Flinders Quartet with Charlie Wu
22 April 2027 @ 1:30 pm–3:30 pm
Elizabeth Sellars violin
Wilma Smith violin
Helen Ireland viola
Zoe Knighton cello
Charlie Wu piano
Flinders Quartet returns to Beleura with a program built around two towering masterworks. Beethoven’s String Quartet No.9 in C major, Op.59 No.3 – the last of the three “Razumovsky” quartets – is a work of extraordinary contrasts: intimate one moment, exuberant the next, and always surprising.
It is paired with one of the great chamber music experiences, Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34, in which the quartet is joined by brilliant young Australian pianist Charles Wu. Brahms’s quintet is by turns brooding and passionate, lyrical and dramatic, a work that rewards the listener at every turn and leaves you wanting more.
Few string ensembles in Australia have done more for the well being of Australian music. The Flinders Quartet have explored and developed new realms in chamber music through their prolific commissioning of compositions and mentorship of string players throughout Australia.
Charlie Wu is one of Australia’s most extraordinary young pianists.
At 13, he has already claimed top prizes at major international competitions, including First Prize at the Concours International Musicale de Genève and the Grand Prix at the Grand Piano Competition in Moscow, where his performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra attracted more than 134,000 views on YouTube.
He has since been invited to perform with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in St Petersburg. In Australia, his awards include First Prize in the 2025 Boroondara Open Age Piano Concerto Competition and multiple Musical Society of Victoria prizes.
Concert and Afternoon Tea included.
Tickets on sale in February at www.beleura.org.au.