Markiyan Melnychenko (violin) & Stewart Kelly (piano), acclaimed soloists and chamber musicians, perform an eclectic program of Mozart and Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin together with Saint-Saens introduction and Rondo, and Mykola Kolessa – 3 Kolomyiky (Ukrainian Dances).
violin recital
The Parlour: Britten, Vaughan Williams, Gibbs, Scott & more
ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA 4
In August 2023, 3MBS will embark on its first-ever international collaboration with the English Music Festival to present the English Music Festival in Australia (EMFA).
This inaugural festival comprises four concerts that will explore chamber music, art song, and solo instrumental works by late nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century English composers and Australian composers of English descent.
This concert: English art songs and solo piano works by Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Roger Quilter, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Wolseley Charles.
Russell + Laussade: Dyson, Fauré/Grainger, Britten & Elgar
ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA 3
In August 2023, 3MBS will embark on its first-ever international collaboration with the English Music Festival to present the English Music Festival in Australia (EMFA).
This inaugural festival comprises four concerts that will explore chamber music, art song, and solo instrumental works by late nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century English composers and Australian composers of English descent.
This concert: a program of English song cycles and solo piano works, including Sir George Dyson’s Epigrams for piano, Gabriel Fauré’s Après un rêve, Op.7 No.1 arranged by Percy Grainger, and Sir Edward Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Op.37
Marshall-Luck + Fujimura: Kelly, Horsley & Elgar
ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA 2
One of the highlights of the EMFA program is Frederick Septimus Kelly's Violin Sonata in G Major Gallipoli, which will be performed by Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) and Kenji Fujimura (piano).
Born in Sydney in 1881, Kelly moved to England when he was twelve years old to attend Eton College and went on to study at Oxford and in Frankfurt. He won a gold medal in rowing at the 1908 Olympics, but his passion was always music and he devoted his time to becoming a great musician. Kelly signed up as the First World War broke out and was posted to Gallipoli in the Royal Naval Division and it was in the trenches that he composed this violin sonata for the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Jelly D’Arányi.
Williams + Seaw: Korngold, Kapustin, Dvořák & Franck
MUCH ADO ABOUT MUSIC
An afternoon of musical journey with a program featuring some of the most passionate and powerful works in the repertoire. Rachel Williams and Melinda Seaw will perform Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing Suite, a delightful and energetic tribute to Shakespeare; Kapustin's Violin Sonata No. 1, a stunning fusion of classical and jazz styles; Dvořák's lush and lyrical Four Romantic Pieces; and Franck's Violin Sonata in A major, a deeply moving work full of drama and intensity.
Duo Rigby and Gu: Vaughan Williams, Kouvaras, Tang, C Schumann, Debussy & Franck
JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOTHERLAND
Matthew Rigby, violin
Yiyun Gu, piano
PROGRAM
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (1914)
Linda KOUVARAS The Sky is Melting (2000)
A. TANG Suite: Homeland Dreams (1978)
Clara SCHUMANN Three Romances Op. 22
Claude DEBUSSY The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
César FRANCK Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano César Franck (1886)
Freer: Bach, Freer, Matteis, Penderecki, Purcell and more
THE LONG WAY HOME
Anna Freer is an Australian born violinist, singer and poet. Having completed a Masters with Distinction at the ZHdK, Zürich, she is back in Australia to tell stories through music and words in sensitive and dynamic ways, and especially in this solo recital program, a story of going away and coming home told through the lens of folk and fantasy