Below is a list of all upcoming concerts and events for Alana and other projects in 2012. Please check regularly for updated information. If you have any questions please contact Alana via email or please fill in the form on the Contact and Links Page.
2012 Events
Sunday 22nd January
Choir and Orchestra of St James
Jonathan Dove: Koethener Messe
St James, King Street, Sydney 10.00am For more information: www.sjks.org.au
Saturday 21st April
Private Function
St Mary's Cathedral Armidale, NSW.
Friday 25th May - Sunday 27th May
Guest Tutor
North Queensland Recorder Society Weekend Workshop
Townsville, QLD
Saturday 28th July
Ondine Productions
Francesca Caccini - La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
An Australian premiere of Francesca Caccini's only surviving opera.
In varietate Concordia - unity through diversity - explores the tonal capabilities of the recorder, an instrument often overlooked, yet has stood the test of time. Alana Performs a showcase of every aspect of the instrument, including a display of varying sizes and styles from the tiny sopranino to the large, square subcontra bass. Through compositions using fixed media, and live sampling and processing, Alana will perform Australian premieres together with a newly developed improvised performance with sound technologist Ben Carey.
Two grand works stand transformed side by side – J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. IV for two recorders, harpsichord, strings and continuo is heard in an arrangement for 2 recorders and 2 harpsichords. Doubly transformed, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Reinventions, based on six of Bach’s 2-part inventions, is arranged by the composer for recorder and harpsichord, and premiered at this concert where Amelie sits next to Dracula! With Alana Blackburn and Joanne Arnott (recorders), Monika Kornel and Diana Weston (harpsichords).
St Luke's Church, Ourimbah Rd. Mosman 2.30pm Tickets: $25/$15 More Information and tickets: www.thoroughbass.com.au
Past Events...
Saturday 1st October Tactility - Chronology Arts
Sydney Fringe Festival
An experimental event/exhibition - Tactility
- is featuring in the Sydney Fringe Festival. Chronology Arts is
presenting an exhibition of works from Sept 27 that are the result of a
collaboration between composers Alex Pozniak, Amanda Cole, Julian Day,
Russell Phillips and Ben Carey and visual artists Therese Harrison,
Emily Sandrussi, Scott Morrison and Jo Kulchar. The music works will be
performed in situ on October 1 from 7pm onwards
The Choir of St James’ & the Ironwood Chamber Orchestra (with Developing Artists) Director: Warren Trevelyan-Jones
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Bach has had a far reaching influence on many composers, past and
present. This program explores the connections between Bach and
contemporary composition and includes Jonathan Dove’s Köthener Messe
(2002), written especially for recorders, harpsichord and baroque
string instruments and Bach’s exuberant setting of the Magnificat.
Jogging
perambulators, portly waders and sparkles on the sea – Manly in the
morning. Thoroughbass and the Manly Arts Festival present a concert
celebrating the light, colour and life of Manly. In joyous music by
Bach and Vivaldi played on two sparkly harpsichords with two lively
recorders.
Manly Art Gallery East Esplanade, Manly 3.00pm More Information: www.thoroughbass.com.au Tickets: $25 at the door.
Wednesday 14th September
Monthly Guest Tutor Sydney Recorder Society
Each month
the Sydney Recorder Society holds a lovely night of recorder playing
and invite a different guest tutor to each session. Level and ability
is varied and everyone finishes learning something more about playing
the recorder. You can become a member right there on the spot, or come
along to test the water, it's always a great night with lots of laughs.
Language has always been
the paramount artform for the English. Word-play, humour and jest,
stories and imagery are as important in this music as the music itself,
and to be enjoyed for its own sake. English for English speakers has
the added advantage of being understandable! It needs no translation.
We present a broad spectrum from Dowland and Purcell to Rubbra and
Vaughan Williams.
St Luke's Church, Ourimbah Rd, Mosman 2.30pm Entry: $25/$15 More Information and tickets: www.thoroughbass.com.au
Sunday 14th August
Pinchgut Opera
Pinchgut Opera Fundraiser Dinner 2011 Henry Purcell's Dioclesian Dir. Erin Helyard
Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music 4.30pm More Information: www.pinchgutopera.com.au Or call: Anna Cerneaz on 02 9389 8117 or email: anna@pinchgutopera.com.au
Sunday 7th August
Guest Soloist Bourbaki Ensemble
Performing Stephen Cronin's Suite for Recorder and Strings.
St Stephen's Anglican Church 189 Church St. Newtown, NSW 2.30pm More Information: www.bourbakiensemble.org
Saturday 16th July
Don Cowell Recorder Competition
Finalist
Wyselaskie Auditorium, Centre for Theology &
Ministry
29 College Crescent, Parkville, Melbourne.
2.00pm
Result: Joint Winner
Sunday 5th June
Music for the Recorder with Hans-Dieter Michatz
Joined by
three of Sydney's most talented recorder players, this concert displays
some of the recorder's most virtuosic repertoire.
Art Gallery NSW Art Gallery Rd. The Domain, Sydney. 12.30pm
Sunday 8th May
Sensational Sunday - Gods and Monsters
Journey into an
Arcadian world of gods and monsters with Handel's Italian cantatas,
written circa 1710. Shriek with the heroine as she is abducted by the
serpent, swoon with the adventurer as he discovers - and loses - his
lover. Let the enchantress of music beguile and befuddle; indulge with
the shepherd and Dionysus in some of Handel's most dramatic works.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Verbrugghen Hall 3.00pm Adults $30, Conc. $25, Friends $20, Students $10, Child $10 Buy tickets and more information here.
Friday 15th April
Recital joined by Hans-Dieter Michatz (recorder) St Stephen's Lunchtime series
A lunchtime recital featuring early and contemporary solo and duo recorder repertoire.
St Stephen's Uniting Church Macquarie St. Sydney, Australia. 1.00pm Entry: by donation
Saturday 9th April
Conductors' Series - Mostly Bach Early Music Ensemble - Neal Peres Da Costa (dir.)
The Sydney Conservatorium's Early Music Ensemble performs orchestral works from the Baroque Period including Heinichen's Concerto a 8 for 4 Recorders and 4 Strings.
Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music 4.00pm Entry: $30/$25/$20/$10 purchase tickets here More Information: http://sydney.edu.au/music
Saturday 9th April
Private function - Wedding
Sunday 3rd April
Duo concert with Riley Lee (Shakuhachi)
Solo contemporary and traditional repertoire for Shakuhachi and Recorder with special arrangements of 2-part Renaissance pieces.
Springwood Music Club Springwood Presbyterian Church Hall 158/162 Macquarie Road, Springwood. NSW, Australia. 2.00pm Tickets: $23/$20/$12/under 18 free
Below is a list of all upcoming concerts and events for Alana and other projects in 2012. Please check regularly for updated information. If you have any questions please contact Alana via 
