ZOE KNIGHTON & THE RESONANCE STRINGS

BACH & THE BIRDS

Zoe Knighton will be playing: Bach • Casals • Katy Abbott
RSQ will be playing: Mendelssohn • Shostakovich • Kats Chernin

7.30pm Saturday 24th October

The Resonance String Quartet is an auditioned string quartet extension experience for members of Resonance String Orchestra. The quartet is mentored by Resonance's Artistic Patron, Zoe Knighton of the Flinders Quartet.

Zoe Knighton
Selections from J.S.Bach Suite for solo violoncello No. 2 in D minor BWV 100
Pablo Casals Song of the Birds
Katy Abbott Dive Bomb

“Zoe Knighton’s Bach Suites are wonderfully insightful and of assured musicianship ... Knighton has produnced a reading of great artistic integrity.” — Gordon Kerry, Loudmouth, The Music Trust

Resonance String Quartet
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga String Quartet No.1 in D minor first movement
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 First Movement
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 1 Op. 12 First Movement
Elena Kats-Chernin Moon Feather Magic

TICKETS: All tickets $20
All Income from sales will be donated to the work of Resonance String Orchestra

More about RSO: https://www.resonancestringorchestra.org.au/

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Zoe Knighton

ARTISTIC PATRON RESONANCE STRING ORCHESTRA

After a long-standing association with Resonance, Zoe’s patronage of the orchestra was formalised in 2019, to the ecstatic delight of all of our members. Zoe’s input includes program planning with the tutor team and Directors of Music and running dynamic rehearsals and workshops for our members, as well as being Guest Conductor and Artist at some of our performances. The teaching team and members alike benefit from Zoe’s inspiring musicianship, insightful contributions and contagious energy!

About Zoe:

After starting cello at the age of nine with Jill Kahans, and graduating from the University of Melbourne with the highest mark of her year, Zoe went on to establish herself as one of the country’s most sought after cellists. Having studied with Christian Wojtowicz, Michel Strauss (Paris) Nelson Cooke, and Angela Seargeant, she is now in demand as chamber coach and teacher at various institutions. A regular panelist for major competitions, Zoe combines many facets of her career with performing.

Zoe has played numerous concertos with Melbourne Orchestras and with pianist Amir Farid, made an impressive debut at the Melbourne Recital Centre to great critical acclaim in 2009. Their partnership has resulted in recordings for ABC, concerts throughout Australia and the release of five CDs on the MOVE label. Zoe and Amir will reunite in 2020 with performances in New York and throughout Australia.

Zoe has been praised for her “thrilling tenor sound” (Limelight Magazine), “sublime phrasing” and “many great technical demands carried off with ease.” She has released three other titles on the MOVE label, including the complete suites for solo cello by J.S Bach.

Zoe is a founding member of Flinders Quartet and plays a 2020 Rainer Beilharz cello made in Castlemaine, Victoria, and a Michael Taylor bow made in 2012. Zoe has been following Rainer's cello making for a number of years. After falling in love with the deep, characterful sound and choosing to make this cello her own, Rainer revealed that he had made it with her in mind.

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