Roger Benedict, conductor
Selected repertoire 2018
March 5-10, Sydney Opera House and Parramatta Riverside Theatres
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Schools and family concerts
With Simon Tedeschi (piano)
Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin: Piano concertos
April 5 (City Recital Hall Sydney) and April 6 (Sydney Opera House)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Mozart in the City and Tea and Symphony programs
Strauss: Prelude to Capriccio – arr strings (Benedict)
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (Todd Gibson-Cornish)
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4 (Italian)
April 7- 15 Toowoomba QLD
Australian Youth Orchestra “Young Symphonists”
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Khachaturian: Spartacus Suite 2
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony op 58
May 1 City Recital Hall, Sydney
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Playlist Program
With Matthew Wilkie, bassoon
Brahms: Serenade no 2
Elgar: Romance for Bassoon and orchestra
Schubert: Rosamunde (excerpts)
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
June 10 Sydney Opera House
SSO Fellows in SOH Crescendo series: Mahler in Miniature
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Mahler: Symphony no 1 (arr Farrington for chamber orchestra)
August 24 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra overture
Tubin: Concerto for double bass (Jaan Pallandi)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5
September 21 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Debussy: Prelude a l’apres midi d’un faun
Gliere: Concerto for Horn (Andrew London)
Ravel: Pavane pour une enfante defunte
Debussy: La Mer
October 3-5 OLMC Parramatta
SSO Fellows orchestral workshops
Sibelius: Finlandia
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty excerpts
Bizet: Carmen Overture etc
Oct 26 Sydney Opera House
Sydney Symphony Orchestra and SSO Fellows Tea and Symphony Program
Poulenc: Suite Francaise
Ravel: Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme (Caitlin Hulcup)
Stravinsky: Pulcinella suite
Nov 11 2018 3pm Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
SSO/SSO Fellows/Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra joint concert
100th Anniversary of the Armistice
Rudi Stephan: Music for 7 instruments, orch. Lessing
Edgar Bainton: Three pieces for orchestra
George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Myaskovsky: Two Pieces For String Orchestra Op.46
Elgar: Sospiri
Selected Repertoire 2019
March 15 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no 3
Dvorak: Symphony no 8
March 19 City Recital Hall, Sydney
Sydney Symphony Orchestra plus SSO Fellows
Debussy (orch. Zender): 5 Preludes
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Poulenc: Sinfonietta
April 10 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium String Orchestra
Mozart: Serenata Notturna
Sculthorpe: Night Song
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies op 34
April 30 City Recital Hall, Sydney
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Handel: (orch Mozart): Acis & Galatea – Overture
Haydn: Symphony 39
Tchaikovsky: Suite No.4 ‘Mozartiana’ 25′
May 27-28 Adelaide
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra family concerts
With Simon Tedeschi (piano)
Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin: Piano concertos
May 10 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Walton: Concerto for violin
Sibelius: Symphony no 5
August 13, City Recital Hall, Sydney
Sydney Symphony Orchestra plus SSO Fellows
Korngold: Suite from Much Ado About Nothing op 11
Purcell: The Fairy Queen (selections)
Locke: The Tempest
Vaughan Williams: serenade to Music (orch version)
August 23 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Lentz: Guyuhmgan
Copland: Concerto for clarinet
Mahler: Symphony no 1
September 10 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Opera Australia Orchestra
Concert for Life 2019
Faure: Masques et Bergamasques Suite
Faure: Pavane
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Simon Tedeschi)
Ravel: Pavane
Bizet: Carmen Suite no 2
September 27,28,29 Sydney Opera House
SSO Fellows
Stravinsky: The Soldiers Tale
October 18 Town Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Beard: The Drake Equation (world premiere)
Stanhope: Jandamarra
October 25 Sydney Opera House
Sydney Symphony Orchestra plus SSO Fellows Tea and Symphony Program
Milhaud: La creation du Monde
Ibert: Saxophone concerto (Nicholas Russoniello)
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Ibert: Divertissement
November 5-7 Seymour Centre, Sydney
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
“Composing Women” (Recording)
Georgia Scott: New Work
Bree Van Reyk: New Work
Peggy Polias: New Work
Josephine Macken: New Work
December 1, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
SSO Fellows/SSO/Sydney Conservatorium joint project
Weimar Republic 1919
Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik no 1 op 24 no 1
Erwin Schulhoff Suite for Chamber Orchestra op 37
Mischa Spoliansky (arr Farrington): Zwei Krawatten Potpourri
Hanns Eisler: Ouvertüre zu einem Lustspiel
Paul Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik op 24 no 2
Ernst Krenek (arr Bauer): Fantasie from the opera Jonny Spielt Auf
Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite no 1
Selected Repertoire 2020:
March 13 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (Leanne Jin)
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
April 1 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium String Orchestra
Warlock: Capriol Suite
Britten: Simple Symphony
Gerald Brophy: The Cloud of Unknowing
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
April 6-12 Four Winds Festival, Bermagui, Southern NSW
SSO Fellows, Orchestra of the Academy (ANAM)
Haydn: Symphony 39
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto op 35
Mozart: Bassoon concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 (Scottish)
May 15 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées
Jolivet: Percussion concerto 1958 (Ruari Campbell)
Mozart: Requiem K626 (Sussmayr)
July 5 Chatswood Concourse
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Toy Symphony
Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
August 21 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
R Strauss: Don Juan
Bartok: Viola Concerto (Tabea Zimmermann)
Beethoven: Symphony no 8 op 93
September 28 Hobart
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Composing Women Project
Works tbc
November 6 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Smetana: The Bartered Bride: Overture
Copland: Clarinet concerto (Olivia Hans-Rosenbaum)
New work TBC
Shostakovich: Symphony no 9
Sibelius: Valse Triste op 44 no 1
November 15 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney
SSO Fellows/SSO/Sydney Conservatorium joint project
“Mahler and the Courage to Be”
Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor
New Works by SCM students
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Mahler: Symphony no 4 in G – Chamber orchestra version arr Iain Farrington
November 22-December 6 London, Birmingham, Manchester, Berlin, Stuttgart
EUROPE TOUR
Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Smetana: The Bartered Bride: Overture
Hindson: Saxophone Concerto (Amy Dickson)
New work TBC
Shostakovich: Symphony no 9
Sibelius: Valse Triste op 44 no 1