Guilty Pleasures.
We all have them! Here's some you may recognise!
From Jabra Latham’s Kiss From a Rose (made famous by Seal), to Rachmaninov’s Cella Sonata Op 19, Cindy Lauper’s Time After Time, James Horner’s Titanic Theme and Robert Constable’s Slinky Foxtrot Nocturne to Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat,
the artists of the 2024 Australian Festival of Chamber Music will share their guilty musical pleasures in Townsville-Gurambilbarra in just a few months, so it’s time to buy tickets NOW!
In 2022 and his first year as Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM), British violinist Jack Liebeck asked invited musicians to reveal their musical Guilty Pleasure! They did, it was a hit with audiences and three years later, the pleasures haven’t stopped!
Guilty Pleasures are the musical pieces – classical or otherwise – that artists love to play in their own time. In what has become quite the sought-after musical experience, Liebeck has programmed 20 of these performances as part of the famed 10-day event this year.
From 26 July to 4 August, more than 35 artists including 10 international artists, 20 Australian artists and 5 ensembles, will create the music and atmosphere in Townsville-Gurambilbarra for which the AFCM is famed around the world. Fourteen artists will make their AFCM debut and the program includes two world premieres and one Australian premiere.
Here’s the full Guilty Pleasure program:
Friday July 26 2024
JACQUES BREL’s Ne me quitte pas
The Guity Pleasure of famed British Baritone Roddy Williams and famed Australian composer, violist and conductor Brett Dean
Saturday July 27 2024
MATTHEW HINDSON’s Nothing is Forever
Goldner String Quartet: Dene Olding, Dimity Hall, Irina Morozova, Julian Smiles, Matthew Hindson
Monday July 29 2024
AL JARREAU’s Not Like This
Famed British Baritone Roderick Williams
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN’s Fantasia N0.1 in B flat major for solo violin, TWV40:14
Applauded Russian-born, European based violinist Alexandra Raikhlina
JOSEPH ACHRON’s Hebrew Melody
French born pianist Amandine Savary and Jack Liebeck
ENNIO MORRICONE’s Cinema Paradiso
One of the world’s best cellists Christian-Pierre La Marca and acclaimed international pianist Itamar Golan
Tuesday July 30 2024
KATIE YAP’s Improvisation on Folk Songs
Popular Melbourne violist Katie Yap
JABRA LATHAM’s Kiss From A Rose
One of Australia’s leading oboists Shefali Pryor
Wednesday July 31 2024
CYNDI LAUPER’s Time After Time
Well-known Australian bassoonist Jackie Newcomb and Itamar Golan
LEONARD COHEN
Famous Blue Raincoat - Guilty Pleasure
Katie Yap, Itamar Golan
Thursday August 1 2024
ROBERT CONSTABLE’s Slinky Foxtrot Nocturne
Australian born, internationally famed pianist Piers Lane
TCHAIKOVSKY’s Valse Sentimentale
Acclaimed Australian cellist David Berlin
SIDNEY BECHET
Si Tu Vois Ma Mère - Guilty Pleasure
Applauded UK clarinettist Julian Bliss
VILLA-LOBOS - Bachianas Brasileiras no 5
Rising young Melbourne flautist Anna Rabinowicz
HEINZ PROVOST
Intermezzo - Guilty Pleasure
Leading American violinist Adam Barnett-Hart, Itamar Golan
ROBERT SCHUMANN’s “Mondnacht” from Liederkreis
Famed Australian cellist Julian Smiles
OLIVIER MESSIAEN’s Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus
Australian violinist and member of the Goldner String quartet Dimity Hall
Saturday August 3 2024
SERGEI RACHMANINOV’s Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 (III mvt)
Rising UK violist Benjamin Roskams and Amandine Savary
KEITH JARRET’s My Wild Irish Rose
Amandine Savary
JAMES HORNER’s Titanic: My Heart Will Go On
Acclaimed Australian French Horn player Ben Jacks
Australian Festival of Chamber Music
26 July to 4 August 2024 in Townsville-Gurambilbarra, North Queensland
Concert tickets, Festival passes and holiday packages on sale NOW
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Options for full Festival passes include Gold and Gold Plus subscriptions, or pick and choose concerts with a Silver or Silver Plus subscription. Three-night holiday packages are also available now.
AFCM principal partners include Queensland Government through Tourism and Events Queensland and Arts Queensland, and Townsville City Council. The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is supported by the Queensland Government, through Tourism and Events Queensland. The Queensland Government supports the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) through Arts Queensland.
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