🐣 Spring Lunch Hour Series Wed 19 August at 12:30pm featuring Lewis Blanchard, Phuong Do and Brighton Highschool Students

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Dear <<First Name>>,

The next concert in our emerging artist Spring Lunch Hour Series program features clarinettist Lewis Blanchard with pianist and composer Phuong Do, followed by students from Brighton High School: Shannon Whitehead, violin, Andrew Barrett, piano, Olivia Lau, piano, Nicolas Bergoc, piano and Ashlyn von Bertouch, violin. The concert is free to watch online and starts at 12:30pm, Wednesday August 19.

The program includes a variety of works in two halves - clarinet and piano works in first half - including Rossini and a new composition by Phuong Do - and in the second, works by Stamitz, Mendelssohn, Copland and Mozart.

Next week on 26 August at 12:30pm, pianist Stephen Van Der Hoek performs Pachelbel’s rarely heard work Hexachordum Apollinis.

Our emerging artist programs are made possible by donations, and your support is always welcomed through a tax deductible donation to our organisation. We are immensely grateful to the many new & old friends of Recitals Australia that have been able to help us over the past months, enabling Recitals Australia to continue producing digital concerts and supporting professional and emerging artist opportunity in Adelaide.

If you are busy on the day, or just want to see it again, you can watch the concert later, as the archive will be available for some time via Vimeo and our website.

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Program
Wednesday 19 August, 2020
at 12:30pm
for approximately 1 hour

Lewis Blanchard
clarinet

Phuong Do
piano

Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868)
Introduction, Theme and Variations in Bb

Phuong Do

Piano Suite in Gb
Constellations and Contemplations
Gaming
Bedtime Thoughts

Brighton High School Students

Shannon Whitehead, violin, Andrew Barrett, piano
Carl Stamitz (1745-1801)
Concerto in Bb Major (1st mvt)

Olivia Lau, piano
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)
Scherzo op.16 no.2

Frederic Chopin (1810-49)
Waltz in E minor kk IVa no.15

Nicolas Bergoc, piano
Aaron Copland (1900-90)
The Cat and the Mouse: Scherzo Humoristique

Ashlyn von Bertouch, violin, Andrew Barrett, piano
Wolfgang Mozart (1756-91)
Concerto in G Major (1st mvt) KV 216

ABOUT LEWIS
Lewis Blanchard is a year 12 student at Concordia College. He was brought up in a musical family and started playing clarinet when he was 8 years old. Since then he was awarded with his AMusA last year and received the Associate Prize from the University of Adelaide. He currently plays Principal Clarinet in the Adelaide Youth Orchestra and plays in the associated Wind Quintet. He was also accepted into the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Young Symphonist program. In his spare time he studies jazz piano under his own learning.

ABOUT PHUONG
Phuong is a first year music composition student at the University of Adelaide and a pianist. He currently studies composition with Professor Charles Bodman Rae and piano with David Lockett AM. Some of his notable achievements include the AMusA prize in 2017, 2018 Metropolitan Males Choir first place scholarship winner and many accolades from Eisteddfods. In his spare time he likes watching movies, drawing and playing table tennis.

Spring Lunch Hour Series

Recitals Australia presents the Lunch Hour Series as part of our educational and outreach programs. It aims to support and mentor young emerging artists and provides valuable performance opportunities in front of an audience. The program is now available on our website.

The program is entirely supported through donations. We'd appreciate any assistance you can give us, and are happy to discuss a donation on the phone on 08 8236 7488 or you can donate directly online at https://recitalsaustralia.org.au/donate/

The Series culminates in the special Awards Final, which will see eligible musicians from that series compete for individual awards of up to $1000, including the Berenice Harrison Prize.

Supporting Australian emerging artists and musicians for nearly 50 years, Recitals Australia is entirely run by a volunteer council and relies on donations to support all of our programs. We thank our donors and partners for their support of the 2020 Spring Series: 5MBS Radio, National Trust South Australia, Pilgrim Uniting Church, Musica Viva, ArtFuel by I-Nex, Chamber Music Adelaide and many individual donors and volunteers.

Look forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.

Best wishes.

Mark de Raad
President