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Canberra International Music Festival

14 - 23 May 2010
 
From the Artistic Director 
 
The 2010 Canberra International Music Festival program
is constructed around works that relate to GOLD, as we
believe that the Creative Arts represent the true Gold of
our time. Gold is universally seen as a symbol of love,
marriage, warmth, incorruptibility, excellence, purity,
malleability, and transcendence. Given that the only
human activities that seem to remain in use for up to a
century are the very best works Artists create and the
finest Architecturally designed buildings, we believe the
Creative Arts represent excellent and lasting value.
Therefore we have assembled 30 concerts of the finest music of our time and
from the past including events that combine architecture and music, to display
the qualities of warmth, purity and excellence – a festival of Golden Music.
 
Chris Latham, Artistic Director
 
EVENTS
Artists
Composers
Ross Edwards

Elena Kats-Chernin
Peter Sculthorpe
Bill Risby
Dominico de Clario

Ensembles
Song Company - directed by Roland Peelman
T'ang Quartet
New Zealand String Quartet
Jouissance

Music For Everyone

The Harp Consort
New Purple Forbidden City Orchestra
Australian Baroque Brass
Canberra Camerata
ANU Contemporary Music Ensemble
ANU School of Music Chamber Orchestra
DRUMatrix

Pianists / Keyboards
Daniel de Borah - Piano
Tamara Anna Cislowska - Piano
Calvin Bowman - Organ/Harpsichord
Geoffrey Lancaster - Fortepiano/Harpsichord/Organ
Alan Hicks - Piano/Fortepiano
Timothy Young - Piano

Singers

Simone Riksman - Soprano

Louise Page - Soprano
Nicole Thomson - Soprano
Christina Wilson - Mezzo Soprano
Tobias Cole - Countertenor
Mal Webb - Vocal Adventurer

Instrumentalists
Thomas Indermühle - Oboe
Catherine McCorkill - Clarinet

Anna McMichael - Violin

Matt Ockenden - Bassoon

Virginia Taylor - Flute
Vernon Hill - Flute
Tor Fromyhr - Viola
David Pereira - Cello
Max McBride - Bass

Chris Latham - Violin

Nicole Canham - Clarinet

Alan Vivian - Clarinet

Megan Billing - Oboe

Richard McIntyre - Bassoon
Graeme Jennings - Viola
Miroslav Bukovsky - Trumpet
Michael Dixon - Horn

Choirs

VOX
Oriana Chorale
Igitur Nos
The Resonants
Combined Canberra Grammar Schools'Chamber Choir
Radford College Chamber Choir
Burgmann Anglican School Chamber Choir
Woden Valley Youth Choir
Associate Artists
Sonia Anfiloff Soprano
Susan Antcliff - Carillon

Tom Azoury - Basset Horn

Rachel Best-Allen - Clairnet
Burgmann Anglican School Ensemble
Joan Chia - Carillon

Ben Connor - Baritone

Lyn Fuller - Carillon

Angharad Johnson - Horn
Jehan Kanga - Baroque Violin
Robert Shearer - Tenor
Luke Sweeting - Piano
Bill Williams - Bass
Ed Rodrigues - Drums
Marko Sever - Organ
Luke Sweeting - Piano
Jennifer Vaughan - Flute
Noeleen Wright - Baroque Cello
Paul Wright - Violin

Tickets
 
Tickets will be available to purchase from Canberra Ticketing on Friday 12 March. For Gold
Passes and Weekend Tickets, contact the Pro Musica Office on 02 6230 5880 or at
info@cimf.org.au

FESTIVAL GOLD PASS

24 concerts plus the Amazing Space Architecture series (4
concerts)
FULL $420 CONCESSION/MEMBER $390

Festival Gold Passes are available from the Pro Musica

Office. Please contact info@cimf.org.au or call 02 8230
5880.
 

FESTIVAL WEEKEND PASS

For those who want just a taste of the Festival, a weekend
pass may be just the ticket – includes performances on
 Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10 concerts).

FIRST WEEKEND PASS (14-16 MAY)

FULL $225 CONCESSION/MEMBER $195

FINAL WEEKEND PASS (21-23 MAY)

FULL $225 CONCESSION/MEMBER $195

Festival Weekend Passes are available from the Pro Musica

Office. Please contact info@cimf.org.au or call 02 8230
5880.
 

CONCERT TICKETS
IN PERSON Canberra Theatre Centre, Civic Square, London
Circuit, Canberra
TELEPHONE Canberra Ticketing - (02) 6275 2700
ONLINE canberraticketing.com.au (opens in new window)
Phone and online bookings attract a booking fee

2010 FESTIVAL

Concert Date / Time Full Conc* Ticketing

Stone & Gold 14 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Gold 14 May / 8.15 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Toccata 15 May / 2.00 pm $25 $20 Buy Tickets

Blackman 15 May / 4.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Gift of the Magi 15 May / 6.00 pm $45 $35 Tickets from Ticketek

Mezmer 15 May / 9.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Kids $10 Family $40

Joice 16 May / 11.00 am Buy Tickets
Adults $20 (4 tix)

T'ang 16 May / 2.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Myrrh 16 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Rose 17 May / 7.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Mozart 18 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Chopin 18 May / 8.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Songs 19 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Moonlight 19&20 May / 8.15 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

NZSQ 20 May / 6.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Frankincense 21 May / 8.15 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Spain 22 May / 1.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Wellspring 22 May / 4.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Last Songs 22 May / 7.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Mystic 22 May / 10.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Water 23 May / 12.00 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Jouissance 23 May / 2.30 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

Vespers 23 May / 7.30 pm $39 $35 Buy Tickets

AMAZING SPACE SERIES

Call RAIA - 02 6208

Parliament House 9 May / 2.00 pm Free Free
2100

Call RAIA - 02 6208

High Court 13 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
2100

Call RAIA - 02 6208

Churches 17 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
2100

Call RAIA - 02 6208

Swiss Embassy 19 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
2100

Call RAIA - 02 6208

CSIRO 21 May / 12.00 pm $35 $28
2100

*Concession This term covers Pro Musica members, full time students, Government
Healthcare and Pensioner cardholders as well as Government supplied Seniors' card. Friends
or members of National Institutions will qualify for the Concession price for performances in
that particular institution.
2010 Festival
Festival By Day
 
Concert Series
 
Amazing Spaces
 
Free Events
 
Additional Events

2010 Festival Brochure
(PDF Download 4.4mb)
 
 
 
The creative arts are like gold, representing true and lasting value, with the best creations
enduring centuries. We have chosen golden masterworks from the past to stand beside the
golden treasures of today. Each concert is paired with a sublime flower image of Harold
Feinstein that represents its inner nature so feel free to pick a bunch of your favourites.

You may also review our previous festivals (2004-2009).

About Us
Sponsors
Principal Supporters

Government Sponsor

Concert Partners

Media Partners
Supporting Partners

Distinguished Sponsors
Honour Roll - Pro Musica would like to offer special thanks to the following people who
invest in the Canberra International Music Festival, giving us the opportunity to present an
ambitious and exciting Festival.

 Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society (Canberra)

 Bev and Don Aitkin
 Betty Beaver
 Barbara Blackman
 Deb Cameron
 Warren Curry
 Margaret Frey
 Randy Goldberg
 Anna and Bob Prosser
 Mary Lou Simpson
 Friends of the ANU School of Music

About Pro Musica

 
The Canberra International Music Festival was founded by the late Ursula Callus (1939 -
2001), President of Pro Musica Incorporated, a non-profit community organisation with a
long history of assisting developing musicians. Pro Musica was founded by the late Edith
Butler. The first Festival, in April 1994, won the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Music
Innovation. Since 1997 the Festival has been an annual event, and audiences have grown
steadily.
 
 
The Pro Musica Vision
Music is our business. We love playing it and listening to it but we have a deeper purpose as
well. Put simply, music, like human creativity generally, is good for us as individuals, and
especially good for us as a society. Money spent on making or listening to music is the
cheapest way to help build good, cheerful, responsible societies. We believe that we can
improve the quality of Australian life, for very many people, by involving them in music.

How is it so? Music is built into us. All human beings sing, or whistle, or hum, or tap their
feet to music, especially when happy. There is other music to assist us when we are sad. In
the womb, before our birth, we pick up our mother’s heart-beat; that pulse stays with us
throughout life, for the heart-beat is a familiar pattern in music. Music helps us deal with
mundane tasks in a cheerful way, by lifting our spirit. Music enables us to rise out of the
ordinary and experience something special. It can inspire us to be better than we thought we
were.

How music does this we barely know, for it is the creative art that is least adequately
discussed in words. The American composer Aaron Copland once expressed it this way:

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My
answer would be ‘Yes’. And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My
answer to that would be ‘No’.

Music is another kind of language, an expressive flow that has to be experienced to be

understood. We know it has an effect on us. The skilful use of good music has been shown to
accelerate learning, to heal the body and to improve confidence. Classical music played in
large supermarkets reduces theft. It can enhance and change our moods.
 
Pro Musica sees its role as that of an ‘enabler’, bringing these rich experiences to larger and
larger groups of people. Our special approach is small-scale musical events, for chamber
music really means music that you hear in a room (originally a drawing room or reception
room). In these environments the audience participates in the music, because we are close to
the performers, and they are conscious of us. We see this as ‘music-making among friends’,
and believe that it offers a much more intense experience, for everybody, than that offered by
the traditional large concert hall.
 
We know that live music in small venues is often seen as ‘stuffy’ or ‘highbrow’, and we are
working to dispel this impression. We do it by providing venues and programs that are
deliberately aimed at attracting younger audiences. Classical music, like much music in the
concert hall, is also often seen as representing an undue veneration of the past. This
impression we try to dispel by ensuring that music written by people alive today is made
available to today’s audiences.
 
At the same time, we strive to remind people that making an effort to understand a piece of
music that one has never heard before is rewarding. It is almost a truism that important
artistic work often endures opposition and initial resistance, accompanied with scorn, before
becoming adopted and then venerated. It is not simply audiences that initially protest: the
experienced players who gave the first performances of many of Beethoven’s string quartets
shook their heads and laughed at one of his compositions, believing that he was trying to
make them seem foolish. If we program a piece of music, we believe that it is really worth
listening to, and making the effort to listen, not merely to hear. Today’s composers want an
audience. They are not trying to shock.
 
Our practice
 
Our principal activity is an annual international music Festival, built around some unique
attributes of the nation’s capital city. We combine international performers who come to us
through the aid of foreign embassies, Australian performers drawn from across the nation,
interesting and varied venues that include embassy buildings themselves, the marvellous and
colourful ambience of Canberra’s autumn, and a mixture of musical forms, lectures and other
artistic possibilities that give those who take part a wonderful cultural experience.  
Our vision
 
We are working to make our Festival a national event that is of the same scale and scope as
those in other cities, and thereby to make in our own way a significant contribution to the
place of culture in daily life for the musicians and concert-goers of the next generation, as
well as those of today.  We have been assisted to do so through a munificent gift from
philanthropist and audience-builder Barbara Blackman. Barbara Blackman's gift provides us
with the basis on which to create a brighter future for musicians and audiences with the
chance to expand ideas of contemporary music.  We will do this through providing a platform
for emerging and experienced contemporary composers, a larger and more interesting
repertoire for chamber music and by inviting more people to share the positive benefits of
music with us as audience members.
 
Our invitation
 
The cultural development of an entire nation happens over time. The pressure on arts
organisations to make their work sustainable requires them to be able to offer a consistently
high quality product to the increasingly time-poor, information-overloaded Australian. There
needs to be a wide understanding that simply funding and expecting things to become self-
sustaining after a few years is only part of the picture. Significant work and new
achievements in the area of audience development are long overdue, and our Festival
provides an ideal environment to explore these changes: a short duration, continuing
excitement and buzz, and the chance for a jolt out of the everyday  in the context of the
human capacity that lifts our spirits and our sense of ourselves as creative people.
 
Will you join us?
 

Contact us
The Canberra International Music Festival is managed by Pro Musica Inc, a not for profit
registered charitable organisation.

Pro Musica
Ainslie Arts Centre
Elouera St Braddon ACT 2612
 
Tel:   +61 2 6230 5880
Fax:  +61 2 6230 5970
 
Email: info@cimf.org.au
 
ABN: 46 381 984 616