Team of Pianists
...Artists in residence at 'Glenfern'
for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Photograph by Chris Hopkins: www.chris-hopkins.com.au 
Barwon Park Mansion, Winchelsea
The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists are Artists-In-Residence for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Ltd. at Glenfern, the National Trust‘s Centre for the Arts and Culture, in East St Kilda. Acclaimed for their artistry and professionalism, Team of Pianists has presented solo and chamber recitals, concerto performances, CDs and broadcasts over many decades and is also committed to encouraging and promoting young musicians through masterclass programmes and concert opportunities. The Team has produced many CDs covering a wide range of music, including a number of exciting, yet rarely recorded works, as well as two innovative videos and various publications on the art of piano playing and musicianship. The Team works closely with the Nationa Trust of Australia (Vic) to present recitals in historic venues in and around Melbourne.
At Glenfern, Team partners have established educational programmes such as the annual Spring Piano School for primary and secondary school age students (since 2004), professional development events such as International Teachers‘ Seminars (2009 & 2010) and the Autumn Piano Weekend (2013), as well as presenting masterclasses by Australian and overseas artists. As well as the Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea concert series, Team of Pianists organises an annual Piano Marathon for pianists of all ages in the Ballroom during late summer. The four partners are Professor Max Cooke OAM, Robert Chamberlain, Darryl Coote and Rohan Murray.
Upcoming Events
Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea
Concert 1 - Where the Wild Sings Are: Songs of Animals and Beasts
Icon Trio - Justine Anderson (soprano), Vivien Hamilton (mezzo-soprano), Jeannie Marsh (alto), with Robert Chamberlain (piano). A concert of songs inspired by the world of animals, including unaccompanied madrigals, Australian rounds, comedic songs by Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Swann (including Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud with audience sing-along), delightful songs by Poulenc, Chabrier, Barber, Stravinsky, Richard Rodney Bennett and more, plus piano works based on animal themes. Don’t miss this vibrant ménagèrie with the outstanding soloists of Icon Trio.
Date and Time
Sunday April 19, 2020 at 6.30pm
Rippon Lea Ballroom, 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick (Melway 67 E2)
Rigg Bequest Classic Music at Barwon Park
A Musical Flower-Garden for clarinet, cello & piano
Robert Schubert (clarinet), Josephine Vains (cello), Robert Chamberlain (piano), in a varied and highly contrasted program of chamber music, ranging from the Baroque conversational sensibility of J S Bach's Gamba Sonata in G, performed on modern instruments, through the Romantic exuberance of Bruch's pieces for clarinet, cello and piano, to the brooding passion and end-of-century energy of the little known Trio Op. 3 by Zemlinsky! Plus works by Australian composer Julian Yu and an amusing selection from Hindemith's Musikalisches Blumengartlein und Leyptziger Allerley for clarinet & cello.
Date and Time
Sunday May 3, 2020 at 2.00pm
Barwon Park, 105 Inverleigh Road, Winchelsea, VIC (Melway X911 B8)
Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea
Concert 2 - Tradition and Antipodean
Melbourne Symphony musicians Kathryn Taylor (violin), Gabrielle Halloran (viola), Rohan de Korte (cello) join Darryl Coote (piano)
in a program contrasting Beethoven's Sonata in G minor for cello & piano Op 5 No 2 and Mozart's attractive Piano quartet in G minor KV 478 with historical Australian composer Arthur Benjamin's Sonata for viola & piano.
Date and Time
Sunday May 17, 2020 at 6.30pm
Rippon Lea Ballroom, 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick (Melway 67 E2)