Melba Hall Free Lunch Hour Concert Series
The Melba Hall Free Lunch Hour Concert Series takes place every week during semester. This series of concerts features local and international artists, and Faculty staff, students and ensembles.
Semester 2
27 July - Will Schmidt & Zoe Knighton
Will Schmidt, piano
Zoe Knighton, cello
Kabalevsky - Sonata for Cello and Piano in B flat Op. 71
Rachmaninov - Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Op. 19
3 August - Student Concert
School of Music – Parkville
10 August - Coady Green, piano
Liszt - Pensee des morts from Harmonies poetiques et religeuses
Schubert - Piano Sonata No.13 in A D664
Carl Vine - Piano Sonata No. 1
17 August - Student Concert
School of Music – Parkville
24 August - Student Concert
School of Music – Parkville
31 August - Elysium Ensemble
Greg Dikmans, flute
Julia Fredersdorff, violin
Laura Vaughan, gamba
Ann Morgan, harpsichord
Performing Telemann’s 2nd & 6th Paris Quartets (1738)
7 September - Anna Goldsworthy, piano
Chopin - Berceuse in D-flat major Op. 57 and Mazurkas, Op. 7
Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise brillante in E flat major Op. 22
14 September - Percussion Ensemble in Concert
21 & 28 September - no concerts
5 October - Julia Nafisi & Peter Hurley
“The unknown Kurt Weill”
Program includes songs by Walt Whitman and songs from “Marie Galante”
- Walt Whitman: "Captain, my Captain", "Beat, Beat Drums", "Dirge for two Veretans", "Come up from the fields, Father"
- Songs from 'Marie Galante': "Les filles de Bordeaux", "J'attends un navire", "Le roi d'Aquitaine", "Le grand Lustucru"
- Youkali
- I'm a stranger here myself
(Program subject to small changes)
12 October - Chamber Orchestra in concert
School of Music – Parkville
19 October - Convivio
Miriam Morris and Laura Vaughan, bass viols
John O’ Donnell, harpsichord
The Master, the Disciple and the Devil
A concert featuring solos, duos, and trios for bass viols and harpsichord of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray
Sainte Colombe taught Marin Marais who was known as the ‘angel of the viol’. His protagonist, Antoine Forqueray, was dubbed the ‘devil’. The rich repertoire for bass viols and continuo highlights the blossoming of the bass viol in the French baroque period.
26 October - Chamber Music Final and prize presentation
School of Music – Parkville
These concerts take place on Mondays from 1:10 - 2:00pm
Free general admission
Melba Hall
Gate 12
University of Melbourne
Royal Parade
Parkville
Enquiries: 8344 7830
Tram route #19 from Elizabeth St, Stop 11
All information is correct at the time of printing and may be subject to change.