OMA 2025 Program Launch and Welcome Concert
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025, 4:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
- Cost: Free Entry, All Welcome
- Contact: Edith Salzmann Associate Director | Open Music Academy
- Email: edith.salzmann@adelaide.edu.au
To celebrate the launch of our new Open Music Academy (OMA) programs, the Elder Conservatorium is hosting a free OMA 2025 Program Launch and Welcome Concert to kick off the New Year. The afternoon is a unique opportunity for staff, students and audiences to get to know each other, and to introduce our Associate Director, Edith Salzmann, who will provide an overview of our new programs. We are introducing outstanding OMA students as well as our faculty, and four newly-formed OMA ensembles: the OMA Wind Ensemble under Dr Kathryn Moorhead's direction; the OMA Cello Ensemble under Thomas Marlin's direction; the OMA Brass Ensemble under John Gluyas's direction; and the OMA Chamber Music Ensemble under Edith Salzmann's direction. Faculty members Dr Elizabeth Layton, Dr Stephen King, Edith Salzmann, Stephanie Acraman, John Gluyas and Thomas Marlin will perform, introducing repertoire by Beethoven, Mozart, Johann Strauss, Vittorio Monti, André Previn, William Shield, and more.
Entry is FREE, no RSVP required. This concert will run for approximately 75–80 minutes, without interval.
Program
Vittorio Monti (1868–1922)
Csárdás
George Graham Kay | Violin
Simón Pazos Quintana | Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
String Quartet in G major, Op. 18 No. 2
I. Allegro
The OMA String Quartet
Aiyana Ishino | Violin
Alanna Kennedy | Violin
Annika Ganesh | Viola
Sherry Cheng | Cello
Marc Shaiman (b. 1959)
and Scott Wittman (b. 1954)
Second Hand White Baby Grand (as performed on SMASH)
Kate Magner | Voice
Simón Pazos Quintana | Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
'March of the Priests' from The Magic Flute,
K. 620 (arr. Andrew Balent)
The OMA Wind Ensemble
Dr Kathryn Moorhead | Director
André Previn (1929–2019)
Vocalise
Stephanie Acraman | Voice
Edith Salzmann | Cello
Simón Pazos Quintana | Piano
William Shield (1748–1829)
Trio in F major
I. Allegro
II. Romance
III. Gioco
Dr Elizabeth Layton | Violin
Dr Stephen King | Viola
Edith Salzmann | Cello
Johann Strauss II (1825–1899)
The Blue Danube, Op. 134 (arr. for cello ensemble by The Yale Cellos)
The OMA Cello Ensemble
Thomas Marlin | Director
Final Work to be Announced from the Stage
The OMA Brass Ensemble
John Gluyas | Director
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