C O N C E R T P R O G R A M

Friday 26 August at 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne,

Hamer Hall Presented by Emirates

Saturday 27 August at 8pm Arts Centre Melbourne,

Hamer Hall Presented by BMW

Missa SolemnisBeethoven’s

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WHAT’S ON SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2016

HRŮŠA CONDUCTS SUK’S ASRAEL SYMPHONY Thursday 1 September Friday 2 September

Jakub Hrůša continues his close partnership with the MSO, with a too-rarely performed masterwork by his compatriot – Josef Suk’s powerful, passionate Symphony No.2 Asrael. It is preceded by Mozart’s dramatic Symphony No.25, featured so powerfully in the film Amadeus.

BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL Wednesday 7 September Saturday 10 September Wednesday 14 September Saturday 17 September

Beethoven’s five Piano Concertos, as with his nine Symphonies, represent classical music’s greatest monuments. Given their formidable technical requirements, the concertos are rarely performed as a series, but English virtuoso Paul Lewis will tackle the challenge in this series of four concerts.

RESPIGHI’S FOUNTAINS OF ROME Friday 30 September Saturday 1 October Monday 3 October

A rare concert appearance from the great Brazilian virtuoso Nelson Freire. Long renowned for his dazzling technique and absolute fidelity to the music, Freire is soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Also on this program is Respighi’s splendorous Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome.

HOLST’S THE PLANETS Friday 21 October

Two English masterworks feature in this concert: Vaughan Williams’ Overture to The Wasps is abuzz with activity, while Gustav Holst’s suite The Planets is indeed out of this world. Australian pianist Andrea Lam is soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2.

INDIANA JONES IN CONCERT Thursday 3 November Friday 4 November Saturday 5 November

The film that gave the world one of its greatest movie heroes, Indiana Jones, is back and better than ever before! Relive the magic on the silver screen with the original great adventure – Raiders of the Lost Ark – with John Williams’ epic score performed live to picture by the MSO!

DVOŘÁK CELLO CONCERTO Friday 11 November Monday 14 November

The American maestro Andrew Litton returns to the MSO for this exciting program that features Prokofiev’s Symphony No.6, a heartfelt elegy to World War II. German cellist Alban Gerhardt is soloist in Dvořak’s well-loved Cello Concerto.

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This concert has a duration of approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.

This performance will be recorded for future broadcast on ABC Classic FM.

This information is correct at time of print, however please visit mso.com.au/broadcast for the most current information about upcoming concert broadcasts.

Pre-Concert Talk 7pm Friday 26 August, Stalls Foyer, Hamer Hall 7pm Saturday 27 August, Stalls Foyer, Hamer Hall

MSO Director of Artistic Planning Ronald Vermeulen will present a talk on the work featured in the program.

ARTISTS

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Sir Andrew Davis conductor

Emily Birsan soprano

Michèle Losier mezzo-soprano

Andrew Staples tenor

Christian Van Horn bass-baritone

Stephen Jackson chorus masterREPERTOIRE

Beethoven Missa solemnis

Series Presenters

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) was established in 1906 and is Australia’s oldest orchestra. It currently performs live to more than 250,000 people annually, in concerts ranging from subscription performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at Melbourne’s largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The Orchestra also delivers innovative and engaging programs to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives.

Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural concerts as the MSO’s Chief Conductor in 2013, having made his debut with the Orchestra in 2009. Highlights of his tenure have included collaborations with artists such as Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax, Truls Mørk and Renée Fleming, and the Orchestra’s European Tour in 2014 which included appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall. Further current and future highlights with Sir Andrew Davis include a complete cycle of the Mahler symphonies. Sir Andrew will maintain the role of Chief Conductor until the end of 2019.

The MSO also works with Associate Conductor Benjamin Northey and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, as well as with such eminent recent guest conductors as Thomas Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra reaches a wider audience through regular radio broadcasts, recordings and CD releases, including a Strauss cycle on ABC Classics which includes Four Last Songs, Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra, as well as Ein Heldenleben and Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo, both led by Sir Andrew Davis. On the Chandos label the MSO has recently released Berlioz’ Harold en Italie with James Ehnes and music by Charles Ives which includes Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, as well as a range of orchestral works including Three Places in New England, again led by Sir Andrew Davis.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is funded principally by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and is generously supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. The MSO is also funded by the City of Melbourne, its Principal Partner, Emirates, corporate sponsors and individual donors, trusts and foundations.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we perform – The Kulin Nation – and would like to pay our respects to their Elders and Community both past and present.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus has built an international reputation for the highest standards and for bold artistic planning. Known as the Melbourne Chorale until 2008, it has since then been integrated with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and in 2015, celebrated its 50th anniversary.

The Chorus sings with the finest conductors, including Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Stephen Layton, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Masaaki Suzuki and Manfred Honeck. Recent highlights include Britten’s War Requiem, Kancheli’s Styx, Brett Dean’s The Last Days of Socrates, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman.

The Chorus is committed to developing and performing new Australian and international choral repertoire. Commissions include Brett Dean’s Katz und Spatz (commissioned with the Swedish Radio Choir), Ross Edwards’ Mountain Chant (commissioned with Cantillation), Paul Stanhope’s Exile Lamentations (commissioned with Sydney Chamber Choir and London’s Elysian Singers), and Gabriel Jackson’s To the Field of Stars (commissioned with the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Stockholm’s St Jacob’s Chamber Choir). The Chorus has also premiered works by many composers including James MacMillan, Arvo Pärt, Hans Werner Henze, Alfred Schnittke, Gavin Bryars, Valentyn Silvestrov, Arturs Maskats, Thierry Machuel and Pēteris Vasks, and others.

The Chorus has made critically acclaimed recordings for Chandos and for ABC Classics. It has performed across Brazil and at the Cultura Inglese Festival in Sao Paolo, in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Barbra Streisand, at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, at the 2011 AFL Grand Final, and the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival.

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

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Sir Andrew Davis is Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has been the musical and artistic leader at several of the world’s most distinguished opera and symphonic institutions, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1991–2004), Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1988–2000), and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1975–1988). He recently received the honorary title of Conductor Emeritus from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

One of today’s most recognised and acclaimed conductors, Sir Andrew has conducted virtually all the world’s major orchestras, opera companies, and festivals. This year he celebrates his 40-year association with the Toronto Symphony, and aside from performances with the Melbourne Symphony, he will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms, Philharmonia Orchestra at the Three Choirs Festival, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Born in 1944 in Hertfordshire, England, Sir Andrew studied at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar before taking up conducting. His wide-ranging repertoire encompasses the Baroque to contemporary, and his vast conducting credits span the symphonic, operatic and choral worlds.

Sir Andrew was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1992, and a Knight Bachelor in 1999.

SIR ANDREW DAVIS CONDUCTOR

EMILY BIRSAN SOPRANO

On the brink of an international career, Emily Birsan recently finished her third year as a member of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she was most recently heard on the main stage as Servilia in the acclaimed David McVicar production of La clemenza di Tito and as the 1st Flower Maiden in Parsifal. Elsewhere she has also performed with Florida Grand Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Madison Opera, and at the Edinburgh and Grant Park festivals.

On the concert stage, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall and with the Knoxville, Madison and Dubuque symphony orchestras. She gave a critically acclaimed performance in Elliott Carter’s A Mirror on Which to Dwell at the 2013 Ravinia Festival. Recordings include Elgar’s Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf with Sir Andrew Davis and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

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ANDREW STAPLES TENOR

Andrew Staples was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral before winning a choral scholarship to King’s College Cambridge, where he gained a degree in Music. He was the first recipient of the Royal College of Music’s Peter Pears Scholarship, sponsored by the Britten Pears Foundation.

Andrew Staples’ engagements have included concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Concerts this year have included Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Berlin Philharmonic, and Haydn’s The Seasons with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle.

Andrew Staples made his Royal Opera House debut as Jacquino in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Other roles include Belfiore in La finta giardiniera (National Theatre, Prague and Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels) and Don Ottavio for the Salzburg Festival. Recordings include Schumann’s Das Paradise und die Peri, Messiah, and Bob Chilcott’s Requiem, among others.

MICHÈLE LOSIER MEZZO-SOPRANO

Since her debut in 2002 at Opéra d’Avignon as Mozart’s Dorabella in Cosi fan tutti, Michèle Losier has sung with conductors such as Louis Langrée, Emmanuel Plasson, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Recent performances have included the title role in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict (Théâtre de la Monnaie), Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette (BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis), Ravel’s Shéhérazade (Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain), and Missa solemnis in Montreal. Other appearances have included Charpentier’s Médée (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) and Charlotte in Opera Australia’s production of Massenet’s Werther.

An alumnus of McGill University, Michèle Losier was a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique and the Juilliard Opera Center, New York. Success in the 2005 Metropolitan Opera Auditions led to her house debut in 2007 as Diane in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, alongside Susan Graham and Placido Domingo. Recordings include Henri Duparc: Complete Mélodies and Gounod’s La Colombe.

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CHRISTIAN VAN HORN BASS-BARITONE

STEPHEN JACKSON CHORUS MASTER

Christian Van Horn has appeared in many of the world’s great opera houses, and at the Salzburg and Munich festivals. His roles include Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro (which he recorded), Colline in La bohème, and Escamillo in Carmen. He has also appeared in world premieres by Tan Dun (Santa Fe Opera) and Marco Tutino (San Francisco Opera). Recent recordings include Das Rheingold with Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In concert, Christian Van Horn has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, in Tippet’s A Child of Our Time with the Chicago Symphony and Sir Andrew Davis, and in Beethoven’s Ninth with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

He received his Master’s degree in music from Yale University and is a graduate of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. His numerous awards include winner at the 2003 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Stephen Jackson was born in London. He was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and later read music at Clare College, Cambridge. After a few years as a professional bassoonist in the 1970s, he turned to singing and, eventually, conducting and choir training.

For 26 years he directed the BBC Symphony Chorus, preparing a huge repertoire for many of the world’s principal conductors, among them Boulez, Haitink, Salonen, Rattle – and Sir Andrew Davis, with whom he has had perhaps his longest and warmest association. Stephen frequently conducted the Symphony Chorus himself, in the concert hall, on tour and in the recording studio, making two CDs (of works by Carl Rütti and Judith Bingham) that were named Editor’s Choice of the Month by Gramophone Magazine.

In addition to countless choral/orchestral premieres for which he was responsible, he himself directed first performances of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Richard Rodney Bennett, Judith Bingham, Henryk Górecki, Stephen Montague and other composers, many specially written for him. Now freelance, Stephen continues to tour worldwide as conductor, teacher and adjudicator. He directs the Chamber Choir of Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London and is a member of the education panel of the Association of British Choral Directors. As a composer and arranger he is published by Novello and Boosey & Hawkes.

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Conquering the Missa solemnis

Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor of the MSOI, along with a good many eminent conductors both past and present, have waited long to climb the mighty peaks of this great work. There is a dual character in this work, where it is based in form on the classical models of Haydn and Mozart but is also imbued with the new spirit of the Enlightenment and its values of freedom and questioning. One has to try to encapsulate this in performance, to try and communicate to the audience the spiritual immensity and splendour as well as the questioning of Man’s place in the picture. To me, the piece ends with a question, in the final Agnus Dei, but what a journey we have had in looking for answers! I know that all the performers in these concerts are deeply committed to the finest realisation of this masterpiece. I hope to conduct it many times in the future!

Dale Barltrop MSO ConcertmasterThe Missa solemnis contains one of the most sublime violin solos in the orchestral repertoire. Combined into the same movement as the Sanctus, the ravishing Benedictus is a deeply heartfelt personal expression and in my opinion, stands among Beethoven’s most profound slow movements. Beginning on a single suspended high G, the violin descends into heavenly lyrical melody, accompanied by the orchestra and subsequently joined by the soloists and chorus. There are some truly glorious violin solos in the orchestral repertoire, but for me, this one stands apart from them all. I am deeply humbled to be performing it for the first time with Sir Andrew Davis, the MSO and the wonderful MSO Chorus.

Tania Jacobs Soprano in the MSO ChorusI fell in love with the Missa solemnis years ago, and when I started with the MSO Chorus I hoped that I would get the opportunity to sing it one day. I’m very excited to have that chance. It’s a brute of a piece, and I’ve loved getting to know it. I started off going through the piece’s harder passages listening to the soprano part. This helped me to navigate my way through the more complex moments. Then it was a case of listening to the piece as often as I could, with or without the music in hand, to become completely familiar with it. For the last few weeks my head has been full of music and lyrics, so much so that it becomes difficult to concentrate on anything else. I’m known for spontaneously bursting into song – that’s OK around the office as my colleagues are used to it, but it’s more awkward when it happens on the train.

Beethoven’s magnificent Missa solemnis is a work of towering proportions, which the composer himself thought to be his greatest achievement. The piece stands alone in Beethoven’s output, both in terms of its spirituality and its scale, demanding singing

and playing of an extraordinarily high standard. We spoke to Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, Concertmaster Dale Barltrop and MSO Chorus member Tania Jacobs

to find out how they have been preparing to conquer the piece.

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Beethoven worked on his Mass in D for over four years, from 1819 to 1823. The result is a masterpiece in his late style, his most substantial contribution to choral music, and perhaps even his most considerable single achievement, which he once described as ‘my greatest work’. Tonight is a rare opportunity to hear it in live performance: it is extremely difficult to sing and play, and the choral writing is especially demanding in its extremes of range and testing of the choir’s stamina. The difficulties of execution make it almost impossible to achieve in performance what Beethoven imagined in his mind’s ear – evidently he wanted the sense of difficulty to be part of the effect of the music.

Beethoven’s intentions are also difficult to ascertain. At first sight this ‘Mass for a Solemn Occasion’ seems much too long for church use. But the composer did have a church ceremony in mind – the installation of his pupil, patron and friend Archduke Rudolph as Archbishop of Ollmütz in 1820. (The music was far from ready on time.) The first performance of the Missa solemnis was organised by another amateur musician and patron of Beethoven, Prince Nikolas Galitzin, in St Petersburg on 7 April 1824. The first performance in Vienna of part of the Mass was exactly a month later, on 7 May, not in a church, but in the same concert at the Court Theatre which included the premiere of the Ninth Symphony. Because of time limits, only the Kyrie, Credo and Agnus Dei were performed, and to German texts, titled ‘Three Grand Hymns’, since permission had not come from the church to perform the Latin texts outside the liturgy.

Although Beethoven’s interpretation of the text of the mass is highly personal and subjective, the Missa solemnis is in some ways more fitting as a liturgical setting than his earlier and more conventional Mass in C (1807). In that work, Beethoven, working to a commission from Prince Esterházy, consciously copies much of the approach of Haydn’s last masses. He seems to have trouble adjusting his symphonic predispositions to the formal aspects of Viennese church style, whereas Haydn had largely avoided the problem by making his principle of composition frankly musical.

Yet Beethoven felt and said, about the Mass in C, that he had achieved something special: ‘I believe I have treated the text as it has seldom been treated.’ In planning his new Mass, he went even further towards seeking out the text’s inner meaning. He had the Latin translated into German so that nothing would escape his attention. Beethoven wanted the music of his Mass to show an understanding of the ideas behind particular words, and the overall mood and purpose of each section. He also studied ancient plainchant and the music and treatises of the old composers of polyphonic sacred music. The Missa solemnis, Maynard Solomon observes, is more deeply rooted in older traditions than any other work of Beethoven’s. At the same time he adopted a symphonic style, making full use of orchestral resources, and firmly knitting each section of the mass into architectural unity.

The outcome is personal and visionary. It is the work of a man out of touch with organised religion, but profoundly aware of divine reality, which he interprets in the sense of late 18th-century enlightened Catholicism. Beethoven was anything but a good Catholic and church-goer – indeed, he distanced himself from the Church. But he was deeply concerned, especially since the crisis of his deafness, with the idea of God, and how God was to be encountered. By necessity the Mass in D is a concert work, but it evokes an ecclesiastical atmosphere, or at any rate a religious one. The scholar Warren Kirkendale wrote in 1971 that it is now clear that Beethoven, isolated by his deafness, retreated into speculation on theology and the liturgy. In his Mass in D he wanted to say the last word on the subject.

Abridged from a note by David Garrett © 2002

The first Australian performance of the Missa solemnis was given by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in September 1944, with Sylvia Fisher, Margaret Murphy, William Herbert and Richard Watson under the direction of Bernard Heinze. The Orchestra’s most recent performance took place in 1971 under conductor Willem van Otterloo.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)

Mass in D, Op.123 Missa solemnisKyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus – Benedictus

Agnus Dei

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Kyrie

Kyrie eleison!Christe eleison!Kyrie eleison!

Gloria

Gloria in excelsis Deo,et in terra paxhominibus bonae voluntatis.Laudamus te,benedicimus te,adoramus te,glorificamus te.Gratias agimus tibipropter magnam gloriam tuam,Domine Deus, Rex coelestis,Deus Pater omnipotens.Domine Fili unigenite,Jesu Christe,Domine Deus,Agnus Dei,Filius Patris.Qui tollis peccata mundi,miserere nobis,qui tollis peccata mundi,suscipe deprecationem nostram,qui sedes ad dexteram patris,miserere nobis.Quoniam tu solus sanctus,quoniam tu solus Dominus,quoniam tu solus altissimus,Jesu Christe,cum Sancto Spirituin gloria Dei Patris, amen,gloria in excelsis Deo,gloria.

Credo

Credo in unum DeumPatrem omnipotentem,factorem coeli et terrae,visibilium omnium et invisibilium.Credo in unum DominumJesum Christum,Filium Dei unigenitumet ex Patre natumante omnia saecula,Deum de Deo,lumen de lumine,Deum verum de Deo vero,genitum, not factum,consubstantialem Patri,per quem omnia facta sunt,qui propter nos homineset propter nostram salutemdescendit de coelis.Et incarnatus estde Spiritu Sanctoex Maria virgine,et homo factus est,crucifixus etiam pro nobissub Pontio Pilatopassus et sepultus est.Et resurrexit tertia die

Lord have mercy!Christ have mercy!Lord have mercy!

Glory to God in the highestand on earth peaceto people of good will.We praise you,we bless you,we worship you,we glorify you.We give you thanksfor your great glory,Lord God, King of heaven,God the Father almighty.Lord the only-begotten Son,Jesus Christ,Lord God,Lamb of God,Son of the Father.Who takes away the sins of the world,have mercy on us,who takes away the sins of the world,receive our prayer,who sits on the right hand of the father,have mercy on us.For you alone are holy,for you alone are the Lord,for you alone are the Most High,Jesus Christ,with the Holy Spiritin the glory of God the Father, amen,glory to God in the highest,glory.

I believe in one Godthe all-powerful Father,maker of heaven and earth,of all things, visible and invisible.I believe in one LordJesus Christ,the only-begotten Son of Godborn of the Fatherbefore all ages,God from God,light from light,true God from true God,begotten, not made,of one substance with the Father,through whom all things were made,who for us humansand for our salvationcame down from heaven.And was made fleshby the Holy Spiritfrom the virgin Mary,and was made human,he was also crucified for usunder Pontius Pilatehe suffered and was buried.And rose again on the third day

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secundum scripturaset ascendit in coelum,sedet ad dexteram patris,et iterum venturus estcum gloriajudicare vivos et mortuos,cujus regni non erit finis.Credo in Spiritum SanctumDominum et vivificantem,qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur,qui locutus est per Prophetas,credo in unam sanctam catholicamet apostolicam ecclesiam,confiteor unum baptisma,in remissionem peccatorumet exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum,et vitam venturi saeculi, amen.Et vitam venturi saeculi, amen.

Sanctus – Benedictus

Sanctus! Sanctus! Sanctus DominusDeus Sabaoth.Pleni sunt coeli et terragloria tua,osanna in excelsis.Osanna in excelsis.Benedictus qui venitin nomine Domini.Osanna in excelsis!

Agnus Dei

Agnus Dei,qui tollis peccata mundi,miserere nobis.Dona nobis pacem.Agnus Dei,qui tollis peccata mundi,miserere nobis.Dona nobis pacem.Agnus Dei, dona nobis pacem.

Translation of mass texts: Natalie Shea, Symphony Australia © 2002

as it says in the scripturesand ascended into heaven,and sits at the right hand of the Father,and will come againwith gloryto judge the living and the dead,He whose kingdom will never end.I believe in the Holy Spiritthe Lord and the giver of life,who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified,who has spoken through the Prophets,I believe in one holy catholicand apostolic church,I acknowledge one baptism,for the remission of sinsand I await the resurrection of the dead,and the life of the age to come, amen.And the life of the age to come, amen.

Holy! Holy! Holy is the LordGod of Hosts.Heaven and earth are fullof your glory,hosanna in the highest.Hosanna in the highest.Blessed is the one who comesin the name of the Lord.Hosanna in the highest!

Lamb of God,you who take away the sins of the world,have mercy on us.Grant us peace.Lamb of God,you who take away the sins of the world,have mercy on us.Grant us peace.Lamb of God,grant us peace.

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Artist Chair BenefactorsHarold Mitchell AC Chief Conductor Chair

Patricia Riordan Associate Conductor Chair

Joy Selby Smith Orchestral Leadership Chair

The Gross Foundation Principal Second Violin Chair

Sophie Rowell, The Ullmer Family Foundation Associate Concertmaster Chair

MS Newman Family Principal Cello Chair

Principal Flute Chair – Anonymous

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SUPPORTERS

Dr Marged Goode, Philip and Raie Goodwach, Louise Gourlay OAM, Ginette and André Gremillet, Max Gulbin, Dr Sandra Hacker AO and Mr Ian Kennedy AM, Jean Hadges, Paula Hansky OAM, Tilda and Brian Haughney, Julian and Gisela Heinze, Penelope Hughes, Dr Alastair Jackson, Basil and Rita Jenkins, Stuart Jennings, George and Grace Kass, Irene Kearsey, Brett Kelly and Cindy Watkin, Ilma Kelson Music Foundation, Dr Anne Kennedy, George and Patricia Kline, Bryan Lawrence, William and Magdalena Leadston, Norman Lewis in memory of Dr Phyllis Lewis, Dr Anne Lierse, Ann and George Littlewood, Violet and Jeff Loewenstein, The Hon Ian Macphee AO and Mrs Julie Macphee, Elizabeth H Loftus, Vivienne Hadj and Rosemary Madden, In memory of Leigh Masel, John and Margaret Mason, In honour of Norma and Lloyd Rees, Ruth Maxwell, Trevor and Moyra McAllister, David Menzies, Ian Morrey, Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James, Graham and Christine Peirson, Margaret Plant, Kerryn Pratchett, Peter Priest, Eli Raskin, Bobbie Renard, Peter and Carolyn Rendit, Dr Rosemary Ayton and Dr Sam Ricketson, Joan P Robinson, Zelda Rosenbaum OAM, Antler Ltd, Doug and Elisabeth Scott, Dr Sam Smorgon AO and Mrs Minnie Smorgon, John So, Dr Norman and Dr Sue Sonenberg, Dr Michael Soon, Pauline Speedy, State Music Camp, Dr Peter Strickland, Mrs Suzy and Dr Mark Suss, Pamela Swansson, Tennis Cares - Tennis Australia, Frank Tisher OAM and Dr Miriam Tisher, Margaret Tritsch, Judy Turner and Neil Adam, P & E Turner, Mary Vallentine AO, The Hon. Rosemary Varty, Leon and Sandra Velik, Elizabeth Wagner, Sue Walker AM, Elaine Walters OAM and Gregory Walters,

Edward and Paddy White, Janet Whiting and Phil Lukies, Nic and Ann Willcock, Marian and Terry Wills Cooke, Pamela F Wilson, Joanne Wolff, Peter and Susan Yates, Mark Young, Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das, YMF Australia, Anonymous (17)

The Mahler SyndicateDavid and Kaye Birks, John and Jenny Brukner, Mary and Frederick Davidson AM, Tim and Lyn Edward, John and Diana Frew, Francis and Robyn Hofmann, The Hon Dr Barry Jones AC, Dr Paul Nisselle AM, Maria Solà in memory of Malcolm Douglas, The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall, Anonymous (1)

MSO RosesFounding RoseJenny Brukner

RosesMary Barlow, Linda Britten, Wendy Carter, Annette Maluish, Lois McKay, Pat Stragalinos, Jenny Ullmer

RosebudsMaggie Best, Penny Barlow, Leith Brooke, Lynne Damman, Francie Doolan, Lyn Edward, Penny Hutchinson, Elizabeth A Lewis AM, Sophie Rowell, Dr Cherilyn Tillman

Foundations and TrustsCreative Partnerships AustraliaCrown Resorts Foundation and the Packer Family FoundationThe Cybec FoundationThe Harold Mitchell FoundationIvor Ronald Evans Foundation, managed by Equity Trustees LimitedThe Marian and EH Flack TrustThe Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, managed by PerpetualThe Pratt FoundationThe Robert Salzer FoundationThe Schapper Family FoundationThe Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust

Conductor’s CircleCurrent Conductor’s Circle MembersJenny Anderson, David Angelovich, G C Bawden and L de Kievit, Lesley Bawden, Joyce Bown, Mrs Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John Brukner, Ken Bullen, Luci and Ron Chambers, Sandra Dent, Lyn Edward, Alan Egan JP, Gunta Eglite, Louis Hamon OAM, Carol Hay, Tony Howe, Audrey M Jenkins, John and Joan Jones, George and Grace Kass, Mrs Sylvia Lavelle, Pauline and David Lawton, Lorraine Meldrum, Cameron Mowat, Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James, Rosia Pasteur, Elizabeth Proust AO, Penny Rawlins, Joan P Robinson, Neil Roussac, Anne Roussac-Hoyne, Jennifer Shepherd, Drs Gabriela and George Stephenson, Pamela Swansson, Lillian Tarry, Dr Cherilyn Tillman, Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock, Michael Ullmer, Ila Vanrenen, Mr Tam Vu, Marian and Terry Wills Cooke, Mark Young, Anonymous (23)

The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support received from the Estates of:Angela Beagley, Gwen Hunt, Pauline Marie Johnston, C P Kemp, Peter Forbes MacLaren, Prof Andrew McCredie, Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE, Molly Stephens, Jean Tweedie, Herta and Fred B Vogel, Dorothy Wood

Honorary AppointmentsMrs Elizabeth Chernov Education and Community Engagement Patron

Sir Elton John CBE Life Member

The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Life Member

Geoffrey Rush AC Ambassador

John Brockman AO Life Member

The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain access, artists, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events and supporter newsletter The Full Score.

The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows: $1,000 (Player), $2,500 (Associate), $5,000 (Principal), $10,000 (Maestro), $20,000 (Impresario), $50,000 (Benefactor).

The MSO Conductor’s Circle is our bequest program for members who have notified of a planned gift in their Will.

Enquiries: Ph: +61 (3) 9626 1248

Email: philanthropy@mso.com.au

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ORCHESTRA

First ViolinsDale Barltrop Concertmaster

Eoin Andersen Concertmaster

Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster (The Ullmer Family Foundation0)

Peter Edwards Assistant Principal

Kirsty BremnerSarah CurroPeter FellinDeborah GoodallLorraine HookKirstin KennyJi Won KimEleanor ManciniMark Mogilevski Michelle RuffoloKathryn Taylor(Michael Aquilina0)

Robert John*Oksana Thompson*

Second ViolinsMatthew Tomkins Principal Second Violin(The Gross Foundation0)

Robert Macindoe Associate Principal

Monica Curro Assistant Principal (Danny Gorog & Lindy Suskind0)

Mary AllisonIsin CakmakciogluFreya FranzenCong GuAndrew HallFrancesca HiewRachel Homburg Isy WassermanPhilippa WestPatrick WongRoger Young

ViolasChristopher Moore Principal (Di Jameson0)

Fiona Sargeant Associate Principal

Lauren BrigdenKatharine BrockmanChristopher CartlidgeGabrielle HalloranTrevor Jones Cindy WatkinCaleb WrightCeridwen Davies*Isabel Morse*

CellosDavid Berlin Principal Cello(MS Newman Family0)

Rachael Tobin Associate Principal

Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal

Miranda BrockmanRohan de KorteKeith JohnsonSarah MorseAngela SargeantMichelle Wood(Andrew & Theresa Dyer0)

Double BassesSteve Reeves Principal

Andrew Moon Associate Principal

Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal

Damien EckersleyBenjamin HanlonSuzanne LeeStephen Newton

FlutesPrudence Davis Principal Flute (Anonymous0)

Wendy Clarke Associate Principal

Sarah Beggs

PiccoloAndrew Macleod Principal

OboesJeffrey Crellin Principal

Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal

Ann Blackburn

Cor AnglaisMichael Pisani Principal

ClarinetsDavid Thomas Principal

Philip Arkinstall Associate Principal

Craig Hill

Bass ClarinetJon Craven Principal

BassoonsJack Schiller Principal

Elise Millman Associate Principal

Natasha ThomasLyndon Watts*

ContrabassoonBrock Imison Principal

Horns Jeff Garza* Guest Principal

Geoff Lierse Associate Principal

Saul Lewis Principal Third

Jenna BreenAbbey EdlinTrinette McClimontRobert Shirley*

TrumpetsGeoffrey Payne Principal

Shane Hooton Associate Principal

William EvansJulie Payne

TrombonesBrett Kelly Principal

Iain Faragher*

Bass TromboneMike Szabo Principal

TubaTimothy Buzbee Principal

TimpaniChristine Turpin Principal

PercussionRobert Clarke Principal

John ArcaroRobert Cossom

HarpYinuo Mu Principal

* Guest Musician

0 Position supported by

BOARD

Managing DirectorSophie Galaise

ChairmanMichael Ullmer

Board MembersAndrew DyerDanny GorogMargaret Jackson ACBrett Kelly

David Krasnostein David LiHelen Silver AOKee Wong

Company SecretaryOliver Carton

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MAESTRO PARTNERS

Linda Britten Naomi Milgrom Foundation

Hardy Amies

Fitzroys Alpha Feature Investment

Red Emperor

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Malcolm SinclairEd ChanTim Wright

Bass Maurice AmorRichard BolithoDavid BrownPaul Alexander ChantlerBarry ClarkeTed DaviesGerard EvansMichael GoughTom GriffithsAndrew HamAndrew HibbardJohn HowardJemly KalangieBenjamin LeskeGary LevyAndreas LoeweAlastair McKeanAndrew MurrellVern O’HaraEdward OunapuuDouglas ProctorStephen PykLiam StaughanRobert StoveMatthew ToulminMaurice WanFoon WongAllan YapMaciek Zielinski

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