C7 Larry and Luigi
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Friday, 3 May 2024
11:30 am
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Albert Hall
100 Commonwealth Ave, Yarralumla ACT 2601
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General Admission $60,
Concession $55
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In Association with
Larry and Luigi – Two Slices of History
Presented in association with the Embassy of Italy. Concert introduced by Andrew Ford.
Celebrating Luigi Nono and Larry Sitsky, two major figures in music from opposite ends of the globe, Venice and Canberra. Both captured the great existential dilemmas of the 20th century, each in their own idiosyncratic way. Nono’s oeuvre was rooted in political activism before softening into purified, other-worldly strands of sound transcending the here and now. Sitsky, now into his tenth decade, found his wings in pre-revolutionary China and embraced the ethnic origins of his family before settling in Canberra. His legacy is as prolific as it is lively and direct.
PROGRAM
Luigi Nono (1924-1990), La Fabbrica Illuminata
Larry Sitsky (b. 1934), Zuqerq for clarinet and bongos
Larry Sitsky (b. 1934), A Feast of Lanterns II
ARTISTS
tbc, violin
Florian Peelman, viola
Freya Schack-Arnott, cello
Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Roland Peelman, piano
Andrew Ford, presenter
Sitsky photo credit – ANU School of Music
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Friday, 3 May 2024
11:30 am
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Albert Hall
100 Commonwealth Ave, Yarralumla ACT 2601
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General Admission $60,
Concession $55
ARTIST Learn more about the artist
Artist Roland Peelman AM, Artistic Director
“His encyclopaedic understanding of performing and visual arts and his theatrical instinct place him in constant demand as a musician of flair and imagination.” – Antony Jeffrey, Many Faces of Inspiration.
At the helm of the Festival since 2015 is Artistic Director Roland Peelman, an acclaimed musician of great versatility who has established a reputation as one of Australia’s most innovative musical directors.
Artist Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Praised by The Guardian for her “irrepressible sense of drama and unmissable, urgent musicality”, Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is passionate about curation and programming, with a broad repertoire that encompasses contemporary music, art song, chamber music, early music, opera, oratorio and non-classical collaborations. Lotte is an Ambassador of Donne, a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting gender equality in the music industry, and in 2022 she was named as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an honour reserved for alumni who have contributed significantly to the music industry.
Full bio at www.lottebettsdean.com
Photo credit Benjamin Ealovega
Artist Freya Schack-Arnott, cello
Freya Schack-Arnott is an Australian/Danish cellist dedicated to pursuing a unique language of cello playing, encompassing improvisation and original composition, combined with informed and creative interpretation of classical and contemporary works within solo, chamber and cross-disciplinary art forms.
Artist Florian Peelman, viola
Florian has played the violin since the age of five, and after absorbing the sound of gamelan in Indonesia, started formal training in Helsinki. At the age of 14 he continued his studies at Chethams School of Music in Manchester. Returning to his Belgian roots at the age of 18, he enrolled at the Antwerp Conservatorium and switched to the viola. He completed his Masters under Walter Küssner at the world leading ‘Hans Eisler’ Hochschule für Musik Berlin achieving the highest distinction and has since continued to work there as Assistant Professor.
Artist Andrew Ford, composer - writer - broadcaster
Andrew Ford OAM is a composer, writer and broadcaster who has won awards in each of those capacities, including the Paul Lowin Prize for his song cycle Learning to Howl, a Green Room Award for his opera Rembrandt’s Wife and the Albert H Maggs Prize for his large ensemble piece, Rauha. He has been composer-in-residence for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. In 2014 he was Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University, in 2015 visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and in 2018 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Ford has written widely on all manner of music and published ten books, most recently The Song Remains the Same with Anni Heino (La Trobe University Press, 2019). He has written, presented and co-produced five radio series for the ABC and, since 1995, presented The Music Show each weekend on Radio National. He was awarded an OAM in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.