CONCERT PROGRAM Respighi s Fountains of Rome Friday 30 September at 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Presented by Emirates Saturday 1 October at 2pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Monday 3 October at 6.30pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall
WHAT S ON OCTOBER DECEMBER 2016 HOLST S THE PLANETS Friday 21 October Two English masterworks feature in this concert: Vaughan Williams Overture to The Wasps is abuzz with activity, while Gustav Holst s suite The Planets is indeed out of this world. Australian pianist Andrea Lam is soloist in Chopin s Piano Concerto No.2. INDIANA JONES IN CONCERT Thursday 3 November Friday 4 November Saturday 5 November The film that gave the world one of its greatest movie heroes, Indiana Jones, is back and better than ever before! Relive the magic on the silver screen with the original great adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark with John Williams epic score performed live to picture by the MSO! DVOŘÁK CELLO CONCERTO Friday 11 November Monday 14 November The American maestro Andrew Litton returns to the MSO for this exciting program that features Prokofiev s Symphony No.6, a heartfelt elegy to World War II. German cellist Alban Gerhardt is soloist in Dvořák s well-loved Cello Concerto. SIBELIUS & SHOSTAKOVICH Thursday 17 November Friday 18 November Saturday 19 November MSO Concertmaster Dale Barltrop directs members of the Orchestra in two Sibelius works: the intimate Rakastava (The Lover), and the sweeping Impromptu. Completing the program is one of Shostakovich s anguished Chamber Symphonies, and Ian Munro s new Flute Concerto. SIMONE YOUNG CONDUCTS WAGNER & BRUCKNER Thursday 1 December Saturday 3 December The MSO plays two majestic final works Wagner s Parsifal and Bruckner s unfinished Symphony No.9 conducted by Simone Young. Excerpts from Act II of Parsifal are sung by Australian tenor Stuart Skelton and American mezzosoprano Michelle de Young. MESSIAH Saturday 10 December Sunday 11 December Hallelujah! Where would the joyous season be without the MSO s year-end performance of Handel s Messiah? This lifeaffirming spiritual masterpiece with its exquisite choral writing offers many treasured musical moments including the exultant Hallelujah chorus, one of the most popular refrains in Western music. 2
ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Marcelo Lehninger conductor Nelson Freire piano REPERTOIRE Szymanowski Concert Overture Schumann Piano Concerto Interval Respighi Fountains of Rome Respighi Pines of Rome Pre-Concert Talk 7pm Friday 30 September, Stalls Foyer, Hamer Hall 7pm Saturday 1 October, Stalls Foyer, Hamer Hall MSO Second Violinist Andrew Hall will present a talk on the artists and works featured in the program. This concert has a duration of approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes, including a 20-minute interval. Post-Concert Conversation 8.30pm Monday 3 October, Stalls Foyer, Hamer Hall Join MSO Director of Artistic Planning Ronald Vermeulen for a post-concert conversation. Series Presenters 3
MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) was established in 1906 and is Australia s oldest orchestra. It currently performs live to more than 250,000 people annually, in concerts ranging from subscription performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at Melbourne s largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The Orchestra also delivers innovative and engaging programs to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives. Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural concerts as the MSO s Chief Conductor in 2013, having made his debut with the Orchestra in 2009. Highlights of his tenure have included collaborations with artists such as Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax, Truls Mørk and Renée Fleming, and the Orchestra s European Tour in 2014 which included appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and Copenhagen s Tivoli Concert Hall. Further current and future highlights with Sir Andrew Davis include a complete cycle of the Mahler symphonies. Sir Andrew will maintain the role of Chief Conductor until the end of 2019. The MSO also works with Associate Conductor Benjamin Northey and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, as well as with such eminent recent guest conductors as Thomas Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra reaches a wider audience through regular radio broadcasts, recordings and CD releases, including a Strauss cycle on ABC Classics which includes Four Last Songs, Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra, as well as Ein Heldenleben and Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo, both led by Sir Andrew Davis. On the Chandos label the MSO has recently released Berlioz Harold en Italie with James Ehnes and music by Charles Ives which includes Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, as well as a range of orchestral works including Three Places in New England, again led by Sir Andrew Davis. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is funded principally by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and is generously supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. The MSO is also funded by the City of Melbourne, its Partner, Emirates, corporate sponsors and individual donors, trusts and foundations. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we perform The Kulin Nation and would like to pay our respects to their Elders and Community both past and present. 4
MARCELO LEHNINGER CONDUCTOR NELSON FREIRE PIANO Brazilian-born Marcelo Lehninger is the newlyappointed Music Director of the Grand Rapids Symphony. He previously served as Music Director of the New West Symphony in Los Angeles, for which the League of American Orchestras awarded him the Helen H. Thompson Award for Emerging Music Conductors. Marcelo was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by James Levine, and was later promoted to Associate Conductor. Earlier in his career, Marcelo served as Associate Conductor of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic in Brazil, and Music Advisor of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Marcelo Lehninger s 2016-17 season includes debuts with the Sydney, Melbourne, Colorado, Hawaii, Toledo, and Portland Symphonies; the Colorado Springs Philharmonic; and Symphony Nova Scotia; as well as return engagements with Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, New Mexico Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and the Bard Orchestra, the orchestra of his alma mater. Career highlights include North American guest conducting engagements with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore, Seattle, Toronto, Milwaukee and National Symphony Orchestras; and in Europe, with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Lucerne Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and tours with the Concertgebouw Orchestra assisting Mariss Jansons; and Orchestre National de France, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and NY Philharmonic assisting Kurt Masur. Marcelo has conducted all major orchestras of Brazil and across South America. Born in Boa Esperança, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Nelson Freire is a universally acclaimed artist. He has received international honours and decorations, and regularly collaborates with top orchestras, conductors, and recital halls worldwide. At twelve, a finalist at the first International Piano Competition of Rio de Janeiro, he received a grant from Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek and went to study in Vienna under Bruno Seidlhofer, teacher of Friedrich Gulda. At nineteen, Freire was awarded the Dinu Lipatti Medal in London and later won 1st Prize at the International Vianna da Motta Competition in Lisbon. At twenty-three for his London debut, he made a sensation when The Times called him The young lion of the keyboard. The following year, after his New York debut with the New York Philharmonic, Time Magazine hailed him as One of the most exciting pianists of this or any age. Ever since, Nelson Freire has performed with many of the world's major conductors, such as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Eugen Jochum, André Previn, Lorin Maazel, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, David Zinman, Kurt Masur and Sir Colin Davis. He has appeared with the greatest orchestras: the Philharmonics of Berlin, London, New York and Israel, as well with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the orchestras of Munich, Paris, Tokyo, and St. Petersburg including the Mariinsky Vienna, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago and Montreal. Nelson Freire records exclusively for DECCA. 5
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The Best with Brock Imison Brisbane-born Brock Imison has been Contrabassoon with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2004. He strives to improve the profile of his instrument, premiering new music in solo recitals, arranging chamber music and hosting workshops for composers to learn more about the instrument. We asked him what s The Best The best thing you can t live without? My garden in Mount Macedon. The best thing about your instrument? It looks like it could fire anti-aircraft missiles or whip out a decent Latte? Seriously, only a small amount of people in the world understand what's it's like to play the contrabassoon and feel what its grumbly-vibratinglowness does to the human body. The best concert you ve performed in? That question is impossible to answer but any concert I play with music composed by Schütz, Monteverdi or Rameau really gets me going. The best venue you ve performed in? A New York night club called Le Poisson Rouge. The best recording you own? Viaggio Musicale by Il Gardino Harmonico. This recording changed the way I thought about early baroque music. The best piece to perform? With the MSO? La Valse by Ravel. The best thing about Melbourne? The Calder Freeway which leads to Mount Macedon The best meal you cook? I cook a mean Massaman curry from scratch. The best thing about the baroque bassoon? It weighs less than a modern bassoon? Seriously, baroque wind instruments are naturally more uneven sounding than their modern counterparts. Learning how to exploit these inconsistencies opens new worlds of colours and expression simply not possible on a modern instrument. The best thing about the contrabassoon? The contrabassoon is one of the orchestras oddest members, I find creative freedom in its unfamiliarity. That and when you play certain notes various bits of your body vibrate rather alarmingly who needs to pay for massages? You can see Brock Imison perform in Beethoven s Missa Solemnis on 26 and 27 August at Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall. 7
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (1882 1937) Concert Overture, Op.12 Artur Rubinstein tells us that when Karol Szymanowski died in Lausanne at the age of 54, the Polish government arranged a special train which carried his coffin, decorated with the Grand Cross of Polonia Restituta, to Poland for burial. At the funeral Ignaz Paderewski, the great pianist who had also been first president of the Polish republic, laid the first wreath. The irony of all of this is considerable: Szymanowski spent the last decade of his life in ill-health; he worked fruitlessly to reorganise the Warsaw Conservatorium from 1926 until he was summarily dismissed in 1932, a year before the Conservatorium was closed; his finances owing partly to the destruction of his family estate in the Polish Ukraine during the Communist revolution were precarious, and at no stage did the government offer anything more tangible than vague plaudits. And yet the music of the century past owes a great debt to Szymanowski: his undogmatic methods and ear for unorthodox and beautiful sonority have been of immense importance to composers younger Poles like Lutosławski among them who have sought a rapprochement with alienated audiences. From the start of his career, Szymanowski balanced an openness to influence (from wherever it might come) with a strong sense of himself as a Polish artist. His work systematically explores the influences of Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin, Richard Strauss and Wagner, and later Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. Born into a wealthy family, Szymanowski was injured at the age of four, and spent a sheltered childhood learning music and immersing himself in the worlds of myth and romance. He was sent to Warsaw to study music in 1901, the year that the Warsaw Philharmonic was founded. In the same year a group of artists known as Young Poland emerged with the staging of exotic dramas, and a lifestyle in which drugs and sexuality were used in the development of a hyper-romantic consciousness. Szymanowski fell in with this group, and his early works show a particular affinity with the self-conscious decadence of Richard Strauss and the mysticism of Scriabin. Indeed, Rubinstein looked over some of Szymanowski s work in 1904 and remembers that he was enraptured! [Szymanowski] was a genius, though his first opuses, preludes and studies were somehow under the influence of Scriabin. But the notes were truly original Szymanowski s first orchestral work, the Concert Overture, Op.12, was first performed at a Young Poland in Music concert in 1906 along with works by other composers determined to bring new European sounds into the concert halls of their own country. The original version of the work is now lost; Szymanowski revised the score in 1913 for its publication by Universal Edition. It remains the work of a brilliant young composer intoxicated by the emotional possibilities of late Romanticism. Though not a tone poem as such, the Concert Overture uses the Lisztian principle of thematic transformation to elaborate a kind of sonata design. As such, and in the bold use of strings coloured by the horn section, it is clearly indebted to the tone poems of Strauss. Gordon Kerry Symphony Australia 2001 The only previous performances of this work by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra took place on 11 13 July 2002 under conductor Fabio Luisi. 8
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 1856) Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54 Allegro affettuoso Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso) Allegro vivace Nelson Freire piano Following their wedding in September 1840, composer Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, a prominent piano virtuoso, set up house in Leipzig. The couple soon had children, and finding money to support a growing family was a constant worry. Clara had no intention of abandoning her successful musical life. She took pride in earning money from her performances; she also helped popularise Robert s piano works by including them in her concert programs. Robert revered his wife s extraordinary musicianship, but his pride struggled with the greater fame accorded Clara, especially when they travelled on concert tours together. Though a respected music journalist and an acclaimed composer of piano works, songs and chamber music, he had yet to write the symphonies and large-scale works that would later enhance his artistic reputation. A piano concerto by Robert that Clara could perform would thus serve several purposes. Before marrying, Robert had experimented with various ideas for piano concertos, none of which evolved beyond sketches. But during the newlyweds first year, he completed a Phantasie for Piano and Orchestra, conceived and orchestrated during 16 days in May 1841. A private performance led to the first of several revisions, but Robert could not find a publisher for his singlemovement work. He set it aside for four years, during which time he wrote more chamber music (including his popular Piano Quintet and Piano Quartet) as well as the Spring Symphony, and moved his family to Dresden. From there he undertook a tour to Russia with Clara that left him exhausted and ill, triggering a severe nervous breakdown. He sought therapy by studying the works of Bach and writing fugues. Taking a break from counterpoint exercises, he added two movements a final rondo and a connecting Intermezzo to the reworked Phantasie, and thus created his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Ferdinand Hiller, a conductor to whom Robert dedicated the concerto (hoping to heal a rift in their friendship), led the premiere in his Dresden subscription concert of 4 December 1845 with Clara as soloist. But the true dedicatee is Clara, for whom Robert characterised his devotion in the opening movement s tempo indication of Allegro affettuoso, the Phantasie s original title. Clara took pleasure in the results; she had long wanted a more brilliant vehicle for display of her virtuosity than the Phantasie. Felix Mendelssohn, the Schumanns great friend, who expressed high regard for Clara s playing and supported (with occasional private misgivings) Schumann s work as a composer, organised and conducted the Leipzig premiere on New Year s Day 1846. Thereafter, the concerto was performed in important cities, often with Robert conducting; it remained a central work in Clara s repertoire, and is a lasting testament to the couple s remarkable personal and artistic partnership, cut short by Robert s death at age 46 in the Endenich asylum, where he recalled, in a letter to Clara, the concerto that you played so splendidly. With an abrupt, chromatic cascade of chords, the soloist s opening entrance commands immediate attention, heralding the oboe s statement of the primary theme, echoed by the piano. The theme s three-note descending motif dominates deliberations between the orchestra and soloist. The opening key of A minor yields, via the second theme, to triumphant C major, then to an expressive reverie in A flat major, showcasing the piano accompanied by radiant strings and plaintive woodwind. A return to earlier debates interrupts this dream, restores the opening theme and launches the soloist into an extended cadenza, capped by a quick coda that ends emphatically. The second-movement Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso), hosts a more congenial but equally passionate dialogue. Short musical ideas are exchanged politely between soloist and orchestra, but as they warm to their topic, an eloquent contrasting theme sings out richly from the cellos, ornamented expansively by the piano. As the conversation fades, clarinets and bassoons recall the opening movement s three-note motif, first in A minor, then in A major. Without pause, the piano seizes the major motif and launches into a robust, triple-metre rondo marked Allegro vivace, driven by the soloist s extensive bravura passagework. The thirdmovement theme (itself a transformation of the primary first-movement theme, subtly strengthening the concerto s structural unity) surfaces buoyantly through harmonic sequences that build to an exhilarating conclusion. Samuel C. Dixon 2003 The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra s first performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto took place on 25 May 1939 with conductor George Szell and soloist Artur Schnabel. The Orchestra s most recent performance was on 29 August 2008 with Oleg Caetani and John Chen. 9
OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879 1936) Pines of Rome The Pines of the Villa Borghese Pines Near a Catacomb The Pines of the Janiculum The Pines of the Appian Way Fountains of Rome The Fountain of Valle Giulia at Dawn The Triton Fountain in the Morning The Fountain of Trevi at Midday The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset Ottorino Respighi is an intriguing figure in 20th century music and perhaps a composer whose time is only now arriving. Like Vaughan Williams in England, the Italian-born, Russian-and-German-educated Respighi s compositional influences virtually bypassed the Romantic and Classical periods altogether. As Schoenberg, Berg and Webern pushed the musical gestures of late-romanticism into the austere realms of twelve tones, and Stravinsky rediscovered pure Classicism, Respighi went his own quiet way, writing highly distinctive works influenced by the medieval modes, Gregorian chant, 16th and 17th century lute music, and madrigals. Respighi s major orchestral works have never lacked an appreciative audience, nor great conductors such as Toscanini and Karajan to champion their cause, but they have tended to be underrated by critics. The misunderstanding and critical neglect seem to stem from the fact that Respighi was an ancient in a modern world. Perhaps now that the pre-classical, often modal works of modern composers such as Gorecki, Pärt and Tavener are top of the pops, Respighi s music, which shares so many of the same attributes, will find a wider audience. Respighi spent much of his later life teaching in Rome at the Santa Cecilia Academy. His fascination with the various landscapes and lifestyles associated with the city ultimately resulted in three of his best-known pieces: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924) and Roman Festivals (1928). Despite their obviously Italian topics, all of these symphonic poems bear the direct influence of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the celebrated Russian composer with whom Respighi studied. From this teacher, Respighi developed a thorough knowledge of orchestration techniques which was coupled with his own innate ability to present strikingly visual imagery through musical forms. Respighi left his native Bologna in early 1913 to take up the position of professor of composition at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. The sheer scale of the Eternal City overwhelmed him and, although he had plenty of friends and activities to keep him occupied, Respighi struggled to settle in, enduring severe bouts of melancholy for several years. According to Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo, a student of Respighi s at the Academy who became his wife and biographer, the symphonic poem Fountains of Rome (1916) proved cathartic. The success of that work put Respighi s career on the map in Italy and abroad. But it also marked a new chapter in the composer s life and a newfound happiness in his adopted hometown where he would live and work until his death. Fountains also served as the template for Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals, the subsequent instalments in the so-called Roman trilogy that reflect, in Elsa s words, how Respighi saw and felt the varied spirit of Rome. According to Elsa, the composer had for years been thinking of the Pines of Rome and that the four visions were more or less alive and complete in his mind the sketches and themes collected and notated over time needed little more than to be translated into living material. She wrote: Since the birth of the Fountains of Rome (1916), five years had passed that is, from the time he had arrived in Rome and had felt the need to express in musical language the impressions created by such beauty and these thoughts, images, and sensations would be expressed in the new poem. Respighi s interest in the early and traditional music of Italy is present in Pines (witness the children s song Madama Doré at the beginning of the first movement); evident, too, is his passion for Gregorian chant (for example, the use of the Advent plainchant Veni, veni, Emmanuel in the second movement). And his skill as an orchestrator is as obvious in Pines as in his Church Windows, his opera La fiamma, or the ballet Belkis. Claudio Guastalla, librettist of a number of Respighi s operas, wrote the captions which appear at the front of the score of Pines of Rome but only after the work was completed: I. The pine trees of the Villa Borghese Children are at play in the pine groves of Villa Borghese [the traditional children s song Madama Doré]; they dance round in circles, they play at soldiers, marching and fighting, they are wrought up by their own cries like swallows at evening, they come and go in swarms. Suddenly the scene changes, and II. Pine trees near a catacomb...we see the shade of the pine trees fringing the entrance to a catacomb. From the depth there rises the sound of mournful psalm-singing, floating through the air like a solemn hymn [the Advent plainchant Veni, veni, Emmanuel], and gradually and mysteriously dispersing. 10
III. The pine trees of the Janiculum A quiver runs through the air: the pine trees of the Janiculum stand distinctly outlined in the clear light of a full moon. A nightingale is singing [this is the first instance of a pre-recorded sound forming part of a musical score]. IV. The pine trees of the Appian Way Misty dawn on the Appian Way: solitary pine trees guarding the magic landscape; the muffled, ceaseless rhythm of unending footsteps. The poet had a fantastic vision of bygone glories: trumpets sound and, in the brilliance of the newly risen sun, a consular army bursts forth towards the Sacred Way, mounting in triumph to the Capitol. Respighi himself sanctioned a contemporary program note for Fountains of Rome, which was published with the score of the work: In this symphonic poem the composer has endeavoured to give impression to the sentiments and visions suggested to him by four of Rome s fountains, contemplated at the hour in which their character is most in harmony with the surrounding landscape, or in which their beauty appears most impressive to the observer. The first part, inspired by the Fountain of Valle Giulia, depicts a pastoral landscape: droves of cattle pass and disappear in the fresh damp mists of a Roman dawn. A sudden loud and insistent blast of horns above the trills of the whole orchestra introduces the second part, The Triton Fountain in the Morning. It is like a joyous call, summoning troops of naiads and tritons who come running up, pursuing each other and mingling in a frenzied dance between the jets of water. Next there appears a solemn theme, borne on the undulations of the orchestra. It is the Fountain of Trevi at midday. The solemn theme, passing from the woodwind to the brass instruments, assumes a triumphal character. Trumpets peal; across the radiant surface of the water there passes Neptune s chariot, drawn by sea-horses and followed by a train of sirens and tritons. The procession then vanishes, while faint trumpet blasts resound in the distance. The fourth part, The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset, is announced by a sad theme which rises above a subdued warbling. It is the nostalgic hour of sunset. The air is full of sounds of tolling bells, birds twittering, leaves rustling. Then all dies peacefully into the silence of the night. Given Respighi s success he is one of the bestloved, most-often recorded and widely performed of all composers of the 20th century it now seems extraordinary that the BBC banned his music during the Second World War for its supposedly proto-fascist connotations. The fourth movement of Pines, together with the more overtly triumphal Roman Festivals, are often pointed to as evidence of Respighi s sympathy for the Fascist glorification of the Rome of Empire. However, any objective reading of the composer s letters, public statements or the accounts of those who knew him suggest such claims are fanciful. Symphony Australia Vincent Ciccarello 2012 The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed Pines of Rome in November 1952, with conductor Eugene Goosens, and most recently in July 2012 with David Robertson. The Orchestra first performed Fountains of Rome in November 1962 with conductor Francesco Mander, and most recently in November 2009 with Alexander Shelley. 11
SUPPORTERS MSO Patron The Honourable Linda Dessau AM, Governor of Victoria Artist Chair Benefactors Anonymous Flute Chair Di Jameson Viola Chair Joy Selby Smith Orchestral Leadership Chair Patricia Riordan Associate Conductor Chair The Gross Foundation Second Violin Chair The MS Newman Family Cello Chair The Ullmer Family Foundation Associate Concertmaster Chair Program Benefactors Meet The Orchestra The Ullmer Family Foundation East Meets West Li Family Trust The Pizzicato Effect (Anonymous) Schapper Family Foundation MSO Education Mrs Margaret Ross AM and Dr Ian Ross MSO Audience Access Betty Amsden AO DSJ Crown Resorts Foundation Packer Family Foundation MSO International Touring Harold Mitchell AC Satan Jawa Australia Indonesia Institute MSO Regional Touring Erica Foundation Pty Ltd Robert Salzer Foundation Creative Victoria Benefactor Patrons $50,000+ Betty Amsden AO DSJ The Gross Foundation Di Jameson David and Angela Li Harold Mitchell AC MS Newman Family Joy Selby Smith Ullmer Family Foundation Anonymous (2) Impresario Patrons $20,000+ Michael Aquilina* The John and Jennifer Brukner Foundation Perri Cutten and Jo Daniell Rachel and the Late Alan Goldberg AO QC Margaret Jackson AC David Krasnostein and Pat Stragalinos Mimie MacLaren John and Lois McKay Anonymous (1) Maestro Patrons $10,000+ John and Mary Barlow Kaye and David Birks Mitchell Chipman Jan and Peter Clark The Cuming Bequest Sir Andrew and Lady Davis Gandel Philanthropy Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind* Robert & Jan Green Hilary Hall, in memory of Wilma Collie Naomi Milgrom AO Ian and Jeannie Paterson Elizabeth Proust AO Rae Rothfield Glenn Sedgwick Helen Silver AO and Harrison Young Maria Solà Onbass Foundation Alice Vaughan Kee Wong and Wai Tang Juliet Tootell Jason Yeap OAM Anonymous (1) Patrons $5,000+ Philip Bacon AM Linda Britten David and Emma Capponi Paul and Wendy Carter Mary and Frederick Davidson AM Andrew and Theresa Dyer* Mr Bill Fleming Future Kids Pty Ltd John and Diana Frew Susan Fry and Don Fry AO Geelong Friends of the MSO Jennifer Gorog 12 Louis Hamon OAM Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Hans and Petra Henkell Francis and Robyn Hofmann Hartmut and Ruth Hofmann Jenny and Peter Hordern Suzanne Kirkham D & CS Kipen on behalf of Israel Kipen Vivien and Graham Knowles Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM Peter Lovell Matsarol Foundation, in honour of Norma and Lloyd Rees Lesley McMullin Foundation Mr and Mrs D R Meagher Marie Morton FRSA James and Frances Pfeiffer Pzena Investment Charitable Fund HMA Foundation Ruth and Ralph Renard Drs G&G Stephenson Gai and David Taylor The Hon. Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall Lyn Williams AM Anonymous (5) *Signifies Adopt an MSO Musician supporter Associate Patrons $2,500+ Dandolo Partners Will and Dorothy Bailey, via Equity Trustees Barbara Bell in memory of Elsa Bell Mrs S Bignell Bill Bowness Stephen and Caroline Brain Leith and Mike Brooke Dr Mark and Mrs Ann Bryce Bill and Sandra Burdett Oliver Carton John and Lyn Coppock Miss Ann Darby in memory of Leslie J. Darby Natasha Davies, for the Trikojus Education Fund Ellen Day Sandra Dent Peter and Leila Doyle Lisa Dwyer and Dr Ian Dickson Jane Edmanson OAM Tim and Lyn Edward Dr Helen M Ferguson Mr Peter Gallagher and Dr Karen Morley Dina and Ron Goldschlager Colin Golvan QC and Dr Deborah Golvan Charles and Cornelia Goode Louise Gourlay OAM Susan and Gary Hearst Colin Heggen in memory of Marjorie Drysdale Heggen Gillian and Michael Hund Rosemary and James Jacoby Jenkins Family Foundation John Jones George and Grace Kass Irene Kearsey Kloeden Foundation Sylvia Lavelle Bryan Lawrence H E McKenzie Allan and Evelyn McLaren Don and Anne Meadows Andrew and Sarah Newbold Ann Peacock with Andrew and Woody Kroger Sue and Barry Peake Mrs W Peart Graham and Christine Peirson S M Richards AM and M R Richards Joan P Robinson Tom and Elizabeth Romanowski Max and Jill Schultz Stephen Shanasy Jeffrey Sher QC and Diana Sher OAM Diana and Brian Snape AM Geoff and Judy Steinicke Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman William and Jenny Ulmer Bert and Ila Vanrenen Kate and Blaise Vinot Elisabeth Wagner Barbara and Donald Weir Athalie Williams Brian and Helena Worsfold Harrison Young Anonymous (14) Player Patrons $1,000+ Anita and Graham Anderson, Christine and Mark Armour, Arnold Bloch Leibler, Marlyn and Peter Bancroft OAM, Adrienne Basser, Prof Weston Bate and Janice Bate, Timothy and Margaret Best, David Blackwell, Michael F Boyt, Philip and Vivien Brass Charitable Foundation,
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Rosemary Varty, Leon and Sandra Velik, Sue Walker AM, Elaine Walters OAM and Gregory Walters, Edward and Paddy White, Janet Whiting and Phil Lukies, Nic and Ann Willcock, Marian and Terry Wills Cooke, Pamela F Wilson, Joanne Wolff, Lorraine Woolley, Peter and Susan Yates, Richard Ye, Mark Young, Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das, YMF Australia, Anonymous (18) The Mahler Syndicate David and Kaye Birks, Mary and Frederick Davidson AM, Tim and Lyn Edward, John and Diana Frew, Francis and Robyn Hofmann, The Hon Dr Barry Jones AC, Dr Paul Nisselle AM, Maria Solà, The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall, Anonymous (1) MSO Roses Founding Rose Jenny Brukner Roses Lois McKay, Pat Stragalinos, Jenny Ullmer Rosebuds Maggie Best, Penny Barlow, Francie Doolan, Lyn Edward, Penny Hutchinson, Elizabeth A Lewis AM, Sophie Rowell, Dr Cherilyn Tillman Trusts and Foundations Ken & Asle Chilton Trust, managed by Perpetual Crown Resorts Foundation and the Packer Family Foundation The Cybec Foundation Erica Foundation Pty Ltd Ivor Ronald Evans Foundation, managed by Equity Trustees Ltd The Harold Mitchell Foundation Linnell/Hughes Trust, managed by Perpetual The Pratt Foundation The Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, managed by Perpetual The Robert Salzer Foundation The Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust Conductor s Circle Jenny Anderson, David Angelovich, G C Bawden and L de Kievit, Lesley Bawden, Joyce Bown, Mrs Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John Brukner, Ken Bullen, Luci and Ron Chambers, Beryl Dean, Sandra Dent, Lyn Edward, Alan Egan JP, Gunta Eglite, Louis Hamon OAM, Carol Hay, Tony Howe, Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James, John and the Late Joan Jones, George and Grace Kass, Mrs Sylvia Lavelle, Pauline and David Lawton, Lorraine Meldrum, Cameron Mowat, Rosia Pasteur, Elizabeth Proust AO, Penny Rawlins, Joan P Robinson, Neil Roussac, Anne Roussac-Hoyne, Suzette Sherazee, Jennifer Shepherd, Drs Gabriela and George Stephenson, Pamela Swansson, Lillian Tarry, Dr Cherilyn Tillman, Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock, Michael Ullmer, Ila Vanrenen, Rosemary Varty, Mr Tam Vu, Marian and Terry Wills Cooke, Mark Young, Anonymous (23) The MSO gratefully acknowledges support received from the Estates of: Angela Beagley, Neilma Gantner, Gwen Hunt, Audrey Jenkins, Pauline Marie Johnston, C P Kemp, Peter Forbes MacLaren, Prof Andrew McCredie, Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE, Molly Stephens, Jean Tweedie, Herta and Fred B Vogel, Dorothy Wood Honorary Appointments Sir Elton John CBE Life Member The Late Alan Goldberg AO QC Life Member Geoffrey Rush AC Ambassador The Late John Brockman AO Life Member The Honourable Linda Dessau AM Patron The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain access, artists, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events and supporter newsletter The Full Score. The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows: $1,000 (Player), $2,500 (Associate), $5,000 (), $10,000 (Maestro), $20,000 (Impresario), $50,000 (Benefactor). The MSO Conductor s Circle is our bequest program for members who have notified of a planned gift in their Will. Enquiries: Ph: +61 (3) 9626 1104 Email: philanthropy@ mso.com.au 13
ORCHESTRA First Violins Dale Barltrop Concertmaster Eoin Andersen Concertmaster Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster (The Ullmer Family Foundation 0 ) Peter Edwards Assistant Jo Beaumont* Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Kirstin Kenny Ji Won Kim Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor (Michael Aquilina 0 ) Robert John* Oksana Thompson* Second Violins Matthew Tomkins (The Gross Foundation 0 ) Robert Macindoe Associate Monica Curro Assistant (Danny Gorog & Lindy Susskind 0 ) Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Freya Franzen Cong Gu Andrew Hall Francesca Hiew Rachel Homburg Christine Johnson Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young Aaron Barnden* Violas Christopher Moore (Di Jameson 0 ) Fiona Sargeant Associate Merewyn Bramble* Lauren Brigden Katharine Brockman Christopher Cartlidge Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Cindy Watkin Caleb Wright Anthony Chataway* Simon Collins* Ceridwen Davies* Isabel Morse* Cellos David Berlin (MS Newman Family 0 ) Rachael Tobin Associate Nicholas Bochner Assistant Miranda Brockman Rohan de Korte Keith Johnson Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood (Andrew & Theresa Dyer 0 ) Rachel Atkinson* Svetlana Bogosavljevic* Double Basses Steve Reeves Andrew Moon Associate Sylvia Hosking Assistant Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Rohan Dasika* Stuart Riley* Emma Sullivan* Flutes Prudence Davis Flute (Anonymous 0 ) Wendy Clarke Associate Helen Hardy* Guest Associate Sarah Beggs Piccolo Andrew Macleod Oboes Jeffrey Crellin Thomas Hutchinson Associate Ann Blackburn Cor Anglais Michael Pisani Clarinets David Thomas Philip Arkinstall Associate Craig Hill Bass Clarinet Jon Craven Bassoons Jack Schiller Elise Millman Associate Natasha Thomas Contrabassoon Brock Imison Colin Forbes-Abrams* Horns Peter Luff* Guest Saul Lewis Third Jenna Breen Abbey Edlin Trinette McClimont Robert Shirley* Trumpets Geoffrey Payne Shane Hooton Associate William Evans Julie Payne Trombones Brett Kelly Cameron Malouf* # Guest Associate Iain Faragher* Jessica Buzbee* Kieran Conrau* Ben Lovell-Greene* Bass Trombones Mike Szabo Tuba Timothy Buzbee Timpani Christine Turpin Percussion Robert Clarke John Arcaro Robert Cossom Evan Pritchard* Greg Sully* Harp Yinuo Mu Marshall McGuire* Guest Alannah Guthrie-Jones* Piano Louisa Breen* Celeste Laurence Matheson* Organ Calvin Bowman* * Guest Musician Courtesy of Queensland Symphony Orchestra # Courtesy of Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 0 Position supported by BOARD Managing Director Board Members Company Secretary Sophie Galaise Chairman Michael Ullmer Andrew Dyer Danny Gorog Margaret Jackson AC Brett Kelly David Krasnostein David Li Helen Silver AO Kee Wong Oliver Carton 14
SUPPORTERS Maestro Partners Official Car Partner Associate Partners Venue Partner Supporting Partners Red Emperor Fitzroys Li Family Trust Quest Southbank The CEO Institute Feature Alpha Investment Beautiful Flowers Government Partners Media Partners Adopt a Musician FUNDRAISING PROGRAM Develop a closer relationship with the people behind the music and enjoy being a part of the musical life of your adoptee, while you contribute to closing the MSO salary gap of $2m each year. Learn more at mso.com.au/give or phone MSO Philanthropy on (03) 9626 1104 Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster 15
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