After an evocative presentation in 2024, the music of Jane Austen’s time is further explored in this delightfully enchanting musical event. Transporting listeners to the drawing rooms and picturesque surroundings of Pemberley, Rachael Beesley, Aura Go and Lizzy Bennet’s Band bring the musical heart of Austen’s most cherished novels to life.
Kristian Winther Violin
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Aura Go Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Trio in D, Op. 70 No. 1 Ghost
Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982)
Piano Trio
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
D’un Soir Triste
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
The first Australian performance of a gem in the piano concerto repertoire, Doreen Carwithen’s concerto for piano and strings. Other program highlights include Barber’s heartfelt Adagio for strings, Peter Sculthorpe’s serene Pastorale from his final string quartet, and one of the masterpieces of the string orchestra repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
Aura Go presents the first Australian performance of a gem in the piano concerto repertoire, Doreen Carwithen’s concerto for piano and strings. Other program highlights include Barber’s heartfelt Adagio for strings, Peter Sculthorpe’s serene Pastorale from his final string quartet, and one of the masterpieces of the string orchestra repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
BEETHOVEN - Horn Sonata Op. 17 (arranged by Beethoven)
MOZART - Andantino for cello and piano KV ANH. 46 (347g) (completed by Annette Isserlis)
MOZART - Allegro KV Anh. 48 (arranged and completed by Ian Munro)
MOZART - Andante and Fugue KV402 (arranged and completed by Ian Munro)
LISA ILLEAN - ever-weaver (2022/24)
SCHUBERT - Arpeggione Sonata
Sydney Mozart Society:
Timo-Veikko Valve and Aura Go are highly sought after in Australia and overseas as soloists and chamber musicians. Combining Aura’s warm hearted and insightful playing with Tippi’s creative and generous musicianship, their musical partnership is formidable. They will perform exquisite pieces and unfinished works by Mozart and Beethoven completed and arranged for piano and cello and give us our first performance in the season of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. Contrast this with the arrangement for viola and piano in our September concert.
Programme:
BEETHOVEN Horn Sonata in F major, Op.17 arr. Beethoven
MOZART Andantino in B-flat major, K 374g cmpl. A Isserlis
MOZART Allegro in A major, K 480a cmpl./arr. I Munro
MOZART Andante and Fugue, K 402 cmpl. M Stadler, arr. I Munro
ILLEAN (Lisa) ever-weaver
SCHUBERT Sonata in A minor, D.821 Arpeggione
Timo-Veikko Valve cello
Aura Go piano
Beethoven Horn Sonata Op. 17
Mozart Andantino for cello and piano KV ANH. 46 (347g)
Mozart Allegro KV Anh. 48
Mozart Andante and Fugue KV402
Lisa Illean ever-weaver
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata
Experience the extraordinary music of Joe Hisaishi in a new concert event celebrating one of the world’s most beloved modern composers, performed live in concert by the Sydney Symphony and pianist Aura Go.
Featuring rarely heard masterpieces from Hisaishi’s concert works and film collaborations alongside music from some of his fan-favourite Studio Ghibli film scores, you’ll feel the power of this iconic music brought to life by the full force of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in an unforgettable concert at the Sydney Opera House.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
Experience the extraordinary music of Joe Hisaishi in a new concert event celebrating one of the world’s most beloved modern composers, performed live in concert by the Sydney Symphony and pianist Aura Go.
Featuring rarely heard masterpieces from Hisaishi’s concert works and film collaborations alongside music from some of his fan-favourite Studio Ghibli film scores, you’ll feel the power of this iconic music brought to life by the full force of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in an unforgettable concert at the Sydney Opera House.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
Experience the extraordinary music of Joe Hisaishi in a new concert event celebrating one of the world’s most beloved modern composers, performed live in concert by the Sydney Symphony and pianist Aura Go.
Featuring rarely heard masterpieces from Hisaishi’s concert works and film collaborations alongside music from some of his fan-favourite Studio Ghibli film scores, you’ll feel the power of this iconic music brought to life by the full force of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in an unforgettable concert at the Sydney Opera House.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
Experience the extraordinary music of Joe Hisaishi in a new concert event celebrating one of the world’s most beloved modern composers, performed live in concert by the Sydney Symphony and pianist Aura Go.
Featuring rarely heard masterpieces from Hisaishi’s concert works and film collaborations alongside music from some of his fan-favourite Studio Ghibli film scores, you’ll feel the power of this iconic music brought to life by the full force of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in an unforgettable concert at the Sydney Opera House.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
Felix Mendelssohn’s four simple, yet magical chords (I-V-iv-I) are a portal to a musical wonderland of elves, fairies, lovers, and a donkey. Mendelssohn stood on the conductor’s podium when the 16-year-old wonderchild composer-performer Clara Wieck premiered her own piano concerto. Her concerto would inspire and influence the concerti of her future husband, Robert Schumann, and their friends Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. Known for her unremittingly insightful playing, Aura Go joins SXS to perform Clara Schumann’s ravishing concerto, alongside the free-spirited fantasy of Robert Schumann’s fairytale miniatures.
Award-winning emerging Queensland composer, Ray Lin, collaborates with Williams in a new composition for Didgeridoo and Ensemble.
MENDELSSOHN
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
LIN/WILLIAMS
World Premiere - DCP work for Didgeridoo and Ensemble
R. SCHUMANN
Märchenerzählungen (Fairytales), Op. 132
O’BOYLE AM
Maggie’s Dance (World Premiere)
C. SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7
The opening concert of the 2025 Keynote Festival will be dazzling display of pianism by two outstanding Australian pianists Aura Go and Ian Munro. They have jointly conceived an exciting program of lesser-known works for four-hands at a single Steinway, encompassing familiar works by Schubert and Rachmaninov with an evocative re-imagining of Russian folk songs by Ekaterina Komalkova, receiving its Tasmanian premiere at the festival.
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Lebensstürme (13’)
ADOLF JENSEN
Abendmusik, Op. 59 (15’)
EKATERINA KOMALKOVA
Russian National Songs (selections) (20’)
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Capriccio bohemian (20’)
Aura Go and Ian Munro (piano)
Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra Timo-Veikko Valve and pianist Aura Go have performed together extensively around Australia and overseas. The programs they co-curate seek new ways to experience both old and new music. The second part of this program weaves together the music of Beethoven and Webern. By selecting individual movements from different Beethoven sonatas and interlacing a fleeting moment of Webern, they create a unique new work, where we hear the two composers in close dialogue. This sequence in the program celebrates their recent Beethoven-Webern album released on ABC Classic.
LISA ILLEAN
ever-weaver
HELVI LEIVISKÄ
Cantabile
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata Op. 69, A major
I. Allegro ma non tanto
II. Scherzo (Allegro molto)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata Op. 102/2, D major
II. Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto
ANTON WEBERN
Three Little Pieces Op.11
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata Op. 5/2, G minor
II. Rondo (Allegro)
Our fourth and final concert in Hobart’s showpiece new recital hall introduces first-time festival guests, Australian String Quartet who begin in less well-known territory with a rare performance of the lyrical piano quintet by American Amy Beach, who stood out for her determination and talent in a traditionally male-dominated domain a century ago.
AMY BEACH
Piano Quintet, op 67 (27’)
FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden” (43’)
From Studio Ghibli classics My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away to over 100 works for the screen and concert hall, Joe Hisaishi is one of the most prolific and beloved composers worldwide.
With a career featuring legendary collaborations with director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, multi-award winning scores for films, tv and the concert hall, Joe Hisashi’s music has been the soundtrack to people’s lives for decades.
In a specially-conceived new concert event, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, along with Art of the Score podcasters Andrew Pogson and Dan Golding, special guest pianist Aura Go and conductor Nicholas Buc, return to Hamer Hall to guide you through the musical world of Hisaishi in a love letter to Japan’s great Maestro.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
From Studio Ghibli classics My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away to over 100 works for the screen and concert hall, Joe Hisaishi is one of the most prolific and beloved composers worldwide.
With a career featuring legendary collaborations with director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, multi-award winning scores for films, tv and the concert hall, Joe Hisashi’s music has been the soundtrack to people’s lives for decades.
In a specially-conceived new concert event, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, along with Art of the Score podcasters Andrew Pogson and Dan Golding, special guest pianist Aura Go and conductor Nicholas Buc, return to Hamer Hall to guide you through the musical world of Hisaishi in a love letter to Japan’s great Maestro.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
From Studio Ghibli classics My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away to over 100 works for the screen and concert hall, Joe Hisaishi is one of the most prolific and beloved composers worldwide.
With a career featuring legendary collaborations with director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, multi-award winning scores for films, tv and the concert hall, Joe Hisashi’s music has been the soundtrack to people’s lives for decades.
In a specially-conceived new concert event, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, along with Art of the Score podcasters Andrew Pogson and Dan Golding, special guest pianist Aura Go and conductor Nicholas Buc, return to Hamer Hall to guide you through the musical world of Hisaishi in a love letter to Japan’s great Maestro.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
AURA GO piano
ART OF THE SCORE
ANDREW POGSON host
DAN GOLDING host
Aura Go joins University of Adelaide’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Australian String Quartet, for a lunchtime concert of works by Zoltán Kodály and Amy Beach. Amy Beach’s powerful Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 is celebrated for its lush Romantic textures and dramatic scope.
A scintillating program of piano, voice and string quartet works with the Australian String Quartet, soprano Sara Mcliver and pianist Aura Go. Musical highlights include Fauré’s Piano Quintet No.2, Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet No.13 in B-flat Major and Grosse Fuge, Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet, a selection of songs by Golijov including Tenebrae and How Slow the Wind, and Fauré’s exquisite song cycle La Bonne Chanson for voice, piano and strings.
Artists in Residence at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music in 2025, the Australian joins Head of Piano Aura Go in the magnificent piano quintet of Amy Beach. Free admission.
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance
55 Scenic Boulevard, Monash University Clayton Campus
Scottish mezzo-soprano and Cardiff Singer of the World Catriona Morison collaborates with Utzon favourite Aura Go in an afternoon of consummate music making. Expressive songs by Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler’s venerated Rückert Lieder, and Scottish and English folk songs arranged by Benjamin Britten, Claire Liddell, Herbert Howells, Percy Grainger, and Bertha Koopman trace the gamut of human experience. In tranquil relief, are Mendelssohn’s lyrical Songs Without Words and elegant piano solos by Swedish composer Hélène Tham.
KIAZMA Piano Duo presents a captivating program of music by Bach-Kurtag, Johannes Brahms, György Ligeti, Ian Munro and Franz Schubert.
The 19th-century saw western music, art and literature explode in a burst of passionate, powerful expression we now call Romanticism. In The Art of the Romantics, five of Australia’s best-loved musicians will join us to explore musical Romanticism in five dazzling concerts, as well as sharing their own experiences of this music in intimate chats.
Music by Chopin, Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, Schubert and more.
This program begins with Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s reverent transcriptions of some of Bach’s most beautiful Chorales that confront death, devotion and consolation. Composed in the shadow of his father's sudden death in 1922, Shostakovich's Suite for two pianos, Op.6, is music of immense power and tragic intensity, written when the composer was just 15.
Composer Holly Harrison is one of Australia's rising stars. Her music embraces juxtaposing styles, blending the visceral energy of rock with whimsical humour. She writes, ‘Crunch is a highly rhythmic work for piano four-hands which draws inspiration from honky-tonk, blues, punk, and grunge music. The word ‘crunch’ refers to dissonance and rhythmic punch, and …the percussiveness and physicality of the piano.
A free day of masterclasses, performances and group lessons at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University. A great opportunity for young pianists to gain perfomrnace experience and workshop repertoire with Monash piano faculty Aura Go, Tomoe Kawabata and Ian Munro.
Born in Moscow in 1959, Ekaterina Komalkova was one of the rising stars of Russian music when her solo piano Fantasy was chosen as the set work at the Tchaikowsky International Piano Competition in 1986. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, her career took her away from concert music to a life of educational endeavours, in which she distinguished herself as music director for 'Ulitsa Sezam', Russia's version of 'Sesame Street.'
Among her concert music, a body of work largely unknown in the West, her set of 82 piano duets based on Russian songs is a masterpiece of its kind, following on from collections by Tchaikowsky, Liadov and Balakirev. Aura and Ian select some of the highlights from 'Russian National Songs' and place them in musical context alongside works by Tailleferre and Ian himself.
Rachael Beesley music director
Aura Go piano
Lizzy Bennet’s Band
Carl Davis
Opening Music from Pride and Prejudice
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March from The Marriage of Figaro, K.492
Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle No.25 in A minor ‘Für Elise’, WoO 59
Henry Purcell
Chaconne from The Fairy Queen, Z.629
Rachael Beesley music director
Aura Go piano
Lizzy Bennet’s Band
Carl Davis
Opening Music from Pride and Prejudice
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March from The Marriage of Figaro, K.492
Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle No.25 in A minor ‘Für Elise’, WoO 59
Henry Purcell
Chaconne from The Fairy Queen, Z.629
Beethoven Arranged features two beloved works reimagined in arrangements from Beethoven’s own lifetime.
BEETHOVEN (arr. Beethoven) Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
BEETHOVEN (arr. Ferdinand Ries) Cello Sonata in F major, Op.5 No.1
Helena Rathbone Violin
Liisa Pallandi Violin
Stefanie Farrands Viola
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Melissa Barnard Cello
Aura Go Piano
Beethoven Arranged features two beloved works reimagined in arrangements from Beethoven’s own lifetime.
BEETHOVEN (arr. Beethoven) Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
BEETHOVEN (arr. Ferdinand Ries) Cello Sonata in F major, Op.5 No.1
Helena Rathbone Violin
Liisa Pallandi Violin
Stefanie Farrands Viola
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Melissa Barnard Cello
Aura Go Piano
Beethoven Arranged features two beloved works reimagined in arrangements from Beethoven’s own lifetime.
BEETHOVEN (arr. Beethoven) Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
BEETHOVEN (arr. Ferdinand Ries) Cello Sonata in F major, Op.5 No.1
Helena Rathbone Violin
Liisa Pallandi Violin
Stefanie Farrands Viola
Timo-Veikko Valve Cello
Melissa Barnard Cello
Aura Go Piano
Recital of works by Beethoven and Mozart with Timo-Veikko Valve (cello) for the Sydney Mozart Society.
The Melbourne launch of Tipi and Aura’s ABC Classics recording of the complete Beethoven cello sonatas and works by Anton Webern.
Take a deep dive into Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto with host Ingrid Martin, soloist Aura Go and conductor Jen Winley.
A child prodigy and a renowned concert pianist in the 19th century, Clara Schumann premiered her concerto, filled with ravishing, memorable themes, at the age of just sixteen.
However, it was one of the only public performances of the work for many years, as Schumann’s own compositions were rarely performed in her own time.
Join us to explore this remarkable work from a composer whose brilliance was long overlooked.
L. v. Beethoven:
Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 G minor, Op. 5/2
Sonata for cello and piano No. 3 A Major, Op. 69
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Anton Webern:
Sonata for cello and piano (1914)
Two pieces for cello and piano (1899)
Three small pieces, Op.11
L. v. Beethoven:
Sonata for cello and piano No.5 D Major, Op. 102/2
Recital of Beethoven and Webern works for cello and piano at the Sibelius Museum, Turku.
Usher in the festive season with a rare performance of Liszt’s enchanting Christmas Trees.
Let the magic of classical music transport you to a realm of musical wonder. Join KIAZMA Piano Duo for a feast of magical piano duet music across two family concerts. These concerts are the perfect introduction to the world of classical music for young children, and an opportunity to delve deeper into the delightful repertoire for seasoned listeners. Musical fun and entertainment for the whole family, there will be opportunities to get up close and personal with the piano, the musicians, and the music in these immersive musical experiences.
Offering two delightful concert experiences on one day, this second concert, Christmas Trees ushers in the festive season with a musical celebration of trees and a rare performance of Liszt’s Christmas Trees (Weinachtsbaum). Dedicated to his first grandchild Daniela, this show’s centrepiece is Liszt at his simplest and most enchanting.
Musical fun and entertainment for the whole family, join KIAZMA Piano Duo for an interactive experience.
Let the magic of classical music transport you to a realm of musical wonder. Join KIAZMA Piano Duo for a feast of magical piano duet music across two family concerts. These concerts are the perfect introduction to the world of classical music for young children, and an opportunity to delve deeper into the delightful repertoire for seasoned listeners. Musical fun and entertainment for the whole family, there will be opportunities to get up close and personal with the piano, the musicians, and the music in these immersive musical experiences.
Offering two delightful concert experiences on one day, the first concert, Mother Goose features the beloved works of the French repertoire, from Gabriel Fauré’s exquisite Dolly Suite and Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose, to the exhilarating Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games) of Georges Bizet.
Works by Clara Schumann, Arnold Schoenberg, Oliver Knussen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Max Reger and Johannes Brahms.
Works of Clara Schumann, Knussen, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Reger and Brahms.
The KIAZMA Piano Duo in collaboration with pianists from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance present Night Walk. Created especially for the David Li Sound Gallery, Night Walk is a musical meditation on our connection with nature, on love and loss, the movement of ideas, on metaphor and metamorphosis. Pianists Aura Go and Tomoe Kawabata interweave music for one and two pianos by composers for whom nature has been a powerful creative force. Evocative night-filled poetry of Judith Wright, Walt Whitman and Amin Malouf gives rise to musical responses by Ian Munro, Matthew Whittall and Kaija Saariaho; Benjamin Britten’s daily “thinking walks” were central to his compositional process; Peter Sculthorpe and Akira Nishimura draw on Japanese concepts of metamorphosis in their sonic explorations of stillness and space. The program features the world premiere of Letter to a Friend for two pianos by Ian Munro.
Works of Mozart, Rihm and Schumann
International Classics, Melbourne Recital Centre
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata No.35 in A, K.526
Wolfgang Rihm
Phantom und Eskapade
Robert Schumann
Sonata for Violin No.2, Op.121
Can a single instrument unlock the DNA of Romantic music? A small, craftsman’s pianino, built in Majorca in the 1830s, gives it a good try: it’s the keyboard on which Chopin completed his Preludes. This exquisite collection reclaimed an intimacy that had been drowned out by the excesses of Chopin’s brilliant peers. It would take 50 years, but these miniatures would eventually outflank and outrank many of the century’s hulking musical monuments.
If this were not enough, Chopin’s piano took on talismanic qualities in the following century. The cast of characters obsessed with its provenance, heritage and symbolism – from harpsichordist Wanda Landowska to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels – completes this miraculous story.
In this captivating staging by Richard Pyros – first filmed and streamed in 2021 – and with the complete Preludes as its backbone, pianist Aura Go and actor Jennifer Vuletic tell the story of this singular instrument, the works composed on it and the artist who created them, and the changing value of music over time.
AURA GO Piano
JENNIFER VULETIC Actor
RICHARD PYROS Director
RICHARD VABRE Original Lighting
KELLY RYALL Sound
CHRISTINA SMITH Costumes
Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G major No. 17 and Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young in intimate chamber settings for piano and string quartet.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G major No. 17 and Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young in intimate chamber settings for piano and string quartet.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G major No. 17 and Tchaikovsky’s Album for the Young in intimate chamber settings for piano and string quartet.