ALANA Blackburn is a local musician with an international reputation and master of a number of instruments.
Alana will be the soloist in the Armidale Symphony Orchestra’s next concert on Sunday 12 May at Lazenby Hall, UNE at 3pm.
She will play a concerto by contemporary British composer, Richard Harvey. The performance will be the first Australian performance of the work.
“Richard Harvey is a player of the recorder and has written this wonderful work, Concerto Incantato, to show off the full range of sounds that this family of instruments can produce. It was originally written for the famous recorder virtuoso Michael Petri,” Alana said.
“I feel very fortunate to have played as soloist and as an ensemble player in famous concert halls around the world such as Sydney Opera House, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall in London and the Konzerthaus in Berlin.
“I love the recorder and really feel privileged to bring Richard Harvey’s wonderful concerto to Australia for its first performance here in Armidale.
“The composer has had a special relationship with Armidale ever since the spectacular performances of his oratorio The Plague and the Moonflower in Armidale and at the Woodford Folk Festival in 2002 and 2003.”
The concert will open with Mozart’s overture to his oratorio, ‘La Betulia Liberata’, a work written when he was just 15 years old. The second half of the performance will be Haydn’s delightful and ever popular ‘Surprise’ Symphony No 94.
Chris Garden will conduct the Mozart and Haydn works, and Bruce Menzies will conduct the Harvey Concerto.
