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2009 DIARY

INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

Details of further performances will be added as information is received. If you are planning a Sculthorpe performance, or know of one not already listed here, please inform the website editor Graeme Skinner:
gski1960@bigpond.net.au

January 2009

21 Wed	Performance [UK]	Port Essington Chamber Strings of Melbourne [AU]; St Margaret's Westminster, London [UK]

31 Sat	Broadcast recording [AU] (featuring the composer)	The Fifth Continent Your Requests with Marian Arnold, 92.9 ABC Classic FM; 10:05h; Peter Sculthorpe (speaker); Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor); ABC CLASSIC CD 456 363-2 [30:20] Other radio broadcasts will be added when the dates are known, including interviews with Peter Sculthorpe on ABC Radio and 2-MBS in Australia, the BBC and KUSC Los Angeles


February 2009

4 Wed	Performance [DE]	Sun Music II Staatstheater Wiesbaden Orch.; Nicholas Milton (conductor); Wiesbaden [DE]

6 Fri	Performance [US]	String Quartet No 16 Stephen Kent (didjeridu); Del Sol String Quartet; URI Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI [US]; 20:00h

8 Sun	World Premiere [AU] (in the presence of the composer)	Song of the Yarra (2008) GRAND OPENING CONCERT OF THE ELIZABETH MURDOCH HALL Gidon Kremer (violin), Guy du Blêt (percussion), Victorian Opera Chorus; Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne [AU] “In celebration of the life of the late Clifford Hocking, generous support from the Harold Mitchell Foundation has made it possible for Melbourne Recital Centre to commission Peter Sculthorpe to create a new work to inaugurate Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Song of the Yarra is Peter’s commemoration of the Indigenous custodians of the river and its surrounds, bridging the ritual smoking ceremony conducted by Elders of the Kulin Nation and the European music that follows.” - *www.melbournerecital.com.au*


March 2009
5 Thu	Performance [ES]	Sun Music III Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA); Kynan Johns (conductor); Casa de la Cultura de Avilés, 20:15h http://www.ospa.es/

6 Fri	Performance [ES]	Sun Music III Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA); Kynan Johns (conductor); Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, Oviedo, 20:00h http://www.ospa.es/

22 Sun	Performance [AU] (introduced by the composer)	String Quartet No 17 Small Town (for string quartet) Dream Tracks A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Goldner String Quartet/Australia Ensemble; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; 20:00h “A celebration with Australia’s most eminent composer, Peter Sculthorpe, in his 80th birthday year. Peter is known the world over for his extraordinary music, often evoking the beauty and majesty of the Australian landscape. In this concert the renowned Australia Ensemble will play a program of his works including the String Quartet No 17 and Dreamtracks, along with Small Town – a tribute to the town of Thirroul and its counterparts around the country. As a special treat Peter Sculthorpe himself will read extracts from D.H Lawrence’s novel on Australian life Kangaroo, written while Lawrence and his wife Frieda lived in Thirroul. The concert will be preceded by a champagne reception and private viewing of the Archibald Prize. Doors open at 7pm. Seating commences at 7.45pm” - Resonate Magazine (Australian Music Centre)

28 Sat	Performance [AU]	My Country Childhood TASMANIAN SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor); Burnie Town Hall, Burnie TAS [AU], 19:00h

29 Sun	Performance [UK]	Memento Mori Uttlesford Orchestra; Richard Hull (conductor); Saffron Waldon Town Hall [UK]

30 Mon	Performance [AU]	My Country Childhood TASMANIAN SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor); Federation Concert Hall, Hobart TAS [AU], 20:00h


April 2009

5 Sun	Performance [UK]	Serendade (for solo violin) Irkanda I Alone Peter Sheppard (violin); Celebrating Bach and Sculthorpe; Wilton's Music Hall, London [UK];14:30h

29 Wed		PETER SCULTHORPE’S 80TH BIRTHDAY

30 Thu	Performance [AU] (introduced by the composer)	Small Town (for string quartet) & other works for string quartet TBA A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Goldner String Quartet; Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul NSW [AU] Sculthorpe will talk about D. H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo and his own 1963 composition The Fifth Continent, illustrated with images of Garry Shead’s D. H. Lawrence paintings

May 2009

Various dates (TBC)	Performances [CH]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) TOUR OF CHINA William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor)

1-3 May	Festival [AU]	Peter Sculthorpe is guest composer at the Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, NSW [AU]; further details TBA *www.artsinthevalley.net.au*

1 Fri	Performance [AU] (introduced by the composer)	String Quartet No 6 String Quartet No 8 String Quartet No 12 (From Ubirr) String Quartet No 14 PLUS other short works for string quartet TBA A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Goldner String Quartet; William Barton (didgeridoo) Official Festival Opening Concert; Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, Marquee, Kangaroo Valley Golf & Country Resort, NSW [AU], 20:00h (Red Carpet Supper after the concert with Sculthorpe and the artists) The concert will also mark the CD launch of Volume 3 of the Goldner Quartet’s COMPLETE SCULTHORPE QUARTETS on the Tall Poppies label

3 Sun	Performance [AU] (introduced by the composer)	Works for solo cello TBA David Pereira (cello); Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, Barrengarry House, Kangaroo Valley NSW [AU], 11:00h

3 Sun	Performance [AU]	Requiem (for chorus and orchestra) A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Central Coast Philharmonic, NSW [AU]

3 Sun	Performance [AU] (introduced by the composer)	String Quartet No 11 (Jabiru Dreaming) A PETER SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Goldner String Quartet; William Barton (didjeridu) Arts in the Valley Festival, Kangaroo Valley, Marquee, Kangaroo Valley Golf & Country Resort, NSW [AU], 14:30h

7-10 May	Event [AU]	Peter Sculthorpe is guest composer at the Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra [AU]; further details TBA *www.cicmf.org*

7 Thu	World Premiere [AU] (in the presence of the composer)	Island Dreaming for strings (in memory of Richard Hickox) Governor General’s Gala, details TBA

7 Thu	Performance [AU]AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE(introduced by the composer)	Sun (1960) for voice and piano AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Program TBA Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra [AU], National Portrait Gallery, Canberra [AU]; www.cicmf.org The new home of the nation's portrait collection, the National Portrait Gallery building, opened in 2008, is on King Edward Terrace, Parkes, Canberra, bounded by the High Court of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. Among some 400 portraits of people who have shaped Australia and who continue to shape our nation is Eric Smith’s 1982 portrait of Sculthorpe. For more information: www.portrait.gov.au

8 Fri	Gala Performance (in the presence of the composer)	Sculthorpe Songbook – Jazz reworking of Sculthorpe standards by Phil Slater, Matt McMahon, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst, Timothy Constable and others; Canberra International Music Festival, Canberra [AU] *www.cicmf.org*

9 Sat	Performance [AU] (in the presence of the composer)	Rites of Passage (1973); new concert version (2009) Synergy/WOOD/Canberra Festival Choir/Peter Sculthorpe, Roland Peelman; Canberra International Music Festival; Glassworks, Fitters Workshop, Kingston, Canberra ACT [AUS]; 19:00 *www.cicmf.org*

9 Sat	Film screening [AU] (introduced by the composer)	Age of Consent (dir: Michael Powell, Australia/UK, 1968, 105 mins, 35mm) Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive at the Canberra International Music Festival, Arc Theatre, NFSA, Canberra ACT [AU], 16:30h Sculthorpe’s original score has been reinstated, deploying the original quarter-inch-tape recordings preserved in the NFSA’s collections. In celebration of Peter Sculthorpe’s 80^th birthday, the NFSA is honoured to have the composer introduce the film at this screening.

9 Sat	Performance [AU]	Night Song (for piano, violin and cello) Selby & Friends, TrioZ; Recital Room, Oxley College, Bowral, NSW [AU], 17:30h

10 Sun	Performance [AU] (introduced by the composer)	The Loneliness of Bunjil (1954) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE String Quartet No 7 (1966) Irkanda IV (for string quartet) String Quartet No 10 How the Stars Were Made (premiered at the 1971 Canberra Spring Festival) Canberra International Music Festival; National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT [AU]; further details TBA *www.cicmf.org*

12 Tue	Performance [AU]	Night Song (for piano, violin and cello) Selby & Friends, TrioZ; City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney; 19:00h

13 Wed	Performance [AU]	Night Song (for piano, violin and cello) Selby & Friends, TrioZ; Melba Hall, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC [AU]; 19:00h

14 Thu	World Premiere [AU](in the presence of the composer)	Mrs Fraser Songs (2009) on texts by Patrick White from the libretto from the abandoned 19964-65 Sculhtorpe/White opera, A Fringe of Leaves PATRICK WHITE VOSS CONCERT A National Film and Sound Archive event, Canberra ACT [AU]; for further details *www.nfsa.gov.au*

14 Thu	Performance [AU]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Perth Concert Hall, Perth [AU]

15 Fri	Performance [AU]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Perth Concert Hall, Perth [AU]

18 Mon	Performance [JP]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Fukuoka, Japan, 7pm

19 Tue	Performance [JP]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); The Symphony Hall, Osaka, Japan, 7pm

20 Wed	Performance [JP]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Aichi Prefectural Arts Theatre, Nagoya, Japan; 6.45pm

20 Wed	Performance [AU] (in the presence of the composer)	Kakadu *ASHKENAZY CONDUCTS SCULTHORPE* SYDNEY SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Meet the Music, Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, 18:30h

21 Thu	Performance [AU] (in the presence of the composer)	Kakadu ASHKENAZY CONDUCTS SCULTHORPE SYDNEY SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Meet the Music, Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, 18:30h

22 Fri	Performance [AU]	Sculthorpe Songbook – Jazz reworking of Sculthorpe standards by Phil Slater, Matt McMahon, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst, Timothy Constable and others; Stonnington Festival, Melbourne VIC [AU] details TBA

23 Sat	Performance [AU]	Sculthorpe Songbook – Jazz reworking of Sculthorpe standards by Phil Slater, Matt McMahon, Simon Barker, Carl Dewhurst, Timothy Constable and others; Stonnington Festival, Melbourne VIC [AU] details TBA

23 Sat	Performance [JP]	Kakadu (with didjeridu) WASO’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE William Barton (didjeridu); West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor); Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 7pm


June 2009

19 Fri	Performance [DE]	Memento Mori (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zdenek Macal (conductor), Tonhalle Düsseldorf [DE], 20:00h http://www.tonhalle.de/symphoniker_programm

21 Sun	Performance [DE]	Memento Mori (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zdenek Macal (conductor), Tonhalle Düsseldorf [DE], 11:00h http://www.tonhalle.de/symphoniker_programm

21 Sun	Performance [AU]	Mangrove Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Fabian Russell (conductor), Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne [AU]; 14:30h

22 Mon	Performance [DE]	Memento Mori (with didjeridu) William Barton (didjeridu), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zdenek Macal (conductor), Tonhalle Düsseldorf [DE], 20:00h http://www.tonhalle.de/symphoniker_programm

27 Sat	World Premiere [AU]	Autumn Song (arranged by the composer for choir and guitar) Slava Grigoryan (guitar); Sydney Chamber Choir; Paul Stanhope (conductor); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 19:30h


July 2009

14 Tue	Performance [UK]	String Quartet No 8 Australian String Quartet Lichfield Festival, Lichfield Cathedral [UK]

17 Fri	Performance [UK]	String Quartet No 8 Australian String Quartet Cheltenham Music Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham [UK]

August 2009

4 Tue	Performance [AU]	Little Suite for Strings Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor), Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts, Ballarat VIC [AU], 20:00h

5 Wed	Performance [AU]	Little Suite for Strings Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor); The Capital, Bendigo Performing Arts Centre, Bendigo VIC [AU]; further details TBA *- www.thecapital.com.au*

6 Thu	Performance [AU]	Little Suite for Strings Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor); Shepparton VIC [AU]

8 Sat	World Premiere [AU]	New Work (2009) for violin and chamber orchestra Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin and director); Llewellyn Hall, Canberra ACT [AU]; 20:00h ONE OF FIVE AUSTRALIAN WORKS SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED BY THE ACO TO MARK THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF RICHARD TOGNETTI’S LEADERSHIP

9 Sun	Performance [AU] Local Premiere	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin and director); The Arts Centre, Melbourne VIC [AU]; 14:30h

10 Mon	Performance [AU]	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); The Arts Centre, Melbourne VIC [AU]; 20:00h

11 Tue	Performance [AU] Local Premiere	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA [AU]; 20:00h

15 Sat	Performance [AU] Local Premiere	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 20:00h

16 Sun	Performance [AU]	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW [AU]; 14:30h

17 Mon	Performance [AU] Local Premiere	New Work (2009), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD [AU]; 20:00h

18 Tue	Performance [AU]	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 20:00h

19 Wed	Performance [AU]	New Work (2009) Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director); City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU], 19:00h

25 Tue	Performance [AU]	Small Town Sydney Symphony; Richard Gill (conductor); City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney NSW [AU]; 18:30h http://www.sydneysymphony.com/event_detail.asp?s=792

September 2009




October 2009

16 Fri	Performance [AU]	Earth Cry ADELAIDE SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; James Judd (conductor); Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA [Au]; 20:00h

17 Sat	Performance [AU]	Earth Cry ADELAIDE SYMPHONY’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; James Judd (conductor); Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide SA [Au]; 18:30h

21 Wed	World Premiere [AU]	Port Essington (new version for orchestra) Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor); Llewellyn Hall, Canberra ACT [AU; 19:30h “The CSO celebrates the 80th birthday of Australia's most influential music voice, Peter Sculthorpe, with a World Premiere performance of one of the most remarkable evocations of the Australian outback you will ever hear. In a special honour for the CSO, Peter has revisited his 1977 work Port Essington and imbued it with breathtaking new effects.” - www.cso.org.au

22 Thu	Performance [AU]	Port Essington (new version for orchestra) Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor); Llewellyn Hall, Canberra ACT [AU]; 19:30h

24 Sat	Performance [MX]	Sun Music III Orquesta Filarmonica de la Unam - Ofunam; Alun Francis (conductor), Ofunam [MX]

25 Sun	Performance [MX]	Sun Music III Orquesta Filarmonica de la Unam - Ofunam; Alun Francis (conductor), Ofunam [MX]

29 Thu	World Premiere [AU] (in the presence of the composer)	New Work (2009) for solo piano Eliza Fraser Sings (newly revised version) Peter Sculthorpe in Concert, 2009 Composer in Focus; Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW [AU]; Secondary Schools’ Performance; 11:00h “We are thrilled to announce that Australia’s most prominent and popular composer, Peter Sculthorpe will be leading our 2009 Composer-in-Focus project. [...] In 1999, Peter Sculthorpe was named as one of Australia’s 45 Icons, described as, ‘a visionary, an opinion maker, one who is making statements about something the nation needs to think about at this time’. [...] Sculthorpe is Australia’s most prolifically published and lauded composer with a catalogue of over 350 works. His works are heavily influenced by the Australian identity, and in particular the Australian landscape.” - www.jspac.com.au


November 2009

7 Sat	Performance [AU]	Lament (for solo cello and strings) Julian Smiles (cello), Penrith Symphony Orchestra; Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW [AU]; 20:00h


27 Fri	Performance [AU]	Earth Cry TQO’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE The Queensland Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor); QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD [AU], 20:00h

28 Sat	Performance [AU]	Earth Cry TQO’S SCULTHORPE 80TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE The Queensland Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor); QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane QLD [AU], 20:00h

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