2017
28–30 July
The players:
Louisa Breen (piano), Eric de Wit (cello), Chenoa Deemal (narrator), Karl Dunnicliff (double bass), Stephen Emmerson (piano), Ayesha Gough (piano), Paul Hankinson (piano), Caroline Henbest (viola), Louise King (cello), Matt McMahon (piano), Adelina Martinez (poetry reader), Sophie Rowell (violin), Karin Schaupp (guitar), Rachel Smith (violin), William Stafford (clarinet), James Tawadros (percussion), Joseph Tawadros (oud), Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion)
Concert 1
Friday 28 July, 7 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
Jacob’s Dream
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E-flat minor, Hoboken XV:31, “Jacob’s Dream”
Leoš Janáček: Pohádka (“A Tale”) for cello and piano
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen (“Fairy Tales”) for clarinet, viola and piano, Opus 132
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro in B-flat major of a clarinet quintet, K Anh. 91 (fragment completed by Robert Levin)
Karol Szymanowski: Mythes, three poems for violin and piano, Opus 30
(Paul Hankinson, Stephen Emmerson, Louisa Breen, Rachel Smith, Sophie Rowell, William Stafford, Caroline Henbest, Eric de Wit, Louise King)
Concert 2
Saturday 29 July, 8.00 am/9.30 am, Point Lookout Community Hall
Breakfast Fandango With Karin Schaupp
Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Manuel de Falla: Suite Popular Española
Isaac Albéniz: Asturias
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for violin and piano, FP 119
Luigi Boccherini: Guitar quintet no. 4 in D major, G 448, “Fandango”
with readings from the poems of Federico García Lorca
(Karin Schaupp, Paul Hankinson, Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith, Caroline Henbest, Louise King, Adelina Martinez)
Concert 3
Saturday 29 July, 2 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
Autumnal Romantics
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor, D 940
Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder (“Fairy Tale Pictures”) for viola and piano, Opus 113
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet trio in A minor, Opus 114
(Stephen Emmerson, Paul Hankinson, Caroline Henbest, William Stafford, Eric de Wit)
Concert 4
Saturday 29 July, 5.30 pm, Point Lookout Surf Life Saving Club
The Joseph Tawadros Quartet
(Joseph Tawadros, Matt McMahon, Karl Dunnicliff, James Tawadros)
Concert 5
Sunday 30 July, 10 am, Dunwich Public Hall
Minjerribah Miniatures
Musical miniatures that celebrate the natural world are linked by Chenoa Deemal’s narrations of stories from Oodgeroo’s Stradbroke Dreamtime in a 10th anniversary tribute to Quandamooka cultural heritage and to festival founder Jani Haenke.
Peter Sculthorpe: Djilile
“Curlew” reading
Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water, 1st movement: “Crystalline”
Claude Debussy: “L’ombre des arbres” from Ariettes oubliées
“Pomera (Banksia)” reading
Phillip Houghton: In Amber, 3rd movement: “Initiation”
“Mirrabooka” reading
Richard Charlton: Southern Cross Dreaming
Sir Edward Elgar: “Sea Slumber Song”, arr. Paul Hankinson
“Tawalpin and Kowinka (Cotton Tree and Red Mangrove)” reading
Antonín Dvořák: Waldesruhe (“Silent Woods”)
Paul Hankinson: Fantasie
“Tuggan-Tuggan (Silky Oak)” reading
Maria Grenfell: Di Primavera – 1. Lively and Steadily
Paul Stanhope: White Spirit Dancing – world premiere
“Oodgeroo (Paperbark Tree)” reading
Paul Hankinson: Spinrad
(Chenoa Deemal, Karin Schaupp, Stephen Emmerson, Louisa Breen, Paul Hankinson, Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith, Caroline Henbest, Louise King, Eric de Wit, Vanessa Tomlinson)
Concert 6
Sunday 30 July, 2 pm, Dunwich Public Hall
(F)East)!
Yitzhak Yedid: Chad Gadya (“One Little Goat”) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano – world premiere
Joseph Tawadros: Solo oud improvisations
Joseph Tawadros: Eye of the Beholder
Antonín Dvořák: Piano quintet no. 2 in A major, Opus 81
(Ayesha Gough, William Stafford, Joseph Tawadros, Stephen Emmerson, Sophie Rowell, Rachel Smith, Caroline Henbest, Louise King)