Konstantin Shamray  piano

Elizabeth Layton  violin

Mark Gaydon  bassoon

Joe Chindamo OAM  piano

Madeline Melrose  violin

Katherine Moorhead  flute

Charles Bodman Rae  piano

Bodman Rae

Golden Ring for Solo Piano

Fulgura Frango for Two Pianos

Toccata Agogica for Solo Flute

Partita Elegiaca for Solo Violin

Ceol Mor I for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano

Ceol Mor II for Solo Bassoon

Messiaen  Movements VI, VII, and VIII from the Quartet for the End of Time

Lutosławski  Paganini Variations

Rachmaninov  The Tears and Easter from Suite No. 1 in G minor, Op. 5

This concert marks the 70th birthday of our seventh Sir Thomas Elder Professor of Music, Charles Bodman Rae. The program features several of his own works alongside pieces by two significant composers with whom he had close personal associations, Olivier Messiaen and Witold Lutosławski. The performers – alongside the composer himself, as pianist – include several distinguished Australian musicians who have been his PhD students: the pianist Konstantin Shamray; the violinist Elizabeth Layton, the flautist Kathryn Moorhead; the violinist Madeline Melrose; the bassoonist Mark Gaydon (ASO); and the composer-pianist Joe Chindamo OAM. Three of the pieces incorporate Scottish themes, acknowledging his paternal highland heritage, and two of the pieces are inspired by the sounds of European bells.