{"id":18758,"date":"2015-05-27T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=18758"},"modified":"2015-05-27T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:17:36","slug":"acacia-celebrates-five-years-with-music-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=18758","title":{"rendered":"Acacia Celebrates Five Years With Music And Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18760\" alt=\"images (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images-1.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate its 5th birthday in May 2015, Acacia Quartet, one of Australia\u2019s most exciting and sought-after string quartets, is delighted to present <em>Five Chapters<\/em>, the second program in its 2015 <em>ACACIA Presents\u2026<\/em>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<p>For this special concerts, Acacia proudly presents the world premieres of works by two great Australian composers who have supported the quartet from its inception in 2010: Elena Kats-Chernin and Lyle Chan.<\/p>\n<p>One of our most internationally renowned composers, Kats-Chernin chose Acacia to record her entire string quartets &#8211; resulting in the APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award-nominated CD,<em> Blue Silence,<\/em>\u00a0and became Patron of the quartet. Especially arranged for Acacia as a piano quintet, with celebrated pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska, <em>Five Chapters<\/em> unites Acacia\u2019s passions for Australian new music and its creators with a nod to their five years together, in a work of mystery and expectation, vivacity, riddles, and spiralling momentum towards time\u2019s inexorable horizons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18759\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18759\" alt=\"Elena Kats-Chernin by Lisa Stewart, 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/images.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Kats-Chernin by Lisa Stewart, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To highlight this milestone 5th birthday, Acacia\u2019s own violinist, Lisa Stewart \u2013 also a published illustrator \u2013 has created a stunning mixed media portrait of composer, Elena Kats-Chernin. This unique artwork features strands of Elena\u2019s original manuscripts, and will be offered for auction online (from 1 May), and at the Sydney concert on 28 May. Full proceeds go towards Acacia Quartet\u2019s 2016 A<em>CACIA Presents\u2026.<\/em>\u00a0concert series in Sydney and the Southern Highlands, with exciting, innovative programs containing new Australian works revealed in late 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Acacia Quartet in 2010, composer Lyle Chan decided to release his private string quartet compositions to the public. Chan considers his string quartet to be an ongoing diary, with the best-known section being his memoir of the years 1991-96, released as An AIDS Activist\u2019s Memoir in Music (premiered, recorded and toured by Acacia Quartet to critical acclaim in 2014). This concert is the premiere performance of a movement written ten years ago as a gift and tribute to a dear friend, whose favourite composer was Wagner: listen for a subtle quote of the Good Friday Spell from Parsifal!<\/p>\n<p>And in keeping with Acacia\u2019s love for the classics, they will perform Debussy\u2019s exquisite <em>String Quartet in G minor<\/em> (1893), considered a watershed in the history of chamber music. Debussy\u2019s unorthodox use of impressionistic tonal shifts, languid rhythms and exotic scales broke all the rules in this moving, and startlingly beautiful music.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2010 by violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase, Acacia Quartet has quickly won great respect for versatile and inventive programs and a reputation for excellent performances of new music. In four years Acacia has recorded as many albums &#8211; two of which were &#8216;Editor&#8217;s Choice&#8217; in Limelight Magazine, and which earned nominations in 2013 for both the ARIA Award for \u2018Best Classical Album\u2019 and an APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award. Passionate about supporting Australian composers, working with young musicians and sharing their love of music with audiences of all ages, their performances feature regularly on ABC Classic FM, Fine Music 102.5 and Qantas In-flight Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Commemorating their 5th anniversary this year, Acacia celebrated with the world premiere of seven new Australian works and performances at Adelaide Festival Centre, the Concourse in Sydney, the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Bellingen Festival and as Ensemble-in-Residence at the\u00a0Bowral Autumn Music Festival, amongst other engagements. Collaborating artists include pianists, Tamara-Anna Cislowska and Gerard Willems, the Song Company, flautist Jane Rutter, and sopranos Amelia Farrugia and Ayse Goknur Shanal. Acacia will also feature on ARIA award-winning pianist and composer, Sally Whitwell\u2019s new album,<em> I Was Flying<\/em> (ABC Classics) to be released in June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The programme:\u00a0FIVE CHAPTERS<\/p>\n<p>Chan, L:<em> String Quartet<\/em> (2005-6, Thomas Brand gewidmet)\/ Debussy, C: <em>String Quartet in G minor, Op.10<\/em> (1893) Kats-Chernin, E: <em>Five Chapters<\/em> (2015)<\/p>\n<p>All ticketing, concert and auction details at www.acaciaquartet.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate its 5th birthday in May 2015, Acacia Quartet, one of Australia\u2019s most exciting and sought-after string quartets, is delighted to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-18758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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