NEWSLETTER 1

JULY 2008

D E A R  F R I E N D S ,

It is with great pleasure that we send you our first Newsletter. Thank-you for your wonderful support during our April concerts. It is, of course, you, our audience that makes it all worth while. We are very excited about our August programme which we are currently rehearsing and want to encourage you to bring a friend to share our music making and to help bring money to the charities which Trio Anima Mundi supports.

C O N C E R T  2
Rich Treasure But Still Fairer Hopes

GEELONG—10th August—3.00 pm
St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong
MELBOURNE—24th August—3.00 pm
St. Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins St., Melbourne

P R O G R A M M E

SCHUBERT—Piano Trio on. 1 in B flat major
D. 898
MOZART—Duos for violin and cello K.46d &
K.46e
HURLSTONE—Piano Trio in G major Op. posth.

Trio Anima Mundi’s second concert in their 2008 concert series is an exciting exploration of three composers hailed as child prodigies but who then died at a tragically young age. Two of the composers, Schubert and Hurlstone, share the grave epitaph—”Here lies rich treasure but still fairer hopes” -which titles the concert.

The centrepiece is Schubert’s magnificent B-flat Piano Trio. An exquisitely beautiful and timeless work, it lies alongside the first Australian performance of William Hurlstone’s passionate Piano Trio in G major. Hurlstone (1876—1906) was considered “the most significant musical figure of his generation” and his trio continues Trio Anima Mundi’s journey through English music from the late Romantic period which we are featuring in each of the 2008 concerts.

The programme also includes Mozart’s little known duos for violin and cello which abound in the charm and elegance so quintessential of this most loved of child composers. Mozart composed these duos at the tender age of only 12 years.

Once again the proceeds of these concerts will be used to support a charity. In Geelong, money raised will go to a Water and Sanitation project in Papua New Guinea. Melbourne’s concert will support “Activate”, an organization which seeks to change the course of the lives of disadvantaged youth in the suburbs of Melbourne and so help prevent homelessness, substance abuse and criminality.

T I C K E T S

Adults $30.00, Concession $15.00
Phone Bookings: 5368 2325
E-mail: info@trioanimamundi.com
Web-site: www.trioanimamundi.com

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On 19th June 2008 Rebecca Chan, violinist in Trio Anima Mundi, won the String Finals of the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award with a truly moving and consummate performance of Korngold’s violin concerto. She will perform in the Grand Final of the competition at Hamer Hall on 19th September with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer.

I N A U G U R A L  C O N C E R T 
S U C C E S S    I N   A P R I L

The opening of Trio Anima Mundi’s 2008 concert series in three concerts across April was received with excitement and warmth. Melbourne critic for The Age, Clive O’Connell, spoke of the “..voluminous riches of the keyboard…” and “...the sumptuous string duets that surge(d) out with heartfelt magniloquence…” . The box office also brought pleasing results with $2,432.50 being donated to charities Trio Anima Mundi supports.

T R A R A L G O N  C O N C E R T

Trio Anima Mundi will present Rich Treasure But Still Fairer Hopes (concert 2) in Traralgon on 19th August at 8.00 pm at the Latrobe Valley Performing Arts Centre, Grey St. Traralgon. All proceeds of the concert will go towards the Latrobe Valley Eisteddfod.
Enquiries/tickets: 3176 3559 or
e-mail: boxoffice@latrobe.vic.gov.au

Fr. Donald Johnston—priest and former principal at School in Papua New Guinea speaking at St. Paul’s concert 13th April, 2008

Bacchus Marsh Concert—20th April, 2008