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Remaining concerts this year
Remaining concerts in 2010 are:
December 2010
Christmas concert
Leonard Bernstein''s "Chichester Psalms" (link)
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Concerts Next Year
Concerts in 2011 are:
"Les Alizés" (The Trade-winds) choir from Nouméa (New Caledonia) visit, April 2011
 Saturday 23 April 2011
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
The Llewellyn Choir and "Les Alizés" (from Noumea, New Caledonia)
Hector Berlioz' "Te Deum" (Op. 22 / H.118) (1849) link
Les Alizés is returning the favour of the visit by The Llewellyn Choir in mid-2009, and the choirs will join to perform the piece that Berlioz said was his greatest.
This performance will be on the Saturday of the Easter long weekend and we urge our audience to remain in Canberra for this event that resonates with the liturgical season, and runs into Anzac Day commemorations on Monday 25 April.
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Past concerts
Past concerts by The Llewellyn Choir
2010
Event: Symphony in the Park (Closing concert of Canberra Festival) -- This is a free concert
Date: Sunday 14 March, at 7pm
Venue: Stage 88
Conductor: Guy Noble
The Llewellyn Choir with singers from Canberra Choral Society join with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra for a concert to end the Canberra Festival.
Orchestral and choral music by: Mozart, Bizet, Verdi, Smetana, Borodin, Wagner, Rowland, Hindson, Mascagni, Rossini, Handel, and Offenbach.
Chief Minister's Media Release (no real details!)
2009
5 December 2009, 7.30pm
St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka
Feliz Navidad (A Latin Christmas)
Featuring works by Argentina's famous composer
Ariel Ramírez (link):
‘Misa Criolla’ (1964) and ‘Navidad Neustra’ (1964)
plus latin carols and poetry reading, guitar and violin solos
Choirmaster: Rowan Harvy Martin
Tenors: Dominic Harvey & Michael Martin
plus keyboard and bass, latin guitar, and percussion
Piano/Keyboard: Anthony Smith (Choir Repetiteur)
Guitar: Mark Norton
Bass: Leigh Miller
Percussion:
Christina Hopgood
Charles Martin
Veronica Walshaw
Violin solo: Rowan Harvey-Martin
Poetry: Ted Briggs
Choirmaster: Rowan Harvey-Martin, recently returned from studying conducting in Europe and USA while supported by a Churchill Fellowship.
This concert extends the language repertoir of The Llewellyn Choir which has not sung in Spanish for many years.
The choir was delighted to have at the concert, His Excellency, the Ambassador for Argentina (link), Pedro Villagra Delgado, and his family. The Ambassador was able later to provide some insights into elements of the regional dialect of Spanish used by the composer, Ariel Ramírez, and kindly praised the choir for the concert.
Ariel Ramírez official website (Spanish translated to English - link)
Rehearsal schedule
2009 past...
Mostly Mendelssohn
Saturday 31 October 2009 @ 7.30pm - St Paul's Church, Manuka
Works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, and J.S. Bach
featuring
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, op. 52, called the "Hymn of Praise" (sung in English) [also called Lobgesang"] details
J.S. Bach: Cantata No 137 "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren" (BWV 137)
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: various songs
Conductor: Matthew Stuckings
Joining with The Llewellyn Choir as soloists:
Sopranos: Louise Page & Susan Ellis
Tenor: Michael Martin
Bass: Geoffrey Brennan
with a Chamber Ensemble
Details of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (aka Felix Mendelssohn) here.
Details of Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (later Hensel) here.
Felix Mendelssohn was arguably responsible for the revitalisation of interest in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, so the concert will pay due tribute with Bach's Cantata No 137 "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren".
Poster (link, 85kB)
See other past performances below.
11–18 July -- a reprise of the Fauré Requiem and Bruckner motets during a choir tour to
Noumea, New Caledonia
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem
Conductor: Rowan Harvey Martin
Soprano: Rebecca Collins
Bass: Stephen Bennett
Organ: Anthony Smith
Violin: Michelle Higgs
Trip reports:
We were privileged to be hosted by "Les Alizés", a choir in Noumea led by Sarah Briggs. Members of Les Alizés overwhelmed us with their generous support of us during the week of rehearsals and two concerts, on Wednesday 15 and Friday 17 July 2009 in Saint Joseph Cathedral. (See a mention here.)
Les Alizés also hosted a wonderful Bastille Day luncheon (picnic) with the two choirs singing a selection of French songs.
(16 July)
What a wonderful social life there is in Noumea! On Friday 31 July 2009, excerpts of Puccini's 1880 work "Messa" ("Messa di gloria") were performed by another choir in Noumea, from "l'Ecole Territoriale de Musique" (ETM), at the official function for the Third France-Oceania Summit at which Bernard Kouchner, France's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, led the French delegation. link As reported by a member of both choirs, the security was tight to get in, and at the end "champagne as much as one like, 'petits fours', small variety of pastries...." and the approbabtion of the Director of "l'Ecole Territoriale de Musique" (ETM). Trčs bon, les amis!
Image library (flickr.com)
20 June 2009 -- Requiems Francais
Requiems, by
Gabriel Fauré
and
Maurice Duruflé
at
St Christopher's Cathedral, Manuka ACT;
7.30pm Saturday 20th June 2009
Conductor: Rowan Harvey Martin
Soprano: Rebecca Collins
Bass: Stephen Bennett
Tenor: Michael Martin
Chamber Emsemble
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Choir Directors (over the years)
In 2006
The Llewellyn Choir
welcomed its new
Musical Director
Rowan Harvey-Martin.
Rowan Harvey-Martin is a professional violinist and teacher, choral director, and conductor.
* Education
Rowan was educated at the NSW Conservatorium High School (link) and then graduated with honours in violin from the ANU School of Music (link) followd by study at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (link).
* Performance
She is Principal Violin with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra (link), is co-Artistic Director and Concertmaster of The Haydn Bande, and is leader of The Linnaeus String Quartet.
Rowan has experience in the Eastman Virtuosi in New York and The Australia Opera and Ballet Orchestra (link).
* Conducting
Rowan studied choral conducting with Michael McCarthy and orchestral conducting with Donald Hunsberger at Eastman.
Until recently Rowan was Director of the Canberra Boys'' Choir, and is currently Director of both The Llewellyn Choir and the Oriana Chorale.
Recently, she has performed in the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival (link).
2009: In late 2009, Rowan Harvey Martin undertook a conducting study tour to Europe and the USA to study as part of a Churchill Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (link).
2010: Rowan will be conducting the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for concerts in August 2010.
Prior to 2006
First Director: Bill Hawkey
New Zealand born Emeritus Professor William (Bill) Hawkey retired in 1999 from the position of Director and Professor of Music at the Australian National University. Bill had a distinguished career in music as an educator, administrator, orchestral and choral conductor, composer , pianist and organist. Bill founded, and conducted the Canberra Community Choir for 10 years, and was founding Musical Director of the ANU School of Music Community Choir (later named The Llewellyn Choir). In New Zealand he had been the long-term music conductor of the Christchurch Harmonic Choir. In retirement on the south coast of New South Wales, he is the musical director of the Montague Choristers. He is still sought after around Australia as an adjudicator for Eisteddfods.
Second Director: Richard (Rick) McIntyre OAM
Richard McIntyre sustains a long and distinguished career as bassoonist, music educator, conductor and arranger, and has focussed this considerable breadth and diversity on his work at the ANU School of Music for over a quarter of a century.
McIntyre is a composition graduate from the University of Sydney. After studying the bassoon privately with John Cran, Richard was for 10 years Associate Principal Bassoonist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra before moving to Canberra in 1978. He is a foundation member of the renowned wind quintet, The Canberra Wind Soloists (Australia’s most long-lived professional chamber ensemble). He has been Guest Principal and concerto soloist with the SSO and other Symphony Australia orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Australia Ensemble and numerous other prominent chamber groups. His association with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra as its Principal Bassoonist dates back to 1965.
ANU School of Music - Professional Resume
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Les Alizés visit - April 2011
"Les Alizés" (The Trade-winds) choir from Nouméa (New Caledonia) visit, April 2011
Saturday 23 April 2011
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
The Llewellyn Choir and "Les Alizés" (from Noumea, New Caledonia)
A varied program with a very distinct French flavour, featuring:
Hector Berlioz' "Te Deum" (Op. 22 / H.118) (1849) link
Les Alizés is returning the favour of the visit by The Llewellyn Choir in mid-2009, and the choirs will join to perform the piece that Berlioz thought as among his greatest.
This performance will be on the Saturday of the Easter long weekend.
We urge our regular audience, and everyone they can convince, to remain in Canberra for this event that resonates with the liturgical season, and for an expected combined choir participation in Anzac Day commemorations on Monday 25 April.
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People of The Llewellyn Choir
President: Selma Teh (from April 2010)
Selma Teh is a retired public servant, now working part-time as a senior recruitment consultant.
The president for the preceding three years was Dr Jean Chesson, a marine biologist (she is leader of the ''risk sciences group'' at the Bureau of Rural Sciences within the Australian Government''s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry) and author of various books and papers mainly on fish biology (link)
Lara Corry-Boyd, Managing Director of Brindabella Airlines (a Qantas affiliate),
and Canberra Business Woman of the Year 2006, sings with The Llewellyn Choir.
Clinton White, ArtSound FM personality and presenter,
used to be the (non-singing) first President of The Llewellyn Choir
and is one of its honourary Life Members.
Dr Katrina Proust PhD, choir member, was awarded her
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the ANU on 12 July 2005.
Her research is in the field of resource management and environmental science.
She has developed an approach that combines concepts from feedback dynamics
and the practice of history to understand better the behaviour of complex human-environment systems.
It has wide application in studies relating to sustainability.
PhD thesis online:
"Learning from the Past for Sustainability: Towards an Integrated Approach" 2004
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