Forty Fingers at Rippon Lea! - The Team's End-of-Year Celebration Recital

Tuesday December 10, 2024 - commencing at 6.30pm
Forty Fingers at Rippon Lea! - TOP's End-of-Year Celebration Recital

Celebrate the end of 2024 with the Team of Pianists in the Ballroom at Rippon Lea! Join Team partners Darryl Coote, Rohan Murray, Robert Chamberlain plus special guest pianist Elyane Laussade, in a delightful program of piano music for four, six and eight hands at one and two grand pianos. This special evening is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.

Enjoy canapé refreshments (included in the ticket price) and bar drink sales on the pool terrace before the recital, meet committee members of the Friends of the Team of Pianists and enjoy music and festivities in this special heritage venue!

Recital Programme:

• Mendelssohn - Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture for 2 pianos, 8 hands
• Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn for 2 pianos
• Mack Wilberg - Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen for 2 pianos, 8 hands
• Rachmaninoff - Waltz & Romance for 6 hands at 1 piano
• Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 arr. Windsperger, for 4 hands at 1 piano
• Vincent Youmans - Tea for Two & Leroy Anderson - Syncopated Clock, for piano duet
• Piazzolla - Libertango arr. Pavel Zakharov, for 3 pianists at 1 piano
• William Gillock - Champagne Toccata for 2 pianos, 8 hands

Schedule for the evening:

• 6.30 - 6.45pm - guests arrive
• 6.45 - 7.15pm - Canapé service on the Pool Terrace or inside the Ballroom (depending on weather), with drinks at bar prices
• 7.30 - 8.10pm - Recital first half
• 8.10 - 8.30pm - Interval (drinks available at bar prices)
• 8.30 - 9.10pm - Recital second half
• 9.10 - 9.30pm - Bar service at the conclusion of the recital
• 9.30pm (approx) - End of the evening

192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick
Off-street parking in the grounds from 6.00pm

This recital forms a special part of the Team’s new Rigg Bequest Classic Music in Historic Venues 2024 - 2025 series and features a specially discounted ticket price ($65, which is $20 less than full price) for current financial members of the Friends of the Team of Pianists (FOTOPS).

Alternatively if you purchase a normal price ticket ($85) for Forty Fingers at Rippon Lea, you will receive 6 months complimentary membership of the Friends group, until July 2025!

Please note: due to catering requirements, bookings must close either on Saturday December 7 at 5.00pm or when the handful of remaining tickets are sold (whichever occurs first). No door sales will be possible on the night.

"...chamber music as it was intended..."