FRIDAY 10 APRIL  5:30 PM - 7:30 PM  

Helena Kernaghan has performed throughout Australia and internationally and was a founding member of the award-winning Abraxas Piano Trio in 1997.

Trio Gaku 楽 is a collaboration between her long time musical associates Kaori Sparks and cellist Josephine Vains.

Merlyn Quaife has performed opera, oratorio, lieder, chamber music and contemporary music to great acclaim throughout Australia and Europe. She has performed as a soloist with the Singapore Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Voronesz Philharmonic in Russia  and with all the Symphony Australia orchestras,

Balancing beauty and irony, tenderness and laughter, this program celebrates the eternal interplay between words and music, from Mozart’s heart-on-sleeve sincerity to Shostakovich’s whispered confessions and Ravel’s dreamlike mischief.

A concert of shifting moods and colours, where timeless stories are told anew through dazzling musicianship and the art of imaginative reinvention.

Program

Mozart – “L’amero, saro costante” (from Il rè pastore, K.208)

Shostakovich – Seven Verses of Alexander Blok, Op.127

Ravel – Mother Goose Suite, arranged by Benjamin Martin with text by Peter Goldsworthy

Ravel composed it for Mimie and Jean Godebski (aged six and seven respectively), to whose parents he had dedicated his Sonatine for piano. Ravel then composed four more pieces enfantines, depicting characters from the fairy-tales anthologised by three 17th century authors: Charles Perrault (‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Tom Thumb’), the Baroness d’Aulnoy (‘Laideronette’) and the Prince of Beaumont (‘Beauty and the Beast’). ‘The Fairy Garden’ was an original inspiration.

Friday 10 April 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Includes Pre-Show drinks and canapés

Concession $65 | Full Price $70