Australian Bach Society Inc.

22 Parliament Place East Melbourne VIC 3002

www.bach.org.au - mob 0425 802 046 - Online Bookings: www.bach.org.au/events

About the performer:

Australian cellist Richard Narroway has appeared as a soloist with the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Han Zhou Philharmonic Orches-tra and the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, and in recital on Chicago’s WFMT Dame Myra Hess Series and the Keys to the City Piano Festival at Chicago’s Symphony Center. He has given performances in Australia, China, Germany, Canada and the United States, in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Preston Bradley Hall, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, St. Cecilia Music Center and the Sydney Opera House.

Richard has garnered top prizes in numerous competitions, including the Third Bei-jing International Cello Competition, the Samuel and Elinor Thaviu Competition in String Performance and the Gold Medal in the 2010 Stulberg International String Competition for artists under twenty, where he was also awarded the Bach Award for the best interpretation of a Bach solo work. Festival appearances include the Piatigor-sky Cello Festival in Los Angeles, the Kronberg Academy Cello Meisterkurse, Sarasota and Norfolk Music Festivals, and Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program in Ot-tawa.

In the Summer of 2013, Richard attended Music@Menlo as an International Program Artist and returned in March 2014 as an artist for their annual Winter Residency, which included presentations and performances for various academic classes at Menlo School as well as fundraising and benefit events for the Menlo program.

Born in 1991, Richard pursued his cello studies from an early age, enjoying tutelage from Susan Blake, Hans Jensen, Takao Mizushima and Uzi Wiesel. Currently he is pursuing a master’s degree with David Finckel at The Juilliard School. Deeply com-mitted to community engagement and innovation, he takes a particular interest in de-vising projects that bring classical music to a wider audience. Currently he is working on a video project involving the twelve Piatti Caprices, periodically uploaded for the public on Youtube.

His performance tonight is part of a larger tour around Australia, during which Rich-ard is presenting the Bach cello suites in concerts, educational workshops and com-munity engagement events in Darwin, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

Australian Bach Society Inc.

In association with

German Lutheran Trinity Church

presents

Friday 5 June 2015, 7:00 pm

German Lutheran Trinity Church, 22 Parliament Place East Melbourne 3002

Admission: free - donations very welcome!

Please register your interest on www.trybooking.com/HSWH

Bach Cello Suites on Tour

Richard Narroway

Bringing Music to Life Three Suites - Three Echoes

Richard Narroway (cello)

J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) Suite no. 3 in C major BWV 1009

Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Bourees I & II, Gigue

Huw Belling (b. 1986) Bourree echo (2015)

J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750) Suite no. 5 in C minor BWV 1011

Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrees I & II, Gigue

Kezia Yap (b. 1993) Sunken Lullaby (2015)

INTERVAL

J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750) Suite no. 6 in D major BWV 1012

Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavottes I & II, Gigue

Ross Edwards (b. 1943) Prelude and Laughing Rock (1993 - 2003)

J.S. Bach Huw Belling Kezia Yap Ross Edwards

Richard’s comments about ‘Bringing Music to Life’

I am a cellist from Sydney, Australia just finishing up my Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School (New York). Before that I was at Northwestern for four years getting my Bachelor of Music degree. I have been working on this project over the last two years.

This upcoming May-June, I will be embarking on a tour around Australia performing and presenting the six Bach Cello Suites and six contemporary Australian composi-tions in an effort to spread the music through education and community engagement. I will be working with young students, elderly people in nursing homes and hospitals, as well as Dance for Parkinsons Australia, an organisation that helps those who suffer from Parkinson’s Disease through movement and music. This is strictly a non-profit venture, and so all donations will be used to cover the costs of putting the tour together and not for personal gain.

Aside from the significance and beauty of performing all six suites around my home-land, my ultimate goal is to impact as many lives as I can, which is why I've entitled the project, "Bringing Music to Life." That might sound like a broad goal, but I have always felt a special affinity to Bach's music and style of writing and I deeply believe that his music can speak to anyone regardless of their age, culture or background. This is a unique opportunity to use my music to inspire the lives of countless people around me. There are three separate components to my ultimate goal: the national component (Australia), the artistic component (a recording of the suites) and the community en-gagement component.

Why Australia? Australia is my homeland, where my musical roots really began to flourish. It is also such a diverse country, full of beautiful landscapes, wildlife and natu-ral surroundings. What better way to highlight the natural beauty and diversity of my homeland than to spend a few days in each city using my music to bring life to the community and the places around me? This is also a perfect opportunity to put the spotlight on some new, upcoming voices in Australia, which is why I have commis-sioned some of Australia's most promising composers to write short interludes that fit between each respective Bach suite, echoing fragments of material from each.

Traveling with me will be a professional team of videographers, photogra-phers and sound engineers who will help me document the journey and eventually produce a recording of all the music. The fact remains that there are only a handful of Bach cello suite recordings that are accessible to us, all of which have been recorded in a standard church or religious space. My goal, however, is to record each suite in a unique venue around Australia and then to make the eventual audio and video re-cordings accessible to people around the world!

Next concert: ‘Flute in the Bach Family’ with Meredith Beardmore (baroque flute) and Peter Hagen (harpsichord), Saturday 27 June 2015 3:00 PM German Church, Tickets: $ 35, $ 25 (concession) and $15 (students) www.trybooking.com/HSWM