Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Leading Australian guitar soloist, Karin Schaupp and Colorado Symphony conductor Chris Dragon discuss the history of  the guitar in this conversational concert program that traces the history of  the guitar - one of  the most significant and noble ancient instruments embraced by cultures around the world. Exploring the last 400 years of  this 4000-year-old instrument, Karin is joined in performance with festival artists to perform works by Rodrigo, De Falla, Haydn and Brisbane’s own Rob Davidson, as well as the little-known but extraordinary German early Baroque composer, Athanasius Kircher who, like Leonardo da Vinci, was honoured with the title “Master of a Hundred Arts” as a genius in multiple fields including medicine, geology, history, religion and music.

Kircher -  Tarantella Napoletana, Tono Hypodorico
Haydn - String Quartet No. 8 in E major, Op. 2, No. 2
Rodrigo -  Aranjuez, ma pensée
Robert Davidson - Landscape
De Falla - Suite Populaire Espagnole - selections

Karin Schaupp (guitar), Christopher Dragon (interviewer), Tania Frazer (oboe), Victoria Sayles (violin), Blair Harris (cello), Lina Andonovska (flute), Orava Quartet and Southern Cross Soloists.

Featured non-Australian music: Kircher, Haydn, Rodrigo, De Falla

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (07) 3844 7260 or by email to manager@southernxsoloists.com

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• Performer Karin Schaupp
• Performer Orava Quartet