MJC Presents

Antelodic + Nat Bartsch (solo)

Antelodic is an instrumental chamber jazz trio featuring the unusual instrumentation of guitar with two saxophones. The woodwinds often perform the role of rhythm section, allowing the guitar to become the melodic voice. The trio has developed a highly nuanced approach to their creative practice that allows them to experiment in the moment while maintaining a unified ensemble sound.

Bandleader and guitarist Robbie Melville, and tenor saxophonist Gideon Brazil, are delighted to be joined by alto saxophonist Angela Davis for this concert. Antelodic will be presenting music from their 2020 album To Iceland! To Iceland! Despite consisting of only three members, their cinematic music feels orchestral in both its dynamic and scope.

Nat Bartsch will open the concert with a set of lyrical solo piano originals, exploring the fecund area between classical and jazz idioms (as she has done on two solo albums).

“While subtly evading expectations, Robbie Melville loads his music with a restrained melancholy
conveying innocence rather than knowingness, the upshot being an unusual emotional ambiguity
blending resignation and contentment. The mix of moods and feelings achieved by Antelodic is rare in
any art form”. – John Shand (Sydney Morning Herald 2021)

Macquarie Conservatorium in association with Musica Viva Australia as part of its Regional Touring program presents

One Summer’s Day

Tamara-Anna Cislowska, piano with introductions by Dan Golding

Celebrating her new ABC Classics album, One Summer’s Day, ARIA award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska and film music expert Dan Golding present the music of Joe Hisaishi, whose enchanting scores have graced so many beloved Studio Ghibli films.

With classics from Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro and more, this music speaks directly to the human heart.

Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s most acclaimed pianists and presenter of the very popular ABC Classic FM program, Duets. Dan Golding is the host of Screen Sounds on ABC Classic FM and an award-winning composer and writer.

Explore the whimsical world of Joe Hisaishi with these two engaging experts.

Camerata Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presents

Orava Quartet in Mad Piper

ARTISTS

Orava Quartet

Special Guest Marian Heckenberg, double bass

PROGRAM

Manuel DE FALLA Danza del molinero (the Miller’s Dance) from Three Cornered Hat

Pavel FISCHER String Quartet No.3 “Mad Piper” (2011)
I. Mad Piper

II. Carpathian

III. Sad Piper

IV. Ursari

Anton DVORAK String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77, B. 49 with Marian Heckenberg

I. Allegro con fuoco

II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

III. Poco andante

IV. Finale. Allegro assai

Proudly ‘Quartet-in-Residence’ since 2014 with Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, Orava Quartet perform a fiery program that will ignite the love of folk music in each of us. From Spanish dances to ‘mad’ Scottish pipe renditions and Slavic rhythms, the string quartet becomes a shape-shifter, changing between art-music sensibilities and those of ancient story-tellers.

Manuel De Falla’s “The Three-Cornered Hat” is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine, commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev. With its premiere in 1919, it still burns with brilliance and intensity. The Miller’s Dance portrays both bull and bullfighter in a fury of athleticism, and into a Flamenco farruca, a ferociously intense dance. The music is passionate and full of lush Spanish harmonies and rhythms.

Pavel Fischer’s ‘Mad Piper’ quartet, composed in 2011, takes its inspiration from pipers of Scotland and continental Europe, namely the brave Piper Bill who played bagpipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy. The quartet draws on Scottish, Czech, Bulgarian and Romanian folk music, blending traditional and western art music, and brimming with legends and wild energy.

Dvorak’s quintet features an unusual addition of the double bass, liberating the cello to a higher and more lyrical line, and giving a lush and full sound. Full of drive and drama, and a fresh rhythmic vitality evoking the vibrant folk dance music of his native land. Written in 1875 at 32 years old, and revised at 47, Dvořák’s maturing compositional technical skill is evident, with touches of fire, melancholy, lyricism and nobility on display. Orava is joined by Camerata’s double bassist, Marian Heckenberg, for this piece.

“The quartet is known for lively and passionate performances, and this was no exception … a thoroughly enjoyable concert.” The Creative Issue, July 2021 (live review, Brisbane Music Festival)

Camerata Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presents

Orava Quartet in Mad Piper

ARTISTS

Orava Quartet

Special Guest Marian Heckenberg, double bass

PROGRAM

Manuel DE FALLA Danza del molinero (the Miller’s Dance) from Three Cornered Hat

Pavel FISCHER String Quartet No.3 “Mad Piper” (2011)
I. Mad Piper

II. Carpathian

III. Sad Piper

IV. Ursari

Anton DVORAK String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77, B. 49 with Marian Heckenberg

I. Allegro con fuoco

II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

III. Poco andante

IV. Finale. Allegro assai

Proudly ‘Quartet-in-Residence’ since 2014 with Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, Orava Quartet perform a fiery program that will ignite the love of folk music in each of us. From Spanish dances to ‘mad’ Scottish pipe renditions and Slavic rhythms, the string quartet becomes a shape-shifter, changing between art-music sensibilities and those of ancient story-tellers.

Manuel De Falla’s “The Three-Cornered Hat” is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine, commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev. With its premiere in 1919, it still burns with brilliance and intensity. The Miller’s Dance portrays both bull and bullfighter in a fury of athleticism, and into a Flamenco farruca, a ferociously intense dance. The music is passionate and full of lush Spanish harmonies and rhythms.

Pavel Fischer’s ‘Mad Piper’ quartet, composed in 2011, takes its inspiration from pipers of Scotland and continental Europe, namely the brave Piper Bill who played bagpipes whilst under fire during the D-Day landing in Normandy. The quartet draws on Scottish, Czech, Bulgarian and Romanian folk music, blending traditional and western art music, and brimming with legends and wild energy.

Dvorak’s quintet features an unusual addition of the double bass, liberating the cello to a higher and more lyrical line, and giving a lush and full sound. Full of drive and drama, and a fresh rhythmic vitality evoking the vibrant folk dance music of his native land. Written in 1875 at 32 years old, and revised at 47, Dvořák’s maturing compositional technical skill is evident, with touches of fire, melancholy, lyricism and nobility on display. Orava is joined by Camerata’s double bassist, Marian Heckenberg, for this piece.

“The quartet is known for lively and passionate performances, and this was no exception … a thoroughly enjoyable concert.” The Creative Issue, July 2021 (live review, Brisbane Music Festival)

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre presents

ANDREW DICKESON TRIO
Jazz Joint

The epitome of classic, swinging jazz at its very best! Andrew Dickeson – one of the Australian jazz scene’s foremost drummers – is joined by longtime collaborators and jazz stalwarts, pianist Peter Locke and double bassist Jacob Graham for this very special concert.

They’ll play arrangements of classic tunes by jazz greats including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Fats Waller, and other famous standards from The Great American Songbook. Andrew Dickeson is one of Australia’s most prominent, prolific and accomplished musicians, and has been a fixture on the Australian Jazz scene for over 25 years. During his career he’s performed with many international jazz greats as well as Australia’s finest jazz musicians, playing on over a hundred albums – many of which are award-winners.

Andrew Dickeson / Drums

Peter Locke / Piano

Jacob Graham / Double Bass

Simon Tedeschi with special guest, George Washingmachine present

An evening dedicated to the legendary Gershwin

Simon Tedeschi, piano

George Washingmachine, jazz vocalist and violinist

Arguably the only classical pianist who crosses so effortlessly into jazz, Avoca favourite Simon Tedeschi teams up with jazz vocalist/violinist George Washingmachine, in a special concert celebrating their shared love of jazz, with standards and more from a new recording together.

Come and be entertained by this dazzling duo as they perform not only Gershwin but Cole Porter, Oscar Peterson, and classics like ‘Let’s Get Lost’, ‘But not for me’, ‘I got rhythm’ and more. Brand new CD only available at the concert.