PROGRAM

Friday 5 May 2017, 7.30pm Saturday 6 May 2017, 1.30pm & 7.30pmRiverside Theatre, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre

Nicholas Buc Conductor

Nicholas Buc is an Australian conductor, composer, arranger, violinist and pianist. He has appeared with all of the major Australian orchestras, the Hong Kong, Malaysian, Tokyo and Osaka Philharmonic orchestras, and has toured with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Known for his work with film music, he has conducted Disney’s Pixar In Concert, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Psycho, Back to the Future and Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage. Recent engagements have also included concerts with Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer and Ben Folds. He has composed music for major symphony orchestras, film and television, and worked on all five seasons of The

Voice Australia. He has been awarded the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, the Brian May Scholarship for Australian film composers and the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring. More: nicholasbuc.com

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PROGRAM

Friday 5 May 2017, 7.30pm Saturday 6 May 2017, 1.30pm & 7.30pmRiverside Theatre, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre

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Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley Emma Watson as Hermione Granger Music by John Williams | Directed by Chris Columbus Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling 

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone In Concert™ is produced by CineConcerts

Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer Jennifer Wootton, Production Associate David Hoffis, Sound Engineer/Production Supervisor Ed Kalnins, Playback Operator and Synthesizer Production Marketing Director: Molly Haydon Press Manager: Andrew P. Alderete Worldwide Representation: WME Entertainment

Music Preparation: JoAnn Kane Music Service Music Editing: Ramiro Belgardt and Ed Kalnins Sound Remixing: Justin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios

A Very Special Thanks to: Warner Bros. Consumer Products, The Blair Partnership, Mark Graham, Amos Newman, Jamie Richardson, Alex Rabens, and John Williams.

Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING’S WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s17)

This performance lasts approximately three hours, including a 20 minute interval.

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VIOLINSemra Lee-Smith A/Assoc ConcertmasterGraeme NorrisA/Assistant ConcertmasterRebecca GlorieA/Principal 1st ViolinZak Rowntree*Principal 2nd ViolinKylie Liang Assoc Principal 2nd ViolinSarah BlackmanFleur ChallenBeth HebertJane Johnston°Sunmi JungChristina KatsimbardisEllie LawrenceEliza McCracken^Andrea Mendham^Lucas O’Brien°Anna O’Hagan^Ken PeelerLouise SandercockJolanta SchenkJane SerrangeliKathryn Shinnick°Jacek SlawomirskiKate SullivanBao Di TangSusannah Williams°David YehLaurence JacksonConcertmasterStephanie DeanShaun Lee-Chen*Akiko MiyazawaMelanie PearnCerys Tooby

VIOLAAlex BroganA/Principal ViolaKierstan ArkleysmithNik BabicChair partnered by Lesley & Peter DaviesBenjamin CaddyAlison HallRachael KirkAllan McLeanKatherine Potter^Helen Tuckey

CELLORod McGrath Chair partnered by Tokyo Gas

Louise McKayChair partnered by Penrhos College Shigeru KomatsuOliver McAslan Nicholas MetcalfeFotis SkordasTim SouthXiao Le WuEve Silver*

DOUBLE BASSAndrew Sinclair*Joan Wright Louise ElaertsChristine ReitzensteinAndrew TaitMark Tooby

FLUTEAndrew Nicholson Mary-Anne Blades

PICCOLOHayley Rowntree^Michael Waye

OBOEElizabeth CheeStephanie Nicholls^Peter Facer

COR ANGLAISLeanne Glover

CLARINETAllan Meyer Lorna Cook

BASS CLARINETAlexander Millier

BASSOONAdam MikuliczA/Principal BassoonChair partnered by Sue & Ron Wooller

Colin Forbes-Abrams°Jane Kircher-Lindner

CONTRABASSOONChloe Turner

HORNDavid EvansJulian Leslie°Robert Gladstones Principal 3rd HornJulia BrookeRiley Byfield^Dorée Dixon^Francesco Lo Surdo

TRUMPETBrent GrapesMatthew Dempsey°Adam Hawksworth^Evan CromiePeter Miller

TROMBONEJoshua Davis Liam O’Malley

BASS TROMBONEPhilip Holdsworth

TUBACameron Brook

TIMPANIAlex Timcke

PERCUSSIONBrian MaloneyChair partnered by Stott Hoare

Chiron Meller°Amanda Dean^Robyn Gray^Paul Tanner^

HARPBronwyn Wallis^Sarah Bowman

KEYBOARDSCraig Dalton^Graeme Gilling^Adam Pinto^

YOUR ORCHESTRA

PRINCIPAL CONDUCTORAsher FischPartnered by Wesfarmers Arts

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Elena Schwarz

CHORUS DIRECTOR Christopher van Tuinen

CHORUS VOCAL COACH Andrew Foote

CONDUCTOR LAUREATE Vladimir Verbitsky

John Williams Composer

In a career spanning five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of their nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices.

He has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films, including all six Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and The Book Thief. His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse and Lincoln.

His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances.

He also composed themes for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

He has received five Academy Awards and forty-nine Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars.

He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-one Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor in December of 2004. In 2009, Mr. Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government.

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*Instruments used by these musicians are on loan from Janet Holmes à Court AC.

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