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12 FEBRUARY — 12 DECEMBER 2021
music that dances, breathes, uplifts, haunts and stimulates
Artistic Director Alex Raineri
www.brismusicfestival.com
MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE
FEBRUARY JULY
Dear Friends,
12 + 13 SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH 2 ORAVA
Jane Sheldon + Alex Raineri Orava Quartet, Alex Raineri
2020, what a year it was! Like so many presenters, organisations, + BMF Young Artists
and artists all over the globe, the BMF was proud to transition to MARCH
23 KARIN
1 + 3 + 5 CRIMSON
an online platform last year. Now, emerging as a phoenix from the Alex Raineri
Karin Schaupp, Trish Dean,
Alex Raineri + BMF Young Artists
cyber-ashes, the BMF returns to the live stage with an ambitious 13 + 21 WONDERLAND 24 HOW STRANGE THE CHANGE
and exciting collection of 24 concert programs throughout 2021. Katie Stenzel + Alex Raineri Sarah Crane, Monika Koerner, Alex Raineri,
28 ENOCH ARDEN Sarah Butler, Brendan Joyce, Jonny Ng,
In an effort to sensibly move forward in what is still a globally Matthew Connell + Alex Raineri Anna Colville, Katherine Philp + BMF Young Artists
turbulent time, most of our incredible 2021 artists are Brisbane- 24 LIZA LIM PORTRAIT CONCERT
APRIL
based and each of our events will have both a live performance Katherine Philp, Alex Raineri, Donica Tran,
23 BEETHOVEN’S CELLO Andre Oberleuter, Dario Scalabrini
event and post-performance digital viewing option. The latter Trish Dean + Alex Raineri
25 THE LARK ASCENDING
plays to the strengths of our 2020 series which saw viewers 24 CELESTIAL SPIRITS Rebekah Hall, Julia Hill, Donica Tran,
Jenna Robertson, Sarah Butler, Harrison Swainston, Shuhei Lawson,
tuning in from over ten countries around the world. We are so Natsuko Yoshimoto, Alex Raineri, Francis Atkins + Alex Raineri
thrilled that we can continue to share stories through music not Jemima Drews, Andre Oberleuter
+ Donica Tran AUGUST
just to the wonderful people of Brisbane, but throughout the
24 BUTTERFLYING 6 + 7 A POET’S LOVE
world via this digital space. Sarah Crane, Shaun Brown + Alex Raineri
Julia Hill + Francis Atkins
The 2021 festival very much embodies the fundamental ethos 25 SHEPHERD ON THE ROCK 19 NATSUKO
Dario Scalabrini, Jemima Drews, Natsuko Yoshimoto + Alex Raineri
of the BMF. This ethos is a two-part mission to present firstly Andre Oberleuter, Francis Atkins,
a balance of music both old and new, and to secondly present Alex Raineri + Jenna Robertson OCTOBER
3 MYTHOLOGY OF NAKED FLESH
in unfamiliar spaces around the city of Brisbane, thereby MAY Katie Stenzel, Matthew Connell
incorporating something of the city itself into the aesthetic 8 + 9 ARCHDUKE + Alex Raineri
Adam Chalabi, Patrick Murphy 31 BOTH SIDES NOW
of the festival. + Alex Raineri Tabatha McFadyen + Alex Raineri
Something that initially started as my personal passion-project, 23 SOMETHING’S COME BETWEEN US
Laura Raineri + Alex Raineri DECEMBER
this festival has built into a much more meaningful event. 10 INTERCURRENT
I view the BMF as a major contributor to the Australian arts scene, Thea Rossen, Alex Raineri, Katherine Philp
+ Dario Scalabrini
a platform for the curation and vibrant delivery of incredible
11 RECEPTION: THE MUSICAL
music, played by Australian artists, presented to an audience of Bethany Simons + Peter de Jager
what can be classed in today’s digital world as ‘global’. 11 GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIR
Alex Raineri
I hope you can join us (either in person, or via your devices)
12 NIGHT WIND
throughout the BMF 2021 season. Peter de Jager
12 TRIO ARGENTI
Alex Raineri Monika Koerner, Trish Dean + Alex Raineri
Artistic Director
All ticketing via www.brismusicfestival.com
TICKETS for LIVE events TICKETS for DIGITAL events Please note that altered ticketing
Adult $50 Fixed rate AUD20 rates apply for
Concession $30 Songs of Love and Death,
Student $20 Wonderland + A Poet’s Love.
FEBRUARY MARCH
CRIMSON
7:30 – 9pm, Monday March 1 Extremely limited-capacity performances in BMF
7:30 – 9pm, Wednesday March 3 Artistic Director Alex Raineri’s music studio wherein
7:30 – 9pm, Friday March 5 the familiar sounds of Beethoven and Brahms are
Bowen Studio juxtaposed with more recent sonic adventures.
356 Bowen Tce, New Farm Brett Dean’s miniatures derive their musical impetus
from Brahms’ magnificent Op. 119 Four Pieces, and
Alex Raineri Piano act as interludes within the older masters music. They
Opera Queensland + Brisbane Music Festival present
weave a captivating dialogue between the old world
SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and the new.
7:00 – 8:15pm, Friday February 12 Songs that promise to enchant and haunt in equal The thing is, I think
Australian Premiere Performance Rebecca Saunders is one of the most prominent
2:00 – 3:15pm, Saturday February 13 measure, leading Australian soprano Jane Sheldon,
Rebecca Saunders figures in contemporary composition, though her
Opera Queensland Studio praised by The Washington Post as “a stunning
Crimson music is shamefully under-represented in Australia.
140 Grey St, South Bank performer” appears courtesy of the BMF’s 2021
Australian Premiere Performance Crimson is a study of colour in sound, the score being
partnership with Opera Queensland.
INTERVAL prefaced with a quote from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Jane Sheldon Soprano Messiaen’s Harawi is a journey through peaks of “that awful deepdown torrent…the sea crimson
Alex Raineri Piano Beethoven
ecstasy and embrace that culminates in a death sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets”.
Capriccio in G major, Op. 129 ‘Rage Over a Lost Penny’
of lovers, remarkably Wagnerian in its sentiment
Jane Sheldon / Julian Curwin Brett Dean Refreshments and a complimentary drink will be
and scale. To complement, is an original work by
Ophelia Hommage à Brahms provided at interval.
Sheldon depicting Shakespeare’s troubled Ophelia
Debussy Brahms
and Debussy’s settings of erotically-charged ancient
Chanson de Bilitis Vier Klavierstücke, Op. 119
Greek texts in the Songs of Bilitis.
Messiaen
Harawi
MARCH
Tumble down the rabbit hole with soprano Katie Victorian Theatre Company + Brisbane Music Festival present
Stenzel + Alex Raineri. After a wildly popular ENOCH ARDEN DIGITAL EVENT
WONDERLAND TOURING EVENT outing in the 2020 digital BMF, ‘Wonderland’
Digital Event
continued to a sold-out season at QPAC and now Charting a perilous journey through rough seas,
2 – 3pm, Saturday March 13 Premiering on Sunday March 28
hits the road, travelling to Bundaberg and Maleny. shipwreck and heartache, Richard Strauss’ epic
Moncrieff Entertainment Centre 10:00 – 11:30am AEST
melodrama collides with the sweeping poetry
177 Bourbong St, Bundaberg ‘Wonderland’ features a vivid genre-encompassing 7:00 – 8:30pm AEST
of Alfred Lord Tennyson to tell the story of
selection from opera, art song, music theatre and
Enoch Arden, a lost sailor trying to navigate
2 – 3pm, Sunday March 21 a little bit of silliness to finish! Matthew Connell Narrator
his way home.
Maleny Community Centre From the intimate utterances of Hahn and Alex Raineri Piano
Filmed at the Alex Theatre in Melbourne, this
23 Maple St, Maleny Vaughan-Williams to the virtuosic coloratura of
Jak Scanlon Film Director performance offers a unique and experimental
famous arias from Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville’ and
Kurtis Lowden Director of Filmed Performance take on the Strauss/Tennyson original. Exploring
Katie Stenzel Soprano Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’, this program has a little
Jennifer Dean Producer the possibilities of cross disciplinary performance
Alex Raineri Piano something for everyone.
Chelsea Neate Graphic Designer marking, BMF & VTC bring together live music,
Thomas Kunz Sound Designer poetry and film to tell the story of Enoch Arden in
a world first of its kind.
Strauss / Tennyson
Enoch Arden, Op. 38
Rossini
Una voce poco fa from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Debussy
Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque
Hahn
A Chloris
Mozart
An Chloë, K.524
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
from Die Zauberflöte
Grainger
Molly on the Shore
Irish Tune from County Derry ‘Danny Boy’
Vaughan-Williams
Dreamland
Adam Guettel
The Light in the Piazza
Kate Miller-Heidke/Iain Graindage
Where? from The Rabbits
Tom Lehrer
I got it from Agnes
ENOCH ARDEN
APRIL
BEETHOVEN’S CELLO
CELESTIAL SPIRITS
6:30 – 9:30pm, Friday April 23 Trish Dean + Alex Raineri perform a rarely-
St Mary’s Anglican Church attempted, full cycle of the masterworks that are
455 Main St, Kangaroo Point Beethoven’s Sonatas for Cello + Piano. This gives
listeners the fascinating opportunity to experience
Trish Dean Cello the morphing compositional style of one of history’s
Alex Raineri Piano great composers, from the exuberant youthfulness
of the early sonatas to the profound gravitas and
Beethoven transcendent spirituality of the late works.
Sonata #1 in F major, Op. 5
Look out over the stunning cityscape of Brisbane
Sonata #2 in G minor, Op. 5
while enjoying wine and cheese in the two intervals
INTERVAL of this mini-marathon.
Sonata #3 in A major, Op. 69 Refreshments and a complimentary drink will be
Sonata #4 in C major, Op. 102 provided at each interval.
INTERVAL
CELESTIAL SPIRITS
Sonata #5 in D major, Op. 102
1:30 – 3:30pm, Saturday April 24 Many BMF artists come together for this
St Mary’s Anglican Church performance in celebration of concertos from
455 Main St, Kangaroo Point the Baroque era, threaded together by celestial
chants of 12th century composer, mystic, and
Jenna Robertson Soprano visionary, Hildegard von Bingen.
Sarah Butler Trumpet
At interval, enjoy a glass of bubbles and the
Natsuko Yoshimoto Violin*
gorgeous view of Brisbane City before the
Alex Raineri Piano + Harpsichord
music moves forward in time with Natsuko
Jemima Drews Flute
Yoshimoto and Alex Raineri taking the spotlight
Andre Oberleuter Bassoon
as soloists.
Donica Tran Violin^
BMF Young Artists The afternoon concludes with a musical excerpt
from an incredible new opera in development
Hildegard von Bingen titled Spirit Orphan. Created and performed
Chants for the Celestial Hierarchy by Jenna Robertson with music and sound
Stölzel design by composer Corrina Bonshek, Spirit
Trumpet Concerto in D major Orphan is a meditation on belonging and the
Tartini resonance of place in response to 2019 bushfire
Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’^ experiences in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
Vivaldi Refreshments and a complimentary drink will
Bassoon Concerto in G minor, RV 945 be provided at interval.
Flute Concerto in F minor, RV 439 ‘La Notte’
INTERVAL
Schubert
Rondo in A major for Violin + Strings*
Finzi
Eclogue for Piano and Strings, Op. 10 Photos left to right:
Jenna Robertson Soprano
Jenna Robertson / Corrina Bonshek Sarah Butler Trumpet
Spirit Orphan Natsuko Yoshimoto Violin
APRIL
BUTTERFLYING
6 – 7pm, Saturday April 24 Prior to departing for Japan on scholarship,
St Mary’s Anglican Church violinist Julia Hill in partnership with fellow BMF
455 Main St, Kangaroo Point young artist Francis Atkins are featured recitalists
in this wonderful program.
Julia Hill Violin
The profoundly reverential sounds of Bach’s
Francis Atkins Piano
famous Solo Sonata in G minor will reverberate
through the beautiful acoustics of Brisbane’s iconic
Bach
St Mary’s.
Violin Sonata #1 in G minor, BWV 1001
Clara Schumann Clara Schumann and Elena Kats-Chernin’s works
Three Romances for Violin + Piano, Op. 22 tells stories of passion, intimacy, and deep
Elena Kats-Chernin expression. The concert concludes with Poulenc’s
Butterflying witty, sentimental, and charming Sonata.
Poulenc
Sonata for Violin + Piano, FP 119 SHEPHERD ON THE ROCK
BUTTERFLYING
3:00 – 4:30pm, Sunday April 25 Featuring three of Australia’s rising stars, BMF
St Mary’s Anglican Church young artists Jemima Drews, Dario Scalabrini +
455 Main St, Kangaroo Point Andre Oberleuter step into the spotlight with a
vastly contrasting array of works featuring wind
Jemima Drews Flute instruments.
Dario Scalabrini Clarinet
Venturing through states of extroversion
Andre Oberleuter Bassoon
in Weber’s Grand Duo, playful lyricism in
Francis Atkins Piano
Koechlin’s Sonata, the earthy ritualistic swirls
Alex Raineri Piano
of Jolivet, and the gorgeous perfection of
Jenna Robertson Soprano
Schubert, the music then turns homeward to
the works of three Australian composers.
Weber
Grand duo Concertant, Op. 48 Refreshments and a complimentary drink will
Koechlin be provided at interval.
Sonata pour Bassoon et Piano
Jolivet
Chant de Linos
INTERVAL
Schubert
The Shepherd on the Rock, D.965
Dulcie Holland
Coomera
Alexander Voltz
Rhapsody for Flute + Piano
World Premiere Performance
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Concertino da camera
MAY
SOMETHING’S COME BETWEEN US DIGITAL ONLY EVENT
Premiering on Sunday May 23 Musical-theatre performer Laura Raineri’s
10 – 11am AEST appearance in the 2020 BMF received critical praise
ARCHDUKE 7 – 8pm AEST as being “compelling, powerful, appropriately
fragile…”
7:30 – 8:30pm, Saturday May 8 Presented in the intimate acoustics of 4MBS
Laura Raineri Voice
2:00 – 3:30pm, Sunday May 9 Classic FM’s recording studio, two of Brisbane’s In a BMF first, sibling duo Laura + Alex Raineri will
Alex Raineri Piano
4MBS Studio finest string players Adam Chalabi + Patrick present a digital-only collaboration via distance, the
Jordon He Arranger
384 Old Cleveland Rd, Coorparoo Murphy join forces with BMF Artistic Director performers being based (and stuck) in London and
Jai Farrell Image + Sound
Alex Raineri to present one of the great pinnacles Brisbane respectively.
Adam Chalabi Violin of chamber music, Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Trio.
Special arrangements of songs made famous by Ella The show includes a wonderfully varied setlist of
Patrick Murphy Cello
Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Kate Miller-Heidke, Sinead songs from Broadway musicals, alongside jazz
Alex Raineri Piano
O’Connor, Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, Lady standards and pop songs.
Gaga, Kermit the Frog, and many many more.
Haydn
Piano Trio in A major, Hob.XV:18
Beethoven
ARCHDUKE
Piano Trio in Bb major, Op. 97 ‘Archduke’
SOMETHING’S COME BETWEEN US
JULY
KARIN
7:30 – 8:30pm, Friday July 23
City Workshop
139/145 Charlotte St,
Brisbane City
ORAVA
7:30 – 8:30pm, Friday July 2 “...beautifully calculated and coordinated, Karin Schaupp Guitar
Salvation Army Brisbane City Temple time and motion seemed to defy the laws of Trish Dean Cello
167 Ann St, Brisbane City physics” The Washington Post Alex Raineri Piano
Jeremy Stafford Guitar*
One of Australia’s most in-demand acts,
Orava Quartet BMF Young Artists
the Orava Quartet have swiftly risen to
Alex Raineri Piano
international fame as one of the hottest young
BMF Young Artists
quartets on the scene. They frequently appear
in all of the major Australian festivals and
Trad. Folk Tunes (arr. Danish String Quartet)
venues and in 2018 released their debut album
Wood Works (Selections)
on Deutsche Grammophon Australia. This
Shostakovich
concert is not to be missed!
Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
ORAVA
Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
KARIN
Vivaldi
Concerto for Lute in D, RV93
Sor
Six Valses Op. 39 (selections)*
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
One of the world’s leading classical guitarists,
Karin Schaupp is hugely respected as one of
Australia’s most cherished and celebrated artists.
Exploring a range of music that plays to the
idiomatic strengths of the guitar, the program
Fantasia, Op. 145
traverses music from all over the globe – works
Leo Brouwer
by Italian, Cuban, Argentinian and Brazilian
Eulogy to the Dance
composers. Also featured is the premiere of a
Piazzolla
new work by Yitzhak Yedid for guitar and piano.
Café 1930 from Histoire du Tango
Yitzhak Yedid This intimate performance is sure to be a sell-
A Kiss for Death out, book quick!
World Premiere Performance
Gnattali
Sonata for Guitar and Cello
JULY
LIZA LIM PORTRAIT CONCERT
7:30 – 9pm, Saturday July 24 One of Australia’s most internationally
City Workshop respected composers, Liza Lim’s music focusses
139/145 Charlotte St, Brisbane City on collaborative and transcultural practices.
Ideas of beauty, ecological connection and
Erik Griswold Composer Katherine Philp Cello ritual transformation are ongoing concerns in
Alex Raineri Piano her compositional work.
Donica Tran Violin
A rare chance to experience a vast body of her
Andre Oberleuter Bassoon
music for only one or two performers at a time,
Dario Scalabrini Clarinet
this concert pays homage to one of the truly
great voices of Australian composition.
Liza Lim
Invisibility
Axis Mundi
Inguz
Philtre
INTERVAL
The Four Seasons
HOW STRANGE THE CHANGE
1 – 3pm, Saturday July 24
City Workshop
139/145 Charlotte St, Brisbane City
Schubert
Fantasia in F minor, D.940
Mahler
LIZA LIM PORTRAIT CONCERT
Piano Quartet in A minor
Sarah Crane Soprano Strauss
Monika Koerner Flute Vier Lieder Op. 27
Alex Raineri Piano INTERVAL
Rebekah Hall Violin
Schubert
Harrison Swainston Viola
Introduction and Variations ‘Trockne Blumen’ D.802
Shuhei Lawson Cello
Erik Griswold
Francis Atkins Piano
How Strange the Change*
World Premiere Performance
Sarah Butler Trumpet*
Jemima Drews Flute*
Dario Scalabrini Clarinet* Lots of Schubert, a fair dollop of romanticism, and
Brendan Joyce Violin* something brand new. Erik Griswold’s How Strange
Jonny Ng Violin* the Change is a commentary on the bizarreness that
Anna Colville Viola* was the year 2020.
Katherine Philp Cello* Join us for music that soars, gallops, sings, and tells
stories of profound humanity.
JULY AUGUST
Opera Queensland + Brisbane Music Festival present
A POET’S LOVE
7 – 8pm, Friday August 6 In this second recital in collaboration with
2 – 3pm, Saturday August 7 Opera Queensland, join soprano Sarah Crane,
Opera Queensland Studio baritone Shaun Brown and Artistic Director
THE LARK ASCENDING
140 Grey St, South Bank Alex Raineri, for a celebration of poetry and
song through two seminal song-cycles.
Sarah Crane Soprano
Gustav Mahler’s transcendent Rückert Lieder
Shaun Brown Baritone
cast a uniquely magical spell, transporting the
Alex Raineri Piano
audience to an incorporeal, heavenly plane.
Schumann’s Dichterliebe embodies more
3 – 5pm, Sunday July 25 Schubert (arr. French)
earthly sentiments, a collection of songs that
City Workshop Ständchen
speak of dreams and fairy tales.
139/145 Charlotte St, Brisbane City Schubert / Liszt
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Rebekah Hall Violin* Mahler
Julia Hill Violin^ Rückert-Lieder
Donica Tran Violin Schumann
Harrison Swainston Viola Dichterliebe
Shuhei Lawson Cello
Francis Atkins Piano
A POET’S LOVE
Alex Raineri Piano
Vaughan-Williams
The Lark Ascending*
Martinu
Variations on a Theme by Rossini
Chopin
Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor
INTERVAL
Leonardo Silva
Preludes
World Premiere Performance
Britten
Lachrymae, Op. 48
Iannis Xenakis
Dikhthas^
Showcasing the magnificent talents of six
BMF young aritsts, this concert journeys
through incredibly varied musical territories.
From the pastoral soaring melodies of The
Lark Ascending, Ravel’s kaleidoscopic Piano
Trio, the granular virtuosity of Iannis Xenakis
and dramatically powerful Chopin, this
performance promises to thrill, entertain,
and challenge in equal measure.
Photos top to bottom:
Shuhei Lawson Cello
Harrison Swainston Viola
Julia Hill Violin
Francis Atkins Piano
Donica Tran Violin
Rebekah Hall ViolinAUGUST OCTOBER
MYTHOLOGY OF NAKED FLESH DIGITAL ONLY EVENT
Premiering on Sunday October 3 Strictly for adults only, this digital-only event is a
10 – 11am AEST musical exploration of sensuality, slowly over the
NATSUKO 7 – 8pm AEST course of the show transfiguring its sentiments to
7:30 – 8:30pm, Thursday August 19 One of Australia’s top classical music superstars, the erotic.
Metro Arts, New Benner Theatre Natusko Yoshimoto is highly regarded as one of Katie Stenzel Soprano
Britten’s toe-tapping Cabaret Songs are imbued with
111 Boundary St, West End the country’s best artists. For eleven years she Matthew Connell Actor
an undercurrent of suggestion. Scriabin’s Towards
was the concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Alex Raineri Piano
the Flame ventures to less abstract territory – an
Natsuko Yoshimoto Violin Orchestra and is a former leader of the Australian Jai Farrell Image + Sound
incredible slow build of monstrous textural density.
Alex Raineri Piano String Quartet. Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre is an intensively
Britten
In partnership with BMF Artistic Director Alex athletic showpiece, derived from his bizarre and
Debussy Cabaret Songs
Raineri, Yoshimoto performs three staple works of deeply sexually-charged opera Le Grand Macabre.
Sonata for Violin and Piano, L. 140 Scriabin
the violin + piano repertoire. A new work from Melbourne-based composer Luke
Ravel Vers la flamme, Op. 72
Sonata for Violin and Piano #2 This promises to be a major highlight of the 2021 György Ligeti Paulding for actor and piano explores connections
Franck BMF, not to be missed! Mysteries of the Macabre and fractures between sexuality, intimacy and ritual.
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major Luke Paulding The work utilises visceral physicality and subverted
NATSUKO
beneath the mythology, his naked flesh mannerisms inspired by pornography, fetish culture
World Premiere Performance and queer performance art.
Strauss (arr. Raineri) The show crashes to its finale with Raineri’s
Dance of the Seven Veils arrangement of the famous Dance of the Seven Veils.
.
Please note that this event contains adult themes,
strong language and nudity.
MYTHOLOGY OF NAKED FLESHOCTOBER DECEMBER
INTERCURRENT
7:30 – 8:30pm, Friday December 10 Perth-based percussionist Thea Rossen is
Judith Wright Arts Centre a unique communicator, her performances
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley imbued with a vivid sense of fearlessness
BOTH SIDES NOW DIGITAL ONLY EVENT and intense energy.
Thea Rossen Percussion
Premiering on Sunday October 31 Raw, honest, smoky, emotional, a little-bit The swirling hypnosis of Luther-Adams
Alex Raineri Piano
10 – 11am AEST cabaret, a little-bit not. Having spent most of and Skipworth’s music bookends award-
Katherine Philp Cello
7 – 8pm AEST her career performing the music of the great winning American composer Ashley
Dario Scalabrini Clarinet
classical composers, Tabatha McFadyen Fure’s exploration of inner organisms in
Tabatha McFadyen Voice here explores an earthier dimension of her her scurrying trio Therefore I Was. Also
Lachlan Skipworth
Alex Raineri Piano artistry in this digital-only event. featured is a new work by Jodie Rottle
Intercurrent
James Dobinson Arranger that encapsulates sounds of the everyday.
Alongside her long-time musical partner Jodie Rottle
Jai Farrell Image + Sound New Work In her first ever appearance in Brisbane
in crime Alex Raineri, McFadyen sings the
music of the women who taught her what it World Premiere Performance as a soloist, Rossen promises to enchant
Songs by Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Ashley Fure with her unique capacity for storytelling
was to write, to love, to suffer, to risk it all,
Marianne Faithfull, Shirley Bassey, Therefore I Was through music.
to lose it all and to come out the other side.
Carole King, Marlene Dietrich, Nina Simone, Australian Premiere Performance
Björk, Edith Piaf, and others. John Luther-Adams
Red Arc / Blue VeilDECEMBER
RECEPTION: THE MUSICAL
5:00 – 6:30pm, Saturday December 11 A celebration of administration! GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIR
Judith Wright Arts Centre
Reception: The Musical tells the tale of 7:30 – 8:30pm, Saturday December 11
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
a receptionist who finds joy in the manic Judith Wright Arts Centre
world of customer service, swivel chairs 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
Written & Performed by
and acronyms. Inspired by true stories from
Bethany Simons + Peter de Jager
behind the front desk, this award-winning Alex Raineri Piano
Director David Wicks
cabaret comedy is a must-see for office
Choreography Joseph Simons
workers and music lovers everywhere. Get Debussy
your post-it notes ready – it’s the office Préludes, Book 1
memo you don’t want to miss! Melody Eötvös
With a pile of awards, nominations and Piano Sonata No. 2
national tours in its top drawer, this World Premiere Performance
uplifting and hilarious production features
a toe-tapping original score of songs Claude Debussy’s Préludes feature both
including My Name is Bethany (Not magical moments of subtlety and surges
Stephanie), Do You Have Sticky Tape, They of electric virtuosity. Included within the
Ring My Bell and more. Book 1 collection are popular favourites
such as Girl with the Flaxen Hair and
The Sunken Cathedral.
Australian composer Melody Eötvös has in
recent years rapidly forged a name as one
of the country’s brightest compositional
voices. Her Piano Sonata No. 2 promises
to be a journey of vivid contrasts, taking
the listener on an emotional rollercoaster.
GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIRDECEMBER
NIGHT WIND 4 – 5pm, Sunday December 12
Judith Wright Arts Centre
“What are you wailing about, night wind, what are
TRIO ARGENTI
6:30 – 8pm, Sunday December 12
Judith Wright Arts Centre
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
Monika Koerner Flute
The newly formed Trio Argenti brings together
three of Brisbane’s busiest freelance musicians,
here performing a mixture of the familiar and
the curious.
The melodic beauty of Schubert and romantic
you bemoaning with such fury?” Trish Dean Cello
420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley sweep of Rachmaninoff envelope Saariaho’s
So reads an extract of the poem that prefaces Alex Raineri Piano
flickering Cinders.
Nikolai Medtner’s mighty Night Wind Sonata.
Peter de Jager Piano Rachmaninoff Bathed in a sea of blue light, Trio Argenti
A contemporary of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin,
Medtner’s music follows very much in the same vein Trio élégaique #1 in G minor bring the 2021 festival to a close, taking a
Albéniz Kaija Saariaho sonic plunge to the depths of the ocean with
in regards to grand sentiment and scale.
El Albaicín and Lavapiés from Iberia Cendres Crumb’s magical Voice of the Whale.
Scarlatti Peter de Jager, one of Australia’s leading pianists, Schubert
Sonata in D major, K491 fills the air with the sounds of Andalusia in Albéniz’s Notturno in Eb major, Op. 148
Sonata in A minor, K175 flamenco flurries. Also featured are two of Scarlatti’s
INTERVAL
Medtner most vibrantly virtuosic piano sonatas.
Sonata in E minor, Op. 25 #2 ‘Night Wind’ George Crumb
Vox Balaenae
TRIO ARGENTIAlex Raineri Artistic Director + Producer
Elaine Seeto Associate Producer
Jai Farrell Audio Engineer + Videographer
@BrisbaneMusicFestival
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