flinders quartet

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Mozart Society | Flinders Quartet

Over 25 years challenging and championing the string quartet, Flinders Quartet has won the hearts of audiences as a leading ensemble of artistic integrity.  It is known for its tight ensemble, impeccable intonation, and insightful, deeply human interpretations.  The warmth and generosity of its members shine through every endeavour.  In this programme the Quartet illuminates the development of the string

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Flinders Quartet | New Light – Melbourne

The final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 – the first of his groundbreaking late quartets – opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. This is complemented by Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No.3, a work of brilliance, wit, and structural clarity by one of

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Flinders Quartet | New Light – Southbank

The final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 – the first of his groundbreaking late quartets – opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. Completing the program is a world premiere by Naomi Dodd, an Australian composer whose music demonstrates keen intelligence and natural

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Flinders Quartet | New Light – Melbourne

The final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 – the first of his groundbreaking late quartets – opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. This is complemented by Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No.3, a work of brilliance, wit, and structural clarity by one of

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team@sympley.com.au

Flinders Quartet | New Light – Eltham

The final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 – the first of his groundbreaking late quartets – opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. This is complemented by Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No.3, a work of brilliance, wit, and structural clarity by one of

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Alan Holley

A transcendent performance of Beethoven by Flinders Quartet

Sydney Mozart Society | Flinders Quartet October 23, 2024,  The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW MENDELSSOHN Capriccio for string quartet in E minor, Op.81 no.3  BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op.18 no.6   MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F minor, Op.80   Elizabeth Sellars (violin), Wilma Smith (violin), Helen Ireland (viola), Zoe Knighton (cello)  Travelling to this concert my mind wandered back

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Pepe Newton

Musica Viva unveils 2022

Musica Viva Australia has unveiled their 2022 program, featuring partnerships that span both the country and the world as they bring audiences back to concert halls around Australia to experience a diverse range of live music and the sheer astonishing joy of live performance. Musica Viva’s Artistic Director Paul Kildea said, “Chamber music remains my great love, and in 2022

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Flinders Quartet brought to life a vivid picture of Shostakovich through the lens of his string quartets

Unfortunately it’s not often that you see concert programmes combining the spoken word with live music, but in regards to the life and music of Shostakovich, it seems only natural. A composer who often felt the full effects of Stalinist rule, his life and music were so deeply intertwined that it would seem impossible to have one without the other.

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Flinders Quartet 2019 Composer Development Program participants announced

Launching from a supremely successful inaugural composer workshop in 2016, Flinders Quartet’s (FQ) Composer Development Program is now an annual event, the quartet has invited six emerging composers from across Australia to participate in the 2019 program: Oliver Beard, NSW Joseph Franklin, NSW Timothy Franklin, VIC Simon Kruit, WA Natalie Nicolas, NSW Chloe Sinclair, NSW “There’s nothing quite like playing

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Isabella Brown

Flinders Quartet launch their 2019 season!

On a stormy Melbourne evening the Flinders Quartet gathered at a familiar venue, fortyfivedownstairs, for their 2019 season launch. The quartet played at the launch of the venue back in 2002, so it was only fitting it was used as the place to launch their upcoming 2019 season. For almost 20 years the Flinders Quartet has been committed to programming

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Alan Holley

Flinders Quartet was perfectly balanced for the theatrical nature of the works

Two Australian composers were featured in the Flinders Quartet concert at Independent Theatre more as arrangers than presenting new music but highly successful nonetheless. Calvin Bowman’s The Curly Pyjama Letters with text by Michael Leunig presents 7 whimsical snippets from Leunig spoken over music basically from earlier eras of music history. The writing for the quartet is simply a background

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John Tucker

Flinders Quartet’s Schubert in the South was over too soon

Flinders Quartet is such a well-established ensemble on the Melbourne, and indeed Australian, music scene that one might be tempted to view an evening with them as ‘just another performance’ but how wrong that would be! Thursday evening at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre was billed as ‘Schubert in the South’ but while Schubert headlined, the supporting acts did far

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Flinders Quartet in Sydney

Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, 3 September 2014 Schubert – String Quartet No 13 in a Minor, D804 (Rosamunde) Much of this program was in minor keys which often are quite sad, reflective and certainly there was a ruminative feel to this program. The String Quartet by Schubert is certainly a serious work. It was completed as the program note

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Cyrus Cadungog

Flinders Quartet: Quartet Bliss

I haven’t been to the Opera House since my older sister (now 29) played there for her piano recital when she was 7 or 8. It’s been a while. Flinders Quartet (2 violins, a viola and a cello) played three pieces – by Haydn (pronounced high-din, but I’ll probably never stop calling him Haydn), Shostakovich, and Dvorak (which, incidentally, shares

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