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Maria Lindsay
Maria Lindsay (violin), Meriel Owen (Piano)

Dance and Romance Around the World

Programme:

Hungarian Dance No 5 in F# minor – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
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Suite Op. 97a – Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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Suite Op. 97a
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Suite Op. 97a
Suite Op. 97a

Sunday 23 August 2026, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets will be available on-line.
$20+booking fee on-line; $25 at the door (cash only)
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.

Maria Lindsay

Maria Lindsay has a vibrant and varied career as soloist, chamber musician, artistic director and concertmaster. She is leader of the Lurline Chamber Orchestra and concertmaster of Willoughby Symphony. Tommy Tycho dedicated his exquisite Violin Concerto to Maria and she has performed it many times since its premiere in 2010. Maria has held positions with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian World Orchestra, touring extensively worldwide. She has been guest concertmaster with Canberra Symphony, Sydney Philharmonia, North Sydney Symphony, Christchurch Camerata and many others. Maria established the Lurline Recital Series and Blue Mountains Chamber Concerts, performing with many of Australia’s great chamber musicians and programming new and little-known compositions. She has performed contemporary chamber music with Seymour Group, Alpha Ensemble, Ensemble Offspring and Klangforum Vienna. A lifelong passion is performing in homes and communities and bringing beautiful music to accessible venues. Maria composed and premiered the highly descriptive “Song of the Ocean” at Sydney Biennale in 2022. Maria released CDs with pianist Daniel Rojas and the Apollo Trio. She has made broadcasts for A.B.C. and Fine Music, and taught at Sydney Conservatorium for 22 years. She was Student of the Year at Sydney Conservatorium and furthered her studies in Vienna.

Meriel Owen

Meriel Owen enjoys a versatile musical life and is in demand as a pianist and harpist. A student of the renowned composer and pianist, Larry Sitsky, Meriel graduated from the Canberra School of Music in 1990. She resided in the United States from 1995-2006 and during this time was occupied with a variety of activities including attendance at the Aspen Music Festival and School as a student in the collaborative program in 1998, completing a Master of Arts in Theology in 1999, and playing countless weddings and liturgical events. Meriel graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002 with a Master of Music in collaborative piano studying with Rita Sloan. Subsequent recital opportunities have taken her to Washington D.C., Houston, Chicago, Italy and Australia.
As the recipient of the Stuart and Norma Leslie Churchill Fellowship in 2013, Meriel traveled to Austria and Germany to undertake further study of harp technique and repertoire in ensemble. Now based in Hobart, she performs regularly with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician she has performed for Virtuosi Tasmania, the Canberra International Music Festival, and Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Australian Series and Recital Series. In her spare time she stumbles through domestic chores with her two children and high-maintenance cats, and nurtures a covert passion for dressage.

Bob Brown – Artist

Bob Brown says "If there was a parallel universe, I would be a photographer - with fancy cameras, filters and tripods, plus one of those metallic umbrellas to bounce light on the underside of the world. But I have a very ordinary Olympus OMD". My camera has always been a relaxer and always hand-held. Taking photographs is fun and diverts us from the cares of the world to its beauties. I just take what I see. And mostly of nature in its myriad of stunning moments, none ever to be repeated, all part of the unbelievable panoply of existence. Seeing my pictures will not match the real moments of joy any viewer has experienced in their own lives. Yet sharing them heightens my own joy of life.'

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