Mattutino - Sally Walker: Bach for a Sunday Morning

 

An idyllic way to spend a Sunday morning: Canberra-based flute soloist, Sally Walker, brings one of the true gems of the flute repertoire to Tempo Rubato with Bach’s Partita in A Minor. Beloved for its beautiful melodies, soaring runs, and brilliant passages which leave audiences breathless, this sublime work in four dance movements is soulful, sophisticated and riveting. Performing on not one, but five different instruments - Renaissance, Baroque, alto, and concert flutes and piccolo – Sally will reveal the often overlooked variety and drama of works for solo flute in music spanning five centuries, from Dowland and de Boismortier to Piazzolla, Kats-Chernin, Joseph Tawadros and Ross Edwards.

PROGRAM

JOSEPH BODIN DE BOISMORTIER (1689 – 1755)

Suite de pièces, Op. 35, No. 4 in D Major: Prélude (lentement) 

JOHN DOWLAND (1563 - 1563) 
Flow my tears 

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750) 

Partita for Solo Flute in A minor, BWV 1013: Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande, Bourrée angloise 

ELENA KATS-CHERNIN (b. 1957) 
Blue Silence 

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921 - 1992) 
Études tanguistiques: No. 3 

JOSEPH TAWADROS arr. Sally Walker 
Forbidden Flute 

ROSS EDWARDS 

Ulpirra 
 

ABOUT SALLY WALKER

Twice runner-up in the finals of Limelight’s ‘Artist of the Year’ award (2024 & 2025), and prize-winner in the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute Competition (Germany), Sally has toured internationally with the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras, and has performed as Guest Principal Flute with orchestras including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and NDR Radio Philharmonie Hannover. In Australia she enjoys a long-standing association as Guest Principal Flautist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, with whom she returns in 2027. Most recently featured at Port Fairy Spring Music Festival 2026 with the world premiere of ‘Last flight to Mars’ by Richard Tognetti, and a regular guest at ANAM, Sally’s performance of ‘Living Poems of the Sea’ (commissioned by Sally and composed by Lyle Chan) earned a finalist nomination in the 2026 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards for ‘Work of the Year –Dramatic’.