CONCERT PROGRAM
Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody
30 November – 2 December Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall and Costa Hall, Geelong
Artists Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Jaime Martín conductor Andrea Lam piano
Program BACEWICZ Overture RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Interval – SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.10 Our musical Acknowledgment of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, will be performed at these concerts.
Concert Events Want to learn more about the music being performed? 30 November at 6.45pm in the Stalls Foyer on Level 2 at Hamer Hall. 2 December at 6.45pm in the Stalls Foyer on Level 2 at Hamer Hall. Arrive early for an informative and entertaining pre-concert talk with Dr John Gabriel, Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Melbourne.
1 December at 6.45pm in Costa Hall Arrive early for an informative and entertaining post-concert talk with soloist Joyce Yang and MSO Head of Artistic Planning, Katharine Bartholomeusz-Plows.
These concerts may be recorded for future broadcast on MSO.LIVE.
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Acknowledging Country
About Long Time Living Here
In the first project of its kind in 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.
Australian National Commission for UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
In all the world, only Australia can lay claim to the longest continuing cultures and we celebrate this more today than in any other time since our shared history began. We live each day drawing energy 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
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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.
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SECOND VIOLINS
CELLOS
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Matthew Tomkins
David Berlin
Guest Concertmaster
Tair Khisambeev
Principal The Gross Foundation#
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Acting Associate Concertmaster Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#
Robert Macindoe Associate Principal
Associate Principal Anonymous#
Peter Edwards
Monica Curro
Elina Faskhi
Mary Allison Freya Franzen Cong Gu
Rohan de Korte
Assistant Principal Margaret Billson and the late Ted Billson#
Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Karla Hanna Lorraine Hook Kirstin Kenny Eleanor Mancini Anne Neil#
Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor Jacqueline Edwards* Susannah Ng*
Assistant Principal Dr Mary-Jane Gething AO#
Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield#
Andrew Hall Isy Wasserman Philippa West
Andrew Dudgeon AM#
Patrick Wong Roger Young
Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan#
Madeleine Jevons* Jos Jonker* VIOLAS Christopher Moore
Principal Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#
Katharine Brockman William Clark Jenny Khafagi Fiona Sargeant Molly Collier-O’Boyle* Andrew Crothers* Ceridwen Davies* Lucas Levin* Isabel Morse*
Assistant Principal Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio# Andrew Dudgeon AM#
Sarah Morse Rebecca Proietto Angela Sargeant Caleb Wong Michelle Wood
Andrew and Judy Rogers#
DOUBLE BASSES Jonathan Coco Principal
Rohan Dasika Benjamin Hanlon
Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#
Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#
Caitlin Bass* Emma Sullivan* FLUTES Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#
Wendy Clarke
Associate Principal
Sarah Beggs PICCOLO Andrew Macleod Principal
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The Rosemary Norman Foundation#
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Associate Principal
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Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher#
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Matthew Thomas
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Andrew Young
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Rosie Turner
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Jack Schiller
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Natasha Thomas
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John Arcaro
Tim and Lyn Edward#
Robert Cossom
Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#
Robert Clarke* HARP Yinuo Mu Principal
Owen Morris
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John and Diana Frew#
Mark Davidson Principal
Richard Shirley Mike Szabo
Principal Bass Trombone
TUBA Timothy Buzbee
Principal
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Jaime Martín conductor Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2022, Jaime Martín is also Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (Spanish National Orchestra) for the 22/23 season and was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2022. Having spent many years as a highly regarded flautist, Jaime turned to conducting full-time in 2013, and has become very quickly sought after at the highest level. Recent and future engagements include appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE (ORTVE) and Galicia Symphony orchestras, as well as a nine-city European tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Martín is the Artistic Advisor and previous Artistic Director of the Santander Festival. He was also a founding member of the Orquestra de Cadaqués, where he was Chief Conductor from 2012 to 2019.
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Andrea Lam piano Pronounced a “real talent” by the Wall Street Journal, Australian pianist Andrea Lam performs with orchestras and leading conductors in Australasia, Japan, China and the United States, including the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and all major Australian symphony orchestras. Recently returned after two decades in New York, Andrea has played venues from Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center to the Sydney Opera House, with works from Bach, Mozart and Schumann to Aaron Jay Kernis, Matthew Hindson and Nigel Westlake. Current season engagements include concertos with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras with conductors Sir Donald Runnicles and Jaime Martín, Sydney Opera House’ Utzon Music Series, Adelaide Festival in both Chamber Landscapes and the Ngapa William Cooper Project composed by Lior and Nigel Westlake (commissioned by UKARIA and Finding Our Voice). In 2022, Andrea toured nationally for Musica Viva Australia performing Bach’s Goldberg Varations, performed as soloist with the Sydney, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, as pianist alongside renowned baritone Bo Skovhus at Sydney Opera House and as solo pianist for Musica Viva, Melbourne Recital Centre, Phoenix Central Park (Sydney) and Sydney Opera House’ International Piano Day. Andrea Lam was a Semifinalist in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Silver Medalist in the 2009 San Antonio Piano Competition, and winner of the ABC’s ‘Young Performer of the Year’ Award in the Keyboard section, and the Yale Woolsey Hall Competition. She holds degrees from both the Yale, and the Manhattan Schools of Music. Recordings include Mozart concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with cellist Matt Haimovitz (Pentatone Oxingale), and as part of New York’s acclaimed Claremont Trio. Pianist for violinist Emily Sun on the ARIAnominated album Nocturnes (ABC Classics), Andrea most recently recorded solo piano works by Matthew Hindson, due for 2023/2024 release.
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Program Notes GRAŻYNA BACEWICZ
(1909–69) Overture
Grażyna Bacewicz is evidence that talent, training, a substantial body of work, and even recognition and awards during one’s life do not guarantee a consistent place among frequentlyperformed composers. Born in Poland, she was educated at the Warsaw Conservatory as a violinist, and then went to Paris, where in the mid 1930s she studied composition with the famed pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. She spent the second half of her career in the Soviet sphere, which in theory promoted total gender equality, and she gained international exposure with performances and prizes in the United States and Western Europe. And yet she mostly disappeared from concert programs until recently. If there’s a bright spot to end this story, it’s that we now have a chance to hear excellent music from the recent past almost as if brand new. Bacewicz wrote her Overture (Uwertura in Polish) in Warsaw in 1943 under German occupation. It was not premiered until September 1945, in a very different world. On August 1, 1944, the underground Polish Home Army began to strike Nazi positions in Warsaw. Encouraged by Moscow Radio, and expecting imminent support from the Red Army, tens of thousands of citizens took up arms. But anticommunist factions in the resistance posed a threat to Soviet postwar plans, so the Red Army halted on the outskirts of Warsaw, allowing the Germans to kill 250,000 more people and raze the city. “Suffice to say that Warsaw is no more,” Bacewicz wrote to her brother the following year, three months after Germany’s surrender. “The city is gone
for but a few houses … there is no railway station there, not a single bridge, nothing but heaps of ruins.” In the same letter, she noted that she’d saved all her compositions “apart from Overture, which I’ve recently reconstructed.” She published it in 1947. The six-minute piece begins with timpani and a scrubby romp in the strings. It’s a typical Bacewicz effect – dissonant and noisy in the details, but cogent and lively in shape and attitude. A more lyrical middle section features the flute, recalling her French training. The end is an exhilarating, optimistic, and brilliantly orchestrated rush. © Benjamin Pesetsky 2023
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
(1873–1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43 Andrea Lam piano Both Sergei Rachmaninov and Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) were virtuosos of their eras. There the similarities seem to end. In the 20th century, Rachmaninov, a pianist, was criticized as a sentimental tunesmith and too-late Romantic, and even today diehard modernists give his pieces the stink eye. In the 19th century, people said Paganini sold his soul to the devil for superhuman violin chops – or, in another legend, strangled his wife and learned to fiddle in prison. The common theme is discomfort with the intersection of art and entertainment, which is exactly where Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini lives – but not cheaply so. The variation form is especially appropriate, as it led a kind of dual life as a vehicle for flashy salon showpieces on the one hand, and a technique for radical experimentation and expression on the other. Rachmaninov knew he could do both at the same time.
discovered this secret, and marveled at it. But supposedly he just said, “this one is for my agent.”
The 24 variations are played without pause, but can be divided into three sections: fast, slow, and fast (roughly speaking). The Rhapsody starts with a quick introduction and Variation I for the orchestra alone. Only then is the theme presented – in the violins, naturally. Variations II–VI explore different elements of theme at a brisk pace, while VII steps back into a choralelike refection. Variation X introduces a second theme: the Dies irae chant from the Requiem Mass, finished off with a jazzy sparkle.
(1906–75)
Variation XI enters a new world of eerie tremolo and languid impressionism. XII is a minuet, while XIII is a heavy plod, with the theme reemerging more audibly in the strings. Soon enough, the moment we’ve all been waiting for is here… Variation XVIII, Andante cantabile. It sounds like an original Rachmaninov melody inserted into the variations, but it derives directly from an inversion of the main theme. Where Paganini goes up a minor third, Rachmaninov goes down a minor third. Where Paganini goes down a half step, Rachmaninov goes up a half step. Down a whole step, up a whole step. Up a fifth, down a fifth. Slow it all down and make a few adjustments, and out pours this gorgeous expanse. Rachmaninov must have sat at his piano at Senar,
The last set of variations clears the air with a pizzicato intro. XIX is a hollowedout contour of the theme, XX rushes with brassy touches. XXI–XXIII tumble down Ride of the Valkyries style, before the Dies irae returns out of the fairy chorus of XXIV. A big glissando and a tight punchline. © Benjamin Pesetsky 2023
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93 I. Moderato II. Allegro III. Allegretto–Largo–Più mosso
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The theme comes from Paganini’s 24th Caprice in A minor for solo violin, published in 1818. Though Paganini presumably devised the tune himself, the theme feels obvious and inevitable – like common property – and Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms all wrote solo piano variations on it before Rachmaninov made his version as a quasi-concerto. He composed it over the summer of 1934 at Senar, his Lake Lucerne estate, and premiered it on November 7 of the same year, in Baltimore, Maryland, with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
IV. Andante–Allegro The longest gap in Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphonic output was the eight years between his Symphony No.9, in 1945, and No.10, in 1953. In between, he was denounced by Soviet authorities for a second time, accused of “formalism” – writing music without a proper social purpose. For a time he lost his teaching posts at the Leningrad and Moscow conservatories and many of his pieces were blacklisted. In need of money, he turned to writing film music, and also recommitted himself to grand, politically correct (in the original sense) cantatas with an eye toward rehabilitation. Then on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died, ushering in what eventually became known as the Khrushchev Thaw. That summer, Shostakovich set to work on his Tenth Symphony, finishing the first movement on August 5 and the last on October 25. Some elements seem to date earlier – a colleague said he showed her portions in 1951, and an unfinished violin sonata from 1945 has similar material. The symphony was
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premiered on December 17, 1953, by the Leningrad Philharmonic. Solomon Volkov’s 1979 book Testimony, which claims to be Shostakovich’s memoir smuggled out of the Soviet Union, pinpoints the symphony as a “portrait of Stalin and the Stalin years.” The veracity of the book, which paints Shostakovich as a secret dissident writing cryptic protests, is widely disputed. In any political system, it’s possible for someone to recognize the evil and ludicrous nature of a particular regime – even be personally subjected to it – without rejecting the entire premise of the only society they know. As the harshest restrictions lessened, Shostakovich found that while adhering to the letter of Socialist Realism, he could still express a sweep of “human emotions and passions,” as he called it – including, probably, thoughts and feelings that couldn’t be said out loud. In April 1945, the Composers’ Union combed through the Tenth Symphony, and after Shostakovich made some obligatory apologies, they gave it a reluctant stamp of approval. It certainly emerged from the circumstances and experiences of the late Stalin era, but if anyone could point to a clear effigy of Stalin in the second movement, it never would have been heard again. The first movement is a magnificently paced Moderato that builds tension in a single-minded expanse through a series of harrowing climaxes. It begins in the cellos and basses and grows into a string chorale that is somehow both calm and deeply uneasy at the same time. A winding clarinet solo feels like the first utterance of what had so far only been internal; a horn cry introduces fuller symphonic writing, before falling back with a quiet brass chorale and the lonesome clarinet again. Then a new element: a wry little flute solo, accompanied by plucked strings. Slowly this builds up to more than 30 score
pages of overwhelming fortissimo, and just when it seems like there’s no more room to crescendo, Shostakovich brings in military drums and then three devastating crashes on the tam-tam. He follows with a gradual falloff, almost organ-like, before touching on the opening again (now in the bassoons). This time, instead of clarinet, the movement dissolves in the eerie whistle of piccolo and timpani. The seething scherzo reworks material from the first movement at about five times the speed and in one-sixth the time. Pages of fortissimo rush across the conductor’s desk as the orchestra drives relentlessly forward. In a stomachdropping instant, the strings are hushed into near silence without breaking their frantic flight. They re-crescendo to a savage cutoff. The third movement, Allegretto, cautiously peaks its head out to look around. Along comes an ironic parade, with piccolo and flute accompanied by timpani and triangle. The pitches spell out a kind of emblem – D-SC-H. Dmitri Schostakowitsch. (All in German spelling, where S = E-flat and H = B-natural.) It became a recurring hallmark in his later works, and appears prominently for the first time here. There’s also a second name hidden in lonesome horn calls: E-La-Mi-Re-La. Elmira. (This one in a mix of German and French notation.) She was Elmira Nazirova, a 25-year-old Jewish Azerbaijani pianist and composer who had studied with Shostakovich in the late ’40s. They reconnected when he visited Baku in 1952, and in April 1953 he started writing her regularly, initiating a mostly one-sided emotional affair by mail. She accepted his invitation to attend the symphony’s first Moscow performance, and he gave her an autographed copy of the score. Between its pages, their musical monograms mingle and then slip apart.
© Benjamin Pesetsky 2023
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The last movement, like the first, begins with cellos and basses. A familiar color, but this time with different, vaguer music. Then we hear the oboe – an instrument hardly used lyrically in the previous movements, but one that often appears in Shostakovich’s music at moments of transformation or rebirth. From the Andante introduction, a flute solo (reminiscent of the piccolo ending of the first movement) bridges into a darting Allegro, channeling a klezmer wedding dance. Yet its materials are not so different from those of the terrifying Scherzo, just as the cathartic D-S-C-H ending recontextualizes calamitous elements from the first and third movements. In music, small alterations can turn tragedy into triumph, violence into victory.
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Jenny Anderson
Wayne McDonald and Kay Schroer
Dr Judith Armstrong and Robyn Dalziel
Lois McKay
Doris Au
Dr Eric Meadows
Lyn Bailey
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Supporters
Peter Batterham
Dr Kim Langfield-Smith
Peter Berry and Amanda Quirk
Janet and Ross Lapworth
Dr William Birch AM
Pauline and David Lawton
Richard Bolitho
Paschalina Leach
Dr Robert Brook
Sharon Li
Elizabeth Brown
Dr Susan Linton
Suzie Brown OAM and the late Harvey Brown
Kay Liu
John Brownbill
Joy Manners
Daniel Bushaway Jungpin Chen Linda Clifton Dr John Collins Judith Cowden in memory of violinist Margaret Cowden Gregory Crew Sue Cummings Dr Oliver Daly and Matilda Daly Carol des Cognets Bruce Dudon Margaret Flatman Brian Florence Chris Freelance M C Friday David and Geraldine Glenny Louise Gourlay OAM Jan and the late Robert Green Christine Grenda Dawn Hales George Hampel AM KC and Felicity Hampel AM SC Geoff Hayes John Hill William Holder Rod Home Gillian Horwood Noelle Howell and Judy Clezy Geoff and Denise Illing Rob Jackson Wendy Johnson Irene Kearsey & Michael Ridley Peter Kempen AM John Keys
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Professor David Knowles and Dr Anne McLachlan
David Loggia Morris and Helen Margolis Sandra Masel in memory of Leigh Masel Janice Mayfield Gail McKay Shirley A McKenzie Joan Mullumby Marian Neumann Ed Newbigin Valerie Newman Brendan O’Donnell Jillian Pappas Phil Parker The Hon Chris Pearce and Andrea Pearce Kerryn Pratchett William Ramirez Geoffrey Ravenscroft Dr Christopher Rees Professor John Rickard Peter Riedel Michael Riordan and Geoffrey Bush Fred and Patricia Russell Carolyn Sanders Dr Marc Saunders Julia Schlapp Hon Jim Short and Jan Rothwell Short Madeline Soloveychik Dr Alex Starr Dylan Stewart Tom Sykes Allison Taylor Reverend Angela Thomas Mely Tjandra Chris and Helen Trueman Rosemary Warnock Amanda Watson
Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead
Deborah and Dr Kevin Whithear OAM
Andrew Serpell and Anne Kieni Serpell
Charles and Jill Wright
Jennifer Shepherd
Anonymous (11)
Suzette Sherazee
MSO GUARDIANS
Supporters
Michael Whishaw
Dr Gabriela and Dr George Stephenson 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
Peter and Elisabeth Turner
Joyce Bown
Michael Ulmer AO
Patricia A Breslin
The Hon. Rosemary Varty
Mrs Jenny Bruckner and the late Mr John Bruckner
Terry Wills Cooke OAM and the late Marian Wills Cooke
The late Ken Bullen
Mark Young
Peter A Caldwell
Anonymous (20)
Luci and Ron Chambers Beryl Dean
The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates:
Sandra Dent
Norma Ruth Atwell
Alan Egan JP
Angela Beagley
Gunta Eglite
Christine Mary Bridgart
Marguerite Garnon-Williams
The Cuming Bequest
Drs L C Gruen and R W Wade
Margaret Davies
Louis J Hamon AOM
Neilma Gantner
Charles Hardman
The Hon Dr Alan Goldberg AO QC
Carol Hay
Enid Florence Hookey
Jennifer Henry
Gwen Hunt
Graham Hogarth
Family and Friends of James Jacoby
Rod Home
Audrey Jenkins
Lyndon Horsburgh
Joan Jones
Tony Howe
Pauline Marie Johnston
Lindsay and Michael Jacombs
C P Kemp
Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James
Peter Forbes MacLaren
John Jones
Joan Winsome Maslen
Sylvia Lavelle
Lorraine Maxine Meldrum
Pauline and David Lawton
Prof Andrew McCredie
Cameron Mowat
Jean Moore
Ruth Muir
Joan P Robinson
David Orr
Maxwell and Jill Schultz
Matthew O’Sullivan
Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE
Rosia Pasteur
Marion A I H M Spence
Penny Rawlins
Molly Stephens
Joan P Robinson
Gwennyth St John
Anne Roussac-Hoyne and Neil Roussac
Halinka Tarczynska-Fiddian
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Supporters
Jennifer May Teague Albert Henry Ullin Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood
Anne-Marie Johnson
Dr Harry Imber
Sarah Curro, Jack Schiller
Margaret Jackson AC Nicolas Fleury
COMMISSIONING CIRCLE
Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio
Cecilie Hall and the Late Hon Michael Watt KC
The late Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM
Tim and Lyn Edward Weis Family
Elina Fashki, Benjamin Hanlon, Tair Khisambeev, Christopher Moore Anthony Chataway
David Li AM and Angela Li Dale Barltrop
FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE
Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher
John and Lorraine Bates
Gary McPherson
Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah Golvan
Anne Neil
Sascha O. Becker Maestro Jaime Martín Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence Guy Ross
Craig Hill
Rachel Shaw
Eleanor Mancini
Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield Cong Gu
The Rosemary Norman Foundation Ann Blackburn
The Kate and Stephen Shelmerdine Family Foundation
Andrew and Judy Rogers
Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer
Glenn Sedgwick
Jason Yeap OAM – Mering Management Corporation
Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson
ADOPT A MUSICIAN Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan Roger Young
Andrew Dudgeon AM
Rohan de Korte, Philippa West
Michelle Wood
Tiffany Cheng, Shane Hooton Natasha Thomas
Anonymous
Prudence Davis
HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Life Members
Tim and Lyn Edward
Mr Marc Besen AC
John Arcaro
John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC
Dr John and Diana Frew
Sir Elton John CBE
Rosie Turner
Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Stephen Newton
Dr Mary-Jane Gething AO
Harold Mitchell AC Lady Potter AC CMRI Jeanne Pratt AC
Monica Curro
Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer
The Gross Foundation
Anonymous
Dr Clem Gruen and Dr Rhyl Wade
MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC
Matthew Tomkins Robert Cossom
Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC Saul Lewis
Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM
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David Horowicz
Abbey Edlin
Mrs Eva Besen AO
MSO BOARD Chairman
John Brockman OAM
David Li AM
The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC
Co-Deputy Chairs
Roger Riordan AM
Di Jameson OAM
Ila Vanrenen
Helen Silver AO
MSO ARTISTIC FAMILY Jaime Martín
Chief Conductor
Xian Zhang
Principal Guest Conductor
Managing Director Sophie Galaise Board Directors Shane Buggle Andrew Dudgeon AM
Benjamin Northey
Martin Foley
Principal Conductor in Residence
Lorraine Hook
Carlo Antonioli
Margaret Jackson AC
Cybec Assistant Conductor
Sir Andrew Davis CBE Conductor Laureate
Hiroyuki Iwaki †
Gary McPherson Farrel Meltzer Edgar Myer
Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)
Glenn Sedgwick
Warren Trevelyan-Jones
Mary Waldron
MSO Chorus Director
Siobhan Stagg
Soloist in Residence
Supporters
The MSO honours the memory of Life Members
Company Secretary Oliver Carton
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
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)
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Thank you to our Partners PRINCIPAL PARTNER
INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM PARTNER
VENUE PARTNER
PREMIER PARTNERS
ORCHESTRAL TRAINING PARTNER
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
EDUCATION PARTNERS
MAJOR PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
Quest Southbank
Ernst & Young
Bows for Strings
MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS
Freemasons Foundation Victoria
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