Event
Flinders Quartet presents "A Life's Work"
- Date: Monday, 30 May 2022, 11am and 6pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: Adults: $40 | Children: $29 | Concession: $29 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on 0396 993 333
Event Details
Flinders Quartet’s 2022 subscription concert season opens with the premiere of two new works by Melbourne composers, Katy Abbott and Melody Eötvös. Abbott and Eötvös have both chosen inspiring 20th century creatives as the springboard for their new works, showcasing the lives of Melbourne composer Margaret Sutherland and French Sculpteur Camille Claudel. Joining Flinders Quartet on stage to do the literal singing will be Perth-based mezzo soprano Ashlyn Tymms, a rising star in Australia’s opera scene, bringing to life the words of Sutherland and Claudel in two song cycles that embody the notion of chamber music. To round out the concert program, Jessica Wells has arranged Clara Schumann’s Op. 16 preludes and fugues for string quartet; and Flinders Quartet revisit Margaret Sutherland’s second string quartet entitled “Discussion”, a work that has only received a handful of performances since its completion in 1953, and two of these were by Flinders Quartet in 2022 as part of their mission to perform and record all of Sutherland’s works for string quartet.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0417 798 523 or by email to admin@flindersquartet.com
Featured Australian Works
| 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op.16, arr. : string quartet by Jessica Wells and Clara Schumann — performed by Flinders Quartet | |
| Discussion : String Quartet No. 2 (1954) by Margaret Sutherland — performed by Flinders Quartet | |
| Hope. Fear. Anything. : For Mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet (2022) by Melody Eötvös — performed by Ashlyn Tymms and Flinders Quartet | |
| Splitting the Ambivalence (mezzo-soprano with string quartet) by Katy Abbott — performed by Ashlyn Tymms and Flinders Quartet |
Featured artists
- Performer Flinders Quartet
- Performer Ashlyn Tymms
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