Kegelstatt Ensemble Announces Evolution and Revolution - France Concert, 17 August

Kegelstatt Ensemble is delighted to announce its main independent concert presentation for 2014, and to return to the beautiful warm acoustic of Pilgrim Church for this occasion. The ensemble is particularly excited to welcome back London pianist Coady Green (who grew up in Adelaide) and to be able to present a work for two pianos, and another for piano four hands, in this very dramatic and absorbing program. A fitting end to their Adelaide season.

In 2014, Kegelstatt Ensemble has been exploring how a rapidly changing world at the turn of the twentieth-century influenced the music of great nations. French nationalism reached the heights of largesse and virtuosity with the imposing works of Franck and Alkan. With the worldwide havoc wrought by the new century, such loftiness seemed out of place, and the Parisian aesthetic became one of cultivated understatement and dry irony.

de Jager: Crystals

Françaix: Trio for clarinet, viola and piano

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (tr. Dukas for two pianos)

Alkan: Grande Fantaisie sur Don Juan, Op.25

Franck: Quintet for Piano and Strings

The Ensemble: Stephanie Wake-Dyster, clarinet, Mitchell Berick, clarinet, Coady Green, piano, Leigh Harrold, piano, Janet Anderson, violin, Alison Heike, violin, Anna Webb, viola and Paul Taylor, 'cello

Musicians reunited: Coady Green returns to Adelaide from London, Paul Taylor from Sydney, and Leigh Harrold and Anna Webb from Melbourne for this special concert. They join resident Adelaide musicians Stephanie Wake-Dyster, Mitch Berick, Janet Anderson and Alison Heike, in Kegelstatt's traditional spirit of friendship and fine music.

The day after the concert in Adelaide, the ensemble will jet to Melbourne for a repeat performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Multi-award winner Coady Green is acknowledged as a major rising talent on the international concert circuit, having been described as "a virtuoso pianist with sensitivity, intelligence and charm", and "accurate and exhilarating", (Musical Opinion, London), with "a strong and versatile technique capable of the most delicate colouring and tonal brilliance, rising to the challenges of extreme virtuoso demands with relish" (The Advertiser, South Australia).

In 2005, Coady Green began preparations to relocate to Europe to study with Professor Peter Feuchtwanger in London and Professor Günter Reinhold (a student of Alfred Cortot, Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen) in Germany.

He has been awarded almost all the most prestigious cultural awards that his native Australia has to offer. He was twice the recipient of a prize from the Geoffrey Parsons Trust, London (2008, 2012). In 2008, he was a prize winner at the International Two Piano Grieg Competition in Norway and a recipient of a Phonographic Performance Company of Australia award. In 2011 he was the recipient of an award from the Tait Memorial Trust, London.

a virtuoso pianist with sensitivity, intelligence and charm", and "accurate and exhilarating" (Musical Opinion London)

Tickets: Adult $25, Concession $18, Student Rush $12 (Tertiary), School Student $7

3pm Sunday 17 August

Pilgrim Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide

More information: www.kegelstatt.com.au