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From 8-10 November, we are thrilled to present the Albury Chamber Music Festival 2024, entitled “Beyond Borders”. With artists and compositions from over 30 countries, we are crossing borders left, right and centre (even from Albury to Wodonga!) to present a superb platter of chamber music. Expect the unexpected: little surprises, pop-up performances, exotic animals, our famous Gala Dinner and an All-BRIE food pop-up. And if you come on your own, no worries, you’ll likely leave Albury with a couple of new musical friends!
Your three-day festival pass gives exclusive access to 10 extraordinary concerts and includes a delicious three-course dinner as part of our Gala Dinner celebrations.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind festival of exceptional music in stunning venues: the intriguing ballroom at Adamshurst, the beautiful deco heritage-listed Regent Cinema, the iconic St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, and the exclusive Albury Club. Do not miss the chance to hear our brilliant performers, including Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Sally-Anne Russell, Stephen dePledge, Roy Theaker, Anthony Halliday, Konrad Olszewski, Bruce Mathiske, Mario Dobernig and Sally Walker.
See you in Albury,
Sally-Anne and Mario
Concert venues
The Albury Club
Festival committee
President of SMMA
Artistic Directors
Chair of the Committee
Honorary Treasurer
Digital Media Coordinator
Volunteer Coordinator
Honorary Patrons
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Fr Peter MacLeod-Miller
Sally-Anne Russell & Mario Dobernig
Dr Allan Beavis OAM
Mark Carden
Sally Morris
Victoria Chick
Nance Grant
– Lady Primrose Potter
– Peter Evans
Nance Grant AM, one of the great Australian voices of the twentieth century, has agreed to be the Patron of the Albury Chamber Music festival. Described as being one of the “elite” Australian sopranos, along with Dame Nellie Melba, Florence Austral, Marjorie Lawrence and Dame Joan Sutherland, Nance Grant brings great credibility and distinction to the Festival. Having attained the highest accolades as an Opera performer, she epitomizes what the Festival is striving to achieve — quality and distinction.
After retirement from Opera, Nance Grant taught with Dame Joan Hammond at the Victorian College of the Arts. The Albury Chamber Music Festival is honoured to have her patronage.
The Albury Chamber Music Festival is honoured to have her patronage.
Lady Potter AC
HonDUniv ACU HonLLD Monash
ACMF Patron
Lady Primrose Potter has been an active supporter of the Australian arts sector over several decades. She was the Founding Honorary Patron of the Melba Foundation, the Founding Patron of the Victorian Opera Company, and Patron-in-Chief of The Melbourne Opera Company. She has also served as director and Victorian Chairman of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and founding director of the Bell Shakespeare Company, and Director of the Australian Ballet School. In the field of Contemporary Art, Lady Potter has been Patron of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, is current Patron of The Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University, is an Honorary Life Member of the National Gallery Victoria and was a founding benefactor of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Lady Potter has been a supporter and patron of Albury Chamber Music Festival since 2019.
Lady Potter was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia for her contribution to the community in 1988, followed by a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2003.
We are grateful for her support of Albury Chamber Music Festival.
The Albury Chamber Music Festival is an initiative of the St Matthew’s Music Association Inc. The Festival’s goal is to bring quality chamber music, performed by some of Australia’s leading chamber musicians, to the City of Albury and the wider Border region. It is our hope that this will not only give much pleasure to classical music lovers, but also encourage and inspire young musicians to aspire to quality performances. The inaugural Festival was held in 2016 hosted by the Rector of St Matthew’s, Fr Peter McLeod-Miller with the very talented Helena Kernaghan at the helm serving as our first Artistic Director. In 2020 the baton was passed to the ‘dynamic duo’ – multi-award-winning operatic mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell, in partnership with talented and sparklingly gregarious artistic director, conductor and percussionist Mario Dobernig. The venues for the concerts are some of Albury’s iconic locations, including St Matthew’s Church (in Kiewa Street) and the Adamshurst Ballroom (in David Street). Concerts have also been held in MAMA and the Albury Club. Each of these venues is lucky to boast musical instruments of excellent quality, in particular, St Matthew’s very fine Letourneau Pipe Organ.
For hundreds of years, the Church has been in the forefront of encouraging the production and performance of quality music in Western Culture. And many of our leading Western composers have produced their music under the patronage of the Church (e.g. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart to mention but a few.) The Church has also sponsored music festivals such as England’s “Three Choirs Festival”, Europe’s oldest existing Music Festival. This Festival was founded in 1715 to bring together the Choirs of Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester Cathedrals. Today it runs for eight days and has an extensive program that attracts visitor from all over the globe. While the Albury Chamber Music Festival is a more modest event and will present chamber music concerts over a mere three days, it is our hope that it too will still be around in 300 years, and that it will have flourished and developed to attract visitors to Albury not only from within Australia but also from more distant shores.
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See our sponsor tab for information on how to become a sponsor.
Welcome!
From 8-10 November, we are thrilled to present the Albury Chamber Music Festival 2024, entitled “Beyond Borders”. With artists and compositions from over 30 countries, we are crossing borders left, right and centre (even from Albury to Wodonga!) to present a superb platter of chamber music. Expect the unexpected: little surprises, pop-up performances, exotic animals, our famous Gala Dinner and an All-BRIE food pop-up. And if you come on your own, no worries, you’ll likely leave Albury with a couple of new musical friends!
Your three-day festival pass gives exclusive access to 10 extraordinary concerts and includes a delicious three-course dinner as part of our Gala Dinner celebrations.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind festival of exceptional music in stunning venues: the intriguing ballroom at Adamshurst, the beautiful deco heritage-listed Regent Cinema, the iconic St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, and the exclusive Albury Club. Do not miss the chance to hear our brilliant performers, including Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Sally-Anne Russell, Stephen dePledge, Roy Theaker, Anthony Halliday, Konrad Olszewski, Bruce Mathiske, Mario Dobernig and Sally Walker.
See you in Albury,
Sally-Anne and Mario
Concert venues
The Albury Club
Festival committee
President of SMMA
Artistic Directors
Chair of the Committee
Honorary Treasurer
Digital Media Coordinator
Volunteer Coordinator
Honorary Patrons
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Fr Peter MacLeod-Miller
Sally-Anne Russell & Mario Dobernig
Dr Allan Beavis OAM
Mark Carden
Sally Morris
Victoria Chick
Nance Grant
– Lady Primrose Potter
– Peter Evans
Nance Grant AM, one of the great Australian voices of the twentieth century, has agreed to be the Patron of the Albury Chamber Music festival. Described as being one of the “elite” Australian sopranos, along with Dame Nellie Melba, Florence Austral, Marjorie Lawrence and Dame Joan Sutherland, Nance Grant brings great credibility and distinction to the Festival. Having attained the highest accolades as an Opera performer, she epitomizes what the Festival is striving to achieve — quality and distinction.
After retirement from Opera, Nance Grant taught with Dame Joan Hammond at the Victorian College of the Arts. The Albury Chamber Music Festival is honoured to have her patronage.
The Albury Chamber Music Festival is honoured to have her patronage.
Lady Potter AC
HonDUniv ACU HonLLD Monash
ACMF Patron
Lady Primrose Potter has been an active supporter of the Australian arts sector over several decades. She was the Founding Honorary Patron of the Melba Foundation, the Founding Patron of the Victorian Opera Company, and Patron-in-Chief of The Melbourne Opera Company. She has also served as director and Victorian Chairman of the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and founding director of the Bell Shakespeare Company, and Director of the Australian Ballet School. In the field of Contemporary Art, Lady Potter has been Patron of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, is current Patron of The Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University, is an Honorary Life Member of the National Gallery Victoria and was a founding benefactor of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Lady Potter has been a supporter and patron of Albury Chamber Music Festival since 2019.
Lady Potter was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia for her contribution to the community in 1988, followed by a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2003.
We are grateful for her support of Albury Chamber Music Festival.
The Albury Chamber Music Festival is an initiative of the St Matthew’s Music Association Inc. The Festival’s goal is to bring quality chamber music, performed by some of Australia’s leading chamber musicians, to the City of Albury and the wider Border region. It is our hope that this will not only give much pleasure to classical music lovers, but also encourage and inspire young musicians to aspire to quality performances. The inaugural Festival was held in 2016 hosted by the Rector of St Matthew’s, Fr Peter McLeod-Miller with the very talented Helena Kernaghan at the helm serving as our first Artistic Director. In 2020 the baton was passed to the ‘dynamic duo’ – multi-award-winning operatic mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell, in partnership with talented and sparklingly gregarious artistic director, conductor and percussionist Mario Dobernig. The venues for the concerts are some of Albury’s iconic locations, including St Matthew’s Church (in Kiewa Street) and the Adamshurst Ballroom (in David Street). Concerts have also been held in MAMA and the Albury Club. Each of these venues is lucky to boast musical instruments of excellent quality, in particular, St Matthew’s very fine Letourneau Pipe Organ.
For hundreds of years, the Church has been in the forefront of encouraging the production and performance of quality music in Western Culture. And many of our leading Western composers have produced their music under the patronage of the Church (e.g. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart to mention but a few.) The Church has also sponsored music festivals such as England’s “Three Choirs Festival”, Europe’s oldest existing Music Festival. This Festival was founded in 1715 to bring together the Choirs of Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester Cathedrals. Today it runs for eight days and has an extensive program that attracts visitor from all over the globe. While the Albury Chamber Music Festival is a more modest event and will present chamber music concerts over a mere three days, it is our hope that it too will still be around in 300 years, and that it will have flourished and developed to attract visitors to Albury not only from within Australia but also from more distant shores.
Our Sponsors
.
.
See our sponsor tab for information on how to become a sponsor.