SUNDAY MATTUTINO
Our Sunday Mattutino series takes place on the third Sunday of every month at 11am.
Tickets are $25 each, and released a month before. It is a single sitting of performance, until about 12 midday. The series is curated by us and tickets include a glass of sherry, dry or sweet, after the concert. Or an orange juice. Plus something to nibble.
NEXT MATTUTINO:
SUNDAY 15TH DECEMBER 2024 11AM
LAURENCE MATHESON, PIANO
PROGRAM
CHOPIN Fantaisie Op.49
Fanny MENDELSSOHN Lied Op.10 No.3
CHOPIN Grande Valse Brillante Op.18
BRAHMS Intermezzo Op.118 No.2
CHOPIN Grande Valse Brillante Op.34 No.2
CHOPIN Grande Valse Brillante Op.34 No.1
SCHUMANN Kinderszenen
ABOUT LAURENCE MATHESON
One of Australia’s most exciting young musicians, Laurence Matheson is in demand across the country as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist. He studied at the Australian National Academy of Music with Timothy Young as one of their youngest ever students and became a Fellow of the Academy in 2016 after winning the Directors’ Prize, subsequently serving on the faculty.
Laurence is regularly broadcast on ABC Classic and 3MBS FM, and has appeared as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Australian Ballet, as well as in recital at the Melbourne Recital Centre and Sydney Opera House. His festival appearances include the Bendigo, Martinborough, Dunkeld, Brisbane Baroque, Music by the Springs and Melbourne Festivals and he was invited to perform alongside many of Australia’s greatest musicians at the Melbourne Recital Centre’s 10th Anniversary Gala concert. He records for Decca Classics and ABC Classic.
Laurence has a particular passion for chamber music and has performed with the Aurora Ensemble, Anthony Marwood, the Australian String Quartet, Ben Baker and Kathryn Stott, while his regular duo partners include Suyeon Kang, Emily Sun, Grace Clifford, Dale Barltrop, Sophie Rowell, and Tim Young. He has also mentored many of Australia’s promising young violinists, including Decca Artist Christian Li and Edward Walton, as well as appearing in recital with some of Australia and the world’s top musicians and collaborating with internet stars TwoSet Violin.
Aside from piano, Laurence is a keen conductor, has also play-directed multiple concerto projects from the keyboard, is an accomplished harpsichordist and his compositions have been commissioned by Victorian Opera and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
If you would like to receive an email when we release each month’s details and tickets, please join our MML, Mattutino Mailing List, link below. This list is just for Mattutino. And you can opt out at any time, via the same link, that’s no drama.
Sunday Mattutino was inspired by our friend Mark Millward, who was missing Sunday Morning Concerts at Wigmore Hall in London and generously offered to help support a similar series here. He is marketing manager, sourcer and pourer of sherry, and host extraordinaire for the series. We thank him.
PAST MATTUTINOS
SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
SOPHIA KIRSANOVA, VIOLIN
A solo violin program showcasing the violin’s expressive voice and technical brilliance across the centuries. Works by Eugene Ysaÿe, Lera Auerbach and J. S. Bach.
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SUNDAY 20TH OCTOBER
JENNY KHAFAGI, VIOLIN + VIOLA
A reflective program of solo works for both violin and viola, including pieces by J.S Bach, Max Reger, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti and Lachlan Skipworth.
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SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER
KATIA MESTROVIC
An uplifting morning of dance rhythms on the harp, from North Africa to Moorish Andalusia; Cuba, Río de la Plata and more.
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SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST
Josh HOOKE
Solo piano music of Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven.
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SUNDAY 21ST JULY
DANIEL MCKAY
Solo classical guitar music of Paraguay’s Agustín Barrios, the legendary Brazilian master ‘Garoto’, and Mexico’s Manuel Ponce. Plus excerpts from Daniel’s recent album featuring music of Australia’s own Phillip Houghton, Nigel Westlake and Lilijana Matičevska.
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SUNDAY 16TH JUNE
MODI DENG
Music with light and the darkest of the dark – pieces that leave you wondering, with early Beethoven, Ligeti, Clara Schumann, Chopin, and Ravel’s La Valse.
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SUNDAY 16TH MAY
ZOË BLACK & JOE CHINDAMO
Exhilarating and contemplative music for violin and piano, from Spain, France and Argentina. Including some of Joe’s own compositions, including a touching tribute to Zoë’s mum, who passed away 2 years ago.
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SUNDAY 21ST APRIL
JOSEPHINE VAINS & KEN MURRAY
Invigorating and whimsical music of Cuban guitar virtuoso Leo Brouwer and Australian composer Anne Cawrse. Alongside Welsh folk songs by Welsh composer Stephen Goss and some of Ken Murray’s own offerings.
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SUNDAY 17TH MARCH
FLAVIO VILLANI
Rachmaninoff’s Op. 23 Preludes presented in alternation with Villani’s own improvisations, mirroring some of the gestures and ideas of the brilliant Russian composer.
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SUNDAY 17TH FEBRUARY
GINTAUTE GATAVECKAITE
A pianistic sonata odyssey, with four of the most celebrated in the piano repertoire. Sonatas by Joseph Haydn, Domenico Scarlatti and Carl Vine.
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SUNDAY 21ST JANUARY
EMMA SULLIVAN & STEWART KELLY
Works for double bass and piano. Music of Amy Beach and Bach, Debussy's Syrinx and La plus que lente, excerpts from Xavier Foley's The Mountain Sketches and more.
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SUNDAY 17TH DECEMBER
AFFINITY QUARTET
Josephine Chung & Nicholas Waters, violins | Ruby Shirres, viola | Mee Na Lojewski, cello
Bartok’s first string quartet and Haydn’s “Emperor” quartet.
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SUNDAY 19TH NOVEMBER
ELIZA SHEPHARD & PETER DE JAGER
Reimagined repertoire from 19th century composers whose music is deeply ingrained with story and song, including music of Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Chaminade and Mendelssohn.
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SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER
HANNAH LANE
Music for harp, composed for private spaces: from the the 16th-century Italian ‘musica secreta’ tradition, to the refinement of the ‘private music’ performed in the chambers of 17th-century English royalty.
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SUNDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
ROB HAO
Piano works inspired by musical meditation and composers interested in the reworking of pre-existing material.
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SUNDAY 19TH AUGUST
BERTA BROZGUL
Piano music of Mozart, Scriabin and Schumann.
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SUNDAY 16TH JULY
COADY GREEN
Piano music of Haydn, Chopin, Linda Kouvaras, Jane Hammond and Brahms.
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SUNDAY 18TH JUNE
JOSEPHINE VAINS & FRIENDS: ‘THE SWEET SACRED’
Music of J. S. Bach, Sophia Gubaidulina and Caerwen Martin for cello ensemble and cello solo