By David McIntosh, Artistic Director, Glebe Music Festival, Bulletin 2/2023 April
Here’s the full program for this year’s Glebe Music Festival on Friday 27th October to Sunday 26th November 2023, in conjunction with the Glebe Society.
Booking Information
Tickets are available through Trybooking. See links below. Bookings are advisable for all Margaretta Cottage concerts. Tickets are also available at the door for the Glebe Town Hall concerts.
Donations: https://www.trybooking.com/au/donate/glebemusicfest
Concert 1
Friday 27th October, 7pm Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe (disabled access at 18A Cook Street)
Performers: Hamish Strathdee and Emma-Shay in Contra Guitar Duo.
Program: The program is a reflection of who we are as musicians and what inspires us. The concert opens with a set of Schubert inspired works by Johann Kaspar Mertz and continues with a beautiful minimalist work by the late Australian composer Phillip Houghton, before bringing the first half to a close with a new arrangement for two guitars of Australian composer Maria Grenfell’s Di Primavera.
The second half of the concert opens with the juxtaposition of two pieces by Ross Edwards, a lullaby Emily’s Song and the lively and joyous Djanaba. We then play an interesting arrangement of a solo guitar work, Tansman’s Variations on a Theme of Scriabin; here the audience gets to enjoy Tansman’s work in greater depth and colour, providing a new listening experience of a much loved work in the guitar repertoire. Finally the concert closes with a celebration of Brazilian music by Clarice Assad, with her three movement Brasileirinhas. The work explores many elements of traditional Brazilian music and is an exciting virtuosic conclusion.
Tickets: $40 (concessions $20) includes drinks and supper. Bookings
Concert 2
Sunday 29th October, 3pm Glebe Town Hall, 160 St John’s Road, Glebe
Program: Quatorze and The Sydney Cantata Project are delighted to present a concert of music featuring Bach‘s Coffee Cantata, arias from other cantatas, and other works from the era of Frederick the Great.
Though more famous for his sacred music, the occasional secular gem showed Bach to be a humorous and inventive chap. Described as a mini comic opera, Schweight stille, paudert nicht (Be still, stop chattering), is an amusing portrayal and celebration of a coffee addiction. It was probably first performed in a Leipzig coffee house. The three characters in the Coffee Cantata are sung by a soprano, a tenor and a bass, accompanied by two violins, viola, cello, double bass, harpsichord and flute.
Performers: Quatorze is an early music ensemble using historic instruments played by Fiona McMillan (oboe), Ruth Crosby ( traverso flute), Phillip Murray (traverso flute), Shaun Ng (viola da gamba/theorbo/lute) and Joanna Butler (harpsichord).
The Sydney Cantata Project, directed by Jack Stephens and featuring some of Australia’s best period instrument specialists and soloists, performs Bach Cantatas regularly in churches around Sydney. Many of Bach’s cantatas are rarely performed and it is our intention to bring these magnificent works to local audiences.
Tickets: $20 (concessions $10) includes afternoon tea. Bookings
Concert 3
Friday 3rd November, 7pm Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe (disabled access at 18A Cook Street)
Performers: Thoroughbass directed by Diana Weston.
Program: Works for piano and harpsichord, or that can be arranged for such. Elena Kats Chernin’s Ancient Letters, a beautiful interpretation of a manuscript relating to the silk road using Middle Eastern modes. Ann Carr-Boyd’s Moonrise over Lake Argyle, a work commissioned recently. The program will be expanded with solo piano works, a piano duet by Beethoven, and possibly some arrangements for two harpsichords by Bach (one of his Musical Offerings) and Boccherini (The Fandango).
Tickets: $40 (concessions $20) includes drinks and supper. Bookings
Concert 4
Sunday 5th November, 3pm Glebe Town Hall, 160 St John’s Road, Glebe
Performers: Acacia Quartet directed by Stefan Duwe.
Program: Eric Satie – Gymnopedie No. 1, Fritz Kreisler – String Quartet in A minor, Australian work – TBC, Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor.
Tickets: $20 (concessions $10) includes afternoon tea. Bookings
Concert 5
Saturday 11th November, 3pm Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe (disabled access at 18A Cook Street)
Performers: Victor Sicard (baritone) and David G. Miller (piano)
Program: To be confirmed
Tickets: $20 includes afternoon tea. Bookings
Concert 6
Saturday 11th November, 7pm Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe (disabled access at 18A Cook Street)
Performers: Victor Sicard (baritone) and David G. Miller (piano)
Program: To be confirmed
Tickets: $40 (concessions $20) includes drinks and supper. Bookings
Concert 7
Saturday 25th November, 3pm Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe (disabled access at 18A Cook Street)
Performer: Anthony Chen piano. Anthony Chen is an award-winning pianist who completed his Bachelor of Music (Performance) with First Class Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he was taught by Paul Rickard-Ford.
Program: The program will include L’Isle Joyeuse (The Joyful Island) by Claude Debussy
Tickets: $20 includes afternoon tea. Bookings
Concert 8
Saturday 25th November, 7pm Margaretta Cottage, 6 Leichhardt Street, Glebe (disabled access at 18A Cook Street)
Performer: Anthony Chen piano. Anthony Chen is an award-winning pianist who completed his Bachelor of Music (Performance) with First Class Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he was taught by Paul Rickard-Ford.
Program: The program will include L’Isle Joyeuse (The Joyful Island) by Claude Debussy
Tickets: $40 (concessions $20) includes drinks and supper. Bookings
Concert 9
Sunday 26th November, 3pm Glebe Town Hall, 160 St John’s Road, Glebe
Performers: Josie and the Emeralds directed by Brooke Green.
Program: St Cecilia 2023
Tickets: $40 (concessions $20) includes afternoon tea. Bookings
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