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Sequenza
David Malone (lute and guitar), Matthew Goddard (percussion), Brett Rutherford (viola da gamba)

Sequenza in Concert

Programme:

La Guitare in G, No.107 – Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Partita in A minor for Guitar – Jan Antonin Losy (1650-1721)
Prélude en Harpègement, Livre V: No. 46 – Marin Marais (1656-1728)
L´Arabesque – Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Prélude en Harpègement, Livre V: No. 16 – Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Partita in G minor from 18 Partitas for Gallichon – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1670-1758)
Chaconne en Rondeau – Marin Marais (1656-1728)

Sunday 19 October 2025, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets available on-line and at the door
$20 on-line, $25 at the door (cash only)
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.

David Malone

David Malone is a guitarist based in Hobart, Tasmania. He performs throughout Australia as a solo recitalist and chamber musician and has performed with the Adelaide, Tasmanian and Canberra Symphony Orchestras in Australia and the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra in the UK. He currently plays both lute and guitar with the versatile music group Sequenza with Quin Thomson, Brett Rutherford and Matt Goddard. David’s performances have included the Adelaide Guitar Festival, the Darwin International Guitar Festival, the Peninsula Summer Music Festival and the Woodend Winter Arts Festival. His solo CD Fretsongs for the Tall Poppies label received an Australian Classical Music Award in 2007 and a five-star rating in Limelight, Australia’s classical music magazine. David was featured in the SBS program A Fork in Australia and his performances have been broadcast by ABC Classic FM and ABC Radio National. David Malone began learning guitar in Sydney and completed his undergraduate music studies as a student of Timothy Kain at the Canberra School of Music. He subsequently participated in masterclasses in Finland with Leo Brouwer, Sharon Isbin and Costas Cotsiolis and in England with John Duarte and Stepan Rak. David was a scholar student in the 30th annual Música en Compostela, a course in the interpretation of Spanish guitar music established by Andrés Segovia in Spain in Santiago de Compostela. David holds undergraduate degrees in Music (CSM) and Commerce (UNSW) and Masters degrees in Music (Tas) and Tertiary Education Management (Melb). David Malone is married to composer Maria Grenfell and they have two children.

Matthew Goddard

Matthew Goddard has been Principal Timpanist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra since 1999. Born and bred in Hobart, Matt started his musical journey as a drummer before developing an interest in orchestral percussion which led him to the Victorian College of The Arts in Melbourne, where he completed an Honours Degree in Music Performance. He maintained a busy freelance career in Melbourne, working primarily with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the percussion ensemble Woof!. In 1998 he worked as timpanist and percussionist with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan before returning home to Tasmania to take up his current position. Outside of TSO, Matt plays percussion with the early music ensemble Sequenza, and enjoys his own creative pursuits in his studio at home.”

Brett Rutherford

Brett Rutherford began his study of the cello at the N.S.W. conservatorium of Music with John Painter and then later with Barbara Woolley for more extensive study. In 1981 Brett joined the Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra (now AOBO). In 1984 Brett with his wife Janet travelled to London to spend a year of study. During this time Brett studied with Alexander Baillie and William Pleeth. On returning to Australia, Brett joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Since then Brett has also played with Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Virtuosi Tasmania, and, with the Trigon Ensemble, has performed for ABC-FM and ABC television, as well as concerts around Australia. Brett retired from the TSO in 2017 but continues a busy teaching and chamber music schedule. Brett is a founding member of The Kettering Piano Quartet and also plays the viola da gamba in the early music group, Sequenza.

Botaniko Artist Group – Artist

Formed in 2014, Botaniko, (Esperanto for botanical), is a small group of dedicated botanical artists, who, by invitation, collaborate towards yearly exhibitions depicting plants found in gardens and other venues of historical significance in Tasmania. Past projects include the gardens of the Port Arthur Historic Site, the 200th anniversary of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, The Tasmanian Herbarium, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), The Windsong property, and in 2022, the trees of historical significance found in the garden of Tasmania's Government House. Titled Floral Splendour - Government House Garden. This year, members of Botaniko have been painting plants, shrubs and trees growing in in a number of private gardens of historic Battery Point (Hobart). Some of the resulting works will on display at the concert.

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