Poème: Chamber Landscapes

Poème: Chamber Landscapes description

Now in its seventh year, Chamber Landscapes is this year entitled Poème. The program explores the relationship between music and text. But rather than doing so exclusively through “songs” and works with lyrics (although there are such pieces included), the theme is approached from other and various angles: one examines compositions influenced by poetry, another delves into music inspired by myth. Figures to be encountered include the ancient musician Linos, teacher of Orpheus, who was himself possibly the greatest musician of all time and certainly one of the earliest remembered. Along with other inspirations, there will be musical representations of Emerson and Thoreau, the American transcendentalist writers who idolised Beethoven.

UKARIA’s utopian energy and the natural beauty of its surrounds are inspirations behind this festival-within-a-festival. Sunrise and sunset play roles; noon concerts incorporate music inspired by nature; evenings offer exotic sounds, mythology and mysticism, and the deeply human capacity to reflect on beliefs and the nature of existence.

The programs include works by five living composers: Australians Moya Henderson and Kitty Xiao, German Hans Tutschku, American Paul Schoenfield and Outi Tarkiainen from Finland. Homage is paid to the recently deceased American original George Crumb, a true visionary, and, in his spirit, works by revered re-thinkers Debussy, Boulez, Ives and Lutosławski are presented. The fervent romanticism of Tchaikovsky, Szymanowski, Beach, Chausson and Janáček as well as classical masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are included in this seven-concert journey.

Astounding international instrumentalists join some of Australia’s most prominent virtuosi to bring the program to vivid life. You are invited to experience the spell to be woven, to encounter a thread of sensuality and spirit and to be welcomed along a musical journey which, it is hoped, will in itself prove to be a kind of poem.

- Paavali Jumppanen, Curator

Artists on Stage

Paavali Jumppanen (curator & piano), Australian String Quartet (Dale Barltrop - violin, Francesca Hiew - violin, Christopher Cartlidge - viola, Michael Dahlenburg - cello), Judith Dodsworth (voice), Amanda Grigg (percussion), Sharon Grigoryan (cello), Slava Grigoryan (guitar), Jakub Jakowicz (violin), Stephen King (viola), Andrea Lam (piano), Alexander Meagher (percussion), Jeffrey Means (conductor & percussion), Kaylie Melville (percussion), Alison Mitchell (flute), Christopher Moore (viola), Konstantin Shamray (piano), Elina Vähälä (violin), Timo-Veikko Valve (cello)

PROGRAM

FRI 10 Mar 

7.30pm An Ancient Song

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SAT 11 MAR

12.00pm The Transcendental

3.30pm Myth & Passion

5.45pm Chamber Landscapes Talk (free):

Join Paavali Jumppanen for Boulez and Le Marteau Sans Maître – The Hammer Without a Master, a free talk from 5.45pm - 6.15pm. No ticket or registration required.

6.30pm The Exotic

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SUN 12 MAR

12.00pm Premiere at Dawn

3.30pm Poème

5.45pm Chamber Landscapes Talk (free):

Join Paavali Jumppanen for Crumb and Music for a Summer Evening, a free talk from 5.45pm - 6.15pm. No ticket or registration required.

6.30pm Music for a Summer Evening

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Generously supported by Leading Patron Ulrike Klein AO.

UKARIA Image Russell Millard 
Paavali Jumppanen Image Maarit Kytöharju​

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