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PROGRAM
Our program is a reflection of who we are as musicians and what inspires us. This concert is in two halves with an interval. The concert opens with a set of Schubert inspired works by Johann Kaspar Mertz and continues with a beautiful minimalist work by the late Australian composer Phillip Houghton, before bringing the first half to a close with a new arrangement for two guitars of Australian composer Maria Grenfell's Di Primavera.
The second half of the concert opens with the juxtaposition of two pieces by Ross Edwards, a lullaby Emily’s Song and the lively and joyous Djanaba. We then play a beautiful arrangement of a string quartet piece by Puccini, Crisantemi - an elegy for his friend, the former Kind of Spain. Puccini claimed he was so moved by the death of his friend that he composed the work in a single night. Finally the concert closes with a celebration of Brazilian music by Clarice Assad, with her three movement Brasileirinhas. The work explores many elements of traditional Brazilian music and is an exciting virtuosic conclusion.