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B5 French For Breakfast #5

  • Saturday, 6 May 2023

  • Fitters' Workshop

    Printers Way, Kingston, ACT 2604

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Start your day in style with exquisite French music played by your favourite festival artists. Bon appétit!

Debussy, who liked to be known as ‘musicien français’ , completes our French for Breakfast series. Ease into Saturday morning with the gentle mystery of his Six Epigraphes Antiques, in the hands of Edward and Stephanie Neeman, before Oliver Shermacher, fresh from his win at the 2022 International Aeolus Competition, adds a final splash of colour in the composer’s clarinet rhapsody.

 

Program

Claude Debussy, Six Epigraphes Antiques

Claude Debussy, Première Rhapsodie

followed by a conversation with the artists led by Genevieve Jacobs

 

Artists

Edward and Stephanie Neeman, piano duo

Oliver Shermacher, clarinet

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Australian born clarinettist Oliver Shermacher completed his Bachelors at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Francesco Celata, and his Masters at the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik with Kilian Herold and Anton Hollich. He is currently living between Germany and Australia, performing as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinettist. He was recently awarded the highly prestigious recognition of the 1st Prize and Audience Choice at the 2022 Aeolus Competition in Düsseldorf, one of the world’s most significant competitions for wind instrumentalists. Oliver won the Freedman Fellowship in 2018 and reached the Grand Finals of the 2018 ABC Young Performers Award, also receiving the Audience Choice award. Oliver has performed as soloist with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Apex Ensemble and was the Artist in Residence with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra for their 2021/2022 Season, having premiered the Alice Chance Clarinet Concerto with the orchestra in 2022. Oliver has played as Principal Clarinet with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Freiburg Philharmonisches Orchester and with the Australian World Orchestra on Bass Clarinet. Oliver is a passionate composer, theatre maker and new music enthusiast with a focus on the intersection between theatre and solo performance.