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ACACIA QUARTET present Blue Silence - string miniatures by Elena Kats-Chernin

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ACACIA QUARTET present Blue Silence - string miniatures by Elena Kats-Chernin

  • Date: Sunday, 15 May 2016, 3pm
  • Venue: Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room — Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW
  • Tickets: Adults: $75 | Children under 16 & full-time students: $30 | Concession: $65 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 9250 7777

Event Details

Australia’s dynamic ACACIA QUARTET presents Blue Silence, an exhilarating program of miniatures for string quartet by Elena Kats-Chernin. ACACIA were especially chosen by Kats-Chernin to record her complete string quartet works under her guidance. Their resulting album Blue Silence made the 2013 finals for an APRA Art Music Award for Excellence. ACACIA QUARTET’s Blue Silence also received 4.5 stars and the Editor’s Choice in Limelight Magazine, was chosen as CD of the Week on ABC Radio, featured in Qantas In-Flight Entertainment and received the following glowing review from Barry Walmsley: “The quartet’s warmth of tone and blend is coupled with an infectious passion for this new music, making this recording a sound-out! It is not only exciting music, but exciting playing.”

Don’t miss this perfect chance to hear ACACIA’s violinists Lisa Stewart & Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase perform live at the Utzon Room on Sunday 15 May, 3pm. This concert will feature many of Kats-Chernin’s much-loved favourites, including Eliza Aria, Russian Rag, Butterflying and Slick-Back Tango. This is a concert to be enjoyed by young and old alike

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0405 070 721 or by email to myee.acaciaquartet@gmail.com

Featured Australian Works

Blue rose : string quartet (2005) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Blue silence : for string quartet (2006) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Butterflying : string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Eliza Aria : string quartet (2004) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Fast blue village 2 : string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Digital sheet music sample From Anna Magdalena's notebook : for string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Grotesk : for string quartet (1993) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Kwong song : string quartet (2006) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Mezmer : string quartet (2010) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Moody tango : for string quartet (2010) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Naive waltz : string quartet (2004) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Pink breasted robin : string quartet by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Road to harvest : for string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Second door on the left : string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Silver eucalypt : string quartet (2006) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Silver pearls : for string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Silver poetry : string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet
Slicked back tango : for string quartet (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin
— performed by Acacia Quartet

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