Event
Monash Sinfonia: Night Music
- Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 7:30pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: $20/$10 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Monash Sinfonia is the premier string ensemble of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, directed by Australian violinist Elizabeth Sellars. Collaborative artists have included Tim Fain, Wilma Smith, Nemanja Radulovic and Eric Whitacre.
Written for Peter Pears and Dennis Brain, Britten’s Serenade is a song cycle based on six poems by British poets on the subject of night. An Australian perspective is also brought to the theme of night with Sculthorpe’s atmospheric and sensual Night Song.
Featured non-Australian music: Britten, Bridge, Geminiani
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Night song : string orchestra (1996) by Peter Sculthorpe — performed by Elizabeth Sellars and Monash Sinfonia |
Featured artists
- Performer Monash Sinfonia
- Conductor Elizabeth Sellars
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