Tickets:

$30, concession $25 and students $15.

Available through the TSO Box Office until 2 days prior or at the door (cash only).

February

Piano & cello

Thu 21 Feb, 11:00am
Riversdale Estate*
Cambridge
Tickets at the Door

Fri 22 Feb, 11:00am
Home Hill Winery*
Ranelagh
Tickets at the Door

Sat 23 Feb, 2:00pm
Holy Trinity Church
Launceston
Tickets at the Door

Sun 24 Feb, 2:00pm
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport
Tickets at the Door

March

Yoram Levi, Jane Edwards & friends

Sat 16 Mar, 11:00am
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport


Sun 17 Mar, 11:00am
Riversdale Estate*
Cambridge


Mon 18 Mar, 11:00am
Home Hill Winery*
Ranelagh

April

Mozart & Bruch

Sat 20 Apr, 2:00pm
Holy Trinity Church
Launceston


Sun 21 Apr, 2:00pm
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport


Sat 27 Apr, 3:00pm
Riversdale Estate*
Cambridge

May

Classical Bassoon

Sat 4 May, 2:00pm
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport

Sun 5 May, 2:00pm
Holy Trinity Church
Cressy

Mon 6 May, 11:00am
Home Hill Winery*
Ranelagh

Tue 7 May, 11:00am
Riversdale Estate*
Cambridge

August

Clarendon Trio

Sat 3 Aug, 2:00pm
Burnie Arts and Function Centre
Burnie

Mon 5 Aug, 6;00pm
Hobart Town Hall
Macquarie Street, Hobart

September

Convict Monologues

Sat 14 Sep
Launceston

Sun 15 Sep, 2:00pm
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport

Mon 16 Sep, 11:00am
Home Hill Winery*
Ranelagh

Tue 17 Sep, 11:00am
Riversdale Estate*
Cambridge

October, November

Brahms Clarinet Trio

Fri 25 Oct, 2:00pm
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport

Wed 4 Nov, 6:00pm
Hobart Town Hall
Macquarie Street, Hobart

November

Sue-Ellen Paulson

Wed 20 Nov, 2:00pm
LifeWay Baptist Church
Devonport

Thu 21 Nov
Launceston

Fri 22 Nov, 2:00pm
Stanley Town Hall
Stanley

Sat 23 Nov, 11:00am
Home Hill Winery*
Ranelagh

Sun 24 Nov, 11:00am
Riversdale Estate*
Cambridge

* If you plan to stay and enjoy a meal please contact the venue direct:

• Riversdale Estate 6248 5555
• Home Hill Winery 6242 1897

Ying Ho, piano and Jonathan Békés, cello will perform Schumann - Fantasy Pieces; Grieg - Cello Sonata (here's a sample on YouTube); Tchrepnin - Cello Sonata No 1; Messiaen - Movement from the Quartet for the End of Time.

Pictured: Ying Ho piano (L) and Jonathan Békés cello (R).

Program Notes

Schumann
Fantasy Pieces

Schumann wrote these three pieces over two days during February 1849 originally calling them “Soirée Pieces” before publishing them as Phantasiestücke or “Fantasy Pieces”. The published work came with parts for Clarinet, Violin or Cello accompanied by Piano. A note by Schumann indicated that the work could be performed by any of the three instruments.

Grieg
Cello Sonata

Edward Grieg’s private letters give us a glimpse into his frustration with composing music in classical forms such as Sonata and Symphony, and as a result, his catalogue of works include only five pieces in the sonata form. Grieg composed the Cello Sonata opus 36 in 1883 when he was a well-established and mature composer. The work is popular within cello repertoire and well known to audiences since the nineteenth century.

Tchrepnin
Cello Sonata No. 1

Much like the Bach family, the surname Tchrepnin refers to six composers representing three generations of the same family of Russian composers. Among them, Alexander Tchrepnin is the most famous and prolific. He was born 1899 in Saint Petersburg and died in Paris in 1977 having lived, studied and worked in Saint Petersburg, Tbilisi Georgia, Paris and New York.

Tcherepnin is well known for his use of pentatonic scales as well as the nine-note “chromatic perfect scale” also known as “Tchrepnin Scale”. His work “the Well-Tempered Cello” showcases this nine-note scale. Tchrepnin was a virtuoso of both piano and cello and his Sonata No 1 in D is among the more challenging works for both instruments. The work is deeply Russian in its melodies, harmony and character.

Although today he is less known than other Russian composers of the early twentieth century, in his time Tchrepnin was regarded as a rival to Prokofiev and the “second Stravinsky”.

Messiaen
Fifth Movement from the Quartet for the End of Time

V. 'Praise to the eternity of Jesus', for cello and piano

One of the most influential composers of the 20th century, Olivier Messiaen, was captured by the German Army in June 1940 at the age of thirty-two. He was interned in a prisoner camp in Germany together with three other professional musicians, clarinettist Henri Akoka, violinist Jean le Boulaire and cellist Etienne Pasquier.

The music-loving prisoner guard “Carl-Albert Brüll” secured his name in history books when he supplied Messiaen with some paper and a small pencil. Messiaen composed a trio for his fellow inmates and then extended it into a quartet with himself at the piano. Brüll risked court-marshal when he forged official papers to secure instruments for the concert. The quartet premiered on 15 January 1941 in the rain with an audience of 400 composed of prisoners and guards.

Messiaen wrote that the Book of Revelation (REV 10:1-2, 5-7, KJV) was his inspiration for the work:

• And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire ... and he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot on the earth... And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever ... that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished ...

Yoram Levy (trumpet, cornet and corno da caccia) will be joined by Jennifer Owen (violin), Martin Penicka (cello), Meriel Owen (piano) together with Jane Edwards (soprano) for good measure. Their program will include: Telemann - Concerto in D for corno da caccia; Hummel - Trumpet Concerto in E flat; F. Simon - Willow Echos for cornet (preview it here on YouTube).

Pictured: Yoram Levy trumpet, cornet and corno da caccia.

Featuring Andrew Seymour (clarinet) and Stefanie Farrands (viola). More details will be posted as they come to hand.

Pictured: Stefanie Farrands viola.

With Simone Walters (classical Bassoon - read her Bio here) and friends in a program to including: Devienne - Quartet in C major for Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello; Mozart - Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello; Reicha - Variations for Bassoon and String Quartet; Beethoven - Trio for Flute, Violin and Bassoon Op. 87.

Pictured: Simone Walters classical Bassoon.