Woodend Winter Arts Festival is excited to deliver a diverse music lineup in 2024.
Attendees will be transported across the centuries, with world class musicians performing everything from classical and baroque to flamenco, jazz, folk and more.
On the Friday evening, attendees will be transported to Southern Spain as they are captivated by the sound of Paco Lara’s guitar, accompanied by guest Spanish flamenco dancer Deya Miranda Giner. Attendees at the free Friday night community fireworks can also hear up-and-coming young performers from Braemar College, along with Woodend’s own Woodend Warblers perform on the main stage.
Saturday will deliver a number of exciting performances. The Fiore Chamber Vocal Ensemble will step into a world of classical enchantment with music from renowned composers from the UK and France, while Paul Grabowsky, one of Australia’s finest-ever jazz musicians, will deliver a powerful solo piano performance.
In celebration of the 300th anniversary of its creation, Accademia Arcadia, Ensemble Gombert, and a cast of outstanding soloists will come together to present an incredible performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental Johannes-Passion (St John Passion). This performance will be repeated on the Sunday.
Also on Sunday, London-based, former Macedon Ranges local Daniel Thomson (tenor) will join John O’Donnell (piano), as they explore Schubert Lieder and influences from the earlier Viennese Masters. Expect works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and others.
You can then join four renowned soloists, Adam Masters (oboe), Josephine Vains (cello), Brendan O’Donnell (recorder) and Jacqueline Ogeil (Cristofori piano), as they perform four outstanding works by Baroque composers Alessandro Marcello and Antonio Vivaldi, and early Classical composers Thomas Arne and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Ogeil delivers a first Australian performance of the Arne concerto on the world’s first piano.
Returning from his London base to perform at WWAF, Australian pianist Piers Lane has a worldwide reputation as an engaging, searching and highly versatile performer, at home equally in solo, chamber and concerto repertoire. Join him as he performs a recital based around one of his favourite composers: Fredéric Chopin.
On the final day of WWAF, eight of Australia’s premiere cellists will come together to perform an incredible range of repertoire from Sacred works of J.S. Bach to Brazilian folk and pop music, Beethoven Overtures to fiery Spanish dances, and many more.
Rounding out the diverse program is pianist and composer Nat Bartsch, she will present Hope Renewed, a jazz/post rock reinterpretation of her ARIA-nominated classical album Hope
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WWAF will take place over the King’s Birthday long weekend from June 7-10. Check out the full four-day program at woodendwinterartsfestival.org.au. Tickets are on sale now and selling fast.
