Countertenor Hamish Gould partners with pianist Jenny Lu in this exciting concert of Australian Music. This concert explores diverse musical narrations of love and grief in contemporary Australian compositions for countertenor and solo piano. The event’s media partner, 3MBS, will record this concert.

PROGRAM

Anthony Wilson

1. Tears, Idle Tears
2. A Bird Came Down the Walk*

Anne Boyd

Kabarli Meditation (Dawn) (piano solo)

Margaret Sutherland

1. The Night Wind
2. Tom O’ Bedlam’s Song

Kenji Fujimura

Variations on a Highland Air (piano solo)

Kate Lawson Gould** 

The Seven Heavenly Virtues

*Australian Premiere

**World Premiere