Next event date: Sunday, 23 February 2025 | 03:00 PM to 04:45 PM
Come start the year with a stunning concert of music by two of Melbourne's most fabulous and internationally celebrated musicians.
Anne-Marie Johnson is currently an associate concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and she joins forces in this concert with William Vyvyan Murray to present fascinating new and old music for Violin and Viola.
The program opens with Ruby Hunter's 'Welcome to all people', then moves from Australia to Hawaii for indigenous composer Leilehua Lanzilotti's beautiful Ko'u Inoa. Next comse three masterworks from Europe - Georges Enescu's Impressions d'enfance, Erzsébet Szőnyi wonderful duo from late in the 20th century and 4 of Bela Bartok's great duos.
The second half features W. A. Mozart's stunning duo written for his dear friend Michael Haydn and Kaaija Saariaho's eerie Aure written for her dear friend Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday. The concert finishes up with Australian premiere of Oene Van Geel's 'Slonimsky's Scherzo", and William Vyvyan Murray's three new "Bee" duos!
8 pm Thursday the 20th of February at the Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent. Be there or be a rectangular thing
St George's O.S. Hall, Corner of Hobson Street and Learmonth Street, Queenscliff, 3225, View map
Corner of Hobson Street and Learmonth Street , Queenscliff 3225
$25-50