Bangalow Music Festival - NSW- Classical Music

bangalow_musosWhat? Set in the lush green rolling hills, tranquility and a charming Federation village combine with welcoming warm winter sun, a friendly atmosphere and Australia's finest musicians for an 2011_bangalowunforgettable escape from thepace of modern life for the Bangalow Music Festival.

The audiences at the festival are taken on a melodic journey with works by composers such as Mozart, Ravel, Bach, Liszt, Chopin and Debussy and newer works by Australian composers. The perfomances are made up of Jazz, Choir, Ensumbes and Soloists.

The entire event includes:

  • Ten outstanding chamber music recitals held in the historic A&I Hall, beginning on the Friday night and culminating in a spectacular finale on the Sunday afternoon
  • An open door to encourage communication between audience and musicians
  • A community concert, presented before the Festival for the local residents who spend the Festival accommodating the audience
  • An educational children’s concert featuring leading musicians from both Australia and overseas for local school children.

Where? Bangalow, Byron, NSW

When? 2011, August 12 to Sunday August

Who? See below . Programme

Festival Website? Bangalow Music Festival

2011 Program

Concert One - Festival Welcome

Friday August 12, 7pm

Southern Cross Soloists

Flinders Quartet

Paul Dean (clarinet)

Marshall McGuire (harp)

Slava Grigoryan (guitar)

Patrick Nolan (flute)

Mozart - Clarinet Quintet

James Ledger - Prophecy Songs

Ravel - Introduction and Allegro

Concert Two - A Soldier's Tale

Friday August 12, 8.30pm

Flinders Quartet

Southern Cross Soloists

Michelle Walsh (violin)

Gerard McFadden (double bass)

Phil Ryan (trumpet)

Ben Marks (trombone)

Tom O'Kelly (percussion)

Prokofiev - Overture on Hebrew Themes

Shostakovich - Quartet No. 7

Stravinsky - Soldier's Tale

Concert Three - Quartet for the End of Time

Friday August 12, 11pm

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Paul Dean (clarinet)

Patrick Murphy (cello)

Stephen Emmerson (piano)

Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time

Concert Four - The Star

Saturday August 13, 10am

Jayson Gillham (piano)

Bach/Liszt - Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV543

Liszt - Sonetto 123 del Petrarca

Liszt - Transcendental Etudes No. 5 "Feux Follets" & no. 10 in F minor

Bach/Grainger - Blithe Bells - Ramble on "Sheep May Safely Graze"

Bach/Grainger - Fugue in E major

Grainger - Colonial Song

Grainger - Mock Morris

Stanford/Grainger - March-Jig

Concert Five - Beethoven Feast

Saturday August 13, 11.30am

Flinders Quartet

Melbourne Piano Trio

Beethoven - Piano Trio No. 5 in D major "Ghost"

Beethoven - String Quartet Op. 132 in A minor

Concert Six - All Those Ways of Leaving

Saturday August 13, 3pm

Southern Cross Soloists

Jack Liebeck (violin)

Marshall McGuire (harp)

Slava Grigoryan (guitar)

Nick Earls (narrator)

Stuart Greenbaum - Chamber Concerto No. 2

Stuart Greenbaum - All those ways of leaving

Frends Function - Saturday August 13, 5pm

Concert Seven - Silver Garburg Piano Duo

Saturday August 13, 8pm

Silver Garburg Piano Duo

Schubert - Fantasy in F minor, Op. 103, D. 940

Stravinsky - Petrushka (Original version by the composer for piano, four hands)

Concert Eight - Australian Song

Saturday August 13, 9.30pm

Melbourne Piano Trio

Southern Cross Soloists

Bangalow Festival

Chamber Orchestra

Kevin Power (piano)

Gordon Kerry - Bangalow Etudes

Paul Dean - Fractured Moments

Matthew Hindson - Central Australian Song

Paul Stanhope - Throbbing

Concert Nine - Brilliance

Sunday August 14, 11am

Bangalow Festival Chamber Orchestra

Barber - Adagio

Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Paul Stanhope - Yanihndi

Beethoven - Violin Concerto

Concert Ten - Dido and Aeneas

Sunday August 14, 3.30pm

The Queensland Choir

Bangalow Festival Chamber Orchestra

Purcell - Dido and Aeneas

 


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