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Kawai Gala Opening Concert: Distant Beloved |
Letters from Composers |
Wave Rider: Andrea Keller Quartet |
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14th October 8pmIn the festival's opening concert, a stellar line-up of festival artists tells musical stories of Beethoven and Schubert.
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14th October 8pmA favourite of last year's Festival, soprano Lisa Harper Brown returns with celebrated guitarist Jonathon Paget.
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14th October 10pmThe Andrea Keller Quartet brings an intimate chamber music-like approach to the jazz tradition.
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Dumky |
Conversation: Story-telling and Music |
Mother Goose |
All the ways of leaving |
15th October 10amFormed in 2009 in Amsterdam, this brilliant trio brings us three different types of musical story.
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15th October 10amAnna Goldsworthy talks to pianist Piers Lane, composer Paul Dean, and writer Peter Goldsworthy about music and story.
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15th October 11.30amStephen McIntyre returns to Port Fairy for a program of four-handed piano repertoire, with Paris-based Australian pianist David Selig.
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15th October 11.30amWe welcome the young musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music back to Port Fairy, for this unique performance of a short story by Nick Earls.
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Lunch: Spring in Port Fairy |
Cello Scordatura |
A Shrewd History |
Converging Spheres |
15th and 16th October 12.45pmCharismatic soprano Lisa Harper Brown joins pianist and musical theatre expert Michael Morley for a selection of Spring favourites.
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15th October 2pmIn this exclusive Australian appearance our international guest, cellist Tanya Anisimova, performs a distinctive program for 'cello scordatura' or cross-tuned cello.
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15th October 2pmFor the past two decades, the vibrant musicians of Shrewd Brass have thrilled audiences across Australia and Asia with their eclectic mix of music genres.
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15th October 3.30pmThis concert celebrates the converging spheres of Paul Dean: composer, clarinettist and educator.
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Harold in Italy |
Sing your own Musical |
Camellia Ch'a Curiosi-Tea: Once upon a Tea |
The NAB Gala Concert Leibestraum: Liszt by candlelight |
15th October 3.30pmCelebrated Australian pianist Piers Lane joins Fiona Sargeant, Acting Principal Viola of the Melbourne Symphony, for the first of our celebrations of Liszt.
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15th October 5pmWith a Little Bit of Luck, you can sing some more of the gems of the last 50 years of musical theatre.
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15th October 8.15pmWriter and performer Anne Norman brings to the stage the dry humour of her book Curiosi-tea.
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15th October 8.15pmIn Liebestraum, we celebrate the intensely programmatic nature of Liszt's art.
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Late night in Port Fairy Festival Club |
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15th October 10.15pmGet to know a different side of our Festival artists, as they compete in medleys, menage a cellos, and musical trysts.
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Conversation: The Wanderer |
Ramble on Love |
Quartet for the End of Time |
In Search of Lost Time |
16th October 10amAcclaimed pianist and former Festival director Stephen McIntyre discusss Schubert and a life of wandering with Anna Goldsworthy.
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16th October 10amTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of Percy Grainger's death, we celebrate his close friendship with Grieg in this enchanting program for cello and piano.
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16th October 11.30amMessiaen's Quartet for the End of Time is loaded with stories: both of the Apocalypse, and of the prisoner-of-war camp in which the work was composed.
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16th October 12.45pmJoin violinist Kristian Winther, a rising star of Australian music, and acclaimed pianist Anthony Romaniuk, as flaneurs through Belle Epoque Paris.
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Lunch: Spring in Port Fairy |
Once upon an Opera |
Beyond Words |
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15th and 16th October 12.45pmCharismatic soprano Lisa Harper Brown joins pianist and musical theatre expert Michael Morley for a selection of Spring favourites.
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16th October 2pmIn this magical concert, one of our most enduring forms of musical narrative - opera - enters the world of fairy tales.
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16th October 3.30pmThe Festival concludes with a return to that great master of narrative form: Beethoven.
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Masterclasses |
Schools event: Shrewd Brass |
Schools event: Shrewd Brass |
Salvador Dali Elephants |
Various timesA series of master classes in piano, voice and other instruments will be presented in Port Fairy by performers from the Port Fairy Music Festival.
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14th October 11.30amHigh velocity, informative and fun, the five players of Shrewd Brass take students on an in-depth musical journey.
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14th October 1.30pmHigh velocity, informative and fun, the five players of Shrewd Brass take students on an in-depth musical journey.
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Saturday & SundayBe mesmerised as these improbable creatures step out of the canvas and into the streets of Port Fairy. Created in the image of Salvador Dali's famous Elephants, these stilt-walking elephants bring surrealism into reality.
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The Silver Notes and the Mini Notes |
Musicians of Port Fairy |
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15th October 2pmThe Mini Notes, a children's choir from the Port Fairy Consolidated School, joins forces with the Silver Notes, a senior citizens' choir from Warrnambool, for a cross-generational concert in the Lecture Hall.
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16th October 2pmCurated by local musician Anita Hoekstra, this free concert presents chamber music inspired by story, performed by musicians of Port Fairy.
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