Event
Musical Maverick : Five Concerts in Tribute to Grainger
- Date: Saturday, 22 October 2016, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm
- Venue: Melba Hall — Royal Parade, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC
- Series: This event is part of the Melbourne Festival 2016 series
- Tickets: $15 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
12 percussionists, 16 electric and acoustic guitarists, six singers, five pianists, 40 wind players: students from across the University of Melbourne employ everything from gamelan orchestra to six-handed piano concert to conjure up the eccentric spirit and maverick genius of Percy Grainger. How could you expect anything less?
Performed by students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM), Faculty of VCA and MCM as well as the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), these five concerts in Melba Hall each plumb the depths of Grainger's musical mind but the launching points range from experimentalism to folk to exoticism. From contemporaneous to newly commissioned works, the series is more than mere homage, tracing the influences that shaped Grainger and the effects his legacy has had on successive generations of artists.
Concert schedule
Saturday 15 October
2pm Grainger and the Exotic: The MCM percussion ensemble explores Grainger’s music, including Homage to Free music, through gamelan orchestra and percussion.
4pm Grainger the Folk Musician: Soprano Cleo Lee-McGowen, and tenor Michael Diminovski perform a program alongside The Vocal Ensemble, which includes folk tunes composed by Dvorak and Bartok.
Sunday 16 October
12pm Grainger the Pianistic Pioneer: Staff and students from ANAM perform the experimental and imaginary ballet piece, The Warriors, written for 2 pianos and 6 hands.
2pm The Experimental Grainger: The MCM’s guitar ensemble perform Random Round and feature new works by MCM composers Ethan McAlister and Jacob Donohue.
4pm Grainger and the Wind Ensemble: The forces of the MCM Wind Symphony combine to bring you an electric concert of large-ensemble works that are guaranteed to raise the roof.
Saturday 22 October
12pm Grainger the Pianistic Pioneer: Staff and students from ANAM perform the experimental and imaginary ballet piece, The Warriors, written for 2 pianos and 6 hands.
2pm Grainger and the Exotic: The MCM percussion ensemble explores Grainger’s music, including Homage to Free music, through gamelan orchestra and percussion.
4pm Grainger the Folk Musician: Soprano Cleo Lee-McGowen, and tenor Michael Diminovski perform a program alongside The Vocal Ensemble, which includes folk tunes composed by Dvorak and Bartok.
Sunday 23 October
2pm The Experimental Grainger: The MCM’s guitar ensemble perform Random Round and feature new works by MCM composers Ethan McAlister and Jacob Donohue.
4pm Grainger and the Wind Ensemble: The forces of the MCM Wind Symphony combine to bring you an electric concert of large-ensemble works that are guaranteed to raise the roof.
Curated and performed by students at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Australian National Academy of Music: Berta Brozgul, Tom D’ath, Michael Diminovski, Jacob Donohue, Alison Fane, Andrew Leathwick, Ethan McAlister, Cleo Lee-McGowan, Adam McMillan, Laura Smith, Alex Waite, Nicholas Young
Joined by ANAM’s Head of Keyboard studies, Timothy Young
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9662 4242
Featured Australian Works
| Random round : flexible instrumentation (1943) by Percy Grainger |
| Warriors : keyboard trio by Percy Grainger |
| Warriors : keyboard trio by Percy Grainger |
Featured artists
- Music of Percy Grainger
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