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Musica Viva Tasmania

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6105 0513

Address: Hobart Town Hall 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.mvt.org.au

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25.01.2022 Our 2021 concert program will be launched at the upcoming concert Monday 9th November 2020 8pm at the Town Hall. Please DM us your contact details if you wish to join our email list as there will be no brochure produced this year. Details of our series will be available on our website after the launch. http://mvt.org.au

24.01.2022 Our friends at the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra are looking for more young musicians to join their ranks. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please share this information with them: http://www.tyo.org.au/our-ensembles_19

23.01.2022 Please join us for our season opening concert at the Hobart Town Hall, with the amazing Van Diemen's Band and bass Thomas Flint. Tickets are available from the Theatre Royal box office: https://purchase.theatreroyal.com.au//van%20diemen'/events

23.01.2022 It’s not too late to book your tickets for the Orava Quartet at the Town Hall next Wednesday, 21st April, 7:30pm. Tickets are limited and there may be some door sales on the night, but best to follow the link below and book via the Theatre Royal website. This concert promises an exciting evening of excellent chamber music. Don’t miss out, book now! https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/shows/orava-string-quartet

22.01.2022 We are excited to book-end our concert season with wonderful performances by Emma McGrath violinist and co-artist Meriel Owen pianist on Monday 9th November at 8pm in the Town Hall. Appropriate Covid measures will be in place so be sure to book early. Tickets are available at the Theatre Royal Box Office and online. https://images.app.goo.gl/dYajTmGGSVKHZBWT6

21.01.2022 What a treat to have Natalie & Katya play for us. And what a shining review in CutCommon: https://www.cutcommonmag.com/live-review-jo-goes-to-see-na/

21.01.2022 We are thrilled to be hosting the Doric String quartet next Tuesday 18th at the Hobart Town Hall. Tickets still available: https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/shows/doric-quartet

20.01.2022 Such a brilliant concert last night. The Oravas never fail to thrill!

20.01.2022 How lucky are we to have the excellent Tasmanian String Quartet performing in the beautiful Hobart Town Hall? An exciting and energetic performance of Bartok, Jabra Latham and Mozart was finished off with a rousing Norwegian folk quartet. Fantastic!

20.01.2022 Musica Viva Tasmania is proudly partnering with Van Diemen's Band to present these wonderful concerts at the Hobart Town Hall on the the second weekend of the performance arts festival in November, Burning Desires. https://mailchi.mp/0a7b577ff53e/84b02y8c06-7899861

19.01.2022 We are very much looking forward to hosting Natalie in Hobart on March 2. Get your ticket from The Theatre Royal box office.

19.01.2022 A lovely review for what was a wonderful concert by Daniel. Musica Viva Tasmania Daniel de Borah, piano Hobart Town Hall... August 22 Daniel de Borah was born in Melbourne, studying in Budapest at the Liszt Academy of Music from the age of 10 to 13. He completed his education back in Australia before undertaking five years of music study at the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire from age 17. Two further years at the Royal Academy of Music in London led to regular performances in the UK and Europe. He is now based in Brisbane. Three brief keyboard sonatas (B minor, K.87, D minor, K.9, G major, K.427) by Domenico Scarlatti opened this program. The selection from the composer’s vast output of more than 500 sonatas was chosen for maximum contrast, and were here were given sparkling, nimble treatment. Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No 8 in B flat major, Op 84, possibly his greatest work for piano, is, along with Nos 6 and 7, one of the ‘war sonatas’ completed between 1940 and 1944. The first movement, temperamental and introspective, is full of ideas, powerfully developed. De Borah performed with power and concentration. The second movement Andante was sensitive and poised while the Vivace final movement delivered great rhythmic élan and virtuosity. Finally for Robert Schumann’s 1836 Fantasie in C Op 17, the pianist produced playing at once fresh and poetically evocative, exercising striking dynamic control and structural integrity in what is arguably one of the composer’s successfully proportioned large-scale works. Throughout De Borah managed to strike a fine balance between romantic ardour and structural coherence. The encore, Rachmaninoff’s ‘Moment Musicaux No 5, Adagio’, provided a gentle conclusion to a highly successful recital. Peter Donnelly

18.01.2022 They're coming! October 23rd. Should be an exceptional concert. Get you tickets from The Theatre Royal box office or online: http://mvt.org.au///ensemble-liason-and-nemanja-radulovic/

17.01.2022 The Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition. Recently named the Cleveland Quartet Award winner, and awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. The Quartet serves as the quartet-in- residence for the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Illinois. The Dover Quartet is dedicated to sharing its music with under-served communit...ies and is actively involved with Music for Food, an initiative enabling musicians to raise resources and awareness in the fight against hunger. Join us for the third concert in our 2019 season at Hobart town Hall, on Monday 29th April at 8pm. Tickets available from the Theatre Royal https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/shows/dover-quartet or door sales at the Town Hall on the night.

15.01.2022 What a thrilling concert last night with Nemanja Radulovic playing with Ensemble Liaison. It was an almost full house and the audience loved it! The students from Elizabeth College also loved chatting to the performers after the show.

14.01.2022 It's not too late to get your tickets for this exciting event tonight! THIS MONDAY, Sep 2 The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to present for one night only at the Hobart Town Hall, a concert of the finest chamber music from the Mimir Chamber Music Festival. The Mimir musicians will be joined in the Dvorak by the Tasmanian Symphony’s own Jennifer Owen on second violin. Mimir artists will work with students from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.... Piano Quartet in A minor, Mahler String Quartet in C minor Opus 18, Beethoven No 4 Piano Quintet in A major, Op 81, Dvorak. HOBART TOWN HALL Monday, September 2, 2019 at 7:30 pm Bookings: 1800 001 190 | www.tso.com.au https://www.tso.com.au//the-tso-presents-a-concert-from-t/

13.01.2022 More musical feasts to enjoy!

13.01.2022 The Skride Piano Quartet is made up of four like-minded musicians who have each achieved success as a soloist at the highest levels. Sisters, soloists and regular duo partners, Baiba and Lauma Skride sought out two of their favourite chamber music colleagues in Lise Berthaud and Julian Steckel. Upcoming performances include the Concertgebouw, Philharmonie Essen, Great Guild Hall Riga, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. They will perform Mozart’s Piano Quartet no 1 in G Minor, a new work by Graeme Kohne and the Richard Strauss’ Piano Quartet in C Minor. Please join us on Wednesday night for this exciting international quartet!

13.01.2022 We're so glad you liked the performance, Peter! Musica Viva Tasmania Doric Quartet Hobart Town Hall... June 18 This superb group Alex Redington, Ying Xue (violins), Hélène Clément (viola), John Myerscough (cello) opened their program with just about the freshest, most imaginative performance of a Haydn quartet that I can recall. The String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2: ‘The Joke’ (1781) exuded wit and flexibility of phrasing without a trace of fake manipulation. This was achieved with a total commitment and tightness of ensemble that was breathtaking. Brett Dean’s new String Quartet No 3: Hidden Agendas (2019) presented the fullest stylistic contrast to the Haydn that one could imagine. Inspired by unsettling present day political and communication trends, particularly the current climate of public outrage, the work was a virtuoso exercise in taut construction and balance of form and content with not a note too many. The Doric players conveyed the composer’s wide range of moods from violence to introspection with consummate mastery. Schubert’s String Quartet No 15 in G major, D 887 (1826) is one of those musically rich, wonderfully expansive products of the composer’s final years. These musicians managed to integrate the dramatic and lyrical aspects with amazing coherence and empathy. The concert took place during the Dark Mofo festival in Hobart with thousands of mainland visitors in town celebrating new, cutting edge art. While not part of the festival program it was nonetheless disappointing to see quite a number of empty seats when the quality of the brilliant brand new Brett Dean work, in particular, would seem to fit the bill as a ‘not to be missed’ experience. Peter Donnelly

11.01.2022 It's not too late to subscribe to our 2020 season at the beautiful Hobart Town Hall. With exciting local and international artists including The Goldner Quartet with Piers Lane, violinist Cho-Liang Lin and Jon Kimura Parker, vocal ensemble Chanticleer, the Goldmund Quartet, the Eggner Trio, and TSO concertmaster Emma McGrath, with Tamara-Anna Cislowska. Our season launches on Monday 2nd March with the Sydney based quartet of Haveron, Breider, Clerici and De Borah performing Mozart, Dohnanyi and Schumann. https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/show-c/musica-viva-tasmania

10.01.2022 A deservedly excellent review of Last week’s Orava concert: Musica Viva Tasmania Orava String Quartet Hobart Town Hall... 21 April 2021 This was the Orava String Quartet’s third Tasmanian visit and the second one for Musica Viva Tasmania. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 (1956), one of the composer’s less well-known quartets, clearly holds considerable significance for these young musicians. The high quality and cohesion of the performance immediately attested to the international attention that they have attracted in recent years. The Orava players produced precise, focused and vital results, attending to the lyrical, optimistic mood of much of the piece while also giving due attention to the more intense, fraught moments in the first and last movements. Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) is a marvellous and still too little appreciated Bohemian composer whose life was cut short in a German concentration camp during World War 11. The Five Pieces for String Quartet (1924) explore a range of rhythms and textures in relation to various dance forms in a ‘modernist’ way very typical of 1920s musical experimentation. They were given with total commitment and it would be hard to imagine them having greater advocacy than in these accounts. Australian composer Luke Howard’s ‘You are not lost, you are here’ (2020) received a world premiere. Only short in duration, it was richly lyrical and beautifully harmonised, proceeding from a hushed beginning to an impassioned central climax before receding back to stillness. For their earlier Musica Viva Tasmania concert in March 2017, these musicians also featured the Schulhoff String Quartet No 1 (1924). This compact (15 minutes) piece seems to me to be a masterwork. It is full of urgency and drama using a fully integrated variety of harmonic and rhythmic devices in an original way despite the clear influence of Bartok. This was superbly done and a highlight of the concert. Wojcieck Kilar’s ‘Orawa’ (1986) is the work that inspired brothers Daniel and Karol Kowalik to name their string quartet. Based on Polish folk idiom, this most compelling, exciting music was given a real cracker of a performance. The thrilled audience was finally treated to an encore of Shostakovich’s comic ‘Polka’, an arrangement for string quartet from his ballet ‘The Age of Gold’, Op. 22. Peter Donnelly

09.01.2022 A huge congratulations to Emma McGrath and Meriel Owens for their stunning recital on Mon 9th November 2020. Joined by Matthew McGrath and Thomas Rimes for a lively encore the entire concert gave joy to all in attendance. A wonderful revival of Musica Viva after such a long break. Here are some photos of the artists and a perfect account of the concert in Peter Donelly's review. "Emma McGrath (violin) and Meriel Owen (piano) presented a big program of three French sonatas lea...vened with some romanticism (Korngold) and some meditation (Pärt). It was Musica Viva Tasmania’s second event for 2020, the first in early March occurring just before the lockdown. This second concert was a triumphant success featuring two great local artists on top form. It also served to illustrate the depth of talent available to us for the 2021 Season. Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L. 140 (1917) is at once emotional and subtle in its constantly shifting moods. All this happens in a compact 15 or so minutes, rendered here by both players with amazing delicacy, control, and virtuosity. Arvo Pärt’s now very familiar and mesmerizing Spiegel im Spiegel provided an ideal contrast with its meditative stillness. Francis Poulenc’s Sonata, FP 119 is a big, characterful piece ranging from high drama to poignant sweetness in three movements. Again both violinist and pianist had the full measure of the vibrant music, making the listener wonder why we don’t hear it more often. Another contrast came in the form of Erich Korngold’s rollicking and romantic Suite, Op 11 Much Ado About Nothing. Redolent of the composer’s film scores and full of robust melodic and rhythmic charm, it was great fun, the sense of enjoyment clearly conveyed by the performers. Ravel’s Sonata No 2 in G major was also imaginatively and expressively done with great rapport between McGrath and Owen, again including moments of supreme virtuosity. A thrilled audience was then offered a delightful encore to crown a truly memorable concert. Emma’s husband double bassist Matt McGrath, and percussionist Thomas Rimes, joined the violinist and pianist onstage for a Scottish folk tune - First light/ dawn rant - a joyous finale that sent everyone home in good humour!" See more

09.01.2022 Just over a week until our next concert featuring the wonderful Tasmanian String Quartet. This concert is generously sponsored by UNICA Wealth and features artists from the TSO. It’s not too late to buy tickets. Head over to the Theatre Royal website and join us at the Town Hall next Monday 31st May at 7:30pm. https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/sh/tasmanian-string-quartet

07.01.2022 A packed house at the Town Hall enjoyed a sublime concert last night by Van Diemen's Band and baritone Thomas Flint. What a wonderful start to our 2019 season!

07.01.2022 Don't miss this exciting Serbian violinist performing with the unique chamber music group Ensemble Liaison (David Griffiths (clarinet), Svetlana Bogosavljevic (cello) and Timothy Young (piano)). The Hobart concert is next Wednesday 23rd October 8pm at the Town Hall. Adelaide and Brisbane performances have sold out and Hobart tickets are selling fast. ... Buy you tickets from the Theatre Royal box office: https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/sho/calendar/day/2019-10-23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ14eYHISIg

06.01.2022 A wonderful review of last week's fantastic concert! Musica Viva Tasmania Ensemble Liaison and Nemanja Radulovic Hobart Town Hall... October 23 The Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulovic joined Melbourne-based Ensemble Liaison in a program that traversed three centuries from Bach to Khachaturian. J. S. Bach’s ‘Sonata for flute and continuo in E minor, BWV 1034’ was arranged by clarinettist David Griffiths for clarinet, piano, and cello in the key of D minor. The result was warmly romantic, played by Griffiths with deftly modulated tone and deliciously pointed phrasing, backed by superb work from cellist Svetlana Bogosavljevic and pianist Timothy Young. The physical flamboyance of violinist Radulovich made an immediately startling impact matched precisely by his extrovert virtuosity in Johan Halvorsenn’s ‘Passacaglia for violin and cello’, derived from a theme in the finale of Handel’s’ ‘Harpsichord Suite in G minor’. Radulovich was in his element in Khachaturian’s ‘Trio in G minor for clarinet, violin, and piano’. The three players achieved outstanding cohesion and balance with music that was typical of this composer in its colourful Armenian folk idiom. The first part of the performance concluded with Bartok’s ‘Romanian Folk Dances’. It sounded marvellously idiomatic, the players employing a rhythmically free folk style, ending with a thrilling ‘Fast Dance’. The Brahms ‘Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25’ was again arranged by Griffiths to include a clarinet part tastefully replacing the original viola. This worked amazingly well with the clarinet line merging neatly with the texture and doing no disservice to the Brahms original. It was particularly gratifying to observe the violinist’s true artistry in his ability to scale back the extroversion of his approach earlier in the program to produce a sensitive authentic Brahms sound. Indeed, ensemble quality and variety of expression from the musicians was exemplary throughout. Pianist Timothy Young provided some excellent playing while cellist Bogosavljevic exhibited astonishing range of tone and nuance. Peter Donnelly

05.01.2022 A glowing review from Jo St Leon, of last night’s concert.

05.01.2022 The band and Nemanja are pretty excited about tonight's performance the Town Hall. There are a few tickets left that you can buy at the door. Come and join us!

05.01.2022 Hope to see many of you there tomorrow night. It will be a wonderful boost to one’s soul in the new life on all fronts this Spring is bringing! The program will be both a revelation and celebration of creativity and the pursuit of the best we humans can do.

04.01.2022 Our 2019 season continues on Saturday 2nd March with British cellist Natalie Clein and associate artist Katya Apekisheva. Tickets are selling fast but still available from the Theatre Royal box office: https://purchase.theatreroyal.com.au//natalie%20cle/events