Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

This event is part of the Incredible Floridas - Chamber Landscapes concert series curated by Kim Williams.

From 1912, sunny and uncomplicated Alfred Hill in the style of Brahms and of Grieg followed by sickly and Daedalian Schoenberg in the style of nothing hitherto dreamt of. World-renowned Australian singer/actor Jessica Aszodi is the moon-mad clown (and she also sings in a new work by the ensemble’s musical director, Jack Symonds, which is the 2020 John Bishop Memorial Commission). Schoenberg’s voluptuous tone poem from 1899 will send you swooning into the night.

ARTISTS

Jack Symonds, piano & conductor
Jessica Aszodi, soprano & Sprechstimme
Geoffrey Collins, flutes
John Gaden, poetry
Jason Noble, clarinets
James Wannan, violin & viola
Blair Harris, cello
Australian String Quartet

PROGRAM

Alfred Hill (1869-1960): String Quartet No. 3 in A minor 'The Carnival' (1912)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Pierrot lunaire Op. 21 (1912)

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Richard Dehmel (1863-1920): Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) (1896)

Jack Symonds (b. 1988): Blühen (2020) (world premiere) 
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet Op. 4 (1899)

Featured non-Australian music: Schoenberg, Richard Dehmel

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to stevp@adelaidefestival.com.au

Featured Australian Works

	Blühen : for soprano, string sextet and piano (2020) by Jack Symonds — World premiere — performed by Jack Symonds and Jessica Aszodi
	String quartet no. 3 in A minor : The carnival : string quartet by Alfred Hill — performed by Australian String Quartet

Featured artists

• Performer Jessica Aszodi
• Conductor Jack Symonds
• Performer Australian String Quartet