FEBRUARY
Australian Seasons
Saturday 24 Sep
"Music, She Wrote" Festival
7:00pm, Malvern Town Hall, Melbourne
Tickets: HERE
A program entirely dedicated to music written by female composers. This will be the first time that all four of our Alice Chance commissions for the 'Australian Baroque Sonatas Project' will be heard together on stage, two for their debut live performance! Also on the program will be several Evergreen arrangements from our Snow in Summer album.
Voice & Celtic harp: Claire Patti
Violin: Shane Lestideau
Viola: Katie Yap
Theorbo & Baroque Guitar: Samantha Cohen
with "Big Fiddle, Little Fiddle" players
Violin & Oboe: Jess Foot
Cello: Louise Godwin
The Baillie Fantasias
Fri 30 Sep
Mungo Park, Newlyn, Vic. Tickets: HERE
Sat 1 Oct
Mulberry Manse
8 Roses Lane, Clunes, Vic. Tickets: HERE
Sun 2 Oct
The Heights Heritage House
Geelong, Vic. Tickets: HERE
Mon 3 Oct
Melbourne Recital Centre
Primrose Potter Salon, 6pm
Tickets: HERE
Come and discover the Romantic Scottish music of the Baillie family of violinists.
Together with the inimitable Donald Nicolson, this performance in Primrose Potter Salon will showcase the Scottish music of the Baillie violinists, works that are as peaty as they are virtuosic. Beginning with the trademark Baillie Fantasias and Scotch Selections for violin and piano, two charming 19th century compositions punctuated by dazzling cadenzas, harmonics, double-stopping and dance sets.
Finishing with a series of spine-tingling Scotch fiddle solos and Robert Ballantyne Baillie’s favourite encore from the period he spent as a soloist in Rockhampton, Schubert’s L’Abeille. Shane Lestideau will perform this program on Robert Ballantyne Baillie’s own violin – a Carl Schneider model from 1777.
An evening of dramatic flourishes and virtuosity not to be missed.
Shane Lestideau: Violin (Baillie's own instrument)
Donald Nicolson: Piano