Event
Australian Music and the Classical Guitar
- Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2016
- Venue: Royal Academy of Music — Marylebone Road, London, United Kingdom
Event Details
Wednesday, 02.03.2016 19:30, Duke’s Hall
Andrey Lebedev guitar
Joseph Havlat piano
Lotte Betts-Dean mezzo-soprano
Ardour Quartet with Joseph Prindl double bass
Academy String Orchestra
Jo Cole conductor
Sculthorpe From Kakadu
Ross Edwards Blackwattle Caprices
Brett Dean Three Caprichos after Goya
Brett Dean Gertrude Fragments (world premiere) – a new song cycle, using the libretto from the composer’s upcoming opera on Hamlet by librettist Matthew Jocelyn after William Shakespeare
Phillip Houghton In Amber
Nigel Westlake Jovian Moons
Sculthorpe Nourlangie
Prize-winning guitarist and Advanced Diploma student Andrey Lebedev presents a special programme of music by leading Australian composers, exploring the unique landscape and character of his home country.
Tickets £7.50 (concessions £5.50) from the Academy’s Box Office: online, or telephone 020 7873 7300 10am–4pm Monday–Friday.
6.15pm: Pre-concert discussion, with Australian-born classical guitarist John Williams and Dr Raymond Holden in the David Josefowitz Recital Hall. Free for ticket-holders to the 7.30pm performance.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
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| Blackwattle caprices : for solo guitar (1998) by Ross Edwards — performed by Andrey Lebedev |
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| From Kakadu : for solo guitar (1993) by Peter Sculthorpe — performed by Andrey Lebedev |
| Gertrude Fragments : for mezzo-soprano and guitar (2016) by Matthew Jocelyn and Brett Dean — World premiere — performed by Andrey Lebedev and Lotte Betts-Dean |
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| In amber : guitar with string quartet by Phillip Houghton — performed by Andrey Lebedev |
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| Jovian moons : for guitar & piano (2001) by Nigel Westlake — performed by Andrey Lebedev and Joseph Havlat |
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| Nourlangie : for solo guitar strings and percussion (1989) by Peter Sculthorpe — performed by Andrey Lebedev |
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| Three caprichos after Goya : guitar solo by Brett Dean — performed by Andrey Lebedev |
Featured artists
- Performer Andrey Lebedev
- Performer Lotte Betts-Dean
- Performer Joseph Havlat
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