Avi Avital & Erin Helyard Program Guide | September 2022

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Israeli mandolin player Avi Avital is well known to Australian audiences, courtesy of a sequence of visits in which his fabulous musicality and virtuosity have stunned and charmed all those he encountered. | 2 | © Keith Saunders Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima had a similar impact when, on tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, I invited him and Richard Tognetti to be part of the 2014 Four Winds Festival to contribute what turned out to be an inspiring series of solo and chamber works. Asked to perform his favourite concerto cadenza, Giovanni mentioned by way of introduction that he used to perform this piece naked. ‘Come on then,’ Richard demanded. Giovanni partially obliged. Early conversations about the program for this Musica Viva Australia tour soon landed on the fact that both musicians grew up looking at the same patch of sea, if from very different countries and cultures. Thus, we talked about what the Mediterranean meant to each of them – not simply as a physical mass separating one country from the other, but more importantly as a source of myth and metaphor, of folksong and fantasy. If these were the bones, the flesh is rich and ample. Both brilliant improvisors, Avi and Giovanni dreamed up a way of telling the stories of their respective homelands through a patchwork of existing or improvised pieces, all stitched together with tales of their childhoods and their gradual emergence as two of the most original and fearless artists working today. Paul Kildea Artistic Director Musica Viva Australia
PROGRAM Please note this program is performed without interval. Musica Viva Australia has been advised that Giovanni Sollima has recently contracted COVID-19 and is unable to fly to Australia in time for his September concerts. Whilst we are disappointed that he will miss some of his scheduled concerts, we wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to him re-joining the tour when possible. Avi Avital and Erin Helyard will perform a revised program for mandolin and harpsichord at this evening’s concert. The artists will introduce the repertoire from stage. | 3 |
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Avi Avital & Erin Helyard Program Guide | September 2022

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