Concert in the US

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Michael Hooper will be giving a concert at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University on 16th April from 8pm.

The repertoire will be:

Kirsty Beilharz: Wreathed in Flames
Eric Gross: Cadenzas I and X
John Peterson: Moving Fast through Autumn Light
Andrew Robbie: Of Their Own Loveliness
Ian Shanahan: Solar Dust
Michael Smetanin: Sting
Jane Stanley: Spindrift/Interiors
Nicholas Vines: Headlands

All works will be US premières, and Andrew Robbie's work will be a world première.

All works are for solo mandolin except for Of Their Own Loveliness which is for 2 mandolins, mandola and guitar. The performance will consist of the playing of a recording (which is the ideal medium for the work) - me all parts.
Stanley's work is for mandolins, piano and recorders and I will be joined by Plastic Atlas for this piece.
Nicholas Vines's composition is for baritone and mandola. This is a substantial (and lengthy at 25 minutes) work setting a text by Sally Treloyn.

[barbaram]

Get there by road, rail, plane...just get there!


I have been fortunate enough to have attended the World Premier Performances of all the above works that
Michael Hooper is performing at the Harvard concert.

His choice of repertoire will demonstrate just what amazing techniques composers have been able to musically intergrate into the latest styles of Mandolin composition.

I think it will also prove why the Mandolin has been so accepted into the mainstream Australian music scene; great works by nationally/internationally known and respected composers performed at a high level.

Get there because this is the type of repertoire that will allow the Mandolin to be a respected instrument in cultures around the world.

[barbaram]

For all you lovers of intruments Michael will be performing on a Gilchrist Mandolin and a Gilchrist Mandola at his concert at Harvard University.

The composers of these Classical works had these specific intruments in mind thru out the composition process.

[barbaram]

I have just been informed that three of the above composers

Andrew Robbie
Jane Stanley
Nicholas Vines

will be present at Michael Hooper's Mandolin Recital at Harvard University.

All three are from Australia but are in the Harvard University Music Department at this time!

Go along, maybe you could ask them to write a work for you; after all these are outstanding composers who already know how wonderful the mandolin can be.

[barbaram]

Do not forget this enlightening concert is on tomorrow.