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Music By The Sea Est. 1997 Music By The Sea believes that ART is essential for the wellbeing of the community |
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Music By The Sea Concert Series 2019
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Karin Schaupp is one of the most outstanding guitarists on the international scene. She performs widely on the international stage as a recitalist, concerto soloist and has given countless recitals in Australia, Europe, Asia, the US, Mexico and Canada. Karin’s playing receives the highest acclaim from critics and audiences alike and she is held in great esteem by her peers worldwide.
While still in her teens she won prizes at international competitions in Lagonegro, Italy and Madrid, Spain, where she was also awarded the special competition prize for the Best Interpretation of Spanish Music. Other performance highlights include concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (UK) in London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (USA), the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. After well over a decade of focussing on collaborative projects, Karin Schaupp will be giving a handful of rare solo concerts in 2019. The first half of her programme will feature a Guadagnini replica guitar built by Simon Roves-Herman, allowing audiences to hear repertoire by Mertz, Giuliani and Regondi on romantic guitar. In the second half, Schaupp will perform more recent repertoire on her modern Jim Redgate guitar, including an evocative work written for her by Mary Doumany “Portraits of Four Australian Women”, in which Schaupp speaks and plays simultaneously. Schaupp will also perform works by Paul Stanhope, Phil Houghton and Nikita Koshkin, all of which are based on strong narratives. Program: Giulio Regondi - Reverie Mauro Giuliani - Grand Sonata Eroica Schubert/Mertz - Lob der Traenen Johann Kaspar Mertz - Tarantelle Phillip Houghton - Ophelia - a Haunted Sonata Mary Doumany - Portraits of Four Australian Women Paul Stanhope - Dance for the White Spirits (dedicated to Karin Schaupp) |
3 August, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall
Spot the Dog - 'The Best Years' reunion concert
Concert line up: Mark Cryle / Nadia Sunde / Helen McGreevy / Cathy Bell / Richard Evans / Keith Megson / Silas Palmer / Andrew Heath
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Spot the Dog - 'The Best Years' reunion concert
Concert line up: Mark Cryle / Nadia Sunde / Helen McGreevy / Cathy Bell / Richard Evans / Keith Megson / Silas Palmer / Andrew Heath
TICKETS
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Spot the Dog performed at Music By The Sea on 7/2/1998
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You Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down: Spot the Dog presents “The Best Years”
It has been many a long year since Spot the Dog appeared before an audience, but this much-loved and influential band is back for a one-off, one show only reunion concert featuring songs from all of their cds. There is great excitement in the Spot camp about this event. Maybe this dog did have its day and yes, it’s a little older and you know what they say about old dogs. But the musical magic still works and you can’t keep a good dog down.
Spot the Dog emerged from the Brisbane folk scene in the early 1990s. After some early personnel changes the band settled into a line-up driven by Nadia Sunde’s dynamic vocal versatility, Cathy Bell’s lyrical fiddle playing and Mark Cryle’s finely-crafted song writing. Fused together with Keith Megson’s rock- steady drumming and Richard Evans’ consummate guitar stylings, Spot produced its debut cd Bedside Manners in 1996.
The album earned the plaudits of the critics and of audiences wherever they played. National recognition came with regular ABC air play of the song One More Roll of the Dice. The release of Drunk on the Moon in 1998 saw the band building on this reputation and growing its audience with a sound that fused Celtic, Americana and pop stylings. Spot’s was a sound which defied easy categorisation but which continued to win the band fans all over the country.
As is often the way in such projects, key members felt the urge to move on and to explore new projects. Cathy Bell took her talents to The Poachers in 1998 and later to Tin Star while Nadia Sunde launched a highly successful solo career in 1999.
The remaining members regrouped and recruited fiddle and keyboard virtuoso Silas Palmer and vocalist Helen McGreevy . McGreevy’s warm soul-inflected stylings and Palmer’s consummate piano work saw the band shifting its direction once more to produce the acclaimed Brand New Juliet in 2001.
Yet by the mid-2000s much of the energy had gone and the remaining members decided to call it quits and to move on to other projects. The friendships and the musical connections remained however, despite relocations to various parts of the country. Spot’s members continued hang out together as time permitted and to play and sing on each other’s projects. From time to time reunions were organised with the various line-ups of the band.
It has been many a long year since Spot the Dog appeared before an audience, but this much-loved and influential band is back for a one-off, one show only reunion concert featuring songs from all of their cds. There is great excitement in the Spot camp about this event. Maybe this dog did have its day and yes, it’s a little older and you know what they say about old dogs. But the musical magic still works and you can’t keep a good dog down.
Spot the Dog emerged from the Brisbane folk scene in the early 1990s. After some early personnel changes the band settled into a line-up driven by Nadia Sunde’s dynamic vocal versatility, Cathy Bell’s lyrical fiddle playing and Mark Cryle’s finely-crafted song writing. Fused together with Keith Megson’s rock- steady drumming and Richard Evans’ consummate guitar stylings, Spot produced its debut cd Bedside Manners in 1996.
The album earned the plaudits of the critics and of audiences wherever they played. National recognition came with regular ABC air play of the song One More Roll of the Dice. The release of Drunk on the Moon in 1998 saw the band building on this reputation and growing its audience with a sound that fused Celtic, Americana and pop stylings. Spot’s was a sound which defied easy categorisation but which continued to win the band fans all over the country.
As is often the way in such projects, key members felt the urge to move on and to explore new projects. Cathy Bell took her talents to The Poachers in 1998 and later to Tin Star while Nadia Sunde launched a highly successful solo career in 1999.
The remaining members regrouped and recruited fiddle and keyboard virtuoso Silas Palmer and vocalist Helen McGreevy . McGreevy’s warm soul-inflected stylings and Palmer’s consummate piano work saw the band shifting its direction once more to produce the acclaimed Brand New Juliet in 2001.
Yet by the mid-2000s much of the energy had gone and the remaining members decided to call it quits and to move on to other projects. The friendships and the musical connections remained however, despite relocations to various parts of the country. Spot’s members continued hang out together as time permitted and to play and sing on each other’s projects. From time to time reunions were organised with the various line-ups of the band.
7 September, 7:30pm, Sandgate Town Hall
Bungarribee - eclectic quartet
Gary Daley - piano, piano accordion, electronics
Paul Cutlan - bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophones
Ollie Miller - cello and electronics
Tunji Beier - Indian/ African percussion, loop
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Bungarribee is the meeting place of four different yet complementary musical personalities. Featuring exotic instrumentation and a unique amalgam of styles including classical, jazz, folk and world all filtered through improvisation. Bungarribee’s vision is expansive, ambitious and exploratory. These master musicians relish the challenge of creating a synthesis out of seemingly incompatible musical elements. Like musical archeologists Bungarribee meets at the aesthetic coalface, chipping away until treasure is found. A Bungarribee performance is a journey of discovery for musicians and audience alike. At its core music is about communication and connection, exciting our minds and bodies. This is Bungarribee’s meeting place.
"It is rare that musicians of such different backgrounds come together (deep synthesis/ connection). Music is about communication and connection. As many have attested to through the ages, it is our universal language. Not about genre or style but discovery and connection through improvisation. Drawing on seemingly disparate musical worlds ie Schoenberg to African folk song.
My vision is a positive one which draws both musicians and audience into a world of discovery." - Gary Daley
"It is rare that musicians of such different backgrounds come together (deep synthesis/ connection). Music is about communication and connection. As many have attested to through the ages, it is our universal language. Not about genre or style but discovery and connection through improvisation. Drawing on seemingly disparate musical worlds ie Schoenberg to African folk song.
My vision is a positive one which draws both musicians and audience into a world of discovery." - Gary Daley
The Orava Quartet has been hailed by Limelight magazine and The Australian as “the most exciting young quartet on the block”, “world class”, and “the real deal”. Earning a reputation and a devoted following for their passionate and thrilling performances, the Quartet bring their unique sound and breathtaking intensity to the classics of the string quartet canon, making audiences fall in love with these works all over again.
The first Australian string quartet invited to sign with Universal Music, Orava have performed throughout North America, the UAE, and Asia, and worked closely with the world-renowned Takács Quartet in the USA for two years, winning top prizes at the 2013 Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition and performing at Sydney Opera House. Since returning to Australia, the Quartet has made an impressive and rapid rise to national attention, performing regularly at all the major classical and arts festivals.
Based in Brisbane, they are also Quartet-in-Residence with Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra.
Program announced soon...
The first Australian string quartet invited to sign with Universal Music, Orava have performed throughout North America, the UAE, and Asia, and worked closely with the world-renowned Takács Quartet in the USA for two years, winning top prizes at the 2013 Asia Pacific Chamber Music Competition and performing at Sydney Opera House. Since returning to Australia, the Quartet has made an impressive and rapid rise to national attention, performing regularly at all the major classical and arts festivals.
Based in Brisbane, they are also Quartet-in-Residence with Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra.
Program announced soon...