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St Ives Uniting Church has, for more than 20 years, built up an enviable reputation for giving platform to superb quality and renowned artists as part of the church’s outreach to the community. In 2018 we have four concerts which will see Australian artists with international reputations providing unrivalled entertainment. Take advantage of our special subscription prices, and save $5 off the price of each ticket in the four- concert series. We advise early booking to secure tickets, as numbers are strictly limited. Included in the ticket price are interval refreshments of wine/soft drinks served with cheese and biscuits. St Ives Uniting Church is a seven-day a week outreach church, with community activities including Playgroup, U3A, MS Support Group, ballet and youth activities. We welcome you to our Sunday services at 9.30am For further information please go to our website: www.stives.unitingchurch.org.au or phone the church on 9144 5795 (office hours Tuesday and Thursday, 9am -4pm) offi[email protected] PO Box 103 St Ives NSW 2075 Concert 4 Bernadette Robinson Sunday 19 August 2018 at 2:30pm Bernadette Robinson’s acclaimed performances in multiple sell-out seasons of the one-woman musical plays Songs For Nobodies and Pennsylvania Avenue have confirmed her standing as one of our leading singer/actresses. Australia’s theatre-going public has discovered Bernadette’s virtuosic acting skills and her uncanny ability to inhabit the voices of famous singers such as Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and others. She is a familiar figure on Australian concert stages, with sell-out concerts at the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Festival Centre, the Melbourne Recital Centre and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Sydney-born Bernadette studied voice with the legendary Dame Joan Hammond at the Victorian College of the Arts before embarking on her professional career. In addition to her one-woman shows, Bernadette has had great success performing at high profile events for large corporates across Australia,Tokyo, Beijing (during the 2008 Olympic Games), Shanghai (during the 2010 World Expo), Hong Kong, Macau, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto. Sunday afternoons at St Ives Uniting Church We’re bringing the best Australian Opera House performers to you! Four fabulous concerts May 20, Australia’s flute virtuoso, the glamorous Jane Rutter in a program to enchant you. June 24, exciting young tenor, Henry Choo with favourite opera arias and songs from the musicals. July 22, the acclaimed actor John Bell, together with our resident performer, Simon Tedeschi, in their sensational Opera House performance of poetry and music. August 19, the chameleon like artistry of Bernadette Robinson, celebrating the famous singers Garland, Piaf, Streisand, Callas and more! 2.30pm, at St Ives Uniting Church, cnr of Mona Vale Road and Douglas Street August 2018 The Magic of Music 2018
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St Ives Uniting Church has, for more than 20 years, built up an enviable reputation for giving platform to superb quality and renowned artists as part of
the church’s outreach to the community.
In 2018 we have four concerts which will see Australian artists with international reputations
providing unrivalled entertainment.
Take advantage of our special subscription prices, and save $5 off the price of each ticket in the four-
concert series.
We advise early booking to secure tickets, as numbers are strictly limited.
Included in the ticket price are interval refreshments of wine/soft drinks served with
cheese and biscuits.
St Ives Uniting Church is a seven-day a week outreach church, with community activities including Playgroup, U3A, MS Support Group,
ballet and youth activities.
We welcome you to our Sunday services at 9.30am
For further information please go to our website:www.stives.unitingchurch.org.au
or phone the church on9144 5795
(office hours Tuesday and Thursday, 9am -4pm)[email protected]
PO Box 103 St Ives NSW 2075
Concert 4Bernadette RobinsonSunday 19 August 2018 at 2:30pm
Bernadette Robinson’s acclaimed performances in multiple sell-out seasons of the one-woman musical plays Songs For Nobodies and Pennsylvania Avenue have confirmed her standing as one of our leading singer/actresses.Australia’s theatre-going public has discovered Bernadette’s virtuosic acting skills and her uncanny ability to inhabit the voices of famous singers such as Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and others.She is a familiar figure on Australian concert stages, with sell-out concerts at the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Festival Centre, the Melbourne Recital Centre and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.Sydney-born Bernadette studied voice with the legendary Dame Joan Hammond at the Victorian College of the Arts before embarking on her professional career. In addition to her one-woman shows, Bernadette has had great success performing at high profile events for large corporates across Australia,Tokyo, Beijing (during the 2008 Olympic G a m e s ) , S h a n g h a i (during the 2010 World Expo), Hong Kong, Macau, Buenos Aires, S i n g a p o r e , Paris, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto.
Sunday afternoonsat St Ives Uniting Church
We’re bringing the best AustralianOpera House performers to you!
Four fabulous concerts
May 20, Australia’s flute virtuoso, the glamorous Jane Rutter in a program to enchant you.
June 24, exciting young tenor, Henry Choo with favourite opera arias and songs from the musicals.
July 22, the acclaimed actor John Bell, together with our resident performer, Simon Tedeschi, in their sensational Opera House performance of
poetry and music.
August 19, the chameleon like artistry of Bernadette Robinson, celebrating the famous
singers Garland, Piaf, Streisand, Callas andmore!
2.30pm, at St Ives Uniting Church,cnr of Mona Vale Road and Douglas Street
August 2018 The Magic of
Music2018
Concert 3Simon Tedeschi returns to St Ives with John Bell AO OBESunday 22 July 2018 at 2:30pm
Our regular “resident” extraordinary pianist Simon Tedeschi returns to St Ives with John Bell AO OBE, founder of Bell Shakespeare and one of Australia’s National Living Treasures, with a deeply moving performance of Lord Alfred Tennyson’s classic 1864 poem ENOCH ARDEN set to music by German Romantic composer, Richard Strauss.Told through spoken word and piano, this timeless tale of love, loss and redemption follows the story of three childhood friends, Enoch Arden, Philip Ray, and Annie Lee. Enoch and Annie marry and start a family, but after Enoch is shipwrecked on an island for ten years, he returns home to find his soulmate Annie remarried to his best friend Philip, finally believing her first husband to be dead. Enoch is faced with the excruciating dilemma to announce his return or sacrifice his own happiness for Annie Lee’s, in what Tedeschi describes as “A tragic, tempestuous, romantic tale accompanied by music of genius. Half chamber music, half theatre.”Following an acclaimed national tour and recording in 2017, Tedeschi and Bell’s collaboration has been described as “formidable”, “enrapturing”, and “gripping”.This is an experience not to be missed.
Concert 1The virtuosity of Australia’s favourite flautist, Jane RutterSunday 20 May 2018 at 2:30pm
Legendary Australian Flautist Jane Rutter, awarded the prestigious French medal Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 2016, is a classical trailblazer who has devoted her life to French flute playing with a career of longevity that spans decades. (‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ is a French award of recognition for significant contributions to Arts & Literature.) Praised for her mastery of the French Flute style, and with several No#1 albums and ARIA nominations under her belt, Jane Rutter is a classical free spirit who uses the flute as the voice of mystical communication in this unique concert.Flute Spirits and the Four Seasons is a concert in which Jane plays 12 different Gold, Silver, Bamboo Classical & World Flutes. Works include Spring by Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, an Indian Raga, Irish Melodies and other pieces which mystically connect the Australian Dreamtime and European and Non Western Classical music to the universal appeal of the flute. A journey around the World featuring composers Debussy, Devienne, Vaughan-Williams, Irving Berlin, Ross Edwards, Sarah Hopkins, Jane Rutter and poets Rumi, Anaïs Nin Shakespeare and Patrick White. Jane is Artistic Director of the Live at Lunch concert series at The C o n c o u r s e , Chatswood.“Jane Rutter is one of the finest flautists this country has produced. She plays classical as well as everything else. She is a free spirit, one of the blessed people” The Sunday Age.
May 2018 July 2018
Concert 2Henry Choo is regarded as one of Australia’s finest young lyric tenorsSunday 24 June 2018 at 2:30pm
A graduate of both the Young Artist Program of Opera Queensland and the Moffat Oxenbould Young Artist Development Program of Opera Australia, his voice displays great versatility across a range of stylesRaised in Melbourne and originally trained as a pianist, violinist and boy soprano, Henry made his principal debut with Opera Australia as the Italian Singer in (Der Rosenkavalier). Other major roles include Nemorino (L’elisir D’amore), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Acis (Acis and Galatea), Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte), Nadir (The Pearl Fishers), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Lysander (A Midsummers Night’s Dream), Lord Percy (Anna Bolena) and Baccus (Ariadne auf Naxus).
He has sung with the Symphony Orchestras of Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, Darwin, New Zealand, Christchurch, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Victoria, Sydney Philharmonia, A u s t r a l i a Ensemble and Auckland Bach Musica.
Don’t miss his program of well-loved opera arias and songs from musicals such as West Side Story,Les Mis and Kismet.
June 2018
