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SUMMARY:Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: A Celebration of Sibelius
DESCRIPTION:Sibelius Finlandia\nSibelius Violin Concerto\nSibelius Valse Triste\nSibelius Symphony No.3 \nOne of Australia’s most promising young musicians\, Edward Walton performs Sibelius’ Violin Concerto as the centrepiece of this powerful program dedicated to the Finnish composer\, conducted by Benjamin Northey. \nDuration: approx. 1 hour and 50 minutes including interval \nMelbourne Symphony Orchestra\nBenjamin Northey conductor\nEdward Walton violin \nFriday 31 October 2025\n7:30pm at Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash \nTickets: Standard $35-$105\nConcession $30-$100; Child (under 18) $20
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/melbourne-symphony-orchestra-a-celebration-of-sibelius-2/
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SUMMARY:Creation
DESCRIPTION:Excelsis\, Chime Choir and the Yarra Philharmonic Orchestra give the Australian première of Dan Forrest’s ‘Creation’\, with soloists Rachael Joyce (Soprano) and Bailey Montgomerie (Baritone). \nThe concert will also feature five short choral works and Sibelius’ very well-known orchestral work\, ‘Finlandia’. \nConducted by Jenny Mathers and Tom Buchanan OAM.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/creation/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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SUMMARY:Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Jaime conducts Enigma Variations
DESCRIPTION:The MSO dedicates these performances to Sir Andrew Davis\, who passed away on 20 April. \nSir Andrew was the MSO Chief Conductor (2013-2019) and Conductor Laureate (2020-2024). \nWe miss him terribly.  \nMelbourne Symphony Orchestra\nJaime Martín conductor\nTair Khisambeev violin \nBritten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra\nVaughan Williams The Lark Ascending\nElgar Enigma Variations \nJaime Martín conducts this stunning program of perennial English charmers – some of the most popular orchestral music ever written. \n\nFirst\, you’ll tour through the instruments of the orchestra with Benjamin Britten’s delightful A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.\nThen\, you’ll hear a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams\, a figurehead of England’s Folk Music Revival\, who would spend his time rambling through the countryside to ‘collect’ folk tunes from villagers. One of the best-loved works in classical music\, The Lark Ascending draws on such tunes\, creating a glorious pastoral picture of a bird in flight on a clear\, bright day.\nAfter a long day of apparently-torturous teaching\, Elgar sat down at the piano to clear his mind\, and began to tinker. The final work on this program is the tune he called Enigma – to express the ‘nothingness’ from which it came. Each of the fourteen variations on this never-revealed theme paints musical portrait of one of Elgar’s friends. The most famous – Nimrod – is one of the most emotionally profound and magnificent works of all time.\n\nThursday 02 May 2024\, 7:30pm at Robert Blackwood Hall\nFriday 03 May 2024\, 7:30pm at Melbourne Town Hall Selling fast\nSaturday 04 May 2024\, 7:30pm at Frankston Arts Centre Selling fast\nDuration: approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes including interval \nTICKETS: $45-$110 ($40-$105 Concession) ; Child (under 18 years) $20
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/melbourne-symphony-orchestra-jaime-conducts-enigma-variations/
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SUMMARY:Melbourne Opera: Lohengrin
DESCRIPTION:Following the huge critical and public success of 2016’s Tannhauser\, Melbourne Opera is excited to present Richard Wagner’s magnificent Romantic opera Lohengrin. \n\nClassic Melbourne reviewer Patricia Maunder enjoyed the performance; read her review.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/lohengrin/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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SUMMARY:National Boys Choir of Australia in Concert
DESCRIPTION:The National Boys Choir of Australia\, established in 1964\, is one of Australia’s finest children’s choirs. Performed by a 100 voice choir\, this concert’s repertoire will include Purcell’s Come Ye Sons of Art with orchestra and Britten’s Three Two Part Songs. \nThe feature work will be the children’s opera All the King’s Men by English composer Richard Rodney Bennett (accompanied by orchestra). All the King’s Men is set in England in 1643\, with King Charles attempting to take the city of Gloucester during the Civil War. The townsfolk of Gloucester manage to foil attempts to take the city. It is from this historical event that the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty possibly arose\, with the original ‘Humpty’ being a large war machine that rolled into the river and broke after failing to take hold as a temporary bridge. Humpty Dumpty’s story evolved over time from a river disaster to a wall disaster\, but all the king’s horses and men remained as part of the legend.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/national-boys-choir-australia-concert/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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SUMMARY:Melbourne Opera: Donizetti's Anna Bolena
DESCRIPTION:Following the sold out triumph of Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) last year\, Melbourne Opera continues the great Donizetti trilogy bringing the Bel Canto masterpiece Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) to The Athenaeum for the first time this November. This production is the second exploration of Donizetti’s Tudor operas with Melbourne Opera staging a third Australian premiere when it presents Roberto Devereux in 2017. \nOnce again\, Melbourne Opera is thrilled to be working with Music Director of the former Victoria State Opera Richard Divall\, who has prepared a new edition and translation for this season. Melbourne Opera Director Greg Hocking and Head of Music Raymond Lawrence will share the conducting of the distinguished cast and highly praised Melbourne Opera chorus and orchestra. \nAfter bringing opera to The Regent Theatre for the very first time with the critically acclaimed production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser\, Melbourne Opera are once again working with accomplished director Suzanne Chaundy for their third new production for 2016. \n“This is a thrilling drama full of vocal fireworks\, romance\, passion and tragedy. We are blessed with a cast of outstanding singing actors essential to really serve the drama of Donizetti. Having begun my directing life as a theatre director I really appreciate the excellent dramatic structure of these Bel Canto works\,” says Suzanne. \nMelbourne Opera has once again assembled an illustrious cast of international and local singers for the Australian professional premiere of this beautiful 19thCentury opera\, the first of Donizetti’s works to achieve wide success. \nInternational soprano Elena Xanthoudakis returns from a triumphant tour of the United Kingdom to star in the demanding title role\, following outstanding reviews of her powerful performance in Melbourne Opera’s Mary Stuart last year. \nTickets to Anna Bolena are on sale now via Ticketek.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/2016-11-12/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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SUMMARY:Cassomenos plays Beethoven
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 7 June\, Monash University Academy of Performing Arts presents Cassomenos plays Beethoven\, the second recital in Wood\, Metal & Vibrating Air – their six-part concert series featuring lauded Australian pianists. \nHaving performed internationally since the age of 10 and premiered his own composition Piano Concerto No. 1: Aegean Odyssey with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16\, Stefan Cassomenos’ credits are impressive. Cassomenos is an active composer\, artistic director of various festivals\, a founding member of PLEXUS\, and has performed with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn as well several Australian Orchestras. He is also highly awarded\, receiving the recipient of the Second Grand Prize and the Chamber Music Prize in the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition Bonn (2013) and a prizewinner in the 2013 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition amongst others. This performance includes Franz Liszt’s piano transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No 5. Cassomenos performing Beethoven will be an unmissable experience. \nThe six-part concert series\, which launched in May and runs through until September\, is an exquisitely intimate performance experience with the audience limited to 150 and seated on stage with the performer.   The series also features Andrea Keller\, Simon Tedeschi\, Lisa Moore and Tamara Smolyar.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/cassomenos-plays-beethoven/
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SUMMARY:MAPA: Wood\, Metal and Vibrating Air  - The Piano Series
DESCRIPTION:Wood\, Metal & Vibrating Air \nThe Piano – up close and personal  \nAn intimate 6-part recital series featuring celebrated Australian pianists  \nCaroline Almonte\, Stefan Cassomenos\, Andrea Keller\, Simon Tedeschi \nLisa Moore and Tamara Smolyar \nAudience limited to 150 and seated on stage with the performer  \nMonash University Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA) presents Wood\, Metal & Vibrating Air\, an exquisitely intimate six part concert series spotlighting the piano and featuring lauded Australian pianists Caroline Almonte\, Stefan Cassomenos\, Andrea Keller\, Simon Tedeschi\, Lisa Moore and Tamara Smolyar.  \nFrom May through to September these fine musicians\, perform the works of classical\, contemporary and avant garde composers\, immersing audiences in the musical worlds of Bach\, Beethoven\, Glass\, Gershwin\, as well as many more. Each recital will be an up close and personal aural treat with the audience limited to just 150 people who will be seated on the stage of Robert Blackwood Hall with the performer. \nLaunching the season on Tuesday 3 May is Caroline Almonte’s Gold through Glass. Almonte’s recital illuminates the timeless synergy between two supreme musical masters\, Bach and Philip Glass. Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations will be threaded with fragments of Phillip Glass’ etudes\, Metamorphosis and music from his film score ‘The Hours’. \nMelbourne-born Caroline Almonte studied with renowned pianist Stephen McIntyre at the VCA and Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School\, New York. She has won numerous awards including the keyboard section of the ABC Young Performer’s Awards and 1st prize at the international chamber music competition “Trio di Trieste” in Italy. \nOn Tuesday 7 June\, Cassomenos plays Beethoven is the second recital of the season. Having performed internationally since the age of 10 and premiered his own composition Piano Concerto No. 1: Aegean Odyssey with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16\, Stefan Cassomenos’ credits are impressive. Cassomenos is an active composer\, artistic director of various festivals\, a founding member of PLEXUS\, and has performed with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn as well several Australian Orchestras. He is also highly awarded\, receiving the recipient of the Second Grand Prize and the Chamber Music Prize in the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition Bonn (2013) and a prizewinner in the 2013 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition amongst others. This performance includes Franz Liszt’s piano transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No 5. Cassomenos performing Beethoven will be an unmissable experience. \nAt the midpoint of the season\, multi award winning pianist and composer Andrea Keller presents a concert of original music and improvisations for solo piano and loop pedal. Her performance includes music from her 2013 release Family Portraitsm\, which is an exploration of a geographically disparate family\, alongside other selections from her considerable body of work. \nSimon Tedeschi has been described by respected critics and musical peers as one of the finest artists in the world. I Got Rhythm Music of Gershwin takes audiences on a personal voyage through some of Gershwin’s works and those of composers from Gershwin’s world\, and those who inspired him including Rachmaninov\, Debussy\, Grainger and Fats Waller. The program consists of Gershwin favourites I Got Rhythm\, Summertime\, ‘S Wonderful\, The Man I Love and Rhapsody in Blue. \nNew York-based\, Australian pianist Lisa Moore presents Soft/Loud\, an eclectic program featuring the world premiere of Australian composer Kate Neal’s new work as well as compositions from Leoš Janáček\, Missy Mazzoli\, Martin Bresnick\, J.S. Bach\, Philip Glass\, Frederic Rzewski and Monash’s own and Melbourne’s much loved\, Paul Grabowsky. Lisa Moore performs all over the world and has collaborated with the London Sinfonietta\, Bang on a Can\, Steve Reich Ensemble\, New York City Ballet\, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, Australian Chamber Orchestra\, Sydney Symphony Orchestra\, American Composers Orchestra and So Percussion. \nIn the final performance of the season\, internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue\, Tamara Smolyar presents a unique program of music by outstanding pianists who combine the arts of performance and composition. The evening of world premieres is crowned by Tamara Smolyar and Anthony Halliday new arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Trio Élégiaque No.2\, which explores the tonal possibilities of Rachmaninov’s lushly romantic writing for piano\, violin and cello in a new interpretation for solo piano. The evening also includes the world premiere presentation of a new work by Kenji Fujimura and the Australian premiere of Anatoly Documentov’s Preludes. \nMAPA Executive Director\, Prof Paul Grabowsky AO says of this series “One of the joys of music making is the closeness\, the intimacy that can be shared between performers and audiences. This comes down to a one-on-one experience\, when a particular moment in sound\, that undefinable vibration of air that touches deep within the listener to the very core\, touches the soul\, transfixing\, transporting. Sometimes the vastness and formality of a concert hall can work against the expectation of such epiphanies. The soloist is raised above the audience\, the stage can act as a barrier\, and the sheer formality of the situation can be intimidating. \n We are very lucky at Monash to have a concert hall with sublime acoustics\, and with this series\, featuring great pianists playing our beautiful Steinway D\, we are in a sense removing the wall by placing the audience onstage\, to really share the music with the performer. There is a sense of engagement with music which comes with this intimacy. I am well acquainted with the benefits of close proximity to audiences through years of performing in jazz clubs; there is a feeling of directness\, of connection\, of really luxuriating in the sound of the instrument. In fact the listener is getting the best of two worlds\, with the benefits of the room acoustic as experienced by the performers themselves. \n The artists have responded to this opportunity by choosing fascinating and diverse programmes\, in some cases world premieres\, in others repertoire works rarely heard\, or simply music that inspires them and that they are excited to share. Certainly the listeners will experience something to be treasured not simply a recital\, but a conversation\, a communion\, the very spirit of music.” \n  \n  \nWOOD\, METAL & VIBRATING AIR  THE PIANO SERIES Event Details  \n  \nWhen: Tues 3 May 7.30pm         CAROLINE ALMONTE Gold through Glass \nTue 7 June 7.30pm         STEFAN CASSOMENOS Cassomenos plays Beethoven \nTues 21 June 7.30pm     ANDREA KELLER Solo Piano & Loops \nThur 14 July 7.30pm       SIMON TEDESCHI Tedeschi plays Gershwin \nTues 9 Aug 7.30pm         LISA MOORE Soft/Loud \nThur 1 Sept 7.30pm         TAMARA SMOLYAR Premieres
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/mapa-wood-metal-and-vibrating-air-the-piano-series/2016-05-03/
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SUMMARY:Wood\, Metal & Vibrating Air - The Piano Series
DESCRIPTION:Monash University Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA) presents  \n  \nWood\, Metal & Vibrating Air \nThe Piano – up close and personal  \n  \n  \nAn intimate 6-part recital series featuring celebrated Australian pianists  \nCaroline Almonte\, Stefan Cassomenos\, Andrea Keller\, Simon Tedeschi \nLisa Moore and Tamara Smolyar \n  \nAudience limited to 150 and seated on stage with the performer  \n  \n  \nMonash University Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA) presents Wood\, Metal & Vibrating Air\, an exquisitely intimate six part concert series spotlighting the piano and featuring lauded Australian pianists Caroline Almonte\, Stefan Cassomenos\, Andrea Keller\, Simon Tedeschi\, Lisa Moore and Tamara Smolyar.  \n  \nFrom May through to September these fine musicians\, perform the works of classical\, contemporary and avant garde composers\, immersing audiences in the musical worlds of Bach\, Beethoven\, Glass\, Gershwin\, as well as many more. Each recital will be an up close and personal aural treat with the audience limited to just 150 people who will be seated on the stage of Robert Blackwood Hall with the performer. \n  \nLaunching the season on Tuesday 3 May is Caroline Almonte’s Gold through Glass. Almonte’s recital illuminates the timeless synergy between two supreme musical masters\, Bach and Philip Glass. Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations will be threaded with fragments of Phillip Glass’ etudes\, Metamorphosis and music from his film score ‘The Hours’. \n  \nMelbourne-born Caroline Almonte studied with renowned pianist Stephen McIntyre at the VCA and Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School\, New York. She has won numerous awards including the keyboard section of the ABC Young Performer’s Awards and 1st prize at the international chamber music competition “Trio di Trieste” in Italy. \n  \nOn Tuesday 7 June\, Cassomenos plays Beethoven is the second recital of the season. Having performed internationally since the age of 10 and premiered his own composition Piano Concerto No. 1: Aegean Odyssey with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16\, Stefan Cassomenos’ credits are impressive. Cassomenos is an active composer\, artistic director of various festivals\, a founding member of PLEXUS\, and has performed with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn as well several Australian Orchestras. He is also highly awarded\, receiving the recipient of the Second Grand Prize and the Chamber Music Prize in the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition Bonn (2013) and a prizewinner in the 2013 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition amongst others. This performance includes Franz Liszt’s piano transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No 5. Cassomenos performing Beethoven will be an unmissable experience. \n  \nAt the midpoint of the season\, multi award winning pianist and composer Andrea Keller presents a concert of original music and improvisations for solo piano and loop pedal. Her performance includes music from her 2013 release Family Portraitsm\, which is an exploration of a geographically disparate family\, alongside other selections from her considerable body of work. \n  \nSimon Tedeschi has been described by respected critics and musical peers as one of the finest artists in the world. I Got Rhythm Music of Gershwin takes audiences on a personal voyage through some of Gershwin’s works and those of composers from Gershwin’s world\, and those who inspired him including Rachmaninov\, Debussy\, Grainger and Fats Waller. The program consists of Gershwin favourites I Got Rhythm\, Summertime\, ‘S Wonderful\, The Man I Love and Rhapsody in Blue. \n  \n  \n  \nNew York-based\, Australian pianist Lisa Moore presents Soft/Loud\, an eclectic program featuring the world premiere of Australian composer Kate Neal’s new work as well as compositions from Leoš Janáček\, Missy Mazzoli\, Martin Bresnick\, J.S. Bach\, Philip Glass\, Frederic Rzewski and Monash’s own and Melbourne’s much loved\, Paul Grabowsky. Lisa Moore performs all over the world and has collaborated with the London Sinfonietta\, Bang on a Can\, Steve Reich Ensemble\, New York City Ballet\, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, Australian Chamber Orchestra\, Sydney Symphony Orchestra\, American Composers Orchestra and So Percussion. \n  \nIn the final performance of the season\, internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue\, Tamara Smolyar presents a unique program of music by outstanding pianists who combine the arts of performance and composition. The evening of world premieres is crowned by Tamara Smolyar and Anthony Halliday new arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Trio Élégiaque No.2\, which explores the tonal possibilities of Rachmaninov’s lushly romantic writing for piano\, violin and cello in a new interpretation for solo piano. The evening also includes the world premiere presentation of a new work by Kenji Fujimura and the Australian premiere of Anatoly Documentov’s Preludes. \n  \nMAPA Executive Director\, Prof Paul Grabowsky AO says of this series “One of the joys of music making is the closeness\, the intimacy that can be shared between performers and audiences. This comes down to a one-on-one experience\, when a particular moment in sound\, that undefinable vibration of air that touches deep within the listener to the very core\, touches the soul\, transfixing\, transporting. Sometimes the vastness and formality of a concert hall can work against the expectation of such epiphanies. The soloist is raised above the audience\, the stage can act as a barrier\, and the sheer formality of the situation can be intimidating. \n We are very lucky at Monash to have a concert hall with sublime acoustics\, and with this series\, featuring great pianists playing our beautiful Steinway D\, we are in a sense removing the wall by placing the audience onstage\, to really share the music with the performer. There is a sense of engagement with music which comes with this intimacy. I am well acquainted with the benefits of close proximity to audiences through years of performing in jazz clubs; there is a feeling of directness\, of connection\, of really luxuriating in the sound of the instrument. In fact the listener is getting the best of two worlds\, with the benefits of the room acoustic as experienced by the performers themselves. \n The artists have responded to this opportunity by choosing fascinating and diverse programmes\, in some cases world premieres\, in others repertoire works rarely heard\, or simply music that inspires them and that they are excited to share. Certainly the listeners will experience something to be treasured not simply a recital\, but a conversation\, a communion\, the very spirit of music.” \n  \n  \nWOOD\, METAL & VIBRATING AIR  THE PIANO SERIES Event Details  \n  \nWhen: Tues 3 May 7.30pm         CAROLINE ALMONTE Gold through Glass \nTue 7 June 7.30pm         STEFAN CASSOMENOS Cassomenos plays Beethoven \nTues 21 June 7.30pm     ANDREA KELLER Solo Piano & Loops \nThur 14 July 7.30pm       SIMON TEDESCHI Tedeschi plays Gershwin \nTues 9 Aug 7.30pm         LISA MOORE Soft/Loud \nThur 1 Sept 7.30pm         TAMARA SMOLYAR Premieres \n  \nWhere: Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton \n  \nTickets: Adults – $25.00\, Concession – $20.00\, Student – $15 for single performance \nDiscounts apply for ticket purchases to multiple performances. 30% discount on subscription purchases (6 concerts). \nBookings: To reserve a seat call MAPA Box office 9905 1111 and online – www.monash.edu/mapa \n 
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/wood-metal-vibrating-air-the-piano-series/2016-05-03/
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SUMMARY:Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Noel! Noel!
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SUMMARY:Leslie Howard In Recital
DESCRIPTION:Monash Academy of Performing Arts presents \nLeslie Howard In Recital \nTuesday 29 September @ 7.30pm \nRobert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton Campus \n  \n“Howard is\, by general consensus\, the finest living exponent of Liszt. (He has) a formidable intellectual grasp of the music\, (and) his vastly superior performances continue to carry the day“. BBC Music Magazine \n  \nInternationally acclaimed Australian born pianist\, Leslie Howard returns home to celebrate 50 years of Making Music at Monash this September.     The musicality of this distinguished Monash University alumnus will be illuminated in Leslie Howard in Recital.  \n  \nLeslie Howard was one of the first graduates of Monash University’s Sir Zelman School of Music and has crafted a career that has seen him perform with the world finest orchestras and renowned conductors\, Claudio Abbado\, James Judd\, Hiroyuki Iwaki and Sir Charles Mackerras. \n  \nFrom London\, where he has based himself for over 40 years\, Leslie Howard has forged an outstanding reputation as a soloist\, composer and writer. He has performed across five continents including many international music festivals as a featured artist and his performances of chamber music and lieder include collaborations with some of the greatest artists of our time such as Benny Goodman\, Steven Isserlis\, Yvonne Kenny and Dame Felicity Lott.  \n  \nLeslie Howard is also considered to be one of the world’s expert authorities on the works of Franz Liszt having accomplished a feat unequalled by any solo artist in recording history – a 97-CD survey (for Hyperion) of the complete piano music of Franz Liszt. \n  \nFor his recital at Monash University\, Howard performs rare gems of the Romantic piano repertoire including works by Liszt and the sonatas of Sibelius and Glazunov. \n  \nLeslie Howard is amongst the 200 musicians including leading international players\, Australian icons\, acclaimed alumni\, staff and students who will be making music at Monash and across Melbourne from 23 August to 7 October in a program of more than 30 concerts\, including 18 free performances\, in celebration of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music’s 50th anniversary. \n  \nPROGRAM  \nSibelius Piano Sonata in F major\, Op.12 \nGlazunov Piano Sonata No.2 in E minor\, Op.75 \nLiszt Quatre valses oubliées\, S215 \nLiszt Petite Valse ‘Nachspiel zu den drei vergessenen Walzer’\, S695e \nLiszt Grande fantaisie sur des thèmes de l’opéra Les Huguenots (Réminiscences des Huguenots)\, S412iii \nLeslie Howard piano
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/leslie-howard-in-recital/
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SUMMARY:MSO: Mahler Symphony No.3
DESCRIPTION:Sir Andrew Davis conductor \nSasha Cooke mezzo-soprano\nMelbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus\nNational Boys Choir of Australia \nIn the second year of Sir Andrew Davis’ Mahler cycle\, the Maestro conducts the composer’s wildly expansive Third Symphony: a grand hymn to creation\, epic in scale and ambition.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/mso-mahler-symphony-3-2/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20141128T200000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20141128T200000
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SUMMARY:Beethoven's Eroica Symphony
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LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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SUMMARY:James Ehnes with MSO
DESCRIPTION:Berlioz Harold in Italy\nBerlioz Reverie and Caprice for violin and orchestra\nBeethoven Symphony No.7 \nSir Andrew Davis conductor\nJames Ehnes viola and violin \nThe heart of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is the sublime Allegretto\, a walking tune subject to transformations that must have seemed tremendously novel to the work’s first audience in 1813\, but now seem dream-like in their perfection. Sir Andrew’s survey of Berlioz’s major works continues in the company of James Ehnes. As Gramophone magazine said of this magnificent musician: ‘You get the feeling every time he puts bow to string that something special will\, quite naturally\, just happen.’ \nPre-concert talk (7 November at 7pm and 8 November at 1pm)\nGraham Abbott will present a talk on the artists and works featured in the program. \nDuration\n2 hours with 20 minute interval.
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/james-ehnes-mso/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20140923T193000
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SUMMARY:Chopin\, Debussy\, Hough
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LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20140921T143000
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SUMMARY:The Apotheosis of the Dance
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the world premiere of a new composition by James Ledger and soloist Daniel de Borah\nMonash Academy Orchestra conducted by Fabian Russell \n\nJames Ledger News Weather and Dreams \nProkofiev Piano Concerto No. 5 in G Major\, Op. 55 \nBeethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major\, Op. 92
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/apotheosis-dance/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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SUMMARY:MSO: Vivaldi\, Haydn & Mozart
DESCRIPTION:Mozart	Symphony No.23\nHaydn	Cello Concerto in C\nDanzi	Variations on La ci darem for cello and orchestra\nVivaldi	Concerto in F major RV 574 per molti instrumenti\nHaydn	Symphony No.22 The Philosopher	 \nElizabeth Wallfisch violin/director\nRaphael Wallfisch cello
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/mso-vivaldi-haydn-mozart-2/
LOCATION:Robert Blackwood Hall\, Monash University\, Clayton
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