Cheetham Fraillon’s landmark compositions include Australia’s first Indigenous opera Pecan Summer (2010), Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace (2018) and the ongoing multi layered, multi lingual chamber music series Woven Song (2018).

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s career and achievements have been celebrated with a number of significant awards and commendations including: the Don Banks Music Award (2023), Queensland Government – Australian Women in Music Lifetime Achievement Awards (2022), the JC Williamson Lifetime Achievement Award (2021) and the Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for service to music; Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia (2018). In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Deborah was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), for distinguished service to the performing arts as an opera singer, composer and artistic director, to the development of Indigenous artists, and to innovation in performance and in 2022 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

In 2021 Deborah Cheetham Fraillon began a five-year appointment as MSO First Nations Creative Chair and 2023 was appointed the inaugural Elizabeth Todd Chair of Vocal Studies at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney.

Short Black Opera welcomes members of the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral to join Dhungala Children’s Choir on stage in a musical act of reconciliation. With thanks to the Director of Music St Paul’s Cathedral, Mr Philip Nicholls and Dhungala Children’s Choir Manager Kerry Gerraty without whom the participation of DCC and St Paul’s members in this performance of Eumeralla would not have been possible.

Linda Barcan mezzo-soprano

Lyric mezzo-soprano Linda Barcan trained at the Conservatorium of Newcastle, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Linda began her professional singing career with a two-year contract at the Opéra de Lyon. Following this and other professional engagements, including solo and ensemble concerts in France and Germany, Linda returned to Australia to perform for many years with Opera Australia. Linda’s affinity for 20th and 21st century opera, oratorio and chamber music has seen her collaborate with contemporary opera and classical music companies, and she has featured in several Australian premieres: Christina’s World (Sydney Chamber Opera), Abelard and Heloise (Opera Hunter), Pecan Summer (Short Black Opera), The Emperor of Atlantis (Lost & Found Opera), Eumeralla (Short Black Opera), love fails (Australian Contemporary Opera Company) and Woven Song (Short Black Opera).

Known as a passionate art song interpreter, Linda has appeared in recital around Australia and in France, Germany, and South-East Asia. Linda was previously Lecturer in Music (Voice) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and is currently on staff at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

Jud Arthur baritone

New Zealand-born Jud Arthur has been Australian-based since 2003.

He has sung over 40 operatic roles for Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, Victorian Opera, State Opera South Australia and Opera Queensland as well as frequently returning to New Zealand Opera.

A particular highlight for Jud was creating the roles of Hunding and Fafner in Opera Australia’s 2013 Der Ring des Nibelungen – for which he received critical acclaim.

In 2023, he sings Fafner in Das Rheingold for Sydney Symphony, The Bonze in Madama Butterfly for Opera Australia, Mahler’s Symphony No.8 for Sydney Philharmonia and appears in the Festival of Outback Opera for Opera Queensland.

Concert performances have included the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart and Fauré, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation with all the major Australasian Symphonies Orchestras.

Jud’s singing of the New Zealand National Anthem is featured regularly at international sporting events – especially Rugby Union test matches involving the All Blacks. He had the honour of singing at the launch of the New Zealand America’s Cup defence.

Jud is also a farrier and a former New Zealand Under-21 Show Jumping Champion.

MSO Chorus Performing in this Concert

SOPRANO

Shirin Albert

Sheila Baker

Ariel Chou

Veryan Croggon

Samantha Davies

Michele de Courcy

Catherine Folley

Nicole Free

Emma Hamley

Aurora Harmathy

Penny Huggett

Gina Humphries

Leanne Hyndman

Judy Longbottom

Caitlin Noble

Karin Otto

Jodie Pilkington

Amanda Powell

Tanja Redl

Jodi Samartgis

Julienne Seal

Fiona Steffensen

Elizabeth Tindall

Katy Turbitt

Fabienne Vandenburie

Julia Wang

Tara Zamin

ALTO

Ruth Anderson

Tes Benton

Cecilia Björkegren

Kate Bramley

Jane Brodie

Jacqueline Cheng

Alexandra Chubaty

Marie Connett

Lisa Faulks

Claudia Funder

Jill Giese

Debbie Griffiths

Sophia Gyger

Jennifer Henry

Kristine Hensel

Helen Hill

Helen MacLean

Christina McCowan

Charlotte Midson

Natasha Pracejus

Kate Rice

Helen Rommelaar

Lisa Savige

TENOR

James Allen

Kent Borchard

Steve Burnett

James Dipnall

Simon Gaites

Lyndon Horsburgh

Fergus Inder

Michael Mobach

Colin Schultz

Cameron Tait

Elliott Westbury

Stephen Wood

BASS

Maurice Amor

Richard Bolitho

Roger Dargaville

Peter Deane

Simon Evans

Elliott Gyger

John Howard

Jordan Janssen

Gary Levy

Douglas McQueen-Thomson

Vern O’Hara

Stephen Pyk

Matthew Toulmin

Caleb Triscari

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus

For more than 50 years the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been the unstinting voice of the Orchestra’s choral repertoire. The MSO Chorus sings with the finest conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Manfred Honeck, Xian Zhang and Nodoko Okisawa, and is committed to developing and performing new Australian and international choral repertoire.

Commissions include Brett Dean’s Katz und Spatz, Ross Edwards’ Mountain Chant, and Paul Stanhope’s Exile Lamentations. Recordings by the MSO Chorus have received critical acclaim. It has performed across Brazil and at the Cultura Inglese Festival in Sao Paolo, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final and at the Anzac Day commemorative ceremonies.

The MSO Chorus is always welcoming new members. If you would like to audition, please visit mso.com.au/chorus for more information.

Warren Trevelyan-Jones

Chorus Director, MSO Chorus

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Director Warren Trevelyan-Jones is the Head of Music at St James’, King Street in Sydney and is regarded as one of the leading choral conductors and choir trainers in Australia. Warren has had an extensive singing career as a soloist and ensemble singer in Europe, including nine years in the Choir of Westminster Abbey, and regular work with the Gabrieli Consort, Collegium Vocale (Ghent), the Taverner Consort, The Kings Consort, Dunedin Consort, The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars. Warren is also Director of the Parsons Affayre, Founder and Co-Director of The Consort of Melbourne and, in 2001 with Dr Michael Noone, founded the Gramophone award-winning group Ensemble Plus Ultra. Warren is also a qualified music therapist.

Steven Hodgson

Artistic Director, The Consort of Melbourne

Steven Hodgson (Artistic Director) joined The Consort of Melbourne as Assistant Director in 2014 under the mentorship of Warren Trevelyan-Jones and Peter Tregear and was appointed Artistic Director of the group in 2016.

He completed a Bachelor of Music with Honours at the University of Melbourne in 2004, studying composition with Stuart Greenbaum, Brenton Broadstock and Brett Dean and voice with Stephen Grant. Most recently, he completed the Kurt Thomas Cursus at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory, specialising in chamber choir repertoire.

A committed vocalist, choral conductor and composer, Steven has performed as a soloist and ensemble member with the Astra Chamber Music Society, e21, the Australian Chamber Choir, the St John’s Southgate Bach cantata programme, the Song Company and Ludovico’s band. He has a particular interest in contemporary Australian music, performing the Australian launch of Deborah Cheetham’s Woven song in 2020 and premiering Sally Whitwell’s Lockdown Alphabet, Meta Cohen’s Swerve and Wally Gunn and Maria Zajkowski’s I heart Artemis in 2022.

Steven has been working with the MSO Chorus as a Guest Chorus Conductor to prepare them for this performance, assisting Warren Trevelyan-Jones.

EUMERALLA, A WAR REQUIEM FOR PEACE

The Consort of Melbourne

The Consort of Melbourne is Melbourne’s premier vocal ensemble, bringing together the city’s finest chamber singers under the artistic direction of Steven Hodgson. Typically performing a capella (unaccompanied) with one singer per part, The Consort of Melbourne champions historic and contemporary repertoire, bringing 1000 years of vocal music to life with an intimacy and verve that leaves audiences spellbound.

Founded by Warren Trevelyan-Jones and Peter Tregear, the Consort gave its debut performance in September 2008. Since then it has presented regular concert series at the Melbourne Recital Centre and has been invited to collaborate with groups and artists including the Rolling Stones, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne and Sydney symphony orchestras, Song Company, Spiritualized, Ludovico’s Band, La Compañia, Genesis Baroque and drag legend Taylor Mac.

Major premiere performances include Deborah Cheetham’s Eumeralla in 2018 and Wally Gunn and Maria Zajkowski’s I heart Artemis in 2022, with whom they completed a prestigious UKARIA residency. In 2023, the Consort of Melbourne appeared as soloists with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Melbourne and Sydney symphony orchestras for Wynton Marsalis’ epic jazz symphony All rise

The Consort of Melbourne singing tonight

SOPRANO

Kristy Biber

Marjorie Butcher

Katherine Norman

ALTO

Alexandra Amerides

Niki Ebacioni

Hannah Pietsch

TENOR

Alex Gorbatov

Anish Nair

Ben Owen

BASS

Steven Hodgson

Paul McDonald

Alex Owens

Dhungala Children’s Choir

Dhungala Children’s Choir (DCC) was formed in 2009 by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO and has become the peak choral performance group for Indigenous children in Victoria.

Members of DCC have performed around Australia with Short Black Opera Company in performances of Deborah

Cheetham Fraillon’s Pecan Summer and come together annually in Melbourne for Dhungala Choral Connection – a three day choral camp bringing together Indigenous children from around the country.

Short Black Opera for Kids, SBO’s regional engagement program, provides an introduction to Dhungala Children’s Choir, with members now based in Shepparton and Geelong. This program provides training in musicianship, stagecraft, song writing and performance skills to children aged 8 to 16 inspiring excellence, leadership and confidence and has been presented in Victoria, NSW and WA. DCC continues to perform around Australia, with some notable performances to date being in Pecan Summer at the Sydney Opera House, 2016; at the ARIA awards 2018 and the premiere of Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace, at Port Fairy Spring Festival, 2018. On June 15, 2019, Dhungala Children’s Choir performed Eumeralla to a sold out audience at Hamer Hall with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Kerry Gerraty

Youth Chorus Manager

Catherine Segrave

Assistant Youth Chorus Manager

DCC MEMBERS

Angel Atkinson

Laila Atkinson

Sonja Dare

Sienna Dean

Tiranna Gibbs

Djamari Hunter (One Day in January Scholar)

Aidan May

Ella Thomas

Riverlea Uppill

DCC ALUMNI

Trinity Crumpen Winmar

Jerrika Pevitt

DCC TRAINING CHOIR

Jobe Cooper

Draylee Jones

Members of St Paul’s Cathedral Choir

The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral sang first at the opening of the Cathedral in 1891 and has sung in services almost daily since. Comprising 18 girl and 18 boy choristers and 30 singing adults, it sings music from across seven centuries and in many languages for six choral services each week. The Choir is proud to enjoy the patronage of Deborah Cheetham

Fraillon AO, and is honoured to join Dhungala Children’s Choir on stage as a musical act of reconciliation in this landmark performance. Members appear courtesy of Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School, Trinity Grammar School, and St Paul’s Cathedral. Director of Music, Mr Philip Nicholls.

St Pauls Cathedral Choir singing tonight

Max Chao-Hong

Marc Chen

Ottavia Cole

Ella Doljanin

Matt Fallscheer

Gigi Gualtieri

Constantine Koutrouzas

Amber Lin

Mia Lin

Max Lydon

Jonathan Moutsios

Alessia Panella

Shayana Perera

Aiyana Ranatunga

Mat Ribgy

Sam Shaw

Chiara Torbet

Gemma Torbet

Lucy Zlatkovic

About the Music

DEBORAH CHEETHAM FRAILLON AO (born 1964)

Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace

The composer writes:

The story behind the piece

Just a little over 4 hours’ drive from Melbourne there is a battlefield haunted with the memory of war and loss of life. When you walk on this land, you are surrounded by restless warrior spirits. It is a powerful feeling and a fearful one. It is inescapable.

The name Eumeralla is unlikely to be among the theatres of war that you could name. The history of battles fought and the lives that were lost is almost unknown to anyone outside the Aboriginal community. It is more than 170 years since the last shots rang out in the country of the Gunditjmara but the land is not silent. The voices of those who lost their lives in defence of their country ring in your ears when you stand amongst the lava flow of the south west country of Victoria. Unlike other theatres of war such as Anzac Cove and the Somme, where peace was declared and relationships restored with the Turks and Germans, no such peace was declared in the resistance wars, no such restoration. Whilst the Gunditjmara uphold the memory of their warriors’ slain, most Australians have been denied access to this history and denied resolution – and so the land remains haunted.

I first walked on this battlefield in 2013. I felt it right away. I was moved and I was disturbed. Given the chance to camp on that land I could not sleep or find rest. The voices of those lost were so loud I couldn’t stay for more than one night. It woke something in me and my

immediate response was music. A song, A Requiem. A War Requiem. It would be called Eumeralla and named in honour of one of the most brutal resistance wars fought on this continent. It would be sung entirely in the language of the Gunditjmara people and be designed for non-Indigenous Australians to sing alongside Indigenous brothers and sisters.

We need a way to ease the troubled spirit of the battlefields of the Eumeralla. It is my hope that this song, this War Requiem will help the spirits of those who fell, those who resisted and their aggressors, to find a lasting peace and that we their descendants might find our way to a deeper understanding of the legacy of these battles. For you, for me, for all who were lost in a war Australia has yet to find a way to talk about.

Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace will break the silence of so many decades and serve to amplify the importance of our nation’s shared history.

One day I hope to walk on that country and feel no restless spirit – just the strength of two thousand generations of lives lived and culture sustained.

© Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

EUMERALLA, A WAR REQUIEM FOR PEACE

Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace art commission by Tom Day

The artworks which accompany this evening’s performance are by Gunditjmara/Yorta Yorta artist Tom Day. The series was commissioned by Short Black Opera and will accompany Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace each time a public performance is given.

The artist writes:

This is a journey of inner reflection directed at the core of what it means to be Gunditjmara, a descendent of warriors, a direct descendent of the ‘Fighting Gunditjmara’.

I was raised on this country, I’ve walked this country, I know this country. The presence of the old people reveals itself to me with songs being carried in the

winds and I then interpret their story, our story. Eumeralla represents power, sings of our story and is at the heart of our identity. It conveys the truth, however difficult, and tells of resilience and strength.

Tonight represents the visual telling of that truth, of that strength and of the people who endured it.

I’ve captured it through the cultural lens that our culture demands, that my spirit as a Gunditjmara man demands. My own personal journey from a young boy being told the story, to a young man walking the battlegrounds, to the man that now understands is captured here within the artworks.

This is our story.

Tom Day © 2019

About the Artist

TOM DAY

Tom Day is a Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba man and multi-disciplined artist based in Shepparton, Victoria.

“Capturing the essence of country is everything to me! As a younger Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba man, it is always the essence of country I remember most. The intricacy of it all, when the seasons are on the verge of changing and the effect it has on that place, everything changes except its essence.

I paint it like I see it, through Aboriginal eyes, imagining the spirits living in harmony with the people and animals. Merging the old and the new moving towards a bright future by using traditional and contemporary art forms seamless throughout my work, giving it a visual voice whilst acknowledging where we come from.

Country has certain magic; its elusive quality can transform the landscape in just a matter of seconds. I strive to convey that sense of place by capturing this magical essence.”

EUMERALLA,

Development of Language

LANGUAGE CUSTODIANSHIP

“Deborah Cheetham’s Requiem Mass was a response to a request from a Gunditjmara Elder to write and compose a work honouring the Eumeralla Wars, fought on my homelands during the first encounters of the colonial invasion in the early 1800s.

At Deborah’s request, in partnership with Kris Eira, Linguist, Composer and Musician, we undertook to translate the Work. This translation process into Gunditjmara language was an exciting and powerful experience. For myself this Project presented a great challenge to my skills and knowledge base and to the language that we have available. Our languages are in revival mode and so are not full and fluently spoken languages. We are in the process of language reclamation and revitalisation and this requires extensive research and innovation to develop language capacity to address translations of this scope. So translating the text for this work provided a great opportunity to create new words and explore grammatical processes that has expanded Gunditjmara language capacity. It has given my community much to build upon.”

– Vicki Couzens

Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara Community Linguist and Senior Knowledge Holder for Language and Possum Cloaks

VICKI COUZENS

Possum skin cloak maker and prominent multi-media artist Vicki Couzens is a Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong woman from the Western Districts of Victoria, who plays an active role in the revitalization and continuance of the culture of her people. Vicki has distinguished herself with her interdisciplinary artwork, or as she prefers, ‘creative cultural expression’ – painting, installation, visual arts, printmaking, mixed media, performing arts, language, ceremony and teaching – but is best known for her central role in the revival of the possum skin cloak making tradition which began in Victoria and is now established across south-eastern Australia.

Vicki has worked in the Aboriginal community for over 40 years, serving on the Boards of Victorian Housing, Koorie Heritage Trust and the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL). She is considered a Senior Knowledge Holder of Language and worked with the curatorial team on the First Peoples Exhibition at Melbourne Museum. She continues to teach extensively across Victoria and southeastern Australia.

Celebrating First Nations

For more than 116 years the MSO has performed on the lands of the Kulin Nations.

Guided by MSO’s First Nations Creative Chair Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, we are committed to elevating the unique cultures and histories of the First Nations peoples who celebrate the oldest music practice in the world. But we need your help.

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Text and translation

Text by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

1. o pernmeeyal

o pernmeeyal wooka-tyeen leenan toota

moongay wata keenanpa

nganangwalawa-tyeen

leerpee–wanoo-ngoo leerpee-yt ba yoonggama-yt

makatepa wanga-kee leerpee-wanoong, yareeyaree-wanoong

2. deen nganang warrakeeleek deen nganang. warrakeeleek

ngami ngami kooknawak meerreeng palayn-ee

pang kooyeen-nganeen

poongpoong-oota-eeya

deen tamboort-eeyt wata-n woongoora-teepa

takoort parpanee-pa yangteeyt-oo

3. wanga-n-wanoong

wanga-n-wanoong ngamee ngamee woonggaroong

yanda-na keelkarteen moorookan-tyeen

ngalam meen-ngeeye-ngat

karta-wanoong kaleengkatmoot-moot

takoort meerreeng parpa koolang-na

nammereeng-oota takoortmaar

pang-wang-eeyt mayapa-n-tyeen nammereeng

1. requiem

Gunditjmara dialects translation by Vicki Couzens and Travers Eira EUMERALLA, A WAR REQUIEM FOR

o creator, give to them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon them a hymn and a vow we will sing to you today, hear our song of mourning

2. dies irae this day of anger will consume the world in ashes no one could have told us what trembling there would be the judgment came too swiftly everything weighted in favour of loss

3. tuba mirum we heard an awful sound

scattered across the burial places of our ancestors we stood before the weapons all nature was stunned (confounded) by the ugliness of mankind made ugly by ignorance

4. kooyeen wanoong

kooyeen-wanoong yang–teeyt-ngeeye

leenyoong ba marnmarn kooweetpa

pangyangteeyt marrangmara-n deen

malayeeto-kooweetpa

meerreeng-moongay tyama-wanoong ngootyoong

takoort yooloowa-na pang-yooloowamayapa

takoortakoort tyama-k-wanoong

5. tyookyong-ee

ngalam meen-ngeeye nhoomapee

yoondapoora-na-yoota tyookooyong-ee

moongay wata moorroop-tyeen

tamboora toota

ngalam meen-ngeeye nhoomapee

yoondapoora-na-yoota tyookooyong-ee

moongay wata moorroop-tyeen

tamboora leenan toota

6. tarramee-tarrameek-kee ngeeye

tarrameek-tarrameek-kee-ngeeye pangwang-eeyt –oo makatepa ba nhoonpee

ngameengamee nganang-ee

meerreeng moongay takoort meerreeng wang-wangga-ka

kaneekanee tyama-ka ngathoongan

poongpoong-oota ba kooneenp-ootangeeye

manamanakooweeya-wanoong

kaneengootyoong pangat yana-na

meerreeng moongay takoort meerreeng

wang-wangga-ka

7. nganya laka-wanoong

nganya laka-wanoong

ngarra protekatar kooweeya-wanoong

ngeetoong katyook thookay pangngootyoonayt

4. liber scriptus we recorded our loss in name and great detail the winners who wrote the history but when the truth is known all that is hidden will appear nothing will remain unknown

5. agnus dei our ancestors, who were sacrificed for the lambs may their spirits find rest

our ancestors, who were sacrificed for the lambs may their spirits find eternal rest

6. libera me deliver us from ignorance now and on that awful day

when all the world will be shaken and consciousness will be complete we are seized with fear and trembling

we are longing for justice denied

when all the world will be shaken

7. quid sum miser what could we say?

to which protector could we appeal? when even the child was not safe?

8. deen ngootyoong meering

deen ngootyoong meerreeng

mana-n parta-na koong-ngeeye

wayapa-wanoong ngalam meen-ngeeye

thoombook-nganang-deepa

9. pang ngutee-kee weng

pang ngutee-kee weeng

ngathoonganeen nhaka pooree tharn ngooteen

yanda-n-warr-ngeeye katakee pangtyama

wata-n-warr wanggat-oota nyeepma

karta-n-warr parpanee-yt-oota

tamboorawanang-eenyee

wata-n-warr ngootyoong-oota watan

leek

pangat kooweeya-n noombapee

wamba-n-warr nganang tamborteeyt

10. ngarnda wanong

ngarnda-wanoong nhoonampee wanawoot kalng-pa kapeeyang

wanyoo parpanee-yt-ngooteen kalng

kapeeyang

deen ngootyoongeeyt pangngootyoongayt

ngakee-wanoong nhoonampee

noombapee-ngooteen ngamee koonangooteen wananga-ngeeye

manamana-wanoong manakooweeya

wampee-mayapa

nhoonampee pang-nhakee

ngooty-ngeeye

pang weerakaleek waloong

ngamee ngamme kooknawa-ngeeye

pang-kapoo weeyn-a

yangee yangee ngameentyarr-mayapa-n

woorangkeel ngathoonganeen

yangee yangee ngameentyarr-mayapa-n

taytmeerreeng

pang-wooka-n-warr-ngeeye meerreeng

8. rex tremendae majstatus the earth in all its beauty received our broken bodies we joined our ancestors much too soon

9. recordare remember that we were your destiny you cast us aside unknown you came such a long way to ignore you endured such hardship only to condemn yourselves with righteous vengeance you came asking no forgiveness you brought the day of reckoning

10. ingemisco

we groan as one made guilty

under the burden of your guilt the innocent were not spared we saw you pardoned for your crimes against us

we clung to a diminishing hope our worth was not considered no mercy was at hand consumed by an everlasting fire

we were made lower than the cattle lower than the sheep you gave us no place

EUMERALLA, A WAR REQUIEM FOR PEACE

11. chorus

tamboorawananga-n-eeye ngal

koorrook-eeyt-een ba ngameeleemooteeyt-een

yoonggama-n-eeye peeneeyt torrowanoo

karnda-kee-ngeeye yakeeneeyt-eeyt-ee

yookapa-n-wanoong pang ngool-ngoolteenyan-eeyt

ngooyt tamboopa-n

yookap-eeya-wanoong deen meerreeng

12. deen nganang weerakaleeyt

deen nganang weerakaleeyt

meert-ook-warr palayn-oo

nhoonampee tamboora-ngooteen marn

kalng kapeeyang

deen mayapa-ngooteen noombapeengeeye malangeepa

noombapee-kee

wooka-tyeen toota

13. yakeen-aya meerreeng

yakeen-aya meerreeng

walata-kee moorroop-tyeen ngalam

meen-ngeeye-ngat

manamana-kee-ngeeye karrakee-ytngoo kooneentamboora -kil

pang-wang-ee-tyeen-oo nhoonampee

wata-n pang pang wanga-n

tarrameek-tarrameek-kee-ngeeye

takang-nyoong-oo deen ngamateeytngat

wananga ngal koorrook-eeyt ba

markap-eeyt pang nganata-ngeeye

wananga nhoonpee wamba takoort

nganang maar-ngeeye-ngoo

wata-pa-kee-ngeeye tyamateeyt-oo

Yoonggamoongoo-n-ngeen

ngathoonganeen ba koorrookee ba

ngapoon-ngeeye

mayapa-kee wangangooytyoong

11. confutatis condemned by hatred and confusion consigned to keen flames

call us with the blessed we offered without threat with pure intention that we could share this world

12. lacrimosa that day of weeping on which will rise again from the ashes the guilty among you, to be judged

therefore, spare our future be merciful give them rest

13. domine jesu land of eternal dreaming cradle the souls our ancestors save us from the scars of prejudice from the ignorance of those who came and would not listen deliver us from the jaws of this beast

lest hatred and greed engulf us

lest all light be taken from us lead us towards wisdom fulfill the promise made to us and to our elders pay respect

14. Pernmeeyal, kaneepoorreewooka

-wanoong-ngooteen

Pernmeeyal, kaneepoorreewooka

-wanoong-ngooteen mayapa karweeyn ba leerpeen

mana-kee nhoonampee-yee

pang-nguteeweeng-wanoong-tyeen

makatepa

Pernmeeyal, nhapa-kee nhoonampee

kalpeerna-kaloo-ngoo poondeeyt-oo

Yoonggamoongoo-n-ngeen

ngathoonganeen ba koorrookee ba

ngapoon-ngeeye

mayapa-kee wangangooytyoong

15. paman paman

paman paman, paman paman, paman paman

moorroop ngathoo-nganeen-ee

meerreeng ba moornong ngooyt-oota

kaneepoorreewooka-wan Pernmeeyal

16. ngatanwarr

ngatanwarr, wata-kee, ngakee

tyamateeyt-ee

kaneepoorreewooka-wan Pernmeeyal

14. Hostias

Great Spirit, in praise we offer you ceremony and songs accept them on behalf of those who we remember on this day great spirit, guide them from death to life by the promise made to us and our elders pay respect

15. sanctus sacred, sacred, sacred spirit within us the earth and sky are full of beauty all praise to the creator

16. benedictus welcome are those who come in the pursuit of knowledge all praise to the creator

17. moongay-wata keenanpa nganang

walawa

moongay wata keenanpa nganang

walawa ngalam meen-ngeey-ee

kooweekoowee-tyeen meengkeel-ee

moongay wata ngameekooteen

moorroop-tyeen tamboora leenan toota

moongay wata keenanpa nganang

walawa ngalam meen-ngeey-ee

kooweekoowee-tyeen meengkeel-ee

18. noombapee-ngeeye

noombapee-ngeeye kaleekeetoo

noombapee-ngeeye malangeepa

noombapee-ngeeye kaloo

19. o permeeyal

o pernmeeyal wooka-tyeen leenan toota

moongay wata keenanpa nganang

walawa-tyeen

17. lux aeternum

may everlasting light shine upon our ancestors

their stories are with the stars may their troubled souls find eternal rest may everlasting light shine upon our ancestors

their stories are with the stars

18. kyrie eleison have mercy on our past have mercy on our future have mercy on our present

19. requiem

o creator, give to them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon them

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE

Mr Marc Besen AC and the late Mrs Eva Besen AO

Gandel Foundation

The Gross Foundation

Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio

Harold Mitchell Foundation

Lady Potter AC CMRI

Cybec Foundation

The Pratt Foundation

The Ullmer Family Foundation

Anonymous

ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS

Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair

Carlo Antonioli Cybec Foundation

Concertmaster Dale Barltrop

David Li AM and Angela Li

Assistant Concertmaster

Tair Khisambeev Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio

Young Composer in Residence

Melissa Douglas Cybec Foundation

2023 Composer in Residence

Mary Finsterer Kim Williams AM

PROGRAM BENEFACTORS

MSO Now & Forever Fund: International Engagement Gandel Foundation

Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers

Program Cybec Foundation

Digital Transformation Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment

First Nations Emerging Artist Program

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East meets West The Li Family Trust, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations

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MSO Education Anonymous

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Victoria, Gwen and Edna Jones Foundation, Robert Salzer Foundation, The Sir Andrew & Lady Fairley Foundation, Uebergang Foundation

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Charitable Trust, Australian Decorative And Fine Arts Society, Anonymous

Sidney Myer Free Concerts Sidney Myer

MSO Trust Fund and the University of Melbourne

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Mr Marc Besen AC and the late Mrs Eva Besen AO

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The Gandel Foundation

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Anonymous (1)

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Packer Family Foundation

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Weis Family

Anonymous (1)

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The Aranday Foundation

H Bentley

$20,000+

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Anonymous (2)

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Opalgate Foundation

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The Sun Foundation

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Anonymous (2)

PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+

Mary Armour

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Equity Trustees

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Anonymous (2)

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Anonymous (4)

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P Shore

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Anonymous (15)

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Margaret Cowden

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Anonymous (16)

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Anonymous (19)

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Norma Ruth Atwell

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Family and Friends of James Jacoby

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John and Lorraine Bates

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

MSO Ambassador

Geoffrey Rush AC

The

MSO honours the memory of Life Members

Mrs Eva Besen AO

John Brockman OAM

The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC

Roger Riordan AM

Ila Vanrenen

MSO ARTISTIC FAMILY

Jaime Martín

Chief Conductor

Xian Zhang

Principal Guest Conductor

Benjamin Northey

Principal Conductor in Residence

Carlo Antonioli

Cybec Assistant Conductor

Sir Andrew Davis CBE

Conductor Laureate

Hiroyuki Iwaki †

Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)

Warren Trevelyan-Jones

MSO Chorus Director

Siobhan Stagg

Soloist in Residence

Gondwana Voices

Ensemble in Residence

Christian Li

Young Artist in Association

Mary Finsterer

Composer in Residence

Melissa Douglas

Cybec Young Composer in Residence

Christopher Moore

Creative Producer, MSO Chamber

Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

MSO First Nations Creative Chair

Dr Anita Collins

Creative Chair for Learning and Engagement

Artistic Ambassadors

Tan Dun

Lu Siqing

MSO BOARD

Chairman

David Li AM

Co-Deputy Chairs

Di Jameson OAM

Helen Silver AO

Managing Director

Sophie Galaise

Board Directors

Shane Buggle

Andrew Dudgeon AM

Martin Foley

Lorraine Hook

Margaret Jackson AC

Gary McPherson

Farrel Meltzer

Edgar Myer

Glenn Sedgwick

Mary Waldron

Company Secretary

Oliver Carton

The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events.

The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows:

$500+ (Overture)

$1,000+ (Player)

$2,500+ (Associate)

$5,000+ (Principal)

$10,000+ (Maestro)

$20,000+ (Impresario)

$50,000+ (Virtuoso)

$100,000+ (Platinum)

Thank you to our Partners

PRINCIPAL PARTNER PREMIER PARTNERS

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

EDUCATION PARTNER

VENUE PARTNER

ORCHESTRAL TRAINING PARTNER

MAJOR PARTNERS

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

Quest Southbank

Bows for Strings

Ernst & Young

TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

The Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation, The Angior Family Foundation, The William and Lindsay Brodie Foundation, Flora & Frank Leith Trust, The Gwen and Edna Jones Foundation, The Ray and Joyce Uebergang Foundation, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund