Cycles and Variations
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Sunday, 4 May 2025
11:00 am
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Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
15 Blackall St, Barton ACT 2600
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With Support From
A program of works by formidable soloist and Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Finnish star musician, Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve. Tipi is equally at home playing the timeless masterworks for the instrument as well as breathing a calm and assured maturity into new works.
Performing alongside Tipi, Helen Svoboda is a Finnish/Australian award-winning double bassist, vocalist and composer. ‘A musician who absolutely defies categorisation’ (Andrew Ford – The Music Show, ABC), her work explores the melodic potential of the double bass, weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessitura to explore themes of sonic unity amidst abstract song-writing forms.
PROGRAM
J.S. Bach, Prelude BWV1007 G Major
Kate Moore, Lidy’s Piece (2015)
Helen Svoboda, solo improvisation for voice and bass
J.S. Bach, Prelude BWV1010 E flat Major
Anne Leilehua, Lanzilotti koʻu inoa (2017)
Helen Svoboda, solo improvisation for voice and bass
Jean Sibelius, Variations (1887)
ARTISTS
Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve (cello)
Helen Svoboda (double bass and vocals)
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Artist Tipi Valve - cello
Timo-Veikko Valve, affectionately known by audiences far and wide as “Tipi”, grew up in Finland, surrounded by a family who are “musically oriented normal people”. Music lessons were a natural part of his upbringing, and at six years old, Tipi was encouraged to pick up the cello after a teacher at the local music school declared with considerable conviction that “he looks just like a cellist!”. To this day, Tipi remains somewhat puzzled about what that statement actually meant. Whatever the subtext, the teacher seems to have been correct.
Artist Helen Svoboda - double bass
Helen Svoboda is a Finnish/Australian award-winning double bassist, vocalist and composer. “A musician who absolutely defies categorisation” (Andrew Ford – The Music Show, ABC), her work explores the melodic potential of the double bass, weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessitura to explore themes of sonic unity amidst abstract song-writing forms.