The Programme
There’s something for everyone in this year’s exciting programme! We are performing in Point Lookout and now also in Dunwich, with a special concert on June 19 at the Dunwich community hall. This concert will be free for the kids and will include collaborations with members of the Stradbroke community and didjeridu virtuosi from the Dunwich state school! All other concerts will be held at the St Peter Chanel Church, cnr Mooloomba Rd and Hopewell St. There are too many highlights to miss. We look forward to meeting you there and joining you for refreshments after each concert.
CONCERT 1:
Friday, June 18, 7pm (St Peter Chanel Church, cnr Mooloomba and Hopewell, Pt Lookout)*NB no return ferry after this concert!*
Celebration and Transfiguration
The opening concert of the festival begins with sparkling Mendelssohn at his best and then we celebrate the centenary of American composer Barber’s birth with a performance of his evocative wind quintet. Ending the programme is Schoenberg’s hauntingly beautiful string sextet, with the perfect backdrop of Point Lookout and the sounds of the ocean in the distance…
Mendelssohn String Quartet in D, Opus 44, No. 1
Samuel Barber Wind Quintet Opus 31 ‘Summer Music’
Schoenberg String Sextet ‘Transfigured Night‘
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CONCERT 2:
Saturday, June 19, 11am (St Peter Chanel church)
Bohemian Tango
A diverse and entertaining programme including monumental Brahms along with more light-hearted works from the celebrated Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Topped off with Prokofiev’s balletic masterpiece and of course we had to include some Mozart…
Kats-Chernin String quartet ‘Charleston Noir’
Mozart String Quintet in B flat K174
Prokofiev Quintet Op. 39
Kats-Chernin Kosky Tango for clarinet and strings
Brahms Quintet in B Minor for clarinet and strings Op.115
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CONCERT 3:
Saturday, June 19, 4pm, Dunwich Community Hall
Spirit Stories
Special guests: Petrina Walker (poetry reading), Harry Wilson (didjeridu) and Col Cunnington (narrator Peter and the Wolf)
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
Sarah Hopkins ‘Reclaiming the Spirit’ for solo cello and didj bowing
Sculthorpe ‘Into the Dreaming’ for solo cello
Paul Stanhope ‘Dawn Lament’ based on a poem by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Sculthorpe ‘From Ubirr’ for didgeridu and string quartet
Stay afterwards for the kids to chat the the musicians about the instruments!
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CONCERT 4:
Sunday, June 20, 11am (St Peter Chanel Church)
Freshwater Trio, Melbourne’s foremost piano trio
Named for its evocation of the Ghost from Hamlet, Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ trio is a well-deserving favourite. The trio is honoured to be performing Gordon Kerry’s recent piano trio, Im Winde alongside Brahms’ turbulent Trio in C Minor. ARIA award-winning jazz pianist Joe Chindamo is the featured arranger.
Beethoven Piano Trio D major, Op. 70 No.1 ‘Ghost’
Kerry Piano Trio No.2 ‘Im Winde’ (2000) *
Brahms Piano Trio in C minor, Op.101
Chopin Prelude arr. Chindamo *
Schumann Kinderszenen arr. Chindamo *
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CONCERT 5:
Sunday, June 20, 3pm (St Peter Chanel Church)
In Memory of Jani Haenke
Jani Haenke was a friend and inspiration to many of us and a Stradbroke Island community activist. This festival wouldn’t have gotten off the ground if it wasn’t for her encouragement and support. She was devoted to the arts and the environment, particularly her beloved Straddie.
The festival ends with a bang with Schubert’s iconic string quintet.
Schubert Der Hirt auf den Felsen (’Shepherd on a Rock’) for soprano, clarinet and piano
Purcell and Handel arias
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Schubert String Quintet in C, D 956