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The 11th Kowmung Music Festival will be held over the weekend of Friday 14 March to Sunday 16 March 2008
A MESSAGE FROM ROHAN SMITH, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dear Friends, Please join us for three outstanding programs of chamber music over the weekend of 14-16 March in the Oberon high country. Acclaimed Australian and overseas musicians perform in the uniquely atmospheric and intimate venue of Middle Creek Shearing Shed with its vivid acoustics and in the new Laureldale Festival Tent in its incomparable scenic setting. Audiences experience the magic of live music with the sounds of wind, creaking corrugated iron, birds and the occasional bull singing along with the music! Before and after concerts artists and audience mingle, enjoy a pre-concert picnic or Supper under the Stars. Festival artists include international musicians Sandro Costantino, viola; Eva Gruesser, violin; George Lopez, piano; and Rohan Smith, violin; and prominent Australian musicians Yvette Goodchild, viola; Peter Jenkin, clarinet; Marina Marsden, violin; and David Rowden, clarinet. Please click here for their biographies.
Rohan Smith, Artistic Director Concert Program Haydn String Quartet in F, Op. 77, No. 2 The festival opens with two Viennese masterpieces paired with the meditative “Blue Silence” by Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Haydn’s quartet Op. 77 is one of his most richly inventive, with brilliant outer movements and a beautiful Theme and Variations. The autumnal Brahms Clarinet Quintet with its wonderful interplay between solo clarinet and strings is full of serene and warm melodies. Carl Maria von Weber “Invitation to the Dance” for chamber ensemble, arranged by Todd Palmer J.S. Bach - Partita no 1 in B flat, BWV 825 for keyboard solo Praeludium Frédéric Chopin - 3 Mazurkas in A minor for solo piano INTERVALRoss Edwards - "Ecstatic Dances" for viola, cello Igor Stravinsky - Ragtime & Tango from "L'Histoire du Soldat" for clarinet, violin, piano Encores "The Piano and Friends” Shostakovich Quintet in G for piano and strings, Op. 57 On this program we will hear masterpieces by two composers who were great pianists in their own right. The Shostakovich Piano Quintet, written in 1940, was an instant public success. Seen as “a last ray of light before the future sank into a dark gloom”, it captured the darkness and defiance of that desperate period. The Brahms A major Piano Quartet was strongly influenced by Schubert and is full of lyrical intensity. We will also hear the delightful and witty Milhaud Trio from his incidental music to “The Voyage without Baggage”. Come early and bring your picnic basket to enjoy this scenic bush setting! Bookings & Information For up-to-date information call (02) 6335 6307 All concerts: $45. Students: $20. Supper under the Stars: $25 per person Rohan Smith, Artistic Director
Kowmung picnicking delights, before Andrew Ford’s 50th birthday concert, Abercrombie Caves
Eva Gruesser (violin), Rohan Smith (violin), Susanne Powell (piano), Kristy Conrau (cello) and Anne-Louise Comerford (viola) performing Brahms Quintet in F minor, in the Middle Creek Shearing Shed
Mirella Smith (9) narrated Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite. Eva Gruesser (violin), Anne-Louise Comerford (viola), Kristy Conrau (cello), Alex Henery (double bass)
Much enjoyed by the capacity audience in the historic shearing shed Do come and enjoy our Festival Opening Night in the Shearing Shed on 14 March! For new information on Kowmung 2008, please bookmark this website. We are also happy to add to our mailing list for printed copy. Please email us at info@kowmung.com.au Meanwhile, lots of other attractive things happen in and around Oberon. Click here for information. |
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Kowmung
Music Festival is a member of and works with
OPTA, Blue
Mountains Tourism,
Oberon Business Association, Oberon Arts Council and Arts
OutWest.
Thank you to our Kowmung Sponsors
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