We are thrilled to announce the details for our first recital, a springtime return of the series featuring two of our very finest musicians, violinist Brigid Coleridge and cellist Josephine Vains. 

 

Join Brigid and Josephine in an uplifting and heartfelt collaboration heralding the commencement of Spring which also speaks to a spirit of renewal and rebirth. Solo and duo works by baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach wend their way between works by Australian composer Ross Edwards, Swedish jazz composer Svante Henryson, Russian icon Sofia Gubaidulina, and genre-defying American voice, Jessie Montgomery. The program concludes with a highlight of the repertoire, Maurice Ravel's Duo for Violin and Cello, in this the 150th year of his birth.

The venue for our first gathering is the elegant Main Lounge at Mineral Springs Hotel in picturesque Hepburn Springs, a spectacular jewel in the Macedon Ranges. You will find details following the artist biographies below of some special offers that the Hotel has generously made available to celebrate the return of the recital series. 

We hope you will join us.

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Program
 

JS Bach Two-part Inventions

Ross Edwards Rain and Echoes for violin and cello

Ross Edwards Water Spirit Song for cello  

Anonymous Song of the Birds arr. Pablo Casals

Sofia Gubaidulina Rejoice Duo for violin and cello
i. Eure freude wird niemand von euch nehmen 

Jessie Montgomery 'Antics' from Duo for violin and cello

Intermission
 

JS Bach Violin Partita in E major, Gigue

Svante Henryson Green Song for cello 

Ukrainian Folk Song In the Cherry Garden arr. Chiara Kelle

Maurice Ravel Duo for Violin and Cello

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Brigid Coleridge is an Australian violinist and poet who divides her time between the US and Australia. An “entrancing” (BBC Magazine) and “dynamic” (Classic Melbourne) performer, Brigid’s recent notable performance debuts have included Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw, and her playing has been broadcast across the US (WQXR), Australia (ABC Classic FM, 3MBS) and Europe (BBC Radio 3, and Radio 4 Netherlands). Brigid’s poems have appeared in Australian and international publications and she is the winner of the 2023 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. 

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Brigid is a founding member of the critically acclaimed US-based Merz Trio, winners of the 2021 Naumburg Competition and the 2020 Concert Artists’ Guild Competition. She has performed as a recitalist internationally, in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Purcell Room, and she is a regular guest at festivals in the US and Australia. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Royal College of Music and the University of Melbourne, Brigid also holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she worked on Beethoven’s late Mass, the Missa Solemnis. Read more

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Josephine Vains is an Australian cellist, chamber musician and educator, with a performance career encompassing modern and historical cello. An adventurous spirit has taken her to some far-flung concert venues - from a 1000-year-old cave in the heart of China to mountain-top Bach in the French Alps. These days she performs in Australia and beyond with Firebird Trio, Accademia Arcadia, Elysium Ensemble, Ensemble Old & New, Gryphon Baryton Trio, Genesis Baroque, Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and CellOZ. A regular collaborator with living composers, she has recorded on modern and period instruments for Resonus Classics, ABC Classics, Tall Poppies and HUSH. Josephine relishes working with the cello and chamber music students as staff at Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and the University of Melbourne. Today she plays on a Thomas Kennedy Cello, 1850, London. Read more 

 

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Tickets: $70.00 includes post recital refreshments and afternoon tea. (VISA or MC only, please note 1.5% service fee applies).

 

To Book: Contact Eric Dias on m: 0423 133 690 (Tickets cannot be purchased at the door or exchanged).

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