OMEGA ENSEMBLE ENLIGHTENED City Recital Hall
Sat 7 June, 7.30pm

Don’t miss Omega Ensemble’s largest and most comprehensive collaboration to date, Enlightened.
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Joining with virtuosic performers from one of the country’s foremost musical institutions, the Australian National Academy of Music, and with French Conductor/Clarinetist Paul Meyer as well as Principal Cellist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra Timo-Veikko Valve, Omega Ensemble present symphonic chamber repertoire as big as it gets.

In this concert Omega will perform some of the most technically demanding and most beautiful chamber works in the repertoire, including the wonderfully lyrical Siegfried Idyll composed by Wagner as a birthday present to his second wife Cosima, and one of the great works of the late 20th century, the highly complex Chamber Symphony by John Adams.
program
Hindemith Kammermusik No.3
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Adams Chamber Symphony

pre-concert talk
There is so much to say about our Enlightened program we’ve invited ABC Radio producer Daniel Driscoll to give a special pre-concert talk between 6:45 and 7:15pm before the concert.

guest artists

Paul Meyer – Conductor

Internationally recognised for his wide repertoire and an interest in modern works for clarinet, Paul Meyer began studying clarinet as a child and made his solo debut with the Symphony Orchestra of the Rhine at age 13. Paul Meyer has since gone on to an illustrious career as a performer and conductor.

Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

ANAM is dedicated to the artistic and professional development of the country’s most exceptional young musicians, develop the country’s future music leaders, distinguished by their artistic skill, imagination and courage.

Timo-Veikko Valve – Cello

One of the most versatile musicians of his generation Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve is equally at home performing as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader on both modern and period instruments. In 2006 Valve was appointed Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra with whom he frequently appears as soloist.