Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes

Composer & Citizen: Chamber Landscapes description

Everything I do apart from music is badly done or stupid.

Beethoven

Beethoven was buffeted by massive political change in Napoleonic Europe but his posthumous deification as solitary artist-genius has contributed to our notion of composers somehow existing outside time and society. Beloved harpist and curator Marshall McGuire’s Festival weekend at UKARIA invites us to ponder composers and performers as socially engaged citizens.
Ludwig’s there with the Archduke Trio (featuring Anthony Marwood on violin) and the String Quartets Nos. 1, 9 and 16 played by the young British Heath Quartet, who partner them with the 2nd, 3rd and 5th by radical social maverick Michael Tippett. Soprano Bethany Hill with Ludovico’s Band and oboist Ben Opie present a fascinating early music concert of all female composers, and there’s Monteverdi’s rarely performed mini-opera Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, with a moving contemporary companion piece by Lembit Beecher about a female soldier’s post-tour-of-duty trauma.
Finish your UKARIA immersion with two remarkable ‘bonus’ concerts: an all-French recital by acclaimed singer Siobhan Stagg, and an Adelaide-exclusive by the world’s hottest twenty-first-century vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.

PROGRAM

Fri 6 Mar

7.30pm Hidden Secrets

Sat 7 Mar

11.30am Roomful of Teeth

12.30pm Lunch (not included in Day Pass)

2.30pm Composer & Citizen 1

4.15pm Talk: The Composer's Voice

5pm Siobhan Stagg in Recital

6.45pm Dinner, bookings essential (not included in Day Pass)

6:45pm Sunset: A Guided Experience (not included in Day Pass)

Sun 8 Mar

11.30am The Female Voice

12.45pm Lunch (not included in Day Pass)

2.30pm Composer & Citizen 2

4.15pm Talk: Beethoven's World

5pm One Among Many

6.45pm Dinner, bookings essential (not included in Day Pass)

6:45pm Sunset: A Guided Experience (not included in Day Pass)

Mon 9 Mar

11.30am Hidden Secrets

12.45pm Lunch (not included in Day Pass)

2.30pm Composer & Citizen 3

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Generously supported by Leading Patron Ulrike Klein AO.

Image Andrew Beveridge

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