2020 Concert Program
A message from the Head of School The act of live music-making has never been more important. It is increasingly rare in the modern world to find opportunities for groups of people to come together in a communal setting and simply listen. The shared value of listening fuels the relationship between performer and audience, who each give and receive something intangible yet powerful in the process. This is why the UQ School of Music remains committed to presenting a diverse and high quality concert series for the community that it serves. I invite you to share with us any number of compelling musical experiences in our various venues in 2020. From intimate concerts on the St Lucia campus to grander events in Customs House, St John’s Cathedral and QPAC, you will find
endless musical fascinations to engage your thoughts and feelings. We look forward to listening with you.
Professor Liam Viney Head of School UQ School of Music
A message from the Director of Performance Welcome back to another year of highquality music-making at UQ, showcasing our own staff and students as well as nationally renowned visiting artists and local talent. Our Thursday lunchtime series in the Nickson Room begins in week 3 of each semester and features (among others) our internationally acclaimed Ensembles-inResidence the Viney-Ginberg Piano Duo and Tinalley String Quartet, singers Shaun Brown and Sarah Crane, Melbourne-based clarinettist David Griffiths, pianist Alex Raineri as well as numerous performances by our students as part of Pulse Chamber Orchestra, UQ Singers and the prize winners of our various competitions. Our series in the UQ Art Museum on Wednesday evenings will feature innovative and progressive musical thinking with appearances by Kieran Welch (of Dots and Loops fame), composer and music technologist Chris Perren, Composer-in-Residence/improviser Robert Davidson alongside singer/composer Eve Klein as well as our own multi-talented composition students. Sunday morning concerts in Semester 1 held at the magnificent surrounds of Customs House will focus on School of Music students as our Higher Degree Research students take centre stage. In a first for the school, our undergraduate student prize-winners will also be presented outside of the Thursday lunchtime Nickson Room series. Watch out also for the treble-heavy Tuesday morning series at St John’s Cathedral which showcases both our flute and violin cohorts. As always, not to be missed are our feature presentations at QPAC featuring the combined forces of UQ Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. Whilst details of the September 20 concert are to be confirmed, the May 17 QPAC concert will
see Anna Grinberg tackling Shostakovich’s exuberantly virtuosic 1st Piano Concerto (also featuring internationally acclaimed trumpeter Tristram Williams) and a collaboration with the Queensland Wind Orchestra and massed school choirs for a performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Beethoven’s anniversary year is celebrated with a performance of his 7th Symphony which sees the culmination of a newly established partnership with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. I look forward to seeing you and meeting you at the many performances to come over the course of 2020. The ongoing success of our school depends on support from our community. In addition to frequenting our series, please consider a donation to the School of Music Scholarship Fund which enables and encourages students to study music at UQ. Details of how to donate can be found on the back page of this program. A financial gift today is a direct investment in the future of Australian music-making. I wish you all a happy and healthy 2020 full of inspiring musical experiences!
Associate Professor Adam Chalabi Director of Performance Violin Performance Fellow UQ School of Music
Admission is free to UQ School of Music concerts unless otherwise indicated. Concerts and Events music.uq.edu.au/events
Lunchtime Concert Series | Thursdays, 1pm Nickson Room, UQ School of Music
Date
Artists
Series
12 Mar
Tinalley String Quartet
UQ Masters
19 Mar
Robert Davidson (contemporary composition)
UQ Masters
26 Mar
Peter Luff (horn) and Catherine Likhuta (piano)
UQ Masters
02 Apr
Shugorei (percussion/electronics)
UQ Masters
09 Apr
Alex Raineri (piano)
Rising Stars
23 Apr
Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo
UQ Masters
30 Apr
David Griffiths (clarinet) and Alex Raineri (piano)
UQ Masters
07 May
Instant Music (structured improvisation)
UQ Students
14 May
Shaun Brown (baritone), Sarah Brown (soprano) and Alex Raineri (piano)
UQ Masters
28 May
Pulse Chamber Ensemble
UQ Students
“My years at the UQ School of Music were some of the best of my life.� Sam Mitchell - vocalist at Choir of Christ, Oxford University
Date
Artists
Series
13 Aug
Phoebe Russell (double bass) and Therese Milanovic (piano)
UQ Masters
20 Aug
School Showcase Concert
UQ Masters
27 Aug
Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo
UQ Masters
03 Sep
Natsuko Yoshimoto (violin) and Imants UQ Masters Larsens (viola)
10 Sep
Eve Klein (operatic electronica)
UQ Masters
17 Sep
Prize Winners Concert
UQ Students
08 Oct
Mary Broughton and David Montgomery (percussion)
UQ Masters
15 Oct
Shaun Brown (baritone) and Sarah Crane (soprano)
UQ Masters
22 Oct
4MBS Musica Viva Sig Page Finals (chamber music)
UQ Students
29 Oct
Tinalley String Quartet
UQ Masters
2020 Vice Chancellor’s Concert Series Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Centre FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT – BEETHOVEN 7 17 May | 2pm Experience a program that offers hope in times of uncertainty, storm and stress; two darkly compelling masterpieces from Soviet-era Russia set alongside Beethoven’s evergreen 7th Symphony. The UQ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabian Russell will be joined by the Queensland Wind Orchestra and a number of Brisbane high schools for Stravinsky’s monumental and awe-inspiring Symphony of Psalms. Soloist Anna Grinberg will then perform Shostakovich’s madcap and bleakly humorous Piano Concerto
in C Minor. Finally, the enduring light of Beethoven offers a ray of hope as vitally important now as it was over 200 years ago, as musicians from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra join UQ students for Beethoven’s beloved 7th Symphony. Proudly presented by The University of Queensland’s School of Music in association with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Wind Orchestra, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Mt St Michael’s College, Ambrose Treacy College, St Laurence’s College and Clayfield College, as part of the UQ ViceChancellor’s Concert Series. Tickets available for purchase via the QPAC website from Tuesday 10 March.
“...the UQ series sends an important signal within the university itself: It [music] is core to its soul and capacity to bind many different disciplines together.”
Vincent Plush
Art Museum Concert Series | Wednesdays, 6.30pm UQ Art Museum, St Lucia Campus The School of Music in 2020 will continue to collaborate with the UQ Art museum to present concerts that feature emerging musical genres from staff and student ensembles. The series fosters an ongoing partnership between our two prestigious institutions and supports interdisciplinary projects within the arts at UQ. Ensembles from the UQ School of Music will compliment exhibitions taking place at the gallery, with concerts featuring lecturers and students working in the genres of electro-acoustics, structured improvisation, electronic dance music, and opera in virtual reality environments.
The final concert will consist of UQ composition students writing original site-specific works for the museum.Â
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01 Apr
Synchronous Vibrations
UQ Students
Flute ensemble
22 Apr
Kieran Welch
Rising Stars
Post-classical / electronics
06 May
Software of Seagulls
UQ Masters
Audiovisual electronic music
05 Aug
Joshua Rivory and Taana Rose
UQ Students
Electroacoustics
09 Sep
Eve Klein and Robert Davidson
UQ Masters
Opera & electroacoustics
23 Sep
iPad Ensemble and Non-Linear Ensemble
UQ Students
Electronics
07 Oct
UQ Composers Concert classical
UQ Students
Site-specific contemporary composition
UQ Music at St John’s | Tuesdays, 11.00am St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane CBD 19 May
UQ Flute Ensemble
UQ Students
18 Aug
UQ Violin Class
UQ Students
15 Sep
Dueling Duets
UQ Students
20 Oct
UN75 Celebration Concert
UQ Students
Since 2017 the UQ School of Music in partnership with St John’s Cathedral has produced world-class concerts that have featured staff, students and visiting artists from around Australia. Performances have regularly featured our UQ Chamber Singers, woodwind students, UQ Chorale and Pulse Chamber Orchestra. The St John’s Concert Series in 2020 will feature our elite student cohort performing alongside specialist tutors from the School of Music. These collaborations will present seminal works from the Baroque to the Romantic eras. The cathedral is kindly offering our audience members complimentary coffee and cake from 10:30am prior to each concert.
UQ Customs House | Sundays, 11.30am Queen Street, Brisbane CBD The School of Music is proud to continue our partnership with one of Brisbane’s premier heritage destinations – the UQ Customs House. In 2020 the School will present an array of spectaular performances featuring our finest student and performance fellow soloists, duo’s and chamber ensembles. Our Higher Degree by Research cohort will make their debut appearance; showcasing seminal chamber works for strings and piano. Winners from our prestigous prize competitions will also perform their award winning repertoire. Concerts from July – November will be announced in early April.
05 Apr
Higher Degree by Research student concert
UQ Students
26 Apr
Prize Winners Concert
UQ Students
Ensembles-in-Residence Tinalley String Quartet Internationally acclaimed for its ‘addictive sound’, ‘intuitive’ music making and ‘technical virtuosity’, the Tinalley String Quartet (TSQ) has established itself as one of Australia’s finest string quartets and most awarded classical music exports. Now in its 16th year, the Tinalley String Quartet was awarded the Grand Prize of the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, and captured the world’s attention in 2007 when it was awarded First Prize at the prestigious 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition. The Quartet has performed throughout Australia, Europe, Canada and United States, appearing in such prestigious venues as the Vienna Musikverein, Berlin Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bremen Die Glocke, Frankfurt AlteOper
and the Sydney Opera House. International highlights have included performances in New York, Paris, London, Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco and San Diego. The Quartet remains the only Australian ensemble to have been presented in the preeminent Berlin Konzerthaus International String Quartet Series and the Jeunesse Musik Erleben Series at the Musikverein. In Australia, the Quartet has appeared at the nation’s premier festivals including the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Canberra International Music Festival, the Perth International Arts Festival, the Adelaide Festival, the Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival, the Huntington Festival, the Port Fairy Festival and the Coriole Festival.
Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo “As Australia’s only piano duo actively commissioning and recording new works, Viney and Grinberg are making a valuable and prolific contribution to the development of new repertoire for two pianos.” Lisa Mackinney, Limelight Magazine
The Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo enjoys an international profile in duo piano performance and scholarship as one of the Ensembles-in-Residence at the University of Queensland. While maintaining a performance career involving festivals, major series, live radio broadcasts, and orchestras, Professor Liam Viney and Dr Anna Grinberg also translate their experience into music performance research and teaching practice through the UQ Creative Collaboratorium. The Duo’s innovative and creative approach has resulted in collaborations with composers, artists, dancers, choreographers and other established performing ensembles - as well as book chapters, articles and scholarly seminars and presentations. The duo is committed to exploring classics of the two-piano repertoire, but also contributes to the ongoing expansion of that literature through commissioning composers fifteen new works have been written for them to date, and they have performed world and Australian premieres of music by composers such as Matthew Hindson, John Adams and Arvo Part. Recent performance highlights include the “Jacaranda Series” (Santa Monica, U.S.), the Canberra International Music Festival opening Gala Concert, and the Queensland
Music Festival. Variously described as “magnificent” (Canberra City News, 2013), “barnstorming” (The Australian, 2012) and “unforgettable - sure to be Best of 2011 the most compelling case for the beauty and variety of two piano repertory this reviewer has ever heard” (Los Angeles Times, 2011)
School of Music Ensembles UQ Symphony Orchestra Director | Associate Professor Adam Chalabi Guest Conductor | Fabian Russell The University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra (UQSO) is one of the southern hemisphere’s leading youth ensembles. It is comprised mainly of students from the Bachelor of Music (Honours) program and includes performers from fifteen other schools within the University, making the orchestra a truly collaborative ensemble. The orchestra’s repertoire includes full symphonic works, concertos with students, staff or guest soloists, compositions by students of the School, and repertoire related to conducting workshops. Combined choral/orchestral performances take place together with the UQ Chorale and invited secondary school performance partners. UQSO has an important orchestral heritage in Queensland. In September 1939, prominent Brisbane musician Dr Robert
Dalley-Scarlett combined his community orchestra with UQ student musicians to perform at a University Revue. One of the student members who performed that night, Joan Osborn, recalled that newsboys were shouting “Germany invades Poland” on the night. In the 1950s, medical student Ralph Schureck formed a University Orchestra. Later the orchestra was bequeathed to the care of Hugh Brandon and Gordon Spearritt. The foundations for the current Orchestra at The School of Music were laid in the early 1970s under Professor Noel Nickson. Previous UQSO recordings are periodically featured on 4MBS Classic FM (103.7 FM), broadcast every second Saturday of the month, and can be downloaded via the UQ School of Music’s SoundCloud page: soundcloud.com/uq-music
UQ Chorale Director | Graeme Morton AM The University of Queensland Chorale is the flagship of the choral program at the School of Music. It draws its members from an array of schools and institutes across the University, with a high proportion of its members from within the Bachelor of Music (Honours) program. While the Chorale exists to provide core training in choral techniques, repertoire and aural skills, it also undertakes an ambitious performance program that sees it regularly collaborating with the UQ Symphony Orchestra (UQSO) and with a variety of other musicians and ensembles, including Pulse Chamber Orchestra, Queensland Youth Orchestra (2017), Queensland Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony (2013), and Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra and its guest director John Curro (2014). The Chorale is honoured to regularly sing in such amazing venues as QPAC, City Hall, and St Stephen’s and St John’s cathedrals. Recent repertoire has included music ranging from the Henry Purcell Te Deum to the Requiems of Johannes Brahms and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Benjamin Britten’s The Company of Heaven and Hymn to St Cecilia;
Zoltán Kodály’s Laudes Organi; Masses by Anton Bruckner, Antonín Dvořák and Josef Rheinberger; and other choral works by Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Stephen Leek and more. The Chorale has performed in previous years with UQSO and several guest choirs, including Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (2015), William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast (2016), Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” (2017) and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem (2018).
“The [UQ] teaching staff took your strengths, they took your voice, and they helped create the best musician you can be.” Troy Castle, UQ vocal student
Touch Ensemble Directors | Dr Chris Perren and Dr Trevor Hunter UQ Touch Ensemble will present a series of concerts in 2020 under the directorship of Trevor Hunter and Chris Perren. Students will be composing and workshopping new pieces for these concerts as part of their study in MUSC7010: Applications of Music Technology, and MUSC2010: Music Technology for Live Performance. UQ School of Music’s Touch Ensemble uses iPads and mobile digital devices as a starting point for collaborative creative music-making. It was established by Dr Eve Klein as part of a groundbreaking research project in 2016. Much of the ensemble’s repertoire is composed, arranged, or devised by students, as they study the integration of digital technology in music-making.
“Music can impact on all aspects of a students development... enhancing the quality of their lives...” Grace Rackemann, Bachelor of Music (Honours) student
Non-Linear Ensemble Director | Dr Chris Perren Nonlinear Collective is a newly established ensemble directed by Dr Chris Perren and composed of students studying Music Technology for Live Performance. The ensemble explores the intersections of acoustic instruments and digital technologies.
Pulse Chamber Orchestra Directors | Associate Professor Adam Chalabi & Mr Patrick Murphy The Pulse Chamber Orchestra is an ensemble of selected School of Music string students directed by Associate Professor Adam Chalabi and Patrick Murphy. The orchestra performs unconducted, each member contributing to the artistic vision of the works. Pulse’s eclectic repertoire ranges from masterworks of the string orchestra and string quartet genre, to transcriptions of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos, to works of contemporary and past Australian composers. Pulse also collaborates frequently with choirs and vocalists, most notably in with The Choir of Temple Church in 2017, in performing liturgical repertoire including works of Bruckner, Rutter, CPE Bach, J.S. Bach and Benjamin Britten.
“When I was an undergrad I certainly could never have imagined that I would one day win a Grammy.” Tim Munro, School of Music alumnus
Kieran Welch Violist | UQ Associate Artist Kieran Welch is an Australian violist, curator, manager, DJ, educator and writer. He combines this diverse, yet complementary set of skills with a passion for presenting a wide range of musical genres to varied audiences.
“Kieran [...] demonstrated an artistic conviction that was a joy to witness [...] his interpretation was not only skilful, but beautifully vulnerable” CutCommon Magazine
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