Welcome
The Ngeringa Farm Concert Series is moving into new territory – 2010 sees us feature a composer for the first time. We are delighted to have eight works by Adelaide composer Quentin Grant in our program including a New work by Quentin commissioned by Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation for performance by Australian String Quartet cellist Rachel Johnston and pianist Stefan Ammer. Emma Horwood will present the new transcription of Quentin’s beautiful Irish Songs for voice and harp.
We have again been able to engage well-renowned ensembles and soloists – the Australian String Quartet with Lucinda Collins, pianists Leigh Harrold and Kristian Chong, Seraphim Trio, Emma Horwood, Adelaide Chamber Singers, Rachel Johnston with Stefan Ammer, and musicians from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in the Langbein Quartet and Ensemble Le Monde.
I look forward to sharing this wonderful series with you in the picturesque setting of the Ngeringa Farm.
Australian String Quartet
- Sophie Rowell – violin
- Anne Horton – violin
- Sally Boud – viola
- Rachel Johnston – cello
- with guest Lucinda Collins – piano
Sunday 7 March, 3pm
The Australian String Quartet presents the sparkling clarity of Haydn’s ‘Bird’, the atmospheric first Quartet of Australian composer Paul Stanhope, and Brahms’ Piano Quintet featuring the superb musicianship of pianist Lucinda Collins.
Emma Horwood – voice/harp
Sunday March 28, 3pm
Popular Adelaide soprano and harpist Emma Horwood is a member of Adelaide Chamber Singers, Eve and Syntony, and is a regular performer at Ngeringa. Her angelic vocals with harp accompaniment will delight in a programme including classical, celtic and folk music, with a new composition by Carl Crossin.
Seraphim Trio
- Helen Ayres – violin
- Timothy Nankervis – cello
- Anna Goldsworthy – piano
Sunday May 2, 3pm
Previous winner of the Australian National Chamber Music Competition for Leading Piano Trio and the Audience Choice Award, Seraphim Trio is celebrated for its vitality, rapport, and innovative programming. We welcome this Melbourne–based ensemble back to Ngeringa with a program of Mozart, Chopin and Grant.
Leigh Harrold – piano
Sunday 30 May, 3pm
“A musician of rare talent and intelligence”
“Few have as magical touch as Harrold”
“His facility at the piano is remarkable…a tour–de–force”
Leigh Harrold performs works by Chopin, Ravel, Berio, Barber and Quentin Grant’s Angels.
Rachel Johnston – cello
Stefan Ammer – piano
Sunday 27 June, 3pm
Australian String Quartet cellist Rachel Johnston joins pianist Stefan Ammer in a program including Shostakovitch Sonata, Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch and a New work by Quentin Grant commissioned by the Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation.
Ensemble Le Monde
- Dean Newcomb – clarinet
- Alison Heike – violin
- Mark Gaydon – bassoon
- with Kristian Chong – piano
Sunday 25 July, 3pm
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra musicians Dean Newcomb, Alison Heike, and Mark Gaydon are joined by pianist Kristian Chong in wonderful combinations of clarinet, bassoon, violin and piano in works by Richard Strauss, Bartok, Poulenc, Villa–lobos and the premiere of a New work for solo bassoon by Katy Abbott.
Elder Trio
- Sophie Rowell – violin
- Janis Laurs – cello
- Lucinda Collins – piano
Sunday 22 August, 3pm
Australian String Quartet leader Sophie Rowell, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Janis Laurs and leading chamber pianist Lucinda Collins join forces to perform master works for Piano Trio.
Kristian Chong – piano
Sunday 26 September, 3pm
Kristian Chong has performed to critical acclaim throughout Australia and around the world and has been a winner of the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (keyboard) and the Australian National Piano Award. We welcome him back to Ngeringa with a performance including works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Carl Vine and Quentin Grant.
Langbein Quartet
- Michael Milton – violin
- Lachlan Bramble – violin
- Rosi McGowran – viola
- David Sharp – cello
Sunday 24 October, 3pm
Equally at home recording with the Aria–winning Hilltop Hoods as on the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra stage, the Langbein Quartet presents an exciting program with Piazzolla’s Argentinian–tango homage to Vivaldi – The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Shostakovich’s eighth String Quartet and Grant’s Three Broken Moments.
Adelaide Chamber Singers
- Directed by Carl Crossin
Sunday 21 November, 3pm
Widely respected as one of Australia’s leading chamber choirs, and with 6 international tours and several major awards to its credit, Adelaide Chamber Singers returns to Ngeringa with an inspiring and entertaining program of unaccompanied choral music traversing six centuries.
Composer in Focus – Quentin Grant
Quentin Grant has become recognised as one of Australia’s most interesting composers through his work for the concert hall and the theatre. Recent major works include a commission for the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), an orchestral score for the dance-theatre piece Wolf, the music for the play When the Rain Stops Falling, and an opera based on the life and work of Edward Lear called Ode to Nonsense which will be premierred at the 2011 Sydney Festival.
He works as a freelance composer on commissions from musicians around Australia, working in music theatre with various groups, in composer residencies, composing documentary film soundtracks, and playing in various groups: from rock to new music and, most recently, gypsy and klezmer with Golonka.
He is Co-Director of the Firm, a group that presents an annual subscription series of concerts featuring leading Australian performers in programmes of new Australian works alongside repertoire pieces.
He lives in Adelaide with four dear ones – Anna, Arland, Clara and Miranda.
“…one of our most imaginative composers.”
The Australian, August 1998
“Quentin Grant stands alone in his imaginative free flow of ideas and in his highly individual, quixotic-visionary expressive nature.”
The Adelaide Review, October 2001
Works by Quentin Grant to be performed in the Ngeringa Farm Concert Series 2010
- Angels (Leigh Harrold – piano)
- Disappearance (Seraphim Trio)
- Hymns to the Night (Adelaide Chamber Singers)
- Irish Songs (new transcription from string quartet) for voice & harp (Emma Horwood – voice/harp)
- New work commissioned by Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation (Rachel Johnston – cello & Stefan Ammer – piano)
- Selections from Misty Hill (Kristian Chong – piano)
- Three Broken Moments (Langbein Quartet)