Music by Debussy, Ravel and Fanny Mendelssohn

2:30 pm Saturday April 1

St Paul’s Anglican Church, Narooma

Tickets $28 from Mitre 10, Narooma & Nested on Wallaga, Bermagui

$30 at the door or from Trybooking https://www.trybooking.com/CGLAL

More info: 0439 648414 or [email protected]

Kindly supported by Jenny and Jock Munro

Programme:

Claude Debussy - Six épigraphes antiques 

Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été ("To invoke Pan, god of the summer wind")

Pour un tombeau sans nom ("For a nameless tomb")

Pour que la nuit soit propice ("In order that the night be propitious")

Pour la danseuse aux crotales ("For the dancer with crotales")

Pour l'égyptienne ("For the Egyptian woman")

Pour remercier la pluie au matin ("To thank the morning rain")

Martin Wesley-Smith - Brother Jack 

Maurice Ravel Ma mère l'Oye ("My Mother the Goose") suite 

Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant: Lent (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty)

Petit Poucet: Très modéré (Little Tom Thumb / Hop-o'-My-Thumb)

Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes: Mouvt de marche (Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas)

Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête: Mouvt de valse très modéré (Conversation of Beauty and the Beast)

Le jardin féerique: Lent et grave (The Fairy Garden)

Fanny Mendelssohn - 4 Lieder for Piano, Op. 8 

Allegro moderato

Andante con espressione

Larghetto

Wanderlied. Presto

Cecile Chaminade, arr. Neeman - Andante et Scherzettino, Op. 59

Aram Khachaturian, arr. Anderson - Sabre Dance

The Neeman Piano Duo has been widely acclaimed for impeccable musicianship and unique onstage chemistry in performances across America, Australia, and Asia. Their wide-ranging repertoire encompasses classical masterpieces and duets by the composers of today, as well as original arrangements of popular tunes and Broadway hits. As a husband-and-wife duo, they have performed with orchestras including the National Capital Orchestra and the Canberra Youth Orchestra performing the Poulenc and Mendelssohn Double Piano Concerto.

Dr. Stephanie Neeman is an active international performer and educator. She has taught masterclasses and performed in various venues throughout the world. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music at the Manhattan School of Music and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from CCM at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Neeman recently moved to Australia and was the CEO/Artistic Director of Music for Canberra (Canberra Youth Orchestra). She has previously taught as a piano professor at Valdosta State University and the University of Utah in the United States. She currently is the head of the piano department at ELMS Conservatory of Music in Jakarta.

The Australian-American pianist Dr. Edward Neeman is a top prizewinner of numerous international piano competitions, including first prize in the Joaquín Rodrigo Competition in Madrid. He has performed as a soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, the Madrid Philharmonia, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Cuba among others. His debut CD, Rachmaninoff & Sitsky, was released to critical acclaim. He holds a doctoral degree from The Juilliard School. Dr. Neeman is currently a Piano Lecturer at the Australian National University. www.neemanpianoduo.com