2024 Concerts

Meta Overman and Margaret Sutherland: Lost works from Australia’s Queens of Colour and Fantasy

Performed by Dr Jeanell Carrigan AM and Sirius Chamber Ensemble

Meta Overman and Margaret Sutherland, composers who were friends in Melbourne in the 1950s, both wrote a lot of wonderful music. However, due to a lack of support, particularly from publishing houses, who at the time were mostly publishing pedagogical music or music from male composers, most of their works were not published during their lifetime. Sutherland has had a lot of her music published since her death, but most of Overman’s handwritten scores have ended up abandoned, mostly in back rooms of tertiary libraries across the country. Dr Jeanell Carrigan (Sydney Conservatorium of Music) has discovered these scores, analysed them, and determined that in no way should they be left to extinction, has published them through Wirripang. 

Jeanell has also worked hard to preserve the Sutherland ‘House’ Quartet, by arranging parts from scratchy audio recordings and incomplete, unclear scores. None of the works she discovered had ever been published or professionally recorded.

Program:

Guest performers: Dr Jeanell Carrigan (piano), Jennifer Taylor (violin), Lucy Carrigy-Ryan (viola), and Henry Liang (flute).

Sirius Chamber Ensemble: Melissa Coleman (flute), Ian Sykes (clarinet), and Clare Kahn (cello).

When: Saturday 26 October, 7:30 pm

Venue: St Columba Uniting Church (Uniting Heart and Soul), Cnr Forth & Ocean Street, Woollahra NSW 2025

Tickets: TryBooking

Lunchtime concerts

Members from the ensemble will perform selections from upcoming programs in lunch-time recitals.

Friday Music at St Stephen’s

Friday 4 October, 1:10-1:50 pm, at St Stephen’s Uniting Church, 197 Macquarie Street, Sydney