Past Echoes Autumn Music Festival

May 30, 31 & June 1, 2008

The Past Echoes Autumn Music Festival showcases Australia’s finest musicians in a program of chamber music spanning the centuries.
From solo recitals to chamber orchestras this festival is sure to energise, inspire and entertain all who attend. We invite you to share with us the joy of chamber music in all forms.

Concert 1 - Courtly Charm

Friday May 30, 7:30pm
Melba Hall, Faculty of Music
University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville

Students from the Early Music Studio, University of Melbourne
Co-presented by the Early Music Studio

An exploration of European Courts through Renaissance Music and Dance. Presented by the Early Music Studio, University of Melbourne. Combining the Renaissance Dance ensemble (dir. Helga Hill), Early Voices (dir. Vivien Hamilton), Kynsker Recorder Ensemble & Baroque Ensemble (dir. Greg Dikmans) and Viola da Gamba Ensemble (dir. Laura Vaughan), this production is an exciting celebration of new talent.

This concert is free thanks to the Early Music Studio and the University of Melbourne. Please arrive early to ensure your seat.

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Concert 2 – Intertwining strings

Saturday May 31, 11:00am
Dante’s Gallery
150-156 Gertrude Street (Cnr Napier Street) Fitzroy

Laura Vaughan – viola da gamba
David Macfarlane - harpsichord

The sublime sounds of strings abound in this display of harmony and tranquillity, virtuosity and vigour. Experience works that you have never heard before, as well as works not yet performed in such a space. Enjoy the intimacy that only a cosy space like Dante’s can provide. Marvel at the exquisite sonorities created when the talents of Laura Vaughan and David Macfarlane combine with these works by Schenck, Handel, Kuhnel and J.S. Bach.

Concert 3 – Bach Dreaming

Saturday May 31, 3:00pm
Trinity College Chapel
University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville

Dean Sky-Lucas – Director, piano and voice
Mardi McSullea - flutes
Nick Synott – double bass

Bach's Orgelbuchlein meets the deep-end of Bass and Alto flutes, with Double Bass, piano and voice. Drawing you into its tentacles, this sound-world wraps
itself around you, forcing you to acquiesce into the imperturbable peace of Bach's eternal liturgy.

Concert 4 – Bass Desire

Saturday May 31, 7:30pm
Trinity College Chapel
University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville

Victoria Watts – Director & Viola da Gamba
Ruth Wilkinson – Director & Violone
Laura Vaughan – Lirone & Treble Viol
Rosemary Hodgson – Theorbo & Baroque Guitar
David Macfarlane – Harpsichord
Kara Ciezki – recorder
Louisa Hunter-Bradley - voice

What is better than the sumptuous energy created by continuo forces on mass? Organ, Harpsichord, Theorbo, Viola da Gamba and the extremely rare Lirone, combine forces to explore the ground bass, amongst other frivolous possibilities of course.

Concert 5 - Chant for the Day's End

Saturday May 31, 9:30pm
Newman College Chapel
University of Melbourne, Swanston Street, Parkville

Gary Ekkel – Guest Director
Buxtehude Consort
Louisa Hunter-Bradley
Christina Jonas
Christopher Nye
George Liakatos

The reverence of Newman College Chapel is ideal for a reflection of the day's events, with a candlelit celebration of chant. The concert follows the path of the ancient compline service - the service of contemplation at day's end in a Medieval monastery. It incorporates chant from the Gregorian and Orthodox traditions, the ecstatic melodies of the Medieval mystic, Hildegarde of Bingen, and an elegant French Baroque litany composed for Louis XIV's own convent at St Cyr, here performed for the first time in Australia.

This evening's concert will be warmed up by a cup of coffee supplied by only the finest, Jura coffee

Concert 6 - St Johns Bach Cantata Series

Sunday June 1, 9:00am
St Johns Southgate
20 City Road, Southgate

St Johns Bach Choir & Orchestra
Director of Music, Dr. Graham Lieschke

Festival audiences are invited to take part in the regular Bach Cantata series celebrated as part of the liturgy. This is a service presented as part of regular Sunday worship and as such, is to be enjoyed in its appropriate setting.

Concert 7 – The Amorous Flute

Sunday June 1, 2:00pm
Potter Museum of Art
University of Melbourne, Swanston Street, Parkville

Greg Dikmans

Stories of life, love and good red wine are accompanied by Greg Dikmans and the sublime sound of the flute in its various forms.

Concert 8 – Splendour of Spain

June 1, 4:00pm
Newman College Chapel
University of Melbourne, Swanston Street, Parkville

Revelations from the Hispanic Baroque

Experience the passionate world of Baroque Spain in a whirlwind of songs and dances. Let yourself wander through a journey of sweetly melancholic villancicos, rowdy tonos humanos and foot slapping, toe tapping canarios. Directed by Laura Vaughan, one of Australia’s most exciting young talents, this program includes works by Juan Hidalgo, Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz and Sebastián Durón plus improvisations by the performers to fire your imagination.

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