Coriole Music Festival
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Two days of glorious chamber music, fine food, wine and conviviality amid the autumn tones of McLaren Vale. Regarded as among the top three chamber music festivals in Australia and now in its twenty-first year, the 2019 Coriole Music Festival will take place in May.
The 2019 program includes the world premiere of a new work by Jakub Jankowski and the Australian premiere of a work by Luke Styles along with performances of music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, JS Bach, Saint-Saens, Schubert, Korngold and Chopin. Until 21 December the Festival is offering early-bird prices on all 2019 program tickets across all packages.
Anna Goldsworthy said, ‘Much has been written about the concept of Late Style, but at the Coriole Music Festival this year we celebrate the exact opposite: Early Style. Charles Rosen described Mendelssohn as ‘the greatest child prodigy the history of Western music has ever known,’ and the program is book-ended by two of his early masterworks: theOverture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and his glorious Octet. In between, we program works by fellow wunderkinder Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Korngold, which marry precocious mastery to the energy of youth. We also celebrate early works by other composers in which a clear artistic vision comes into focus, often with genre-defining consequences: Bach’s cantataActus Tragicus; Schubert’s song Die schöne Müllerin, and a selection of Chopin’s Études Op. 10.
‘It is a great thrill to present two young Australian voices at Coriole, with the Australian premiere of Luke Styles’ song cycle On Bunyah, fresh from its Wigmore Hall debut, and a brand-new commission by South Australia’s own Jakub Jankowski, courtesy of the Coriole Music Festival Commissioning Fund.
"We also welcome distinguished visitors from interstate and abroad, including the celebrated Flinders Quartet from Melbourne, the charismatic Berlin-based tenor Michael Smallwood and distinguished Adelaide-born soprano Miriam Gordon, now based in the USA, while celebrating the rich pickings of artistic talent closer to home with violinists Elizabeth Layton and Helen Ayres, pianists Konstantin Shamray and Lucinda Collins, and the musicians of Adelaide Baroque."