Archive: 2025 Megalong Music Festival
Friday Frolic
Friday, 18th April, 2025 | 5pm
Saturday Sunset
Saturday, 19th April, 2025 | 5pm
Sunday Farewell
Sunday, 20th April, 2025 | 11am
Program
An exuberant program of dance-inspired works, featuring a newly-minted collaborative work featuring music created by our 2025 cohort of artists, inspired by Megalong Valley’s incredible landscape. Guided by Gundungurra elder, Uncle David King.
- 2025 Cohort of artists – new work
- Ross Edwards – Ecstatic Dances for viola and cello
- Josef Haydn – “Gypsy” Piano Trio
- Michi Wiancko – Blue Bouree for string quintet
- Astor Piazzolla – Four for Tango for string quartet
- György Ligeti – Five Pieces for piano 4 hands
- Dimitri Shostakovich – Five Pieces for two violins and piano
- Rebecca Clarke – Dumka Duo Concertante for violin and viola with piano
- John Adams – Shaker Loops for string septet
Program
Sumptuous chamber music to soak in the sunset glow as it lights up the Megalong escarpment. In today’s and tomorrow’s programs, music weaves connection across time between the works of the Mendelssohn siblings (Sunday’s program) and those of our contemporary composers, US-based Reena Esmail and Australia’s own Anne Cawrse. Program:
- Christopher Theofanidis – Visions and Miracles for string quartet
- Claude Debussy – Sonata for violin and piano
- Robert Schumann – Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
- Reena Esmail – Saans (“breath”) for piano trio
- Antonin Dvořak – Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
Program
A bubbly midmorning concert to farewell everyone until next festival.
- Ludwig van Beethoven – 7 Variations on Mozart’s Magic Flute, arranged for viola and piano
- Arthur Benjamin – Jamaican Rhumba for piano 4 hands
- Franz Schubert – Piano Trio in B flat major, No. 1, Op. 99
- Anne Cawrse – Songs Without Words for piano trio
- Fanny Mendelssohn – Capriccio in A flat for cello and piano, H. 247
- Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet in E flat major, Op. 20
Artists
This concert showcases all our guest artists and festival fellows.
Post-concert picnic boxes available for purchase with tickets, catered by Lot 101.
Program subject to change, given the dynamic nature of our mentoring program.
Artists
This concert showcases all guest artists (except David Campbell) and festival fellows.
Post-concert picnic boxes available for purchase with tickets, catered by Lot 101.
Program subject to change, given the dynamic nature of our mentoring program.
Artists
This concert showcases all guest artists (except David Campbell) and all festival fellows.
Post-concert picnic boxes available for purchase with tickets, catered by Lot 101.
Program subject to change, given the dynamic nature of our mentoring program.
