Saturday 25th November at 3pm
Gardens of Margaretta Cottage,
6 Leichhardt St, Glebe Point:
PLEKTRA
PROGRAM
East-West |
Lalor |
Twilight
Dance |
Lalor |
Balkan
Rhumba |
Lalor |
Yutuma |
Acquavella |
Game
of Thrones |
Hdjawi |
Concerto
in C
Allegro
– Largo – Allegro |
Vivaldi
mandolin
soloist: Stephen Lalor |
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INTERVAL
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Trio
Allegro
– Largo – Allegro |
Canciello |
Lyuba |
Lalor |
Zakarpatsky |
Lalor |
Reflection
1 |
Lalor |
Big
Brother |
Wrembel |
Kolo
Kolo
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Lalor |
Stephen
Lalor (chief mandolinist and director) trained in Sydney and at the
Tchaikovsky Conservatorium Kiev. Stephen combines composition work
with a performance career as a mandolin and guitar specialist
with major orchestras and ensembles in Australia (SSO, ACO,
AOBO) and overseas. He has a Musicology Masters and a PhD in
Composition (USyd) and was a Churchill Fellow in 2003.
He
has performed in recent years at festivals including The Edinburgh
Festival, Tanglewood (USA), and Womadelaide, and in concert halls
from Beijing to London and Copenhagen. Stephen’s
music is published in Australia, USA and Germany, and is in the
collections of the Médiathèque
Musicale Mahler (Paris)
and the US Library of Congress.
Mandolins:
Fiona Ziegler, Fiona Orenstein, Martha Babineau, Mark Berlage
Mandola:
Yuri Halay; Guitar: Darryl Rule; Bass: Alex Burger
https://www.facebook.com/PlektraMandolin/ and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzlYL5zwOQ
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Chief
mandolinist and musical director
Stephen
Lalor’s formal
studies include domra (Russian mandolin) & composition at the
Tchaikovsky
Conservatorium Kiev, and Masters and PhD degrees in music. Stephen
is a frequent guest artist with the Sydney Symphony and other
major orchestras around Australia & Asia. With world music
groups he has performed at festivals ranging from WOMAD to the
Montreux Jazz Festival. Stephen has directed and conducted
mandolin orchestras and ensembles in concerts and festivals in
Australia, the USA and Germany. His music is performed, recorded &
broadcast by a number of performers, orchestras & ensembles in
Australia & abroad, and heard on ABC Classic FM.
Representative works by Stephen are held in the Mediatheque Mahler
(Paris) & the US Library of Congress collection. He is
represented in Australia by the Australian Music Centre. |
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Mandolins |
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Fiona
Ziegler commenced her career as a violinist during her final year’s
training at the Conservatorium High School, embarking on a tour of
China with the Australian Youth Orchestra. The following year, she
became a member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra with which she
toured Asia, Europe and the UK. She then became a member of the
Sydney Symphony and has
been an Assistant Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony since 1995.
More recently Fiona has extended her musical interests to the
mandolin, has played with the Sydney Mandolin Orchestra and toured
with Plektra. |
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Fiona
Orenstein completed her
Bachelor of Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
as a Mandolin major, with Adrian Hooper as her teacher. Playing
with ensembles of various sizes such as the Sydney Mandolins,
Sydney Mandolin Orchestra and Orchestra 143 has lead her to being
in performances for the ABC, 2MBS FM, at the Sydney Opera House
and for music clubs. She has performed with Plektra at the BDZ
Plucked String Festival in 2010 and 2014, in America for the
Classical Mandolin Society of America’s annual convention in
2012 and in many Sydney venues. Fiona
has taught classroom music and conducted various ensembles in NSW
highschools and teaches the mandolin privately.
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Martha
Babineau attended
Sydney Conservatorium of music studying piano and violin. She
attained B.A.(hons) in Music from University of Hawai’i,
after which she taught classroom music at Windward School,
creating marching bands, choirs, recorder consorts and Hawaiian
dance groups. Martha teaches piano, plays mandolin with Sydney
Mandolin Orchestra and the Mandeltorte Trio, which perform
regularly, and domra with the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra, which
has successfully toured Russia and China twice and released three
CDs. |
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Mark
Berlage plays mandolin as well as Russian domra and has toured Russia and
China with the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra. He studied violin from
a young age with Jean Jacobs and later with Adrian Keating through
the Australian Institute of Music (AIM). He has played violin in
various community chamber orchestras and ensembles, has performed
and recorded with folk and country-rock groups and has played jazz
guitar in big bands. |
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Mandola |
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Yuri
Halay has
been involved for many years in music from the Balkans to the
middle and Far East and beyond. His Instrumentation includes oud,
domra, mandolin, mando-cello, gaida, kaval, zurna, dizi, souna,
tres, baglama ⁄ saz, bansuri and clarinet. He has worked
for Musica Viva from 1992 and Young Australia performing in
schools throughout Australia. Yuri also plays tenor domra with
the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra, which frequently tours playing
Russian folk music on original instruments |
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Guitar |
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Darryl
Rule attained
his BMus degree from the University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, specialising in Musicology and Performance, under
the tutelage of guitarists Fritz Buss and the late David Hewitt.
He has taught both privately and at schools, performed in numerous
ensembles, musicals, festivals, and was a founding member of the
Johannesburg Guitar Quartet. He has a Masters in Journalism,
worked as cultural reporter for the Mail&Guardian newspaper
and researched for the Continuum book Soweto
Blues: Jazz, Politics and Popular Music,
by jazz writer Gwen Ansell. After moving to Sydney, Darryl has
continued teaching, joined the Sydney Classical Guitar Society
Orchestra, and has been awarded an AMEB Associate Diploma in
Classical Guitar. |
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Bass |
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Alex
Burger studied
classical guitar and took up bass at an early age. He has played
in several ensembles and groups in Adelaide and Brisbane and more
recently in Sydney where he has played double bass with the Sydney
Mandolin Orchestra from 2006 to 2010 and as part of the bass
section for the 2008 Federated Australasia Mandolin Ensemble Music
Festival. Alex is a founding member of Plektra and has toured with
them to Europe for the BDZ Plucked String Festivals in 2010 and
2014 and the US for the Classical Mandolin Society of America’s
annual convention in 2012. |
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