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LOVE AND LUST CSO OPERA GALA
SEASON 2018
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VERDI La Traviata: Prelude Act One 4’ROSSINI Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Una voce poco fa (Livia Brash) 6’VERDI Macbetto: Come dal ciel precipita (Christopher Curcuruto) 4’VERDI Falstaff: Sul fil d’un soffio etesio (Ayako Ohtake, Pacific Opera Female Ensemble) 5’PUCCINI Tosca: E lucevan le stelle (Caleb Son) 4’R STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos: Es gibt ein Reich (Laura Scandizzo) 6’BEETHOVEN Fidelio: Mir ist so wunderbar (Ayako Ohtake, Laura Scandizzo, Caleb Son, Chrisopher Curcuruto) 4’MASSENET Thaïs: Meditation (CSO Guest Concertmaster, Pacific Opera Ensemble) 5’MASSENET Hérodiade: Il est doux, Il est bon (Livia Brash) 5’DELIBES Lakmé: Sous le dôme épais (Ayako Ohtake, Laura Scandizzo) 6’
INTERVAL
TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin: Polonaise 5’TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin: Kuda, kuda vï udalilis (Caleb Son) 6’CILEA La Wally: Ebben ne andrò lontana (Laura Scandizzo) 4’VERDI Rigoletto: Caro nome (Ayako Ohtake, Pacific Opera Ensemble) 6’VERDI Rigoletto: Storm scene (Ayako Ohtake, Livia Brash, Caleb Son, Chrisopher Curcuruto, Pacific Opera Ensemble) 8’VERDI La Traviata: Brindisi (Pacific Opera Ensemble) 3’J STRAUSS Die Fledermaus: Champagne Trio, Act Two (Pacific Opera Ensemble) 3’
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Saturday 9 June, 2018Llewellyn Hall, ANU, 7.30pm
Simon Kenway ConductorIan Warwick Director2017 Pacific Opera Young Director
Ayako Ohtake SopranoLaura Scandizzo SopranoLivia Brash SopranoCaleb Son TenorChristopher Curcuruto Bass-Baritone
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LOVE AND LUST CSO OPERA GALA
Estimated Durations:First half 49 minutes, 20 minute interval,
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WELCOME Welcome to this evening of sublime music that scales the joy and tragedy of love and loss through song. We are delighted to showcase rising stars from Pacific Opera, led by Pacific Opera’s Artistic Director Simon Kenway for this passionate Gala
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Meanwhile, still in 2018, we have three orchestral concerts in the ActewAGL Llewellyn Series with their accompanying Recitals by the soloists at Wesley, the Canberra Weekly Matinee Magic symphonic swing concert and, family favourite, the Shell Prom in the gardens of Government House. On a smaller scale, the CSO Australian Series, held at the National Portrait Gallery, will bring you more world
premiere music in August and October, and Strings in the Salon mixes music with a gourmet luncheon at Monster in NewActon during July and September. Clearly, the CSO is out and about with diverse experiences for you to sample!
Your CSO is also working to extend the experience of music beyond the main stages to children, the elderly and others in the community who might not otherwise be able to benefit from the experience of live music. Our new Music in MY School CSO Education program recently delivered 12 interactive, curriculum aligned concerts in primary schools and thanks to generous support from Ginninderry and Icon Water, we were able to take this program to Queanbeyan for the first time and Yass in the near future.
CSO Community programs continue support wellbeing in our community and region with free music events for the elderly and people with disabilities. We are seeking to extend these programs to people in the surrounding region who otherwise have no access to these experiences. There is no shortage of demand, only the funds to make it happen. If you would like to invest in your community by donating to the CSO for Education, Community and Regional music, please consider a tax-deductible donation to our One4One campaign which you can access on our website: cso.org.au
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SIMON KENWAY CONDUCTORSimon Kenway is an established and highly respected orchestral and operatic conductor. He has held posts as Principal Chorus Master of Opera Australia, Musical Director for Opera in the Vineyards, Opera by George and Opera Under The Stars in Broome, and Conductor and Chief
Vocal Coach for the Sydney Conservatorium Opera School. He now works as a freelance conductor, both internationally and in Australia, and in 2015 was appointed Artistic Director of Pacific Opera.
Simon has conducted the Sydney, Tasmanian, West Australian, Canberra and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, for Opera Australia, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, The Australian Ballet, Hong Kong Philharmonic, many festivals, Aldeburgh Productions in UK, the Australian Youth Orchestra and Beijing Symphony Orchestra.
In 2018 Simon continues as Artistic Director of Pacific Opera. He will also be Music Director in Sydney Conservatorium’s Open Academy Opera Lab, and he returns to conduct Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, and will be chorus master and cover conductor for State Opera of South Australia’s production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act 3. Last year Simon conducted The Marriage of Figaro on Regional Tour for Opera Australia, Christmas concerts for QPAC and also concerts with Willoughby Symphony, and the Massed Festival Choir, and Women’s Festival Choir at the Melbourne International Singers Festival, in addition to concerts with Pacific Opera.
Other recent engagements include The Magic Flute for Opera Australia’s Regional Tour and Opera on the Beach performances in Coolangatta and workshops and performances as Conductor and Music Director for Opera Australia’s Community Choirs project from 2012–2015. He has also conducted Verdi Requiem for the Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival in Sydney, Orfeo ed Euridice for Spectrum Now Festival (for which he also prepared the Chorus and acted as Music Advisor), The Cunning Little Vixen for Pacific Opera, Hansel and Gretel for AIM, Spirit of Christmas concerts with QSO, Conductor for Rossini’s Cinderella and Associate Conductor for Verdi’s Otello for Opera Queensland, Opera on the Riverstage for the Brisbane Festival and Opera Queensland, and Symphony of Australia at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Simon also composes and arranges scores for plays and incidental music. His composition work includes The Rivers of China by Alma de Groen for Australian director Jenny Laing Peach. He also wrote Wild Alone (The Imprisonment of Oscar Wilde) for Opera Apollo and the vocal arrangement for Baz Luhrmann’s album, Something for Everyone. Simon was Musical Director for the first working draft of Baz Luhrmann’s acclaimed movie, Moulin Rouge.
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An exhibition of contemporary Australian Muslim art. The Inner Apartment explores the ways in which ordinarily private, spiritual and deeply personal matters of the heart and mind have been turned inside-out and compelled into the public domain.
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AYAKO OHTAKE SOPRANOSoprano Ayako Ohtake is currently based in Sydney and a member of the Pacific Opera Young Artist Program in 2018. Recently Ayako completed her Masters at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK. Prior to this, Ayako had been studying in Tokyo, Japan where she obtained her PhD in Musical Arts at the Kunitachi College
of Music with the highest honours for her performances and thesis on 4 heroines of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
For the last few years Ayako has been performing in Japan and the UK. In Japan, Ayako has performed on many stages and won competitions prizes. In London, she has appeared as a concert soloist including Handel’s Messiah.
Ayako made her professional opera debut as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte in Japan in 2015 and she recently completed another engagement for the same role. Other operatic roles include Pallade in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Eurydice in Orphée aux Enfers and Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
LAURA SCANDIZZO SOPRANOLaura’s operatic roles include performing the roles of Nella in Gianni Schicchi and Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos for Land of Enchantment Opera in New Mexico, USA. She also performed the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria at the Varna International Opera Academy in June 2017. She
was the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in 2016 and the Poulenc Gloria in 2017 with Willoughby Symphony. Laura is an alumnus of the Pacific Opera Young Artist program havening taken part as an Adjunct Artist in 2016 and as a Young Artist in 2017.
Through that association she has taken part in concerts presented in the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House and in April 2017 she was privileged to present, along with Simon Kenway, piano, and Lucy Warren, violin, the Australian premiere of Race to the Sky a September 11th song cycle by Richard Pearson Thomas. In November 2017 she was honored to have been given the opportunity to perform for the German President Frank Walter-Steinmeier and his wife during their visit to Australia. She has performed with the Opera Australia chorus in King Roger, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s Carmen, The Nixon Tapes presented for the Vivid Festival, the Verdi Requiem, and will join the chorus again in Aida in July.
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LIVIA BRASH SOPRANOLivia Brash is a Pacific Opera Associate Artist. In 2017 she was a Pacific Opera Young Artist, winner of the Opera Foundation Dalwood-Wylie AIMS Award and AIMS Sundell Award, was awarded third prize in the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Competition, and was a finalist in the IFAC Handa
Australian Singing Competition.
Ms Brash completed a Masters of Music Studies from the Sydney Conservatorium on scholarship, where she performed Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte and Titania in The Fairy Queen.
Performance highlights include performing the female solo in Theodorakis' Canto General with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and orchestra at City Recital Hall, Donna Elvira in Opera Hunter’s Don Giovanni, featured artist for Canberra Choral Society and Canberra Wind Symphony for Last Night at the Proms, and concerts at the Sydney Opera House for Pacific Opera.
In 2018 Livia will be touring Australia with CoOpera as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and will make her United States debut as Alcina as part of the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.
CALEB SON TENORTenor Caleb Son first studied singing in high school, later graduating from the Korea Conservatory. After taking supporting roles in the musicals Hwang Jin Yi and Time Goes By, Caleb went on to study at the Graduate School of Music, Gakcheon University, where he played a leading role in the Korean opera Chuanghyangjeon.
Caleb made his professional stage debut in Menotti's Chip and His Dog in 2012. Following a move to Australia, he has sung as a member of chorus in La Boheme with Opera Australia
and participated in the creative opera Water Babies by Australian composer Freddie Hill. Caleb became a member of the Pacific Opera Young Artist Program in 2017, performing in numerous concerts and events from rural Victoria to the Sydney Opera House. He is a Pacific Opera Young Artist again in 2018.
Caleb has studied with Tenors Ahn Byung-hun, Kim Ji-hong, and Lee Hyun-soo. Caleb aspires to the Italian 'bel canto’ style and enjoys analysing the voices of many Italian classical singers. Since Caleb came to Australia, he has been trained by Professor Rowena Cowley, Senior Lecturer in Voice and Opera, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
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CHRISTOPHER CURCURUTO BASS-BARITONEChristopher Curcuruto, bass-baritone, graduated in Classical Voice from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and in Theatre Studies from the University of New England. In 2015, Christopher accepted an Associate Artist position with Pacific Opera, performing the role of Harasta in their production of Janacek's The Cunning Little
Vixen under Alexander Briger AO. Christopher was invited to continue with Pacific Opera as a Young Artist in 2016 and 2017. Also in 2017, Christopher made his international debut singing Leporello and Masetto with the Varna International Opera Academy at the Stara Zagora State Opera, Bulgaria, was a finalist in the Opera Foundation for Young Australians
Lady Fairfax Scholarship, and was invited to join the Opera Australia Extra Chorus.
Christopher’s other role credits include: Father—Hansel and Gretel (WAAPA); Mr Dashwood/Gideon March—Little Women (WAAPA); Kecal—The Bartered Bride (Rockdale Opera Company); Mars —Orpheus in the Underworld (Rockdale Opera Company); Alessio—La Sonnambula (Operantics); Marquis D’Obigny—La Traviata (Opera New England); Zuniga—Carmen (Opera New England). Concert performances include: bass soloist—Beethoven Symphony 9, conducted by Dr Nicholas Milton (Willoughby Symphony Orchestra); bass soloist—Handel’s Messiah (Artes Christi); ensemble—Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Spectrum Now Festival – Sydney).
PACIFIC OPERA ENSEMBLESoprano Katherine Allen Michaella Edelstein Rebecca MacCallion Sarah Prestwidge Sophie Salvesani
Mezzo soprano Rebecca Hart Victoria Hodgkinson Elora Ledger
Tenors Nathan Bryon Daine Ellicott
Baritones Andrew Dickson Geoffrey Carman Joseph JaeKwon Kim Timothy Nunn
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2018 CSO OPERA GALA LOVE AND LUST GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)Prelude to Act I from La Traviata
The melancholy strings that open the Prelude to Verdi’s 1853 opera La Traviata foreshadow the tragic end that awaits the heroine, Violetta. Verdi intended his opera – based on a play, La Dame aux Camélias, adapted from Dumas’ novel of the same name – to be contemporary, but due to the risqué material had to revise the setting to the 17th century to get by the Venetian censors. The opera tells the story of a courtesan, Violetta, who leaves her life of partying in the city when she falls in love with Alfredo, but the disapproval of Alfredo’s family and Violetta’s consumption doom their love.
GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792–1868)Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville
The libretto of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) was based on the first of three plays by Pierre Beaumarchais to recount the antics of the clever barber Figaro. It is to Figaro that Count Almaviva turns in order to win the heart of Rosina and outsmart her greedy guardian Bartolo, who plans to marry Rosina for her dowry. The opera’s premiere at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1816 was a disaster, but The Barber of Seville has become a much-loved staple of the repertoire and it is music like the florid aria, Una voce poco fa that has assured the work’s immortality. “A voice has just resounded in my heart,” Rosina sings of Almaviva in Act I, the Count having impressed her in the disguise of Lindoro, a poor student.
VERDICome dal ciel precipita from Macbeth
Shakespeare was a lifelong source of inspiration for Verdi – he would draw on The Merry Wives of Windsor and Othello for his final operas—but his first adaptation of the Bard’s work was Macbeth in 1847. Banquo sings the brooding bass aria Come dal ciel precipita (How the darkness falls from heaven) in the opera’s second act. Outside Macbeth’s castle, Banquo tells his son of his misgivings about the new king, before he’s beset by murderers and calls out for his son to flee.
VERDISul fil d'un soffio etesio from Falstaff
The last of Verdi’s 28 operas, Falstaff – which premiered at La Scala in 1893 – takes its libretto from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV parts 1 and 2. The action revolves around the drunken knight Falstaff, who tries – unsuccessfully – to seduce two women at the same time to get his hands on their husbands’ money. In a plot to repay Falstaff for his misdeeds, the opera’s characters dress as supernatural creatures to ambush Falstaff at midnight in the woods. Nannetta is dressed as the fairy queen and sings the aria Sul fil d'un soffio etesio to call her ‘fairies’ out of hiding.
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PUCCINIE lucevan le stelle
E lucevan le stelle (And the stars shone) from Puccini’s 1900 opera Tosca is a tenor star vehicle to rival Nessun dorma. Opening with sombre clarinet, the aria is sung by the painter Mario Cavaradossi in the opera’s final act. Imprisoned and awaiting his execution, he begins to write a letter to his lover, the singer Tosca, having traded his last possession, a ring, to have it delivered by a guard. But instead he is overwhelmed by memories of Tosca.
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949) Es gibt ein Reich from Ariadne auf Naxos
A wealthy man invites two groups of performers to his house in Strauss’ opera Ariadne auf Naxos, a burlesque troupe and an opera company, but dinner runs long, and (since both acts have been booked and paid for) both performances must take place at the same time, with comic, but also very beautiful, results. The Prima Donna – who plays Ariadne in the opera within the opera – sings Es gibt ein Reich (There is a realm), describing the land of death, where she will escape her pain at having been left by Theseus.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)Mir ist so Wunderbar from Fidelio
Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, tells the story of Leonore, who disguises herself as a man, Fidelio, in a plot to save her husband from his wrongful imprisonment. She gains the trust of the prison warden Rocco, but also the heart of Rocco’s daughter Marzelline – much to the chagrin of Jaquino, who is in love with her. Mir ist so Wunderbar (A wondrous feeling fills me) from the first act, sees Marzelline, Fidelio, Rocco, and Jaquino all singing about Marzelline’s feelings for Fidelio, in an interweaving number dubbed the Canon Quartet.
JULES MASSENET (1842–1912)Méditation from Thaïs
The symphonic intermezzo, Méditation, played between the two scenes of the second act of Massenet’s 1894 opera Thaïs, has become more famous than the opera itself, finding a life of its own in the concert hall. The beautiful violin solo, accompanied by harp, accompanies a period of reflection following an encounter in which the Cenobite monk Athanaël attempts to convince Thaïs, a courtesan and devotee of Venus, to give up her life of luxury and turn to Christianity.
MASSENETIl est doux, il est bon from Hérodiade
The exquisite soprano aria Il est doux, il est bon (he is good, he is kind) from Massenet’s 1881 opera Hérodiade – a retelling of the biblical story of John the Baptist, Salome, Herod and Herodias based on Flaubert’s novel Hérodias – is sung by Salomé as she searches for her mother Hérodias in Jerusalem. She sings of her determination to find her mother and the kindness of the prophet Jean (John the Baptist) who gave her comfort in her absence.
LÉO DELIBES (1836–1891)Sous le dôme épais ‘The Flower Duet’ from Lakmé
Delibes’s 1883 opera Lakmé is set in British India and the first act takes place in a shady garden, the secret refuge of Nilakantha, a Brahmin priest who has been forbidden to practise his religion by the British and seeks revenge. He leaves his daughter, the priestess Lakmé, with her devoted slave Mallika while he goes into town to finalise arrangements for an important religious festival and procession the next day. In the wonderful ‘Flower Duet’, Lakmé suggests to Mallika that they pass the time by floating down the river, under the shade of the flowering creepers.
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Based on a novel by Pushkin, Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera Eugene Onegin tells the story of a man who brutally rejects the advances of a young and naïve girl, Tatyana, and carelessly gets into a fatal duel with his friend Lensky. The Polonaise – a stately Polish dance – comes from the opera’s third act. Five years after the duel, after travelling around Europe, Onegin meets Tatyana by chance at a ball. Now married to a Prince, it is her turn to reject him, and he is left alone at the end of the opera.
TCHAIKOVSKYKuda, kuda vï udalilis from Eugene Onegin
In Eugene Onegin’s second act, at a ball in honour of Tatyana’s name day, Onegin is irritated by gossip – and by his friend Lensky, who convinced him to come to the ball in the first place. Out of spite, he dances and flirts with Lensky’s fiancé Olga, the conflict escalating until Lensky challenges him to a duel. The next morning, waiting for Onegin to arrive for the duel, Lenksy sings, “Where, where have you gone, O golden days of my spring,” reflecting on death and his love for Olga.
ALFREDO CATALANI (1854–1893)Ebben! Ne andrò lontana from La Wally
The title role of Catalani’s opera La Wally, set in the Austrian Tyrol, is the free-spirited girl Wally, who falls in love with the son of her father’s enemy, Giuseppe Hagenbach. Vincenzo Gellner is in love with Wally and tells her father of his suspicions about Giuseppe. Wally’s father insists she marry Gellner within the month, or leave his home forever. In the aria Ebben! Ne andrò lonana (heard more often than the opera, which is difficult to stage due to its final tragic avalanche scene) she tells her father she’d rather take her chances in the alpine snow.
VERDI Caro nome from Rigoletto
Delicate flute lines introduce Caro nome from Verdi’s Rigoletto. The dream-like aria is sung by Gilda, the hunchbacked Rigoletto’s daughter, one of Verdi’s youngest, most innocent heroines. The lecherous Duke of Mantua – in whose service Rigoletto is court jester – has overheard Gilda speaking to her nurse about a young student who charmed her in church. The Duke takes advantage of this and presents himself as a student, named Gualtier Maldè, declaring his love and winning Gilda’s affections. In this aria she sings of her new love, weaving charming variations around a simple melody.
VERDIStorm Scene from Rigoletto
The storm scene is the dramatic climax to Rigoletto, played out against thunder and wind painted vividly by the orchestra. The Duke of Mantua has been lured to the house of assassin Sparafucile, by the assassin’s sister Maddalena, and with the storm approaching he decides to spend the night. He sings a reprise of his famous aria La donna è mobile (Woman is fickle), as he retires to bed. Maddalena, now in love with the duke, begs Sparafucile not to kill him – but the assassin needs a body to give to Rigoletto. Gilda, eavesdropping outside, overhears this and knocks on the door, knowing she is sacrificing herself to save the Duke.
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VERDILibiamo ne’ lieti calici from La Traviata
The brindisi from La Traviata is opera’s most famous drinking song. Libiamo ne’ lieti calici (let’s drink from joyful cups) introduces the two lovers, Violetta and Alfredo, in La Traviata’s first act. At a party at Violetta’s house, Alfredo’s friend Gastone, along with Violetta, convinces Alfredo to show off his voice, so he sings this song about love and drinking, soon to be joined by Violetta and the chorus.
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825–1899)Im Feuerstrom der Reben from Die Fledermaus
If the Champagne Trio from Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta Die Fledermaus is not quite as famous as Verdi’s brindisi, it’s every bit as bubbly. The composer known as the Waltz King based the operetta – a farcical web of mistaken identities, disguises and practical jokes set at a ball – on a French vaudeville play, Le Réveillon. The trio Im Feuerstrom der Reben (in the fire stream of the grape), from Die Fledermaus’ second act is a tribute to the pleasures of champagne – which is blamed for everybody’s behaviour in the opera’s finale.
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Samuel Payne
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Dr Nicholas Milton AMChief Conductor and Artistic DirectorArtistic Patronage ActewAGL
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RA David Campbell
Betty Beaver AM Cello Chair
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THE ORCHESTRACSO OPERA GALA LOVE AND LUST
more well known pieces please!
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JULYRECITAL THREEDimity Hall (Violin) & Julian Smiles (Cello) Sunday 15 JulyWesley Music Centre, 3pm
ACTEWAGL LLEWELLYN THREE Wednesday 18 July, Thursday 19 July
Nicholas Milton AM Conductor Artistic patronage ActewAGL
Dimity Hall Violin, Julian Smiles Cello, Piers Lane Piano
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, 7.30pmPre-concert talk 6.45pm BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, op. 56ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Enigma, op. 36
STRINGS IN THE SALON: WINTERSunday 22 JulyMonster Salon and Dining Rooms, NewActon, 1pm
AUGUSTLAUNCH OF 2019 SEASON Tuesday 14 August Renew subscription for same seats by 5 October
AUSTRALIAN SERIES Supported by Singapore Airlines ReimaginingsThursday 30 AugustGordon Darling Hall, National Portrait Gallery, 6.30pm
SEPTEMBERRECITAL FOURSunday 2 SeptemberWesley Music Centre, 3.00pm
ACTEWAGL LLEWELLYN FOURWednesday 5 September, Thursday 6 SeptemberLlewellyn Hall, ANU, 7.30pmPre-concert talk 6.45pm
Nicholas Milton AM Conductor Artistic patronage ActewAGL
Nick Russoniello Saxophone
COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common ManDEBUSSY: Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and OrchestraMILHAUD: Scaramouche: Suite for saxophone and orchestra, op. 165cRAVEL: BoleroBERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Tickets CSO Direct 6262 6772 or cso.org.au Complete repertoire and 2018 events cso.org.au/events
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CSO BOARD & ADMINISTRATIONCSO BOARD
Chair Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston AK, AFC (Retd)Deputy Chair Melanie KontzeSecretary & Public Officer Bob Clark
Members Chris FaulksLucille HalloranJohn KalokerinosPaul LindwallElizabeth McGrathJohn Painter AM Annabelle Pegrum AM Christine Worth
CSO ARTISTICChief Conductor & Artistic Director Dr Nicholas Milton AMArtistic patronage ActewAGL
Australian Series Curator Prof Matthew Hindson AM
CSO ADMINISTRATIONChief Executive Officer Sarah KimballCommunications Rachel ThomasCommunications Coordinator Geordie CullenEducation & Ensembles* Eloise FisherEvents & Logistics* Julie SeatonFinance* Marinda BurgerFinance Assistant* Sam McCrohan Orchestra & Operations Andrew HeronPartnerships* Frances CorkhillPhilanthropy* Tim LangfordResidents Coordinator* Lindy RekstenTicketing & Administration* David Flynn*Indicates part-time position
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CSO DEVELOPMENTMUSIC IN MY SCHOOLDuring the past two weeks the CSO presented the first concerts as part of the Music in MY School program to schools in north Canberra, Belconnen and Queanbeyan. It has been a pleasure to work with educators, administrators, partners, musicians and kids. In its inaugural year selected schools have been invited to participate at no cost to the schools.
This community-driven program provides inspiring and meaningful classical music experiences to primary school students in the ACT and the region. Based on a year-long partnership with selected schools, Music in MY School empowers generalist teachers to bring music into the classroom, making music a means for enrichment and enjoyment throughout the school year.
We’ve supported educators with professional development ahead of the performances and teaching notes designed for educators without prior music experience were delivered to schools in Term 1. Over the last fortnight, CSO musicians visited each school to deliver high-quality, interactive performances of the music the students had been connecting with in the classroom. Anecdotally, this resource has been well received, with many teachers delivering it with gusto!
Each performance was led by a drama specialist, and tailored to specific age groups so that all students were engaged and excited. The children’s joy was plain to see with some very familiar with the music. The delight on the faces of CSO musicians was uplifting.
The new program has been made possible by generous support of partners and donors from the Canberra region. The CSO’s Education Giving Circle funded a review of existing CSO programs and the development of a meaningful and curriculum-aligned program that addressed the current needs of teachers, parents, and students.
Ginninderry and Riverview Developments are the inaugural CSO Education Partners, supporting the program in Belconnen and the Yass Valley, and Icon Water’s support enabled us to bring the program in the Queanbeyan Palerang region.
Our ultimate goal in creating Music in MY School is to share our joy of music with every child and teacher involved in the program, knowing that quality musical education brings myriad benefits to children’s academic, social, and personal development.
We look forward to reconnecting with the students and teachers throughout the year as they continue their musical journey with CSO Music in MY School.
If you’d like to support the CSO’s education programs, contact
Frances Corkhill—Partnerships [email protected] M: 0428 272 817
Tim Langford—Philanthropy [email protected] M: 0400 344 394
2018 TAX APPEALThis year’s Tax Appeal is centred on the One4One fundraising campaign, where your contributions will support our community programs. We’re aiming to meet or surpass the ACT Government’s generous funding of the CSO’s community programming. Matched fundraising has proven crucial in securing investment from new sources. Now, we are asking for leaders of industry and individuals to support our programs and invest in our community so we can do more.
A successful One4One fundraising campaign ensures continuation of the CSO’s community and education activity, and lays the foundation for new programs in 2019.
Our target is $107,000. We’re now over $50,000 and you can help us make our target by donating at cso.org.au/one4one.
Tim Langford—Philanthropy [email protected] M: 0400 344 394
Ginninderry is proud to be the lead partner of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Music in MY School Program.
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Inspiring a journey of musical explorationand discovery
PARTNERSHIPSWe thank our government, corporate and community partners
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The CSO is all about connecting our partners with the community through music. We believe that life is better with music and our collaborative partnerships support a diverse range of concerts from the mainstage to the extensive CSO Education and Community Outreach programs.
Frances Corkhill—Partnerships [email protected] M: 0428 272 817
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The 2018 & 2019 CSO Recital Series supported by Brian and Dianne Anderson
