2019 Festival Program

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CONCERT 1 ‘OPENING CONCERT AND RECEPTION: MOSTLY MOZART’

Friday 15thNovember 1.30pm @ Adamshurst Ballroom

Featuring Merlyn Quaife (soprano)Kaori Sparks (violin), Helena Kernaghan (piano) & Inventi Ensemble (Melissa Doecke – flute, Ben Opie – oboe, Peter Clark – violin, Jessica Oddie – violin, Campbell Banks – cello & Peter de Jager – organ)

Mozart ViolinSonata in G major, K.379

Mozart Ach, ich fühl’s (from The Magic Flute)

Mozart Dove sono (from The Marriage of Figaro)

Mozart L’amero (from Il re pastore)

Adam Bravura Variations on a theme by Mozart

 Mozart Church Sonatas

KV 329 in C major

KV 263 in C major  

KV 241 in G major   

KV 278 in C major   

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CONCERT 2 ‘RISING STARS MASTERCLASS’

Friday 15th November 4.00pm @ Adamshurst Ballroom

Isabelle Weule (violin), Thomas Summerfield (piano) & XinYuan ‘Jacky’ Shen (piano) perform works for members of the Seraphim Trio in a public masterclass’. Conducted by Anna Goldsworthy (piano) & Helen Ayres (violin).

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CONCERT 3 ‘INVENTI ENSEMBLE & SERAPHIM AND MARTIN ALEXANDER’

Friday 15thNovember 7.00pm @ St Matthew’s Church

 Seraphim (Anna Goldsworthy (piano), Helen Ayres (violin), Timothy Nankervis (cello),  with Martin Alexander (viola)

Haydn Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob.XV/25 “Gypsy”

Mozart Piano quartet No. 1 in G minor, KV 478

Inventi Ensemble (Melissa Doecke – flute, Ben Opie – oboe, Peter Clark – violin, Jessica Oddie – violin, Merewyn Bramble – viola & Campbell Banks – cello)

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (arr. Glynn Davies)

Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade (arr. Glynn Davies)

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CONCERT 4 ‘LETOURNEAU PIPE ORGAN RECITAL’

Saturday 16th November 10.30am @ St Matthew’s Church

Martin Setchell – pipe organ

 Takle Celebration

J. S. Bach Prelude to Klavierûbung III in E flat major BWV 552

Albinoni (arr. Giazotto) Adagio in G minor

Vivaldi (arr. Walther) Concerto in B minor

Bossi Scherzo in G minor Op. 49, No 2              

Vierne Romance from Symphony IV

Grison Toccata in F

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CONCERT 5 ‘SERAPHIM & ORPHEUS PLAY DVORAK & BRAHMS’

Saturday 16th November 2.00pm @ St Matthew’s Church

 Scots School Chorale, conducted by Alison Mitchell

Forrest Psalm 8

Orpheus Piano Trio (Kaori Sparks – violin, Sam Goble – cello, Helena Kernaghan – piano)

Brahms Trio Op.8 in B major

Seraphim (Anna Goldsworthy (piano), Helen Ayres (violin), Timothy Nankervis (cello) with Martin Alexander (viola)

Dvořák Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 87 

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CONCERT 6 ‘THORWALD JORGENSEN & MERLYN QUAIFE’

Saturday 16thNovember 7.00pm @ St Matthew’s Church

French & Russian repertoire in celebration of Leon Theremin, the inventor of the Theremin in its centenary year

Merlyn Quaife (soprano) & David Lempriere-Laughton (piano):

Duparc (i) L’invitation au voyage (ii) Extase (iii)Le manoir de Rosamunde 

Debussy (i) C’est l’extase(ii) Il pleure dans mon cœur (iii) Romance 

Ravel Deux Mélodies Hébraïques 1. Kaddisch 2. L’enigme Éternelle 

Vocalise in the form of a Habanera 

Fauré (i) Ici-bas (ii) Après un rêve (iii) Rêve d’amour 

Thorwald Jorgensen (theremin) & Helena Kernaghan (piano):

Rachmaninoff Vocalise

Schillinger Bury Me, Bury Me Wind

Auerbach 10 Preludes (Australian premiere)

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CONCERT 7 ‘THORWALD JORGENSEN & ACACIA’

Sunday 17th November 2.00pm @ The Albury Club

Featuring Thorwald Jorgensen (theremin) & Acacia Quartet (Lisa Stewart – violin, Dooreen Cumming – violin, Stefan Duwe – viola & Anna Martin-Scrase – cello)

Pärt Fratres

Jørgensen Distant Shores

Warsaw Transformation

Rachmaninoff Ne Poy Krasavitsa

Jessop Maticevski Shumack – New work for theremin and string quartet – world premiere

Dvořák – String quartet no. 12 in F major, Op. 96 ‘American’

Bertrand The Invisible Singer

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