TEAM OF PIANISTS

1- Rohan Murray in the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall - Thursday 11 June at 7:00pm

We hope this email finds you well and safe in these uncertain times when concert halls (including the wonderful National Trust venue Rippon Lea Ballroom) are closed to musicians and audiences. It is great news that next week, Team of Pianists partner Rohan Murray will perform live via the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.

Together with his partner, violinist Elizabeth Sellars, Rohan will present Viardot to Figaro, which includes the Mozart K380 sonata as well as Faure’s first sonata in A major. Both works are highly imaginative and fully explore the expressive and virtuosic capabilities of both instruments. The Mozart is highly operatic and evokes scenes from The Marriage of Figaro as well as Don Giovanni. The Faure is full of sweeping romantic gestures and colourful display, about which Saint-Saens wrote: “Magic floats above everything.”

This performance will be streamed live from the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne on Thursday June 11 at 7pm. Audience members can watch the concert in their living room by the fire, via computer, iPad or smart TV, with a glass of wine or a cup of tea! Melbourne Digital Concert Hall has brought live music to private homes in Australian suburbs and has raised over $250,000 for performers who have lost income.

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2 - July News

The Sunday July 19 Rigg Bequest Rippon Lea Chamber Music Recital with Orix Duo - Kevin Suherman, piano and Ye jin Choi, cello, will be postponed due to travel and pandemic restrictions. However Team of Pianists is working on a lived streamed recital from Glenfern that same evening at 6.30pm, featuring Darryl Coote and Melbourne Symphony cellist Rohan de Korte, in a program of Winter Warmers by Beethoven, Schumann, de Falla and Brahms. We expect to have this event listed on our website, with booking link and all details, by late next week and notified by email to you all shortly thereafter.

Just a reminder for those who have purchased tickets already for the postponed concerts in our 2020 season, we are offering a range of options (exchange for future events, full or part donation, full or part refund) as outlined in detail here.

We look forward to returning to live music in wonderful National Trust venues such as Rippon Lea Estate, Barwon Park and Glenfern, as soon as possible and in the meantime look forward to Rohan and Elizabeth's performance next week in Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and our intial live stream from Glenfern on July 19 at 6.30pm