Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Join Lotte Betts-Dean, Libby Myers, Alex Raineri and Connor D’Netto at Brunswick’s favourite intimate art music venue Tempo Rubato, as they come together for POSTCARDS.

POSTCARDS explores our many complex and varied relationships to home, to travel, and to the places in our lives. This new collaborative project brings together three of Australia’s most exciting artists, UK-based mezzo-soprano and recent Royal Philharmonic Society Awards winner, Lotte Betts-Dean, and in-demand Magandjin/Brisbane artists Libby Myers (guitar) and Alex Raineri (piano). Weaving together works old and new from art song to bossa nova, the concert centres around the world premiere of “Postcards” by Queensland-born composer Connor D’Netto, a song-cycle reflecting on what “home” can mean to us, settings new texts by Australian artists Aunty Delmae Barton, Megan Steller, Mathew Klotz, Han Reardon-Smith, and Kezia Yap.

EVENT DETAILS:
Monday 12 August 2024 Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese Street, Brunswick VIC
Doors open at 7pm.
Concert starts at 8pm.
Duration approx. 100mins including a short interval.

ABOUT THE VENUE:
Tempo Rubato Tempo Rubato is a live classical music venue in Brunswick. The bar is open before every concert. In addition to drinks, they sell pre-loved sheet music and books about music.
Accessibility: Tempo Rubato has no stairs and a fully accessible, gender-neutral bathroom. Full accessibility information can be found on the Tempo Rubato website: https://www.temporubato.com.au/accessibility

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, Traditional Owners of the lands on which we perform – lands on which First Nations communities have been creating and sharing music, art and culture for thousands of generations. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and I recognise the vital contributions First Nations communities continue to make in music and art. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Postcards was commissioned as part of the Australian Music Centre's MOMENTUM Commissions, with support provided by Hendrik Prins. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Featured non-Australian music: Cesaria Evora "Sodade"; Paurillo Barroso "Para Ninar"; Antonio Carlos Jobim "Águas de Março"; Charles Ives "Romanzo di Central Park" and "Down East"; Madeleine Dring "A Bay in Anglesey"

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website

Featured artists

• New work by Connor D'Netto
• Performer Alex Raineri
• Performer Lotte Betts-Dean
• Performer Libby Myers