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KRISTIAN CHONG & TEDDY TAHU RHODES Monday 1 April 6.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall

PRESENTED BYMelbourne Recital Centre and Kristian Chong & Friends

ARTISTSTeddy Tahu Rhodes baritone Kristian Chong piano

PROGRAMLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), Op.98

GERALD FINZI (1901-1956)Let Us Garlands Bring, Op.18

CALVIN BOWMAN (b. 1972)Noël

West Sussex Drinking Song

INTERVAL

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)Songs of Travel

The VagabondLet Beauty AwakeThe Roadside FireYouth and LoveIn DreamsThe Infinite Shining Heavens Whither Must I Wander Bright Is the Ring of WordsI Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

TRADITIONAL Celtic melodies

Ragland Road Molly Malone Loch Lomond

Faronell’s Division on a Ground from The Division Violin

John Playford

New Commission (Title TBA)

Jorden Heys

World Premiere

ABOUT THE ARTISTSAt the outset of his career, baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award, performed in the Young Songmakers Almanac Concert Series in London, in the Salt Lake City International Concert Series, and in recital in Japan. He represented New Zealand in the 1999 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Teddy has established an international career on both the opera stage and concert platform. He has performed with the opera companies of San Francisco, Austin, Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas, Cincinnati, Houston, New York, Vienna, the Hamburg Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Theatre du Chatelet (Paris), Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera. Awards include an ARIA, two Helpmann Awards, a Limelight Award, a Green Room Award plus a MO Award (Operatic Performer of the Year).

One of Australia's leading pianists, Kristian Chong has performed worldwide with performances finding him equally at home as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and orchestras in the U.K., New Zealand and China, with recent highlights including Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody and Saint-Saëns's 2nd with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. ‘A true chamber musician at work’ (The Age), Kristian is highly sought after in collaborations including with the Tinalley and Australian String Quartets, violinists Dale Barltrop, Vadim Gluzman, Satu Vänskä and Sophie Rowell, cellist Li-Wei Qin, flautist Megan Sterling, violist Christopher Moore and clarinetists Michael Collins and Philip Arkinstall amongst many others. His festival appearances include the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and the Adelaide, Huntington Estate, Mimir and Bangalow Festivals. Kristian studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Piers Lane AO and Christopher Elton, and with Stephen McIntyre AM at the University of Melbourne where Kristian teaches piano and chamber music.

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