I’m very excited to be performing with some wonderful women for a special International Women’s Day concert at Longplay, Fitzroy North. I’ll be singing a couple of (as far as I know) previously unrecorded songs and duets by the great Australian composer Margaret Sutherland, alongside soprano Tess Duddy and accompanied by pianist Kay Cai. Sutherland’s music has long interested me: in 2015 I curated a small exhibition on her for the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library, and in 2017 I wrote an article about her for the University of Melbourne’s Collections magazine. It’s such a pleasure to have the chance to sing Sutherland’s severely-underrated but brilliant vocal music, in what I hope may be the first of a few performances.
The rest of the program includes songs by Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and chamber music of Australian female and non-binary composers past and present. Also performing will be clarinettist Brigid Burke and violinist Isabel Hede, with visuals by Gemma Horbury. Details:
6:30pm & 8pm, Friday 8 March 2019
Longplay, 318 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North
Tickets $25/$30 available through TryBooking
