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As one of Australia’s foremost corporate benefactors, our pioneering approach to philanthropy has funded a range of novel approaches to community issues, including cutting-edge research into chronic health problems, establishing awards and fellowships to encourage innovative thinking, seed funding organisations with new ideas as well as collaborations between non-profits with shared objectives.

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In our final tour for the 2015 National Season, Transcend, we delve into the worlds of Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, Australian composer Brett Dean, and Franz Schubert with the generous support of our Lead Tour Partner, the Macquarie Group. Our program opens with the third string quartet by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga. Regarded as the ‘Spanish Mozart’,

Arriaga’s quartet is full of elegance and warmth.

We are excited to perform the Australian premiere of Brett Dean’s And once I played Ophelia, written for soprano and string quartet. Co-commissioned by the Australian String Quartet,

the Britten Sinfonia and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival the work received its World Premiere in Norwich, UK, in May 2014. We extend our thanks and appreciation to our commissioning partners, whose generous support has brought this work to life.

We welcome guest soprano Allison Bell to perform Brett’s piece with us. Bell, whose technical prowess and vocal agility perfectly suits the work, was involved in the premiere performances of the work with the Britten Sinfonia in Norwich and at London’s Wigmore Hall. This work

is a suite of five short movements performed straight through, and is based on the Shakespearean character Ophelia, from Hamlet. It is an incredibly evocative work that

keeps the listener on tenterhooks.

Schubert’s Death and the Maiden is one of the giants of the string quartet repertoire. The composer wrote this piece in 1824 after going through serious illness and it is an epic

journey, from the first fateful notes of the opening right through to the last movement. It’s gripping from beginning to end!

We are so happy to welcome guest first violinist Sophie Rowell – a well-known ASQ friend – to perform with us for our final 30th Anniversary National Season tour in 2015. And of course,

we welcome Francesca Hiew, our new second violinist! We are so thrilled that Francesca is able to join us ahead of our National Season 2016 and we cannot wait to continue our journey

together as we debut our new line-up with first violinist Dale Barltrop in February 2016.

A heartfelt thank you to all of our audience members, who have shown incredible support and trust in us this year. It has been fun and rewarding to work with so many great musicians in 2015 and we hope you have enjoyed the journey as much as we have. We’d love to hear from you

and encourage you to share your thoughts with us via our survey or on facebook/twitter.

We look forward to seeing you next year, and here’s to a very happy National Season 2016!

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Supporting the communityfor more than 30 yearsSince our inception in 1985, the Macquarie Group Foundation and Macquarie staff have contributed more than $250 million to community organisations around the world, with hundreds of Macquarie staff also donating thousands of hours each year via volunteering, pro bono support or the management of non-profit boards.

As one of Australia’s foremost corporate benefactors, our pioneering approach to philanthropy has funded a range of novel approaches to community issues, including cutting-edge research into chronic health problems, establishing awards and fellowships to encourage innovative thinking, seed funding organisations with new ideas as well as collaborations between non-profits with shared objectives.

Proudly supporting the Australian String Quartet.macquarie.com/foundation

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Home to the Australian String Quartet - our quartet in residence, the Conservatorium hosts a vibrant community of talented musicians and provides a supportive environment that encourages creativity, independence and excellence in music.

Staff and students of the Conservatorium are committed to the artistic, educational and community experience of music, and they share their passion and expression with the public through regular performances and concerts.

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Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, String Quartet no 3 in E flat major

Brett Dean, And once I played Ophelia* (Australian premiere performances)

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Schubert, String Quartet no 14 in D minor D810, Death and the Maiden

With guest artists Allison Bell, soprano and violinists Sophie Rowell and Francesca Hiew

*Co-commissioned by the Australian String Quartet, Britten Sinfonia and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

With a rich history spanning over 30 years, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has a strong national profile as an Australian chamber music group of excellence, performing at the highest international level. From its home

base at the University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, the ASQ delivers a vibrant annual artistic program encompassing performances, workshops, commissions and education projects across Australia and abroad.

One of Australia’s finest music exports, the ASQ has appeared at international music festivals and toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, New Zealand and Asia in recent years.

The Quartet frequently performs with leading guest artists and in recent years has appeared with internationally acclaimed artists including pianists

Angela Hewitt and Piers Lane, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, clarinettist Michael Collins, violist Brett Dean and cellist Pieter Wispelwey.

The Quartet’s yearly performance calendar comprises its National Season featuring three unique concert programs presented in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Canberra; its own

flagship festivals in the Southern Grampians and Margaret River; and regional and international touring.

The members of the ASQ are privileged to perform on a matched set of Guadagnini instruments. Hand crafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini between c.1743-1784 in Turin and Piacenza, Italy, these exquisite Italian

instruments were brought together through the vision of Ulrike Klein. The instruments are on loan to the Australian String Quartet for their

exclusive use through the generosity of Ulrike Klein and Ngeringa Arts.

The ASQ has recently appointed Dale Barltrop as first violin and Francesca Hiew as second violin. The new quartet will make their full

debut in February 2016 in their first national concert season. In 2015, violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper have been joined by invited guest violinists to present the Quartet’s continuing busy season of performances.

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Stephen King plays the viola because he loves its role in the string quartet. It is both the

agitator and the peacemaker, the consonance and the dissonance, the harmonic pulse and

always the meat in the sandwich.

Stephen played violin while growing up in Canberra and turned to the deep side after all but completing an architecture

degree in Brisbane. Following the inspiring teaching there of Elizabeth Morgan, he

completed his studies in the United States with James Dunham (Cleveland Quartet),

Kathy Murdock (Mendelssohn Quartet) and Michael Tree (Guarneri Quartet). Stephen holds a Doctorate in Chamber Music from

the University of Maryland.

From 1997 Stephen was violist of the Coolidge String Quartet based in Washington DC and later Associate Principal Viola of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and part of

the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

Stephen returned to Australia in 2003 to join the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and in 2012 he became the violist of the

Australian String Quartet.

Born in Melbourne, Sharon studied at Melbourne University and ANAM under David Berlin, Philip Green, and Howard Penny. During her university studies she

played regularly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Australia Pro Arte (now Melbourne Chamber Orchestra),

Academy of Melbourne Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. She has toured extensively with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and in 2008 Sharon was appointed a position with the MSO which she held until 2012. She was a regular participant in the MSO’s Chamber Players series and in 2009 she formed the Hopkins String Quartet. Whilst living in Berlin in 2012 Sharon performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Spira Mirabilis Chamber Orchestra.

Sharon also has a passion for teaching, and has tutored ensembles such as the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra’s

National Music Camp orchestras, and has been a guest chamber music tutor at ANAM. In 2015 Sharon performed as a guest with the Australia Ensemble and the Australian World

Orchestra, as well as forming a duo with guitarist Slava Grigoryan.

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The members of the Australian String Quartet are privileged to have access to a matched set of Guadagnini instruments. Hand crafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini between c.1743-1784 in Turin and Piacenza, Italy, these exquisite instruments were brought together through the vision of Ulrike Klein, founder of Ngeringa Arts. For this tour, the viola and cello are on loan to the Australian String Quartet from Ulrike Klein and Ngeringa Arts.

In order to secure the instruments for future generations, Ngeringa Arts has launched the Guadagnini Quartet Project. Its aim is to acquire all four instruments for future generations of Australian musicians and music lovers. Once complete it will be the only matched set of Guadagnini instruments in the world and Ngeringa Arts will hold it in perpetuity.

Already through the generosity of the Klein Family and other donors, Ngeringa Arts has acquired the viola and earlier this year Ngeringa Arts acquired the violin crafted in Turin, 1784, through the generosity of Allan J Myers AO, Maria J Myers AO and the Klein Family. Its next priority is the cello. Crafted in 1743 it is one of his finest and was featured in an international exhibition

in Parma, Italy to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Guadagnini’s birth.

Through the generosity of the Klein Family Foundation, the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation and a group of committed donors we aim to raise the purchase price of $1.83M by 30 June next year. History-making endeavors like this are born from passion. To succeed, Ngeringa Arts needs the involvement of visionaries who understand the significant cultural value in a collection of this calibre. The Board of Ngeringa Arts recognizes and thanks the following patrons who have each made a significant contribution to this project.

Klein Family FoundationAllan J Myers AOMaria J Myers AO James and Diana Ramsay FoundationDiana McLaurinJoan LyonsMrs F.T. MacLachlan OAMMr H.G. MacLachlan

Hartley HigginsDavid and Pam McKeeIan and Pamela WallJanet and Michael HayesRichard HarveyJill RussellLyndsey and Peter HawkinsJari and Bobbie HryckowJanet and Gary TilsleyMary Lou SimpsonAnonymous (1)

Please join Ngeringa Arts in building this extraordinary musical legacy. To donate go to www.ngeringaarts.com

For more information contactAlison BeareGeneral Manager, Ngeringa ArtsP (08) 8227 1277E Alison@ngeringaarts.com

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Adelaide-born violinist Sophie Rowell has had solo engagements with all the major Australian

symphony orchestras and has been Guest Concertmaster with the Scottish Chamber

Orchestra and with the Adelaide, Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras.

Among other awards Sophie won the Young Performer of the Year in 2000 and second prize in the 1999 International

Mozart Competition in Salzburg.

In 2000 Sophie founded the Tankstream Quartet which, in 2006, became the

Australian String Quartet. As first violinist until 2011 with this renowned group she has

performed throughout Australia, Europe, North America, Japan, China and New

Zealand. The Quartet were the winners of the 2005 Cremona and the 2002 Osaka

International Chamber Music Competitions.

She has held teaching positions at the Australian Institute of Music and the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide.

Studying in Sydney with Alice Waten she then undertook further studies in Europe with the Alban Berg Quartet.

Francesca Hiew’s passion for chamber music began at an early age as a student of Emin

Tagiev and Mark Lakirovich at the Stoliarsky School of Music in Brisbane. Having

completed a Bachelor of Music with Michele Walsh at the Queensland Conservatorium,

Francesca continued her studies with William Hennessy at ANAM where she completed a Fellowship focusing on chamber music for mixed string ensembles. In 2012 Francesca co-founded the Auric Quartet, selected as a finalist for the 2013 Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition and the Trondheim

International Chamber Music Competition. The quartet performed in the Melbourne and

Perth International Arts Festivals, Dunkeld Festival of Music and was Quartet-in-Residence at the Four Winds Festival.

Francesca became a permanent member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in

2014 and is a core member of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra (MCO). She has

performed with the Sydney, Tasmanian and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, Victorian Opera, MCO’s Australian Octet and has also appeared as soloist with

the MCO and Orchestra Victoria.

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Sophie Rowell and Francesca Hiew appear courtesy of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Award winning young soprano Allison Bell is fast gaining a reputation as one of the leading and most exciting performers of 20th and 21st century music. Born in Tasmania,she studied

Music and History at the University of Sydney. With the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladmir Jurowski she has performed

the role of Sierva Maria in the world premiere of Peter Eotvos’ opera Love and Other

Demons at Glyndebourne, the UK premieres of Schnittke’s Three Scenes, Three Madrigals,

and Der Gelbe Klang, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the Wigmore Hall, Grisey’s

Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil and Polly Peachum in Die Dreigroschenoper in Paris and London. With the LPO under Michal Dworzynski she performed Gorecki’s Third

Symphony. Recent performances include Le

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Allison acknowledges the generous support of The Richard Carne Trust and Lansons Communications.

Feu, La Princesse and Le Rossignol in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at the Bolshoi, with

Ilan Volkov Zorn’s La Machine de l’Être/BBCSSO, Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi/

CBSO and Ravel’s Shéhérazade/Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, her Concertgebouw

debut featuring Schoenberg and Dean, Pierrot Lunaire at Moscow’s Mossovet Theatre and MONA’s Synaesthesia Festival and Berg’s Lulu Suite, Fauré’s Prométhée and Saint-Saëns Les noces de Prométhée with the Russian State Academic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski at Tchaikovsky Concert

Hall in Moscow. Also Grisey’s Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil in Berlin with Jurowski

and the world premiere of John Tavener’s Flood of Beauty at the Barbican, London.

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“A voice of fertile imagination, originality and expressive subtlety.” Chicago Tribune

Brett Dean studied in Brisbane before moving to Germany in 1984 where he

was a permanent member of the Berliner Philharmoniker for fourteen years. He began composing in 1988, initially concentrating on experimental film and radio projects and as an improvising performer. Dean’s reputation as a composer continued to develop, and it was through works such as his clarinet concerto Ariel´s Music (1995), which won an award from the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and Carlo (1997) for strings,

sampler and tape, inspired by the music of Carlo Gesualdo, that he gained

international recognition.

Now one of the most internationally performed composers of his generation,

much of Dean’s work draws from literary, political, environmental or visual stimuli,

including a number of compositions inspired by paintings by his wife Heather Betts. His

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Artist in Association, BBC Symphony Orchestra Artist in Residence, Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Brett Dean is represented by Intermusica. The works of Brett Dean are published by Boosey & Hawkes.

music is championed by many of the leading conductors and orchestras worldwide,

including Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons, Marin Alsop, David Robertson and

Simone Young.

Dean enjoys a busy performing career as violist and conductor, and since 2005 has been performing his own Viola Concerto

with many of the world’s leading orchestras. standard repertoire. Dean’s career as

conductor is also blossoming alongside his work as composer and performer,

his imaginative programmes usually centred around his own works combined with

other composers’.

His music is performed by many leading orchestras, with highlights including

performances of Dramatis Personae by Håkan Hardenberger with Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Australian premiere by the Australian String Quartet of String Quartet

No.2 “And once I played Ophelia”.

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Arriaga and Mozart share a birthday, though the Basque composer was born 50 years later, and is thus a contemporary of Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schumann. Unlike them, however,

Arriaga died, of a pulmonary infection, days before his twentieth birthday. Born into a mercantile but musical family, Arriaga began composing at the age of 11 with Nada y mucho for

three violins, to which he later added a vocal line and bass part. In 1821 he travelled to Paris where, having impressed the composer Luigi Cherubini (whom Beethoven revered as the second greatest composer), Arriaga was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. Over the next two years he won prizes for counterpoint and fugue, and in 1824 was given a teaching

position at the Conservatoire while still producing a prodigious number of new works. Unfortunately, many of his twenty or so compositions have been lost, or survive in only

fragmentary form, but we know he composed chamber and orchestral music, sacred and secular vocal works, and one ‘opera semiseria’, Los esclavos felices (The Happy Slaves). It is not surprising, given that he was outlived by Beethoven and Schubert, that Arriaga’s music is very

much in the classical, rather than emerging Romantic, tradition.

That being said, the Third Quartet is a work of heightened expressiveness, which opens with the sort of gesture figure that one might find in work from CPE Bach to Beethoven (both, in some senses, proto-Romantics in their different ways). A tightly wound unison figure is stated

emphatically and is answered by quieter fully-harmonised motifs. The development of the material, in an urgent rapid triple metre is full of the kinds of emotive contrasts of texture,

volume and rhythm that also characterises much of Haydn’s music.

The second movement is a descriptive Pastorale, its lilting Italianate melody suggesting the sounds of a shepherd’s pipe (compare the Pastoral Symphony in Messiah) with bird-like

flourishes. The Pastorale also refers to a genre in which separated lovers yearn for one another, which might explain the stormy passion of the central section, which, once spent, returns briefly

to the opening material.

The minor-key Menuetto has some of the same dramatic contrasts of loud unison and soft harmony as the first movement, while the central trio section is rather more equable. The final

Presto agitato is a tour-de-force of driving energy, intricate texture and thematic invention.

Arriaga’s three quartets were published in Paris two years before his death.

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String Quartet no 3 in E flat major Allegro

Pastorale – AndantinoMenuetto - Allegro - Trio plus lent

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The Australian String Quartet is committed to the development of new Australian works and strongly supports Australian composers and the showcasing of their work both nationally

and internationally. We are extremely proud to be presenting the Australian premiere of And once I played Ophelia by Brett Dean within the Transcend national tour. Co-commissioned by the Australian String Quartet, Britten Sinfonia and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival,

this work was made possible by the generosity of a group of patrons and the ASQ would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank them.

Nicholas and Libby Callinan John and Christine Chamberlain

Margaret Flatman John Funder

Hartley Higgins Peter Jopling

Michael and Lu Linton Victor and Barbara Mulder

Allan Myers AO and Maria Myers AO Terry and Pauline O’Brien

Susan Rennie Susan Renouf

Paul and Margarita Schneider Rosita Trinca Lyn Williams

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Brett Dean’s music is championed by conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, David Robertson and Simone Young. In 2009, he won the Grawwemeyer Award for his violin concerto

The Lost Art of Letter Writing and in 2011 received the Elise L Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York. Forthcoming commissions include a Trumpet Concerto for Håkan Hardenberger commissioned by Grafenegg Festival and the Leipzig

Gewandhaus, Danish National Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras.

Dean is busy as a violist with projects with the Doric Quartet, Britten Sinfonia and the Orion Quartet. His blossoming conducting career has led to engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra,

Melbourne Symphony, BBC Philharmonic and Northern Sinfonia.

The composer writes:

Matthew Jocelyn’s text uses not only Ophelia’s own words from Shakespeare’s Hamlet but also words directed towards, or said about her, from the confronting invective of

Hamlet’s ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ or his exalted love poem, ‘Doubt thou the stars are fire’ through to the condescending life directives handed out by her brother Laertes

(‘Best safety lies in fear’) and father, Polonius (‘Do not believe his vows’), and Gertrude’s lyrical description of her suicide. (‘There is a willow…’)

Through a suite of five short movements performed without a break, a concise portrait of Shakespeare’s troubled and elusive young character emerges. As

we discussed the shape of the work, Matthew and I saw it increasingly as an examination of what remains in our memory and understanding of this secondary,

yet utterly pivotal role ‘after all the Ophelias have played Ophelia.’

Though traditionally portrayed as a meek, even weak character, often dressed in flowing white robes and unable to defend herself before the pressures of Elsinore cause her to snap, I’ve often felt that much of what she says betrays a feistier personality than the one we often

are presented. (‘And I that sucked from his musicked vows…’)

And perhaps, just perhaps, Ophelia drowns not from a romantically-fed whim or madness, but simply because of the pure weight of the words others say about her caught irrevocably

in her pockets.

Hence I sensed the drama of a string quartet complemented by a high soprano voice, at times in combat with the forces around her, at times lulled, accompanied, even defeated by them, formed a suitable musical metaphor for this ‘ministering angel’ and the strange,

beguiling spell she casts over us.

© Brett Dean 2014

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String Quartet No. 2, (“And once I played Ophelia”) for string quartet and soprano

Text by Matthew Jocelyn (after Shakespeare’s Hamlet)

In memory of Kate Buchdahl (1964-1992)

I. Fast, breathless II. Hushed, distant III. Fast, agitated IV. Extremely still V. Slow, austere

Co-commissioned by the Australian String Quartet, Britten Sinfonia and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

I. Fast, breathless

Get thee to a nunnery, a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

Very proud, revengeful, ambitious. Wise men know well enough

What monsters you make of them.*

Get thee to a nunnery, a nunnery. Thou shalt not escape.

You jig and amble and you lisp; your wantonness.*

Get thee to a nunnery, to a nunnery go. Go thy ways to a nunnery.

Get thee to a nunnery, Get thee to a –

And I, that sucked the honey of his musicked vows,

Now see what noble reason, like sweet bells, Jangled out of time and harsh,

Blasted with ecstacy.

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String Quartet No. 2, (“And once I played Ophelia”) for string quartet and soprano

II. Hushed, distant

Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth move

Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love.

I did love you once. Ay, truly, I did love you once.

I loved you not.

O woe, t’have seen what I have seen. O, Rose of May.

To the celestial, and my soul’s idol - Doubt thou the stars are fire

Doubt that the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love.

My most dear lady, thine evermore, O most best believe it - I love.

Never doubt I love. I love thee best, believe it.

My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to redeliver.

I pray you now receive them.

III. Fast, agitated

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself

And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven.

This is the very ecstasy of love.

Fear it, fear it, Best safety lies in fear.

Hold it a fashion, this trifling of his favour, Forward, not permanent,

Sweet, not lasting,

The perfume and suppliance of a minute, sno more.

Green girl, do not believe his vows.

These blazes give more light than heat and extinct in both.

Tender yourself more dearly – or you’ll tender me a fool

Green girl, do not believe his vows.

I shall obey, my lord, I shall obey.

IV. Extremely still

There is a willow… Grows askant the brook…

His hoary leaves… There with fantastic garlands…

There on pendant boughs…

V. Slow, austere

Good night ladies, Good night.

Sweet ladies, good night, Come, come my coach,

Good night.

*Texts in italics only to be performed in a whispered, barely audible manner.

© Matthew Jocelyn 2014

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Allison Bell (soprano) / Brett Dean (viola) / Doric String Quartet

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Ignaz Schuppanzigh and his quartet were busy with challenging new works in the mid-1820s: Beethoven had produced his five ‘late quartets’. Then there was Schubert, who produced three

great quartets in the period 1824-26. The D minor Death and the Maiden was performed at a private concert early in 1826. At the rehearsal, according to one story, Schuppanzigh told

Schubert that it was ‘no good. Go back to your songs’!

Of course, he had ‘gone back to his songs’ in this quartet and the Trout Quintet. Schubert’s returning to his Death and the Maiden of 1817 at this point in his life is particularly poignant. In early 1823 he developed symptoms of syphilis, then a terminal disease; his health would

deteriorate over the next years.

In Matthias Claudius’s poem, a young woman pleads with Death:Pass by, oh, pass by me!

Pass by, you cruel skeleton!I am still young – go, please, dear man!

And leave me untouched.Death replies:

Give me your hand, you pretty, sweet creature,I am your friend; I have not come to punish you.

Be of good courage! For I am not cruel;Gently, in my arms, you shall sleep.

In the song, the maiden’s music is agitated and unstable, while Death has a serene, hymnal voice. Significantly, it is only Death’s music that Schubert borrows for the set of five variations

and a coda in the slow movement of his D minor quartet.

Some commentators have suggested that the first movement, with its passionate unison gesture at the start and the ebb and flow of emotional tension that ensues, ‘represents’ the maiden’s terror in this quartet. Be that as it may, the movement’s dramatic surges and enigmatic ending make for a

perfect contrast with the chorale-like chords and simple rhythm of the ‘Death’ music that follows. The second movement explores a number of emotional implications of the theme, but closes as it began, in resigned serenity. The pithy Scherzo has a deliberately strenuous manner, contrasting with long-breathed lyricism in the central, major-key Trio. Much more dance-like is the finale,

the first theme’s insistent triplets recalling the tarantella. The second theme of this sonata-design movement – passed from instrument to instrument amid a scampering of triplets – recalls in

contour, rhythm and phrasing another early song of Schubert which deals with the ambiguities of fear and seduction as another young person is taken before his time: Erlkönig.

© Gordon Kerry 2002

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String Quartet no 14 in D minor, Death and the Maiden, D810 Allegro

Andante con moto Scherzo: Allegro molto – trio

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$350,000+Allan Myers AO & Maria Myers AO$250,000+Klein Family Foundation$50,000+Nicholas & Elizabeth CallinanClitheroe FoundationThyne Reid FoundationRichard Harvey & the late Tess HarveyLyndsey & Peter HawkinsHunt Family Norma LeslieMichael LishmanMacquarie Group FoundationWright Burt FoundationThe Ian Potter Foundation $30,000+Mr Philip BaconWright Burt FoundationJanet & Michael HayesDavid & Pam McKeePeter & Pamela McKeeMrs Diana McLaurin$20,000+Joan Lyons$15,000+Brenda Shanahan Charitable FundJosephine DundonAngela FlanneryLang FoundationSkye McGregorP.M. MenzRobert Salzer Foundation$5000+Don & Veronica AldridgeBernard & Jackie BarnwellBerg Family

John ClaytonHilmer Family FoundationDr E.H & Mrs A. HirschKeith Holt & Anne FullerAndrew & Fiona JohnstonM & F Katz Family FoundationMr Robert KenrickThe Hon Christopher Legoe QC & Jenny LegoeKevin LongThe Late Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBEJohn O’HalloranMrs Jane PorterSusan M RenoufTony & Joan SeymourAndrew Sisson Peter & Melissa SlatteryNigel Steele ScottGary & Janet TilsleyIan Wallace & Kay FreedmanLyn Williams $2,000+Peter AllanJohn & Mary BarlowPhilip BarronDianne Barron-DavisGraham & Charlene BradleyHillier Carter PropertiesRic Chaney & Chris HairJohn & Libby ClappGeoff ClarkCaroline & Robert ClementeDr Peter CliftonDavid Constable AMColin & Robyn CowanMaurice & Tess CrottiDr Neo DouvartzidisMichael J Drew

Jiri & Pamela FialaMargaret FlatmanJohn Funder & Val DiamondAnita Poddar & Peter HoffmannJanet Holmes à Court ACJim & Freda IrenicLynette & Gregory JaunayNeil & June JensMr S JohnsRenata & Andrew KaldorKevin & Barbara KaneMichael & Susan KiernanRod & Elizabeth KingStephen & Kylie KingDr Robert MarinSimon Marks-IsaacsHE & RJ McGlashanHelen & Phil MeddingsMrs Inese MedianikSusan & Frank MorganMrs Frances MorrellJon Nicholson & Jennifer StaffordMrs Jenny Perry (in memory of John)Patricia H ReidJill RussellTrish & Richard Ryan AOJeanette Sandford-Morgan OAMPaul & Margarita SchneiderVivienne SharpeKeith & Dianne SmithElizabeth SymeMr Eng Seng TohMarjorie WhiteJanet WorthAnnie & Philip YoungPamela YuleFay Zaikos$1,000+David & Liz Adams

Michael & Susan ArmitageJohn & Angela ArthurDavid & Caroline BartoloSimon BathgateJean & Geoff BaulchAlison BeareCandy BennettMs Baiba BerzinsBHP Billiton’s Matched Giving ProgramHeather Bonnin OAMBernard & Sharon BoothStephen & Caroline BrainThomas BreenDavid & Kate BullenPam CaldwellCaptain & Mrs D P ClarkePeter Clemenger AO & Joan ClemengerDavid CookeIan & Rosana CochraneRobin Crawford & Judy JoyeMarie DalzielMr James Darling AM & Ms Lesley ForwoodPhilip Griffiths ArchitectsProfessor Keith HancockDr Penny Herbert in memory of Dunstan HerbertHiggins Coatings Pty LtdBarbara JarryBrian L Jones OAMAndy & Jim KatsarosHon Diana Laidlaw AMSue Langley & the late Keith LangleyDr David Leece PSM RFD EDDavid & Anne MarshallJanet McLachlan

Hugo & Brooke MichellDG & KC MorrisVictor & Barbara MulderDonald Munro AM & Jacquelyn MunroKen NielsenTerry & Pauline O’BrienPaul O’DonnellJohn PhillipsLady Potter ACM ResekJohn & Etelka RichardsChris & Fran RobertsMichael & Chris ScobieAntony & Mary Lou SimpsonDick & Caroline SimpsonPamela & Tony SlaterSegue Financial ServicesJenny & Mark TummelCarl VineNicholas WardenTed & Robyn WatersJenny Wily & Adrian Hawkes$500+Julie AlmondDavid & Elaine AnnearTerrey & Anne ArcusProf. Margaret ArstallJohn & Jane AyersMrs J BeareGC Bishop & CM MoronyBE ArchitectureStephen BlockJahn BuhrmanMrs Ann CastonJohn & Christine ChamberlainMary Rose & Tim CooneyAlan Fraser CooperRae De Teliga

The Australian String Quartet would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank the following donors for their ongoing support along with those donors whose very important contribution remains anonymous. The following donations reflect cumulative donations made from 2008 onwards.

The ASQ is registered as a tax deductible recipient. Donations can be made by phoning the ASQ on 1800 040 444.

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Ron DyerMartin DykstraMrs Helen GreensladeMr Robin Greenslade Julian & Stephanie GroseAngela GrutznerJean HadgesDr & Mrs G C HallGerard & Gabby HardistyTim & Irena HarringtonGraeme HarveyMary HaydockMr Hartley HigginsDr Anthony & Emily HortonProf Alan T JamesBO JonesPeter JoplingRose KempEdwina LehmannSJ & EK LipmanMegan LoweGrant LuxtonMs Rose McAleerAlison McIntyreJohn McKay & Claire BrittainJames McLeodIan & Margaret MeakinDr Michaela MeeDr Colin E MooreDavid & Kerrell MorrisJo & Jock MuirJenny NicolLeon & Moira PericlesBasil PhillipsPhil PlummerAnita Poddar & Peter HoffmannGraham & Robyn ReaneyEllen & Marietta ResekPeter RushLeon & Adrian SaturnoDrs Paul Schneider & Margarita SilvaDeborah SchultzDavid ScownSandra StuartJames SymeMrs A.N.Robinson & Dr M.G.TingayJonathan & Jude TolleySimon & Rosita TrincaDr Nancy UnderhillPeter WilkinsonPat & Rosslyn Zito

$100+Marion R AllenBill AndersonDr Reiko AtsumiSylvia BacheMerrawyn BagshawJohn BaldockPatricia BarkerJoy Barrett-LennardSandra BeanhamMrs Jillian BeareMr & Mrs Peter & Alison BeerWendy BirmanMichael BlandGeoffrey & Carol BoltonProfessor John BradleyDavid BrightMax & Elizabeth BullPip BurnettChris & Margaret BurrellAlastair & Sue CampbellTim & Lyndie CarracherDon CarrollRichard & Lina CavillStephanie & the late Max CharlesworthPauline ClearyGreg Coulter & Carolyn PolsonMrs Margaret Daniel OAMSusan DavidsonMrs Daphne DaviesCharles DeakBruce DebelleMary DraperGraham DudleyDr H EastwellMrs Alexandra ElliottLynette EllisMrs Charlotte EnglandSusan FallawPhilip & Barbara FargherMrs Judy FlowerMr John ForsythPamela FoulkesBill & Penny FowlerRichard FrolichChristopher FyfeJen GalleryKelly GellatlyFrances GerardProf. Robert Gilbert

Angela GloverDr Joan Godfrey OBECameron GoodairJan GrantDieter Grant-FrostH.P. GreenbergRoz Greenwood & Marg PhillipsMargaret GregoryGavan GriffithDes GurryBarb HammonAlison HarcourtGeoff HashimotoAnn HawkerAmanda Hayes & Chris Harford Mrs Helen HealyLaurie & Philippa HegvoldMr Dennis HenschkeDudley & Julie HillDavid HilyardEmily HuntAnthony IngersentVernon IrelandRobin IsaacsMr Richard JacksonVirginia JayMs Nola JenningsColin & Susan JohnstonMr Martin KeithAngus & Gloria KennedyDr George KoulourisProf Marcia LangtonWayne & Victoria LaubscherAnne LevySusan LitchfieldPeter LovellMargaret & Cameron MacKenzieGreg Mackie OAMJean MatthewsHelen McBrydeJohn & Jill McEwinDuncan McKayMrs Janice E MenzRichard & Frances MichellMr & Mrs I MillMs Elizabeth MorrisFlorence MorrowRobert & Heather MotteramChris MuirHughbert MurphyJohn & Gay Naffine

Mr Colin NeaveDerrick NicholasLinda NotleyMrs Mary O’HaraJohn OvertonLee PalmerJosie PennaKarin PenttilaSabine PfuhlColin A PhysickMr William PickJ & P PincusDr Roger PlayerJanice PleydellJ & M PollMr Franz PribilJen & Ian RamsayThe Rev’d Dr Philip RaymontIan & Gabrielle ReeceDr James RobinsonMs Chloe RoeMrs Clare RogersLesley RussellMr & Mrs Vincent & Angela RutherfordJenny SalmonMeredyth Sarah AMThe Late Judith SchroderAdrienne ShawMrs Angela SkinnerJudy SloggettMr Michael SteeleBarbara StodartDavid & Jo TamblynRobyn TamkeJolanta TargownikJJ & AL TateHugh Taylor AC & Liz Taylor AMMs Emma Susan TrengoveRoger & Cherry Trengove Sue TweddellJ.P. UhrMr Ian UnderwoodBrian & Robyn WaghornProfessor Ray WalesEric WegmanJonathan Wells QCIan & Hannah WilkeySue WoolleyMr David YoungSarah YuSilvana Zerella

Music Library FundProf Richard Divall AO OBEJohn & Carole GraceRoz Greenwood & Marg PhillipsJanet & Michael HayesMrs Dianna McLaurinGary & Janet Tilsley

International Touring PartnersLead Touring Partner – Klein Family Foundation Michel AngasMichael and Susan ArmitageJohn and Jane AyersBernard and Sharon Booth Julian and Alexandra BurtNicholas and Elizabeth CallinanColin and Robyn CowanJames Darling and Lesley ForwoodPatricia DavidsonRichard and Jan FrolichJulian and Stephanie Grose John HassettPeter and Lyndsey HawkinsDiana Laidlaw AMRod and Elizabeth KingSJ and EK LipmanPauline MenzHugo and Brooke MichellAllan Myers AO and Maria Myers AOJohn PhillipsSusan RenoufJill RussellLeon and Adrian SaturnoJonathan and Jude Tolley

2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with fresh flowers &

bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB

2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with fresh flowers &

bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with

fresh flowers & bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB

2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with

fresh flowers & bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB

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Introducing the new Australian String Quartet Dale Barltrop | Francesca Hiew | Stephen King | Sharon Draper

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National Season 2016

Australian String Quartet

A new era is on the horizon

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2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with fresh flowers &

bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB

2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with fresh flowers &

bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with

fresh flowers & bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

Have a Grand Christmas Party

at RAB

2 courses & glass of sparkling on arrival

$653 courses &

glass of sparkling on arrival

$75

Includes complimentary Christmas table decorations with

fresh flowers & bon-bons

Ph (03) 9611 4567 Minimum 10 people. No further discounts apply.

book today

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The Australian String Quartet is delighted to present two exquisite regional festivals in 2016 including*: leading guest artists the Trüb-Brown Duo

(Luxembourg) featuring cellist Niall Brown and pianist Isabelle Trüb; soprano Sara Macliver; and talented young Australian violist Katie Yap. Set in intimate

surrounds, savour a regional escape and relish the musical highlights including:

A S Q F E S T I V A L S

For more information or to book, go to asq.com.au or call 1800 040 444

Dunkeld Festival of MusicFri 1 – Sun 3 April 2016Sun 3 – Tue 5 April 2016

Set in the magnificent surrounds of Dunkeld in Victoria’s Southern Grampians, enjoy

wonderful hospitality provided by the iconic Royal Mail Hotel with intimate concerts presented in the Myers’ Gallery and the

charming Mt Sturgeon Woolshed.

Margaret River Weekend of MusicFri 8 – Sun 10 April 2016

Savour the best of this spectacular Western Australian wine region with a musical

adventure at Cape Lodge, Fraser Gallop Estate, Vasse Felix and Voyager Estate. With

matched food and wine from four of the region’s finest wineries, this weekend of music

is a feast for the senses.

*Isabelle Trüb appearing Dunkeld Festival of Music only and Sara Macliver appearing Margaret River Weekend of Music only.

Mozart, String Quintet in G minor K516

Dvorák, Piano Quintet no 2 in A major op 81

Beethoven, String Quartet in E-flat major op 74, Harp

Bartók, String Quartet no 3

Schubert, Sonata for cello and piano in A minor D821, Arpeggione

Schoenberg, String Sextet op 4, Verklärtle Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Tchaikovsky, String Sextet in D minor op 70, Souvenir de Florence

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Major Patrons

Leader Sponsor Violist Sponsors Cellist Sponsors

MRS JOAN LYONS &MRS DIDY McLAURIN

PETER & LYNDSEY HAWKINS

CLITHEROE FOUNDATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

PHILIP BACON

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I N T E R N A T I O N A L T O U R I N G P A R T N E R S

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Canberra Co-presenting

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Melbourne Accommodation Sponsor

Sydney Accommodation Sponsor

Adelaide Accommodation Sponsor

Quartet-in-Residence The University of Adelaide

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A S Q B O A R D

Alexandra Burt Nicholas Callinan (Chair)

Janet Hayes Paul Murnane

Maria Myers AO Susan Renouf

Jeanette Sandford-Morgan OAM Angelina Zucco – Chief Executive