November Concert - Wed. 25 Nov 09

"Bach in the Dark"

Programme

Wednesday November 25th, 2009

2pm

at The Christian Education Centre

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

"Hamburger" Sonata in G major (H.564, Wq 133)

Allegretto – Rondo: Presto

Johann Sebastian Bach

Menuets I-II from the Anna Magdalena Notebook

(BWV Anh 114 and BWV Anh 115)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Invention 1 in C major (BWV 772)

Invention 2 in C minor (BWV 773)

MB Sibson - Invention

Johann Sebastian Bach

Invention 13 in A minor (BWV 784)

Elena Kats-Chernin (arr. Scott/ Sibson)

Re-Invention No.3

Elena Kats-Chernin (arr. Scott/ Sibson)

"Darkness in the Forest" (from the ballet "Wild Swans")

“Eliza Aria” (from the ballet "Wild Swans")

INTERVAL

Johann Sebastian Bach

Polonaise and Badinerie from the Orchestral Suite in B minor (BWV 1067)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sonata for flute and continuo in E minor (BWV 1034)

Adagio ma non tanto – Allegro – Andante - Allegro

Heitor Villa-Lobos

"The Jet Whistle"

Allegro non troppo - Adagio – Vivo

Emile Pessard

Andalouse

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Biographies

Rachel Scott – Cello

Rachel Scott studied with David Pereira in Canberra and Robert Cohen in London. She has played as a soloist and chamber musician in the United Kingdom, Serbia, Albania (she is pretty sure she’s the only cellist to have played Martin Wesley-Smith’s “Uluru Song” live on Albanian television), Finland, Hungary and Germany. She is now resident in Sydney and works in duos with some of Sydney’s best musicians - the pianist Rachel Valler, the guitarist Raffaele Agostino, the flautist Sally Walker and the soprano Nicole Thomson among others.

Rachel also teaches for the Australian Children’s Music Foundation, working with underprivileged children, going into schools teaching music to children who have never had this experience before. She has written a series of radio programmes for the MBS network for children aged 5-8, and mentors music programmes in schools in both Darwin and rural NSW. Rachel has recently been invited to help set up the “Hadahur” music school just out of Dili, East Timor and now travels there twice a year, mentoring a school music programme, and an early childhood music programme. Although Timor has a rich musical tradition, these lessons are the first formal music classes since Indonesian occupation. She is also co-writing a radio series “Club Kangaroo” with Don Spencer, for children aged 3-5.

Upcoming projects for 2010 include the continuation of the “Bach in the Dark” concerts in the St James church crypt, a concert in the main woolshed in Hillston, central NSW, a chamber concert in the “cathedral cave” in the Jenolan Caves and performances at various music clubs in and around Sydney.

Rachel plays on an English cello, made in 1749, called Harold. More information on both her and Harold, and news of upcoming performances, can be found at her myspace site.

(www.myspace.com/rachelandharold)

Sally Walker - Flute

Flautist Sally Walker returned to Australia in 2006 after having been in Europe for 9 years where she was a member of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and Principal Flute of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss before playing full-time with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. She has worked with conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Herbert Blomstedt, Gustavo Dudamel and has recorded and toured with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle with performances in the London Proms, the Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals. As Guest Principal, she has performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Norddeutscherundfunk Radio Philharmonie Hannover, Kammerakademie Potsdam and has played with Early Music ensembles such as: Das Neue Orchester Köln, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra and the Neues Bachisches Collegium Leipzig.

Sally was finalist in the Leonardo de Lorenzo International Flute Competition in Italy, won 2nd Prize in the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition in Germany and was the recipient of the Ian Potter Foundation Cultural Award, the DAAD German Government Scholarship and the Queen's Trust Prize. She has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and L'Accademia Filarmonica Verona and is deeply committed to chamber music. Recent highlights have been performing the Weber Trio with Cellist Steven Isserlis and Pianist Dènes Varjon, premiering new works by Nigel Butterley and Andrew Ford with Halcyon and being a guest in Rachel Scott’s inaugural “Bach in the Dark” series. Composers including Elena Kats-Chernin, Michael Askill, Knut Mueller, Coco Nelegatti and Mark Clement Pollard have composed for her.

“Sally Walker shone with a godly flexibility and colouring in her most soul-stirring tone formation …highly sensitive flute-playing and breathtaking musicicality“ Die Rheinpfalz

“Flautist Sally Walker is a young master of both the early wooden as well as the silver flute…atmospheric, fine musicianship balanced with effortless virtuosity” Hamburger Rundeschau

© Sally Walker 2009