Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

The Grevillea Ensemble with special guest, Yvette Goodchild, perform a variety of exciting & beautiful works for voice, viola & piano, including Brahms, Hindemith, Poulenc and the premiere of Beaugeais's Afternoon at the Orangerie - a new song cycle of 4 poems by English romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Composed for the Grevillea Ensemble, it is inspired by Beaugeais' recent trip to France, where she visited Monet’s Water Lilies at the Orangerie Museum in Paris (Musée de l’Orangerie). Beaugeais’s French background can be heard throughout. Lyrical, singing and impressionistic characteristics of French composers, Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc and symbolic words of Shelley’s poems are sung in French. In her latest work, Beaugeais gives back the ‘composer/creator’ role to the players, requiring the performers to improvise. Monet’s idea of "capturing the changing qualities of natural light in his garden" is enhanced by this 'improvisational' style, producing a fusion of colours, blurred lines, constantly changing textural and timbral effects. Calm, tranquil and atmospheric passages contrast with fast, virtuosic, rhythmic melodic sections, showcasing the technical ability of the players.

Performers: Wendy Dixon (voice), David Miller (piano), Yvette Goodchild (viola, Guest Artist)

Featured non-Australian music: Brahms 'Geistliches Wiegenlied', Poulenc 'Tel jour, telle nuit'. Rubbra 'Upon the Crucifix', Hindemith Sonata for viola & piano, Bridge 'Three Songs' for voice, viola, piano

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0419 986 298 or by email to info@woodwind-group.com.au

Featured Australian Works

Featured artists

• Performer Wendy Dixon
• Performer Yvette Goodchild
• Performer David Miller