Kettering Concerts

Kettering Concert 2021-09-19

Piano Trio
Jennifer Marten-Smith (piano), William Newbery (viola), Rebeka Hren Dragolič (flute/mezzo soprano)

Piano, Viola and Flute trio

Programme:

Trio in D major Wq 94 (H538) – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Viola Sonata in C minor, MWV Q 14, – Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op. 91 – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Sunday 19 September 2021, 3pm
Kettering Community Hall
Tickets only available on-line No door sales
$15 plus small transaction fee
Stay for the post-concert afternoon tea, meet and chat with the musicians.

Jennifer Marten-Smith

Jennifer grew up in Tasmania and at age 12 was invited to study with Professor Gediga-Glombitza at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. At age 16 she made her public debut with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Schumann's A minor Piano Concerto, having previously recorded the Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto with the TSO. Two years later she performed the Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4 with the TSO and, that same year, was the youngest graduate of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, where she was awarded a high distinction as a double major in piano performance and accompaniment. Other concertos in her repertoire include works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dohnányi, Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky, and she has appeared as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover.
In 1989 she began work as a repetiteur with the State Opera of South Australia and subsequently joined the Victorian State Opera Young Artist Programme. Between 1997 and 2001 she was repetiteur at the Staatsoper Hannover and was a full-time member of the music staff with Opera Australia from 2001 to 2012. She has more than 90 operas in her repertoire. Jennifer, a member of the Kettering Piano Quartet, is now living in Hobart, and is in demand as a soloist, accompanist and vocal coach.

William Newbery

William returned to Adelaide from Cologne, Germany, in March 2005 having completed a Musik Diplom at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. His previous studies comprise the special music programme at Marryatville High School, a Bachelor of Music Degree with first class honours from the Elder Conservatorium and the Advanced Performance Programme at the Australian National Academy of Music.
William was a regular guest player with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2007. He has also been a guest of the Tasmanian, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. He was the founding principal violist of the Adelaide Art Orchestra and has been broadcast on ABC FM playing a concerto for viola and computer. In 2007 William became a permanent member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Since joining the TSO William has been a regular performer for Virtuosi Tasmania and has also made a broadcast for ABC FM Sunday Live. He tutors viola for the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra and has also given chamber music performances for MONA FOMA and the Kegelstatt Ensemble in Adelaide.

Rebeka Hren Dragolič

Rebeka Hren Dragolič is Slovenian, born in Nürnberg, Germany. She studied classical flute and singing at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Zagreb (Croatia). She graduated with a first class honours degree in 2007. She continued her singing and flute studies with Prof. Alexander Brown (England), Irena Grafenauer (Slovenia) and in lieder master classes with Prof. Breda Zakotnik (Mozarteum Salzburg) and prof. Barbara Camille Tanze (MDH Breathing Coordination). She has won several first prizes in competitions for young musicians. Rebeka’s repertoire includes Lied, Mélodie, Baroque music and Opera arias which she performs as a soloist and musician in Europe, Asia and USA. She currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
Her voice’s versatility permits her to sing roles as different as Giulio Cesare (Händel), Orfeo (Glück), Dido (Purcell), Dorabella (Mozart), Cherubino (Mozart), Sesto (Mozart), Musetta (Puccini), Vilja (Lehar) and others. She is currently teaching singing and flute and is actively participating in the chamber ensemble “The Petticoat Girls “with which she is successfully conquering the world stages. Their programe includes duets from Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Offenbach and others.
In 2018 the ensemble had a very successful tour in four Australian cities (Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth) as part of the Art circle residence project organized by the German embassy in Canberra. The principal goal of this group is to inject life into recitals of classical music, making it, what it used to be: a way of entertaining the ones who discover it for the first time and a way to enjoy beautiful melodies for those who are already familiar with them. Trying to offer the best possible interpretations of the music, but sometimes making small alterations without losing the respect for the composer. In 2015, the band also recorded a stand-alone CD.
In her free time, she also loves to play and sing folk song from all over the world with her folk group Potrica.

Pam Adams – Artist

Pam Adams has been painting for just over fifteen years after 30 years of teaching Geography which gave her an understanding and love of landscape. Pam works in watercolour as she thinks the soft light and gentle colours of Tasmania's landscape are best reflected in that medium. She has taken part in many exhibitions both as a group and solo participant and I won the En Plein Air prize in 2004 in the Huon Art Exhibition Group competition. She has won prizes in the 2014 and 2015 Kingborough (Lions) exhibitions. She paints regularly with a group as well as being an active member of the Tasmanian Art Society, a member of HAEG and of the Colour Circle and an invited member of the Tasmanian Art Group. While watercolour is a challenging and often unpredictable medium Pam relishes the journey she is on!