SUNDAY MATTUTINO
Our Sunday Mattutino series takes place on the third Sunday of every month at 11am.
Tickets are $25 each, and released a month before. It is a single sitting of performance, until about 12 midday. The series is curated by us and tickets include a glass of sherry, dry or sweet, after the concert. Or an orange juice. Plus something to nibble.
NEXT MATTUTINO:
SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 11AM
MOJO - Molly Kadarauch and Josephine Vains, cello duo
PROGRAM
Joseph Bodin de BOISMORTIER (1689-1755) Sonata no. 6 in C
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Selections from Inventions for keyboard
Bela BARTOK (1881-1945) Selections from 44 violin duos
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 - Hausmusik-Fassung, arr. by Thomas W. Mifune
Boris BLACHER (1903-1975) Sonata for 2 cellos (1971)
Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743- 1805) Sonata for 2 cellos in C, G74
Jean-Baptiste BARRIÈRE (1707-1747) Sonata no. 10 in G
ABOUT MOLLY KADARAUCH
Molly Kadarauch is one of Australia’s pre-eminent and versatile cellists who has concertized at leading venues all over the world as well as within Australia as a former member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and as a chamber musician, soloist, and symphony orchestral player.
In 2010 she founded Sutherland Trio together with Elizabeth Sellars (violin) and Caroline Almonte (piano) who have performed frequently at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Australian Digital Concert Hall, Port fairy Spring Music Festival and other regional touring venues with Musica Viva as well as recording for ABC Classic FM. In April 2025 they are honoured to be performing at Government House as part of the Governor’s Performance Series.
As a young student Molly was a recipient of multiple awards and prizes, her playing hailed as “brilliant and passionate with mature artistry, style depth and beauty”. (Times tribune and Independent cost Observer, CA)
She completed her undergraduate tertiary studies at the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) with Laurence Lesser (former student of Piatigorsky) followed by a 2-year Fulbright Scholarship to Berlin where she continued under the guidance of Wolfgang Boettcher (former principal cellist of the Berlin Phil).
While based in Berlin for 5 years she enjoyed a successful and varied free-lancing career often performing in the Berliner Philharmonie with various ensembles and with her prize-winning string quartet from the Hochschule.
Between 1996 -2004 Molly joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra as an associate principal cellist and core member until she relocated to Melbourne to continue concertizing and teaching where she made her Melbourne recital debut with Benjamin Martin at The Edge, Federation Square.
Molly’s multi-faceted career has included performing as guest principal with many of the major Australian and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras including the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonic. Chamber music festival appearances include Huntington, Port Fairy, Peninsula, Music by the Springs (Hepburn Springs), Adelaide and the Melbourne International cello festival.
As a soloist she has concertized in France, England, USA and Germany and has performed concertos with the Palo Alto Chamber orchestra, Freemont Symphony Orchestra (CA), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Symphony orchestra, Melbourne Musicians, and Orchestra 21.
She performs on an instrument by Pietro Antonio Testore.
Molly is also a passionate educator and has over the past 20 years enjoyed working with students from various ages and abilities as well as at the Melbourne Conservatorium, Queensland Conservatorium (Griffith University), Australian National Academy of Music, the ACO Academy, the Australian Youth Orchestra, Melbourne Youth Orchestra and with Sutherland Trio as a mentor group for young “Strike a Chord” competition prize-winners.
ABOUT JOSEPHINE VAINS
Josephine is a versatile and engaging performer, heard regularly in concert around Australia and overseas as a cellist and chamber musician.
She has worked with myriad artists on diverse projects including piano trio / quartet / quintet, string quartet, opera, baroque ensembles, contemporary and electronic music, and Argentine tango music.
Josephine is a founding member of Firebird Trio, currently presenting innovative and engaging programs around Australia. Equally at home on modern and period instruments, Josephine performs and records regularly with other ensembles including Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Kammermusik, Accademia Arcadia, Ludovico’s Band, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Elysium Ensemble and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra.
In Australia she has performed for Australian Digital Concert Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Musica Viva, the Sydney and Melbourne Arts Festivals, Noosa Long Weekend, Castlemaine and Port Fairy Festivals, Woodend Winter Arts and Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festivals. International performances include at the Musicfest Vancouver, the Hannover Brahms and Schumann Festivals, White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and more recently at the Longyou Caves Festival (China) and Akaroa Chamber Music Festival (NZ).
Josephine features on a number of albums including; Royal Children's Hospital HUSH, ABC Classics, Resonus Classics, Tall Poppies, and has been reviewed in GRAMOPHON Magazine. In 2020 she was the winner of the Moreland Award for Arts and Culture for her contribution to community during Covid-19 lockdown with a series of Letterbox Concerts. She is a Laureate of MICMC 1999 with Trio 303, and was the winner of the inaugural National Chamber Music Competition. She has Honours and Masters degrees in modern and historical performance from Melbourne, Germany and Switzerland.
She performs on a Thomas Kennedy Cello, 1850 (London) and a Thomas Dodd Cello, (1800) London.
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Sunday Mattutino was inspired by our friend Mark Millward, who was missing Sunday Morning Concerts at Wigmore Hall in London and generously offered to help support a similar series here. He is marketing manager, sourcer and pourer of sherry, and host extraordinaire for the series. We thank him.
PAST MATTUTINOS
SUNDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2025
FIONA SARGEANT AND LEIGH HARROLD
Elegies by Britten and Stravinsky and a capriccio by Vieuxtemps for solo viola, followed by Hindemith's formidable Der Schwanendreher for viola and piano.
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SUNDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2025
ANDREA KELLER, PIANO
A selection of old and new original compositions and improvisations performed on piano by one of Australia’s most original and influential voices in improvised jazz and art music.
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SUNDAY 17TH AUGUST 2025
TRISTAN LEE, PIANO
Préludes by Claude Debussy and works by Franz Liszt, including his Deux Légendes.
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SUNDAY 20 JULY 2025
MELBOURNE GUITAR QUARTET
Australian and American works showcasing the vibrant guitar family, performed by Dan McKay, Sophie Marcheff, Benjamin Dix and Rose Gonzalez
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SUNDAY 15TH JUNE 2025
RIO XIANG AND CEDAR NEWMAN, PIANO AND VIOLIN
’Echoes of Us’ - Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Beethoven and Franck.
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SUNDAY 18TH MAY 2025
TIMOTHY YOUNG, PIANO
A program pairing two towering masterpieces of the piano repertoire: Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. Though composed nearly a century apart, both works explore the darker edges of Romantic imagination.
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SUNDAY 16TH MARCH 2025
JOSEPHINE VAINS & STEWART KELLY: ‘A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ARRANGEMENT’
A cello and piano recital showcasing the way composers quote / steal / borrow and pay homage to other composer's works, a paradigm that was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2025
WILLIAM SCHMIDT, PIANO
A program of works inspired by art song, opera, and folk song, including William’s own pianistic arrangements and paraphrases alongside those of Liszt, Balakirev and Beryl Rubinstein.
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SUNDAY 19TH JANUARY 2025
ENSEMBLE 642, BAROQUE HARP + LUTE
A serene exploration of music for reflection and meditation. Timeless works by Bach, Buxtehude and Kapsperger in dialogue with contemporary compositions by Kate Moore, John Cage and Mamoru Fujieda. A program of contemplation and sonic renewal.
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SUNDAY 15TH DECEMBER 2024
LAURENCE MATHESON, PIANO
A celebration of Romantic piano music, featuring Chopin’s Fantaisie in F minor and a selection Grandes Valses Brillantes, an expressive Lied by Fanny Mendelssohn, Brahms’ beloved Intermezzo in A major, and Schumann’s Kinderszenen.
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SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2024
SOPHIA KIRSANOVA, VIOLIN
A solo violin program showcasing the violin’s expressive voice and technical brilliance across the centuries. Works by Eugene Ysaÿe, Lera Auerbach and J. S. Bach.
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SUNDAY 20TH OCTOBER 2024
JENNY KHAFAGI, VIOLIN + VIOLA
A reflective program of solo works for both violin and viola, including pieces by J.S Bach, Max Reger, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti and Lachlan Skipworth.
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SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 2024
KATIA MESTROVIC, HARP
An uplifting morning of dance rhythms on the harp, from North Africa to Moorish Andalusia; Cuba, Río de la Plata and more.
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SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST 2024
JOSH HOOKE, PIANO
Solo piano music of Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven.
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SUNDAY 21ST JULY 2024
DANIEL MCKAY, GUITAR
Solo classical guitar music of Paraguay’s Agustín Barrios, the legendary Brazilian master ‘Garoto’, and Mexico’s Manuel Ponce. Plus excerpts from Daniel’s recent album featuring music of Australia’s own Phillip Houghton, Nigel Westlake and Lilijana Matičevska.
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SUNDAY 16TH JUNE 2024
MODI DENG, PIANO
Music with light and the darkest of the dark – pieces that leave you wondering, with early Beethoven, Ligeti, Clara Schumann, Chopin, and Ravel’s La Valse.
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SUNDAY 16TH MAY 2024
ZOË BLACK, VIOLIN & JOE CHINDAMO, PIANO
Exhilarating and contemplative music for violin and piano, from Spain, France and Argentina. Including some of Joe’s own compositions, including a touching tribute to Zoë’s mum, who passed away 2 years ago.
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SUNDAY 21ST APRIL 2024
JOSEPHINE VAINS, CELLO & KEN MURRAY, GUITAR
Invigorating and whimsical music of Cuban guitar virtuoso Leo Brouwer and Australian composer Anne Cawrse. Alongside Welsh folk songs by Welsh composer Stephen Goss and some of Ken Murray’s own offerings.
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SUNDAY 17TH MARCH 2024
FLAVIO VILLANI, PIANO
Rachmaninoff’s Op. 23 Preludes presented in alternation with Villani’s own improvisations, mirroring some of the gestures and ideas of the brilliant Russian composer.
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SUNDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2024
GINTAUTE GATAVECKAITE, PIANO
A pianistic sonata odyssey, with four of the most celebrated in the piano repertoire. Sonatas by Joseph Haydn, Domenico Scarlatti and Carl Vine.
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SUNDAY 21ST JANUARY 2024
EMMA SULLIVAN, DOUBLE BASS & STEWART KELLY, PIANO
Works for double bass and piano. Music of Amy Beach and Bach, Debussy's Syrinx and La plus que lente, excerpts from Xavier Foley's The Mountain Sketches and more.
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SUNDAY 17TH DECEMBER 2023
AFFINITY QUARTET
Josephine Chung & Nicholas Waters, violins | Ruby Shirres, viola | Mee Na Lojewski, cello
Bartok’s first string quartet and Haydn’s “Emperor” quartet.
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SUNDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2023
ELIZA SHEPHARD, FLUTE & PETER DE JAGER, PIANO
Reimagined repertoire from 19th century composers whose music is deeply ingrained with story and song, including music of Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Chaminade and Mendelssohn.
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SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2023
HANNAH LANE, BAROQUE HARP
Music for harp, composed for private spaces: from the the 16th-century Italian ‘musica secreta’ tradition, to the refinement of the ‘private music’ performed in the chambers of 17th-century English royalty.
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SUNDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 2023
ROB HAO, PIANO
Piano works inspired by musical meditation and composers interested in the reworking of pre-existing material.
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SUNDAY 19TH AUGUST 2023
BERTA BROZGUL, PIANO
Piano music of Mozart, Scriabin and Schumann.
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SUNDAY 16TH JULY 2023
COADY GREEN, PIANO
Piano music of Haydn, Chopin, Linda Kouvaras, Jane Hammond and Brahms.
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SUNDAY 18TH JUNE 2023
JOSEPHINE VAINS & FRIENDS: ‘THE SWEET SACRED’
Music of J. S. Bach, Sophia Gubaidulina and Caerwen Martin for cello ensemble and cello solo