Free Lunchtime Concert – The Australia Ensemble@UNSW

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The Australia Ensemble@UNSW presents a free lunchtime concert featuring the music of Amy Beach, America’s first successful female composer who wrote with the seasoned hand of the late Romantics. Her marvellous Flute quintet is the centrepiece for this intimate concert, with Poulenc’s quirky Sonata for clarinet and bassoon and Smetana’s Z Domoviny providing ideal bookends.

SMETANA Z Domoviny for violin and piano

POULENC Sonata for clarinet and bassoon

BEACH Quintet for flute and strings

Guest artists: Andrew Barnes, bassoon; Teije Hylkema, cello

Free. No booking required.

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