Zoe Knighton & Resonance Quartet In Recital

Sunday 2 November Doors open 5.30pm, 6pm start

Program

Zoe Knighton - Solo Cello
Bach Suite for violin/cello No. 3 in C major

“Zoe Knighton’s Bach Suites are wonderfully insightful and of assured musicianship ... Knighton has produced a reading of great artistic integrity.”

— Gordon Kerry, Loudmouth, The Music Trust

Resonance String Quartet

Dvorak String Quartet No. 12 in F "American" Movement 1
Gordon Kerry Bright Forms Return World Premiere
Borodin String Quartet No. 2 Notturno
Haydn String Quartet Op. 77 No. 1 in G

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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.

Resonance String Quartet

Heather Cummins

RESONANCE FOUNDER AND CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (VIOLIN)

Heather’s driving professional passion is to create musical communities that are inclusive, joyful and musically engaged. She is committed to the development of community music opportunities in regional areas. Heather currently holds the positions of Violin and Viola teacher at Castlemaine Secondary College. She has an extensive private teaching practice and her professional teaching life has been focused on developing opportunities for music students in regional areas. She holds a Bachelor of Music (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, majoring in Pedagogy and Ethnomusicology. She has benefitted from learning from many teachers including William Hennessey, Andrea Keeble, Deb Fox and Wilma Smith, and is heavily influenced in her teaching by the work of Simon Fischer and Yehudi Menuhin. For eight years she was a member of Quartet ConSpirito, who were also Quartet in Residence for Resonance. She currently plays with Castlemaine Chamber Players, who present regular concerts in the Central Goldfields and beyond (most recently presenting Shostakovich and Beethoven Rasumovsky quartets), holds the position of Principal Second Violin with Bendigo Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the BSO Artistic Council. Heather is an experienced VCE teacher with past students successfully auditioning for music degrees at Melbourne and Monash Universities.

Emma Wade

RESONANCE FOUNDER AND CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (VIOLIN/VIOLA)

Emma has performed on viola as a member of orchestras, chamber ensembles, folk groups and string quartets in Sydney, Northern England and now Central Victoria. She was a founding member of the Bachetal String Quartet, Co-Principal Violist of the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic and TOPS Orchestras, and member of the Sydney Chamber Players. In the UK, she founded the Corroboree String Quartet, was Co-Principal Violist of both the Stockport Symphony and Wilmslow Symphony Orchestras from 2006-2008, formed The Heatons Chamber Players and Cheshire Ceilidh, and toured the concert halls of Northern England as a soloist and chamber performer. Returning to Australia, Emma now resides in Central Victoria where she performs regularly with local chamber groups and Quartet Conspirito.