Team of Pianists
...Artists in residence at 'Glenfern'
for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Past Events
Autumn Piano Weekend 2013 was held at Glenfern on March 23 & 24
Around 22 pianists participated in a packed program of piano study in the historic surrounds of National Trust property Glenfern, in East St Kilda, Melbourne... Read more
2014 Piano Marathon at Rippon Lea
Between 10am and 5pm on Sunday February 16, up to 100 pianists, young and old, performed in the Ballroom at Rippon Lea on a fine Bernstein piano from Bernies Music Land. Read the invitation and information letter about this fundraising event for the National Trust.
Brochures and reports for some of our previous events:
Spring Piano School 2015: Brochure, Report
Spring Piano School 2013: Brochure, Report
Autumn Piano Weekend 2013: Brochure, Report
Piano Marathon 2013: Letter and Application Form
Spring Piano School 2012: Brochure, Report
Spring Piano School 2011: Brochure, Report
Spring Piano School 2010: Brochure, Report
Spring Piano School 2009: Brochure, Report
International Teachers Seminar 2010: Brochure, Report
International Teachers Seminar 2009: Report
Upcoming Events
Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea
Concert 1 - Where the Wild Sings Are: Songs of Animals and Beasts
Icon Trio - Justine Anderson (soprano), Vivien Hamilton (mezzo-soprano), Jeannie Marsh (alto), with Robert Chamberlain (piano). A concert of songs inspired by the world of animals, including unaccompanied madrigals, Australian rounds, comedic songs by Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Swann (including Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud with audience sing-along), delightful songs by Poulenc, Chabrier, Barber, Stravinsky, Richard Rodney Bennett and more, plus piano works based on animal themes. Don’t miss this vibrant ménagèrie with the outstanding soloists of Icon Trio.
Date and Time
Sunday April 19, 2020 at 6.30pm
Rippon Lea Ballroom, 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick (Melway 67 E2)
Rigg Bequest Classic Music at Barwon Park
A Musical Flower-Garden for clarinet, cello & piano
Robert Schubert (clarinet), Josephine Vains (cello), Robert Chamberlain (piano), in a varied and highly contrasted program of chamber music, ranging from the Baroque conversational sensibility of J S Bach's Gamba Sonata in G, performed on modern instruments, through the Romantic exuberance of Bruch's pieces for clarinet, cello and piano, to the brooding passion and end-of-century energy of the little known Trio Op. 3 by Zemlinsky! Plus works by Australian composer Julian Yu and an amusing selection from Hindemith's Musikalisches Blumengartlein und Leyptziger Allerley for clarinet & cello.
Date and Time
Sunday May 3, 2020 at 2.00pm
Barwon Park, 105 Inverleigh Road, Winchelsea, VIC (Melway X911 B8)
Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea
Concert 2 - Tradition and Antipodean
Melbourne Symphony musicians Kathryn Taylor (violin), Gabrielle Halloran (viola), Rohan de Korte (cello) join Darryl Coote (piano)
in a program contrasting Beethoven's Sonata in G minor for cello & piano Op 5 No 2 and Mozart's attractive Piano quartet in G minor KV 478 with historical Australian composer Arthur Benjamin's Sonata for viola & piano.
Date and Time
Sunday May 17, 2020 at 6.30pm
Rippon Lea Ballroom, 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick (Melway 67 E2)