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Orava Quartet: Orava Quartet
20 April @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm AEST
Now in its fourth year, the Blackheath Chamber Music Festival returns with a rich program including Ensemble Offspring and Eliza Shephard’s world premiere performance of a newly commissioned quartet by Harry Sdraulig; the NSW premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s For Theodora by Orava Quartet; harpist Louise Johnson’s journey through the history of music; a farewell performance by the Goldner String Quartet; and John Bell and Tobias Breider’s A Few of Our Favourite Things (John Bell features in My Music on page 66).
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The Orava Quartet return this year as our Quartet in Residence. They will delight you with the vigour and subtle passion of their playing, in a program woven through with folk music from around the world—from Denmark and Sweden to the Czech Republic and Greece.
Schulhoff’s Five Pieces (featured on the new Orava Deutsche Grammophon album) are a neoclassical glance to the past, spiked with irony, rhythmic drive, and a sense of parody… whilst Elena Kats-Chernin’s For Theodora—a ‘first’ by the Quartet in NSW and the Mountains—lovingly evokes the threads of a family’s Greek heritage through four generations of women. Not to be missed.
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