String Quartet #1 Project | Series 4

Ensemble Mania and Cedar Collective presents String Quartet #1 Project | Series 4:

• 30.04.26 (7.30pm)

• The Peacock Theatre (77 Salamanca Place, Nipaluna/Hobart)

This concert, featuring Melbourne's Cedar Collective, is the fourth in the String Quartet #1 Project which aims to showcase first string quartets from Australian composers. This instalment in the series will explore the multitudinous connotations in the music of Tasmanian convict composer Alexander Laing (1792-1868), with performances of Laing's fiddle tunes interlaced between each contemporary string quartet. Composed while Laing was constable in the township of Sorell, these tunes are amongst the first notated compositions written in Tasmania, and by pairing them with new string quartet compositions from living Australian composers, the String Quartet #1 Project | Series 4 will explore a dialogue between past and present music.

Presented in collaboration with the Salamanca Arts Centre.

This project was made possible by the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.

Program

JASLYN ROBERTSON – Aerobatics (2017)

ANNE CAWRSE – Skittled (2015)

INTERVAL

MARIA GRENFELL – Silhouettes (2023)

DOMINIC FLYNN – Mill (2021/5)

ENCORE

PAUL STANHOPE – Dancing with Strangers (2004)

Performed by Cedar Collective:

SARA BARBAGALLO – violin

JESSICA LEIGH – violin

EDMUND MANTELLI – viola

SARAH WANG – cello

www.cedarcollective.com.au