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Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich Violin
Eleanor Betts Cello
Evgeny Ukhanov Piano

In Night Songs we explore music which conjures images of the night all its various forms.

Bloch in his Three Nocturnes expresses both nocturnal tranquillity and then the danger of a night chase, while Schubert’s popular Notturno is sublimely serene.
American Kenji Bunch’s work, Swing Shift takes us on a musical club crawl, capturing, as the composer says, 'the unique essence of New York City at her most exciting time of day—the hours between dusk and dawn'.
Peter Sculthorpe’s atmospheric work Night Song is poignant, mournful and deeply expressive, while Beethoven’s famous ‘Ghost Trio’ – so named because of its dark and eerie second movement – has, whether Beethoven intended it or not, become forever linked with the night time fear of the unknown.

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Sufi Art Group
Musicians:
Mostafa Odabaee (Tombak), Leila Honari (Setar), Mohammad Javadi (Tar and Vocals), Shirin Majd (vocals) Barbod Valadi (Bam Tar) Greta Kelly (Komancheh), Arash Zanganeh (Ensemble leader and Daf).

Ismaa
Musicians:
Anna McDonald (violin), Samir Maarbani (Arabic drum and flute), Brent Keogh (Arabic lute).

This concert will give you a taste of sublime mystical sound of Persian music in the east and Andalusian music in the west performed by:

The Sufi Art Group a Persian music ensemble of professional musicians from Iran and Australia. They will explore the mystical realms of Persian music accompanied by lyrics from Rumi and other renowned Persian poets. They describe their music as a way of bringing people together through the heart. As Rumi said: “To connect through the heart is much richer than connecting through language”.

Ismaa Ensemble take their inspiration from musical journeys to Morocco and Spain by its Australian musicians, Anna McDonald and Brent Keogh and the Arabic heritage of Samir Maarbani and Nicholas Bachour who joins them playing the darbouka/Arabic percussion. In this program they delve into the musical culture of Andalusia playing haunting melodies and improvisations. Their music is accompanied by poetry of great philosopher and mystic Ibn Arabi.

Soprano: Susannah Bishop
Piano: Emily-Rose Šárková

Look, stranger, at this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.

-W.H. Auden

These fine selection of songs will take your ears on a journey spanning five distinctive countries from Romantic Russia to contemporary Australia. Hear idiomatic tales and soundscapes from each culture and be a stranger in a foreign place, surrendering yourself to each composer’s artful conjuring of imagery.
Britten’s ‘On this Island’ uses the powerful words of Auden to paint stories of War time England, whilst Warlock’s England captures the whimsical. Across the waters to Germany the music of Brahms tells of the nightingale and jaunts in the Forests and even further to Russia, Rachmaninoff’s world is of a darker kind. A new work from Australian Owen Salome will give us a first impression whilst with the fanciful tales in Debussy’s ‘Fetes Gallantes’ leave an iconically French impression.

Seraphim Trio explores the intersections between Shakespeare, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, alongside a new trio by Australian composer Alan Holley.

Benjamin Martin’s new arrangement of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream captures Shakespeare at his most effervescent. Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ Trio, inspired by Macbeth, speaks to the Bard’s more serious side.
The program concludes with Mendelssohn’s dramatic Trio in C minor, in which Beethoven’s influence is everywhere apparent, not least in his signature key.

Unusual beauty and radiance... A sparkly performance full of graciousness, bonhomie and entertainingly witty melodrama.
THE AUSTRALIAN, OCTOBER 2011

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Dene Olding Violin
Dimity Hall Violin
Irina Morozova Viola
Julian Smiles Cello

The Goldner String Quartet brings two pillars of the quartet repertoire to life in this quintessential program. Weber's beautiful, intense work is a reminiscence of a passionate summer love affair.

Schuberts last string quartet retains its captivating power even today, as he shifts effortlessly between joy and heartbreak. Who else could have imagined the endless emotional satisfaction to be found in a simple change of harmony from major to minor? The musicians revel in the programs outspoken appeal to the senses, its contrasts of darkness and light.

Program:
Anton Webern Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) (c 1905)
Franz Schubert String Quartet no 15 in G major, D887

Morning tea will be served from 10am.
Concert starts at 11am. Duration 1 hour.

Yu Qing, Rebecca Irwin violin
Nicole Masters violin
Robyn Brookfield viola
David Wickham cello
Christian Lillicrap piano
James D’Arcy clarinet

Members of the Sydney Symphony and Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestras, Robyn Brookfield, David Wickham, Nicole Masters and Rebecca Irwin, are joined in their love of playing chamber music by James D’Arcy and Christian Lillicrap.

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Core Members
Rowena Watts - clarinet
Freya Franzen - violin
Tara Houghton - viola
Adam Szabo - cello

The Fitzroy Ensemble began performing together as part of the 2011 Sydney Symphony Fellowship Ensemble. At the conclusion of their first year together they reformed as the Fitzroy Ensemble, a group dedicated to fresh and vibrant performances of core chamber music repertoire. For their last concert of their 2012 season, they present two works by Johannes Brahms; the Clarinet Quintet, and the magnificent String Sextet in G Major.

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By Noel Coward.
Directed by Judi Farr

The 3rd play in the Actors' Forum 2012 season of professionally performed readings.
We enter Noel Coward's world of elegance, good manners and emotional understatement; where we can relax and laugh at the gentle humour.
When a former lover of the two 'Angels' appears whilst their husbands are away, they have grave concerns that their past secrets will be revealed. A truly delightful comedy from of the most stylish writers of the Twentieth Century.

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Dene Olding Violin
Dimity Hall Violin
Irina Morozova Viola
Julian Smiles Cello

This concert highlights some individual talents lying within the Goldner String Quartet. Dimity Hall and Julian Smiles are leading Australian musicians in their own right, and partners in marriage as well as in music.

Julian brings the sparkling inventiveness of Bach's Cello Suite No: 3 into the solo spotlight: a work whose secular status belies its ability to touch the spirit. Kodaly's Duo for violin and cello likewise provokes admiration for the breadth of expression and variety it achieves with such limited forces.


Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite no 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Zoltan Kodaly Duo for violin and cello, op 7

Morning tea will be served from 10am.
Concert starts at 11am. Duration 1 hour.

MCO Principal Flutist Svetlana Yaroslavskaya is joined by Guest Clarinetist David Rowden for Saint-Sans brilliant Tarantella to show off these two fabulous wind instruments. We then take you to Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis which is Ralph Vaughan Williams signature composition. In this intimate concert, you will feel like you are inside the ebbing, surging waves of this glorious music.

TMO Principal Flutist Svetlana Yaroslavskaya is joined by Guest Clarinetist David Rowden for Saint-SaÃns brilliant Tarantella to show off these two fabulous wind instruments. We then take you to Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis which is Ralph Vaughan Williams signature composition. In this intimate concert, you will feel like you are inside the ebbing, surging waves of this glorious music.

If you have not heard Johannes Brahms enchanting Serenade no 1 before, you are not alone it is rarely performed. Brahms almost called this serenade a symphony and had he done so we would probably be hearing it all the time. It is a buoyantly fresh, inventive, spirited, and touching piece a beautiful conclusion to this varied program.

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Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich Violin
Eleanor Betts Cello
Evgeny Ukhanov Piano

Stuart Greenbaum’s 800 Million Heartbeats refers to the idea that the average length of any mammals life can be measured in that same common number of heartbeats – 800 million. The fast heartbeat of a hummingbird means that they live a much shorter (and arguably more intense) life, compared to other animals. In reality, if humans only had this number of heartbeats, we would also live much shorter lives too.
Greenbaum uses this as 'a heightened metaphor for a life, measured in heartbeats, and the journeys that fill its course'.

In this program, we feature two glorious trios by Mozart and Mendelssohn, both of whom wrote extraordinarily accomplished and meaningful music at a very young age, yet within unfortunately short lives.
Mozart and Mendelssohn are often compared as child prodigies – by the age of 15, both had completed their first symphonies and had published astonishingly mature works –yet both made their prolific and lasting contributions to the music we play today within lives that spanned only 35 and 37 years.
In this program we will also feature a specially commissioned work by Newcastle based Composer and Pianist, Andrew Chubb.

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By Robert Hewett

The fourth play in The Actors' Forum 2012 season of professionally performed readings....
A confronting theme is made lyrical by the use of bird puppets. The seagulls are a metaphor for the dreams of the entrapped Bill who has been brain damaged by a teen accident. He is cared for by his sister and it is their relationship which is the central thread of the play.
This award winning Australian play affirms, without sentimentality, the power of loyalty and love.

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London-based Australian pianist, Zubin Kanga, returns to Australia with Spectrum, a recital of innovative contemporary works by a diverse range of Australian and British composers. Rising star, Marcus Whale’s hypnotic Errata draws on his experience of improvising with electronics, and Scotland-based Australian, Jane Stanley’s Diptych ranges from subtle shades of pianistic colour to climaxes of shimmering brilliance. Andrew Harrison is inspired by his family’s personal connections to the French battlefields of the First World War to depict the terror of trench warfare.

Rosalind Page’s Being and Time II: Tabula Rasa draws inspiration from the work of Australian painter, Imants Tillers and the folksongs of his native Latvia, while David Young’s Not Music Yet is itself a large watercolour painting creating a new creative challenge for the performer. Finally, Michael Finnissy, one of Britain’s greatest living composers, has composed Z/K, inspired by the symphonies of 18th century composer, Sammartini, as well as the symphonic works of Mahler and Berg. All of the works were commissioned by and written for Zubin, who has collaborated with the composers to explode the sonic, theatrical and virtuosic conventions of the piano recital.

Winner of Performance of the Year (NSW) at the 2012 Art Music Awards, the Best Newcomer Award at the 2010 ABC Limelight Awards, and the prestigious Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship, Zubin Kanga is one of today’s most sought after contemporary music pianists. He has performed recitals across Australia and Europe and performs with leading ensembles in Australia (such as Ensemble Offspring and Halcyon), and in the UK (including the London Sinfonietta, and Kreutzer Quartet). He is currently completing a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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Soprano: Susannah Bishop
Piano: Emily-Rose Šárková

Open the curtains wide, from Strauss’s take on Shakespeare’s crazed Ophelia, to Rachmininov’s sneaky Rat-Catcher, both Songstress and Pianist play the actress here.
Whether it be pure elation, the darkest agony or just plain silly, this recital will be sure to entice any theatrical soul.

Three sublime concerts. Concert Two:
La Fete Francaise

Bridget Bolliger - flute
Alexandre Oguey - oboe
Francesco Celata - clarinet, Andrew Barnes - bassoon
Euan Harvy - horn

In 2004, the New Sydney Wind Quintet was formed by five Australian wind players of international acclaim. It is now recognised as the country's leading wind quintet and performs throughout Australia and Asia, making regular appearances for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Musica Viva Australia.

The players teach at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, are members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and have held major positions in European and American orchestras.

About QUINTOPIA, the latest NSWQ CD release:
'Imaginative program. Superbly played!'
Vladimir Ashkenazy, November 2010
"NSWQ stand their ground against even the Berlin Phil quintet's recording"
Limelight magazine - December 2011

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Gerard Willems , piano
Evgeny Sorkin, violin

The three sonatas to be performed show the diversity of Beethoven’s nature. The Op 23 whilst in a minor key, is a joyful work. It harks back to his early period, when life was simple.
In the three Sonatas Op 30, Beethoven delves into the depth and uncertainties of life, being aware that the answers to life are not so straightforward. Op 30 No 1 is beautifully lyrical and No 2 is epic and dramatic.

Symphony No. 38 in D ‘Prague’ for oboe and piano trio In this enchanting Czech-inspired program, Seraphim Trio performs Dvorak’s beloved Dumky Trio and a recent work by Andrew Ford. The astonishing Australian oboist Diana Doherty joins the group for Martinu’s graceful oboe quartet, concluding with Hummel’s brilliant arrangement of Mozart’s Prague Symphony.

Unusual beauty and radiance... A sparkly performance full of graciousness, bonhomie and entertainingly witty melodrama.
THE AUSTRALIAN, OCTOBER 2011

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Piers Lane Piano
Dene Olding Violin
Dimity Hall Violin
Irina Morozova Viola
Julian Smiles Cello

The Goldner String Quartet players are joined by their friend, fellow Australian and leading international pianist Piers Lane in a delightful excursion into British Romanticism. The Gramophone Classical Music Guide described a recent recording by the musicians as rapturously beautiful, the blending of voices between Piers Lane and the Goldners simply could not be bettered.
This is an unmissable opportunity to experience their partnership in the spontaneity of live performance.

Frank Bridge is now remembered as the teacher of Benjamin Britten, but his own gift for melody and lyricism steps straight out of the soul-stirring world of Elgar to create a concert glowing with golden fin-de-sie`cle warmth.
We want to sound like one 16-string instrument. Dimity Hall

Program:
Edward Elgar String Quartet in E minor, op 83 Frank Bridge Piano Quintet (H49a)

Morning tea will be served from 10am.
Concert starts at 11am. Duration 1 hour.

TMO welcomes David Montgomery to present this program which includes his composition Air and the Void. Principal Percussionist of Queensland Symphony Orchestra, David is also a vibrant composer having works commissioned by Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre, Queensland Symphony, Isorhythmos and ABC Radio. 'Air and the Void' takes as its point of departure the final chapters in Miyamoto Musashi's book 'Go Rin No Sho' (translated as 'The Book of Five Rings'). While the work has nothing to do with Samurai or sword fighting, it does comment on the idea of moving towards separation from one's body.

One of the best known and most loved cello concertos in the repertoire is that of Camille Saint-Saens. Joining TMO to perform this piece is well-known cellist Patrick Murphy, founding member of the Tankstream Quartet and Cello Performance Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Music.

Wrapping up this wonderful program is a Symphony that is rarely performed, Mendelssohn Symphony No: 1, which he wrote at the age of 15. It is indubitably a young man's creation: energetic, muscular and bursting with rambunctious high spirits.

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MCO welcomes David Montgomery to present this program which includes his composition Air and the Void. Principal Percussionist of Queensland Symphony Orchestra, David is also a vibrant composer having works commissioned by Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre, Queensland Symphony, Isorhythmos and ABC Radio. 'Air and the Void' takes as its point of departure the final chapters in Miyamoto Musashi's book 'Go Rin No Sho' (translated as 'The Book of Five Rings'). While the work has nothing to do with Samurai or sword fighting, it does comment on the idea of moving towards separation from one's body.
Wrapping up this wonderful program is a Symphony that is rarely performed, Mendelssohn Symphony No: 1, which he wrote at the age of 15. It is indubitably a young man's creation: energetic, muscular and bursting with rambunctious high spirits.

Sydney Independent Opera is pleased to present Rossini's The Silken Ladder.

Sydney Independent Opera is a chamber opera company presenting small-scale operas in English with chamber orchestra.

Founded in 2011, Sydney Independent Opera, under the direction of Artistic Director Steven Stanke, will present vibrant and innovative performances of chamber operas and operas in chamber settings from composers such as Mozart and Rossini to Britten, Holst, Menotti and others.
The company aims to be one of Sydney's leading small opera groups, known for high-quality performances and imaginative programming, and featuring some of Sydney's finest operatic artists.

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Sydney Independent Opera is pleased to present Rossini's The Silken Ladder.

Sydney Independent Opera is a chamber opera company presenting small-scale operas in English with chamber orchestra.

Founded in 2011, Sydney Independent Opera, under the direction of Artistic Director Steven Stanke, will present vibrant and innovative performances of chamber operas and operas in chamber settings from composers such as Mozart and Rossini to Britten, Holst, Menotti and others.
The company aims to be one of Sydney's leading small opera groups, known for high-quality performances and imaginative programming, and featuring some of Sydney's finest operatic artists.

www.sydneyindependentopera.com.au

Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich Violin
Eleanor Betts Cello
Evgeny Ukhanov Piano

In Fire and Fantasy we explore four powerful and passionate works for Piano Trio by composers from very different backgrounds.
Schumann is known for his emotionally volatile style of music in which he is able to create an intense emotional atmosphere within short pieces, which then switch quickly between intense despair and ecstatic exuberance. He shows this in particular in his Fantasiestücke, and this set is one of four he wrote during his life for various instruments.
American composer Robert Muczynski’s short but powerful First Piano Trio, written in 1966-7, is fiery, dramatic and rhythmically exciting, while Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic and broodingly romantic Trio Elegaique No. 1, written in 1892, burns more slowly towards its climax.
Finally, Spanish composer Joaquin Turina’s Piano Trio No.1 is sure to appeal with its quintessentially Spanish mix of drama, passion, fire and fantasy.

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Yu Qing, Rebecca Irwin violin
Nicole Masters violin
Robyn Brookfield viola
David Wickham cello
Christian Lillicrap piano
James D’Arcy clarinet
with special guest Dominica Matthews, Mezzo

Members of the Sydney Symphony and Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestras, Robyn Brookfield, David Wickham, Nicole Masters and Rebecca Irwin, are joined in their love of playing chamber music by James D’Arcy and Christian Lillicrap.

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Over the past decade, Andrew Chubb has given numerous recitals that have deliberately promoted the music of other contemporary composers - in some cases relatively or completely unknown works and composers to Australian audiences.

In this recital, Andrew Chubb will continue his long association of performing the piano music of Philip Glass. Celebrating Glass's 75th birthday year, this concert will feature interpretations of Glass's most intimate solo piano works written from the 1970's to more recent compositions. Andrew Chubb will also premiere his own new solo piano piece, composed in 2012, which pays homage to the world famous American composer.

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The Australian Singing Competition's Semi-Finals Concert is the second stage of the prestigious Competition for classical singers under the age of 26.

More information soon!

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By Ernest Thompson

The fifth and final play in The Actors' Forum's 2012 season of professionally performed readings... An autumnal play of ageing and loving.
Set in the summer house of an erudite couple, the eightieth birthday of the husband propels the couple into an attempt to build bridges with their daughter, who has grown distant. Nostalgia is the mood but there are great moments of joy, intelligent humour and love.
The play became an Academy award winning film in 1981.

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One performance in Sydney only
Geoffrey Saba has worked with Maria Curcio and Peter Feuchtwanger initially in London, and then with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris, and Stefan Askenase.
He made his London début in 1972 at Wigmore Hall to much critical acclaim, and premiered in that programme a work specially written for the occasion by the Brisbane composer Colin Brumby. In 1974 he was awarded a bronze medal at the First Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and he began to concertize internationally throughout Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, India, Japan, North America and South East Asia, incorporating regular return visits to his native Australia.

Geoffrey's best-selling recordings for Carlton Classics have achieved tremendous critical acclaim. His annual London solo recitals since 2001 are recorded and released by Carnegie Concerts, and his discography to 2011 comprises fourteen releases, with repertoire from Bach to Bartok, including the complete Debussy Preludes and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.

His recent Mozart recording elicited these remarks from the reviewer in Limelight: 'This is real classical playing of a kind rarely encountered now. Saba's playing of Mozart's great Rondo K511 can stand comparison with that of Artur Schnabel ... one of his great strengths is his controlled rhythm throughout ... his performances are refreshingly free from the personalised distortions that have crept into Mozart playing ...'

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Soprano: Susannah Bishop
Piano: Emily-Rose Šárková

Artists throughout the ages have drawn inspiration from both mythological and traditional songs and tales.
Ravel gives Calvocoressi’s translation of Greek folk tunes a French twist and De Falla’s seven popular folk songs are truly Spanish in sound and soul. Wolf’s Morike Lieder tell Folkloric tales of Elves and Mermaids and transport the listener to mystical woods and forests. Whilst wandering these overgrown paths, be inspired by Pushkin’s Muse or travel on a Lake and a fairy boat to a new place yet to be discovered.

Gerard Willems , piano
Evgeny Sorkin, violin

This final program is the culmination of the cycle. The Sonata Op 96 clearly represents the start of Beethoven’s final creative period. It is a work of immense depth, purity of structure, awareness of the fermate combined with a reflection back to his youth with the landler theme in the finale.
This sonata is preceded by the joyful and transparent Op 30 No3.

The Concertante Ensemble is a string ensemble of 13 players which has performed a regular series of concerts since 1996, and whose member's have performed with some of the worlds’ leading orchestras and ensembles.

The repertoire spans three centuries and includes many of the major works for string orchestra and also works by living Australian composers.

Concertante attracts soloists from interstate and abroad and has been part of the Crossroads International Chamber Music Festival in 2010 and 2011.

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TMO finishes the 2012 season with its largest orchestra for the year when they perform two of the great romantic symphonies.

Symphony no 8 was a half-finished masterwork lost for decades which has become arguably Schuberts most popular work. The music is strikingly fresh and dramatic, full of life and warmth with many commentators waxing quite poetically when describing the splendour of the two movements of this amazing work. MCO will let the music speak for itself when performed in the wonderful intimate environments of The Independent Theatre and Balmain Town Halls.

Amazingly, TMO has never performed a Brahms Symphony. As their Beethoven Cycle is almost at completion and Brahms first symphony has also been nicknamed ˜Beethovens 10th", it seems like a fitting time and place for TMO to begin its Brahms journey. It took Brahms decades to perfect his first symphony which is both monumental in musical scope while firmly establishing Brahms as an heir to the master composers of his past. There are many similarities to Beethoven in this fantastic work, particularly the big string melody and epically powerhouse 4th movement which were written as a direct homage to his hero.

Join MCO for this sublime end to our 2012 season!

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MCO finishes the 2012 season with its largest orchestra for the year when they perform two of the great romantic symphonies.

Three sublime concerts. Concert Three:
Dance!

Bridget Bolliger - flute
Alexandre Oguey - oboe
Francesco Celata - clarinet, Andrew Barnes - bassoon
Euan Harvy - horn

In 2004, the New Sydney Wind Quintet was formed by five Australian wind players of international acclaim. It is now recognised as the country's leading wind quintet and performs throughout Australia and Asia, making regular appearances for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Musica Viva Australia.

The players teach at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, are members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and have held major positions in European and American orchestras.

About QUINTOPIA, the latest NSWQ CD release:
'Imaginative program. Superbly played!'
Vladimir Ashkenazy, November 2010
"NSWQ stand their ground against even the Berlin Phil quintet's recording"
Limelight magazine - December 2011

www.nswq.com.au

Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich Violin
Eleanor Betts Cello
Evgeny Ukhanov Piano

In our final program of the year we present four works which have made a lasting impression on us – the centrepiece being Tchaikovsky’s epic Piano Trio in A minor. Despite previously refusing requests to compose a Piano Trio, Tchaikovsky was moved by the death of his great friend and mentor, Pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, to compose this work and to subtitle it, In Memory of a Great Artist. It stands as one of the largest scale works for Trio and one of the most challenging for the Pianist in the entire repertoire.
Like Tchaikovsky, Suk wrote his Elegy in honour of someone who had made a lasting impression on him – in this case the Czech poet and novelist Julius Zeyer, whose poetry inspired a number of Suk’s pieces. After Zeyer died in 1901, Suk arranged this Elegy for Piano Trio as his contribution to a Festival in Prague in memory of the poet.
The Haydn Trio in C Major on this program is one of the forty-five he wrote in his lifetime. Haydn’s contribution to the Piano Trio genre has been immense and long lasting, both in terms of his prolific output and in the way that he put the Piano Trio on the musical map, laying the foundations on which future composers would build.
American Paul Moravec is one such composer who has contributed strongly to the genre of Piano Trio in modern times, composing four trio works so far and one, Tempest Fantasy which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004.

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World Renown UK Spirit Medium and author Tony Stockwell will be joining Sydney based medium Louise Hermann for an afternoon of Mediumship.
Tony is known for his television work including The Psychic Detectives, Street Psychic, Best of British Mediumship, Sixth Sense, Mystery of Body 115, Psychic Private Eyes and Legend Detectives. Tony has demonstrated across the UK, Europe and the US.

Both Tony and Louise endeavour to provide you with comfort that your loved ones do survive the process of physical death and continue to live on in spirit form.