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3409 Warburton Hwy Warburton 5966 4501

Memorial Hall is one of Yarra Rangesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most significant cultural icons and is the source of many community and cultural memories. This beautiful venue is a first class presentation space and is equipped with a 3D digital cinema.

Deeply engaged with an active arts community and reflecting local identity, Upper Yarra Arts Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multiple spaces and dynamic program energises the main street of Warburton.

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Featuring a 300 seat theatre/auditorium, visual arts studio and gallery space, Mooroolbark Community Centre has long established itself as the cultural hub of the Yarra Ranges urban region.

A contemporary space that reflects the unique aspects of historic and modern life in the Yarra Ranges. The Yarra Ranges Regional Museum is a place for community and visitors to come together, explore, create and connect.

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Comprising a stunning 400 seat theatre, galleries, performance studio, Indigenous collection and gardens, licensed cafe, workshop and artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studios, Burrinja is a vibrant venue building community through arts in the Dandenong Ranges. MON TUE - SUN Evenings

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Nicholas Chamber Orchestra

Melbourne Guitar Quartet

Australian Octet

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Zoe Black & Joe Chindamo

Melbourne Piano Trio

Bach by Candlelight

Australian Boys Choir

David Helfgott

Flinders Quartet

Songmakers Australia

Victorian Concert Orchestra

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

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Located in a beautiful garden setting at the foothills of Mt Dandenong, the Montrose Town Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intimate environment is the perfect place to enjoy fine music and performance.

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Bookings 1300 368 333 or www.culturetracks.info

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The best way to purchase tickets is to book online at www.culturetracks.info or by telephone on 1300 368 333. Please notify the venue directly of any access requirements when booking to enable staff to make suitable arrangements and ensure the best experience possible.

With guest artists Elyane Laussade and Tracey Roberts • Rossini Thievish Magpie Overture • Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 The Nicholas Chamber Orchestra returns to Burrinja after their successful 2013 season to present a special one off concert to launch the Classical Tracks program – a full winter of Sunday afternoon fine music across the Yarra Ranges. Under the baton of Eric Klay, this stunning program of classical music will include Thievish Magpie Overture by Rossini, Piano Concerto No.1 by Beethoven featuring soloist – Elyane Laussade, followed by a one-off collaboration between local favourite Tracey Roberts and the Nicholas Chamber Orchestra. Tracey will be singing a collection of jazz standards as well as one of her own original compositions.

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Patrons requiring assistive listening Hearing loop technology is available at Burrinja and The Memo for patrons that require assistive listening. Consult with venue staff for further information. Physical Access Culture Tracks 2014 events are accessible for people who use wheelchairs or who have limited mobility. Yarra Ranges’ cultural facilities have been created with access for all, whether patrons are attending or participating. (The Arts Centre, Warburton has some restrictions). Lifts are available at Burrinja (from the car park) and inside Yarra Ranges Regional Museum and The Memo. Yarra Ranges welcomes guide dogs at all cultural facilities.

To ensure the best possible service, please discuss all access requirements with venue staff when booking. Please note that additional assistance by venue staff may be required to access the program at the Arts Centre, Warburton. Companion Card Yarra Ranges Council with Burrinja offers a second ticket at no cost to Companion Card holders who purchase tickets for Culture Tracks events. Not available for internet bookings. Carer Card Yarra Ranges Council with Burrinja offers carers card holders a concession to most Culture Tracks events. Tickets are available at venues, by phone or internet. The carer’s card must be presented at the venue.

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• JS Bach Sonata for Solo Violin in A minor BWV 1003: Andante • JS Bach Concerto for Violin in A minor BWV 1041 • Purcell arr Stokowski Dido and Aeneas: Dido’s Lament (arr full strings) • Bartók Romanian Folk Dances • Grieg Suite From Holberg’s Time • Paul Stanhope Elegies and Dances* • JS Bach arr Bachrich Suite for Strings: Adagio * Victorian Premiere Season MCO presents an emotionally-charged homage to the two great moods of the string orchestra: the sparkling drive of the dance, and the poignancy of the elegy. Stirring Bachrich and Stokowski arrangements of famous Baroque adagios will take your breath away. On the dance card are Bartók’s rustic regionalism and Grieg’s enduring tribute to the courtly manners of the eighteenth century.

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Melbourne Guitar Quartet’s passion, experience and dedication ensures that whichever music they turn their hands to receives the utmost attention to detail. Preservation of the inherent musical characteristics and enhancement of the music is paramount in their arrangements. Whether it is an arrangement of a modern Australian work or a re-modelling of a traditional chamber work, MGQ surpasses the limitations of standard guitar ensemble performance and brings the music to life in a new light with the instruments of the guitar family. Composers are often completely surprised to find out that their works translate so effectively in this idiom. Guitar performance is set to transform with MGQ at the helm. Join them on their ground - breaking journey of creating new repertoire for guitar quartet.

With over 250 concerto appearances to his credit, MCO Artistic Director William Hennessy is one of Australia’s bestloved soloists and his performance of Bach’s Concerto in A minor in this program is an event not to be missed. (6,'F,.SUN 14 SEP (Q!RC(D $34 Full $30 Concession

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Richard Mills Lachrymae, Chorales and Postlude* Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 Brahms Quintet in F major, Op. 88 Enescu Octet Op. 7 * World Premiere Season

Australian Octet is Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s new flagship chamber ensemble. Unique in Australia’s musical life, the Australian Octet is dedicated to performing music for five to eight strings. For Australian Octet’s début season, we present three very different monuments of the chamber repertoire and the first new Australian string octet in 20 years, by Batavia composer Richard Mills.

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For nearly 100 years this iconic 50 piece orchestra has become renowned for an ever-changing program that ranges from the classics – Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky through Operetta, Musical Theatre – from Gilbert & Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber – and contemporary composers such as John Williams (Star Wars) and Peter Allen. Directed by acclaimed ABC Orchestra conductor, Gerald Keuneman, whose credits include Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Anthony Warlow, and Nick Cave, it promises to be a highly professional performance.

Half breathtaking virtuosity, half passionate lyricism, Shostakovich’s youthful Octet is all showpiece—the composer himself described it as ‘the very best thing I have written.’ The Brahms Quintet shows a mature composer at the height of his powers, mining the intense vein of emotion and tender feeling that is the hallmark of his works. The program’s finale is a must-hear performance of Romanian composer George Enescu’s haunting Octet, a work of magnetic Romantic beauty and startling originality. (6,'F,.SUN 22 JUN (Q!RC(D $22 Full $18 Concession

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Unique in the musical landscape of Australia, Songmakers Australia brings together some of the country’s leading singers and instrumentalists in a diverse repertoire comprising some of the pinnacles of chamber music. Three great singers are heard as soloists and in combination, alongside the wonderful pianist Andrea Katz, in repertoire that encompasses all the joyous variety of vocal art from the past three centuries. The program includes songs by Schumann, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Grainger, Quilter and Calvin Bowman’s witty new song cycle You might as well live, based on poems by Dorothy Parker.

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Imagine standing on stage during a live performance by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. ACO VIRTUAL takes you there. Fusing digital technologies with visual and sonic innovation, this ground-breaking interactive installation allows you to conduct and even play along with the ACO. ACO VIRTUAL was produced by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Mod Productions. Uninterrupted Lunch Sessions (Free admission, no bookings required) From 1.00pm – 1.30pm each day the installation’s full 30-minute program runs uninterrupted. Grab lunch from the Museum Harvest cafe and eat while you enjoy the show. Solo Sessions ($50 per half hour booking) Take your ACO experience to the next level by booking an exclusive half hour solo session. Book online at www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/museum School and group bookings also available.

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This new collaboration between two celebrated artists from different worlds has immediately established itself as a formidable force in Australian chamber music. Zoe Black has long been thought of as a violinist’s violinist, and pianist/composer Joe Chindamo’s unique musical gifts place him in a class of his own. The repertoire is an eclectic mix of radical reinventions of works by the masters, original compositions by Chindamo plus a few unlikely surprises. The programme will include works by Puccini, Chopin, Gershwin and Dolly Parton – all reimagined by the duo. Together, Joe and Zoe are creating an entirely new genre of Australian music, combining lyricism, urbane rhythms, a modern romanticism, making this music thrilling, passionate, daring and alive.

Flinders Quartet is instantly recognisable as one as Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles. A quartet for the twenty-first century, their dynamic and stirring performances of a full spectrum of repertoire have audiences and critics articulating their esteem, and the quartet is now a highly respected force in Australian chamber music. Flinders regularly commissions and premieres works by Australian composers. In 2013, the quartet premiered Joyce’s Mob, a new string quartet by Elena Kats-Chernin, and new works by Paul Dean and Paul Grabowsky are slated for 2014. Flinders has previously commissioned and premiered works by Peter Sculthorpe, Ian Munro, Calvin Bowman, Richard Mills, Ross Edwards, Stuart Greenbaum, and Katy Abbott in their ongoing mission to further the Australian tradition of chamber music. “Flinders Quartet … whose players give such care and unanimity of musical thought to Australian Chamber Music …” Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Herald

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• Chopin Polonaise in A flat “The Heroic” • Chopin Sonata No.3 Op 58 in B minor • Liszt Les jeux d’eaux a la villa d’este from the Années de Pèlerinage • Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.15 • Liszt Ballade No.2 in B minor • Liszt Mephisto Waltz No.1 David’s passionate musical interpretations and triumphant personal story has inspired audiences across the globe. A story which has made him one of the world’s most recognisable classical musicians following Geoffrey Rush’s Oscar-winning portrayal of his life in the movie, Shine. From standing ovations at Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, to an unprecendented four sold-out concerts at the Sydney Opera House, this true national treasure comes to Yarra Ranges as part of our inaugural Classical Tracks series. Supported by ABC Pianos

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• Haydn Piano Trio No.45 in E-flat major • Beethoven Piano Trio Opus 1, No.1 in E-flat major • Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.2, Opus 66 in C-minor The Melbourne Piano Trio has quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic and sought-after chamber music groups in Australia performing regularly at the Melbourne Recital Centre and touring nationally as well as having performed in New York and Germany and the UK. The Trio combines the versatile and unique talents of three young Australian musicians: violinist Holly Piccoli, cellist Chris Howlett and pianist Rhodri Clarke. The first half of this concert contrasts two piano trios, both in E-flat major - Haydn’s very last trio, No.45 and Beethoven’s very first trio, Opus 1 No.1. After interval, Mendelssohn’s wonderfully lyrical Trio in C-minor concludes the program.

“You get the unmistakable sense that performing for Helfgott is about sharing his pleasure, his amazement and wonder that this wonderful music exists, and that playing the piano at all is even possible.” Vienna Review (6,'F,.FRI 8 AUG

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• Bach Suite For Cello No.1 in G Major BWV 1007 • Bach Suite For Cello No.3 in C Major BWB 1009 Chris Howlett’s candle-lit, wintry-night performances of this concert in Europe met with an incredible response – offering a unique experience for the audience which verges on the surreal – sensory depravation in visual terms meets fine music performance! Chris takes his audience on an “insiders track” between the suites exploring the inner workings of the music, offering “edu-tainment” combined with a pure sensory experience.

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The Australian Boys Choir is a not-for-profit organisation recognised internationally for its high musical standards. Its performance program is supported by a world-class education program designed to help boys and young men achieve their potential, both musical and personal. The Classical Tracks program will highlight the Choir’s favourite pieces from its 75 year history. The Choir has worked under acclaimed international conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Jorge Mester, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Noam Sheriff, John Hopkins, Richard Divall and Sir Bernard Heinze. Performances have also been given with the Israel Philharmonic and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. The Choir has released four CDs, regularly appeared on radio and television and contributed to the sound tracks of several internationally acclaimed films, including the Oscar nominated film ‘Elizabeth’, and ‘The Dish’.

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