In 2019 Ensemble Q present a 5 part Sunday afternoon series at the acoustically outstanding Queensland Conservatorium Theatre on South Bank. All series concerts are at 3pm.
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Series Concert 1 - Fantastic Dances
Adult $45
Seniors and Pensioners $30 Donors/Griffith Alumni/Parents of Young Con Students $25 Students $10 Groups of 10 or more $20 per ticket |
Two angst ridden composers, one desperately in love with the wife of a man he admired, the other riddleed with self doubt, fear and exhaustion, each holding a place in history as a composer of the most passionate and extraordinary music ever conceivd. Brahms' C minor piano quartet sat in a drawer for years as an unfinished work in C sharp minor. He described the work with the words "imagine a man who is just going to shoot himself, for there is nothing else to do". Modelled on Goethe's novel Werther, whose protagonist shoots himself over the anguish of being in love with a married woman whose husband he admires, the quartet was eventually finished and revised as the intensely beautiful piano Quartet in C minor Op 60. Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances is his final work, written in the hope of becoming a ballet, but to become one of Rachmaninoff's most revered orchestral works, rich with nostalgia for the Russia he had known and was to never see again. in this arrangement by English composer and arranger Iain Farrington, the instrumentation is pared down to 15 instruments, yet retains all the vigour and beauty of this brilliant final work by the composer.
Emerging composer Jack Lundie Jenkins currently studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. His rhythmically virtuosic and visually appealing work for clarinet and percussion, Empty Houses, will be given its first professional performance by Paul Dean and Brent Miller. Led by Andrew Haveron, violin |
VENUE: Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank
Concert 2 - Black is the Colour
Adult $45
Seniors and Pensioners $30 Donors/Griffith Alumni/Parents of Young Con Students $25 Students $10 Groups of 10 or more $20 per ticket |
Outstanding Australian mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean returns to Australia to join Ensemble Q in a program highlighting extraordinary and engaging masterpieces of the 20th century chamber music repertoire. Ligeti's cheeky, charming and brilliantly virtuosic Six Bagatelles get us off to an exhilarating start before we visit the great Polish master Lutoslawski. Ravel's exquisite Introduction and Allegro for Harp and ensemble, Britten's utterly compelling Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings and Webern's beautiful and rare tonal exploration for string quartet, the Langsamer Satz. Binding this entire journey together is the rarely heard and sensational Folk Songs by Luciano Berio.
Featuring Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo soprano Alice Giles, harp Harry Bennetts, violin Tobias Breider, viola Trish O'Brien, cello Tim Munro, flute Huw Jones, oboe Paul Dean, clarinet David Mitchell, bassoon Peter Luff, French horn Brent Miller and Jacob Enoka, percussion |
VENUE: Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank
Concert 3 - Champions
Adult $45
Seniors and Pensioners $30 Donors/Griffith Alumni/Parents of Young Con Students $25 Students $10 Groups of 10 or more $20 per ticket |
Opening Concert 3 is the winning group from the inaugural Queensland International Chamber Competition. An incredible start to a program featuring the awe inspiring folk song/dance infused Contrasts by Bela Bartok, one of the great legacies of the commissioning work carried out by the incredible American clarinetist Benny Goodman. And what could possibly follow this, but arguably one of the greatest single chamber works ever penned. The Quintet for piano and strings by Johannes Brahms.
Dale Barltrop, violin Tobias Breider, viola Trish O'Brien, cello Daniel de Borah, piano Paul Dean, clarinet 
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VENUE: Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank
Concert 4 - Metamorphosis
Adult $45 Seniors and Pensioners $30 Donors/Griffith Alumni/Parents of Young Con Students $25 Students $10 Groups of 10 or more $20 per ticket |
Please note the change of program for this concert:
Mozart G minor piano quartet Francaix Clarinet Quintet Interval Schubert Impromptu No 3 Strauss Metamorphosen Harry Bennetts, violin Tobias Breider, viola Trish O'Brien, cello Phoebe Alviz-Russell, double bass Daniel de Borah, piano Paul Dean, clarinet *this concert features 2specially selected mentees Lachlan Wilkins, violin Michael Gibson, cello THIS PROGRAM IS ON TOUR Clarence Valley Conservatorium Friday 27 September Bellingen Fine Music Festival Saturday 28 September |
VENUE: Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank
Concert 5 - Left of field
Adult $45
Seniors and Pensioners $30 Donors/Griffith Alumni/Parents of Young Con Students $25 Students $10 Groups of 10 or more $20 per ticket |
Our last concert of the year continues the fine tradition of breathtaking programming and performances. The rarely heard and brilliant suite by Korngold gets us off to a passionate start before we visit the virtuosic Francaix and his sublime Divertissement for Bassoon and strings. A brilliant arrangement of Wagner's timeless Prelude to Tristan and isolde arranged for string sextet leads us into the season finale, Brett Dean's virtuosic arrangement of Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks.
Andrew Haveron, violin Harry Bennetts, violin Tobias Breider, viola Trish O'Brien, cello Phoebe Alviz-Russell, double bass Daniel de Borah, piano Virginia Taylor, flute Paul Dean, clarinet David Mitchell, bassoon Peter Luff, French horn |
VENUE: Conservatorium Theatre, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank
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