Penny Quartet Riverina Tour 2025
Presented by music in the regions
Penny Quartet will bring their captivating performances on their Riverina tour this June.
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Uranquinty (FREE)
Uranquinty Community Hall
Baker Street, Uranquinty
Partner: Wagga Wagga City Library
Sunday, 8 June at 2pm
Leeton
Leeton Museum and Art Gallery
27 Chelmsford Place, Leeton
Partner: Leeton Museum and Art Gallery
Thursday, 12 June at 7pm
Temora
Platform Y, Temora Railway Precinct
Parkes Street, Temora
Partner: Temora Shire Council & Drench
Friday, 13 June at 6:30pm
Tocumwal
Tocumwal War Memorial Hall
50 Deniliquin Street, Tocumwal
Partner: Tocumwal War Memorial Hall Committee
Saturday, 14 June at 3pm
Deniliquin
South West Music Regional Conservatorium*
241 – 245 Cressy Street, Deniliquin
Partner: South West Music Regional Conservatorium
*Subscribers: FREE
Sunday, 15 June at 2pm
Ticket Information:
General Admission: $35
Early Bird & Concession: $30
Under 18s: FREE
Program
Haydn - String Quartet, Op. 33. No. 3, “The Bird’’
Sculthorpe - String Quartet No. 8
Interval
Shaw - ’Plan and Elevation’
Ravel - String Quartet in F Major
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For an endless source of beauty, intrigue and variety one need not look further than the string quartet.
We start with “Papa” Joseph Haydn, so named for popularising the string quartet medium with an astounding level of compositional ingenuity and care. His Opus 33 No. 3 “The Bird” (1781) is full of wit and charm. He even replaces the expected minuet movement with a “scherzo” – meaning joke.
We then move to one of the Fathers of Australian composition – Peter Sculthorpe. His eighth string quartet (1969) is bookended with stunning cello solos, with more rhythmic, pulsing movements within, as we move between the sentimental and the driven.
Then to the warmth of Grammy award-winning composer Caroline Shaw, and her work “Plan and Elevation” (2015). A stunning reflection on the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks – listen for snippets of Beethoven and Ravel sneaking their way into the foreground, as we wander through the grounds past studio doors…
And finally to Ravel. Completed in 1903, it is a cornerstone of the string quartet repertoire, a masterpiece of colour, soaring melodies and iconic harmonic structures.
Joy abounds!
- Madeleine Jevons
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About
Penny Quartet have gained a reputation as a driven and multifaceted voice in chamber music.
Founded in 2014, they have been nominated for the Freedman Fellowship award, received the John and Rosemary Macleod Travelling Fellowship and first prize at the Australian National Academy of Music Chamber Music Competition. Penny Quartet have been ensemble in residence at the Four Winds Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, presented independent recital tours across Australia as well as being Featured Artists with Musica Viva Australia's regional touring program.
They made their international debut as full scholarship holders at the St. Lawrence String Quartet seminar at Stanford, California.
Penny Quartet regularly collaborate and record with various composers and musicians, both independently and as Festival artists. They have been part of the “Local Heroes” subscription series at the Melbourne Recital Centre since late 2017 and are two-time recipients of the MRC Contemporary Masters Award.
touring artists:
Madeleine Jevons – violin
James Armstrong – violin
Anthony Chataway – viola
Jack Ward – cello
“...these soundscapes were finely rendered and the level of quartet synergy plus group
clarity was exemplary”
“superbly realised. The contrasts towards the end of the composition were spectacularly
beautiful and the conclusion a triumph. The poetry of the slow movement was evidently
deeply understood, and again, the ensemble here was astonishing.”
“Great talent and enthusiasm”
“It is reassuring to see the future of chamber music in such capable and musically
adventurous young hands”
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