Organs of the Goldfields Program 2009

Overview
PROGRAM 2009

Please note that these details may be subject to some change

Friday 9th January 2009
Recital 1 8.00 pm Supper	St Patrick's Cathedral, Sturt Street, Ballarat	*Opening Recital* Vivaldi Mass for St Mark, Patron Saint of Venice	Soloists, two choirs and two orchestras will be directed by Dr Gary Ekkel
Saturday 10th January 2009
Recital 2 11.00 am	Her Majesty’s Theatre Lydiard Street South, Ballarat	Compton Theatre Organ	Thomas Heywood will play this historic and interesting theatre organ
Recital 3 4.00 pm	Her Majesty’s Theatre Lydiard Street South, Ballarat	Lotus Moon Recital Immortal arias of Puccini and his contemporaries	Talented and multi-award winning soprano Shu-Cheen Yu will be accompanied by pianist Anthony Halliday
Recital 4 8.00 pm	Her Majesty’s Theatre Lydiard Street South, Ballarat	Sonatas for violin and piano by Prokofief and Fauré and the Bartók Rhapsodie	Distinguished international violinist Miwako Abe with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey
Sunday 11th January 2009
9.00 am	in the garden of “Opononui”	*Festival Breakfast*	* Must be booked
Recital 5 4.00 pm	Neil Street Uniting Church, Macarthur Street, Ballarat	Beethoven Quartets Opus 18 No 1 in F Opus 74 in E flat, ”The Harp”	The Tailem Quartet was a finalist in the 2005 Australian Chamber Music competition.
Recital 6 8.00 pm	St Patrick's Cathedral, corner of Sturt and Dawson Streets, Ballarat	Organ Recital J. S. Bach and Mendelssohn	International performer and competition winner, Christopher Wrench
Monday 12th January 2009
	TALBOT CLUNES BALLARAT
Recital 7 10.30 am repeated at noon	Talbot Anglican Church Talbot	Organ Recital	Sergio de Pieri OAM will play the first organ built, in 1868, by George Fincham in Victoria and recently installed in the Talbot Church.
		The community will present entertainment, tours, teas and a special barbecue lunch for our enjoyment and in support of the organ fund.
Recital 8 4.00 pm	St Paul’s Church, Clunes	Organ Recital	Christopher Wrench will play on this heritage mechanical action organ
Recital 9 8.00 pm	Lydiard Street Uniting Church	Organ Recital	Canadian organist Amy Johansen studied in London and Paris and now lives in Sydney.
Tuesday 13th January 2009

11.00 am	Ballarat Bridge Club corner of Eyre and Ripon Streets	*Cooking Demonstration and Lunch*	Musician-chef Sergio de Pieri will demonstrate preparation of some of his favorite dishes which will then be served for lunch. * Must be booked.
Recital 10 4.00 pm	Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, 1220 Howitt Street, Wendouree	Beethoven piano sonatas Opus 2 No 1 Opus 53 ‘Waldstein’ Opus 111	Pianist Anthony Halliday returns after giving recitals in England, Germany, Spain and Italy.

Recital 11 8.00 pm	Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, Howitt Street, Wendouree	Trios by Mendelssohn, Haydn and the world premier of a work by Dr Calvin Bowman	The Freshwater Trio Josephine Vains, Zoë Black Eidit Golder
Wednesday 14th January 2009

Recital 12 10.00 am	Barkly Street Uniting Church, Barkly Street, Ballarat	Choral Preludes J. S. Bach	Organists Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen
11.30 am	Historian, Dr Ann Beggs-Sunter will lead a walk through the historic Bakery Hill streets
Recital 13 7.00 pm repeated at 9.00 pm	Victoria Theatre, Sovereign Hill	“From Scottish Highlands to Australian Dry Lands”	Chris Duncan plays the Scottish fiddle with Catherine Strutt on the piano
From 7.30 pm	New York Bakery Sovereign Hill	*Delicious buffet meal*	* Must be booked

Thursday 15th January 2009

Recital 14 11.00 am	Loreto Chapel Sturt Street Ballarat	Passione Delicatezza XV111 Century music from Spain and Italy	Harpsichordist, Michele Benuzzi is now based in Tokyo
Recital 15 4.00 pm	Former Congregational Church Corner of Mair and Dawson Streets	Malcolm Williamson’s English Eccentrics Choral Suite, works by Grainger, Britten, del Tredici, Rutter and the premiere of a work written for Vox by Rosalie Bonighton	Vox a cappela ensemble

Recital 16 8.00 pm	St Alipius Church 84 Victoria Street, Ballarat	Organ Recital Schubler Chorale Preludes of J.S Bach, a Reger Passacaglia and Dubois	Robert Ampt, Organist of the City of Sydney
Friday 16th January 2009
Recital 17 11.00 am	Former Congregation Church Corner of Mair and Dawson Streets	Acoustics from a musicians point of view	Dr Lamberto Tronchin – international acoustics expert from the University of Bologna
12.30 pm	Yuulong Lavender Farm Sharrock’s Road Mt Egerton	Picnic Lunch (bring or buy)
Recital 18 3.00 pm	St Patrick’s Church Gordon	Goldberg Variations J.S.Bach	Trio Leonardo flute, viola and harp
7.00 pm	“Dowling Views” Ballarat Turf Club Kennedy’s Road Miner’s Rest	*FESTIVAL DINNER*	* Must be booked
Saturday 17th January 2009
Recital 19 11.00 am	Uniting Church, Daylesford	“Contrasts” Late Romantic Organ and cello	Josephine Vains, cello and David McFarlane, organ,
	BYO Picnic Lunch in the grounds of Wombat Park Estate
Recital 20 3.00 pm	Daylesford Town Hall	Italian Baroque Concerti for flute, oboe and bassoon	Interpreti Veneziani
Recital 21 8.00 pm	Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, Howitt Street, Wendouree	Crete and the Labyrinth of Intimacy Songs by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Hartley’s new song cycle Crete based on poems of Dorothy Porter.	Hartley Newnham with Vivien Hamilton, Belinda Patterson, Paul Bentley, Tom Healey accompanied by Glenn Riddle.
Sunday 18th January 2009
10.00 am	The Ballarat Bridge Club Rooms corner of Eyre and Ripon Streets, Ballarat	*Sergio's Italian Breakfast as served in the north of Italy after the blessing of the harvest.*	* must be booked
Recital 22 3.00 pm	Loreto Chapel, Sturt Street, Ballarat	Free Fantasy and Strict Contrapunctistus JS, WF and CPE Bach	Michele Benuzzi Harpisichord
Recital 23 7.30 pm Supper	St Patrick’s Cathedral Sturt Street Ballarat Final recital of the Fourteenth Annual Festival	Concerti of Vivaldi and Albinoni	Italian ensemble the Interpreti Veneziani
Close of Festival 2009

Musician-chef Sergio de Pieri will demonstrate preparation of some of his favorite dishes which will then be served for lunch.

* Must be booked.

Musician-chef
Sergio de Pieri will demonstrate preparation of some of his favorite dishes which will then be served for lunch.