2024 festival program
Modified 28 June 2024
Concert 1
French Connections
Friday 19 July, 7.30 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr 45 min (including interval)
Maurice Ravel: Introduction et Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet (1905)
(Emily Granger, harp; Tim Munro, flute; Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Hed Yaron Meyerson and Rebecca Seymour, violins; Sally Boud, viola; Dan Curro, cello)
Leo Smit: Sonata for flute and piano (1939–43)
(Tim Munro, flute; Stephen Emmerson, piano)
Henriëtte Bosmans: String quartet (1927)
(Hed Yaron Meyerson and Rachel Smith, violins; Sally Boud, viola; Eric de Wit, cello)
Interval
Francis Poulenc: Clarinet sonata, FP 184 (1962)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Sonya Lifschitz, piano)
Gabriël Fauré: String quartet in E minor, Opus 121 (1924)
(Hed Yaron Meyerson and Rachel Smith, violins; Sally Boud, viola; Eric de Wit, cello)
Concert 2
A Quintet for Stadler
Saturday 20 July, Point Lookout Community Hall
Come to the hall from 8 am to enjoy morning birdsong with Merlo coffee and muffins (included in the ticket price for this concert) from Michael Bulloch’s ‘Coffee in Cylinders’ team. Coffee service ends at 9.15 am sharp and then the music starts at 9.30 am in this intimate venue looking through tea-trees to the ‘whale tail’ sculpture and the sea.
CONCERT DURATION (from 9.30 am): 1 hr (no interval)
W. A. Mozart: Sonata in C major for violin and basso continuo, K 46d (1768)
(Hed Yaron Meyerson, violin; Eric de Wit, cello)
Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915)
(Emily Granger, harp; Tim Munro, flute; Sally Boud, viola)
W. A. Mozart: Clarinet quintet in A major, K 581 (1789)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Hed Yaron Meyerson and Rachel Smith, violins; Sally Boud, viola; Eric de Wit, cello)
Concert 3
Quartet for the End of Time
Saturday 20 July, 1.30 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr (no interval)
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940–41)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Hed Yaron Meyerson, violin; Eric de Wit, cello; Stephen Emmerson, piano)
Concert 4
Dances and Metamorphoses
Saturday 20 July, 7.00 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr 15 min (no interval)
John Adams: John’s Book of Alleged Dances for string quartet and backing track (1994)
(Black Square Quartet – Camille Barry and Mike Patterson, violins; Charlotte Burbrook de Vere, viola; Dan Curro, cello)
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis I–V for solo piano (1988)
(Sonya Lifschitz, piano)
Concert 5
The King’s Alchemist
Sunday 21 July, 10 am, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr 10 min (no interval)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Tarentelle in A minor for flute, clarinet and piano, Opus 6 (1857)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Tim Munro, flute; Sonya Lifschitz, piano)
Kate Moore: E is for Elijah for solo violin (2023)
(Rachel Smith, violin)
Tristan Coelho: Rustic Dances for flute, harp and string sextet (2019)
(Emily Granger, harp; Tim Munro, flute; Rachel Smith and Rebecca Seymour, violins; Sally Boud and Charlotte Burbrook de Vere, violas; Dan Curro and Eric de Wit, cellos)
Claude Debussy: Première rhapsodie for clarinet and piano (1909–10)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Stephen Emmerson, piano)
Guillaume Connesson: Disco Toccata for clarinet and cello (1994)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Eric de Wit, cello)
Sally Beamish: The King’s Alchemist for string trio (2013)
(Rebecca Seymour, violin; Sally Boud, viola; Dan Curro, cello)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie in A major for violin and harp, Opus 124 (1907)
(Hed Yaron Meyerson, violin; Emily Granger, harp)
Concert 6
A Spring Quintet
Sunday 21 July, 2 pm, Point Lookout Community Hall
DURATION: 1 hr 15 min (no interval)
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in F-sharp minor, Hob. XV:26 (1795)
(Rachel Smith, violin; Eric de Wit, cello; Stephen Emmerson, piano)
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano, Opus 73 (1849)
(Maximiliano Martín, clarinet; Sonya Lifschitz, piano)
Johannes Brahms: String quintet in F major, Opus 88 (1882)
(Hed Yaron Meyerson and Rebecca Seymour, violins; Sally Boud and Charlotte Burbrook de Vere, violas; Eric de Wit, cello)