Celebrating Elena Kats-Chernin AO
Recital Series
Good Shepherd Chapel, Abbotsford & Online

Elena Kats-Chernin AO is one of Australia’s leading composers, at once trailblazing and reinventive, prolific and reflective.

3MBS is privileged to have Elena at the station this May during Radiothon as artist-in-residence, where she will work with talented artists who will perform a selection of her compositions as part of this exciting recital series.

CONCERT 1
Sunday 14 May, 7pm

Artists:
Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Joseph Lallo (saxophone)
Sulki Yu (violin)

Program:
Lullaby for Nick (solo piano)
Frosted Windows (saxophone & piano)

Wild Swans Suite – a selection
Green Leaf Prelude (saxophone & piano)
Brothers (violin & piano)
Wicked Witch (solo piano)
Eliza Aria (violin & piano)

Unsent Love Letters: Meditations on Erik Satie – a selection
Unsent Love Letters (solo piano)
Postcard to a Critic (violin & piano)
Biqui (saxophone, violin & piano)

Le Chat Noir (saxophone, violin & piano)
The Gymnast (solo piano)

CONCERT 2
Monday 15 May, 7pm

Artists:
Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Oliver Crofts (clarinet)

Program:
Faded Curtains (solo piano)
Distant Mountains (clarinet & piano)
Embroidered Shadow
Joy in a minor Key (solo piano)
Waltzing on Air (solo piano)
Moon Cloud Waltz (solo piano)
Afterwards (solo piano)
Russian Rag (clarinet & piano)
Moth Eaten Rag (clarinet & piano)
Bird on the Bench (solo piano)
Grand Rag (clarinet & piano)
Peggy’s Minute Rag (solo piano)

CONCERT 3
Tuesday 16 May, 7pm

Artists:
Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Blair Harris (cello)
Eliza Shephard (flute)

Program:
Plague (solo piano)
Blue Silence (cello & piano)
Saskia (cello & piano)
Slicked Back Tango (cello & piano)
Theodora (solo piano)
Chatterbox Rag (flute & piano)
Kate Waltz (flute & piano)
Eliza Aria (flute & piano)
Fast Blue Village (solo piano)
Pink Breasted Robin (flute, cello & piano)

CONCERT 4
Wednesday 17 May, 7pm

Artists:
Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)
Artamidae Quartet: Fiona Qiu (violin), Donica Tran (violin), Harry Swainston (viola), Nadia Barrow (cello)

Program:
Dance of the Paper Umbrellas (solo piano)
Pitter Patter (solo piano)
Moon Feather Magic (String Quartet)
Anna Magdalena’s Notebook (String Quartet)
Dance of the Petals (solo piano)
Fast Blue Village (string quartet)
Drinking Song (piano & string quartet)

CONCERT 5
Thursday 18 May, 7pm

Artists:
Elena Kats-Chernin (piano)

This concert will be broadcast live on 3MBS from the 3MBS Lady Marigold Southey Studio

Image credit: Vicki Lauren

These events are generously supported by: