Welcome to Ironwood 2010…Where the music leaps off the page and into your life!
HOUSE MUSIC
6:45pm, Sunday 17 October 2010
Government House, Sydney
Alice Evans – violin
Julia Fredersdorff – violin
Nicole Forsyth – viola
Daniel Yeadon - cello
The ballroom of Government House is arguably Sydney’s most elegant concert setting. Ironwood presents a vice-regal evening of music for parlour and park: two quartets by Haydn and Onslow based on national anthems, and Mozart’s rollicking quartet ‘The hunt’. Playing on period instruments, Ironwood invites you to share their corner of the music room, as the musicians talk about the music, context and instruments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and share some of the gems and curiosities of the
classical period.
Haydn – Quartet, op 76 no 3 ‘Kaiserquartett’
Onslow – Quartet, op 9 no 1 ‘God save the King’
Mozart – Quartet in B flat major, K458 ‘The hunt’
Matched with Angove Organic Chardonnay
Gates will open at 6pm with complimentary parking, drinks and gourmet sandwiches available before the concerts commence at 6.45pm.
Tickets
General $85
Conc/Members $75
Youth $50
Please note - this concert is sold out!
17th BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
3:00pm, Sunday 18 July 2010
3:00pm, Saturday 24 July 2010
3:00pm, Sunday 25 July 2010
Cockatoo Island, Sydney
Ironwood, in association with the 17th Biennale of Sydney, present 3 performances this July:
Ironwood with Developing Artists presents "A Cabinet of Curiosities"
Sunday 18 July at 3pm, Biennale Performance Space (building 74)
Cockatoo Island, Sydney
Ironwood with Jane Sheldon, soprano “Water Dreamers”
Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 July 2010 at 3pm, Biennale Performance Space (building 74)
Cockatoo Island, Sydney
One of Australia’s most vibrant ensembles, along with developing artists from their education program, will perform 3 concerts in July. The concerts will be a musical-visual exploration around the coves, cliffs and songlines of harbours native and foreign. New Australian and old colonial compositions will be played on instruments of the 18th century, integrated with Cockatoo Island’s own layers of time, and the Biennale’s multi-media works by Australian and international artists.
On Sunday 18 July, Ironwood and the Developing Artists from their highly successful Education Program will form a small orchestra, performing works Geminiani, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, CPE Bach and other bizarre curiosities of the baroque.
Australian singer Jane Sheldon will join the string quartet on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July, to perform the world premiere of ‘Water Dreamers’ by Australian/US composer Kevin March and ‘Sea Chronicles’ by Paul Stanhope.
Tickets $10
60mins with no interval.
Bookings (advised) or pay at the door: 02 9389 8117
Cockatoo Island hosts 120 works by 56 artists and is just 20 minutes by free ferry from the Commissioner's Steps, Circular Quay West. Full ferry timetable available at bos17.com.
The last few weekends have been very busy on the Island, so it is advisable to book your tickets and aim to get to the ferry departure point early.
So come for the day, take a picnic and enjoy some wonderful music.
BEAUTY & THE BAROQUE
3:00pm, Sunday 6 June 2010
St. Patricks Cathedral, Parramatta
CONDUCTOR: Max McBride
GUEST DIRECTORS: Ironwood with Rachael Beesley
Program:
GABRIELI, Canzona
BACH, Partita No.3/Sinfonia from Cantata No 29
BOZZA, Jour d’été à la Montagne
STRAVINSKY, Concerto in Eb Dumbarton Oaks
BACH, Suite No.4 BWV 1069
Get to know the SYO’s talented young musicians a little better with their kaleidoscope of performances celebrating the true genius of Gabrielli, Bach and Bozza - with a little Stravinsky on the side. Presented in one of Sydney’s most beautiful churches, the SYO will harness the architecture and acoustics to bring this music into being – just a glimpse into the musical beauty of our musical heritage.
“I played Bach very regularly during the composition of the concerto and I was greatly attracted to the Brandenburg Concertos. Whether or not the first theme of my first movement is a conscious borrowing from the third of the Brandenburg set, however, I do not know. What I can say is that Bach would most certainly have been delighted to loan it to me; to borrow in this way was exactly the sort of thing he liked to do.”
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Single Tickets
Adult $42
Concession $32
Child $17 (5 - 18yrs)
Family $95 (2 adults and 2 children)
Student Rush $15
Bookings
All bookings are through City Recital Hall Angel Place via the following methods;
Phone (02) 8256 2222
Online Click here
In Person 2 Angel Place, Sydney
SYDNEY CHAMBER CHOIR & IRONWOOD
Presents Via Crucis
7:30pm, Saturday 3 April 2010 (Easter Saturday)
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
As a tribute to Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt, who turns 75 this year, there will be a special Easter Saturday performance of the Berlin Mass, one of his best loved works. Leading Australian choral ensemble, Sydney Chamber Choir, joins forces with renowned historically informed ensemble, Ironwood, to present a different Easter celebration. Arvo Pärt's music creates the perfect contemplative space for the Easter season. His Berlin Mass is at once solemn and uplifting, sparse and rich, exploring the heights and depths of human experience. This is the focal point of a concert of sacred music combining the exquisite sounds of voices and strings. The program also features the Australian premiere of Scottish composer James MacMillan’s Tenebrae Responsories, inspired by the strikingly dramatic harmonies of the Renaissance master Carlo Gesualdo, whose own celebrated work for Easter Saturday will also be presented. As well, Ironwood will present a movement from Haydn's Seven Last Words.
Program:
ARVO PÄRT Berlin Mass
CARLO GESUALDO Selections from the Tenebrae Responsories for Easter Saturday
JAMES MACMILLAN Tenebrae Responsories – selections (Australian premiere)
JOSEPH HAYDN Consummatum Est from The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
ANTONIO LOTTI Crucifixus a 8
Paul Stanhope, Conductor
Sydney Chamber Choir
Ironwood: Rachael Beesley and Julia Fredersdorff, violins; Nicole Forsyth, viola and Daniel Yeadon, cello
Tickets: $45 full, $30 concession
Book online at www.sydneychamberchoir.org or call 1300 661 738.
HAYDN THE BOLD, HAYDN THE BEAUTIFUL
Sydney: 8:00pm, Monday 15 March 2010
Melbourne: 7:30pm, Thursday 25 March 2010
Love and Loss; Storm and Stress; Classical Symmetry and the emergence of Romantic Spirit.
This is the story of Haydn’s little heard Opus 20 quartets and his later regal Opus 77 quartets, with the beautiful textures and warm sounds of gut stringed instruments. Visit an age of eighteenth century elegance and intrigue with twenty-first century time-travellers Ironwood, as we take you on a dramatic musical journey with Haydn The Bold, Haydn The Beautiful.
Australia's renowned historically informed ensemble will perform early and late Haydn string quartets, a beautiful miniature by Boccherini, and a world premiere by Australian composer Damian Barbeler, Silk Panels for gut stringed instruments of the classical age.
Rachael Beesley and Julia Fredersdorff, violins; Nicole Forsyth, viola and Daniel Yeadon, cello
Program:
Boccherini String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op 20 No 3 in G minor
Damian Barbeler ‘Silk Panels’(world premiere)
Haydn String Quartet Op 77 No 1 in G major
Sydney: 8pm Monday 15th March 2010
The Barnet Long Room, Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney
Tickets: $38 Full; Conc & Under 30: $25
Bookings: (02) 9389 8117 / 0412 093 063
Melbourne: 7.30pm Thursday 25th March 2010
Fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Tickets: $38 Full; Conc & Under 30: $25
Bookings: (03) 9662 9966 or www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/tickets.php
Concerts 2009
KATIE NOONAN IN CONCERT
Featuring Ironwood and AYO’s Orava Quartet
Sunday 31 May 2009 3:00pm
The Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale, NSW
Join us at Riversdale for an exceptional afternoon concert of world class music and song including Katie Noonan, unquestionably one of the finest singers in the country. Accompanied by pianist Sam Keevers, Katie will perform an exclusive set of her favourite songs for our Riversdale audience.
Australia's foremost chamber ensemble Ironwood, one of the first music ensembles in residence at Bundanon, will return into residency in 2009 to continue their exploration of chamber music. Ironwood will offer a performance that crosses boundaries of the old and new performing on period string instruments.
The afternoon concert will also present the Youth Australian Concert Artists, in residency at Bundanon in 2009 featuring four of Australia's hottest young talent from the Orava Quartet.
MUSICA VIVA COFFEE CONCERT: MORNING STAR
Tuesday 26 May 2009 10.00am
The Inpedendent
269 Miller Street, North Sydney
Mozart Quartet in G major K80 'Lodi'
Paul Stanhope Morning Star
Spohr Quartet Op,45 No.2 Larghetto
Elena Kats-Chernin Eliza's Aria
Haydn Quartet in G major Op.54 No.1
REVELRY
Adelaide Chamber Players & Ironwood
Friday 17 April 2009 7:00pm
Elder Hall, University of Adelaide
North Terrace, Adelaide
Come and join the revelry with the stirring sounds of string favourites by Handel, Vivaldi and Corelli. Celebrate the beauty and grandeur of Baroque music when Adelaide Chamber Players unites with Australia’s finest early music specialists the Ironwood Chamber Ensemble. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s own Martin Phillipson will feature as soloist on baroque trumpet.
VIVALDI, HANDEL & CORELLI Concerti Grossi
TORELLI & MOLTER Trumpet Concerti
WASSANAER Concertini
BRESCIANELLO Sinfonia
Tickets: $30 and $20 concession (seniors, pensioners and full time students)
Bookings through BASS: phone 131 246 or visit www.bass.net.au (booking charges apply)
MUSICA VIVA AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2009
Miriam Allan & Ironwood
Purcell & Handel
12th March 7.00pm
Canberra: Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, ACT
14th March 8.00pm
Sydney: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, NSW
18th March 7.00pm
Brisbane: Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank, Q'LAND
21st March 7.30pm
Newcastle: Concert Hall, University of Newcastle Conservatorium, NSW
24th March 7.30pm
Perth Concert Hall, WA
26th March 8.00pm
Adelaide Town Hall, SA
This concert is being broadcast live for ABC Classic FM
28th March 8.00pm
Melbourne: Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC
30th March 7.00pm
Sydney: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, NSW
31st March 7.00pm
Melbourne: Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC
MOZART’S CELEBRATED STRING QUINTETS
Sunday 4 January 2009 2.30pm
St John's Flinders, VIC
Revel in the lushness of two of Mozart’s most sublime string quintets - G minor and C minor - performed by Ironwood on authentic instruments of the period.
Concerts 2008
A UNIQUE NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENT
Wednesday 31 December 2008 5.00pm
Main Ridge Estate, Red Hill South, VIC
Viennese Soiree
Join Ironwood as they perform a Viennese-style New Year’s Eve event - Peninsula style! A relaxed and intimate performance of works written for string quartet, inspired by the city of Vienna.
ROMANCE AT NORTH HEAD, MANLY
Saturday 5 July 2008 5:30pm
Sydney Federation Harbour Trust
North Head Old Artillery School Ballroom, Manly, NSW
Brahms G Major Sextet; Mendelssohn Capriccio for String Quartet & Georges Onslow String Quintet.
ROMANCE AT ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE
Thursday 3 July 2008 6:30pm
Historic Houses Trust of NSW Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, NSW
Brahms G Major Sextet; Mendelssohn Capriccio for String Quartet & Georges Onslow String Quintet.
DANCING WITH STRANGERS
Friday 20 June 2008 7:30pm
St John's Sorrento, VIC
Contemplate the contact history between the First Fleet and the Cadigal people in an evening of new Australian music. Works will include Dancing with Strangers by Paul Stanhope, based on the literary work of Inga Clendinnen, and Enyato I by Ross Edwards. Classical works of Haydn and Mozart, popular in the early days of the colony, will also be featured. Be transported by an evening of evocative music.
This concert is being recorded for future broadcast by ABC FM.
DANCING WITH STRANGERS
Thursday 19 June 2008 6.30pm
Vaucluse House, Sydney, NSW
Early music specialists Ironwood, perform in the drawing room of Vaucluse House. Contemplate the contact history between the First Fleet and the Cadigal people in an evening of new Australian music. Works will include Dancing with strangers by Paul Stanhope, based on the literary work of Inga Clendinnen, and EnyatoI by Ross Edwards. Classical works of Haydn and Mozart, popular in the early days of the colony, will also be featured. Be transported by an evening of evocative music with canapes inspired by traditional bush foods.
THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS
Sunday 6 January 2008 12 noon
St John's Flinders, VIC
Christ’s seven last words on the cross have inspired the creations of artists and composers for centuries, but none is more moving than Haydn’s, first performed as an oratorio in the Cathedral of Cadiz during Easter 1787. The string quartet rendition is one of Haydn’s most original and touching works. As Haydn wrote to his London publisher: “Each text is expressed by purely instrumental music in such a fashion that it produces the deepest impression in the soul of even the most uninstructed listener." Ironwood recreates this exquisite sacred work in the charming St John's Anglican Church in Flinders.
This concert is being recorded for future broadcast by ABC FM.
ICONIC STRING QUARTETS IN THEIR ORIGINAL STYLE
Saturday 5 January 2008 7:30pm
St John's Sorrento, VIC
Ironwood returns to the wonderfully atmospheric St John's Church in Sorrento to take audiences through some of the most iconic string quartets of the 18th century, by the “Father” of the string quartet, Joseph Haydn, and his avid pupil and successor, Wolfgang Mozart.
This concert is being recorded for future broadcast by ABC FM