Natasha Anderson is not only an excellent friend, but also my very favourite composer, so I’m incredibly lucky she has written me another amazing piece. Come along to the gorgeous Castlemaine Town Hall this Winter to hear Quartzopolis, in collaboration with the delightful Resonance String Orchestra!
It’s always excellent playing with AAO, and this new conduction project that our AD Aaron Choulai is exploring is fascinating. Come along to NGV on Friday 13th (ooooooh) June to check out what we’ve been up to.
My duo project with the outrageously talented and excellent Joy Lee is doing a little regional tour this Autumn, and we have a very special guest, John Weretka, joining us on viola da gamba.
If you’re in Castlemaine, Beechworth, or Ceres (Geelong), come along and check out some old and new work for baroque violin, harpsichord, and viola da gamba, including two world premieres of composed by me and Rohan Drape.
Dates: 6pm Friday 23rd May – Castlemaine Uniting Church Hall 2pm Sunday 25th May – Beechworth Town Hall 2pm Saturday 31st May – Ceres Temperance Hall
The utterly delightful Davide Monti is returning to Woodend this Winter to play some Handel Concertos for the wonderful Woodend Winter Arts Festival, and this time he’s bringing the talented Maria Cleary with him, so it’s one not to be missed!
Rug up and head to Woodend for a long weekend, and be sure to book early here to avoid disappointment.
There’s so much great music making going on around Central Victoria at the moment, including the delightful Gisborne Singers in a programme of Purcell and Vivaldi at my lovely local town hall.
The lovely Deborah Walker and Silvia Tarozzi are touring Australia this April, and I’m lucky enough to share the bill with them in Chewton on Friday 11th, along with dear friend and colleague Erkki Veltheim.
Come check out their Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d’amore (songs of war, work and love), with some d’amore/electronics times from me and violin/electronics times from Erkki, or, even better, make a little trip out of it and get along to their collaboration with Anthony Pateras the night before too.
For their second season this year, BSO will be playing Holst’s amazing Planets. Don’t miss the chance to hear this incredible set of works alongside Beethoven’s classic (literally) violin concerto played by Dale Barltrop.
As usual, be sure to book early! Details and tickets here.
Kicking off my first year as official concertmaster of Bendigo Symphony with Dvořák’s epic New World Symphony. This was one of those pieces that I always regretted not getting the chance to play in my early orchestra-playing years before heading into chamber music land for a couple of decades, so I’m THRILLED to be playing it with the total legends at BSO.
These guys tend to sell out the 870-seater Ulumbarra Theatre, so book early to avoid disappointment.
It’s been a while in between Make It Up Clubs for me, and a while since I’ve had the great pleasure of performing with the exceptionally excellent Jess Aszodi, so you should probably come check it out this January. It’s a ridiculously amazing line-up.