Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Beethoven’s Grand Fugue has been termed “a great artistic testament to the human capacity for meaning” and provides a gripping Season 2021 opening work. You will be transported to a chapel where macho bullfighters pray for their lives ahead of their encounters in the Madrid arena, a scene that inspired Turina to write his sensual The Bullfighter’s Prayer. Steve Reich’s 1994 Duet commemorates the humanity of the great violinist, Yehudi Menuhin and is dedicated to ideals of international understanding which Yehudi practised throughout his life. In a world premiere commissioned during the COVID-19 pandemic, Queensland composer John Rotar’s Beyond the Front Door provides a poignant recollection of isolation in 2020. Following interval, we welcome a special guest artist, Australian singer/songwriter Lior, for a performance of Compassion, the song cycle he wrote together with Australian composer, Nigel Westlake. The words reach out across the religious divide between Islam and Judaism in a remarkable and authentic celebration of compassion.

Performers: Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra; Lior

Featured non-Australian music: Beethoven, Reich, Turina

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to info@camerata.net.au

Featured Australian Works

	Compassion : for string quartet, piano, double bass, percussion and solo voice, a song cycle in seven movements, (2017) by Nigel Westlake and Lior — performed by Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra and Lior
	Beyond the Front Door by John Rotar — World premiere

Featured artists

• New work by John Rotar
• Performer Lior
• Performer Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra