The Firm to Welcome Ashley Hribar and Rachel Johnston

Adelaide's composer curated chamber music presenters, The Firm, are delighted to welcome two of Adelaide's finest musicians, Ashley Hribar and Rachel Johnston, performing works for piano and cello by Brahms, Pärt, Chapman Smith and Grant.

Each year, The Firm builds a concert series featuring Adelaide's finest musicians performing new works by local composers alongside those of a posthumous-composer-in-residence. This year's composer is Johannes Brahms.

Celebrated pianist, Ashely Hribar, is renowned for his performance intensity and fine musicianship. He regularly performs in Europe, Australia and China and is the recipient of the 2005 International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Amsterdam and the 2008 Michael Kieren-Harvey Fellowship.

Ashley Hribar is joined by New Zealand born cello virtuoso, Rachel Johnston, who is well known to Adelaide audiences as a former member of the Australian String Quartet, soloist and chamber musician. Rachel is renowned for her "tremendous gusto and technical brilliance" in tackling a broad repertoire.

Together, Johnston and Hribar will present a program of four works in a nuanced conversation built around Brahm's Sonata for piano and cello No. 1, described by Rachel Johnston as a "a very beautiful and romantic work". Raymond Chapman Smith's new work, Vorgesänge, conjures a rich Brahmsian flavour to complement the German master whilst Quentin Grant's Nocturne in C# minor is infused with the simplicity and emotive intensity for which Arvo Pärt is so well known.

Programme

Johannes Brahms - Sonata for piano and cello No. 1

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

Quentin Grant - Nocturne in C# minor

Raymond Chapman Smith - Vorgesänge

Tickets at the door: $12, $7 concession, secondary and tertiary music students free.

Patrons are invited to join the players and composers for complimentary drinks and tortes after the concert.

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