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NEWSLETTER 3
DECEMBER 2008
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Dear Friends,
We have come to the end of the first year of Trio Anima Mundi’s life. Thank you for your support and for sharing the rich musical journey we have been on. Next year we have new territory to explore as we cross the channel from England to France. Our preliminary rehearsals are revealing that just as English music from the turn of the century had much to astonish us with, so too in France we are discovering music of great beauty that has been largely ignored.
A major change for Trio Anima Mundi in 2009 is the departure of our violinist, Rebecca Chan. Rebecca is going to focus on her String Quartet - the Hamer Quartet - and plans to spend extended periods of time in Sydney where her teacher resides. Despite this sad loss Trio Anima Mundi will be welcoming a wonderful new violinist, Rochelle Bryson, about whom you can read later in this newsletter.
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DATES FOR 2009
CONCERT 1
Geelong - 15th March 3.00pm
Bacchus Marsh - 3rd April 7.30 pm
Melbourne - 10th May 2.00 pm
CONCERT 2
Geelong - 2nd August 3.00 pm
Ballarat - 7th August 7.30 pm
Melbourne - 9th August 2.00 pm
CONCERT 3
Ballan - 30th October 7.30 pm
Geelong - 1st November 3.00 pm
Melbourne - 8th November 2.00pm
A full 2009 brochure will be available in January and mailed to you
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PROGRAMMES FOR 2009
Next year, in each of our three concerts, Trio Anima Mundi will feature a composer who won the Prix de Rome. The Prix de Rome was the highest award given to students of the French Academy of Fine Arts. Instituted in 1666 by the Arts Minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it allowed students to spend four years in Rome. For over two centuries it was considered the highest accolade a French artist could win.
Of the three french composers the Trio will feature, Claude Debussy is the best known, however his Piano Trio was written when he was only 18 and remained unpublished in his life-time. The other two composers, Theodore Dubois and Max D’Ollone are little known but, like the English Romantics featured in this year’s TAM concert series, they are sure to delight and surprise our audiences. The Dubois is elegant, melodic and full of beauty. The Piano Trio in E minor of Max D’Ollone is perhaps the biggest surprise; rich and expressionist it is also vivacious despite it gorgeous and thick harmonic structures. Alongside these french delicacies Trio Anima Mundi will play a satisfying selection of Piano Trios written by well-loved composers including Schumann, Mendelssohn, Haydn and Beethoven.
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RECORDING TAM
Next year Trio Anima Mundi hopes to be able to record some of the music we have been bringing to our audiences. We are currently sourcing funding to enable this project and the new year will see us able to provide tax deductibility for contributors to our projects. This will be made possible through Abaf (Australian Business Arts Foundation), a government organization which allows small arts organizations like ours to attract donations which can have tax-deductible status. We would be delighted to hear from any interested audience members.
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ROCHELLE BRYSON
Rochelle is an honours graduate of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts. Further studies took her to England where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music for 2 years and graduated winning the Marjorie Hayward prize for the highest achieving student. While in England, Rochelle toured Spain with the London Chamber Players and participated in the Encuentro De Musica Y Academia De Santander She has won many prizes during her studies both overseas and in Australia including being winner of the string section of the Hepzhibah Menhuin awards.
Rochelle plays with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria and is a core member of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra appearing as a soloist in Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in 2008. In 2009 Trio Anima Mundi is proud and excited to welcome her as our new violinist.
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MELBOURNE CHAMBER MUSIC CALENDAR 2009
A wonderful new initiative of the Flinders Quartet in Melbourne is the production of magnificent A4 glossy calendar for 2009 which will feature Melbourne based chamber music groups. Each month has a full colour photo of a different group and, yes, Trio Anima Mundi has a month all to itself. The fantastic feature of this truly collegial calendar is that it provides you with all the dates for the various groups’ concerts and all their contact details. The calendar is also designed as a fund-raiser and each calendar sold will raise money for the ongoing projects of Trio Anima Mundi. At $20.00 (including postage) the calendar makes a beautiful and truly classy Christmas gift invaluable for every lover of chamber music. To order simply send in the slip below and we will post the calendar(s) to you by return mail.
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Melbourne Chamber Music Calendar order form
Please send me ____ copy/s of the Melbourne Chamber Music Calendar 2009
PAYMENT Credit card Cheque (Cheques payable to Trio Anima Mundi)
Card holder name ______________________________________________________________
Card Number: _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ Expiry date: _ _ /_ _
Total cost $_______ ($20.00 for each calendar including postage)
Address for calendar to be mailed to ________________________________________________
please mail this order to: Trio Anima Mundi, 55 Atkinson St. Ballan, 3342
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