The Adelaide Hills Chamber Players is an ensemble of professional musicians who rehearse and perform in the Adelaide Hills. We aim to make quality music accessible to communities in the Adelaide Hills and wider regional South Australia.
FREE FAMILY WORKSHOP:
The Hungry Numbat
“Free event but BOOKINGS essential for COVID safety reasons.”
An interactive musical storytelling with Bindi McFarlane and the Bronzewing String Quartet
Aimed at the under 12s, this event is fun for the whole family: you can bring an instrument to join in with a triangle, a drum, baby’s favourite rattle, a violin, or a clarinet – but maybe not your piano! (Don’t worry, if you don’t have an instrument, there will be some available on the day). Bindi will tell the story of a Hungry Numbat, musically illustrated by the Bronzewing Quartet.
Adelaide born Belinda McFarlane is a professional violinist and educator, primarily with the London Symphony Orchestra. Bindi has performed with the likes of Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta and Simone Young; with primary school children, Special Schools and Adult groups, Australian Youth Orchestra and Australian World Orchestra.
Where & When?
Sat 3 July, 11:00am
Tanunda [Langmeil Lutheran Church]
Project Partners:
Royal Commonwealth Society [SA Branch] | Trinity College [Gawler]
STRING ORCHESTRA
Winter: Heritage and Renewal
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Poitr Tchaikovsky - Serenade
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Bela Bartok – Divertimento
William Hennessy AM
Two canonical works for string orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s beloved Serenade and Bartok’s Divertimento, a veritable “tour de force” of string technique serving the finest 20th century musical artistry.
Principal Guest Artist, William Hennessy AM, has a long association with Adelaide audiences beginning in 1985 when he formed the Australian String Quartet and was resident in Adelaide until 1996. Also, formerly Leader of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Head of Strings and Chamber Music at the University of Melbourne and now Artistic Director of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
CHAMBER CHOIR, ORCHESTRA &
FESTIVAL STATESMEN
Winter: Heritage and Renewal
Chamber Choir
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Heinrich Schutz - Selig sind die Toten
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Heinrich Schutz - Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener
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Claudio Monteverdi - Selva Morale e Spirituale: Beatus Vir, Primo
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Thomas Lavoy - The dream I knew
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Dan Forrest- Good Night Dear Heart
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Morten Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterim
Jonathan will conduct our chamber choir in old and new works, some a cappella and some with orchestra.
The program will celebrate the magnificence of
the European Baroque and the traditions it spawned across the globe. Hauntingly beautiful ecclesiastical repertoire links to the contemporary American scene as well as the styles that America in turn gave to the world by fusing European
and African traditions. And a new commission
by talented Adelaide composer Jakub Jankowski reflects on the effect of recent restrictions on our social and private lives.
Where & When?
Wed 16 Jun - 7:00pm
Mount Barker [UKARIA]
Thur 17 Jun - 7:00pm
McLaren Vale Bocce Club
Sat 19 Jun - 6:00pm
Gawler [Hewett Community Centre]
Sun 20 Jun- 6:00pm
Goolwa [Centenary Hall]
Festival Statesmen:
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Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque
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Billy Joel - Lullabye, arr Kirk Young
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Billy Joel - And so it goes, arr Kirby Shaw
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Traditional - Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel, arr Aaron Dale
RECITAL for FLUTE, VIOLA & HARP
Winter: Heritage and Renewal
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Toru Takemitsu - And Then I Knew T’was Wind [Flute, Viola and Harp]
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Heitor Villa-Lobos - Choros no 2 [arr. B. Williams for Flute and Viola]
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Claude Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Villa-Lobos sits neatly between the ground breaking creativity of Debussy on the one hand and on the other, the pleasing atonality of the celebrated 20th Century Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu.
With Linda Pirie [Fl], Rita Reichbart, [Vla] and Carolyn Burgess [Harp].
Where & When?
Sun 27 June - 3:00pm - McLaren Vale Bocce Club
Fri 2 July - 6:00pm - Mount Barker [UKARIA]
Sun 4 July - 3:00pm - Tanunda [Langmeil Lutheran Church]
Sat 10 July - 06:00pm - Murray Bridge Town Hall
Sun 11 July - 06:00pm - Goolwa [Centenary Hall]
Suneetha Carter
Linda Pirie
Rita Reichbart
Josh van Konkelenberg
Composer / Pianist
Recital for Soprano & Piano:
Heritage and Renewal
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Anton Dvorak - Gypsy Songs
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Joshua van Konkelenberg - Daphne
Two contrasting works for solo female voice. Dvorak’s cycle idealizes the bond between humans and nature, and Adelaide’s Joshua van Konkelengberg re-tells Ovid’s Metamorphoses legend from Daphne’s tragic perspective. Set in a forest, and torn between dream, myth, and reality, the work portrays the schism between what we want and how the world truly is.
Central Adelaide Hills
Winter
Heritage & Renewal
Wed 16 June Chamber Choir
Mt Barker Summit, UKARIA 7:00pm
Fri 18 June Josh van Konkelenberg
Mt Barker Summit, UKARIA 6:00pm
Wed 30 June String Orchestra
Mt Barker Summit, UKARIA 7:00pm
Fri 2 July Recital for Flute, Viola & Harp
Mt Barker Summit, UKARIA 6:00pm
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