2011 Concert Season
The Romantic Century
Saturday 19 March 2011, 8.00pm
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
Paul Terracini | conductor
Marina Marsden | violin
VERDI La Forza del Destino: Overture
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F major
From the first chords of Verdi’s drama of love, loyalty and revenge, his genius for developing musical tension instantly sets the scene for an evening full of wide-ranging emotions. The lyricism and effervescence of the Mendelssohn concerto are irresistible, and paved the way for much of the Romantic violin literature that was to follow. Brahms, in a masterpiece that was both harmonically and structurally adventurous, explores the full gamut of moods from melancholy to rapturous joy.

Classical Vienna
Saturday 28 May 2011, 8.00pm
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
Paul Terracini | conductor
Benjamin Mellefont | clarinet
Amy Corkery | soprano
Anna Dowsley | mezzo-soprano
Simon Gilkes | tenor
Alexander Knight | bass
Penrith City Choir
Penrith City Youth Choir
MOZART Così fan tutte: Overture
MOZART Symphony No 35 in D major (Haffner)
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor
HAYDN Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass)
The witty exuberance of Mozart’s overture to a comic tale of
fickle young lovers, and the gracefulness of the Haffner Symphony,
epitomise the familiar elegance of Classical Vienna. In stark contrast
to this is the climate of intense fear in which Haydn, just a few years
later, wrote his Missa in Angustiis (‘Mass for troubled times’): under
threat from Napoleon’s armies, the mood in Vienna was one of foreboding.
Breaking free from the Classical mould is the expressive Romanticism of
Weber, in which we showcase the virtuosic talent of one of Australia’s
finest young clarinettists.

Flights of the Imagination
Saturday 13 August 2011, 8.00pmJoan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
Sarah-Grace Williams | guest conductor
Gregory van der Struik | trombone
BERLIOZ Rakoczy March
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Concerto for Trombone
BIZET L’Arlésienne Suite No 1
KOEHNE To His servant Bach God grants a final glimpse: the morning star
WAGENSEIL Concerto for Trombone
KHACHATURIAN Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
MUSSORGSKY Night on a Bald Mountain

Myths and Legends
Saturday 5 November, 8.00pmJoan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
Paul Terracini | conductor
Clemens Leske | piano
(Repeat performance at Camden Civic Centre on Sunday 6 November at 4.00pm)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet: Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
KOEHNE Divertissement: trois pièces bourgeoises
WAGNER Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
RESPIGHI Le Fontane di Roma

Pops for Tots
Fantastic Toybox
Sunday 19 June 2011, 11.00am
Springwood Civic Centre, Springwood
Sunday 26 June 2011, 11.00am
Q Theatre, Penrith
George Ellis | conductor
A musical entertainment for children 3 to 7 years, conducted and presented by George Ellis.

Messiah
Sunurday 4 December 2010, 3.00pm
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
Paul Terracini | conductor
Co-presented by Penrith Symphony Orchestra and Penrith City Choir
with professional semi-chorus/soloists
Penrith City Choir & Academy Singers
Lucy McAlary | chorus director
Handel – Messiah
