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MUSICA VIVA 2020INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON

SYDNEY MORNING MASTERSMELBOURNE MORNING MASTERS

NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC CHAMPIONSHIP

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75YEARS

‘Musica Viva’s 2020 concert season marks the company’s 75th anniversary and is also the last one that I will have the privilege of sculpting,’ says Artistic Director Carl Vine ao, who passes the baton to acclaimed musician and author Paul Kildea in late 2019. ‘I wanted to celebrate such an exceptional confl uence with the most inspiring talent I could fi nd – the best chamber musicians plus new music from some of our country’s composers whom I most admire.’

The International Concert Seasonbegins in mid-February with Garrick Ohlsson, a revered American pianist and master of the intimate solo recital. Touring nationally, Ohlsson’s

two programs showcase music of Beethoven, Prokofi ev and Brahms, with each second half dedicated entirely to Chopin – a composer dear to his heart. ‘This is a perfect opportunity to hear heartland solo piano music in the hands of a great master,’ says Vine.

‘Australian content abounds in April as our most famous pianistic export, Piers Lane, joins his dear friends the Goldner String Quartet, celebrating the quartet’s 25 years of sustained musical brilliance,’ he continues.

On this tour, the Goldners add a new chapter to their acclaimed history of premiering Australian quartets with a fresh work from young Adelaide

composer Jakub Jankowski. Program 1 also sees Korngold’s exquisite op 15 quintet paired with Brahms’ famous op 34 quintet, while Program 2 features Elgar’s Quintet and Dvořák’s much loved ‘American’ Quartet.

A meeting of true musical minds, violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist Jon Kimura Parker make a stellar duo, radiating what’s been described as ‘joyful rapport’. For their long-awaited fi rst recital tour of Australia in late May, they premiere a sonata by acclaimed Australian composer Paul Stanhope.

In Program 1, this new work sits alongside two charming American miniatures and Lutosławski’s epic

2020 promises to be a momentous year for Musica Viva Australia, marking the company’s 75th anniversary and its fi nal season shaped by Artistic Director Carl Vine AO. He has assembled an impressive cast for the occasion, launching the International Concert Season with legendary pianist Garrick Ohlsson and following up with inspired pairings – violin-piano duo Cho-Liang Lin and Jon Kimura Parker, French period orchestra Les Talens Lyriques with soprano Siobhan Stagg, Australian favourites Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet, and star oboist Diana Doherty with the Eggner Trio.

2020 also sees national debuts from the Goldmund Quartet, winners of the quartet prize at the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and from renowned American vocal group, Chanticleer. The popular morning concerts return in Sydney and Melbourne, and Musica Viva proudly introduces a National Chamber Music Championship for high-school-aged students.

Subscription packages are available now via www.musicaviva.com.au/2020 or call 1800 688 482.

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75 Years of making Australia a more musical place

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LES TALENS LYRIQUES & SIOBHAN STAGG

Partita; bookended with favourites from Dvořák and Brahms. In Program 2, it joins Beethoven’s sixth Violin Sonata and Prokofi ev’s powerful op 80, with a Grand Duo from Liszt promising a fl amboyant fi nale.

‘It’s almost unbelievable that July 2020 will mark Chanticleer’s very fi rst Australian tour, after decades of international acclaim,’ marvels Vine. ‘This is unaccompanied singing of rare beauty, as 12 male voices blend seamlessly in enchanting music stretching across centuries and styles.’

The program, called Trade Winds, is a musical journey inspired by seafarers and explorers. Europe and the Americas are represented in both ancient and modern pieces, as are Hawaii, Samoa and New Zealand, as well as newly composed music from China – and a world premiere from ‘Australia's own Clare Maclean’.

‘Followers of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition will recall the winners of the Quartet and Commission Prizes in 2018, those brilliant Germans the Goldmund Quartet,’ Vine continues.

For their debut Australian tour in August, the Goldmunds offer masterpieces of the string quartet

canon: Haydn and Schubert in Program 1 and Mozart, Debussy and Mendelssohn in Program 2, set alongside a brand-new work, written for this tour by rising Australian composer Elizabeth Younan.

‘Touring from late September, the brothers of Austria's Eggner Triopersonify so much of chamber music history,’ says Vine. On this visit they’re joined by superb Australian oboist Diana Doherty in a unique and exciting virtuoso collaboration.

This unusual combination of instruments creates a sonic challenge eagerly accepted by Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth, whose own quartet will be heard for the fi rst time alongside Martinů’s rarely heard Oboe Quartet. Piano trios by Beethoven, Smetana, Arensky and Schumann ground the programs in the richly rewarding world of Romantic melody and colour.

‘Harpsichordist Christophe Rousset and his ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, explain why so many words like ‘élan’ and ‘panache’ are French – words equally fi tting for the stunning virtuosity of Australian soprano Siobhan Stagg, featured soloist on this November tour,’ Vine enthuses.Playing period instruments familiar to

Louis XIV, they present a program fi t for 18th-century royalty: a Baroque entertainment or Récréation, at which the audience are welcome guests.

MARVELLOUSMORNING MASTERS IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE‘Welcome to fi ve magical mornings,’ Vine continues, introducing his 2020 roster of Morning Masters concerts in Melbourne and Sydney. ‘This is the last season that I’ve designed for Musica Viva and it’s brimming with variety, bringing together local and international talent of the highest order.’

With a new name for a new year, the Sydney Morning Masters (formerly known as Sydney Coffee Concerts) will fi ll the Concourse in Chatswood with inspired music, great company, tea, coffee and cake on fi ve Wednesdays throughout the year.

Highlights include the saxophonic brilliance of the Nexas Quartet, remarkable mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean with guitarist Andrey Lebedev, and master pianist Ian Munro. Violinist Anna Im, grand prize winner of the 2019 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, will appear with renowned pianist Stephen

EGGNER TRIO

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GOLDMUND QUARTET

CHO-LIANG LIN

& JON KIMURA PARKER

CHANTICLEER

GARRICK OHLSSON

DIANA DOHERTY

De Pledge, and the year draws to a magnifi cent close with the Goldner String Quartet in a program featuring a world premiere by young Sydney composer Christine Pan.

Opening with warm drinks, cake and savoury treats at the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Tuesday Melbourne Morning Masters series stars soprano Greta Bradman with pianist Calvin Bowman, homegrown quintet Arcadia Winds, and the Baroque splendour of violinist Rachael Beesley, cellist Natasha Kraemer and theorbist Simon Martyn-Ellis. Violinist Anna Im and pianist Stephen De Pledge will also perform in Melbourne, and the Orava Quartet will fi nish the season in style, pairing Ravel with Sydney composer Christine Pan.

AUSTRALIAN MUSIC AT THE HEART OF THE COMPANY

Musica Viva looks back on a proud history of supporting Australian music. ‘Alongside the International Concert Season commissions, which will be heard at least eight times on each tour in 2020, we also feature new and existing Australian music in all of our other series and programs, including Musica Viva In Schools, FutureMakers, Competitions and Morning Concerts,’ says Vine.

A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR AUSTRALIA’S RISING STARSWith its sights set fi rmly on the future, Musica Viva is excited to celebrate its 75th anniversary with the introduction of a National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school students. Thanks to Creative Victoriaand other supporters, the inaugural ‘NCMC’ will be held in September 2020 in partnership with Melbourne Recital Centre and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).

The annual championship will give high school students from all over Australia the opportunity to experience the joy of making chamber music. Open to ensembles of between three and eight performers, it will enable 12 groups from at least six states and territories to travel to Victoria for a fi nals weekend livestreamed from Melbourne Recital Centre. A national teachers’ conference in partnership with aMuse will focus on inspiring and relevant ways to support music in teaching practice. For further information, please visit musicaviva.com.au/ncmc.

MASTERCLASSES WITH INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS

Audiences Australia-wide are invited to witness hundreds of talented young

musicians working with the world’s fi nest chamber musicians in Musica Viva’s Masterclasses. Each session is conducted by artists touring as part of the International Concert Season or Regional Touring program, providing students, music teachers and audiences of all ages with an entertaining and enriching learning experience. For further details, please see musicaviva.com.au/masterclasses.

AN INSPIRING LEGACY ANDA BRIGHT FUTURE

‘The past 19 years have been an extraordinary journey for me, and I hope that our audiences have discovered substantial delight along the way,’ concludes Vine. ‘I have no doubt my successor as Artistic Director, Paul Kildea, will fi nd this role equally challenging and rewarding, whichever path he chooses to wend through the endless, joyful terrain of chamber music.’

‘From the outset the dedication and intensity of Musica Viva’s audiences restored my faith in the importance of classical music as a vital component of our social landscape,’ he adds. ‘I have held tight to principles of excellence in performance and repertoire since then, and trust that enough of my choices over the years have in some way repaid that debt.’

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Musica Viva’s inaugural FutureMakers (2016/17), Arcadia Winds are making a great career for themselves. Since their ‘graduation’ from this innovative musical leadership program at the end of 2017, this superb group of musicians have released their eponymous debut EP, launched their own Australian composition prize, and are developing a unique online portal for Australian wind music. This vivacious program fi nds them in their element: Percy Grainger’s delicious Walking Tune and Júlio Medaglia’s exuberant South American-fl avoured suite bookend two classics of the genre in Taff anel’s G minor Quintet and Barber’s beautiful, evocative Summer Music.

Kiran Phatak fl uteDavid Reichelt oboeLloyd van’t Hoff clarinetRachel Shaw hornMatthew Kneale bassoon

ProgramGRAINGER Walking TuneTAFFANEL Wind QuintetBARBER Summer Music MEDAGLIA Suite Belle Epoque en Sud-America

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Musica Viva’s inaugural FutureMakers (2016/17), Arcadia Winds are making a great career for themselves. Since their ‘graduation’ from this innovative musical ‘graduation’ from this innovative musical leadership program at the end of 2017, this superb group of musicians have released their eponymous debut EP, launched their own Australian composition launched their own Australian composition prize, and are developing a unique online prize, and are developing a unique online portal for Australian wind music. This vivacious program fi nds them in their element: Percy Grainger’s delicious Walking Tune and Júlio Medaglia’s exuberant South American-fl avoured suite bookend two classics of the genre in Taff anel’s G minor Quintet and Barber’s beautiful, evocative Summer Music.

Kiran Phatak fl uteDavid Reichelt oboeLloyd van’t HoffLloyd van’t Hoff clarinetRachel ShawRachel Shaw hornMatthew KnealeMatthew Kneale bassoon

ProgramGRAINGER Walking TuneWalking TuneTAFFANEL Wind QuintetTAFFANEL Wind QuintetBARBER Summer Music Summer Music MEDAGLIA MEDAGLIA Suite Belle Suite Belle Epoque en Sud-America

ANNA IM & STEPHEN DE PLEDGE

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Anna Im violinStephen De Pledge piano

ProgramBEETHOVEN Violin Sonata no 2 in A majorC SCHUMANN Three RomancesTCHAIKOVSKY MélodieWIENIAWSKI Variations on an original theme

The Michael Hill International Violin Competition is one of the world’s most coveted international violin prizes, and has produced many notable laureates. Held biennially in New Zealand, 16 fi nalists aged between 18 and 28 compete for the grand prize package, valued at over $100,000. Musica Viva is pleased to partner with the MHIVC to present the 2019 winner, Anna Im, as part of her Prizewinner’s tour of Australasia. Joining her will be acclaimed New Zealand pianist Stephen De Pledge.

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GOLDNER STRING QUARTET4 NOVEMBER

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PERTH CONCERT HALL

Sun 16 Feb 6.30pm

CANBERRA LLEWELLYN HALL

Tue 18 Feb 7.00pm

NEWCASTLE CITY HALL

Thu 20 Feb 7.30pm

SYDNEY CITY RECITAL HALL

Sat 22 Feb 2.00pm Mon 24 Feb 7.00pm

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE

Tue 25 Feb 7.00pm Sat 29 Feb 7.00pm

BRISBANE CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE

Thu 27 Feb 7.00pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Mon 2 Mar 7.30pm

GARRICK OHLSSONmusicaviva.com.au/ohlsson


Sat 4 Apr 2.00pm Mon 20 Apr 7.00pm

PERTH CONCERT HALL

Mon 6 Apr 7.30pm


Wed 8 Apr 7.00pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Thu 16 Apr 7.30pm


Sat 18 Apr 7.00pm Tue 21 Apr 7.00pm

NEWCASTLE H.LOBB CONCERT HALL

Thu 23 Apr 7.30pm

GOLDNER STRING QUARTET & PIERS LANE

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Sat 23 May 7.00pm Tue 9 Jun 7.00pm


Mon 25 May 7.00pm Sat 30 May 2.00pm

NEWCASTLE H. LOBB CONCERT HALL

Thu 28 May 7.30pm

PERTH CONCERT HALL

Tue 2 Jun 7.30pm


Thu 4 Jun 7.00pm


Sat 6 Jun 7.00pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Wed 10 Jun 7.30pm

CHO-LIANG LIN & JON KIMURA PARKER

musicaviva.com.au/lin-parker


Sat 26 Sep 2.00pm Mon 12 Oct 7.00pm


Tue 29 Sep 7.00pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Thu 1 Oct 7.30pm

PERTH CONCERT HALL

Mon 5 Oct 7.30pm


Wed 7 Oct 7.00pm


Thu 8 Oct 7.30pm


Sat 10 Oct 7.00pm Tue 13 Oct 7.00pm

EGGNER TRIO & DIANA DOHERTY

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PERTH CONCERT HALL

Sun 5 Jul 6.30pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Tue 7 Jul 7.30pm

BRISBANE QPAC

Thu 9 Jul 7.00pm


Sat 11 Jul 7.00pm Tue 14 Jul 7.00pm


Sat 18 Jul 2.00pm Mon 20 Jul 7.00pm


Wed 22 Jul 7.00pm


Fri 24 Jul 7.30pm

CHANTICLEERmusicaviva.com.au/chanticleer


Sat 7 Nov 2.00pm Mon 16 Nov 7.00pm


Tue 10 Nov 7.00pm Sat 21 Nov 7.00pm

BRISBANE QPAC

Thu 12 Nov 7.00pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Thu 19 Nov 7.30pm

PERTH CONCERT HALL

Mon 23 Nov 7.30pm


Wed 25 Nov 7.00pm

LES TALENS LYRIQUES & SIOBHAN STAGG

musicaviva.com.au/lyriques-stagg


Sat 15 Aug 7.30pm

PERTH CONCERT HALL

Tue 18 Aug 7.30pm


Thu 20 Aug 7.00pm


Sat 22 Aug 2.00pm Mon 31 Aug 7.00pm


Tue 25 Aug 7.00pm Sat 29 Aug 7.00pm

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Thu 27 Aug 7.30pm

GOLDMUND QUARTETmusicaviva.com.au/goldmund

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2020INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON& MORNING MASTERS CONCERTSSUBSCRIPTIONS from 2 September 2019SINGLE TICKETS from 5 November 2019Bookings: musicaviva.com.au/2020or call 1800 688 482

MEDIA ENQUIRIESAdele SchonhardtMedia & Public Aff airs Manager,Musica Viva AustraliaE [email protected] (03) 9645 5092M 0457 727 379

Our story began on 8 December 1945 with a concert of Beethoven and Mozart at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In the 75 years since, the people of Musica Viva – our artists and collaborators, audiences and donors, volunteers and committees, board and staff – have created a fertile landscape of music right across Australia.

We started as a chamber music organisation focused on just one ensemble, but we soon expanded beyond Sydney to become one of the world’s largest presenters of chamber music. We showcase the fi nest local and international chamber music artists to audiences all around Australia, in our most prestigious concert halls and our smallest school halls, in capital cities, regional centres and remote communities. We are proud of our history of uncovering new talent, developing the early careers of some of our best musicians and promoting our most acclaimed

ensembles here and overseas. We continue to nurture the careers of young musicians, and in 2020 our inaugural National Chamber Music Championship will give high school students from all over Australia the opportunity to experience the joy of making chamber music. Through the support of many donors, we have commissioned hundreds of new compositions from Australian composers, and we play a leading role in supporting female composers through our Hildegard Project.

We have been bringing live music to schools for nearly 40 years, and whole generations of Australian children have experienced our programs. We continue to delight and inspire close to 300,000 students each year, and we support their teachers with vital training and professional development. 75 years of making Australia a more musical place.

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