Performances include:

Thomasina Challender

Bach: Largo and Allegro Assai from Sonata No 3 In C Major

Zoe Knighton

A 20 minute "show" which combines Charlie Mackesy’s “the boy the mole the fox and the horse with movements by Bach

Resonance String Orchestra

Sibelius: Andante Festivo
Polska by The Danish String Quartet (arranged by Emma Wade)

Tickets

Tickets are $40 for adults, and free for children/youth under 18 years of age. Please make sure you still get tickets for any children/youth attending, so we have sufficient space for everyone.

About Zoe

Zoe is a founding member and Artistic Director of Flinders Quartet, one of Australia’s finest chamber ensembles. The group has commissioned many works, been nominated for an ARIA for best classical album and continues to be a champion of Australian Chamber music. “Flinders Quartet…whose players give such care and unanimity of musical thought to Australian Chamber Music” Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Herald

Zoe started the cello at the age of 9 with Jill Kahans before learning from Christian Wojtowicz, Michel Strauss (Paris) Nelson Cooke, and Angela Sargeant, she is now in demand as chamber coach and teacher at various institutions.

She has released 11 CDs on the MOVE label, 7 with duo partner Amir Farid and been praised for her “thrilling tenor sound” and “many technical demands carried off with ease”. (Limelight magazine) “She radiates confidence in her work and participates with personality and no little finesse.”... “Well worth hearing for the pleasure given through this player’s familiar warmth and honesty of musical character.” Clive O’Connell. Together with Farid, they have performed and broadcast widely and gave their Carnegie Hall debut in April, 2023.

Zoe is artistic patron of Resonance String Ensemble in Woodend and plays on a 2020 cello made by Australian instrument maker Rainer Beilharz and a 1780 cello by Benjamin Banks. In order to maintain conversations with her children, she finds herself a proud supporter of Hawthorn Football Club, Westage Imperial and Footscray Hawks basketball teams.

About Resonance

Resonance String Orchestra, with branches in Woodend and Castlemaine, is a vibrant community arts institution that lives and breathes its motto "inspiring regional communities to make great music". Resonance brings together musicians from primary school age to retirees, to play music from the musical canon, as well as bespoke arrangements and original compositions by our Co-Artistic Director and Composer-in-Residence, Emma Wade. Through access to our regular teaching team and through our Visiting Artists program and partnership with the acclaimed Flinders Quartet, our members are tutored and mentored by some of the finest musicians in the country. We give sell-out concerts in the region and love popping up on the streets to surprise and delight the public too!