Massimo Scattolin & Erica Kennedy at the Castlemaine State Festival 

 

6.00 pm, Saturday 2 April 2011 at Castlemaine Presbyterian Church

 

Massimo Scattolin is a highly distinguished

classical guitarist from Italy. He specialises in performing the most challenging concertos for guitar and orchestra, including concertos written for him by great composers such as Ástor Piazzolla. Massimo Scattolin is widely regarded as one of the finest classical guitarists of our time. 

 

As first violinist for the Flinders Quartet, Erica Kennedy performs regularly throughout Australia and internationally. She has won numerous awards, recorded for national television and radio, and performed with various Australian orchestras. Erica has recently been appointed Associate Principal Violin of Orchestra Victoria.

   

In this concert, prepared specially for the 2011 Castlemaine State Festival, Massimo Scattolin and Erica Kennedy will perform a very delicate classical repertoire for guitar and violin.

Admission:$22/$20  

For bookings please refer to the official festival website.    

3.00 pm, Saturday, 3 April 2011 at  the IIC 

The Australian Chamber Choir offers programs ranging through the entire spectrum of classical music. An emphasis is placed on the Renaissance, J.S.Bach and contemporary Australian music. The Australian Chamber Choir has 18 singers: 6 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors and 4 basses. The Australian Chamber Choir is the direct result of Douglas Lawrence's 24 years as founder and Director of the renowned Choir of Ormond College from the University of Melbourne.

Adults $30, Seniors $25, Students/Pensioners $20

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19.30 pm, Friday, 8 April 2011 at the IIC 

ELAINE TZIMOKAS "These paintings explore the visual language of Sicily, depicting the connectedness between both the architecture and of humanity. The paintings allude to an energy embodied within the architecture and urban fabric in which the obser finds themselves drawn to, and subconcsiously longing for." BILLY DOOLAN An absolute world first, this unique exhibition presents a series of paintings depicting the island of Sicily through the eyes of the Queensland indigenous artist Billy Doolan. The paintings express, with stunning lyricism, the impact that Sicily, its people, traditions and history have had on the artist.

19.00 pm, Thursday, 14 April 2011 at  the IIC 

MARIANO CORENO, one of Australia' best-known Italian-Australian poets, lives in Melbourne.

Quasimodo is one of the great Italian poets of the twentieth century. He brings us the harmonies of the South which, in Italian poetry of the past, has meant the sickly as well as the exquisite. His own lyric form gives something new to Italian poetry. Occasionally he recalls his childhood Sicily, looking back at it from misty Milan, like in his beautiful poem " LETTERA ALLA MADRE ". He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. He witnessed Italy's suffering during the Second World War. One of is best poem is " ED E' SUBITO SERA ", " And in No Time it's Evening " Mariano Coreno has a letter written to him by Quasimodo and published in TEMPO magazine, 1966.