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TWO OF AUSTRALIA'S FINEST MUSICIANS
RACHEL SCOTT & GENEVIEVE LANG

WITH PERFORMANCES BY DAMIEN RYAN AND SPORT FOR JOVE

Summer Season just got even better! Sport for Jove are excited to announce BACH AND THE BARD - an exclusive Summer Season event, not to be missed!

Bach and the Bard is an extraordinary opportunity to hear two of the country’s greatest musicians perform live, in our communities, alongside the incomparable music of Shakespeare’s poetry.


Musicians and actors have always been interested in the marriage of music and words. Spoken word sounds like song, and instrumental pieces speak to us as strongly as if they were stories. The Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius said “Music begins where the possibilities of language end."
 

Bach and the Bard is an hour’s concert that blurs the lines between words and music. It connects the words of Shakespeare to music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Fauré and Max Richter. Presented by cellist Rachel Scott, harpist Genevieve Lang and actors from Sport for Jove, you will be taken on a journey through all types of sound. There will be moments that make you smile, a time in the concert that makes your heart beat slower, words and music that are familiar, and things that will be new.

 

This promises to be an hour that will stay with you long after the performers leave the stage.

ALL AGES

THE MUSICIANS

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GENEVIEVE LANG

Genevieve Lang is well known to Australian audiences as a harpist, writer and broadcaster. You might well have seen her on stage with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and she’s enjoyed a long association with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She’s also a founding member of SHE (Seven Harp Ensemble) and has performed as soloist with several orchestras around the country and overseas.

 

These days you’re more likely to hear Genevieve’s voice than her harp, as a presenter on ABC Classic. For Genevieve, broadcasting and media are the perfect way to share her passion for classical music with the biggest possible audience! But her first love, the harp, is never far from her heart.

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RACHEL SCOTT

Rachel Scott is known for her unconventionality – in programming, choice of artists, hair style, venue choices and delivery in concerts. She believes that concerts are a time of celebration – of sharing and enjoying, whether they be live, or live-streamed. As artistic director of Bach in the Dark she's worked with all sorts of musicians, singers, poets, actors and visual artists. Under the Bach in the Dark label she has released four recordings, all regularly played on Australian radio.

 

Rachel’s role as education manager for the Australian Children’s Music Foundation (ACMF) means that she provides underprivileged children with ongoing access to a quality music experience in the classroom, often training teachers as well. She has worked in all sorts of schools – primary schools in the city and country; behavioural schools; Schools of the Air and teaching via Videolink. She is a regular speaker about her work as a music educator, and the change that music education brings to the children she sees. Rachel is also a much sought-after cello teacher and chamber music coach for both children and adults. She has also spent considerable time in East Timor as part of Mary McKillop International for whom she trained music teachers with the goal of independent delivery of music in primary schools in Dili and throughout Timor.

Dates and Booking

BELLA VISTA FARM

SUN, 29 DEC

6.00pm

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Carrington Hotel, Katoomba

SAT, 11 JAN

5.00pm

Please note: This venue is restricted to 18+ only.

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Summer Season is supported by Parramatta Riverside and Blue Mountains Theatre.

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