ACMF 2025 | Program Session 1

Session 1, Performance 4,

The Australian Orgelmeister – Organ Recital David Macfarlane

St Matthew’s Church

Saturday, 8 November, 9:00am-10:00am

David Macfarlane is the only Australian to have studied both harpsichord and organ as first study instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Alongside his expertise in Australian compositions, German and French Romantic music, Baroque and Renaissance works, David has also held significant roles in church music, including Director of Music at churches with prominent music programs. This concert program is David’s musical biography.

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault      Suite de deuxième ton

Plein Jeu
Duo
Trio
Basse de Cromorne
Flûtes

Récit de Nazard
Caprice sur les Grands Jeux

Johann Sebastian Bach           Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582

Louis Vierne                            Symphonie No 3 Op 28

1. Allegro maestoso
   IV. Adagio
   V. Final

David Macfarlane, organ

Session 1, Performance 5, Living Legend – Suprema Ballerina Jessie Vonk

Regent Cinemas Albury

Saturday, 8 November, 10:45am-11:45am

Born in 1941 in Pullach, near Munich, Jessie rose to fame as a Baby Ballerina with the Borovansky Ballet (early Australian Ballet), before becoming a Prima Ballerina in Germany, Paris, England, and Amsterdam. She will share her stories from the stage and her life with her husband, Dutch conductor Hans Vonk, former Chief of the Dutch Radio Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and Staatskapelle Dresden.

High tea information: Jessie can still do the splits at the age of 84.

Jessie Vonk, living legend

Session 1, Performance 6, The Prodigy – Joshua Han, piano

St Matthew’s Church

Saturday, 8 November, 3:00pm-4:00pm

In this all-Chopin program international competition winner Joshua Han will have you searching for superlatives on superlatives. Be ready for the ultimate experience!

High tea information: in his free time Joshua enjoys studying towards medical degree…

Frédéric Chopin           Etude Op. 10 No. 8 in F Major

Etude Op. 25 No. 4 in A minor

Three Mazurkas, Op. 59

No. 1 in A minor

No. 2 in A flat Major

No. 3 in F sharp minor

Ballade in F minor, Op. 52

Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2

Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante in E Flat Major, Op. 22

Joshua Han, piano

Session 1, Performance 7, More beautiful than before: The Radish and the shoe and other real tales

Adamshurst Ballroom

Saturday, 8 November, 5:00pm-6:00pm

The characters, a Radish, a Shoe and a group of Letters, all reside inside a book which they call their home. One day a pair of scissors attacks the book, destroying the characters’ home, leaving them completely despondent. However, they pick themselves up and repair their book, and in the process inadvertently transform their ‘home’ into something more beautiful than before. The story is cleverly analogous with survival in the real world and one that has always rung resonances with the composer’s philosophical approach to life.

Andrew Perkins (libretto by Louise Jalbert)   The Radish and The Shoe

Songs by Peter Warlock, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Septimus Kelly

Sara Brodie, narrator

Timothy Reynolds, tenor

Eliza Shephard, flute

Scott Marshall, oboe

Natasha Fearnside, clarinet

John Foster, trumpet

Kevin Tamanini, piano

Michael Evans-Barker, percussion

High Tea information: Louise Jalbert’s book won the Parents’ Choice Award when it was first published in California in 1984. It has since been republished.