Arboria Festival: Lisa Harper-Brown & The Chimera Quartet
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1pm Soprano Lisa Harper-Brown
Lisa Harper-Brown is a past first prize winner of the vocal section of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Young Performer Award and a recipient of the Australian Singing Competition’s Faigen Award, which enabled her to study at the Britten-Pears School. Harper-Brown’s work on the concert platform includes soloist in Gorecki’s Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs for the University Of Western Australia, Mendelssohn’s Elijah opposite British baritone, Benjamin Luxon, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater for the Perth International Festival Verdi’s Requiem with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Barber’s Knoxville, Summer Of 1915 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Under The Stars in the Sydney Festival. Harper Brown joins Arboria in its inaugural year to sing Samuel Barber’s moving and evocative concerto for soprano voice Knoxville Summer of 1915, lovingly arranged by Tommaso Pollio for the Chimera Quartet. Set to text from the novel A death in the family, by acclaimed American author, James Agee, Knoxville is a moving portrait of a child on the cusp of adolescence soaking up the sounds of their neighbourhood and family home. Also included in this program by Chimera Quartet (Tommaso Pollio, Melinda Forsythe, Rebecca Glorie and Geoff Bourgault) works by Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and the unmistakable tango stylings of Astor Piazzolla.
Lisa Harper-Brown is a past first prize winner of the vocal section of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Young Performer Award and a recipient of the Australian Singing Competition’s Faigen Award, which enabled her to study at the Britten-Pears School. Harper-Brown’s work on the concert platform includes soloist in Gorecki’s Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs for the University Of Western Australia, Mendelssohn’s Elijah opposite British baritone, Benjamin Luxon, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater for the Perth International Festival Verdi’s Requiem with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Barber’s Knoxville, Summer Of 1915 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Under The Stars in the Sydney Festival. Harper Brown joins Arboria in its inaugural year to sing Samuel Barber’s moving and evocative concerto for soprano voice Knoxville Summer of 1915, lovingly arranged by Tommaso Pollio for the Chimera Quartet. Set to text from the novel A death in the family, by acclaimed American author, James Agee, Knoxville is a moving portrait of a child on the cusp of adolescence soaking up the sounds of their neighbourhood and family home. Also included in this program by Chimera Quartet (Tommaso Pollio, Melinda Forsythe, Rebecca Glorie and Geoff Bourgault) works by Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and the unmistakable tango stylings of Astor Piazzolla.
