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Pinchas Zukerman and the ASO

Arvo Volmer , Conductor

Pinchas Zukerman, Violin

Amanda Forsyth, Cello

Saint-Saëns: La Muse et le Poète

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Brahms: Concerto for violin and cello

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Saturday 8 August, 8.00 pm
Festival Theatre

One of the world’s greatest musicians, in a career spanning four decades, Pinchas Zukerman is universally admired for his supreme musicality.

“the forever-young virtuoso: expressively resourceful, infectiously musical, technically impeccable, effortless.”
 -Los Angeles Times

"Zukerman is blessed with unsurpassed natural talents."
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"You could have blindfolded an experienced listener, put him in a different room where he could scarcely hear the sounds, and he'd still recognize that liquid, Zukerman tone. There is no other like it....His sound is utterly imimitable... And the molten gold that streams from the instrument is completely breathtaking. Fabulous playing."
— The Herald (Glasgow)

"The thing about Pinchas Zukerman is that he keeps getting better.
- Miami Herald

"an aristocrat of the violin"
 - The New York Sun

In this concert he is joined by his wife, the Canadian dynamo Amanda Forsyth in a wonderful celebration of an inspiring musical partnership. La Muse et le Poète, written in the composer’s old age, reveals Saint-Saëns had lost none of his quintessential Gallic charm and elegance.

Brahms produced many masterpieces, none more radiant than the Double Concerto for violin and cello, a dazzling experience in the hands of these top ranking musicians.

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Paul Grabowsky and Friends

Paul Grabowsky, Conductor & piano

Katie Noonan, Vocals

Vince Jones, Vocals & trumpet

Festival Theatre

Saturday 1 August, 8.00 pm

Experience the unforgettable synergy as three of Australian’s supreme musicians come together with the ASO in an eclectic program embracing a rich array of jazz classics and popular hits. The stunningly beautiful voice of Katie Noonan takes centre stage in a partnership with two of Australia’s jazz legends in the multi-talented Paul Grabowsky and Vince Jones.

Musical barriers dissolve as these three artists put their inimitable stamp on music from jazz to classics to Lennon and McCartney, adding new expression to the standards and unlocking the beauty within popular numbers. One critic described their music-making as a ‘tonic for the soul’ and this new collaboration between three of Australia’s most celebrated musicians will prove a veritable magical elixir.

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MS7 - Simone Young Conducts Tchaikovsky

Simone Young, Conductor

Cedric Tiberghien, Piano

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6

Pathétique

Festival Theatre

Friday 14 August, 8.00 pm

Saturday 15 August, 6.30 pm

Simone Young, the greatest Australian conductor of her generation, joins with one of the most exciting artists on the international circuit today, Cedric Tiberghien. Prokofiev’s exhilarating Second Concerto has been dubbed ‘man versus piano’ with its astonishing first movement cadenza. Tiberghien’s incendiary performance of this work ensures he always comes out on top!

The eloquence and drama of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony, considered his musical last will and testament, is glorious proof that he did not intend, in Dylan Thomas’ words, to ‘... go gentle into that good night …’

Simone Young Plays Parsifal

Special matinee performance

Simone Young, Piano
Alex Soddy, Piano
Brian Coghlan, Narrator

Wagner: arr. Humperdinck music
from Parsifal

Grainger Studio
Sunday 16 August, 2.30 pm

Wagner’s operatic tale of knights and the holy grail: four hands, one piano. Music from Wagner’s final opera ‘Parsifal’ performed by Simone Young and Alex Soddy.
Presented in conjunction with Recitals Australia.

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