Event
MSO plays Beethoven, Kats-Chernin
- Date: Thursday, 12 October 2017, 8pm
- Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St, Southbank, VIC
- Tickets: Adult: $115 - $59 | Concession: $110 - $59 | (Booking fees apply) — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Event Details
The very best of Australian composition and woodwind talent combine.
Featuring the music of one of Australia’s most accomplished and vibrant compositional talents, Elena Kats-Chernin, don’t miss the MSO showcasing the power and versatility of woodwind.
In this special one-off concert, British clarinet virtuoso Michael Collins returns to play with and conduct the MSO in a riveting series of works that shows off the very best of the orchestra’s woodwind section.
Joining him is the 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, Brisbane-born Lloyd Van’t Hoff, performing a dynamic work for basset clarinet and chamber orchestra entitled Ornamental Air, composed by MSO’s 2017 Composer in Residence, Elena Kats-Chernin.
Also on the program is Dvorak’s ‘old worldy’ Serenade for Winds, Mendelssohn’s genius concert piece, Konzertstück, and Beethoven’s Symphony No.8 (which he fondly referred to as his ‘little Symphony in F’), which despite being written while the great composer was growing increasingly deaf has no musical deficiencies to show for it!
The MSO is delighted to welcome Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia’s leading composers, as its 2017 Composer in Residence.
Program
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Winds
Elena Kats-Chernin
Ornamental Air
Felix Mendelssohn
Konzertstück
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8
Presented by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Featured non-Australian music: Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Beethoven
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333
Featured Australian Works
Ornamental air : for basset clarinet and orchestra (2007) by Elena Kats-Chernin — performed by Michael Collins and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra |
Featured artists
- Performer Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor Michael Collins
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