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From the Artistic Director

The 2010 Canberra International Music Festival program is constructed
around works that relate to GOLD, as we believe that the Creative Arts
represent the true Gold of our time. Gold is universally seen as a
symbol of love, marriage, warmth, incorruptibility, excellence, purity,
malleability, and transcendence. Given that the only human activities
that seem to remain in use for up to a century are the very best works
Artists create and the finest Architecturally designed buildings, we
believe the Creative Arts represent excellent and lasting value.
Therefore we have assembled 30 concerts of the finest music of our
time and from the past including events that combine architecture and
music, to display the qualities of warmth, purity and excellence – a
festival of Golden Music.

Chris Latham, Artistic Director

2010 Festival Artists
Composers
Ross Edwards
Elena Kats-Chernin
Peter Sculthorpe
Bill Risby
Dominico de Clario

Ensembles
Song Company - directed by Roland Peelman
T'ang Quartet
New Zealand String Quartet
Jouissance
Music For Everyone
The Harp Consort
New Purple Forbidden City Orchestra
Australian Baroque Brass
Canberra Camerata
ANU Contemporary Music Ensemble
ANU School of Music Chamber Orchestra
DRUMatrix

Pianists / Keyboards
Daniel de Borah - Piano
Tamara Anna Cislowska - Piano
Calvin Bowman - Organ/Harpsichord
Geoffrey Lancaster - Fortepiano/Harpsichord/Organ
Alan Hicks - Piano/Fortepiano
Timothy Young - Piano

Singers
Simone Riksman - Soprano
Louise Page - Soprano
Nicole Thomson - Soprano
Christina Wilson - Mezzo Soprano
Tobias Cole - Countertenor
Mal Webb - Vocal Adventurer

Instrumentalists
Thomas Indermühle - Oboe
Catherine McCorkill - Clarinet
Anna McMichael - Violin
Matt Ockenden - Bassoon
Virginia Taylor - Flute
Vernon Hill - Flute
Tor Fromyhr
Simona Riksman - Soprano
CIMF Concerts:
The Polish Heart, Tuggeranong

The Rose

Chopin - Polish Heart

Four Last Songs

The Spirit of Water

Biography:
The soprano Simone Riksman
studied singing with Frans Huijts
and Roberta Alexander at the
Academy of Music in Rotterdam,
the Netherlands, where she
finished her studies with the highest
degree in 2004. Since then she has
been continuing her studies with
Margreet Honig and, more recently, with Susan Mc Culloch. From 2005-2007
she has been a member of the New Opera Academy of Alexander Oliver.
Masterclasses she has taken with a.o. Graciela Araya, Carolyn Watkinson,
Jard van Nes, Klesie Kelly, Susanna Eken and Christa Ludwig.

In November 2008 she has been acknowledged the Premier Prix d‟Opéra and
the Prix d‟Orchestre in the Concours de Mâcon, France.

The Pr. Christina Concours has given her several prizes in 2002, a.o. the
Public‟s Prize for Best Communication and the Young People‟s Music Award,
which gave her the opportunity to perform in Carnegie Hall, New York. She
has given numerous recitals in the Netherlands and several concerts abroad.
Furthermore she has been awarded the Prix d‟Harmonie and the Ank
Reinders Prize, which gave her the opportunity to participate as a
representative for the Netherlands at the EVTA 2006 in Vienna.

From the age of 19 Simone Riksman was a member of “Cappella Amsterdam”

conducted by Daniel Reuss. She has encountered all styles of music, and has
sung the solo parts on many occasions under numerous conductors, as a.o.
Frans Brüggen, Reinbert de Leeuw.
Simone Riksman has had the honour to perform for Her Majesty the Queen of
the Netherlands, Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima and their
international relations.

She has sung Mahler‟s Fourth Symphony under the conductors Henk Guittart
and Hans Leenders, in venues such as the Smetanahallen in Prague; as well
as the Dutch premiere of the E. Stein arrangement in De Doelen, Rotterdam.

Her oratorio repertoire includes a.o. the St. John‟s and St. Matthew‟s Passion
of Bach, Mozart‟s Requiem, Faure‟s Requiem, Haydn‟s Stabat Mater and The
Seasons.

With the Haydn Youth String Orchestra she toured through Wales and
England performing a newly written piece by the Dutch composer Jochem
Slothouwer, as well as performances at the Peter de Grote Festival in the
Netherlands. She has performed at the Delft Chamber Music Festival with
pianist Enrico Pace and sung with the Doelen Kwartet in a staged Janaçek
program, in the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam.

In the summer of 2008 she was a participant in the Mozart Academy of the
Festival in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Her opera roles include so far Puck and Helena (The Midsummernight´s
Dream - Britten), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas – Purcell), La Ciesca
(Gianni Schicci – Puccini), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro – Mozart) Laurette
(Le Docteur Miracle – Bizet) and Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice – Gluck). She
has covered Pamina (Die Zauberflöte – Mozart) at the Nationale Reisopera
and has sung La Blanche Aline in the Dutch premiere of Honegger‟s Les
aventures du Roi Pausole, conducted by Ed Spanjaard.

Most recent engagements were Despina (Così fan tutte - Mozart) and Creusa
(Medea in Corinto - Mayr) in Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland. This season
include also performances at the Gergiev Festival 2009 and the Canberra
International Music Festival 2010, Australia.

Webiste: www.simoneriksman.com
Festival Info
2010 Festival
Festival By Day

Concert Series

Amazing Spaces

Free Events

Additional Events

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2010 Festival Brochure

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The creative arts are like gold, representing true and lasting value, with the
best creations enduring centuries. We have chosen golden masterworks from
the past to stand beside the golden treasures of today. Each concert is paired
with a sublime flower image of Harold Feinstein that represents its inner
nature so feel free to pick a bunch of your favourites.

You may also review our previous festivals (2004-2009).

Festival By Day
Friday 14 May - RED:
Concert 1 - The Sound of Gold and Stone National Library, 6pm
Concert 2 - Canberra Times Openin Gala - GOLD St Christopher's Manuka,
8.15pm

Saturday 15 May - ORANGE:

Concert 3 - National Carillon Concert Aspen Island, 12.30pm
Concert 4 - Gothic Toccata Wesley Uniting Church, 2pm
Concert 5 - Barbara Blackman Concert ACCC, 4pm
Concert 6 - The Gift of the Magi Llewellyn Hall, 6pm
Concert 7 - Mezmer ACCC, 9pm

Sunday 16 May - YELLOW:

Concert 8 - Mal Webb, Tobias Cole, Joice ACCC, 11am
Concert 9 - T'ang and Friends ACCC, 2pm
Additional Events - Chopin The Polish Heart Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 2pm
Concert 10 - Myrrh Fitter's Workshop, 6pm

Monday 17 May - GREEN:

Amazing Space 3 - Sounding the Churches 12pm
Concert 11 - The Rose National Portrait Gallery, 7pm

Tuesday 18 May - TURQUOISE:

Concert 12 - Mozart's Wedding Gift Fitter's Workshop, 6pm
Concert 13 - Chopin - Polish Heart Fitter's Workshop, 8pm

Wednesday 19 May - BLUE:

Amazing Space 4 - The Swiss Embassy 12pm
Concert 14 - Songs Are Sung National Museum, 6pm
Concert 15 - Beethoven Moonlight Turkish Embassy, 8.15pm
Additional Events - Canberra Symphony Orchestra Llewellyn Hall, 7.30pm

Thursday 20 May - BLUE:

Concert 16 - New Zealand String Quartet Fitter's Workshop, 6pm
Concert 15 (repeat) - Beethoven Moonlight Turkish Embassy, 8.15pm
Additional Events - Canberra Symphony Orchestra Llewellyn Hall, 7.30pm

Friday 21 May - BLUE:

Amazing Space 5 - Sounding the CSIRO 12pm
Concert 17 - Frankincense Fitter's Workshop, 8.15pm
Free Events - Sleep Fitter's Workshop, 11pm-7am

Saturday 22 May - ROSE: THE GOLDEN RING:

Free Events - Open Rehearsals at The Fitter's Workshop, 9am-11.30am
Free Events - Music for Everyone Fitter's Workshop 11am-4pm
Free Events - Sprogis/Woods Jazz Competition Bus Depot Markets,10am-
4pm
Concert 18 - Sculthorpe and Spain Fitter's Workshop, 1pm
Concert 19 - The Wellspring Fitter's Workshop, 4pm
Concert 20 - Four Last Songs Fitter's Workshop, 7pm
Concert 21 - The Mystic and the Muse Fitter's Workshop, 10pm
Free Events - Sleep Fitter's Workshop, 12am-7am

Sunday 23 May - WHITE:

Free Events - Open Rehearsals at The Fitter's Workshop, 9am-11.30am

Free Events - Sprogis/Woods Jazz Competition Bus Depot Markets,10am-
3pm
Free Events - Sprogis/Woods Jazz Competition Final Bus Depot Markets,
4.30pm
Concert 22 - The Spirit of Water Fitter's Workshop, 12pm
Concert 23 - Jouissance Fitter's Workshop, 2.30pm
Concert 24 - Monteverdi Vespers Fitter's Workshop, 7.30pm
Concert Series
Concert 1 - The Sound of Gold and Stone
Concert 2 - The Canberra Times Opening Gala - GOLD
Concert 3 - National Carrilon Concert
Concert 4 - Gothic Toccata
Concert 5 - Barbara Blackman Concert
Concert 6 - The Gift of the Magi
Concert 7 - Mezmer
Concert 8 - Joice
Concert 9 - T'ang and Friends
Concert 10 - Myrrh
Concert 11 - The Rose
Concert 12 - Mozart's Wedding Gift
Concert 13 - Chopin - Polish Heart
Concert 14 - Songs Are Sung
Concert 15 - Beethoven Moonlight
Concert 16 - New Zealand String Quartet
Concert 17 - Frankincense
Concert 18 - Sculthorpe and Spain
Concert 19 - The Wellspring
Concert 20 - Four Last Songs
Concert 21 - The Mystic and the Muse
Concert 22 - The Spirit of Water
Concert 23 - Jouissance
Concert 24 - Oriana Chorale Presents Monteverdi Vespers
BUY TICKETS
FESTIVAL GOLD PASS
24 concerts plus the Amazing Space Architecture series
(4 concerts)
FULL $420 CONCESSION/MEMBER $390

Festival Gold Passes are available from the Pro Musica

Office. Please contact info@cimf.org.au or call 02 8230
5880.

FESTIVAL WEEKEND PASS

For those who want just a taste of the Festival, a weekend
pass may be just the ticket – includes performances on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10 concerts).

FIRST WEEKEND PASS (14-16 MAY)

FULL $225 CONCESSION/MEMBER $195

FINAL WEEKEND PASS (21-23 MAY)

FULL $225 CONCESSION/MEMBER $195

Festival Weekend Passes are available from the Pro Musica

Office. Please contact info@cimf.org.au or call 02 8230
5880.

CONCERT TICKETS
IN PERSON Canberra Theatre Centre, Civic Square,
London Circuit, Canberra
TELEPHONE Canberra Ticketing - (02) 6275 2700
ONLINE canberraticketing.com.au (opens in new window)
Phone and online bookings attract a booking fee

2010 FESTIVAL

Concert Date / Time Full Conc* Ticketing

Stone & Gold 14 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Gold 14 May / 8.15 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Toccata 15 May / 2.00 pm $25 $20 Buy Tickets
Blackman 15 May / 4.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
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Gift of the Magi 15 May / 6.00 pm $45 $35
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Mezmer 15 May / 9.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Kids $10 Family $40
Joice 16 May / 11.00 am Buy Tickets
Adults $20 (4 tix)
T'ang 16 May / 2.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Myrrh 16 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Rose 17 May / 7.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Mozart 18 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Chopin 18 May / 8.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Songs 19 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
19&20 May / 8.15
Moonlight $39 $35 Buy Tickets
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NZSQ 20 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Frankincense 21 May / 8.15 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Spain 22 May / 1.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Wellspring 22 May / 4.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Last Songs 22 May / 7.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Mystic 22 May / 10.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Water 23 May / 12.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Jouissance 23 May / 2.30 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
Vespers 23 May / 7.30 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets
AMAZING SPACE SERIES
Parliament Call RAIA - 02
9 May / 2.00 pm Free Free
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High Court 13 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
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Churches 17 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
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Swiss Embassy 19 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
6208 2100
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CSIRO 21 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
6208 2100
*Concession This term covers Pro Musica members, full time students, Government
Healthcare and Pensioner cardholders as well as Government supplied Seniors' card.
Friends or members of National Institutions will qualify for the Concession price for
performances in that particular institution.
Free Events
Amazing Space 1 - Playing the House
Sunday 9 May, 2pm
Parliament House - Map

More information...

Chopin Lecture
Thursday 13 May, 5.00–6.30 pm
Conference Room, National Library of Australia - Map

Chopin in the theatres and concert halls of Australia: lecture with collection
viewing.

Presented by the Music and Dance Curators of the National Library of

Australia Ms Robyn Holmes and Mr Lee Christofis.

National Museum of Australia: In-gallery

performance and talk by Elena Kats-
Chernin
Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May 2010, 12.30pm-1.30pm
Bookings essential on (02) 6208 5021
Information Desk, National Museum of Australia - Map
More information

National Carillon Concert

Saturday 15 May, 12.30pm

National Carillon - Map
 More information...

Jazz at the Old Bus Depot Markets

Sunday 16 & 23 May, 10am–3pm
The Old Bus Depot Markets - Map

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Open Rehearsals at the Fitters Workshop

Saturday 22 May, 9am–12.30pm and Sunday 23 May, 9am–11.30am
Fitter‟s Workshop - Map

Music for Everyone

Saturday 22 May, 11am–4pm

Foreshore Gallery, Old Bus Depot - Map

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Sleep - An all night sound installation

Friday 21 May, 11pm–7am and Saturday 22 May, 12am–7am

Fitter‟s Workshop - Map

More information...
 Additional Events
Canberra International Music Festival at the
National Film and Sound Archive

Various Screeings
Arc cinema - National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy circuit, Acton

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Musica Viva Presents: The Harp Consort

The Harp Consort will present an intriguing journey to 17th Century Ireland
with the music of Turlough O‟Carolan.

Thursday 13 May, 7PM, Llewellyn Hall

More information...

Bookings: musicaviva.com 1800 688 482 or ticketek.com.au 1300 795 012

Chopin - The Polish Heart

Sunday 16 May, 2pm

Tuggeranong Arts Centre

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Canberra Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov

Tchaikovsky
Nicholas Milton conductor, Konstantin Shamray piano (SIPCA
Winner)

Wednesday 19 & Thursday 20 May, 7.30pm

Llewellyn Hall

More information...
Subscriptions through CSO Direct: 02 6262 6772
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 Concert 1 - The Sound of
Gold and Stone

When: Friday 14 May, 6pm

Venue: National Library of Australia Lobby - Map

Duration: 70 mins

Tickets: $39 // $35

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New Purple Forbidden City Orchestra

Liu Shun Conductor, Yang Jing Pipa, Shen Cheng Huqin, Zhang
Zunlian, Erhu, Zhao Chengwei Sanxian, Weiwei Liuqin Ruan, Jiao Shanlin
Percussion, Yang Lin Zither, Wang Hua Flute, Hulusi and Bawu, Xiong Junjie
Dulcimer, Zou Hang Pipa

Dr John Yu and Dr Richard Rigby (Narrators)

China‟s finest ensemble of traditional instrumentalists performs classical

Chinese music accompanied by poetry from the great dynasties of Chinese
history. The golden age of Chinese Poetry, often referred to as the Rivers and
Mountains style, was largely written by Hermit monks from the Chan (Zen)
Buddhist or Taoist traditions and will be spoken in Chinese and English by
Prof Richard Rigby and Dr John Yu respectively. The Classical Chinese music
performed will predate Western Colonial influences and will be an extremely
rare opportunity for Western audiences to hear Yang Jing (China‟s most
important Pipa player) and her colleagues, playing exquisitely sensuous
music in its original form and context.

Presented in association with the ANU China Institute and the National Library of Australia
CIMF and ANU wish to extend their thanks to the Ministry of Culture, Peoples Republic of China - Oriental Express Music
Project
 Concert 2 - The Canberra
Times Opening Gala - GOLD

When: Friday 14 May, 8.15pm

Venue: St Christopher's Church, Manuka - Map

Duration: 2 hours

Tickets: $39 // $35

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Please bring a cushion.

G.F. Handel - Zadok the Priest

The Harp Consort - The Harp of Gold
Elena Kats-Chernin - Beaver Blaze**
Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), Luke Sweeting (piano), Bill Williams (bass), Ed Rodrigues
(drums)
J.S. Bach - Easter Oratorio BWV 249
J.S. Bach - Cantata Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft BWV 50

Song Company: Anna Fraser, Nicole Thomson, Elli Green sopranos, Tobias
Cole alto, Lanneke Wallace-Wells mezzo soprano, Paul McMahon tenor,
Richard Black tenor, Mark Donnelly baritone, Clive Birch bass, Alexander
Knight bass

Canberra Camerata with T'ang Quartet, Thomas Indermühle (oboe/oboe

d'amore), Virginia Taylor (flute), Anna McMichael (violin)

Oriana Chorale, Igitur Nos, The Resonants, Combined Canberra Grammar

Schools' Chamber Choir, Radford College Chamber Choir, Burgmann
Anglican School Chamber Choir

Directed by Roland Peelman

The Harp Consort (presented in Association with Musica Viva Australia) Ian
Harrison (bagpipes and cornetto), Steven Player (baroque guitar and Dublin
guitar), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish baroque Harp and Psaltery)
Handel‟s Zadok the Priest performed by the Canberra Camerata and a
massed choir of over 100 voices will lead into Irish folk music and dancing by
the Harp Consort led by Internationally acclaimed harpist Andrew Lawrence
King. A Jazz reworking of the Elena Kats-Chernin‟s festival theme will
precede Bach‟s Easter Oratorio, one of his most joyous and rarely heard
works, performed by the golden voices of the Song Company, with
International star oboist Thomas Indermühle and the Canberra Camerata
under the direction of Roland Peelman.

*Premiere of the Jazz version

 Concert 3 - National Carillon
Concert

When: Saturday 15 May, 12.30pm

Venue: National Carillon - Map

Duration: 1 hour

FREE Lunchtime concert presented by ACTEW

Terry Vaughan - Flourish

Hans Günter Mommer - Reflections on the Lake
W.A. Mozart arr. Fuller - Adagio from Sonata in D Major K576
V. Monti arr. Fuller - Czardas K576
Terry Vaughan - Summer Song
Garth Mansfield/J. Chia - Fantasy on the Westminster Chimes
Timothy Hurd - Evensong - Magnificat
Larry Sitsky - Eleven Abstractions on Paganini’s ‘La Campanella’
Elena Kats-Chernin - Ragged Bells*

Carillonists: Joan Chia, Lyn Fuller, Susan Antcliff

*Premiere, Commissioned by Lyn Fuller

 Concert 4 - Gothic Toccata
Acclaimed organist Calvin Bowman plays works of Bach and
Purcell on Canberra's finest organ.

When: Saturday 15 May, 2pm

Venue: Wesley Uniting Church - Map

Duration: 70 minutes

Tickets: $25 // $20

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Henry Purcell - Chaconne from King Arthur

J.S. Bach - Partite diverse sopra il Corale O Gott, du frommer Gott BWV 767,
Partite I - IX
César Franck - Pastorale
Calvin Bowman - Vexilla Regis
The royal banners forward go…
The priceless treasure, freely spent…
There was he slain in noble youth…
Father of all, life’s source and spring…
Graeme Koehne - To His Servant Bach God Grants a Final Glimpse: The
Morning Star
Graeme Koehne - Gothic Toccata

Calvin Bowman (organ)

Calvin Bowman recently performed the entire organ works of Bach in a single
day, making him the 3rd person in the world to succeed at the marathon task.
He is a graduate of Yale University and is considered Australia‟s finest
organist as well as an up and coming composer whose works will be heard
along with Bach, Purcell and Graeme Koehne‟s stunning Gothic Toccata.
 Concert 5 - Barbara
Blackman Concert
Honouring the link between Music and Poetry and our
Patron - Barbara Blackman

When: Saturday 15 May, 4pm

Where: Australia Centre for Christianity and Culture - Map

Duration: 70 minutes

Tickets: $39 // $35

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Sculthorpe - Love Thoughts

Graeme Jennings (violin), David Pereira (cello), Vernon Hill (flute), Alan Vivian (clarinet),
Anna Fraser (soprano), Peter Sculthorpe (narrator)

Messiaen - Fantasie*
Anna McMichael (violin), Daniel de Borah (piano)

Sculthorpe - Eliza Fraser Sings - Text by Barbara Blackman

Nicole Thomson (soprano), Tamara Anna Cislowska (piano), Chris Latham
(violin)

Peter Sculthorpe has agreed to take become the Festival‟s Composer

Laureate and will be featured in the inaugural Barbara Blackman concert
exploring the relationship between music and poetry. Sculthorpe‟s Love
Thoughts, a major 40 minute setting of Japanese Haiku will receive only its
third performance in 33 years while Olivier Messiaen‟s recently discovered
Fantaisie, written and dedicated to his first wife Claire Delbos, will receive its
Australian premiere. Finally we will present Peter Sculthorpe and Barbara
Blackman‟s classic telling of the story of Eliza Fraser and the convict
Bracewell in a new version for violin, soprano and piano.

*Australian premiere
Amazing Space 1 - Playing the House

When: Sunday 9 May,

2pm

Venue: Parliament
House, Capital Hill,
A.C.T.

Duration: 2 hours

Free event

Meet in the Marble

Foyer at 2pm

Presented in
association with the
Australian Institute of Architects and Parliament House of Australia…exploring
the harmonies between music and architecture…

A celebration in honour of Aldo Giurgola‟s 90th birthday with the T‟ang

Quartet of Singapore.

T‟ang Quartet:
Ng Yu-ying and Ang Chek Meng (violin), Han Oh (viola), Leslie Tan (cello)

Enquiries Melanie Croaker on 02 6208 2100 or act@raia.com.au

Amazing Space 2 - Sounding the High
Court

When: Thursday 13 May,12 noon

Venue: High Court of Australia - Map

Duration: 1 hour

Tickets: Adult $35 / Concession $28

Series Ticket: $120 / $100
Bookings Essential!

Presented in association with the Australian Institute of Architects…exploring

the harmonies between music and architecture…

Song Company: Anna Fraser, Nicole Thomson (sopranos), Lanneke Wallace-

Wells (mezzo soprano), Richard Black (tenor), Mark Donnelly (baritone), Clive
Birch (bass)

Directed by Roland Peelman

Tickets available through: Australian Institute of Architects (ACT Chapter)

Contact Melanie Croaker on 02 6208 2100 or act@raia.com.au
 Amazing Space 3 -
Sounding the Churches

When: Monday 17 May, 12 noon

Venue: St John‟s, Reid; Wesley Church, Forrest; St Christopher‟s, Manuka

Bus pick up from St John‟s Reid - Map

Duration: 2 hours

Tickets: Adult $35 / Concession $28

Series Ticket: $120 / $100
Bookings Essential!

Presented in association with the Australian Institute of Architects…exploring

the harmonies between music and architecture…

The Organs of St John‟s, Reid; Wesley Church, Forrest; St Christopher‟s,

Manuka.

12 noon St John‟s, Music of Arvo Pärt

12:45pm Wesley Church Ross Edwards Two Pieces for Organ
1:30pm St Christopher‟s Arvo Pärt My Heart‟s in the Highlands*

Calvin Bowman (organ), Marko Sever (organ) Tobias Cole (countertenor)

Canberra‟s finest organs sound the finest acoustic spaces. Music by Tobias
Cole countertenor and Australia‟s finest organist, Calvin Bowman.

Tickets available through: Australian Institute of Architects (ACT Chapter)

Contact Melanie Croaker on 02 6208 2100 or act@raia.com.au
*Australian premieres
 Contact us

The Canberra International Music Festival is managed by Pro Musica Inc, a

not for profit registered charitable organisation.

Pro Musica
Ainslie Arts Centre
Elouera St Braddon ACT 2612

Tel: +61 2 6230 5880

Fax: +61 2 6230 5970

Email: info@cimf.org.au

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About Pro Musica

The Board
Our Patron
Getting involved
2010 Sponsors

Principal Supporters

Government Sponsor

Concert Partners

Media Partners

Supporting Partners
Distinguished Sponsors
Honour Roll - Pro Musica would like to offer special thanks to the following people
who invest in the Canberra International Music Festival, giving us the opportunity to
present an ambitious and exciting Festival.

 Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society (Canberra)

 Bev and Don Aitkin
 Betty Beaver
 Barbara Blackman
 Deb Cameron
 Warren Curry
 Margaret Frey
 Randy Goldberg
 Anna and Bob Prosser
 Mary Lou Simpson
 Friends of the ANU School of Music
 About Pro Musica
The Canberra International Music Festival was founded by the late Ursula
Callus (1939 - 2001), President of Pro Musica Incorporated, a non-profit
community organisation with a long history of assisting developing musicians.
Pro Musica was founded by the late Edith Butler. The first Festival, in April
1994, won the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Music Innovation. Since 1997
the Festival has been an annual event, and audiences have grown steadily.

The Pro Musica Vision

Music is our business. We love playing it and listening to it but we have a
deeper purpose as well. Put simply, music, like human creativity generally, is
good for us as individuals, and especially good for us as a society. Money
spent on making or listening to music is the cheapest way to help build good,
cheerful, responsible societies. We believe that we can improve the quality of
Australian life, for very many people, by involving them in music.

How is it so? Music is built into us. All human beings sing, or whistle, or hum,
or tap their feet to music, especially when happy. There is other music to
assist us when we are sad. In the womb, before our birth, we pick up our
mother‟s heart-beat; that pulse stays with us throughout life, for the heart-beat
is a familiar pattern in music. Music helps us deal with mundane tasks in a
cheerful way, by lifting our spirit. Music enables us to rise out of the ordinary
and experience something special. It can inspire us to be better than we
thought we were.

How music does this we barely know, for it is the creative art that is least
adequately discussed in words. The American composer Aaron Copland once
expressed it this way:

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, „Is there a meaning
to music?‟ My answer would be „Yes‟. And „Can you state in so many words
what the meaning is?‟ My answer to that would be „No‟.

Music is another kind of language, an expressive flow that has to be

experienced to be understood. We know it has an effect on us. The skilful use
of good music has been shown to accelerate learning, to heal the body and to
improve confidence. Classical music played in large supermarkets reduces
theft. It can enhance and change our moods.
Pro Musica sees its role as that of an „enabler‟, bringing these rich
experiences to larger and larger groups of people. Our special approach is
small-scale musical events, for chamber music really means music that you
hear in a room (originally a drawing room or reception room). In these
environments the audience participates in the music, because we are close to
the performers, and they are conscious of us. We see this as „music-making
among friends‟, and believe that it offers a much more intense experience, for
everybody, than that offered by the traditional large concert hall.
We know that live music in small venues is often seen as „stuffy‟ or „highbrow‟,
and we are working to dispel this impression. We do it by providing venues
and programs that are deliberately aimed at attracting younger audiences.
Classical music, like much music in the concert hall, is also often seen as
representing an undue veneration of the past. This impression we try to dispel
by ensuring that music written by people alive today is made available to
today‟s audiences.
At the same time, we strive to remind people that making an effort to
understand a piece of music that one has never heard before is rewarding. It
is almost a truism that important artistic work often endures opposition and
initial resistance, accompanied with scorn, before becoming adopted and then
venerated. It is not simply audiences that initially protest: the experienced
players who gave the first performances of many of Beethoven‟s string
quartets shook their heads and laughed at one of his compositions, believing
that he was trying to make them seem foolish. If we program a piece of music,
we believe that it is really worth listening to, and making the effort to listen, not
merely to hear. Today‟s composers want an audience. They are not trying to
shock.
Our practice
Our principal activity is an annual international music Festival, built around
some unique attributes of the nation‟s capital city. We combine international
performers who come to us through the aid of foreign embassies, Australian
performers drawn from across the nation, interesting and varied venues that
include embassy buildings themselves, the marvellous and colourful
ambience of Canberra‟s autumn, and a mixture of musical forms, lectures and
other artistic possibilities that give those who take part a wonderful cultural
experience.
Our vision
We are working to make our Festival a national event that is of the same
scale and scope as those in other cities, and thereby to make in our own way
a significant contribution to the place of culture in daily life for the musicians
and concert-goers of the next generation, as well as those of today. We have
been assisted to do so through a munificent gift from philanthropist and
audience-builder Barbara Blackman. Barbara Blackman's gift provides us with
the basis on which to create a brighter future for musicians and audiences
with the chance to expand ideas of contemporary music. We will do this
through providing a platform for emerging and experienced contemporary
composers, a larger and more interesting repertoire for chamber music and by
inviting more people to share the positive benefits of music with us as
audience members.
Our invitation
The cultural development of an entire nation happens over time. The pressure
on arts organisations to make their work sustainable requires them to be able
to offer a consistently high quality product to the increasingly time-poor,
information-overloaded Australian. There needs to be a wide understanding
that simply funding and expecting things to become self-sustaining after a few
years is only part of the picture. Significant work and new achievements in the
area of audience development are long overdue, and our Festival provides an
ideal environment to explore these changes: a short duration, continuing
excitement and buzz, and the chance for a jolt out of the everyday in the
context of the human capacity that lifts our spirits and our sense of ourselves
as creative people.

Will you join us?

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 The Board

The Canberra International Music Festival is managed by Pro Musica Inc, a

not for profit registered charitable organisation. The Board is elected annually
and is made of community and business representatives.

About our President

Don Aitkin AO is a former Vice-Chancellor (University of Canberra, 1991-

2002) who finds himself just as busy in 'retirement', where he spent six
months of that long-awaited release serving as the CEO of a R&D
company. He is the Chairman of the Boards of the Cultural Facilities
Corporation, the NRMA/ACT Road Safety Trust, and Pro Musica Inc.. He has
a continuing role with the Canada Foundation for Innovation as well as a
number of Australian organisations interested in education, research, urban
development, and governance, matters about which he has strong views, and
on the whole unorthodox ones. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social
Sciences in Australia, the Australian College of Education and the Australian
Planning Institute. He was the first Chairman of the Australian Research
Council (1988-1990), where he trebled the budget and established the ARC
as an organisation of world class; he served for six years as a member of the
Australian Science and Technology Council (1996-2002).

A historian and political scientist, he was a professor at Macquarie University

(1971-1979) and the ANU (1980-1988), and the author of a number of books
on Australian history and politics as well as a novel. His most recent book,
What Was It All For? The Reshaping of Australia, was published in October
2005, and he writes a weekly column on education for the Australian Financial
Review. In past times he was a widely read newspaper columnist in the
National Times and the Canberra Times, a contributing editor of Newsweek,
and a television and radio commentator. In what passes for his spare time he
writes books and plays the piano.

The full Board is:

Prof Don Aitkin, AO, President

Former Vice Chancellor, University of Canberra

Dorothy Danta, Vice President

Artist and former Gallery manager

Will Laurie, Treasurer

Retired Partner, Accountancy firm

Barbara Campbell, Secretary

Lawyer

Phil Butler, Member

General Manager, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Ian McLean, Member
Former General Manager, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Former Officer
Commanding, Royal Military College Band, Duntroon

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 Barbara Blackman, Pro Musica Patron

About Barbara

Barbara Blackman, essayist, librettist, letter writer, was an only child, born and
bred in Brisbane, caught up in the Barjai art/literary group of the Forties, the
Melbourne Contemporary Art Society of the Fifties and the Australian wave in
London of the Sixties. She was married to painter Charles Blackman for thirty
years. She has worked as a child psychologist, an artists' model, a magazine
columnist, a radio producer for Radio for the Print Handicapped, and an oral
historian for the National Library. She was a co-founder of the Little Lookout
Theatre in Sydney and is a member of the C.G. Jung Society and the National
Federation of Blind Citizens. Her pleasures are contemporary music, coffee
drinking, visiting Perth, solitude, her three offspring and six grandchildren.

Our principle patron is Barbara Blackman Barbara has been blind most of her
adult life and has listened and enjoyed and celebrated music with an
appreciation and intensity few of us can match. Barbara made a wondeful
speech to launch the program of the 12th Festival early in 2006.

Launching speech for Chamber Music Festival 2006

I am tickled pink at your certifying me as the Patron Saint of Audiences. I love

it. When I was a little girl I used to go to the old P.S.A.'s, the Pleasant Sunday
Afternoons when someone who could play the piano a bit did it, and the So-
and-so sisters, if asked, would perform a duet, and perhaps sometimes a
violinist might give us a treat. "Rustle of Spring", "The Kerry Dance", "Flight of
the Bumble Bee" were all part of that time. Parlours of elderly relatives and
the Brisbane Business Girls Club (of which my mother was a member into
her seventies) were the sites for P.S.A.

I sat there as a good quiet little audience, and somewhere must have thought
to myself, "Music must be better than this." Perhaps that is where it all began.
Then I started going to real concerts when my mother was given tickets to all
the recitals in the City Hall, and then when she herself gave me subscriptions
to the Youth Symphony series. And so it goes.

Be deciding last year to execute my will now and give money to music, and
have the fun of it, I thought I was taking a step in one direction but now find
myself spun around into quite another, quite unexpected. I find myself invited
to speak from the love-of-music platform. And now I find this is also the
"wisdom of the elders" platform. Old age has such a poor profile. Actually I
am finding it to be a Through the Looking Glass adventure. To reverse a
popular saying: "Go for it. You're only old once." Just as well. It's hard. But
then the same is true of youth. That's hard too: trying to work out what the
world has to offer and how to find a personal path in it, a direction for oneself.

What I feel Pro Musica is doing with its way forward, and in this Festival
programme, is locating the bridge that spans the whole specturm from young
to old and the whole range of musical taste. I see bridge as Archway over
Causeway: as above, so below. Old age is a vantage point of far horizons. At
this end of life's span, so many experiences of one's youth now loom clear.
Things that were seemingly small happenings in youth have become large
presences in our lives: for instance, a remembrance of moments in times past,
certain first hearings, that feeling of being "the first that ever burst into that
silent sea" - those immense the distance of years as the event, the chance,
the opportunity that entered one upon a lifelong path of pleasure and
discovery.

The arch from those first initiations has swept up though the celestial range
and now is grounded again in insights. What I am saying is that we elders can
offer those in their years of formation a wide taste for new things, in this case
of music. This Festival offers that - to the little fellas to make music with the
big fellas; to those seething with pop music to see round corners to other
thrills; to those who think they can only relish what is familiar, well known,
comfortable, to trust this Festival to invite them to other feasts; to those who
think the bigger the orchestra, the more important the work, to listen more
attentively. Humility in attention is always of advantage.

The causeway traffics forwards over a gulf or chasm. In the context of music
this gulf is a belief that music has fixed categories, like religions, professions
or races, and that venture into strange territory is dangerous. Actually, behold,
we live in times of mixed marriages, ecumenical worship, global technologies.
Boundaries are breaking down, gulfs filling, chasms closing in, in all directions.
Music Festivals are part of this whole land shift.

To come to ground: I feel this Festival programme gives opportunity to people

to come and listen again to well loved works and also to let themselves go
into the new. There is courage in the air. There is encouragement in its wake.
We need to build up in young people and in older people, never too late! - the
happy habit of concert going and lead them towards becoming an eager,
informed and discerning audience. Audience and musicians have a reciprocal
role in music making and appreciation. I wince at empty seats at good
concerts. If my "applause by donation" patronage helps to fill those seats and
to fill the sitters therein with the beauty and love of music, then I happily wear
my P.S.A. hat and salute the Pro Musica Board for their prodigious work.

On with the Festival with its offerings to regular and newcomers, and to us
oldies at the far reach, something of that adventure we had when young of
discovering great wonders to be explored.

Barbara Blackman
Patron Pro Musica

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 Become a Donor

Pro Musica Inc is a not for profit community organisation, registered in the
ACT. As a registered charitable organisation, Pro Musica Inc manages a
special donation fund (PRO MUSICA PUBLIC DONATION FUND) which
makes it a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) under income tax
regulations. Your membership and support enables us to continue to present
the Festival and develop other events throughout the year as part of our
mission to make fine music accessible to all.

What does DGR status mean under law?

A Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) is entitled to receive income tax deductible
gifts. All DGRs have to be endorsed unless they are named specifically in the
income tax law. There are two types of DGR endorsement:

 Entities in their own right

 An entity that is only a DGR in relation to a fund, authority or institution
it operates

For the second type, only gifts to the fund, authority or institution are tax
deductible. Pro Musica manages such a fund.

How you can help

Pro Musica has a big vision for the festival and for its place and role inthe
ACT. We need your help to make the festival a world class event in a world
class city. For more information, a quick email to info@cimf.org.au or a
phone call to (02) 6230 5880 will start the ball rolling, and we can discuss how
you or your organisation can join our growing group of supporters. We
welcome your interest. Download a donation form.

Pro Musica Donors 2007

Pro Musica wishes to express its deep appreciation and gratitude to the
following private donors whose support has made possible the commission of
new works, the ongoing development of our Education program and the
Young Composer Competition Prize.

Betty Beaver, Elena Kats-Chernin commission “Beaver Blaze” Fanfare

Dorothy Danta
Marilyn Jessop
Malcolm Gray
Randy Goldberg
Nicole Canham
Don and Bev Aitkin
Penny Rogers
Dianne Anderson

Pro-Musica Membership

Pro Musica members receive early bird ticket opportunities and generous
discounts to the Canberra International Music Festival. The Festival provides
an opportunity to meet with like minded people who enjoy fine music of the
highest quality. Membership runs for the financial year, so join now and find
out about Pro Musica events throughout the year, including Festival program
preview and special events. Download membership form (PDF, 104k)

Send completed form to:

Pro Musica
Ainslie Arts Centre
Elouera Street
Braddon ACT 2612

Pro Musica Inc is listed on the Register of Cultural Organisations. Donations

of $2 and over are Tax Deductible.

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