2 concerts in April!
Rowen Fox
Happy March Equinox everyone,
I’ve been having a busy start to 2024 with preparations for not one, but two concerts featuring my music. Firstly, on Sun April 7th at 2pm, at the Glenbrook Baptist Church, I conduct the Penrith City Choir in a performance of contemporary choral works entitled With a Voice of Singing, featuring a new chorus from my oratorio-in-progress Albert Morris.
This concert will also contain 5 world premieres of new Australian music including pieces by Jane Andino and David Morris. It also features the amazingly talented soprano Julie Jong Eun Barber, newly arrived back in Australia from Europe. Some of you will remember Julie, as having played Nightingale in the premiere of my opera Chang’E and the Moon. Julie will perform my 2017 ‘Two songs from the Dream of the Red Chamber’ which is getting its first outing as a complete set. She’ll also perform two songs by the under performed Australian composer Roy Agnew.
Tickets: $25/$20/$5
The following Sunday April 14th at 3pm, you can join me in concert at the Hoskins Uniting Church in Lithgow, where I’ll be supporting the world-class talent that is local pianist Julie Adam.
In May, Julie will travel to Hungary to record Béla Bartók's 'Mikrokosmos' and his delightful early piano album entitled 'For Children'. In this preview performance before she jets off, Julie will present the complete Vols 1 and 2 of 'For Children' and a small selection from Mikrokosmos, as well as the Schubert Bb impromtu. I will join Julie to sing a few songs by Brahms, Schubert, and for the first time in public, will perform my own ‘2 Songs in the Modern Style’ .
Tickets: $30/$25/$15
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All in all, some fun little projects to keep me out of trouble. I hope you will consider joining me….