TEMPO QUEER 2023
Fridays in June, 8pm.*
*Final concert Saturday 9th September
Pianist and Artistic Director Coady Green presents the second Tempo Queer residency at Tempo Rubato. Five renowned LGBTIQ+ artists or groups curate five recitals on the five Fridays in June, celebrating LGBTIQ+ composers and culture from around the world.
Curators: Coady Green, Miranda Hill, Leigh Harrold, Kyla Matsuura-Miller, and the Divisi Chamber Singers.
Tickets FULL $30 | STUDENT $21
8pm SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
CURATED BY COADY GREEN
Coady Green, piano
With special guest Adrian Tamburini, bass-baritone
And with special guest poetry readings by Nikki Viveca, David Hood, David Kemp
PROGRAM
Jane HAMMOND Anywhere
Nico MUHLY Three Etudes for Piano (Australian premiere)
- Ostinati
- Quiet Music
- Running
Poetry Reading: David Kemp
Jenny GAME Life in the Slow Lane (world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Selected songs (with Adrian Tamburini)
Poetry Reading: Nikki Viveca
Robert MCINTYRE Crossed Stars
Kevin MARCH Déluge d’étoiles (world premiere)
Benjamin BRITTEN Notturno
Connor D'NETTO seven percent etudes (world premiere)
- Floating (right hand only)
- Pensive, uneasy (left hand only)
- Gentle, flowing (both hands)
Poetry Reading: David Hood
Franz SCHUBERT An den Mond D. 193 (with Adrian Tamburini)
Frédéric CHOPIN Waltz Opus 70 No. 3
James RUSHFORD Loonce (world premiere)
John HADDOCK My Assassin, My Lover, from Towards Solitude (with Adrian Tamburini)
Jane HAMMOND Sea Dogged, from Sea Voyage (with Adrian Tamburini)
Sally WHITWELL Tiny Dances for solo piano
Caerwen MARTIN Oceans – before us not between (world premiere)
MERRI-BEK COUNCIL - COMMISSION CALL-OUT
Thanks to funding from Merri-Bek Council, two short new works by local composers have been commissioned for the Tempo Queer series.
Composers who were supported by Merri-bek funding for new commissions were Kip McLachlin for their work “Data Collection”, premiered by Divisi Chamber Singers, and Kevin March for his solo piano work “Deluge d’etoiles’ for me to premiere on Friday 30th June.
PREVIOUS CONCERTS
8pm FRIDAY 9TH JUNE
IN PRAISE OF THE VULNERABLE MAN
CURATED BY LEIGH HARROLD
Leigh Harrold, piano
With special guest Dafydd Camp, oboe
PROGRAM
Robert MCINTYRE: Intercept for oboe and piano
Richard MILLS: 6 Preludes for solo oboe
Robert MUCZYNSKI: Piano Sonata no. 3, ‘For Kit’
Luke SEVERN: and other lines
Anthony MOLES: Leo for solo piano
Benjamin BRITTEN: Temporal Variations for oboe and piano
8PM FRIDAY 2ND JUNE
GLITTER AND BE GAY!
Curated by DIVISI CHAMBER SINGERS
Chamber choir
With special guest Coady Green, piano
Divisi is trying something new for Tempo Queer. Four singers will take some of their favourite jazz standards and theatre songs and give them a contemporary-queer makeover. Putting these songs to the test of time, they give some of them a makeover suitable of Queer Eye for a saucy and sometimes emotional new look. Join Divisi for a silly, confronting, and camp evening.
Performed by:
Alex Gorbatov
Marjorie Butcher
Bailey Montgomerie
Alexandra Amerides
Coady Green
Divisi Chamber Singers have won swathes of awards for their work championing LGBTIQ+ composers and writers, with their Compose Queer programs and their groundbreaking debut album 'Spectrum' - the first ever Australian album devoted to works by Australian LGBTIQ+ composers. One of the most exciting Chamber Choirs in Australia, here they present a vibrant celebration of LGBTIQ+ music. Music by Meta Cohen, Cameron Lam, James Rushford, Sally Whitwell, Joseph Twist and many more.