Laurence and Tim Young team up once more to present a program of classic two piano repertoire, all of which are now more commonly heard in orchestral form. The first half surveys Holst's epic tone poems The Planets and the second half explores the rhythmic dance and movement of Stravinsky and Ravel. The program will be performed on two unique Stuart and Sons pianos and celebrates the birthday of one of Beleura's founders; the composer and pianist John Tallis.

HOLST The Planets
Interval
RACHMANINOFF Suite No.2 for two pianos Op.17
RAVEL La Valse

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Bookings and Enquiries:
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Join Timothy Young, Laurence Matheson and pianists from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as they perform in a program that includes Carl Vine’s Sonata for Four Hands.

This work for Four Hands is played in five sections, without a break. Carl Vine says “using those two extra hands which, by playing on the same instrument, have a distinct advantage over their 'duo' brethren”. It is 'pure' music with no specific accompanying narrative or poetic allusion.

VINE Sonata for Four Hands
SCHOENFIELD Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive

Tim Young piano
Laurence Matheson piano
ANAM Pianists

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This is a repeat Melbourne performance of the Utzon Room recital program on December 3.

Join Timothy Young, Laurence Matheson and pianists from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as they perform in a program that includes Carl Vine’s Sonata for Four Hands.

This work for Four Hands is played in five sections, without a break. Carl Vine says “using those two extra hands which, by playing on the same instrument, have a distinct advantage over their 'duo' brethren”. It is 'pure' music with no specific accompanying narrative or poetic allusion.

VINE Sonata for Four Hands
SCHOENFIELD Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive

Tim Young piano
Laurence Matheson piano
ANAM Pianists

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Laurence joins MSO Associate Concertmaster and former Australian String Quartet leader Sophie Rowell in a delightful afternoon recital.

RAVEL Violin Sonata No.2
MOZART Violin Sonata in B-flat K.454
FRANCK Violin Sonata

The language of protest and resistance provides the music for this thought-provoking small chamber opera.
In Sound Text, political writings are ingeniously transcribed into harmonies and then layered with historical song melodies ranging from Reconstruction-era spirituals to French Revolutionary ballads.

Created by renowned US conceptual artist Charles Gaines with musical arrangements by Sean Griffin of Opera Povera, Sound Text is a unique fusion of art and music. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Score at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

RZEWSKI Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
BARBER Adagio for Strings
GAINES Sound Text

Brett Kelly conductor
Dimity Shepherd mezzo soprano
David Rogers-Smith tenor
Laurence Matheson piano
Quartz String Quartet

W | https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2017/sound-text/

Australia is notorious for its fearsome fauna – any visitor can tell you about our biting, stinging animals! So an Australian like Matthew Hindson is probably best qualified to compose a modern "Carnival of the Animals" that's all about the nasty ones.

Big and hairy, small and scary, and finishing with the most dangerous creatures of all – humans! Then TV personality Richard Morecroft narrates the music that started it all – Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals – with new words by Bradley Trevor Greive (The Blue Day Book). From the long-eared bilby to the koala and the blobfish, Greive finds Aussie animals to match Saint-Saëns' original musical caricatures.

HINDSON Dangerous Creatures
SAINT-SAENS Carnival of the Animals

Toby Thatcher conductor
Laurence Matheson piano
Peter de Jager piano
Richard Morecroft narrator
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

W | https://www.sydneysymphony.com/concerts-and-tickets/whats-on/event/carnival-of-the-australian-animals

Saint-Saëns is the featured composer for the morning, with what's probably his most famous music heard alongside a rarely heard gem.

The literary title La Muse et la Poète was adopted after the event, but it's easy to agree with the publisher who heard the violin (our Muse) offering soothing responses to the pensive complaints of the cello (the Poet). This is virtuoso music but the style is rhapsodic and lyrical – a delightful flight of fancy. Then well-loved TV personality Richard Morecroft narrates Carnival of the Animals with words by Tasmanian conservationist Bradley Trevor Greive (The Blue Day Book). It's a fresh take on a timeless classic, matching quirky Australian animals to Saint-Saëns' original vignettes.

SAINT-SAENS The Muse and the Poet
SAINT-SAENS Carnival of the Animals

Toby Thatcher conductor
Kirsty Hilton violin
Catherine Hewgill cello
Laurence Matheson piano
Peter de Jager piano
Richard Morecroft narrator
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

W | https://www.sydneysymphony.com/concerts-and-tickets/whats-on/event/saint-saens-in-the-morning

Two works written only eight years apart take us on two very different Romantic journeys. One hurls us into the intense emotion and individualism of the Romantic era while the other’s expressive lyricism speaks volumes about love of nature, country and authentic folk style.

FRANCK Piano Quintet in F minor
DVORAK Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81

Kana Ohashi violin
Wilma Smith violin
Tobias Breider viola
Rohan de Korte cello
Laurence Matheson piano

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Two works written only eight years apart take us on two very different Romantic journeys. One hurls us into the intense emotion and individualism of the Romantic era while the other’s expressive lyricism speaks volumes about love of nature, country and authentic folk style.

FRANCK Piano Quintet in F minor
DVORAK Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81

Kana Ohashi violin
Wilma Smith violin
Tobias Breider viola
Rohan de Korte cello
Laurence Matheson piano

Bookings and Enquiries:
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Laurence and Stewart Kelly return for a third year to the 4MBS Festival marathon, a celebration of piano duo playing.

POULENC Sonata for Piano Four Hands FP 8
ELGAR Enigma Variations Op.36 (arr. for two pianos)
GRAINGER Country Gardens
GRAINGER Children's March
GRAINGER Blithe Bells

More information: http://www.4mbs.com.au/festival-of-classics.html

Enjoy the picturesque surrounds of the Mornington Peninsula as Laurence and Stewart Kelly return to give a recital on the two iconic Stuart and Sons pianos. Includes afternoon tea at interval.

BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture Op.80 (arr. two pianos)
ELGAR Enigma Variations (arr. two pianos)
Interval
POULENC Sonata for Piano Four Hands FP 8
SCHUBERT Grand Rondo in A major, D.951
GRAINGER Country Gardens
GRAINGER Children's March
GRAINGER Blithe Bells

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Whether you’re into furs, feathers or scales, you’ll find an animal that takes your fancy in Camille Saint-Saëns’ immortal classic, Carnival of the Animals.

As an added bonus, newly written poems by acclaimed Tasmanian writer Bradley Trevor Greive introduce each of the musical numbers, bringing a fresh and uniquely Australian perspective to an old favourite. And to narrate this tale is one of Australia’s great environmentalists, a man who is passionate about all creatures who inhabit our beautiful country, Bob Brown.

SAINT-SAENS Carnival of the Animals

Melbourne Youth Orchestra
Brett Kelly, Conductor

W | http://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2017/carnival-of-the-animals/

Join Laurence in a special performance on an Australian-made Stuart and Sons piano celebrating John Tallis' birthday on December 15 at Beleura House and Garden.

CHOPIN Scherzo No.2 Op.31
SCHUMANN Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op.26
CHOPIN Waltzes: Op.34 No.2; Op.64 No.1; Op.18
SCHUMANN Kinderszenen Op.15
Interval
CHOPIN Waltzes: Op.69 No.1; Op.34 No.1; KK.IVa No.15
SCHUMANN Fantasie Op.17

Bookings and Enquiries:
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Exciting young pianist Laurence Matheson, winner of the 2015 ANAM Directors’ Prize, presents an eclectic solo recital in the intimate surrounds of the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon.

The program begins with Chopin’s enigmatic Fantasie in F minor, before moving to As it were, a 2011 musing by Elliott Gyger on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas. This is a perfect prelude to Beethoven’s last Sonata Op.111, a profound masterpiece that influenced many later composers.

Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op.49
Gyger As it were
Beethoven Sonata No.32 Op.111

Bookings and more information: Melbourne Recital Centre

The fourth and final of Laurence's fellowship recital series at ANAM.

POULENC Sextet FP 100
Nick Deutsch, oboe
Jack Schiller, bassoon
Lloyd van't Hoff, clarinet
Kiran Phatak, flute
Alex Morton, horn
Laurence Matheson, piano

DOHNANYI Sextet Op.37
Sophie Rowell, violin
Katie Yap, viola
Jarrad Mathie, cello
Rebecca Luton, horn
Lloyd van't Hoff, clarinet
Laurence Matheson, piano

DVORAK Piano Quintet No.2 Op.81
Sophie Rowell, violin
Freya Franzen, violin
Chris Cartlidge, viola
Michael Dahlenburg, cello
Laurence Matheson, piano

More information and bookings: ANAM website

Rhythm, rhythm, and more rhythm! George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique for 16 player pianos, airplane propellor and gigantic percussion section started a riot at its Paris premiere in 1925. He later revised the scoring so that audiences could discover the wonderful music behind the novel façade. Sharing the stage is that other great Paris riot, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, heard in a sensational new arrangement by Timothy Young. Justine Anderson sings Ginastera’s magical evocation of ancient central America.

GINASTERA Cantata para América Mágica op. 27
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (arr. Young)
Laurence Matheson, piano/celeste

ANTHEIL Ballet Mécanique (1923-25 version)

Justine Anderson soprano
Tim White percussion
Gary France percussion
Peter Neville conductor/co-director
Timothy Young piano/co-director
ANAM Percussionists and Pianists

W | http://anam.com.au/2016-events/ballet-mecanique

Laurence's third fellowship concert presents a journey through three of the major European composers during the classical and romantic periods. The program begins with Brahms' introverted and moving second Cello Sonata featuring ANAM alumni Jack Bailey, who now resides in the UK. Next is Beethoven's youthful and playful Trio Op.11 No.4 which, written very early on in his life, straddles the area between the romantic and classical eras. The concluding work is Mozart's energetic Concerto for Two Pianos, with ANAM faculty Peter de Jager and the ANAM Orchestra directed from the keyboard by Laurence Matheson.

Program:

Brahms Cello Sonata No.2 Op.99
Jack Bailey, Cello
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Beethoven Trio in Bb major Op.11
Kenny Keppel, Clarinet
Sam Payne, Cello
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Interval

Mozart Concerto in Eb Major for Two Pianos K.365
Laurence Matheson, Peter De Jager, Pianos
ANAM Orchestra

Tickets: $20 Full, $15 Concession

More information and bookings: ANAM website

Presented in partnership with August

With Stewart Kelly (Piano). Laurence and Stewart will be performing at Beleura - the House & Garden in The Tallis Pavilion on Australian made Stuart and Sons pianos. Recital includes afternoon tea.

Program:

Mozart/Busoni Fantasia in F minor K608
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Op.56b
Reynaldo Hahn Le Ruban Denoue (selections)
Interval
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Op.45

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Laurence joins Stewart Kelly in Rachmaninov's own arrangement of his much loved Symphonic Dances.

Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Op.45

Tickets: $30/25

Bookings and more information: 4MBS

Laurence presents an eclectic solo program in the picturesque surrounds of Romsey, Victoria.

Chopin Fantasie Op.49
Scriabin Sonata No.3 Op.23
Interval
Brahms Intermezzo Op.118 No.2
Beethoven Sonata Op.111

Enquiries and bookings:
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W | Cope Williams Winery

The second in Laurence's fellowship series at ANAM.

Schubert Fantasy D.940
Timothy Young, Laurence Matheson, Piano

Schubert 'Trout' Quintet D.667
Cameron Jamieson, Violin
Anthony Chataway, Viola
Sam Payne, Cello
Damien Eckersley, Bass
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Interval

Schubert Trio in Bb major D.898
Zoe Freisberg, Violin
Michael Dahlenburg, Cello
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Tickets: $20 Full, $15 Concession

Bookings and more info: ANAM

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Laurence joins fellow wind players from the Australian National Music Academy perform music that might have been heard in the gilded salons of any of dozens of princely courts throughout Germany during the 18th century. The composers are three whose work was greatly favoured by musically inclined emperors, electors and cultivated courtiers, the great Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann, and the somewhat less well-known Czech, Jan Dismas Zelenka, whose elegant compositions are enjoying a long-overdue revival.

Telemann Trio Sonata, TWV 42:Es1
CPE Bach Sonata in G minor H.542.5 for Oboe and Harpsichord
Zelenka Trio Sonata no. 5 in F Major

Stephanie Dixon, Oboe
David Reichelt, Oboe
Christopher Haycroft, Bassoon
Laurence Matheson, Harpsichord

Tickets: $5 at the door

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The first in Laurence's fellowship recital series at ANAM.

Featuring former MSO Concertmaster Wilma Smith, popular freelance hornist Roman Ponomariov, 2014 ANAM Chamber Competition winner the Penny Quartet; along with friends from ANAM, Laurence presents three of Brahms' major chamber compositions with piano, taken from different periods in his output. The program starts with his Clarinet Trio- one of his late and more introverted works, before moving on to the ever popular Horn Trio and finishing with the large scaled Piano Quintet. 

Brahms Clarinet Trio
Kenny Keppel, Clarinet
Sam Payne, Cello
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Brahms Horn Trio
Wilma Smith, Violin
Roman Ponomariov, Horn
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Interval

Brahms Piano Quintet
(Penny Quartet)
Madeleine Jevons, Amy Brookman, Violins
Anthony Chataway, Viola
Anna Pokorny, Cello
Laurence Matheson, Piano

Tickets: $20 Full, $15 Concession

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Laurence Matheson, Piano Virtuoso, now a Fellow at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), will be performing at Beleura - the House & Garden in The Tallis Pavilion on an Australian made Stuart and Sons piano. Recital includes an afternoon tea.

Schubert Sonata in Bb Major D 960
Interval
Bach/Busoni Chaccone in D minor
Beethoven Sonata Op.111

Bookings via Beleura House:

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Join this Grand Tour through Europe with three of the greatest composers. Beethoven’s gruff and dramatic overture to Goethe’s Egmont, is a concentrated expression of the Dutch hero’s triumph sacrifice in the name of liberty and freedom from the Spanish. Mozart’s youthful Piano Concerto No.12, K.414 is a miracle of the Austrian genius’ maturity beyond his years. Although premiered in London in 1833, Mendelssohn’s Italian symphony was first conceived during a tour the young composer took through the major capitals cities of Italy. He wrote to his sister that ‘it will be the happiest piece I have ever written, especially the last movement’ and certainly a feeling of joyous energy dominates the symphony, which throbs with Italian dance rhythms, from the Roman saltarello to the frenzied Neapolitan tarantella.

Beethoven Egmont Overture Op.84
Mozart Piano Concerto No.12 in A, K.414 (Laurence Matheson - Piano)
Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Op.90 ‘Italian’

Orchestra Victoria
Wilma Smith, Leader
Laurence Matheson, Piano

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