Musica Viva Australia Announce 2022 Program

Published: 26 October 2021, by Musica Viva Australia

Musica Viva Australia has unveiled their 2022 program, featuring partnerships that span both the country and the world as they bring audiences back to concert halls around Australia to experience a diverse range of live music and the sheer astonishing joy of live performance.

Musica Viva’s Artistic Director Paul Kildea said, “Chamber music remains my great love, and in 2022 we are presenting the broadest possible definition of the art form. Can an unscored performance be considered chamber music? A concerto? A staged song cycle? Yes to all three! And this is the thrill of our season: unparalleled performers in unexpected settings.”

One of the highlights of the year promises to be A Winter’s Journey a reimagining of Schubert’s Winterreise in a cross-genre, visually stunning performance. Tenor Allan Clayton (described by the UK’s Sunday Times as ‘the most exciting British tenor to emerge for decades’) performs the song-cycle with pianist Kate Golla, directed by Lindy Hume. For the first time, this work will be explored from an Australian context with 24 landscapes of the late Australian artist Fred Williams, animated by videographer David Bergman (STC’s The Picture of Dorian Gray).

Musica Viva presents the debut Australian tour of the Signum Saxophone Quartet with a program spanning from Bach to Gershwin. This young charismatic group have been described as revolutionaries and pioneers and will be performing with conductor-violinist Kristian Winther. Musica Viva has commissioned Australian composer Jessica Wells to arrange Kurt Weill’s Violin Concerto for the quartet, with Winther performing the infamously tricky solo.

In June, pianist, composer and collaborator Paul Grabowsky combines forces with Andrea Lam to present a new take on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, with Lam performing the Variations as Bach intended before Grabowsky twists the notes into something completely different, performing his own improvised variation. 

February and March will see classical guitarist Karin Schaupp and the Flinders Quartet (touring for the first time with Musica Viva’s own Artistic Director of Competitions, Wilma Smith) performing Imogen Holst’s Phantasy Quartet, Italian guitar works, Charlton’s Southern Cross Dreaming and Boccherini’s Fandango, as well as a brand new Australian work commissioned by Paul Kildea from his predecessor, Carl Vine AO. This new commission immortalises the joyous memory of a Musica Viva subscriber’s late daughter.

One of Musica Viva’s FutureMakers, emerging leader Matt Laing composes music of great virtuosity and originality. For this tour, he has penned a new composition to embody the strengths of the Z.E.N. Trio, a group of BBC New Generation Artists. Also featuring Babajanian’s trio, these national performances feature two programs (depending on the city) that will include either Dvořák’s Dumky or Brahms’ Romantic trio.

Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital returns to Musica Viva after well-received performances in 2018. In 2022, he performs with Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima presenting four centuries of culture from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, sharing traditional Salento, Bulgarian, Turkish, Sephardic, and Macedonian works. Nestled between these works are Baroque sonatas and Frescobaldi’s 17th Century Canzona Terza, which round out this diverse program.

Tasmanian Baroque ensemble, The Van Diemen’s Band, and violinist Julia Fredersdorff present a program exploring the historic borderlands of Europe through composers such as Samuel Scheidt and Dietrich Becker alongside and living composers María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and Donald Nicolson.

 

Musica Viva Australia 2022 Concert Season

Karin Schaupp & Flinders Quartet

Van Diemen’s Band & Julia Fredersdorff

Paul Grabowsky & Andrea Lam

Sydney
Saturday 12 March, 2:00pm
Monday 7 March, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Tuesday 1 March, 7:00pm
Saturday 5 March, 7:00pm
Newcastle
Thursday 10 March, 7:30pm
Brisbane
Thursday 3 March, 7:00pm
Adelaide
Tuesday 8 March, 7:30pm
Perth*
Sunday 20 February, 6:30pm
Canberra
Thursday 24 February, 7:00pm

*In Perth, Jonathan Paget and the Darlington String Quartet will perform with a slightly altered program

Sydney
Saturday 30 April, 2:00pm
Monday 9 May, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Tuesday 3 May, 7:00pm
Saturday 14 May, 7:00pm
Newcastle
Tuesday 10 May, 7:30pm
Brisbane
Thursday 5 May, 7:00pm
Adelaide
Thursday 28 April, 7:30pm
Perth
Tuesday 26 April, 7:30pm
Canberra
Thursday 12 May, 7:00pm




 

Sydney
Saturday 18 June, 2:00pm
Monday 20 June, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Tuesday 21 June, 7:00pm
Saturday 25 June, 7:00pm
Newcastle
Thursday 23 June, 7:30pm
Brisbane
Saturday 11 June, 7:00pm
Adelaide
Wednesday 15  June, 7:30pm
Perth
Monday 13 June, 7:30pm





 

A Winter’s Journey

Z.E.N. Trio

Avi Avital & Giovanni Sollima

Sydney
Saturday 23 July, 2:00pm
Monday 25 July, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Saturday 16 July, 7:00pm
Tuesday 19 July, 7:00pm
Brisbane
Thursday 14 July, 7:00pm
Adelaide
Thursday 21 July, 7:30pm
Perth
Tuesday 12 July, 7:30pm
Canberra
Wednesday 27 July, 7:00pm


Sydney
Saturday 20 August, 2:00pm
Monday 22 August, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Tuesday 23 August, 7:00pm
Saturday 13 August, 7:00pm
Newcastle
Saturday 27 August, 7:30pm
Adelaide
Thursday 25 August, 7:30pm
Perth
Monday 15 August, 7:30pm
Canberra
Thursday 18 August, 7:00pm


Sydney
Saturday 8 October, 2:00pm
Monday 26 September, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Saturday 24 September, 7:00pm
Tuesday 20 September, 7:00pm
Newcastle
Thursday 22 September, 7:30pm
Brisbane
Tuesday 27 September, 7:00pm
Adelaide
Thursday 6 October, 6:30pm
Perth
Sunday 2 October, 7:30pm
Canberra
Wednesday 5 October, 7:00pm

Signum Saxophone Quartet & Kristian Winther

 

 

Sydney
Saturday 19 November, 2:00pm
Monday 21 November, 7:00pm
Melbourne
Saturday 12 November, 7:00pm
Tuesday 22 November, 7:00pm
Newcastle
Tuesday 8 November, 7:30pm
Brisbane
Thursday 24 November, 7:00pm
Adelaide
Thursday 10 November, 7:30pm
Perth
Monday 14 November, 7:30pm
Canberra
Thursday 17 November, 7:00pm

 

 

 


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