It’s never too late for early music!
Monika & Stan Kornel
Artistic Directors
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ANNA FRASER soprano
BELINDA MONTGOMERY soprano
NADIA PIAVE soprano
HANNAH FRASER alto
NICOLE SMEULDER alto
RICHARD BLACK tenor
DAVID RUSSELL bass
JANE DOWNER baroque oboe & oboe d’amore
HANS-DIETER MICHATZ recorder
STAN W. KORNEL baroque violin & viola d’amore
JULIA RUSSONIELLO baroque violin
FIONA ZIEGLER baroque violin & tenor viol
VALMAI COGGINS baroque viola
LAURA MOORE viola da gamba
SHAUN NG viola da gamba & theorbo
VERNA LEE harp
MONIKA
KORNEL harpsichord
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2015 CONCERT SERIES
ST AUGUSTINE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
EATON STREET BALMAIN
WESLEY MUSIC CENTRE
20 NATIONAL CIRCUIT FORREST
Tickets for concerts at door $35/$25 or online http://www.sydneyconsort.com.au Enq: 0416 345 389 or [email protected]
CONCERT 1
CONCERT 2
Get ready for a showcase
of classical tunes from the
Emerald Isle. This unusual
program will feature the
famous O’Carolan’s Concerto
and other rarely performed
music by composers of that
era. The rhythm of Irish jig,
charismatic harmony and
celtic harp will prove a delight
for both traditional Irish and
classical music fans.
The
powerful
and
moving Stabat Mater by
18th
century
Maltese
composer Girolamo Abos
paints a picture of the Roman
Catholic Holy Week liturgy
in what was a contemporary
Neapolitan setting during
Abos’ time. The somber
scoring for voices and
strings with organ continuo
is memorable for its melodic
elegance, harmonic purity
and inventive composition.
Irish
Baroque
BALMAIN
Friday 20 February 8pm
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FORREST
Sun 15 February 3pm
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Stabat
Mater
BALMAIN
Good Friday 3 April 8pm
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CONCERT 3
Love Actually
Through careful selection of the
most interesting works by d’amore
composers, this program’s ensemble
offers a fresh and mesmerising
perspective of their work.
The ‘love’ chamber compositions
display the elegance, light and
nimble interpretations often
encountered in the act of loving.
These once forgotten or neglected
compositions, which having now
been resurrected, produce reactions
akin to a freshly restored oil painting:
restored colour, simmering tension,
and highly charged emotion bursts
to the surface in this incredibly vivid
music.
BALMAIN
Friday 29 May 8pm
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FORREST
Sunday 31 May 7pm
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CONCERT 4
The Organ
Recital
The Sydney Consort invites
you to the second concert
of its new series of Organ
Recital. This fundraising
event for the restoration of
the 1886 heritage English
pipe organ at St Augustine’s
will feature an international
guest organist. Do not miss
this opportunity to attend the
Organ Recital celebrating the
William Hill pipe organ.
BALMAIN
Friday 18 September 8pm
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CONCERT 5
CONCERT 6
Music was an important part of any
aristocratic household in the 17th and
18th centuries, where the viola da gamba
Cantata di Natale - Cinque
Profeti inventively presents
a conversation between the
musical sensibilities. In this program,
the Sydney Consort will host two viol da
gambas, the tenor viol as well as the viola
d‘amore and harpsichord and explore the
rich repertoire that those instruments
have to offer. The music for viols is
equally as beautiful as the instruments
featured in Vermeer‘s musically themed
paintings. Although not all of the
instruments of tonight‘s program are
portrayed by the painter, they themselves
will speak up in this concert and create
an enthralling experience!
about the birth of Christ. The
varied music in simple arioso,
The Viol Serenity Christmas Cantata
BALMAIN
Friday 13 November 8pm
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FORREST
Sunday 15 November 3pm
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fugal writing are of such
delicateness and lightness,
uniting gentle and subtle
melodies, that it surely must
have been written to capture the
special nature of the Christmas
season. This extraordinary
composition carries the listener
back 300 years to the sights
and sounds of 18th-Century
Europe.
BALMAIN
Friday 18 December 8pm
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